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Finished White Teeth. I was totally unimpressed considering it won loads of awards and was supposed to be a fantastic book. It was an easy read and you sort of got comfortably involved in the characters and their lives but it seemed as if nothing much happened, athough if i think about it i guess a lot did. It was trying to deal with quite a lot of social issues, but the people didn't feel like ordinary people. I think she tried to do to much but didn;t think it out enough. Also she went on about stuff and im thinking, is all this really necessary?

Anyways so now thats out of the way its on to Harry Potter. I read over 100 pages whilst i was on reception on friday morning. Although i pretty sceptical about the later Harry Potter books, it was quite exiting to be reading the new one, although i have forgotten what happened in the last one so im a bit confused.

Lastnight i went out with Jennie and Darren (housemate and her boyfriend). We went to a pub quiz. We lost miserably (second last acctually) and that was after someone told us loads of the answers!
Then we just went and drank some. Then some more.

Today i had a hangover (suprise) but got myself up at 10, made bacon and beans on toast, read FHM (filthy blokie magazine) then had to practicaly run down the hill to the bus stop (were talking a 40 min walk for those who don't know where i live) then run to get the bus and leg it to the post office before it closed to pick up my new comic. I was very sweaty and hot by this time so i went and sat on a bench in the park and started reading. Then i ate a pan au chocolate an went to the beach (see picture) and read some more ( and got a bit burnt). It was really cool, listening to the sea and getting some sun and reading. I sort of wanted other poeple to be there with me but i was also sort of glad no one could get in touch with me and i was all on my own.
Then i ate a big chiken baguette and went back to Calahonda in time to miss the train to my house and loose my jumper.
So i sat in the pub, reading my new comic, whilst everone got histerical about the football.
I must have looked really strange considering i was still carrying my comic in a big Amazon cardboard box, and kept packing and unpacking it.

So there you have it, take away, Harry Potter, comics and the Xfactor tomoro!

Weddings and Working.

Wow, last weekend was cool, Edinburgh is such a cool place, it had cool shops and loads of cafes, like Fuengirola has dentists.
The flights were a bit mank, i really dont want to do 4 in a row again!
Ill post some of my photos on here when i get them developed.

The picture, if you were wondering, is a motorcycle helmet. Its a bit like m new one, but mines black and sleek. It has that lifty up thing at the front.

Well, all ive done since i got back is work. Holly was at the other clinic on friday so i had to assist all day and i was well tired, and then work with the orthodontist yesterday.

Having said that i did find time to watch a whole tv series yesterday, called Sugar Rush. It was quite good, about a teenage lesbian in a dysfunctional family. What? It was only 10 episodes!

So, im going to Rambo's BBQ tonight, Michael is off playing golf, so im going to entertain myself with Cydy things, like cutting pictures out of magazines, mesuring things, making cakes, moving things around my bedroom, making a mess....Arn't weekends great?

And now for something completely different...

Wow, writing this blog makes me realize that I really don't do anything interesting enough to tell people about!

I had a karate lesson all one my own last week, it was cool, I got to learn how to do all the moves in detail, so it doesn't look so sloppy anymore.
We had to work with a new doctor on Thursday, she was weired. I think she only knows how to do extractions. She has a really different was of working to Isis. I have to stop myself from from looking at the patients with a "get out of she will pull all your teeth out " look. Maybe she is good, I can't really tell as IM not a doctor, but I have my reservations, we'll see.

I watched Vera Drake on Friday night, it was so sad it made me cry. They blatently shouldn't have put her in prison, innit!

I bought 3 new books from the bookshop too. I got The Binding Chair, White Teeth and Empire of the Sun. There was a big book on the Spanish Civil war that was looking at me but it was a little pricey. Maybe WHEN IM rich huh.

Yeah and last night was weired, I went to a weird bbq and then to some bars and when I came home Michael was snoring loads so I went and slept on the sofa. Stupidly I choose the small one and now IM all crumpled up!

Anyway, I shall be seeing some of you at the weekend and I can apologize for not doing anything particularly interesting in person.

See ya peeps.

I just spent ages writing an entry and the computer messed up and i can't be bovered to retype it all now, sorry peeps!

I promised I would do something interesting!

I went to a Festival of Tapas!

It was in the castle in Fuengirola. Its pretty small and there were a lot of people there, but they had food and drink and music and a belly dancer!

unfortunately because of all the people it was pretty hard to get near to any of the Tapas stalls, and the Spanish people just shout and whoever is loudest gets served first. I would have joined in if I had an irritatingly high voice and could speak Spanish really fast. Then once they have got served they just stand at the bar eating so no one else can get a look in.
So we ended up waiting at each stall for about 20 mins until we got frustrated and moved on to the next queue.

