Portland, Pamplona, what´s the dif?

There´s a new au pair in town and she just happens to live right nextdoor to me. She also happens to have lived some of her life in Oregon. She also happens to be a super cool party person (which you would not get unless you watch season 6 of the Gilmore Girls). As well, she is named Emily. She looks a lot like one Erin Smith, who I know some of you folks remember from CCHS.

Anyhow, she´s really nice and I´ve shown her around a little bit and she went to a vineyard with her family yesterday and told me all about it. So cool, I´m gonna have to set up a trip like that for myself. I´ll wait until it´s actually from my own experience to tell you about it.

We had a super-American time the other day as we attempted to order some food on a walk around Pamplona. All was going fairly smoothly, until I placed my coffee too close to an elbow and that elbow belonged to a woman, who turned around rapidly and spilled the coffee all over my shoe, herself and the floor. The cup also shattered on the lenoleum. Now, I take full responsibility for the fact that I placed it too close to her, but Emily informed me later that the lady kept glaring at me as we picked things up. All I have to say to that is that I am in perfect control of my elbows at all times and other people should be the same.

Oh, I also have a fun night to share about! My first movie night in Spain! I watched my first spanish film, Tesis, by Alejandro Amenábar. He also did "The Others," as an American reference for you. Anyhow, it was really good. I could follow for the most part, but that was because the filming was well done. I think a good film should be something that is understandable without dialogue. But, I´m going to watch it with english subtitles so I can make sure, later : ) It´s about a girl who does her thesis in film school on violence in film. She gets a hold of a very violent video, finds out who the camera man was, or so we think, and may be his next victim... ooooooh. Then we watched Dr. Strangelove in Spanish. Better in english I´d say. I was a bit sleepy, so it was hard to stay focused. When it got over, we weren´t really tired, second wind, and Iñaki attempted to teach me to salsa, but I sort of sucked at it. This was disappointing because I´m such a Dancing Queen back home, but he´s got quick little feet!

That´s about it though. Practice tonight and class tomorrow. I better get some vocab. Later taters!