The Gingerbread Man Attempt

Ok, so I´ve just gotten back from the big Berceo shopping center...armed with 15 euros worth of ingredients for making gingerbread men. Yes, you read write (sigh). When did baking become so expensive? And it´s certainly not like I bought the best-known brands for each item...
The reason for my baking expedition? Well, we are having a Christmas Party at work this Thursday, and every teacher is supposed to bake something that is very typical of his/her country. Well, at first I decided to make a very famous German cake, but then I thought of all the ingredients I would need and that thought flushed itself down the toilet. So, I thought of the next big thing: gingerbread men! Ginger is a very popular spice in Germany, and at Xmas time you can buy those little tasty men practically everywhere...
Now, you want to know the best part of all of this? I got EVERY ingredient...EXCEPT GINGER. I searched and searched, but it was nowhere to be found. In a few hours I will go to several other supermarkets to see if they have any. I hope that I will find it: can you imagine having bought all of these ingredients and then not being able to bake what you want after all? I hope that that nightmare won´t come true. If I can´t find that ingredient myself, I will ask my boss, she is already going to lend me a cookie sheet (don´t ask, I live with another boy, and we don´t own ANYTHING for baking).
I hope that the gingerbread men will turn out right. Besides scrambling to find every ingredient, I had to translate some spice names into Spanish by using the Alta Vista Babelfish. Well, at least that worked...:P Now, I´m just hoping to have every spice by Wednesday so that I can bake them on that night...hopefully they will turn out yummy!
Moving on to something different: last weekend I went to Madrid to see all of my TEFL friends again...and I had a lot of fun! I seriously didn´t get enough sleep (dancing every night until about 7 a.m.) but it was worth it. It was nice seeing everybody again, and just partying it up a-la-Madrid style :) I´m glad that I went...
In one week I shall be in Germany! Woohoooo I can´t wait to see everybody, I am going to email my relatives tonight to confirm my flight times and everything...(today, for the first time ever, I heard German spoken in the streets of Logroño...some very long, blond-haired tourists, lol...)
Today I also sent out Xmas cards....I´m sure that everybody will get them like a week after Christmas, but oh well....guys I´ve been super busy, gimme a break, lol. :P
Oh, I saw The Chronicles of Narnia in ENGLISH while I was in Madrid. It was nice seeing a movie in its original version...not that Harry Potter was bad in Spanish, I understood almost everything, but it´s just to hear the REAL voices, you know?
Tonight we are celebrating the birthdays of Caspar and Dearbhla, should be fun...we are all going to go out to a restaurant :) They are both Xmas babies, so we have to celebrate a bit in advance before everybody leaves for the holidays :)
I love Saturdays....ahhhh one more week and it´s Christmas...and we have a nice tree now at work and everything, I screamed with delight like a little girl when I saw the decorations, heheheeh.
Ok, well that´s it for now...I don´t know when I will get the chance to update again (maybe only in January, who knows? I´ll be gone in Germany for 2 weeks)...but: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006!!!!!! To all my friends and loved ones: I love you all, you are dearly missed, xoxooxoxo hugs and kisses
your Heidi