Because I'm a producer of spam

It's been awhile since I've been able to post, not only because every computer in Spain seems to be incapable of reading the Word documents that I save onto my flash drive, but also because Blogger has decided that I'm spreading spam throughout cyberspace and has blocked my blog. But since their "review process" doesn't actually seem to be going anywhere, I decided to just go ahead and post, and to try to recreate some of what I've written on my laptop.

To get you up to speed:

Thursday, October 2: Orientation in Málaga
- Woman reads about early childhood education, I almost fall asleep.
- Different woman talks about medical insurance and foreigner identification
cards, I get confused.
- Hospitality students make tapas, I eat lots :)
- End of orientation.

Friday, October 3: Málaga
- I wake up at 8am, realize my alarm, which had been set for 6am so I could meet
Jesús for a ride to Periana, did not go off.
- Spend day in Málaga.
- Later, squeeze into car alongside the four biggest suitcases that have ever
existed, as well as Julia, and get driven to her apartment in Torre del Mar.
- We buy wine (.60€!), we drink wine.

Saturday, October 4: Torre del Mar
- I find spring roll wrappers in supermarket! I buy spring roll wrappers!
- We buy more wine, we drink more wine.

Sunday, October 5: Periana
- We take bus to Periana, bus is windy.
- I find a room with an old lady named María, finally unpack all of my crap (!).
- Julia leaves, I walk around Periana.
- I realize there's nothing to do in Periana.

Monday, October 6: Periana
- First day of school! I wake up freakishly early, it's very dark and very cold.
- I get introduced to my first class of students, they gasp as their teacher
translates the words "lawyer" and "judge" after I talk about my parents
- I play games with toilet paper all day; this works better with some students than with others

Tuesday, October 7: Periana
- More games with toilet paper! Plus games that involve drawing on the board.
- I receive my very own teacher's locker--I'm suddenly official.
- After school, I take the bus to Torre del Mar since Wednesday is my day off. We
buy wine.

Wednesday, October 8: Torre del Mar
- I go running by the ocean, I don't die.
- Megan and Julia find out that getting a phone line and wifi in Spain is
excruciatingly painful.
- I make headway in the apartment search...hopefully.
- I take the bus back to Periana as the sun sets over the mountains.

Thursday, October 9: Periana
- Sending mail to my school works! No more excuses....
- Toilet paper, drawing on the board, and coloring!
- The cheap--though really cute--shoes I put on for the first time today start to
make my feet bleed. A teacher I met for the first time today offers to give me a
ride home. Hooray.

At the moment, it's raining and, per usual, there's nothing to do in Periana. Luckily, this weekend I'm going to check out a couple of apartments, one in Vélez-Málaga and one in Torre del Mar, along with their respective inhabitants. Periana is pretty, but I'll go nuts if I stay here.