Paddleboats and more

I am still attempting to recover from Zivic´s visit this weekend. What a weekend. Paddleboats on the river, the Cathedral, the Giralda, Alcazar, beach...lots of fun times. It was good to see him, and I´m really looking forward to going out to London to see some more familiar faces in a month.

We only have six weeks left here in Sevilla. I can´t believe how quickly this semester has evaporated before my eyes. Two of these six weeks are breaks too. We´re headed off to Ireland this weekend for five days before Semana Santa, which means I´ll have to register for classes next year from a foreign foreign country (and I´m really not looking forward to this experience with all of the recent Homer problems). Excitement here has been building to fever pitch for Semana Santa, Holy Week. I´m hoping to post some video of the pasos, which are floats of the Virgin Mary and Jesus carried by men from churches all around Sevilla. There are at least 114 pasos, if not more. I´ve seen them practicing, it´s pretty crazy.

In prep for Semana Santa, Conchi bought a new outfit, including a silk jacket. She got her hair done nicely last night for the pregon, which is the official annoucement of Semana Santa. And Sunday, for Domingo de las Ramas, Palm Sunday, she is going back to the hair dresser for a touch up. Tomorrow she´s got a facial appointment too. I knew it was a big deal, but this is huge. A facial for church. In other news, our 80 year old neighbor Paquita has broken her wrist, this has been worrying Conchi a lot. Danielle hasn´t been able to hear out of one of her ears since we got back from Granada, she had to go to an ear specialist. I´m cruising, although I have only recently come to the realization that I have to pound out four papers in Spanish in the next three weeks, so that´s a little bit of a stress. I think homework is a real downer on the abroad experience.

I really got to get my act together with my pictures. They are sitting on my laptop, which is such a pain and a half to bring to school. Hopefully I will figure out where to post them because I have a lot of good ones that are just wasting away on my hard drive.

I need to get my hair cut. I don´t think this is going to materialize before Semana Santa.