What I´ve Been Up To:

So, it´s been awhile. It´s hard to write on a blog when you don´t have a computer but here I am. So I moved to a new apartment August 1. I am now living with Belen who is 24 and from Argentina but has been living in Valdepeñas for a year or so now. The apartment is very nice and the roommate too, although we don´t see eachother much cause we have very different work schedules. It´s good though. Once again I must cook for myself which has it´s postitives and negatives, the major negative being that the apartment did not come equiped with any cooking utensils and my roommate does not have much. I have some things but am lacking a lot. . . for example I was going to make some eggs the other day and realized I had nothing to flip them with. . . slight problem. I ended up eating something else. :) gotta to go shopping.

Work is going well. My co-workers are cool. We all got a casa rural (house in the country) in Cazorla last weekend together. There were nine of us and we just ate a lot of food and swam in the pool, oh and ate more food. It was nice and relaxing and good to get to know the people I work with better.

I´ve been climbing as much as i can on the weekends and hope to subir grado (that´s for Phil) soon (7a?). Went on an adventure last night with Gabriel and Antonio. Antonio (owner of a mountain bike shop) is hosting a nocturnal night bike ride this weekend in a village an hour away. Last night we went driving around to find a good route. We were off-roading in his ´93 golf, almost got stuck once, maybe got lost a few times, and got stopped by the Civil Guards and a private security company. we arrived back in Valdepeñas at 4:30 in the morning with work the next day at 9am! I managed pretty well.

Tomorrow is a national holiday so I don´t have work! woo hoo! i do have to work Saturday though, but only for 2 hours. Tonight a bunch of friends are all getting together to eat at Fofo´s house. Should be fun. Saturday night I am going to kill myself by going on the night bike ride (I haven´t biked or ran in some time now).

In other news I have bought plane tickets to the U.S! For those of you who are awaiting my coming these are the dates: I will be in San Diego Sunday, Sept 14 until Wed. Sept. 25 and then I will be in Chicago/the lovely state of Iowa from the 25th to the 29th. it´s a short amount of time so I plan to make the most of it! Take care and I´ll write again. . . but I´m not going to say soon ;) Love to all and besitos
-Amy