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I’m leaving tomorrow!!! To Norway, in case you didn’t know yet
I’m leaving from Lisboa, which is 500 km far from the place where I live, but there’s a good motorway (freeway) just up to there, so in 5 hours (or even less :P) we’ll be on the airport. I’ll go with my parents: they are not on holidays yet, but they said they deserved a couple of free days since they haven’t skipped a single class this course; it’s ok with me, it’s them paying the motorway

I’m a bit hyper because of the whole thing and because I’m updating all my fanlistings and getting more space for Diletante.Net I know I had promised not to begin or apply for fanlistings, but I had to adopt this one, I really had to… It’s the *perfect* fl for a virgin :geeked:… And I got it! Thanks Heather.

Well, this is all so far. I know I owe a visit to a lot of you, guys, but please believe me when I say that you are on my mind: Frauke, Iva, Beth… Fortunately, I will have the chance to connect to the Internet in the place where I am staying, so after setting everything up for the new fanlisting, I hope I will find the time to say “hi from Norway” to you :geeked:.

Well, this is all so far.
Take care and have fun: that’s what I’ll try to do too!
Ciao!

Busy, busy again :dead:.
But I’ve already finished that bl**dy pedagogic course thing (about time, uh?).
Now I’ve got a load of other things to worry about, but I’m taking a break for two weeks… I’m leaving for Norway on Wednesday .
Now I will only focus in making arrangements for the trip… And in hoping that things in Serbia will get better soon Big hug for Iva.

I’m crazy.

I came from Salamanca yesterday night after not having slept two much in the whole weekend and I got up at 7:30 this morning in order to go to Pontevedra and present my report about my pedagogic course, but as soon as I got Pontevedra I didn’t like the way I had wrote a paragragh. I got so angry with myself that I left a note for my tutor apologising for not meeting him today and I caught a train back to Santiago again to correct the report.

I’m mad.

But I wish I were the craziest person in the world.
Unfortunately, Ariel Sharon is much worse than me :neutral:.

I’m off to Salamanca, leaving in a few hours, so I might not be able to answer any feedback during the week-end. Sorry!

In the meanwhile you can take a look at “the spirit” of the 10th version (version X ;)) of Callitoes Collectanea. I usually offer a wallpaper (aquí está la versión en español) based on each version layout (yeah, I know some are pure crap, but oh well :geeked:), so here it is a preview (yeah, I know the file is damaged, but if you really like it you will be able to download the fixed version in a month or so :mrgreen:).

Oh, I’d better be going.
Take care, have fun…
À bientôt!

I am soooo tired I just come from Vigo (no nothing to do with Mortensen :mrgreen:, I wish! :luv:) with my mother were we were shopping at El Corte Inglés. No, I don’t work for them or anything, but it’s the most important, powerful and whatnot department store network in Spain and Portugal, and if any of you want to know a bit more about Spanish idiosyncrasy, you should hear about it

I am tired but I am glad as well… Well, all the glad that last Thursday attacks allow
I’m glad because there’s going to be an important change in the Spanish government, and even though I fear the winning party might have some problems due to their lack of absolut majority, I’m sure they cannot do it much worse than J.M. Aznar administration :doh:.

And I am also glad because today I’ve fininshed my Pedagogy Course practice period (I had to teach Spanish to high school students for 3 weeks), and the truth is that I have enjoyed it a lot, and I dare to say that my pupils have enjoyed themselves in my class to :geeked:. But it’s been really tiring :P.

Anyway, now I must focus in the pile of stuff I still have to do. I’m going to write it down here just to remind it to myself each time I come to the Internet to check messages and so on 8-). Here it goes.

– Write the report about the Pedagogy course.
– Spend one whole morning in my Faculty Library fotocopying articles for my pre-doctorate thesis in order to read them in Norway.
– Polishing up my database for the already mentioned thesis.
– Talk to my uncle… I mean: my tutor About the two last points written above.
– Phone my private lessons pupils to rearrange our timetible.
– Prepare my week-end trip to Salamanca (that includes several other actions).
– Getting prepared for my supertrip to Norway :dance:, which includes phoning K., his parents and buying some stuff.

Iva, thinking about the last has made me remember you and your visa problems :???:. I really symphatise with you, and do do hope that you will soon be able to travel without all those impediments again, I really wish it.

I’m doing most of all that stuff in Santiago, so I’d better be going, because I’m catching one of the morning trains to Santiago and I need a bit of extra sleep…

Boas noites…

Hey!
I have just come from voting (well, I have just come from having lunch and taking a shower, but oh well :P).

