one month down, eight to go!

so as it turns out, we are kinda crap at this whole blog thing, mainly because well we don´t write anything. but we would like to think that the two previous posts were brilliant to say the least. this is an important post because it marks our fifth week here in madrid. we have survived a whole month filled with ups and downs, laughter and tears. therefore this post will be a summary of month one and the shenanigans we have gotten up to.

first off, lets discuss our piso. in simple english, its fuckin awesome! we really lucked out both in the greatness of our apartment itself and of the spanish girls we live with, mainly one of them because we don´t really know the other. but that´s not important. what is important is that we are very happy living together as the old couple we have become. yes, we truly have become an old couple: we eat our meals in silence(not an angry silence, just a comfortable silence), we take long strolls, and blair takes the rest of my sugar that i don´t use in my cafe. so really we have nothing to complain about in regards to our living sitch.

now on to the meat of this sandwich...the teaching. we both work about 45 minutes from our house so communting is a bitch, but you just get used to it and the metro is super fácil to use. my school is west of the city while blair´s is in the northeast. i am teaching 5 and 6 year olds mostly, with a few classes of 9 and 10 year olds. i have to be honest, i love it! i really love teaching, too bad it pays mierda. but i can live like this for year. i think i am very luck with the school i got because the location is good, the teachers and staff are friendly and helpful, the kids are great and don´t have any major behavioral issues, and the other auxiliars are wonderful! plus i get a free meal everyday. and let me tell you, spanish school lunch is nothing like the crap you get in the states. it is a hot, three course meal, which, for the teachers, is buffet style, but the kiddies get served by their lunch ladies. pretty sweet deal if you ask me! so that´s a little summary about my school. blair has a slightly different experience due to the different location and student body, and of course the people she works with. she will let you know all about that!

so now that we have covered home and work we can move on to social life. we have a small core group of american friends with some spaniards interspersed. hopefully this can expand as we came to spain to speak spanish and meet spaniards! the girls we hang out with are a great group and we are so happy to have met them! it has become a little ritual that we go out thursday nights, maybe rest on friday but not usually, and then go out pretty hard core on saturdays...because that´s what you do in spain! its pretty much impossible to return before 6am even when you try to because there is always anther bar to go to! speaking of going out, meeting guys here has been quite the adventure. if you know me at all, you know i like the boys. but these spanish boys are a whole different story. i have had my fair share of ridiculousness which i am too embarrassed to write about and i have only been here one month. i cant even imagine what the rest of the year will be like jajaja!

pero bueno, no pasa nada! better get back to some good ol´ spanish tv on the 6 channels we have.

taluego!un beso!!