This past week Dr.Solis, Carmen and Fabiana arrived in order to take her home and drop Fabiana off here for her 'month on' in Morocco. I adore them, but jheez - messy roommates. The dishes that were left over this morning when they left were DISgusting - rivals college boys - I'm not even exaggerating. But they should be safely over the border by now and waiting for the ferry to take Lola and Carmen back to mainland Spain (a trip I shall be making in just under two weeks).
But overall, this means I'm the only short-term (relatively speaking) volunteer left here for now. The apartment is left just to me (woo, less people to clean up after), which means more peace and quiet, but night time is going to be less enjoyable - again, I don't like being in an apartment on my own at night, heh.
But, as minorly referenced before, I shall be leaving in just under two weeks for Spain (the 9th), and will stay in Malaga for two nights before flying up to Denmark. I only have two official 'shifts' at the orphanage between now and then, but will have multiple part-day shifts to entertain the kiddies, which will be fun. I confess, even though they're terrorists, I've gotten attached to one of the toddlers - as in, I'd bring her with me if I could. Yes, be glad I can't! The babes are all doing well, spoiled rotten and full of energy as ever. Because it's been so hot, we've been having to keep them cooler with more baths and water, but so far so good.
We've all done various amounts of cooking for each other during my stay, and Myrna has promised to give me some of her recipes to take home, which will be exciting! I made a non-soy sauce variation of fried rice the other day, and apparently it was a hit, as I got home from work and it was all gone, hehe. I had plenty though, and have plenty of other stuff to make, so I'm not particularly worried.
As far as my Denmark plans go, they've been shifting around a fair deal, but I believe that we're close to having the first part of my stay finalized, which will be a relief (because I like to have a solid plan). What we'll be doing is having me fly into Copenhagen and hop onto a train to Odense to stay with one of my aunts for a week, get settled, see cousins, buy warmer clothes (having Danes describe the current weather as 'chilly' scares me to death), and overall just take a bit of a breather from Morocco. At the end of that week, I'll be driven back to Copenhagen by my aunt and uncle, and will start Danish classes in the city two days after that. It's basically a two-day-a-week, 2.5 hour-a-class sort of thing that is a good intensive language program, which will hopefully let me learn a good deal of Danish before coming home. Basically, short summer program at GT, without summer or GT.
Really though, not much has happened in 11 days, and not much will probably happen before leaving, aside from packing, unpacking, REpacking, and generally being neurotic about my suitcase... but that's perfectly normal for me! Thanks for passing that down genetically Mum - real helpful!
And after my just-under-two-weeks in Morocco, I'll be driven to the border, cross it on foot, and then be picked up on the other side (all of this legally, btw), hop a ferry, then hop a taxi and then a bus back to my two-day layover in Spain. Alllllll in a day's travel!
Sometimes my life is far too interesting...
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