2 weeks down...30 more to go

So I have been here exactly 2 weeks. It has been a long 2 weeks...honestly, longer than I expected. I already feel like I have been here 2 months.

These last 2 weeks have been filled with ups and downs...moments of increible happiness and moments of sadness, lonliness I guess I should say. The truth is that I think that I have had way too much time on my hands. I haven´t technically started teaching yet so I have had a lot of down time. But things are picking up and I am becoming busier every day. And really I should be enjoying my time with nothing to do. I know the day will come when I will have too much to do and will be wishing for a day spent lounging around the house doing nothing.

Today and tomorrow will be spent in San Sebastian doing a training course. It is a little repetitive from last year but it was better than expected. It´s a lot of teaching methods and how to be the best teacher possible but considering that is my job, I´ll take all the points I can. And in an incredible turn of events, the lady that is giving the class is the wife of a professor that I had when I was studying in San Sebastian. For all you that know Iñaki, it was his wife!!! And she is so nice!

Last Friday night I had dinner with some students from last year. It was really nice to see them again and spend time talking and laughing. Here are some photos from the dinner:

And then on Sunday I had lunch with a family that has a brother in the USA. I´ll explain. This summer I worked at the golf course in Battle Mountain. My boss there, Tammy, used to work at another bar in Battle Mountain before running the golf course. Well the husband of her old boss at the bar is Basque. The husband is named Fidel and he has a sister that lives here in Irun. This summer I met Fidel and his nephew (Orkatz), who was in the USA visiting one day at the golf course. So before I left to come back, Fidel called me and gave me his sister´s phone number. So I called her after being here a few days and she invited me to have lunch with her family on Sunday. Her son (Arkaitz) comes to pick me up on his moto and we go to thier house. I meet Fidel´s sister, Feli, and then I meet Fidel´s other sister, Marian, and the whole family. And they are all the nicest people ever! They welcome me into thier house like I am a member of the family and give me food and drinks and, well, get me a little drunk. :) After lunch, we went to go have another drink and at 9:00 pm I finally returned home. And they invite me to have dinner with them last night and then lunch with them again Sunday. And Feli is an amazing cook and wonderful mother. I really hope they become great friends.

Ok, so I have to cut this short. I will write more hopefully this weekend or next week.

Kisses to all!