Don´t stop ´till you get enough, indeed

Ayer estuve en Plamplona, y que buen dia era! Habia ido con mis amigos Kevin y Javier (gracias Javi, que buen guia eres!) y realmente no puedo quejarme de nada porque teniamos mucha diversion...estabamas andando en todas partes de la ciudad y hemos visto muchos monumentos de Hemmingway (yo creo que la mayoria de la gente le connoce..no? jejejeje)
I had a really nice, relaxing time with my friends and it was nice to get out of the city again for a little bit. It was great speaking spanish all weekend. I hate to say it, but..ah, who am I kidding, not really: I´m so proud of myself :P It´s incredible how much I know now...
Saw the famous Plaza de Torros in Pamplona, churches, ancient walls of the city, a really beautiful park named after a japanse designer, etc...all in all, a great day!
But the day didn´t finish there.....OH, NO!
After going back home to freshen up, me and Javier met up downtown and walked to a bar called La Redondad(which is pretty close to where I work). There, we met up with Eduardo and eventually all of my spanish friends. Pintxos/Tapas were had and of course wine and the occasional beer...but of course, being me, I stopped eating and drinking much earlier than my other friends, and just walked around with them enjoying their company and chatting about whatever. Spanish nightlife is THE BEST. Love it. Love it. Love it.
Anyways, back to my story.
I bumped into one of my favourite adult students (who I unfortunately don´t teach anymore because of a change in my schedule) and we ended up talking about the various parts of Spain and where I should work next. He gave me great advice, and I am still looking, not yet completely sure that I want to go to Huelva. It´s always nice speaking with him, I was actually really sad when I had to teach another class instead of his. Oh well, I still bump into him now and then, that´s what´s great about living in a city that has 175,000 people instead of 4 million.
Our group of friends seemed to get bigger and bigger as the night progressed and I eventually bumped into Gavin and his group of friends. I got introduced to lots of new people, which is great because I am sure I´ll see them again and they were very interesting.
The bars/tiny dance clubs were packed; things peak at about 3 a.m. Still, as custom, we moved from packed bar to packed bar, dancing and chatting away until the wee hours of the morning.
At around 4 a.m., me, Gavin, Juan (from Guatemala, real nice guy), Kevin, Jan (german guy), and our favourite bar/dance club owner Sala (from Marocco) went to a discoteca called Aural. Yeah, I was the only girl, but it´s all cool with me. Dearbhla had decided to go home earlier because she was tired, but I just loved the music so much and was having such a great time that I decided to stick it out longer.
The Techno/Dance music blasting in Aural reminded me of Madrid, and I just knew that I needed to dance, dance, dance. To be quite honest, I think I was the only girl in the whole discoteca who was REALLY dancing away, lol....most people were just shuffling from side to side. I don´t know, guess I´ve just always been a bit crazy like that. Maybe it´s the German techno-freak in me, since so many Germans love that kind of music. It was funny because our group was dancing the most, and most of us (were not even from Spain). Well, apparently the southern spaniards dance more than the northern ones, so..I guess I´ll see when I go to Andalucia in June for my interview. :) I just love to dance.
So, I had a lot of fun there.
But noooooooooo, at 6 a.m., when the discoteca closed, IT STILL WASN´T OVER YET. (grins)
So, as I said before, Sala is the owner of our favourite bar/dance club, right? Well.......he reopened his bar just for us! One thing though, because it´s against the law to reopen bars that early in the morning, we had to sit in the dark with only the faint light of the distant bathrooms to help us see, but we ended up having a heck of time in there, from around 6:30-8 a.m.....hahahha oh man, good times, good times...
He gave us free drinks (but I only insisted on water, no more beer for me) and bocadillos (chorizo sandwiches...mmmmm) and we ended up chatting and laughing away about random things, Gavin and Kevin all the while mimicking famous people, repeating retarded quotes and Gavin screaming that, being irish, he´d bomb us all.
At one point, we were all playing "Air Bongos". Yup, you can imagine the insanity of it all...hahahah.
At 8 a.m., we decided to go to a cafeteria for a coffee...so we all headed to "La Granja" which is located almost right beside my work. Yeah, heheeh as you can tell, my work is situated in a very good location. :)
Me, Juan and Jan all had our "Cola-Cao" (hot chocolate, name is a brand) and Gavin and Kevin had their cafe con leche. I hate coffee, but everyone will tell you that spanish coffee is just really really good. Anyways, Sala, had decided to go home to sleep at 8, so it was just us troopers left at the very end.
Surprisingly, I was tired (of course) but we had all hit that stage where you are so tired that you are actually kinda really awake. Weird feeling.
At 9 a.m., with my head almost hitting my hot chocolate cup, we all decide to head back home for a good night´s (or should I say day) sleep....
Man oh man oh man...such good times, ones that I´ll never forget. It was so nice of Sala to have opened his bar just for us...and to have given us all of that free food and drinks :) Thanks Sala, you are one awesome dude!
I only have about 2 months left in Logroño (well, depending on what happens really) but I must say that I have met so many and such great people...people who have made my stay in Spain incredible and exciting. I´m happy to be staying at least another year...how can one get tired of all of this?
Besides going out during the weekends for various spanish trips (Asturias was AMAZING! I had a heck of a great time with my Madrid friends...if my job offers don´t appeal to me I´m heading to Asturias) I take lots of walks along the Ebro where I live and relax on the grass..the weather has been nice and we are expecting 22-28 degrees this upcoming week. Ahhhhhhh...
I´ll be super busy in May, because we will be having ANOTHER intensive course (ugh) but, oh well...money is money. We are all having a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the schedules and also final report cards for the children and teen classes. At least June will be very very light for me, since I have a lot of junior classes...kids finish on the 8th of June at Inlingua!!! So, even if May is long, June will seem a lot shorter, so it´s one last big effort before Germany and Australia :)
I feel so blessed to be able to do all of this; to travel the world, work, meet new people, dream and wonder about life...and live comfortably. It could all be far worse.
Incidentally, my stupid roommate has been having BIG fights with his girlfriend...they are quite pathetic. And she keeps coming back! Argh....I´m always hoping that she goes away for good, but the dumbo doesn´t.
Oh well.
I´m having such a great time here that I choose to ignore them, and it helps.
Lucy is doing well, she is as active as ever, and I´m glad that she is still healthy and playful :)
I really wonder where I will be working in Sept, hopefully I´ll really know before I leave for my month long vacation...
Keep on dreaming and doing it a-la-Disco Stu,
love Heidi oxooxox