I did manage to get some really tasty Thai food which was pretty spicy and some Moroccan sweets which are all nutty and really sweet, ummmm!

My house mate has two of her friends over at the moment and they were cooking a BIG FISH on the bbq when I got home so I ate some of that, and them I went to a little Spanish bar and ate omelet and flan(caramel custard).

Food Food Food.

Me and Holly were trying to pusuade Isis to buy us walkie talkies for the dentist so when one is on reception and one in the consultation room, we can say, Holly, "please bring me a huge needle and some surgical blades, oh and a big pair of pliers!"
We're not getting walkie talkies but they bought in this coms system thing but it didn't work when we plugged it in. I told one of the pacients about it but he didn't look impressed.
We might be getting a coffee machines though!

I might do cleaning on one of my friends again tomorrow, if I can force them into the chair. A little more practice and hopefully they will let me loose on the public!

Its been too long...

It acctually rained on friday, it was nice. I got all exited when a patient told me.

Nothing particularly exiting happened last week. I worked on saterday and did cleaning for my house mate, went out last night. Worked ate slept worked ate slept.

I did buy Sin City from a lookie lookie man for 5 euros. Its pretty good, like watching a comic really. Unfortionatly it was filmed from a cinema and had Spanish subtitles all the way through. The good thing is i understood some of them!

Anyways i will try my hardest to do something exiting this week to tell you about.

Toodle pip x

Today I had a day off!

Its a fiesta today so I had the day off. I got up early to sort some stuff out in La Cala, but of course everything was closed, than I went home and mucked about and went to sleep. I then went all the way to Fuengirola for Karate only to find it wasn't on. Pants. Then I just ate chips and chicken nuggets. Its was nice.

I have to admit I spent most of the weekend in front of the TV, watching House of Flying Daggers and then Hero straight after.

Oh well back to work tomorrow...

Lets try again...

These pictures where supposed to go with the last entry but it didn't work, sorry.

Things I know about geisha...

The purpose of geisha is to entertain men (but not necessarily in the way your thinking, although they do sometimes) . They can't do things like serve food to their guest but they pour them drinks and chat and sing and dance and play the shamisen and accompany them around.
They mostly live in houses called Okiya, where there are maids, a mother(the owner) and sometimes Aunties, and geisha and maiko(trainee geisha). These people are not necessarily blood related.
There are also youner and older sisters. When a girl becomes a maiko she is appointed an older sister who is already a geisha, to teach her and introduce her to customers and the owners of tea houses. Teahouses are where geisha party's are held.
To become part of an okiya or to be appointed an older sister you must take part in a ceremony, usually involving tea or warm sake (umm).
Tea ceremony is very important to a geisha.
Most geisha try to have a patron, or danna, who is a man who has bid for the geisha and will then keep her in kimono and expensive gifts and a good quality of live. All geisha want a danna (preferably a nice one) because the cost of lessons in the geisha arts can be very high, and all geisha are in debt to the okiya for the investment it put into her as a maiko.
A man can also bid for a geisha's mizu-age (virginity). After this the geisha is not tied to her mizu-age patron in any way.
Original geisha had no say in who their danna or mizu-age patron was.
Geisha used to be the trend setters of Japan, but as times changed they found it hard because of their traditional look and style of art. They did try to become more modern but it wasn't very successful. They are now recognized as one of the most famous and traditional things about Japan.
Of course geisha of today are very different from the Edo period in 1600.
The Gei in geisha means Art.

Sorry its been a while!

Yeah, sorry Dudes!
I spent the weekend recovering from a pretty bad hangover, although it should have been worse considering. Oh well, now more alcohol for me, for about two weeks!

They are changing the hours at work so I might finish earlier on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which will be nice!

Holly was ill today so I worked all day in the surgery. It was good.

I bought apple crumble and am going to eat it soon (with ice cream!)

The sunset was beautiful tonight.

IM going to use the spell check.

IM going to watch terminator 3 now

Toodle pip peeps xxx

Ps. The next post might just be more interesting than this one!

Did anyone watch the new Danny Wallace programe?

It was pretty funny, and he has his own live show afterwards. I went on to sign up as a citizen a while ago but there were technical difficulties. Anyway i read what some of the people had written on the message board and they were all a bunch of sad loosers which kind of put me off, but ill join up anyway. Wouldn't want to let Danny down!

Finished Memoirs of a Geisha, it was really really good. You all should read it. She did something horrible at the end and it made me want to stop reading it, so it wouldn't happen, but the i remembered it was only a book, and that it would proprably be ok in the end anyway.
I started reading geisha, by Liza Dalby. Its all about her resurch on Geisha and when she became one. She is the only non Japanese woman to become one.

