Sun!

This week so far has been sunny in more ways than one. Last week was pretty miserable, weatherwise as well as being-sick-wise, so it was nice in the weekend when I was feeling better to be able to enjoy the sun. It made an appearance on thursday, and apparently it's usually like this and the past few weeks have been something of an abnormality! The christchurch winters are grey for months on end. I am so jealous..so anyway I have been enjoying the sun.

Friday afternoon I went for a wander and visited the cemetery (pretty, peaceful, kinda sad, and FULL of flowers), and Sunday I went for a walk to the outskirts of a different edge of Ciudad Real. I think I found the slums, it looked like slums and as I was walking along the street there were several loud explosions. I don't know what they were blowing up but it gave me one hell of a fright the first time.

Also, the girl I've been helping with her english showed me the piano they keep today! It lives in the industrial engineering building, but it works, and I can't wait to play it some more! They've offered to let me play it regularly, I think I'll have to play them a few tunes but that's no problem. It was so nice to play a piano, I've hardly ever gone more than a week or two without ready access to one and I've been getting withdrawal symptoms. Music is so central to my life..I asked at the ORI today if there is a brass band in the city here and they're gonna investigate and get back to me. I hope there is!

We have booked tickets to Lisbon! The last weekend in March we're gonna spend four days there. 'We' being me and Amanda and Feli (all from NZ) and lots of italians. I'll come back fluent in italian. They all speak italian whenever they can! In Cordoba Giulia was surprised that Amanda and I spoke spanish to each other. We don't tend to talk quite so much anyway though...and I thought I was naturally 'quiet'! In Italy they'd probably send me to a speech therapist so find out why I never open my mouth. I guess it's all relative...

Anyway, it's bedtime for me. Have a good day everybody :)