Saturday, November 15, 2008

Sardinia!

Well my wish for things to slow down hasn't exactly come true, I've come to the conclusion I'm just going to be super busy until school is over. This coming week I have 3 exams, so pray I do well on those! I'm hoping they'll go well and I won't have any serious problems.
This weekend is going to fairly uneventful for me, since I have so many exams this next week and then papers due the next I decided it would be best to stay in and study some. Tomorrow after church though I'll be having lunch with a friend which will be a nice breather.
Classes are still going well, so far I haven't felt overly stressed out. Work continues to be going well as well, I like all of my students. I have been lucky enough to get mostly all adults so they put a lot more effort into their classes. I think my favorite student is Pedro, he is a businessman and basically we get together 4 hours week and just talk in English together, it makes work a little more relaxing!
Last weekend 3 of my friends and I had a chance to get away from Madrid for the weekend, we went to the island of Sardinia! It was so beautiful, and since it wasn't the peak of tourist season we basically had the island to ourselves. We stayed at this adorable Bed and Breakfast and the owner was so helpful in giving us ideas of what to do while we were there. On Saturday we ended up walking to a beautiful beach and playing in the sea. The village we visited also has some amazing Roman ruins we walked through, its so daunting to be walking on stones that have been in place for about 2,000 years!
This last week was light school-wise, the calm before the storm of midterms! Thursday myself and 2 of my American friends went out with some of our Spanish friends. Its so nice to have Spaniards with us because it challenges our Spanish so much more and we go places we never would have found on ourselves.
My internet has been having issues loading my pictures, hopefully I'll be able remedy that fairly soon so you can all see the amazing things I have!