Vacation????
Posted by: Denelle
Why is it that we always seem to need a vacation from our vacations?
So far mine has gone like this:
Sunday: church twice
Monday: drive 2 hours to outlet malls, shop 5 hours, drive 2 hours home
Tuesday: work fireworks stand for church fundraiser (4 hours), shop for brother's new bed set, bbq with family/friends (remainder of day)
Wednesday: go buy paint to paint brother's room, take 3 children (11, 9, 5) to the beach for 4 hours while their mother and my mother paint, get terribly sunburned (ouch), church again
and on the agenda for tomorrow . . . Disneyland (with the aforementioned 3 children). After this if anyone needs to find me, I'll be vegging on my couch for the next 3 weeks in Brooklyn.
I don't have much to report on as far as the rest of the world right now. I was shocked to sign online tonight and see that Ken Lay had died. Either the stress got to him or he figured that he'd take the easy way out (after all there are ways to "have a heart attack"). And I don't think victims of Enron should be so upset about his death. He wouldn't have served any real jail time and they weren't going to get any actual money out of him (how can you get water from a dry well) so maybe this is better justice in a way.
I'm also looking forward to the finals of the World Cup. France and Italy will face off on Sunday. I've actually watched several matches this year and I can totally see why people love this sport. Over two solid hours of fans (in an enclosed arena) singing God Save the Queen? Fabulous. Personally, I think that Italy will walk away with the Cup this year.
On another front, my sister isn't having such a wonderful time in Spain. It is proving to be a bit difficult to be the only person in a 90 person group who isn't interested in going out and getting drunk every night and just generally being stupid. She loves the country and the (native) people but is totally over the people she went with. I think it would be a much different experience if she had gone with a smaller group and/or a group that was only from her school. Only three and a half weeks to go and I think she's counting every minute. Oh, and speaking of minutes (and by way of a plug) if you ever need a phone card to call internationally, I highly recommend Just Phone Cards. They have the best rates/conversion I've found.
That's it for me. My body still thinks it's somewhere around 3 am and that combined with the sunburn is killing me. Pray for me. In this condition may not survive Disneyland tomorrow.
Why is it that we always seem to need a vacation from our vacations?
So far mine has gone like this:
Sunday: church twice
Monday: drive 2 hours to outlet malls, shop 5 hours, drive 2 hours home
Tuesday: work fireworks stand for church fundraiser (4 hours), shop for brother's new bed set, bbq with family/friends (remainder of day)
Wednesday: go buy paint to paint brother's room, take 3 children (11, 9, 5) to the beach for 4 hours while their mother and my mother paint, get terribly sunburned (ouch), church again
and on the agenda for tomorrow . . . Disneyland (with the aforementioned 3 children). After this if anyone needs to find me, I'll be vegging on my couch for the next 3 weeks in Brooklyn.
I don't have much to report on as far as the rest of the world right now. I was shocked to sign online tonight and see that Ken Lay had died. Either the stress got to him or he figured that he'd take the easy way out (after all there are ways to "have a heart attack"). And I don't think victims of Enron should be so upset about his death. He wouldn't have served any real jail time and they weren't going to get any actual money out of him (how can you get water from a dry well) so maybe this is better justice in a way.
I'm also looking forward to the finals of the World Cup. France and Italy will face off on Sunday. I've actually watched several matches this year and I can totally see why people love this sport. Over two solid hours of fans (in an enclosed arena) singing God Save the Queen? Fabulous. Personally, I think that Italy will walk away with the Cup this year.
On another front, my sister isn't having such a wonderful time in Spain. It is proving to be a bit difficult to be the only person in a 90 person group who isn't interested in going out and getting drunk every night and just generally being stupid. She loves the country and the (native) people but is totally over the people she went with. I think it would be a much different experience if she had gone with a smaller group and/or a group that was only from her school. Only three and a half weeks to go and I think she's counting every minute. Oh, and speaking of minutes (and by way of a plug) if you ever need a phone card to call internationally, I highly recommend Just Phone Cards. They have the best rates/conversion I've found.
That's it for me. My body still thinks it's somewhere around 3 am and that combined with the sunburn is killing me. Pray for me. In this condition may not survive Disneyland tomorrow.
I understand your sis's dilemma there in Spain . . . the nightlife is definitely a part of the Spanish culture, and American college kids are all too eager to participate. But has your sis been able to scout out a local A/P church? Before I spent time in Spain studying abroad in the Madrid area, I looked up and contacted the missionaries there and connected with their church--it was a godsend. I met so many people and probably learned more Spanish going to church and interacting with people there than I did in my classes. It was definitely a refreshing way to get involved and get the most out of my experience abroad without getting too bothered by the revelings of my American contemporaries.
Posted by
chantell |
Thu Jul 06, 02:02:00 PM 2006