Two weeks until Christmas Vacation! Wow, when did all that time pass by?

Eric and Laurie are getting married. Good god. Two of my best friends have decided to get married and I couldn't be more happy for them. Hopefully they wait for me to come back so that I can see this whole thing go down...and give it my blessing (very necessary).

Last weekend we had a Thanksgiving here in Algeciras amongst the American contingency (Meghan, Hannah, Alexa, Abby, Matt and myself) and I am pleased to say that it went quite well. We invited a solid group of Spanish friends that we usually hang out with and had a come newcomers, which was a nice addition.

I cooked three sweet potato pies, homemade applesauce, mashed potatoes and a homemade green bean casserole; this last one was especially good, because Campbell's doesn't exist over here. Nothing like making your own cream of mushroom soup. I might have bragging rights to the most popular dish, as several people have asked me for my sweet potato pie recipe. Can you say eBay?

I'm getting really excited to head to Germany and see Ben on the 19th of this month; it's been over a year since I've seen the kid. I'll be gone until the 9th of January, so there is quite a bit that I would like to see while I'm there. I'm thinking of heading southward and eastward, so as I don't double dip places that I am going to see next summer. So on the tentative destination list we have Bonn, Aachen, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Prague. I think I can make it all happen since my school is going to be paying me early. Word!

This weekend is another "puente" or long weekend due to a national holiday. I'm thinking about making my way to Almeria, a supposedly very beautiful city, to see a friend from orientation. It's about 7 hours by bus, but at least I can get quite a bit of reading done and get to see more of Spain. It's still tentative however, since I am going salsa dancing for the first time on Friday, I have a ride on Saturday morning and possibly two couchsurfers for tonight and tomorrow. Did I mention that I am also teaching here? Haha, sometimes that is so far to back of my mind since it is the only solid part of my routine here.

I'm also going to try and start some fundraising rather quick here since I need to get paying for this internship in Argentina. We'll see though...My big focus next week will be figure out how to pay for that.