last night i finished off my articles and sent them away for editing. totally a great feeling to be done with that for a week or two before i start it up again. at least they are monthly and not weekly. i'd really have to come to terms with my procrastination then. :)
more job news, or a case of when it rains, it pours: i've been hired to be an English assistant again. this go around, my hours are split between to places: a lycée in Bastia (yay! no three hour drive for me this time!) and the IUFM, which is basically a teacher's college helping wanna-be pre-school and elementary teachers to prepare for their big test to become teachers. not sure that made sense, but it means i get to work with adults for a change.
i'm excited about getting back out working, but a little apprehensive about figuring out childcare for Ayva. i have two leads for daycare, so hopefully one or split time between both will work. it will just be an adjustment for all of us.
i've also heard, informally, that the company that employed me last summer on Sundays, would like to hire me part-time this summer. i really enjoyed the work and would like to take on more, but that would mean i would be tied to the island until October. not sure that sounds too appealing, when other more exotic places are calling my name. nothing is for sure on that one yet though, so we'll see.
my dad is coming next week for a 12 day visit. this will be the first time that someone from my side of the family has visited us here. i'm pretty stoked as we are also going to go to Barcelona with him!! i think i've mentioned before how little goes on in Corsica during the winter. so that led Henri and i to thinking about something else we could do with dad while he was here. 12 days is too long to be cooped up in the village, especially for my dad who wouldn't last too long without ESPN. Spain is somewhere we've never been and Barcelona seems like the top attraction there, so here we come! if anyone has any tips/suggestions au sujet de Barcelona, let me know.
Great news about the jobs. And here I'm struggling to find ONE... maybe I need to move to Corsica?? :)
Oh and Barcelona, it's been forever that I'd wanted to go there! I can't be of any help but rest assure that you've left me envious now :) I was looking at the sunset yesterday and in the sky I saw 8 planes crossing in all directions, thousands of miles above me and I just wished I was on one of them, going someplace new and exciting (with my beloved husband that is... lol)
Posted by: astrid | February 12, 2008 at 09:40 AM
Barcelona rocks the casbah! I can't remember the names of anything though. We spent a lot of our time just wandering around, checking out the mosaics and the awesome sagrada familia. Oooh... Do a tour of the music hall/opera. They have these awesome half sculpture, half mosaic ladies coming out of the wall! TO DIE FOR!
Posted by: jennifer | February 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Ooooo, have fun in Barcelona! I've only been there for a weekend about two years ago. Someday I'm hoping to spend more time there. But you must check out the Sagrada Familia, and if you're into modern art at all, there's a great museum dedicated to Joan Miro.
Posted by: Erica | February 13, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Ooooo, have fun in Barcelona! I've only been there for a weekend about two years ago. Someday I'm hoping to spend more time there. But you must check out the Sagrada Familia, and if you're into modern art at all, there's a great museum dedicated to Joan Miro.
Posted by: Erica | February 13, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Great news for your jobs! That must be such a good feeling, to know you've got these great things in perspective, and lots of stuff to balance -- it's motivating! And of course, there will be details to figure out with your little girl, but I'm sure it will all work out for the best. Congrats! Oh, and enjoy Barcelona -- my boyfriend and I did Andalusia last year, and he's been wanting to go to Barcelona for ages... I don't know if we'll make it there anytime soon, but it's on the list!
Posted by: Alice | February 14, 2008 at 03:22 PM
Ahh, What can we say about Bardelona? You can get great mussels at Castelfidels (not quite sure if that's how you spell it) There's this place right on the beach. Denver, actually kept his food down. We spent alot of time just wandering and eating tapas at various little places whenever we felt like it. Mmmm Sangria.
Posted by: Debbie | February 22, 2008 at 09:47 PM
Ahh, What can we say about Bardelona? You can get great mussels at Castelfidels (not quite sure if that's how you spell it) There's this place right on the beach. Denver, actually kept his food down. We spent alot of time just wandering and eating tapas at various little places whenever we felt like it. Mmmm Sangria.
Posted by: cozaar | November 02, 2010 at 03:39 PM
Ahh, What can we say about Bardelona? You can get great mussels at Castelfidels (not quite sure if that's how you spell it) There's this place right on the beach. Denver, actually kept his food down. We spent alot of time just wandering and eating tapas at various little places whenever we felt like it. Mmmm Sangria.
Posted by: colospa | November 02, 2010 at 03:40 PM
Ahh, What can we say about Bardelona? You can get great mussels at Castelfidels (not quite sure if that's how you spell it) There's this place right on the beach. Denver, actually kept his food down. We spent alot of time just wandering and eating tapas at various little places whenever we felt like it. Mmmm Sangria.
Posted by: combivir | November 02, 2010 at 03:41 PM