Ahhh....I have had the past four days off and it has been wonderful! The sun is shining. It is warm outside. The birds are singing, the trees are budding, and the flowers are beginning to bloom! Ahh....spring!
So, my new found enjoyment? ha ha...I have been enjoying throwing the bones out the back door for the cats! It is fun to watch them a dart and, yes, there is a little hissing too. ha ha... After the bones from today (there were quite a few), I found them all lying on the table in the sun, as though to say they were completely satisfied.
I went for a little walk to the little market just a block or two away from out house. When I came back, there was a drunk lying to the side of our front door. At first, I thought, I hope this isn't a person that was walking by and had a heart problem...but, within seconds I put two and two together and realize he had just been drinking all afternoon. Right now, I hear him talking to himself, so he must be awake. This is the first time I have come home to a drunk on the sidewalk and something tells me, with warm weather coming, this won't be the last. Aye de mi!
At the store, I bought myself a little ice cream treat, as I was craving a little something. I had the choice of some fruity sherbert sort of ice cream treat and a raisin and rum ice cream treat which looked like a drumstick. I quickly associated this with being a drumstick, something with a little chocolate to feed my chocolate addiction, but on the side it said it was prohibited to sell it to minors for the rum content evidently. I thought, wow, interesting, however I couldn't imagine it was anything to worry about. The ice cream really wasn't anything to brag about...the cone was mushy, the ice cream/rum/raisin combo was a bit rare, and it had a cherry in the middle of it. Next time I will opt for the sherbert treat. The good part was, there was chocolate at the bottom of the cone.
I have been smelling something odd off and on today. I have been smelling myself to make sure it isn't me, but I am wearing fresh clothes and took a shower today, so it can't be. I looked at the bottom of my shoes and I don't have dog poop on them. So, now, I am beginning to wonder if the cat shit under my bed again. We had two cats in the house last night. Yesterday, another cat snuck in through my window. The cats are harmless, I just don't want them shitting in my room!
I am very excited to be entering the final week of my substitute teaching job! YES! I have been thinking about other things I would like to do after this, but nothing is set in stone, nothing I care to talk about yet. :)
Ok...happy 20 September!
jami
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
This is was my favorite statue, I am going to make a poster sized copy of this shot and put it on the wall behind my desk someday...ha ha...
This is the house I live in (below). Right on the corner. Someone decided to put this propaganda on the side of the house. It is funny, one day I was walking home and thought, huh, this is new, but was there something else there before? I don't remember.
Across the street from us is the "Club Social" (translation: Social Club). It is usually full of drunk old men that come stumbling out and sometimes decide to take a leak along the curb....they must not have bathrooms inside. :)
Day Off!
Ahhh.....I just love waking up early in the morning on a day off!
Yesterday, at school we had the first two hours of class, then activities for Independence Day, Las Fiestas Patrias. We were supposed to return to classes in the afternoon and have classes today, but we received a surprise announcement during the assembly that we didn't have to come back in the afternoon and that today we wouldn't have classes! Yahoo! I am so happy! It is days like this that I realize the stress of my job is what weighs on me the most right now and the fact that I am working all the time. It was so nice to wake up early this morning to enjoy coffee and conversation. I am still in my pj's right now. I love it! Normally, I only have one day to sit around in my pj's and that is Sunday.
I was just watching the cats outside, thinking about all the cartoons where you see the pictures of the cats with fishbones. I only had that association through comics, but now, as I look at the ground outside and see all the very well cleaned fish bones, I have to laugh to myself. I have a real life experience. Then, I have to laugh at the pig leg that has been nawed on next to it....mmm....pork. It is interesting how at home we have the comfort of being far removed from the processes of our packaged meats, unless of course you are a farmer, a butcher, a hunter, then you are very aware....but, the rest of us aren't buying pig legs, pig heads, stomachs, tongues, etc from the meat counter...at least I don't. I still don't. I haven't bought meat in ages because I still don't know how to select good meat from bad..and sometimes my stomach just turns when I walk into the butcher shop or walk by the meat counter at the super market....there is a smell I am still not accustomed to. Someday I am going to go with Tania to the store and have a lesson on selecting meat.
