Uncategorized

Conservation Prize Rewards Elephant Crusader

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

[writing exercise for class!! woohoo AP style!] A leading elephant conservationist has been announced as the 2010 winner of the  $100,000 Indianapolis Prize for his work in Africa against poaching and the sale of ivory. British zoologist, Iain Douglas -Hamilton, Ph.D., who is the CEO and founder of Save The Elephants has been awarded conservationism’s [...]

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I Married A Clan

Friday, June 18th, 2010

As you may have gathered, my beloved Daddy-In-Law passed away about ten days ago. It had been expected for several months, but was still a horrible shock when it finally happened. The cremation was set for Wednesday, so we flew to Bristol on Monday, and returned to Madrid yesterday (Thursday). And we had a fantastic time. I think the DIL would have approved.

Here’s the thing, see. When I married

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Use Your Words

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Nora has understood the “first I talk, then you talk, then I talk again” format of human conversation for several months now. But it wasn’t until just recently that she’s begun forming clear sentences with what are clearly words. Unfortunately none of the words she speaks are in either of the two languages I understand. [...]

Related Posts

Language Immersion Anecdotes
One of the things I…
Internauta – Favorite Spanish Words
internauta: n. a user of…
Baby Name Shortlist – How To Decide
For a long time, since…

Tags: , ,
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Taking A Stand

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Today, Nora and her mother were playing the cutest game, with Nora, who already understands about telephones, “dialing” the phone and handing it to her mother, who would pretend to talk for a bit and then hand it back. I said, “Keep doing that, I’m going to get the camera!” And when I got back, [...]

Related Posts

Jewel Thief
Today, for the first time,…
This walker’s made for walking…backwards
Yesterday morning, Nora was exceptionally…

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Where will you lead us, CiU?

Monday, April 5th, 2010

According to some polls recently reported in La Vanguardia and El Periòdico de Catalunya, Convergència i Unió (CiU) would win the Catalan elections that will take place next autum almost with an absolute majority. On the other hand, the tripartite (the coalition between the socialists, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and Iniciativa per Catalunya) would lose [...]

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Catalan DDT channels make their way to Northern Catalonia

Monday, March 29th, 2010

After a long struggle to make it possible, the Catalan TV channels TV3, 33, 3/24, Súper 3/300 can be received in Northern  Catalonia (which corresponds approximately to the modern Frech département of the Pyrénées-Orientales). There are still some dark areas where these DDT channels are too weak to be tuned, and more channels (such as [...]

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My Day

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Pathetic, really, the things we wish for. Two days ago, I wished for a meat grinder, and if it had nozzles to stuff sausages with, that would be even better. A few days before that, I’d been in an industrial catering shop and asked about picadores de carne. They showed me what they had, and I got the impression that the manual ones were 23 Euros. I had no cash on me at the time, and resolved to

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Going Crazy … No Time to Blog…Why Did I Think I Would Have Time to Blog?!?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Things are not going as planned.
I have accumulated a giant ridiculous list of links I’ve wanted to blog about but it turns out that trying to sort of the moving of 6 years of life by March 4 takes up a lot of time (what with all the partying , er packing, that needs to [...]

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Catalonia in Euronews

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Euronews, the multilingual and pan-European television news channel, broad-casted last week a nine-minute video on Catalonia. It is always good news that European media care about what’s going on in Catalonia, as one of our major goals must be to attract international attention to the Catalan case. However, the video steps over the [...]

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Foro Social Mundial En Madrid

Friday, January 29th, 2010

While the politicians, businessmen, celebrities, dictators and bankers enjoy their annual chat in Davos, the alternative of the World Social Forum also takes place. Although the traditional meeting in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre still exists, th…

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

« Older Entries