Keys!

New house at last! Unfortionatly we are still waiting for the water and electricity to be turned on.
Went to Ikea in Sevilla on saterday and got everything for the house, we spent about 7 hours in there, missed lunch and dinner! We got stopped by the police on the way back. They looked at all Michaels papers, then asked us to open the back of the van. When they saw all the flat packs they laughed and said Ikea?
So we got away with that one. Most stuff is out of the old house now so we should be in sometime this week, Fingers crossed!

Hey peeps, just a quickie as im at work.
What a crazy week, back to the usuall run of bad luck, yesterday was mad, i had to wait ages to put my bike in for repairs and realised i can't say a thing about scooters in spainsh so i made a fool of myself making motorbike noises to the mechanic, was 40 mins late for work and it was crappy for the first part of the day, second half was ok, got my teeth balanced and now they feel weird. Then michael picked me up and his day was bad, no work tomorow, cars buggered, mechanic sold him dodgy parts... football wasnt on the tv at his dads house, and then.....
He fell off his bike and broke his foot!
we got the doctor guys out which was quite fun for me because i can understand spanish medically things and i was trying my spanish out on them, but not so fun for micheal because he had an injection in his bum. So he is off for xrays today so lets hope its not too bad!

Apart from all this hoo haa i watched Howls Moving Castle (finished at 3, god i was bored!). Its really cool! I totaly recomend it even if you don't like animated stuff. I have to confess i watched it in english even though its japanese becuase i was too tired to read the subtitles (lame i know) but the people in it looked english and it had the voice of Christian Bale. Excuses made.

Hey peeps, just a quickie as im at work.
What a crazy week, back to the usuall run of bad luck, yesterday was mad, i had to wait ages to put my bike in for repairs and realised i can't say a thing about scooters in spainsh so i made a fool of myself making motorbike noises to the mechanic, was 40 mins late for work and it was crappy for the first part of the day, second half was ok, got my teeth balanced and now they feel weird. Then michael picked me up and his day was bad, no work tomorow, cars buggered, mechanic sold him dodgy parts... football wasnt on the tv at his dads house, and then.....
He fell off his bike and broke his foot!
we got the doctor guys out which was quite fun for me because i can understand spanish medically things and i was trying my spanish out on them, but not so fun for micheal because he had an injection in his bum. So he is off for xrays today so lets hope its not too bad!

Apart from all this hoo haa i watched Howls Moving Castle (finished at 3, god i was bored!). Its really cool! I totaly recomend it even if you don't like animated stuff. I have to confess i watched it in english even though its japanese becuase i was too tired to read the subtitles (lame i know) but the people in it looked english and it had the voice of Christian Bale. Excuses made.

Cleaning Cleaning Cleaning

Hi!
So, back in sunny Spain, and it is pretty sunny. im taking a short break from cleaning cleaning cleaning. I have tided and cleaned all the drawers in the main surgery and rearranged everything. I have never seen anything so disorganised, and you all thought i was messy!
Work is going ok, im always busy which is good. I got my new uniform which i was sort of pursuaded to get in a size medium because of course in not as skinny as pauls daughter, and when i put it on it was bloody enormous! I have sent paul off to get me a proper sized one!
God this tea is horrible, its like old dish water. Why is tea in foriegn countries so disgusting?
Anyways bad news as usual on the house, now they are saying a week on monday (My arse!)
Flight home sucked, had to wait 2 hours just to get through passport controll, and we had to put our shoes throught the xray, lucky i had my new pink sparkly ones on. Im still wondering how you get a bomb and a foot in a shoe?!
Oh and Hollys getting double the amount for leaving the calahonda clinic so im investigating!
Right tea break is over, back to cleaning cleaning cleaning.

I start my new job next monday. Only i more week of being over worked and underpaid. The bosses are being so nice and helpfull this week, pity it wasn´t always like that right.
Opps the internet cafe is closing but ill tell you more next week
Bye

Why does it always rain on me?

So i have finally had enough of work. If i were to explain what was so bad about it i would be here for hours, and mum and dad would be bored because the have heard it all before.
On Monday i got stressed at one of the doctors and she told me my problem was that i had never had it hard (i havent lived in cuba!) and that i shouldn´t bring my problems to work (my problems are work!). On tuesay, bank holiday, i got a phone call from the doctor i used to work with, my bosses enemy, asking if i knew any nurses who wanted a job. i said, Yes, Me!
On wednessday me and holly confronted bosses about overtime and pay (9 hours overtime unpaid in 2 weeks!? A regular occurence). We were told we had it better than anywhere else and that this was resonable. Next day holly isnt at work and nobody tells me where she is. I infact already know that she has been told to take 2 weeks holiday. Obviously its not importand for me or the other doctors to know where she is!? The last straw.
So im not wasting my time on people like that, and i MIGHT be getting a new job, admittedly with a doctor i have had a few problems with in the past, but everything cant be perfect right. It is 10 hours a week less for almost the same money.
Fingers crossed everyone that its all turns out alright!

Oh yeah, its rained the other day!

A day off

Thank god i have a day off.
Michael woke me up to say good bye at about 9, i went back to sleep till 10.30 then read my book till 1. It was fantastic.
Now im piddling about in milies chatting to sonia and checking my emails. I don't plan to do anything else exept sit about watching tv.
Thats what days off are for right?!