Well thats it for now because Michael wants me to turn the computer off so he can watch a film.

See ya xxx

Sunday Already!?

I finished reading Lolita the other day.
It was good but to bee honest a bit of a struggle towards the end. Its one of those wierd books that makes you wonder why anyone would think of writing a book like that. Its really wordy and i admit i missed a few pages out here and there when i got a bit stuck, but he makes you feel alot of sympathy for the protagonist (woo) even though he is a peadophile. The wierd thing is that he really was in love with lolita, so much so that he killed for her (nice guy all round huh?) She was a bit wierd, not sure what he saw in her reallly.

Now im reading memoirs of a geisha, its pretty good, quite interesting. I will elaborate more when ive finished it.

Film wise me and michael spent the last couple of evenings whatching Kill Bill, and you know. I still think its cool, but idon't think Michael was too impressed. He gave it a 5 out of 10 and i think he prefered the second one and didn't like the animated bit in the first one!!!
Thinking about it i guess niether are really as good as resevoir dogs, but everyone expects Tarantino films to be amazing so the guy has a lot to live up to.

Today i wore a skirt! (A green one)

Did implants this morning, well i didn't, i just assisted.

First we had to pull 5 of the guys teeth out, cut his gum and expose the bone, and drill and screw the implants in, add artifial bone, and then sew him all back up again.

I hope you were all eating when you read that!

I acctually was quite enjoying myself, now i don't feel sick at the sight of bones and things anymore. I also didn't make any really bad mistakes, which was nice!

Anyways i spent the rest of the day cleaning because my house mate is home tomoro (it really was quite a mess, dirty pants and unwashed plates everywhere!) Unfortionatly the mopp have some wildlife in it so i had to scrub the floor with my hands and knees!

Best news of the day, i managed to fit into some old (slightly smaller) clothes again! Woohoo!

See ya xx

A bad start to the day, but so far not a bad end

Yeah, i over slept, probrably due to waking myself up in the night crying and shouting because i was dreaming about looking at Michael in a body bag, nice!

So i pretty much ran to work, which is not nice when its 35 degrees, but spent the day piddleing about in the new clinic in fuengirola. it was cool (coz i also got to go to a big garden centre, and it wasnt even my birthday!)

Now im eating noodles and whatching Kill Bill 2!

Have to do implants tomorow
Woohooo

see ya x

Guess what i did today!?

Sorry i haven't written for a while. No excuses, but...

So, did have a fantastic morning, found out i have an exam in dental nursing in a week, in SPANISH!
I have 3 options:

1 Don't go to work on that day
2 Don't write anything on the exam paper
3 Pray (its a multiple Choice)

Ohh, a list, specialy for Iain!

Anyways, whats really annoying about this is they haven't even told us what we need to know for the test, and im going to look like i know absolutley nothing. Humph!

Now we get to the exiting but of the day......

I did cleaning! like a proper dentist!

I did do it on Holly, the other nurse, but i did it all the same. It was fun, and very hard. At first i had to try doing it right handed, because we only have a right handed chair (?!) but the i moved round and did it properly. I kept forgetting to lift my foot off the pedal when i took the ultrasonic scaler out of Hollys mouth and i got water everywhere. i made a right mess!
Isis said i did ok though, and they looked alot cleaner afterwards. Apparently the only things i did wrong were poking to much with the mirror, and saying sorry to muc.
So whos up next to experience my new hygine skills?, Don't be shy now.

I think there was other stuff to tell but am off to eat spanish omlet and whatch Kill Bill.

I rule

Ps. Sorry about the spelling, no time for the spell check, and HI DADDY xxx

Today i ate Tapas

It was Nice.

One more day of the week left.

Its hot here. I know this shouldn't be a surprise to me, but everyday I wake up, open the door, and think, God its hot here. Roll on winter that's what I say.

So, after drinking a little too much (first drink for a week!) and boring some couple in the bar to death with dentistry and the difference in calorie content in normal and Diet drinks, I woke up with a slight hangover. Work was pretty boring, again. Spent most of the day explaining that it wasn't necessary to ask me if the air conditioning could be switched off, or anything else for that matter, and that it was acceptable for the new girls to make decisions by them selves (hypocrite). And cleaning the whole surgery with a cotton bud! ( Slight exaggeration, only slight) But got to go home early!

Booked flights to Edinburgh, so you might be lucky enough to see me again in September (in England, not Edinburgh) and am off to Karate in a bit. The thought of it is already making me tired!

Oh well, only one more day of the week left!

Have a pretty picure i took while youur reading this.