Typical Day (Josiah)

For some reason, every day, the 1st 14 days we've been in Spain, I've waken up at 8:30.  Is it due to staying up till 10:30 the night before reading "The Hobbit", jet lag, or different culture, I don't know.  But somehow, I can't get myself to wake up earlier (come on, The Hobbit's addicting, especially when you're near the end!).

Anyway, on a typical day, I wake up, get dressed, check e-mail (getting passed the obvious now), eat breakfast, a typical breakfast week: cereal 3 days, sweet stuff, pancakes, biscuits and eggs, and muffins.  A lesson of Math and a couple pages of English, or Vocabulary in my case.

I don't believe there's been a day that I've been in Spain and didn't go outside the entire day.  What you should get from that is that we spend some time outdoors.  Sometimes, we just head to the grocery store to get some food.  We have to do this often, because we don't have much room for storage.  We also go on longer trips, like visiting La Pedrera and Salvador Dali's museum.  We watch about 90 minutes of cartoons a day, and play games by ourselves or together.

The whole family has had a bad cough.  Right now, Dad, Kathryn, and I have the worst case of it.  We have tried medicine, tea, honey lemon water, and pills, but nothing seems to work.  We hope to get better soon, but we have done that for 2 and a half weeks now.  Please add this to your prayer list when you pray for us.

I enjoy working on my Spanish with the people who don't speak good English.  There is a park about a 10 minute walk away and a small grocery store about 1 minute away.  Our neighbors continue to help us out a lot, and we invited them to eat with us tonight.

Basketball paragraph: I was disappointed when Murray State lost  This wasn't their year.  At least Morehead State gave the OVC some publicity.  I actually put Louisville in the Final Four on my bracket, so it's about time I started tearing that bracket up.  Besides, I went 0 for 4 in the 8 vs. 9 match-ups, and 1 for 4 in the 6 vs. 11s.  So, doesn't that give me a reason?  Congratulations, Kentucky fans.  You got a lucky win.  Let's see you beat WVU.

I will sign off now.  Here are a few pics.

Hereford Family posing in front of Torre Agbar

fountain