Tai Chi Soup

After 2 very dull weeks i decided to do more this week. After work on monday i met up with Maria Jose and we had coffee and chatted, mainly in spanish but i made her read aloud from good housekeeping magasine so she could get a little english practice. I asked her to come to the lottery shop with me so i could get a ticket (i was scared). So iv'e got my fingers crossed for tonight! I bought michael a cake on the way home but he had gone out to play pool by the time was back so i watched a film from the video shop (curse of the golden flower). It was good, chinese with some fighting and killing and lots of deciept. The story was acctually alot like Hamlet.

On tuesday i went for my first Tai Chi lesson, it was like doing very very slow karate. I have paid for a month of lessons in november so hopefully i will learn some more spanish and make some spanish friends. Its in the council run sports center which is pretty nice, its really big and has a pool, gym, tennis and football courts and rooms for martial arts and stuff. The best this is that its really cheep!

We started havin ghte new cupboards put in the surgery yesterday so its a mess, they are supposed to finish today but they are now saying they will do it on monday, spanish time!

I think i will be spending this weekend sorting out the house for mum and dad and will, wills room to be is currently a very messy store room. Ahh well there is always the bath!

I was making some soup the other day and an idea for a new recipe poped onto my head. Im gonig to try it out and send it to the covent garden soup company and make loads of money, life sorted!

Show and Tell

Last week was fairly boring work wise. Paul was away so it was Bill's week which usually means hardly any patients, and it was bank holiday on monday and friday ( i that to work them but i didn't work evenings). I spent most of friday at work moving everything from one surgery to the other so they can fit a new chair. There really isnt enough room for 3 chairs and all the equipment and patients but that what we are doing.

On tuesday i met up with my new friend Maria Jose. My spanish teacher put us in touch for conversation. She wants to learn english, me spanish. Fortionatly for me she can't speak much english so i think im going to get more practice. Its really hard tryin got think of something to say in a language you can't speak to well to someone you have never met before. Ahh the things i let myself in for. We are meeting again this tuesday so i am going to look for something to take for show and tell so we have something to talk about.

We went out for Bens birthday on Saturday, went for a meal and watched a terrible band. For some reason as soon as they start singing in spanish it just sounds soo cheesy.

Sunday was one of those days when its cloudy out side and you just want to stay in bed. I managed to get up though and dragged michael out for some lunch. We had big yummy rolls at the bakers. We had gone down on the vespa so went for a ride around until the back tyre burst!

The Asbos (horrible people living in our bloque) had let the tyre down and michael thinks he had put to much air in when he blew it back up. Anywasy, we wernt going anywhere, so i called the grua and we waited, in the rain, for about half an hour. It was my first time in a grua truck, my favorite bit was when michael stood on the back with the bike while it went up and down.

Me and Goga are going for a tai chi lesson tomorrow. I think it will be fun, and i need to get out of the house in the evenings, especially now i have given up the cleaning (till i find someone cleaner to clean for, haha).

Bikes,steak, football, horses, flamenco dresses...

I supppose i should tell you about the scooter rally in Marbella first. It was pretty much the same as the one in cadiz but we got to drive( on Michael's newly fixed bike) around marbella and puerto banus which was cool because we know the area and its full of snobs and plebs and they all looked surprised to see 100 old vespas in bright colours driving around where the toff usually parade their expensive sports cars.

We all ended up in a restaurant which was so cramped it was difficult to actually eat the 3 courses they had prepared for us (Michael ate some pretty good rabbit, but i opted out on the tripe soup with chickpeas!)

There was alot of riding that day and i ended up with an incredibly sore bum! Unfortunately the repsol vespa of which there is a picture on my last entry broke down on the way home so we all stopped for coffee in La Cala to wait for the grua.

Michael went to Valencia last Sunday to work and the football ground putting up the publicity. On the Saturday we went to one of his work mates bbq's. He is Argentinian and had got half and Argentinian cow to put on the bbq. It was the best steak i have ever eaten (after i had taken the skin and fat off, this was proper cow!) He jsut put loads of salt on when he was cooking it but it was really tasty.

Anyways, Michael went off on sunday morning and i stayed in all day waiting for holly to come back from Seville because she had promised to stay over and keep me company but she didn't come so it was a bit of a wasted sunday.

I survived whilst michael was away, even through the thunder and lightning and the spider in my bedroom! The valencia chelsea game was on on wednesday so i met Ben and Goga for dinner and then we went to whatch it to see if we could see micheal. Unfortionatly i think the only time he was on tv was right at the beggining which we missed. Nevermind, they won and michael came home with loads of chelsea stuff from the ground to put up around the house (yay).

The feria is on this week so there are loads of flemenco ladies on horses all around Fuengirola. Me and Goga went down to see what was going on yesterday. i will put on a few photos so you can get the picture (haha)