We are off to Granada within the hour for our orientation / dinner tonight and tomorrow. Our check-in is at 3 and the trip should last no more than 2 hours max. ...It´s finally about to start and I think everyone is getting excited about it. While we are enjoying everything we´ve been able to do, there´s only so much walking around and exploring that one can take.
The following link is for some pictures on Flickr from María (the girl in the picture I posted earlier) while we were in Madrid. They just cover miscellaneous things: food, us, Neil, her, Noche en Blanco, etc. She posts a blog about things to do in Madrid so some of the stuff is kind of random but there´s a bunch of pics for those that keep requesting :) We´ll get some pics of Granada and such, too.
Oh yeah! Only an hour ago, we got a landline so people, if they want to pay for it and don´t have a computer to set up Skype for free, may email us for that... I don´t really want to put our new number out for the public to see but I´ll give everyone the first half of it: 950 5x xx xx. If you have enough dedication to sort through the 100,000 possibilities, if my brief math is correct, then you shouldn´t have to bother with emailing. However, what this does mean is that we should have the internet set up by Wednesday if we are lucky.
So far, we´ve been having difficulties in finding a close language academy for me to take some Spanish courses but that has left me a lot of time to catch up on some guitar and the Odyssey (which is fantastic, btw). I´ve finally started learning how to read the music and not just tablature; something I have been wanting to do since I picked up the guitar.
To save you all from random rambling, I shall need to end it here. Before I go, however, Suzy was wanting me to mention that we really like the energy efficiency here. The hallway lights (between apartments) turn off after 5 minutes or so, as well as nearly all Spaniards don´t own a dryer for clothes. They just hang it all up and it saves the clothes from shrinking as well as kind of starches them to an extent (a fact I actually like). However, most of this efficiency is due to necessity. They are running terribly short on water (there are supposed to be two small rivers in this city that flow to the sea from the mountainous areas but are both dried up) and request that everyone take quick showers and conserve as much water as possible. There are always good and bad to every place you go to... but we really are enjoying our stay here. I finally have the time to focus on all of these things that I´ve been wanting to continue on. I think my next hobby I will start, after I learn Spanish to my contentment, might be some sort of martial arts or something.... But I am always piling more and more things that I´d like to accomplish so I´ll have to clear my list of many first.
Well, we leave for Granada in 20 minutes so I must head back. Adíos desde Aguadulce!
(/Greg) --if any of you code junkies could remind me how to make html code read as text (so it the browser doesn´t read it), let me know.....
2 comments:
I love Maria's pictures! The one where both of you are with Neil trying to look all tough cracks me up. I got your postcard today!!! I danced all around the house in glee!
To make a "less than" symbol, use < and to make a "greater than" symbol, use > like so:
<i>Italics!</i>
If you've got a lot of code, doing that by hand can be tedious, but there are sites that will automatically convert it for you. Here's the one I like.
</nerd>
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