Inca Cola

Yesterday we went to the zoo in Fuengirola. We saw crocodiles, flamingos, birds, turtles, chimps, tigers, fish, dears, cockroaches, snakes, meerkats, porcupines, hogs, hippos, gorillas, leopards, orangutans and a tapir.
It was fun.

Last night we went to the feria internacional de los pueblos. It’s a festival with loads of different bars from around the world. There is music and food and clothes. We went in the Irish one first to meet some friends, then on to the Peruvian one where I had an Inca Cola (yum!) and in the Vietnamese bar where we ate sticky rice, spring roll things and cat kebabs (god knows what meat was on the kebabs but I think I should have given it a miss!). The Indian bar had lots of smoke wafting out of the door, the Bolivian bar smelt really badly and the German one was playing awful music. I wanted to go in the Polish bar but Michael said the women were too ugly. They didn’t have an English bar. I wonder why?

Onfriday night we went to La Cala to watch the Easter Parade. I had watched quite a few from Sevilla and Madrid and big places like that on the tv already, but we thought we should do something spanishy and have a look.
It was the most bizarre thing i have ever seen. It was getting dark when they started and we were all crowding around when we hear a bell ring. Then this really morbid trumpet music starts. The first man in the procession was carrying some flag thing and a few men (everyone in purple robes) wearing those Ku Klux Klan hats. They are enough to scare anyone, until the old crying distraught women all in black lace with a black vail follow. Next is the huge float carried but the men, displaying Jesus on the cross, and lots of candles, followed by the ladies and their masive model of The Virgin Mary surrounded by even more of candle.
Its so odd to see people crying and displaying their faith in such way. The wierd music and the ku klux klan hats made it even weirder.
If you get a chance to check some out on the net take a look.

Oh, and guess which idiot forgot to take her camera

On friday i went and got myself a needlestick injury. I was trying to put the lid back on a used irigating syringe but the needle was bent so it wasn't really working. So i pushed a little bit harder and it went straight through the plastic lid and into my thumb. it bloody hurt becuase it was a proper injection needle for your arm, not a thin one for your mouth.
It wasn't used to give an injection but for washing out a root canal so im hoping i have less chance of catching anything, but we'll see. Im probrably going to go to the doctor and get a blood test and then my Hepititis B jab.
So i spent all of friday worrying about that, then we got beat at darts. Sat i cleaned up a bit, took some dounuts to Holly because she was working, so i thought it would cheer her up, and wached half of a film before Micheal came home and whisked me off to some bbq.
The peoples house where the bbq was was crazy. it was an old spanish villa but some of the decor was a bit dodgy. So we ate and chatted and stuff, then one of the girls got this big bong out, called a shisha pipe. It comes from the middle east and they have cafes where everyone sits around and smokes it. After comfirming that there were not dodgy substances in it, i had a go. It was nothing like smoking a cigarette. The tobacco (which apparently has no nicotine or tar?!) is mixed with fruit and its not directly burnt and the smoke goes through water first so when you get it its all nice and light and fruity. And it looks cool! I have put a picture up so you can see but im sure you have all seen one before.

Soy Tonta!

I did the stupidest thing today. I went to get petrol for my bike after work, pulled up, opened my bike, picked up the petrol thingie and the realised that i hadn't unscrewed the cap off the petrol hole. So i threw my keys in in the bike, filled up and as i turned round the seat slammed shut and i realised my keys were inside. Gay!
Anyways this bloke was waiting to get in my space so i thought i should move the bike while i figured out what to do, exept the lock was on so it would have only gone round in circles!
After getting no reply from Michael i phoned Holly who said her and her Dad would come help but they had just ordered tapas so would be about 10 mins. God i was so embaressed just standing there.
Eventually i plucked up the courage to ask the petrol station guys for help (Tengo una problema, me llave es adentro me moto y no es posible abre o movil. Ayuda por favor!) I think they understood becuase they came out with a big screwdriver and said the only way to open it was to bash it!
After a bit op prizing and wiggling they managed to open it with no damage.
Wohoo, im off to get a spare key made!

Procrastination

I know i should be doing my homework. I just spent ages looking up words like Cyantosis and Paraesthesia in wikapedia. I thought they would be really complicated but it turns out they are the technical terms for going a bit blue and having pins and needles.
Now i can't find my dental textbook so im using it as an exuse for mucking about on the net.
I got my homework back for the first module last week. I got the second hightest mark for both essays. ' a very good performance of merit standard'. I told Isis i am going to sent an apple with my next essay and hope for top marks. yes we did have to explain the whole teacher/apple thing.

Apart from working i have mostly been reading Harry Potter. I finished it this afteroon. It isnt the best one but i had fun reading it. I even considered taking it in the surgery so i could read a bit when the doctor was fannying about.
I had to have impressions of my mouth taken last week so i can get a splint made. Its like a mouth guard and you wear it at night to stop grinding your teeth. I was really scared of having impressions incase i gagged loads but it was ok. At least i know whats its like for the patient now. Im going to keep the models of my gob and put them on the mantle piece!

So, apart from that its just sweat, sunburn and bbqs. I think summer is a coming!