Bit of an update

So, for the record, I wrote this blog on Word a little bit before Thanksgiving. Now, I really can't be bothered to change it all. The only thing I'll say, is that the "current" haircut in the bog is no longer current. I suppose that next I'll get up something with current hair. But the one you'll see I had for a couple of weeks, I guess.

Wha, it’s been a bit since I’ve written a blog. I mean, I’m aware of that fact on my own…but I’ve also been getting some complaints lately. It shouldn’t be that hard to keep a little more up to date….but it is. Apparently. It would help if I had wifi in my piso (flat), and I also didn’t have batteries in my camera for a while, so I could only take like one picture at a time, and it took several tries to get the camera to stay on.

Anyhoo, thought I’d start with a random picture of my sister and me. This was….whoah, a year ago…at the beach, for Thanksgiving. We spent waaay too long taking goofy pictures. Of course, I added a little to this one…..Christiane, I love you (:

Speaking of Thanksgiving, it’s a little sad knowning that (A) my siblings get out of school and I don’t (who knew that other countries don’t celebrate the pilgrims and Squanto and all that? Haha) and (B) my family and various other loved ones are going to get to spend good time together (not to mention eating delicious food) while I’m…..in class. Boo.

Oh, well… Hopefully we Americans here (and Canadians….they have their own Thanksgiving, though it’s long past, on October 13^th, and I’m not really sure why they celebrate it in the first place, since they don’t have like Squanto or anything…) will be able to do something to make it feel nice.

So, on to a bit of my past recent. If that makes any sense. (Word doesn’t think it makes sense…it got an underline zigzag line. But I’m going to stick it to the man (Bill Gates?) and leave it as is. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)

These are a few of my friends here with the international program. Aurelie (Fwance), me, below Kristina (sp? US), Joelle (Canadia), Natalia (Polonia). Just to prove that, yes, I do have friends here in Pamps.

I drew a picture of myself. Yee. Jeeves says he’ll alert the media.

So, for Neewollah I dressed up as an 80’s aerobics chick. I teased my hair up as big as I could get it, and borrowed a headband, and legwarmers…. It was a great costume, especially the part where I got to wear comfortable running shoes and call them part of my outfit.

So, there was this random movie being shot down the street from my piso. I heard all this yelling, and stuck my head out the balcony. I had to walk a few different places, back and fort to and from the piso during the day, so I saw them up close repeatedly. It was some thing on San Fermin, there were all these people in the white with red sashes, and several with fake blood, running, and fake police chasing them…. I asked some chick who was standing outside my piso what it was, and she said a French movie. Sure enough, the dude (director, I reckon) talking through the loudspeaker thing was speaking in French some times, and with a French accent in Spanish. My camera at that point had barely batteries to do anything, but I did get a bit of the moment.

So, this is just a side picture so you get an idea of the profile of the haircut I currently have. Which….I gave myself. So, it’s not perfect in the back, but I do like it. The bangs are kind of fun, and fairly European looking.

So, just another view of the cut. So you get the idea.

This picture is called “Emily needs to buy an umbrella.” But I was in this department store yesterday and saw a bunch for like….40 or 50 Euros. I was like, Heck no. Not doing that. I’ll just go to a Chino store and get a cheap one…..

If you look closely in the background you’ll see snow on the mountains. This is on campus, the building on the right is the library.

Sunset. In case you weren’t sure. Not that I generally am up for sunrise….

All the pharmacies have these green (and some times other colours) cross light signs. Generally with the time/temperature switching on and off.

They’ve got Christmas decorations up around Pamps, also a lot of white lights globes. They haven’t been lighting them yet, though.

More snowy background mountains.

This is a nice spot on campus that I decided to go check out. Just a little bit of nature…can still see the cars and stuff, but better than always being surrounded by buildings. I miss the woods.

ID picture for my student card (well, one of the extras, since I don’t have the card yet). My hair colour looks weird…

I have a class called Learn to Paint. Man, hard work, I know…. (: So this is what I’m working on, from a picture of my friend Sarah.

This is a friend in the class with me (there’s about 7 of us internationals).

And another friend in the class.

Turkia!!!

So here's a random picture for the day. This is my friend Tuche. She's from Turkey. There's 3 Turkish girls here, and I hang out with them a lot. Enough that a couple of people have seriously thought that I was Turkish. Kinda funny.
She's very cool. As are the other two. Turkish girls, that is.

