So I apologize to all my avid blog readers, all 9 of you, for not having posted in such a long time....
Don’t really have any excuses or reasons for such I just never got around to it.
Lots happened since I last got on. Here are some highlights:
- we've played like 4 or 5 games and won them all. We are currently "top o' the table" and hopefully will stay there for the rest of the year.
- Visited the rents in Manchester for a few days, and watched 2 soccer games...that was good
- Started teaching English every week two a sibling pair, brother and sister. The boy is truly amazing as he speaks fluent French, Spanish, Catalan, and takes english in school and asks to take private lessons from myself and a Chinese teacher....
i've limited the hours that I teach as I dont really like doing it...not exactly sure why but I always feel like i'm unprepared (probably because I am) and I dont enjoy trying to figure out lesson plans on the fly...
- I've also been taking 2 hours of spanish class a day for the last 2 weeks. The class isnt exactly what I need, I'd be better off studying on my own, but know that I wont do it...
-I've also been going to a nearby gym 4 days a week and lifting which is great, as the facilities at our pool kinda suck...
-News on the MBA front. I finished my 3rd application to columbia and also got an interview request from HBS!!!!! This is great as they interview almost all the candidates they take, and supposedly only 20% of the people that apply get interviews. My interview is in Madrid on Dec 11th...im a bit nervous as I dont speak very complex English here, and I wanna be able to use my full English capabilities to convince the interviewer why i am...well why I am "the shit"....so if anyone wants to jump on skype and quiz me, that would be dope...
-Each weekday morning i head to the same bar/cafe called Nakayupenda ("love" in Swahili) and have breakfast, croissant with a cafe con leche...I really enjoy this as all the people who work there, are sweet dutch younger people with great outlooks on life. I frequently hang out there and just chat with them, and I have become good friends with a few of them (3 of them attended my thanksgiving bash...). Sweet peeps and they let me make my own cafe every morning which is sweet!
-We had a game in Bilbao which is in Basque territory where they dont speak catalan but they do speak basque, and would rather speak that than spanish. Its a really small and beautiful town thats done an amazing job with blending modern and old school architecture. They have a pretty beautiful Guggenheim museum there, and I liked the building which was created by Frank Ghery, the dude that designed Princeton's new science library...I like the museum in bilbao more to say the least.
Don’t really have any excuses or reasons for such I just never got around to it.
Lots happened since I last got on. Here are some highlights:
- we've played like 4 or 5 games and won them all. We are currently "top o' the table" and hopefully will stay there for the rest of the year.
- Visited the rents in Manchester for a few days, and watched 2 soccer games...that was good
- Started teaching English every week two a sibling pair, brother and sister. The boy is truly amazing as he speaks fluent French, Spanish, Catalan, and takes english in school and asks to take private lessons from myself and a Chinese teacher....
i've limited the hours that I teach as I dont really like doing it...not exactly sure why but I always feel like i'm unprepared (probably because I am) and I dont enjoy trying to figure out lesson plans on the fly...
- I've also been taking 2 hours of spanish class a day for the last 2 weeks. The class isnt exactly what I need, I'd be better off studying on my own, but know that I wont do it...
-I've also been going to a nearby gym 4 days a week and lifting which is great, as the facilities at our pool kinda suck...
-News on the MBA front. I finished my 3rd application to columbia and also got an interview request from HBS!!!!! This is great as they interview almost all the candidates they take, and supposedly only 20% of the people that apply get interviews. My interview is in Madrid on Dec 11th...im a bit nervous as I dont speak very complex English here, and I wanna be able to use my full English capabilities to convince the interviewer why i am...well why I am "the shit"....so if anyone wants to jump on skype and quiz me, that would be dope...
-Each weekday morning i head to the same bar/cafe called Nakayupenda ("love" in Swahili) and have breakfast, croissant with a cafe con leche...I really enjoy this as all the people who work there, are sweet dutch younger people with great outlooks on life. I frequently hang out there and just chat with them, and I have become good friends with a few of them (3 of them attended my thanksgiving bash...). Sweet peeps and they let me make my own cafe every morning which is sweet!