We have had a performance this morning at the Festa do Caldo, in Mourente: between Pontevedra and Tenorio. Everything went ok, but it seems that there were not as many people as other years, and we kept one minute of silence for the victims of last Thursday attacks. I was in charge of conducting our show, but I also had to dance one piece and play the tambourine (my father played the Galician bagpipe and my cousin B. played the drum). But I managed to not fall down when running from one place to another :geeked:.

Well, just after that, we got my cousin to her house (she was starving) and my father and I went to vote: yup, with our folcloric costumes . The attacks have made a lot of people aware to go to vote, so in my opinion it wouldn’t be strange that the socialists win: a lot of people that refused to vote in past elections were socialists that were a bit disenchanted with the PSOE (the main socialist party), and I think they are going to vote this time.

By the way, the only thing about the attacks that is clear currently is that nothing is clear, so no comments about that. (I’m still thinking that ETA is involved in some way… Bah, whatever.)

I won’t give my second whole class until Tuesday, and that means I can procrastinate a bit :tongue:; so I guess I’ll spend half of the rest of the day taking looks at how the elections in both Spain and Russia are going. The other half will be devoted to the 10th version of Callitoes Collectanea. I can give you a clue to try to guess what it will be about: version “10th” is version “X” too…

Yup, the show must go on. And thanks a lot to all of you who e-mailed me asking how my family of Madrid and myself were. We are shocked, as everyone, but safe and grateful for receiving so many kind messages… I love you all too: I don’t say that as often as I should, but I do…

My fingers are numbed, like the other day: I have just come from cutting wood again, this time with the chain saw: I grab the log and my father cuts it. We do it every year, and my father usually treats me like if I were idiot or something. I don’t like arguing for the sake of it so I put my best face of “yes dad” mixed with a little bit of “go to hell, dad” and continue doing my way until my father gets tired of hearing himself complaining about what I do and realises we are doing the job quite quckly. It’s always that way…

I wanted to go to the main protests against terrorism in Pontevedra this evening, but my mother went to visit someone and my father wanted me to help him with that, so I got stuck in Tenorio cutting wood. We always have pacific protests like the ones we are having today all around Spain each time there’s a terrorist attack: we are used to them. It is true that this one is “a bit” different, but I didn’t insisted on going to Pontevedra: my parents find that kind of protests too sentimentalist. Me too, but I think they are important all the same.

Anyway, I participated in the general stop we had this morning for a quarter of hour. During 15 minutes from 12:00 to 12:15 everybody concentrated in public places such as schools, university campus, public squares and so on to show our disgust for these attacks. I was “the teacher” of a group of 27 15-year-old pupils today and we went donwstairs to “celebrate” the concentration with the students of the Social Sciences faculty which is in front of the High School I am teaching at. After that (it was thilling, I almost cry!), we went back to our classroom and gave my first whole lesson…

It was quite a dense topic: subordinate clauses, but I tried to be amusing (not too much, though, I don’t want to loose my dignity :P) and it seems they enjoyed the class: my tutor told me so later, so now I’m feeling more relieved than yesterday, when I were supposed to be finishing preparing that lesson but I couldn’t help watching and hearing all over again the news of the attacks.

Whatever, I am here in my comfortable country house instead of participating in the public demonstrations against ETA (I have no doubt they have been responsible of the attacks), but trying to show my simpathy for the victims (that includes all that have been affected by the attacks in some way) in all these ramblings I am writing down here…

Basta ya, puñetas…

Yesterday I thought of writing down in this blog all the stuff I have to do before next Tuesday, in order to put things in order and to show the world how much stressed I am :doh:. But as it usually happens, as soon as I begin to feel pity about myself, something really stressing happens to someone else near me…

This time has gone too far: this morning in Madrid happened the biggest terrorist attack in Spanish history (and the 4th in the European one) :neutral:. More info here, here & here. Someone has pointed that Al-Qaeda might be the responsible of the attacks… Come on! Everybody knows it has been signed by ETA.

There’s nothing romantic about ETA, as they have tried to sell to the international oppinion. They are just killers. And thanks a lot, Mr. Bush, for having dealt with them after sucking up to our stupid current President in order to make him support you in the stupid Irak war. What will be your next action? Invading Spain to remove ETA from here? Everything is so stupid…

The political campaign is over (the only “positive” fact about the whole thing), and there will be three days of official mourning, just until the day of the polls.

Fortunately, all of the numerous relatives and friends that I have in Madrid are ok.

And I am happy with my stress :uh:.