The Boat Hunter is Back

The day has finally come. Just yesterday we received a package in the mail with 9 books inside. The author of which is my husband!! We're still waiting for the other 16 books that will arrive in September, but that's ok. It's published!!

It was a long journey, but definitely worth the wait. This is Jose's 5th published book, it's by far his best, and by far the most difficult to get published! Why you ask? Because it's over 800 pages long. That's pretty much a publisher's nightmare. They want quick and easy money, and this book is comparable to an encyclopedia. But much to our surprise and excitement, the Spanish Ministry of Defense was more than happy to get their hands on it!

I can't explain in depth what it's about yet, because it won't be out on the street until September, but I will leave you with this...

Taking the Train

Every few months or so we have a board meeting with all 3 Heads of Studies and the Directors in La Coruña. The main reason I like these meetings, apart from all of the brainstorming we get done, is that I take the train. It's about a one hour commute there and one hour back. So that's two hours of alone time, where my cell phone has no signal (because of all the tunnels) so no one can call from work, no students or teachers coming to me with their problems, no dishes to clean and no laundry to be done. Just 2 hours of sitting back and reading a book or listening to my iPod and watching the green landscape out the window.

I'm a person who needs time during the day to be alone. Where I work that's utterly impossible! I'm with people and talking ALL DAY LONG. I'm not complaining, because I have some really awesome co-workers...I couldn't ask for better relationships in the workplace. But after all that talking, I come home and, of course, I want to spend time with Jose, so that means more talking! For those of you who know me... I'm not a talker. I could spend hours on end.... in silence :)

So I have to admit that those 2 hours of silence were a little piece of heaven. But I'm really glad to be home back in Santiago, and anxiously waiting for Jose to get home, because I really want to talk some more.

Little Treats

We went to Portosin again this weekend for a quick gettaway. I forgot to take my camera but it was a nice breather from the city. We ate a whole bag of sunflower seeds together on the beach, watched a school of dolphins feeding in the ría, and laughed a lot. Good times. My lips are all shrivelled up from so many sunflower seeds, but it was worth it.

Falling Kudzu

Not much has really happened since my last post. Just monotonous daily routine stuff. The most exciting part of my day today has been watching a man outside a window at work cutting down all the ivy. I wish he would stop...the kudzu was actually pretty, the plain dirty wall behind it is not.