Well, because I have the day off today, I have decided to tackle a few Visa things. I recently received a letter from the ministry of the interior, department of foreign and immigration affairs, stating that my application was incomplete. So, it is back to the civil registry for an original copy of a document stating that I have still not committed any crimes in this country (I sent a copy of the now expired document before instead of the original). Then, I need to send a notorized photocopy of my work contract, as I only sent a copy before. Then, I need to send some sort of proof of work over the past year, showing income. I am hoping a bank statement will be sufficient. Then, I have to stop at the bank to pay the fee for my Visa, which is about $100US.
Then, after I finish this, I still have yet to travel to Santiago to get my ever-so-fucking-annoying (excuse my french) legalized transcript and teaching license validated by the US embassy, at which time, I learned, they will give me a 5 year period to take an exam to prove I know and understand the English language and have the instruction to teach it. THEN, I think I am done. Gosh, it might have been easier just to get married to a Chilean.
So, I am off to do that today. I have the urge to take some photos today, as I have been slacking terribly on photo documentation. But, I will make it my goal on my day off to post some photos to share. :)
With that being said, I think I will change my clothes and get moving....hasta luego!
jami
Yesterday, at school we had the first two hours of class, then activities for Independence Day, Las Fiestas Patrias. We were supposed to return to classes in the afternoon and have classes today, but we received a surprise announcement during the assembly that we didn't have to come back in the afternoon and that today we wouldn't have classes! Yahoo! I am so happy! It is days like this that I realize the stress of my job is what weighs on me the most right now and the fact that I am working all the time. It was so nice to wake up early this morning to enjoy coffee and conversation. I am still in my pj's right now. I love it! Normally, I only have one day to sit around in my pj's and that is Sunday.
I was just watching the cats outside, thinking about all the cartoons where you see the pictures of the cats with fishbones. I only had that association through comics, but now, as I look at the ground outside and see all the very well cleaned fish bones, I have to laugh to myself. I have a real life experience. Then, I have to laugh at the pig leg that has been nawed on next to it....mmm....pork. It is interesting how at home we have the comfort of being far removed from the processes of our packaged meats, unless of course you are a farmer, a butcher, a hunter, then you are very aware....but, the rest of us aren't buying pig legs, pig heads, stomachs, tongues, etc from the meat counter...at least I don't. I still don't. I haven't bought meat in ages because I still don't know how to select good meat from bad..and sometimes my stomach just turns when I walk into the butcher shop or walk by the meat counter at the super market....there is a smell I am still not accustomed to. Someday I am going to go with Tania to the store and have a lesson on selecting meat.
Well, because I have the day off today, I have decided to tackle a few Visa things. I recently received a letter from the ministry of the interior, department of foreign and immigration affairs, stating that my application was incomplete. So, it is back to the civil registry for an original copy of a document stating that I have still not committed any crimes in this country (I sent a copy of the now expired document before instead of the original). Then, I need to send a notorized photocopy of my work contract, as I only sent a copy before. Then, I need to send some sort of proof of work over the past year, showing income. I am hoping a bank statement will be sufficient. Then, I have to stop at the bank to pay the fee for my Visa, which is about $100US.
Then, after I finish this, I still have yet to travel to Santiago to get my ever-so-fucking-annoying (excuse my french) legalized transcript and teaching license validated by the US embassy, at which time, I learned, they will give me a 5 year period to take an exam to prove I know and understand the English language and have the instruction to teach it. THEN, I think I am done. Gosh, it might have been easier just to get married to a Chilean.
So, I am off to do that today. I have the urge to take some photos today, as I have been slacking terribly on photo documentation. But, I will make it my goal on my day off to post some photos to share. :)
With that being said, I think I will change my clothes and get moving....hasta luego!
jami
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