-We had a game in Bilbao which is in Basque territory where they dont speak catalan but they do speak basque, and would rather speak that than spanish. Its a really small and beautiful town thats done an amazing job with blending modern and old school architecture. They have a pretty beautiful Guggenheim museum there, and I liked the building which was created by Frank Ghery, the dude that designed Princeton's new science library...I like the museum in bilbao more to say the least.-This week I had a friend from High School, buzon, come visit for thanksgiving. We made a pretty sweet as meal. I bought "Pablo the Pavo", at 5.3kilos at a polleria around the corner. I marinated it with spices the day before and then the day of thanksgiving we made stuffing and ish and prayed that my small/shitty ass orno=oven would cook the thing. I also had 10 friends over, some American, some Dutch and my roommate and a few brough some stuff for us to eat and we basically had a huge fest.
Direct quotes: "first time I ever enjoyed thanksgiving food" (crazy but ill take it as a compliment) and "best turkey i've ever had"...I would have had more rave reviews but 4 of our attendees were first time thanksgiving goers. Buzon also made us all go around the table and say thanks which was really nice.....
-As for this weekend. Well this weekend was long and interesting. I pinched a nerve in my leg while lifting. Half my cafe and the top of my left foot lacks a degree of sensitivity and kinda feels like its asleep....because of this I didnt practice a few days this week and my coaches wouldnt let me suit up to play. I was not happy about this, but at the same time maybe the break would be good for me...i wish it was as my foot is about the same. I'm going to try some acupuncture and maybe some chiropractor visits... I also went out with Buzon to a club on friday and yesterday my teammates had a dinner in a nearby town, Sabadell, and we went out till 5am....was fun but hanging out in super packed places and trying to speak spanish with loud ass music going on is difficult...id rather have it less crowded and be able to move around and dance and what not...
-today was nice and relaxing, i woke up LATE...made french toast with Panatone bread...interesting but difficult as the bread is hard to manage, and cut, as it comes in round dome shaped pieces...then I went and met up with the manager from Nakayupenda and we went and watched 007...not the best, but entertaining enough....
basically things have settled down for me and I've got a groove going between the cafe, lifting, class and practice....its not the best groove ever, but a groove, at least for a while, is stabilizing and nice...
dats about it....when you peeps coming to visit me?
I am NOT coming home for xmas as people killing each other in Walmart's scare me and my parents are coming out to Manchester and i'll meet them there and hang out for half a week....
Peace....
Direct quotes: "first time I ever enjoyed thanksgiving food" (crazy but ill take it as a compliment) and "best turkey i've ever had"...I would have had more rave reviews but 4 of our attendees were first time thanksgiving goers. Buzon also made us all go around the table and say thanks which was really nice.....
-As for this weekend. Well this weekend was long and interesting. I pinched a nerve in my leg while lifting. Half my cafe and the top of my left foot lacks a degree of sensitivity and kinda feels like its asleep....because of this I didnt practice a few days this week and my coaches wouldnt let me suit up to play. I was not happy about this, but at the same time maybe the break would be good for me...i wish it was as my foot is about the same. I'm going to try some acupuncture and maybe some chiropractor visits... I also went out with Buzon to a club on friday and yesterday my teammates had a dinner in a nearby town, Sabadell, and we went out till 5am....was fun but hanging out in super packed places and trying to speak spanish with loud ass music going on is difficult...id rather have it less crowded and be able to move around and dance and what not...
-today was nice and relaxing, i woke up LATE...made french toast with Panatone bread...interesting but difficult as the bread is hard to manage, and cut, as it comes in round dome shaped pieces...then I went and met up with the manager from Nakayupenda and we went and watched 007...not the best, but entertaining enough....
basically things have settled down for me and I've got a groove going between the cafe, lifting, class and practice....its not the best groove ever, but a groove, at least for a while, is stabilizing and nice...
dats about it....when you peeps coming to visit me?
I am NOT coming home for xmas as people killing each other in Walmart's scare me and my parents are coming out to Manchester and i'll meet them there and hang out for half a week....
Peace....
3 comments:
About time you posted again!!
Glad to hear you are doing well and posting again!! Hope your injuries get better, this getting old thing sucks!! Good luck with the rest of your apps and your interview.
oh look how cute you are with your dindon!
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