Showing posts with label Camera Died. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Camera Died. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Wrap up- A Year in Photos

Hey all,

  So year two has officially rolled in, but before I get into that in my next post I wanted to sort of do a summary of my year in Spain in photos... enjoy :)


My room at my coordinator's house when I first arrived
Rally for Public Education
My first meal in Spain!
(After the ramen noodles I had brought from home)
PR BFFs meandering Madrid!
Trying to not get my food eaten at La Casa de las Brujas
First Trip out of Madrid!
Notes from Students
An American Thanksgiving in Spain
White Elephant Exchange!
Reyes gift from roomies <3
10 sessions going on 35... it was a rough journey

In the Circle of Life!
First Trip post injury... LAS FALLAS!

Paris!
Sister Spring Break- Malaga, Spain

Madrid Players Debut

Italia! Leaning tower of Pisa

Primo Reunion in Rome!
A view of Granada from La Alhambra

Last Stack of Journals to grade

Interway Summer Camp July 2012

HaU in Madrid!

I'm an Au Pair

Madrid Players- September Serenade!
Now time for round two and a whole new set of photos... probably with a new camera too... once I have the money :-/

@Cathy Arely

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Your Bad Luck Is Impressive

Hey Hey all,

  So the title from this post comes from a new facebook friend, after I posted this blog post, and a status that read as follows:

"I would be the one to lock myself out of my apartment on only my second day here -_- better days shall come"


So yeah.. normally I clip my keys onto my purse, but I guess last Tuesday (after moving in on Monday) I was totally locked out of my apartment. So the first thing I do is buzz to get let in.
*BUZZ* 
....no answer... 
I think to myself- "Did I buzz the right apt?" 
"Yes of course I did. Well I'm 85 percent sure I did. No, I definitely hit the right button."
*BUZZ* 
.....definitely no answer....
Next step, call only roommate phone number I have. 
*pull out phone*
Phone is out of saldo (curse you prepaid phones!!!)

I just put money on my phone and it says I'm out!!

Think fast, call the free number to add saldo from your phone...
*Dial*
...not the right number...try a different one that seems like it would be the one... nope not the right number..
*AHH*
Next walk over to my friend who lives across the street and buzz him, so I can add saldo online, and then call my roommate...LIFE SAVER
*Call roommate and apologize profusely for being such an idiot*
(The next day was a holiday in the center of Madrid so all of my roommates were all out de fiesta, except me because I work in a suburb, so no fiesta)
*Roommate comes on his motorcycle, gives me keys to run upstairs and then throw the keys back down to him through the balcony*
LIFE SAVER!!
*Apologizing even more, and promising this will NEVER happen again*
He just smiles and says "No pasa nada", and heads back to his party.

It was this exchange that made me feel truly blessed to have found such a great place after the nightmare I was in.

More bad luck has followed my the last few days-

Friday, I flooded the kitchen (not that bad) because I forgot to close the inner basket of the washing machine.
Ugh...really?


Saturday, I went to go pick up something for my old roommate since she's not in Madrid anymore and on the way to the place there were a bunch of museums and beautiful buildings. So I took  out my camera about to shoot take a few pictures, and my battery was exhausted...all I could do was laugh.

So I guess I do have some pretty impressive bad luck...but I'm happy where I am right now. It was my first weekend "partying like a spaniard...ish" and now it's back to reality with lesson planning, cleaning, among other things...

As of right now my room isn't set up yet due to lack of funds and still in battle for my deposit, but as soon as I can I'll give y'all a new video tour of my place.

Thanks for reading!

Much Love,

Cat