I just uploaded muchos fotos from last Friday to last night with the kids. Angel and Maria brought the boys to the party so there are a couple pics of them as well.

So the English kids left this morning. I spent the last two days with them showing them around Aguilas. Last night there was a farewell party for them and they all had a lot of fun. By the end everybody was crying and nobody wanted to leave. Overall, both groups of kids had a lot of fun and everyone is already super excited about our trip to London in a month. This was my first experience dealing with a group of English people for an extended period of time. They were nice and the kids were just as crazy as the kids here in Spain and back in the U.S. The highlight for me though was our that our principal let me use the school's camera to take pictures of the kids the last couple of days. The camera is the older version of the camera that I want to buy so I have been on cloud 9 for the past 48 hrs. I now realize how much I miss taking pictures with a real camera and I have zero desire to use my camera now.

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/21/6313764-family-mourns-american-teachers-death-in-japan

Article about a young American who was teaching English in Japan and lost her life making sure that the kids were safe.

Today is Father's Day in Spain so Feliz Día del Padre to all the padres out there!!

So the British kids are finally here. I went with another teacher on Thursday to pick them up from the airport. In all there are 16 girls, 4 boys and 2 teachers. They are all really nice and seem the be having a good time so far. However, yesterday two of the four boys were crying because they were homesick. I pretty much told them to go outside and play. You are in Spain with all this sunshine and new people to meet. I have been super busy with them the past two days so I'm looking forward to the weekend without them even though it has been fun. The kids don;t speak Spanish so that has kinda been a barrier but our kids are trying hard to speak English. I uploaded a couple pics of what all we have done so far.

We are going to pick up the British exchange students tomorrow. This should be interesting and fun. They are going to be here until next Friday.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12666552@N06/5524457042/

One of the teacher's pics of me in my parrot costume.

 

This is going to be my purchase fro the summer hopefully. I can't wait to start taking more photos with a real camera.

Carnaval is finally over. I'm excited to return to a somewhat normal life again. I planned on going to Valencia this coming weekend for Las Fallas but the exchange students from London are coming on Thursday for a week and we have activities planned for them. I am also broke. Electricity went up this past month so we had an insane bill.

Things I'm looking forward to coming home to: 1. Family and friends obviously. 2. Food (Chick-Fil-A is gonna happen as soon as I get back to the ATL airport and then some kind of BBQ). 3. My bed. I'm tired of waking up every morning sore from this "bed." However, I am not looking forward to coming back and trying to find a job, but I have to stay positive!

Thoughts and Prayers to those in Japan

 

Just a reminder of where I live

Today is supposed to be one of the biggest days of Carnaval. Everybody dresses up today. I just posted pics of everything so far. The first night (Thursday) my school dressed up as characters from Grease. Friday, we just threw on a wig. Saturday, Cal and I dressed up as females and Ana dressed up as a guy. That was an interesting night. Sunday was the parade and today is when everybody dresses up and there are awards for costumes. Today I am going to be a parrot. I will post more pics as I take them.

I got to sleep for an hour and a half last night. The whole Carnaval party is pretty much taking place in the Plaza de Espana, which is where we live. The party starts right below our balcony and literally 15 feet away from my bedroom window. This is good because we are extremely close to our apartment but also bad because we can't go to sleep until they stop playing music. That time happened to be 6:43 this morning and that also happened to be the exact time I finally fell asleep. I then got up at 8:10 to go to the bus station with Julien and Jeremy. I have a feeling I will need to take a nice long siesta today even though we are going to have more guests.

Carnaval starts today...

So, I have come to the conclusion that all I want to do is travel. If there was a way for me to travel the world for the rest of my life, I would do it in a heartbeat. I could also play the lottery, that would be the easiest way I guess.