Vacation is over...time to work?

 If we want to stay in Spain for a full year, I guess we need to work. It has been nice not working every day and just exploring and taking in the city. But, we have been looking for jobs since we first got here and our luck is starting to turn good. Erin interviewed for a teaching position last week and was hired. She is teaching two classes, two hours a night, four nights a week. She had her first class last week and was actually hired two hours before the class started. So far she likes it. She is teaching adults English. Rob was able to find a tutoring job. He is tutoring a first grader in math and science two hours a day, three times a week. We are both enjoying it, but hoping that we find some more work.

We have made some English speaking friends. Erin teaches with a girl who lived in San Francisco for 16 years, but is originally from Germany. We went out with her and some other English speakers on Monday. Went to a local Irish pub where they had trivia! We played with Erin's friend, a girl from Iowa, a guy from Ireland, and another guy from Australia. It was so much fun! Mostly because we got to speak English all night, but also because we won!! The prize was a case (24 bottles) of San Miguel. Definitely a solid trivia prize! We plan on this being our Monday night go to spot. It's only a couple minutes walk away.

We have settled in to our apartment and will post pictures soon. While we both know that it has been extremely cold back at home, we have not been as warm as we thought we were going to be here. It's like mid 50's, low 60's during the day which is fine, but it drops down to 40 at night and its a chilly 40. We are fairly certain that they have no idea of what insulation is. Our apartment is so cold! Many days we will step outside and it will feel about 10 degrees warmer than what it was in our apartment. From what everyone says, the cold only lasts the month of January so not too much longer hopefully. It is especially annoying since we hang dry our clothes. Everyone has clothes lines either out on their balcony or on their rooftop terrace. No one really uses a dryer here. (You can see everyone's clothes hanging outside on their balconies everywhere you go.) We do have a dryer, but it only took one try to realize that it does not work well.

Other than that, we've just been enjoying having a kitchen to cook fresh food and a TV to watch the FC Barcelona games :)