Work continues well, Christina and I continue to get along well.
We have our two other volunteers that will be here for some time - the first one, Lolah, is sweet and wonderful. She's from Malaga, where I arrived, so not too far away. Sort of a punk girl, short hair, lots of piercings, but very sweet - loves music and photography and is studying the Spanish language (and local Malaga dialect) to teach to foreign kids and wants to work with children with disabilities - very nice - we get along very well.
She was brought on Saturday (while I was at work) by Silvia and her husband and daughter, who stayed for a day or two and cooked up a storm (chicken and chorizo and sausage and potato salad..mmmm), and were overall very good company. Fabiana returned to Ceuta with them for some time there (she switches between here and there, to kind of keep herself sane, which sounds like a good practice to me, heh).
And on Tuesday Enrique (who picked me up at the airport and saved my life when doing the train/bus transfer) brought the new girl called Marjorie from Colombia - and yes, she's full Latina. Don't let the name fool you. She seems nice, though very latina in the fact that she's direct and to the point. Kinda meh with me, but that's ok. My only issue so far has been with the hour-long bathroom needs for showers - my poor toothbrush... held hostage...
In other news, haven't really slept well recently - but after three days of not doing more than a light doze for 20 minutes at a time and no naps, who'da thunk, I slept well last night, which was a relief. Still up at 7 every morning for my stretches and devotional, but I enjoy it. Definitely going to work that into my schedule when I get home - love it THAT much.
Funny moment of the week: Yesterday when we were walking through old town, which has a fair number of tourists this time of year, we were passing a group of tourists that was mostly comprised of boys, but had two girls among them wearing fairly short shorts and tank tops (absolutely normal summer wear in the USA) - I was *Scandalized* - I couldn't help but stare for a moment, I blushed, and my mouth even fell open a bit. My roommates almost collapsed they were laughing so hard - apparently, I've been here too long. ^_^
Work again tonight, probably with some writing, then work on Saturday... yay!
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