going postal, and other things.

I told myself that I was going to be better about blogging. Maybe if I tell you, too, I will actually post more.

Anyway, I am still impatiently waiting for a package that mom sent me before Christmas. It was 'guaranteed' to arrive before December 24. Oh, you know.. just a month late. No big deal.
You see, the package got held up in customs, and I had to go through a whole bunch of bureaucracy to figure out all of that jazz. (And we all know by now that Spanish bureaucracy isn't much of a party, right?) I got an email last Thursday (a week ago) that said that the package was freed from customs, and that Correos would be delivering it. But still no word. I think I might try to stop into the post office tomorrow to see if they have any info. I'm really anxious about it. Want to know why?

Because it contains a Kindle! Yep. A Kindle.
The girls that I teach on Monday and Wednesday asked me what the Wisemen brought me for Christmas. "Nothing." I said. "They didn't know that I was here."
"Oh." They replied. "So then what did Santa bring you?"
I told them that Santa brought a Kindle to my house in the United States, so my mom had to mail it to me. And I still haven't gotten it yet. (And no, they didn't know what a Kindle was.)
Next year, (if there is a next year), Santa should just bring it in through my window here in Spain. It would have saved me a 42€ customs fee and hours of trying to figure out how to rescue the princess, I mean package.

And speaking of Santa and money.
One of the teachers that I work with told me the best story.
She said that her daughter had asked for a video camera from the Wisemen this year. Her reasoning? "Well mom, if I ask the Wisemen for expensive things, we are really getting them for free."
What a clever, well-intentioned child!