orgiva

Well Orgiva is coming to a close...I´m kind of sad now actually! The quiet (and cheap!) time is about to come to an end...but i am actually quite excited for what´s on the agenda...this Friday, Shiloh and i are heading to Malaga to meet a friend flying in...from here it´s a bit of a mystery...i have the mini-itinerary that i posted in my last entry about what i think we´ll be doing for the next month or so...hope it all works out!

The last couple of days in Orgiva have been mucho Spanish...as in lessons and homework...my head is on fire, as a Spanish lady said to me who was learning English...it´s such a beautiful language...if i can´t get a grasp on it here, and actually, even if I can, i plan to continue it at home...i am no longer scared of learning it, so i definitely can´t give it up now...

also, and i swear, it´s a case of someone/thing placing us in the right place at the right time, we spotted a cat on the roof of the library who had a plastic bag wrapped around its head...we were shocked and anyone who knows us, knows how we must have panicked.."We must save the cat!!" So we went to the Guardia Civil and told him in our broken Spanish and lots of strangling noises what the situation was...he laughed, which didn´t surprise me, and said they didn´t have a ladder...i was starting to scope out ways that i could climb onto the roof...so we went to the police and he came out with us and was actually a little bit concerned! So he called the City Hall and by now, there were people stopping to see what the mini-commotion was all about...so the guys from the city came and slowly got out there ladders, chatted a bit and went up the roof to the cat...they took a long metal thing and bounced it off the cat´s head a couple of times (while we looked on thinking, what the...??) and the bag came off...we cheered...
It´s been twice now that we´ve rescued an animal here that was caught up in a bag..the other was a pigeon that flew right to us and sat on a fence where we were...he sat there while we untangled it from his wing and flew off again...these two things made my day...sigh, how boring I know...where are the crazy travelling stories...they´ll come...this past month has been for unwinding, learning, sleeping and dealing with culture shock i think...also, because i told everyone that i would be gone for at least 3 months (with not a lot of money), being holed up in the mountains has allowed me to stretch that out and for the next month and a half, I´ll blow the rest of my money and say, " I made it!"...

I am being kicked out..it´s siesta time!! Wine and sleep!

Will finish this off tommorrow, hope everyone is doing well!

Ciao