The boys yesterday

 

Here is the Valentines Day card that some of my students made me in their French class

Forgot to say welcome back to my sister in law who just got back from 6 months in Iraq. Much love and respect for our military!!!

Internet has been messed up all week so I have been out of contact with everyone and everything. Our internet at the apartment has been really bad and the internet at school has been out as well. The cafes seem to have the best internet right now, when it is working. Anywho, Julien, my French roommate from 2 years ago when I was here, is flying down today to spend a week here. His best friend Jeremy is coming as well. He also was here two years ago, but in the next town over. From here on out the rest of my time here will probably fly by and be rather hectic. Carnaval starts here on Thursday, March 3rd and will continue until the 12th. After that , I will be making my return trip to Valencia for Las Fallas and then the next week the exchange students from London will be here for a week so I will be doing things with them. All of this is just March, I won't even start talking about April and May yet. Have a great weekend everybody!

So the funeral for my student was yesterday. I was quite surprised to find out that when someone passes away here in Spain, the funeral is held 24 hours later. The other teacher were also quite surprised when I told them that funeral services are usually 3-5 days later. There were so may people at the chapel that we didn't even get to go in. The students were taking it pretty hard and I think it will be awhile before things get back to normal with that class. Keep them and the family of Maria in your prayers. R.I.P. Maria Jose Gomez Rodriguez

We got news today that one of our students passed away. I had her two years ago when I was here and also this year. They said that she was feeling ill and eventually had a heart attack. So keep her family and friends in your thoughts and prayers. The school was taking it pretty rough.

Mailed my parents Christmas gift on December 23rd. The package arrived yesterday, February 12th. Oh well, I'm just glad it finally got there.

Bike ride was fun. We did 16 km (almost 10 miles) of biking with the majority literally right alongside the Mediterranean sea. I didn't take too many pics because we didn't stop that often and the terrain was pretty rough at times. I did upload the few pics I took to the google site so go look at them. They should be under bikes.

We are having a bunch of teachers over for breakfast tomorrow and then heading out on a bike ride with everyone. Should be a long day but fun with good weather hopefully.

I'm sad to report that my ipod did not survive its trip to the washer. I feel like I need to write my brother a $200 check for washing his Christmas gift to me. Well I'm exhausted. I was at school from 9- 2:40 and then 5-9:15 so I am going to sleep.

Just washed my ipod :( I have it sitting in a bag of rice right now to hopefully absorb all the moisture.

 

Saw a StingRay driving through the plaza.

Actually got paid on time this month, "the times they are a-changin'."

And I'm going to London for a week with one of my classes for two days after I get back from Italy.