Two Weeks!

It's two weeks until I take off for KC. Oh yeah! I think my first flight leaves at 7 am, so I'll be catching a taxi at 5 or so in the morning. Fun stuff. I think for those you actually have to call the night before to have someone waiting. I'll have a Spanish-speaker do it. :)

I'm still sick. I can't believe it's been 1.5 weeks and I still have a froggy voice, am hacking up a lung, etc. Darn kids.

We did have a nice Thanksgiving, though. Thursday we had a drinks party and it somehow turned into a mini disco in our living room and we were louder than the bar below! That's really something, when the bar below you (which is normally so loud you have trouble sleeping) calls to complain that you are making too much noise. Until 4 am. A bit late for me, but it's Spanish time.

This weekend Laura came down from Madrid and on Saturday we cooked a Thanksgiving meal. Not necessarily traditional sense we are sin oven and only have two functioning burners, but we managed to make a lovely meal with various dishes and even used Clem's oven to make a delicious peach pie. To be honest I was kinda amazed we made such yummy food considering the limited circumstances. It was great fun, and Mark even made little American flag place settings but didn't tell us and just set up the living room in such a lovely manner! Again, the night went until about 4 am. I think I'll spend this week sleeping when I'm not working!

It's also gotten cold now. Our apartment is waaaay colder inside. I finally broke down and bought a heater. We move it around to each room depending on where we are and how freezing we feel. Sadly the laundry just isn't drying quickly at all. Oh man I will feel so spoiled when I get home and there's a dryer. I might hug it. I really might.

Also on Saturday they were doing an awareness event for women's welfare and violence against women. It is a serious problem in this country, and if I understood correctly, 86 women died last year from domestic violence. Ages 5-87. They had different areas on the Alameda devoted to various activities, and one place they needed 86 women to lie on the ground and make a chalk outline to represent the women who had died, and normally I would never lie down on the Alameda, but Laura and I agreed to do it. Afterwards they taped the name, age and city where the woman was from in the outline. It's good to see how people are working on bringing awareness and getting the community involved.

Did I already mention getting shat upon by a pidgeon for the third time since I've been here? I know it's "muck for luck" as Clem says, but I'm so over it! Please stop pooing on me! Ahhhh!

Some of the lights are already up in the historic center of Seville and they are absolutely beautiful. I can't wait for them to turn all of them on.