Number Four

As I'm writing this, I look like a hamster, cheeks filled with Victoria Sponge cake - home made!  By me!  I've been trying my hand at cooking different things this week, now that I've gone back to part time at work (by part time I mean 5 shifts a week).  I made chocolate brownies, which ended up more like cookies.  The stew I did looked like something you would use to make your plants grow...  The Victoria Sponge was actually quite nice, if I do say so myself.  Although, I put the butter cream in the middle before the cake had cooled, so when I went back to the fridge to surprise my boyfriend with a cake, the middle had disappeared!  I hadn't thought it would melt into the cake.  But, you live and learn.

Recently I've been thinking about what I'm going to do with myself job-wise.  I know my Spanish needs to improve if I want to better myself here, so the next time I go into the capital, Rosario, I'm going to look into Spanish classes.  I get motivated to teach myself for short bursts of time, but I think if I had a commitment to a class, I'd learn much better and faster.

I took my dog, Jack for a walk recently with a friend and his two dogs.  Jack hasn't been socialised very much and I was keen to see how they would get along.  Jack as usual got too playful too quickly and was sharply put in his place by the oldest dog.  I was glad that it happened, Jack needs to learn how to be normal with other dogs.  It's a shame there isn't a dog park here.  Or a dog beach.  You would think that for an island over-run with dogs, there would be more incentive to have one, a nice place to go where you can meet other people with dogs.  Even an obedience school...  Nope.  Nothing.  Don't get me wrong, I love living here, but there are so many things the Canary Islands lack.  And don't get me started on size 42 shoes!

Well, I'm off to bed now.  I've double locked all the doors from the inside.  There have been a few reports recently of attempted break-ins, two on our complex!  So I'll be sleeping with a baseball bat on one side of me and Jack the other side!  Although if someone tries to break in, Jack will probably just want to play with them!

Until next time...