Sweet television

I JUST watched the season premier of Weeds on my computer, as I am much too poor to afford television, let alone fancy cable channels like Showtime. Anyhow, I just wanted to say that Weeds is the most insanely dramatic awesome show around. The season finale was action frickin' packed and the season premier was almost as sweet. I'm quite impressed with this show and it might be awesome enough to order Showtime when my paychecks do start rolling in. I've got to think about it.

I think I might go to Iceland for Christmas break. When I was living in Spain, I had to spend the last two weeks of July in this apartment where you could pay by the week because my old roommate wanted to rent out my room for the whole month and I was leaving in the middle. So this apartment was filled with students doing study abroad programs in Spain and one Spanish guy who was from Southern Spain but was working or something like that in Madrid for a while. In Spain, people usually live at home until they can afford to buy an apartment or house or something, which is usually until at least thirty with the salaries and housing market being what they are in Madrid. So most of the apartment market is filled with students doing study abroad programs, which are huge in Europe. Because these people don't stay for a whole year, the places are rented out weekly or monthly and they are crammed with people. The apartment was very big, but we had like eight people in there. It was a totally sweet setup and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

It was actually kind of amazing living with eight other people from totally different places. There was me, the american, a german asshole, two lovely french girls, a japanese girl, a swedish girl, the spaniard, and this awesome guy from Iceland named Gauti. I liked him best and we hung out in the apartment the most, for some reason. We did a horrible job keeping in touch and actually didn't at all after I left Spain. Then, fall semester of 2006 I went with my friend to a bar to meet up with these couple of guys she knew. They were cool and whatnot and then one of their friends showed up. She seemed nice enough and we talked and she told me she was from Iceland, so I was like oh that's funny when I was in Spain I had an Icelandic roommate, yeah his name was Gauti. She goes, I know Gauti! It was too weird. Although, later I realized it wasn't that weird because Iceland's population is like 300,000 or something and almost half of those people live in the capital, Reykjavic, I think it's spelled. But anyway, then he e-mailed me and said what a coincidence it was and I e-mailed back and said yeah but then that was all.

For some reason, yesterday I decided I wanted to go to Iceland and since Iceland is very expensive and unknown to me I e-mailed him again and he e-mailed back this morning and said that I should totally come. I think it would be awesome to go there and he can be like my tour guide, plus he's a fun guy, even if I don't know him all that well. We did live together. So yeah, I hope that will work out because I think it would be neat to spend New Year's in Iceland. New Years is always boring, so being in a foreign country might be just the thing I need.

I am really overwhelmed with all this work to do. I started working on the 8th grade curriculum plan, but I just got overwhelmed and started feeling like I didn't know what I was doing so I stopped. Tomorrow I need to get at least two units done so I don't get too far behind. Next week is new teacher orientation, my first visit to my new classroom since it was vacated, and SHOPPING!!! I must buy lots of stuff. I am pretty excited about this. Soon there will be more to post about.