I love spain. I love everything about spain from disgustingly delicious bloodsausage (morcilla) sandwiches and their wierd fascination (love) of handing pigs legs and pork products to the inconvenience of siesta when everything shuts down in the middle of the day. I love it. I love the spicy smell of bad aftershave that permeates the air surrounding every man over thirty, i love the long leisurly lunches at three in the afternoon. I love red wine and croquettes. i love cafe con leche and the seedy little bars in tucked into extra seedy 15th century allyways. I love spain. DId I mention that? I nearly cried as I boarded the airplane in madrid. Tarom ( ROmania's premier and only airline) is not exactly a highclass operation. In fact I felt a little sad for the dejected plane I boarded. It was almost as if it was a gift from some german airline, one of the planes that they no longer could run with a straight face. The seats sagged under years of use and poor maintence and the sound that the engines made during flight, I'd rather not remember. In short one tepid meal of turkey slices and some brown sauce later I am glad that I am sitting here in Romania safe and sound. And now that I have expended all of my vacation (i have been gone for almost a month) i face school tomorrow and all it's horror. Daniela (the teacher with whom i share classes) is in Japan on vacation and I get the monsters to myself, all of them (35 or so smiling expectant faces per class instead of 15). I shudder to think about my nerves this time tomorrow. I will have them all four hours this week. yikes. and yet i shall persist and this too will pass. I love that phrase, 'this too will pass.' It makes me think of passover which recently passed over. Mike and I found a 7euro box of matzah in madrid. It's expensive to be a jew in europe. shoot, my time is running out. i dug through all the couch cushions to find the change for this little internet trip. well beautiful people keep it real. ps. i will write about my trip home because it deserves some reflection. pps. sara and ben i hope you had a really nice luna de miel (honeymoon)