Fall Mornings

I had the most wonderful sleep the last two nights. Well - not the MOST, but it was so much better than it has been the last month or so because there has been a sudden cold front blow in and yesterday it poured rain. This morning I woke up and opened the windows and it was that nice crisp fall air that gives you the motivation and the energy to get your ass in gear. It's great. It's also the last day of August which I can't really believe. I've written about 25 pages of my thesis - only 100 more to go! haha, but we're getting there. It's starting to move on it's own a bit now which is nice and as of tomorrow the libraries will be open for normal hours again so that will be really helpful. It also means that beach time is coming to an end though and I really don't feel like I went as much as I should have this summer, so for the next month I need to make it a promise to myself that I will get down to the water once a week. It's doable :)

So yes, I will be coming home the beginning of December as you hopefully got from the last post. I'm a bit up and down about the decision, but sometimes you just can't have everything you want and so this is what I'm faced with. Unfortunately, the reality is that Spain is not going to bounce back anytime soon and I have to get on with my life. The only jobs really available here for me are either not legal positions (meaning they won't help me get papers) or they are jobs which I know I won't be happy getting out of bed each day to go to. I wasn't born to be an english teacher or club promoter, I know exactly what I want to do I just don't know where I'm going to do it. So yes. I'm very excited to see all of you at Christmas this year and thank god nobody needs to mail me anything because I know that was a nightmare for you last year! And any requests for things from Spain, now is the time to put them in because Steph and Dad will hopefully be coming an a month or so and I will have them haul back a bunch of stuff for me.

The flight is a return flight, but it doesn't seem likely that I will be getting on the one coming back here. It was just a case of the return being significantly cheaper than the one way, and I guess it's an escape route if things at home just really aren't working out for me. But I have a lot of decisions to make and things to figure out before I get home. Thesis to finish, computer programs to learn, job applications to prepare, school portfolios to design and then of course a bunch of last minute trips to make sure I don't miss out while I'm over here because who knows when I'll have the opportunity to come back. So yes, for now I'm living the dream! Gotta take it one day at a time.

Love you all, hope you're happy with my decision too.

xB