I love TV!!!
Ok, I am now on my 3rd day of vacation and so far so good! I spent the day yesterday in a real classroom with my awesome mentor teacher, Janet. I love her teaching style and inspires me to want to get into teaching. I discussed some of my fears of being a classroom teacher and she relieved me of my fears. We went to lunch at Via Maestra. A wonderfully, authentic (as if I know, but the owner is Italian) Italian eatery that offers great food. It’s great!
Anyway, I am currently hanging out, planning things for the rest of the year. I want to learn Italian, French and really bone up on my Spanish literature. I wish I could get a job or go to school to learn languages. That would be awesome. My next BIG travel destination will be Italy and Greece. So I want to learn Italian and eventually some Greek. SOOOO….YES!!!! I have been watching A LOT of Travel Channel! =)
But have you seen “I LOVE MONEY”???? What a hilarious show!!!!! It has all the great people from I love NY, Flavor of Love. Two awesomely bad dating shows. I think it’s a hilarious show because they do ridiculous challenges and THEY are ridiculous. I love it! Anyway, I have shows to watch, languages to learn and money to save!
hasta pasta amigos!!!!!
This is hard
I didn’t realize that keeping up with a blog would be difficult. The past couple weeks have been hectic. They have eaten up my weekends!!!! My sacred long weekends! Two weekends ago, I went down to Rosarito for a wedding. That was a major weekend sucker, because I didn’t even return to work until Tuesday afternoon. I was totally off schedule. I pride myself on being organized and that week, I was on a different planet!
Last weekend, I spent it with Hugh’s family. Although I did manage of course to visit my own family. OD returned from Europe and told us all about his wild trip (it’s wild because he’s wild, I don’t think normal people experience europe as he does, or maybe it’s because he’s still really young) He snuck into some schwanky hotel in barcelona, swam in their pool, lounged in their bathrobes (which he later took) and hung out in their jacuzzi…not once, TWICE!!!!! He’s hilarious really! I was so glad to be around him and go out to El Taurino, one of our favorites. My parents and I have been going there since the early 80′s! It’s a LA staple! And also, my sweet grandmother is in town, so we had some time to hang out and talk like a family!
Saturday, I spent the entire day with my lil sister, Nirel and OD. It was awesome. We drove around LA, ate Pinkberry and Lahmajune’s and peruvian food at Don Felix’s. What a day!!!! Then OD and I went over to Hugh’s parents house and that was a blast! OD talked and everyone was entertained!!!! Then OD, Hugh, Celia (H’s sister in law) and I went over to visit my grandmother and mum. It was awesome. Looking through old pics, talking about el salvador and whatnot…it was wonderful! I had a good weekend and I was looking forward to returning to my last week of work at the City College. And guess what, today was the final exam and I already graded (all but 1) exam….WHOO HOOO!!!!! Not WHOO HOO at the time because the only reason I was able to grade was because one of my students took FOREVER…but hey, i can already turn in grades by tomorrow. That’s when the vacation BEGINS!!!!! Guess what I’ll do?!?!?
1. Turn grades in.
2. Clean my car, get gas, and vaccuum the interior.
3. clean my HOUSE…it’s an absolute mess!
4. hang out with my friends….eat, walk, shop….ooooh!!!!! i can’t wait until my first 3 are done!!!!!
Watch out for my phone call. I’m ready to socialize!!!!
PEACE!!!
By the way…
I had a pretty relaxing evening considering the honky tonk music. Hugh and I went out to dinner with my good friend, René. We went to the wonderful and scrumptious, Arigato. I had never been, but believe me, I will be back. I finally tried sashimi and it was delicious especially with the sauces. We also ordered some sushi rolls. Unfortunately, we had to leave pretty quickly because they closed early due to the fireworks. I would have loved to have taken longer and soak up the new experience, but we had to get out. We caught a couple fireworks but I wasn’t feeling too festive considering the state of things only miles away in Goleta.
Anyway, folks, my by the way comment is that I’ve been rolling in some new wheels as of last week. I have a brand new 2009 corolla. No more junky old car. It’s wonderful to drive in a car that I know looks lovely. I know I tend to drive into things or slightly nudge other things but with this car I will be EXTRA SUPER DUPER careful! Yay!
Well I will try to remain up to date about the “goings-on” in my life! Many exciting things happen to me on a daily basis. It’s great!
Honky Tonk!! Yee HAW!
Hello blogworld!!!!! I am finally joining in, on what seems to be old news, but I’m blogging. Since my friends are all over the US I figured; WHY NOT!?!?! Anyway, currently I’m listening to some honky tonk music my neighbors are playing at their 4th of July party in their backyard. It’s great! I wonder why anyone would be outside with all the ash in the air. It’s not healthy and after being in Goleta this afternoon I’m more worried about the people and the Gap fire. It’s scary!
Well I will peace out with this because I just got the new Laurie Notaro book, The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia and laser hair removal. She’s a hilarious author and I have read all her books. Summer reading…how great!!!!