Sunday again. I fully intend do do not much this sunday.
Last week was pretty crappy, they have opened a new consulta(don´t know the word in english, surgery room?) so we have had to work loads harder and there seem to be a ton more emergency pacients too. Its not the extra work thats bad, ive been writing down all the unpaid overtime i have been doing and its come to about 9 hours in a week and a half. Twice last week we did 2 hours extra in a day! Oh well only another 6 months till i take my exam and if i pass they might just add a few more euros to my pay, Wahey!
Just read one of those i was abused as i child but now im strong books. I can´t belive i used to read so many of those when i was younger, they are crap!
Yesterday me and michael went to sort the lighting in his dads new house. I got the exiting jobs of fitting spotlights in their holders and then attatching transformers (haha, transformers). If micheal ever comes to work at the clinic i will make him clean the gobby spitoon. Yep, i bet when you spit into that little bowl at the dentist you never stopped to think that someone has to clean all your gobby spit out at the end of the day. See why i love my job?!
Went to see about a new scooted at the weekend. Its ok and in much better condition that my old one, but its blue!
Im looking forward to coming home in september, its been a while, about 8 moths i think. I hope i will have cooled down by then becuase i know it will still be bloody hot here. I had to take 3 showers yesterday!
Oh yeah and the word on the new house is about 3 weeks (yeah right!)
Toodle pip xx

Yo

Sorry, its been ages right!?
The computer is totaly bust, it has a dry socket apparently and needs to be taken apart compleatly. So it will be a while.
As for moving house that will be ages to. About another month i recon. But then we should be moving straight into ours rather than michaels dads first.
All our transport is breaking, we nearly blew up my bike and michaels car today but i think they are both fixed now.
As for you lot thinking its hot, its bloddy boiling here to! Just because the paper says its hotter in england than spain it doesnt mean we have it easy. Its been about 35 for a few weeks.
Course work is going ok, bit of a drag without the computer for extra help but ill be ok.
Work sucks as always.
Other than that everythings ok, im even getting a bit of a tan, oh and ive put blond highlites in my hair.
Take care everyone and go easy in the heat xx

Spanish Security Guards

Hi peeps
This is a quick quick blog becuase the computer is a bit buggered up and isnt charging properly, so i have limited time. I haven't been ignoring anyone, really!
Work sucks, i am on my own coz stephs on holiday and Holly is down in the Fuengirola clinic. We have been painting overthe mould in our house and slowly moving bits out to Michaels sisters new appartment which is close to ours, for when we eventually move. My Spanish was really tested today with the security guards. Its only took and hour and a half to get them to open the garage( my spanish isnt that bad, i think security guards may be a bit mentally challanged, thought very nice and helpfull)
So, im having a greek on friday(hehe). Going to the new greek restaurante with a few people for my birthday.. The best thing is that i get to finish work early!
Ill write more when the computer is sorted, Take care.

Ok,shes Asian not African

Clubbing in Fuengirola was kinda fun and weird. I didn't have a bloody clue how to dance to the music. Its very bum wiggly.
Work has been pants. I made a chocolate cake today Its called 'chocolate cake with chocolate in and chocolate on top'. Its pretty yummy.
Me and Michael ate tapas in this cool place today where you just tick what you want on this piece of paper, kind of like doing a multiple choice test, and them they call your name when its ready. They miss heard Michael and called out Marco instead.
So to work off all this chocolate cake and tapas i have been doing a Tae Bo video. Its well hard but really good. I feel all energetic now.
I read Alice in Wonderland. Its was a load of nonsence!
Tomorow we are going to an African craft fair in Toremolinos. Im going to get some rings around my neck and a bone through my nose!

Smug

Who's a clever girl? Top marks for my homework again!
Work has been a bit gay.
Going clubbing in fuengirola tomorow night for Stephs birthday. Yay?!

Today was a good day. I acctually had an ok day at work! Whooba!
I assisted with the first 2 patients, i didn't get annoyed by the doctor, then we all sat around for ages waiting for lunch. We killed time by looking at this hugeantic (one of Hollie great gone wrong english words) book on immpressionists and commenting on how fat the ladies were and how small all the mens willies were. Why do artists paint so many pictures of naked people?
Went to the pub and chatted to Sonia, came out with a good come back at some wierdo who was picking on me (Were you ever a boxer? Why do you have a bolt through you nose?)
Back to work to do the dreaded curetaje (Bone cleaning, lots of blood and views of gummless teeth and bone!)
I wasn't feeling to good about it at first but when i got into it i was having fun. Retracting gum, Sucking up saliva, wiping blood, cutting stitches. Oh my job is a delight.
Then we pulled a little kids tooth out.
Only had time left for a nice sit down and a cup of tea and a chapter of my book.
Just went swimming in the pool (9 oclock!). The weather has been so wierd (muy raro!) it was so cloudy this morning that i couldn't even see across the road. We just get surrounded in cloud, so i took my coat to work thinking i might get cold on the bike, and nearly died of heat exhaustion by the time i got to the bottom! Its been pretty cloudy all day and windy but its so warm. It was like driving through a gigantic hairdryer on the way home.
So now im just waiting for Michael to come back with my pizza.
Not a bad day atall.

Wooba!

Ive been so tired all week and have been really looking forward to my weekend and now its just pants.
We came home on friday to find an investation of buggy things in the bedroom, climbing all over that damp and mould up the walls. so we have moved into the spare room which has the leaking boiler in and where you can't open the window or shutter or curtains incase people break in so its so dark that when you wake up in the moring it still feels like night.
Michael was working yesterday so i spent all day reading and waiting for him to come home. I did get alot of book read and i ate whole salmon steak on the bbq, which was nice. I also made cheese and marmite spirals. Yummy.
Took a pointless trip to lots of closed shops this morning. Even the video shop was closed.The weather sucks. I tried to disinfect the walls in the infested room but it wasn't working to well and now i stink of disinfectant. Its even worse than the smell of dentists.
I have done a bit of home work. I now know the entire contence of an anaesthetic cartridge. Wooba!
Lets hope for a better week next week eh?!

My weekend

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!