Good news

This is going to be a good week. I can feel it. Oh wait! Could it be?? Sunshine? Maybe that is what I am feeling?!! What a difference a little sunshine can make. It felt really nice to walk to my Spanish school today having to squint (I crushed my sunglasses the other day on accident and hadn't bothered to buy another pair due to constant cloud cover). When I showed up at school, there were five Christmas presents waiting in the classroom, as our Xmas present collection drive is coming to a close this week, and more people are bringing in their donations. More good news (because it will be great practice): I will need to make two presentations this week, for 30 minutes apiece, in Spanish! One is for a Rotary meeting tomorrow night and the other is for my class on a theme of my choice. I spent all day yesterday making a Power Point presentation about Austin that I am sure the audience will find riveting! I even included pictures of breakfast tacos, since that was about 70% of my diet. (Did you know that Austin was the site of the first tortilla factory in the United States?). When I was looking for pictures online, I stumbled across a picture of Leslie (a semi-famous male icon in Austin whose claim to fame is his dress code, which always includes a thong). I decided it would be a bit much for the presentation, but it did make me smile. The best part about making a presentation in another language that you are obviously not proficient in is that excessive hand motions are completely permissible, and almost encouraged (especially if you don't know the word). I am banking on the fact that there will be at least five words that I will try and remember that I can't, and with a minimum of one -two minutes of charades with the audience to get them to guess the word, well that is ten minutes right there. Just kidding. But not really.