And here's one other random thing. If you don't get it, I can't help you. Well, I can, but you'll have to ask because I'm not going to say anything else.

My Brother: The Real Spaniard

So this is exactly what David Skyped me a few days ago (from mom's user):


Emily, this is David. I decided, just for good measure, you should probably put a picture of me on your blog. Then put something under it like "the real spaniard". I think it would probably be sassier than life.
[10/9/2008 12:53:46 PM] S says: Also, i miss you like the dickins


Another time he said this:
Hey toot sweets
[10/12/2008 6:48:11 PM] Em says: hey poopieclooper
[10/12/2008 6:48:23 PM] S says: O yes , schooch on me
[10/12/2008 6:48:28 PM] S says: that's what your blog is called
[10/12/2008 6:48:31 PM] S says: skooch*
and a little later in the conversation:
S says: 10/12/2008 6:50:02 PM: plus, where are all the pictures on your page honoring your glorious brother

So anyways, I thought that since I was thinking about it I'd take care of the blog for him. Which he'd better read.

The Real Spaniard. With his cool sister.


The End.

Some Random October Fotografia....

So, here are some photos from the past couple of weeks or however long it's been since I posted. Next blog to come might have to be one about David, (i.e. my brother) since he told me that would be the coolest sort of blog I could do. But we'll see.



Chloe in San Sebastian

Richard and Nur in S. Sebast.

More S. S.

S.S.

Mas S.S., at night

In McDonalds in S.S.

S.S.

S.S.

S.S.

S.S.

Back in Pamplona, with my Fwench friend, Aurelie.

Aurelie

more S.S. (I promise, I really have only gone their twice, despite the appearance from all the pictures....)

McDonalds

In McDonalds (if you look closely, you'll see something that is not orderable in McDonalds in the States: beer! I thought that was kind of funny....)

In Pamplona, at a coffee/tea place
on the sign it says Cuida-te, for those of you who get that (:

At a cafe in the Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona (my Austrian friend, Benedikt)

At the same cafe, P. del Cast. Dos francesas, Aurelie and Chloe.

2/3 of the Turkish girls.....I spend so much time with them, a couple of people recently have thought that I was Turkish!!!!

Nice example of subjuntivo. (it means, Luke Skywalker would be a different Luke Skywalker if Obi-Wan hadn't existed)

Pues, bueno. Not terribly long, as far as the writing goes, but you probably need a break from long Emily-rants.

Though I do want to give a shout out to my cool friend Kellie's blog. Well, and to my cool friend Kellie. 'Cause she's cool.
Vale.
http://kellitagringita.blogspot.com/

Hasta Luego!!!! (which, here, they say like TaLueggghhhooo!)

San Sebastian pt. two, plus a little Casco Viejo

So, to begin, we have some of Pamplona.This is some government building or something.

This is my phone. With the little thing from Corea that JiSeon gave me.

So this is pretty much how the Casco Viejo, where I live (see previous blog(s)), looks like. The streets are all super narrow, but cars still drive on them, pero just one way. Tis very pretty.

Some building with flags.

View from my friend's apartment, which is down the street from mine. Some mini parade was going on down that street, and this group came along playing instruments. Sounded good, kind of reminded me of something David and his friends might do.

Aight, back to San Sebastian (Donosti, in Basque, as my friend Mikel tells me). There was some film festival going on. Apparently they host a lot of them there, with big names such as George Cloony and Penelope Cruz, but this one was just a Spanish one, and we didn't see any hullabaloo which might have been interpereted as Spanish actor shenanigans. But it sure was crowded...

La playa. Turns out what everyone says about how for women, tops are optional, is true. And a lot of theme were not so young. It kind of amused me.
Anyways, the beach was quite pretty, and the water quite clear but very cold, and very full of seaweed. I bodysurfed/swam a little bit, and the others swam some as well, but then we mostly just sat on our towels enjoying the sun.

We climbed that mountain that has the statue of Jesus, right? So, inside, there's this museum about the city and stuff. These old beach pictures were in part of the Museum.

View as we had just begun to climb the mountain.

Laundry.

Heading towards the mountain. You can see Jesus there above the treelines.