Spanish Sun & Sun Flowers

I am so sunburned! Ugh! This is the only place I know where you can get sunburned at 6PM!!! Great. Just in time for my birthday too.

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A couple days ago, John and I went to Puerto. It is a slightly larger town that Rota, and more modern. It has a very beachy laid back feel. All the bigger cafes were packed. We walked along the water and found a cute place to have lunch. The food was some of the best fish I have had here yet.

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I really wish I had brought the camera, because it was so beautiful and the water was full of fish.

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After our big lunch, we went to the mall to walk around. I wish I knew of a better place to buy clothes. The mall seemed kinda expensive for the quality. And I am very wary of bying things online. You know how something can look so good on the hanger until you try it on.

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Driving back to the base, we came upon huge fields of sunflowers!! They was so gorgeous, and I did not even know they were there. I am definately taking the camera next time.

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Well, tomarrow's my birthday, which means steak and eggs and german chocolate cake, and I don't know what else. Not only that but I am celebrating my A in English. This week, I also have to register for my first online class I am taking this Summer. It is Philosophy of Art. How interesting does that sound??? I know- cool, huh? I am excited, but scared of online classes!

One semester down.

Today I turn in my 15 page research report in Business Writing. This has been a very fun class. I love English classes, but this particular kind of writing is so useful. It is not like learning geometry formulas.

In the beginning we had to make up a business. I made up a museum. Every assignment we did in the class had to do with our business. So each time, I had a writing assignment, before I could even start the assignment itself, I had to research some aspect or other about the business workings of a museum. To say the least, I have learned a ton about museum business.

It made the class very personal for each of us- who picked a business we want to work in after school. It was also very motivating. The teacher was great too, but he is moving on to Italy. I also took a library course that is mandatory for this school.

During summer, I will be trying my hand at online classes!!! I am scared!! I took one once, and did not like it, and I ended up dropping the class. I never knew what I was supposed to be doing. I hope this school is easier to navigate. I will be taking philosophy of art and possibly an American Art history class.

Wish me luck!

Sunday Seven

Or Monday Seven, if you will.

This week is the Monday Seven List of Did Ya Knows

Did ya know:

1) I start school tomarrow night?

2) Rota is infested with Magpie birds and rollypolly bugs (or is that just my house)?

3) Third and fifth gear can be (and by me ARE) used interchangably?

4) I have over 1000 hits on my blog and have two comments by strangers who were interested in a post?

5) Hockey's regular season is almost over?

6) I hoed a big circle in my backyard for an herb garden (the herbs go in tomarrow-yay) and have the blisters to prove it (I am hard core when it come to gardening-haha)?

7) Nima has an appointment tomarrow for his breathing problems (wish us luck)?

Well, now ya know!

Guess What I Did!!!!!

I had my first stick shift lesson.

Well, I had tried to learn many years ago, and I could never get more than a few feet with out stalling. Today, I drove around a parking lot for a few minutes.

Then I drove from our house to my where my classes will be and back!!

It was so exciting! I only stalled a couple times. And I made that horrible grinding sound when you do the gears wrong a few times too, but that is OK, because John does it too.

I even went through a couple round abouts. I do not like those things with a manual transmission, but I think I would be fine, if it were an automatic.

The only thing is, I do not know how someone can remember what to do with their feet, what gear they are in, where they have to go, pay attention to the road and traffic, and watch their speed ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

I did OK. But it will be scary my first time I drive alone.

Next week, I start class at night while John is working,

so I have to get it all down this week!!

Yikes!!

Sun, Apples, & School

Lancelot playing with his food before he eats it!!

Nothing but unpacking and cleaning went on this weekend. Our TV does not work, so we will need it replaced.

Fortunately, we will get our money back for the TV.

Unfortunately, John wants to replace our $300 TV with a $2500 TV.
*sigh*
Today was a cold windy day. The sun never came out. I noticed that Yahoo weather said Honolulu and Pueblo were also partly cloudy today, so I do not feel so bad.
Unpacking has just been loads of fun- not really. We have one room full of boxes to the ceiling. The movers did not do a very good job with the packing. Most of the boxes do not say what is actually in them. All the bedroom boxes say Master Bedroom regardless of which bedroom they came from. AND the this morning,

I just unpacked 3 individually wrapped apples!!!!

Yeah, they were not smelling so good after 2 months.
Today and tomarrow are all paperwork days.
Tomarrow, I sign up for my first "upper level" class. I have about 12 classes left until my degree. I am taking classes at the University of Maryland,

which has some face-to-face classes here on the base and some online classes. They do not offer an Art History Degree exactly, but they DO offer a general studies major with "an emphasis on Art History".

Good enough for me. I just want to finish, so I can start working in my field, then start on my masters.