Harry Potter Workout

I recently joined a gym here in Spain.  I love how I feel after working out and usually I’m pretty good about fitting in exercise, but every so often, I just don’t feel like doing anything but knitting and watching movies.  Well I think I found the answer to this.  The Harry Potter Workout.  I found this through Pintrest and I think it is awesome.  It is a list of things that happen throughout each of the Harry Potter movies like they cast a spell or Ron says “Bloody Hell” and each of these things is matched up with a particular exercise.  So the way it works is you watch the Harry Potter movie of your choice and each time something on the list happens, you do the corresponding exercise, so every time they cast a spell you do 10 sit-ups and every time Ron says Bloody Hell you do 30 jumping jacks.  I love this because it convinces me to get in a work out when working out is the last thing I want to do.   I think I’m going to have to try and find a Twilight work out too.  If there isn’t one, maybe I should just make up my own.  Every time Jacob doesn’t have a shirt on do 10 crunches…you’ll be doing crunches the whole movie.

No Tengo Ganas - I don't feel like it

So my Final Grade for the photo challenge is a big fat F.  I am so far behind at this point that I'm just not even going to try to catch up.  You know why?  Because I don't want to.  I just haven't felt like doing much more than the necessary things for school.  Some people might say I've been lazy....I prefer to call it relaxed.  I think that too often, people push themselves to do things they don't want to do (like take a bunch of pictures of stupid things like buttons) and that jus makes them not happy people.  This challenge hasn't been all bad.  I have taken some pretty cool pictures that I haven't posted yet and I'll put them at the end.  If this woman has another challenge in March, I might try again....maybe.

A que estoy escuchando

Ai  Su Eu Te Pego - Michel Telo

This song is actually Portuguese.  I think it sounds kind of like a love song, like a nice, sweet, "be mine" sort of song.  Well, it's not.  It's all about what he wants to do to her when he gets his hands on her (I won't tell you what he wants to do).  This song isn't just my favorite song right now, it is all of Europe's favorite song.  My Spanish friends love it, my Italian friends love it, apparently it's really popular in France.  And it is popular among people between the ages of 2 and 70.  There is even a Alvin and the Chipmucks version on Youtube.

Challenge failure

So I am way behind on this photo challenge.  I plan on catching up this weekend on all the photos I haven't taken.

In other news, my birthday was on Tuesday!  I had a lot of fun.  Obviously I had class but after that I met a group of other year long students for a glass of wine at one of my favorite jazz bars.  Then for dinner Carmen made fried pork and for dessert we had strawberry cheesecake ice cream and Carmen and Greta sang to me.  It was more like Carmen sang and Greta mumbled to try to cover up the fact that she doesn't really know the words to the song in Spanish.  After that, Greta and I just hung out and watched the movie Valentines Day.  It was a very calm birthday but a very good birthday.

For those of you who are interested, I have started a little knitting blog.  I know it won't be interesting to everybody but if you would like to see what I'm doing with just about all my free time the blog is called Knitorious.

Catching Up

Today, I'm just catching up with my photo challenge.

 Day six was the day I was suppose to post about dinner but I posted about the sun instead.  Well I took a picture of lunch instead because my lunch is usually so much cooler than my dinner.

Yesterday's picture was buttons.  I had to try really hard to take a good picture of buttons without it looking dumb.

Spanish Friend and Spanish Class

I made friends....or my room mate made them for me. She met these people and then introduced them to me.  We have already been out with them a couple of times and we are going over to their apartment tonight because their Italian room mate is going to make us authentic Italian carbonara.

My classes started on Monday and so far everything is going great.  I only have 4 classes for this week until Italian starts next Monday.  All my teachers are great.  I actually have two classes with my room mate this semester so that will be pretty nice when we need to study.

For the photo challenge yesterday, I was suppose to take a picture of dinner, but I didn't read that.  I read what was on the list for the 8th.  So I'm going to switch it up a little.  For yesterday, I have pictures of the sun.



10 am

I woke up in time!!!  I actually set my alarm for 9:57, got up, took a couple pictures and went straight back to bed.

Yep, that's what I look like when I just get out of bed.  No make up or anything.   I feel pretty brave putting a picture of me without make up on the internet



A stranger???

So the challenge photo of the day is to take a picture of the day is a stranger.  This challenge clearly does not know me  at all. I would never go take a picture of a stranger, so what am I going to do.  I am going to post an older picture of a street performer.

This is actually from my trip to Barcelona.  I might be able to get a picture of a stranger tonight, but I'll post this for now, even though it is kind of cheating. 

Tomorrow's picture might be just as hard to get.  I am suppose to take a picture of something at 10am.  Well, today I woke up at 12:30pm and I very well could be going out tonight so the likelihood of me being awake at 10....well, we'll see.

I'm Back!!

I'm back in Granada!!!  I landed in Granada right around 1 yesterday afternoon (I didn't actually look at the time when I landed, that might not be right)  and I got on a bus and then another bus and got home just as Greta and Carmen were sitting down to lunch.  I should have taken a siesta seeing as I had been awake for 20 something hours now, but I unpacked instead.

As you can see, that process is very similar to the packing process.

Yesterdays challenge was hands...

Welcome to Miami, Bienvenidos a Miami

Just landed in Miami and in just 7 hours I will be boarding a plane to take me to Spain.  Being in Miama, I am hearing a lot of Spanish.  It's really good for me because it is helping my brain get use to thinking in Spanish again. 

I have to say, it's pretty cool to be in a place where you are hearing multiple languages and be able to understand what everyone is saying.

For my photo a day challenge, today's photo is suppose to be of words.   The picture I have as of now is not that great but I am seeing this word a lot today.

Yeah, that's pretty bad.  I'll probably get another word sometime but it most likely won't be posted today.

Next time I write, I'll be in Spain!!

Packing Complete

Today, I finally got off my butt and packed.  I really had no other option seeing as I have to be at the airport tomorrow at 6 in the morning.

So here is my packing technique.  I turn on some music and throw everything I want to take with me on my bed.  Then I go through all that stuff and get rid of everything that really just not necessary or that I don't really care about that much.  And finally I organize what's left by what bag I want it in and pack it up.  So what starts out like this....

turns into this.

   

In other news, I have decided that I am going to participate in a February Photo a Day Challenge.  I probably won't post a photo ever day on my blog just because I probably won't have Internet access ever day,  but I will take at least one picture for every day in February and I will post them all at some point during the month. I found this challenge through Pintrest.  It is from a blog call Fat Mum Slim. 

Today's picture is suppose to be My View so here it is.

What an ugly day!