Spanish Beginning

Yes Ikea finally arrived and delivered our goods but only after they forced us to pay for a redelivery! Those rotten bastards said we had missed the delivery and that if we didn't want to pay, they would just take the items back to Ikea and we could go pick everything up. I told the person, "thanks for nothing." She said, "you're welcome." I signed the form "Go2Hell". As if they need me to tell them where they're going. Now everything is assembled and looking good.

During our long wait for IKEA, Tessa and I painted the front of our building, it looks so much better now.

We did some other shopping and purchased a nice tv and home stereo. We rented a scooter for a month to make sure we want to make the purchase. After 10 days of riding the HOG I don't know why anyone would choose not to have so much fun everyday.

Intensive Spanish classes began on Friday. We took 8 hours of classes. Saturday was a half day. Tomorrow begins a full week of spanish. I'm in class with 7 others that tested at my level. Which level is that you may wonder? The level just above absolute beginner. Glad to see three years of high school Spanish paid off. Tessa also begins classes tomorrow. She is in the beginner classes and will easily be fluent way before me.

I'm currently fighting the cold Tessa had last week. Its making me tired and a whole lot less fun than normal. I hope to get over it soon as I need to speak all week and the sore throat makes that difficult. I'm taking lots of naps and drinking way too much water. I feel like I go to the bathroom every 5 minutes. Tessa is taking great care of me though. She's been making some wonderful teas and the meals have been unbelievable lately. She's also forcing me to take vitamins and other medicines which isn't easy because I'm very stubborn about that sort of thing. If you get sick, hopefully you're lucky enough to have someone like Tessa around to nurse you back to good health.

We have two roommates in our flat right now. We took on a few of my classmates just to make a little extra money while they are searching for a place to live. Miguel is from Lisbon, Portugal and Rai is from Tokyo, Japan. They are both very nice guys. I think Miguel is moving out on Monday and Rai on Wednesday. We are looking forward to having the place all to ourselves again. Even good roommates are still roommates. As a single person it would be fine but for a couple, its no good sharing a place.

Tess and I are doing well, we miss our friends at home and every baby we see reminds us of all the cute babies at home. Thank goodness for Skype.

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