January snapshots

The procrastinated holiday post

I've been putting off this post, teling myself it's best just to wait till after Christmas. Then I decided I should include New Years. And when that arrived I decided I should include Three Kings Day, and now I just have a mountain of things to report, so I tried to put it off some more. But, it can be delayed no more, so here is the super-summerized version of the last few weeks. The most eventful and exciting news (for me anyways) was Jack coming to Spain. We had a wonderful two weeks here (I'm speaking for him too, becuase I'm hoping thats his answer.) I took him around Barcelona the first few days, showed him the sights. He really seemed to take to the idea of sitting in a cafe sipping espresso and eating pastries, so we definitely got our fill of that. We speant Christmas here in Barcelona with my spanish family, although truth be told, it was rather uneventful. It definitely is less of a holiday here since the traditional celebration is held on the 6th of January (Three Kings Day.) But we gave the family some gifts, Little Tomas got Thomas the Tank Engine movies (in english to help him practice) and Marta and Dad Tomas a cookie press, so they can make cookies on their own when I'm gone. Then Jack and I went my favoirte holiday spot, the Chineese resturant to have Christmas dinner. On the 28th we left for Mallorca, an Island just outside of Spain. The trip started out a mess (long story short, the stuttle from the airport to the otherside of the island we booked ahead of time online turned out to be a dud, so we stressed and paniced and finally arrived four hours later then planned, with a 100+ Euro taxi fare.) But after that mishap, we had a wonderful week. The down was perfect, small and quaint, and surrouned on almost all sides by the ocean, which, is the most beautiful I've seen. Perfectly clear, and shades of blue that you always see in magazines. For some reason I'm still fasinated by the school of jellyfish we found, some washed ashore that I tried to save, and the others you could see swimming near by in the crystal clear water. It was a wonderfully relaxing and enjoyable week, and when we came back I had a few days left to show him around more of Barcelona.
Now that it's mid January, I've also been trying to sort out my future plans, because as of right now, my visa expires on the 3rd of March, so I've got to make my move. The family really wants me to stay till June, but I'd have to stay illeagaly, which obviously isn't ideal. I'm torn between going back home and starting to get things started back there, or speanding a few more months here. As of now, I'm just going to see how things fall, because i'm completly torn, so hopefully something will happen the will lead me in one direction (and hopefully it's not a police officer deporting me from the country.)