Archive for July, 2004
- Life In Madrid
Last night while Samuel and I were out walking the dog, we ran into the security guard who patrols the neighborhood all night on foot. Samuel has met him a few times, he helped us one very early morning when we were trying to tell the taxi service from which we had ordered a taxi [...]
- Community
After many of our friends left recently, I was feeling a lot of loneliness and have been longing for people with whom I could develop good friendships. It’s a difficult culture here among English speakers. Most of those here long-term have been planted here by their companies – they have one or two kids and [...]
- The Weekend
I don’t have anything too profound to write about, but thought I’d jot a few things that have happened lately. We’re half way through our one month of Spanish classes. We really enjoy them and we’ve been getting lots of personal attention. Sometimes we’re the only ones in the class. The daily commute is tiring [...]
- Coming Home
We’ll be flying home one month from today – 31 days from now. We are very excited, and yet are experiencing a lot of emotions regarding our time at home. We will have been in Madrid for just over a year by the time we’re home again. Sometimes as I imagine it, the imagination feels [...]
- A Full Month
It’s been a full and good month! So much going on that I haven’t had time to write about it – but I will try to do so now. On June 12, we spent the day in the small village of Fuensalida, which is south of Madrid near Toledo. It is the hometown of our [...]