Life After Christmas...

Hello again everyone!

I am officially back to teaching and living life in Spain. I must say, traveling here was a bit of a challenge. I got stuck at the Dublin airport for about 6 hours all because there was like an inch of snow and they decided to close the airport. Seriously, people here like freak out over ANY sort of weather... it is pretty humorous until you have been traveling for 20 hours and find out that you have to sit at the world's most boring airport for another half day. On top of that, I flew in to Malaga and had to take a 4.5 hour bus home to Cadiz. Needless to say, I was a little bit over traveling at that point so the past week I have just been taking it easy. We have a long weekend coming up at the end of February and my friend Sophie and I are thinking of going to Paris. I even bough a self-study French book so I could remember the 8 years of French I seem to have forgotten!

The weather this week is absolutely gorgeous! There isn't a cloud in the sky and the sun is out. I can't wait until it is full on beach season because that is where I am pretty much going to live when it gets hot enough. This weekend, my friend Mel from Ronda is visiting so that should be really fun. She and Abbey are planning on taking surfing lessons and they asked me to join but to be honest, I am not sure that will be happening for me. It just seems like the sort of thing I would be so terrible at that it would almost be embarrassing so I think I might pass on that little adventure.

On a side note, I just want everyone reading this post to take a minute and be so thankful for how lucky all of us are to have our health and happiness and family. I cannot even fathom what the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people in Haiti are going through- it really breaks my heart. The kind of despair and destruction that country has suffered is unimaginable. An entire city- completely destroyed in only a few minutes. I think we all need to realize how lucky and blessed we are. I have donated $35 dollars to a charity called Domes for Haiti (or something of that nature, I got a free shirt too! haha). They are currently building relief domes for people to stay right now and money will go to help the eventual re-building of the city. If I can spare some money to donate, I KNOW each and every one of you can. This amount may not seem like a lot but if I can convince 10 other people to donate this much, then it can definitely make some sort of difference. SO... I am encouraging each of you to do some research and perhaps find a legit Haiti charity and donate to the cause. If not to help the poor people of Haiti, then at least do it for the extra Karma points!

I love you and miss you all!! (the next entry should be more interesting, sorry)

~Jade