This is probably one of the hardest things to explain to someone from North America who has never lived on a different continent. The concept isn’t entirely spanish, it exists in Morocco and other parts of Europe as well, and the basic premise is getting a message through without paying any money for doing [...]
Entries from November 2006
Dáme un Toque
November 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Spanish Culture
Nov. 24th Weekly Recap
November 24th, 2006 · 3 Comments
This week has been a gooder. Many some web projects on the go, thinking about a Malaga Media Center Podcast and making incremental changes to our site.
Tags: Intermittent Status Updates
¡Sé Bueno!
November 21st, 2006 · 3 Comments
To those of you who do know some spanish, you might be a little confused over the title. The first word sé is normally a form of the word saber which means to know, but in this instance I am using the imperative form of the verb ser which means to be. Be Good! quite [...]
Tags: Spanish Culture · Stories
Nov. 17th Weekly Recap
November 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment
I generally don’t write about what goes on here as I sit behind my desk in Spain. The reason, I think it might be boring reading. I don’t know if I am capable of presenting what I do here in an interesting way but recently a coworker challenged with that sharing about the work [...]
Tags: Intermittent Status Updates
Salsa!
November 16th, 2006 · 6 Comments
It’s late and it’s not getting any earlier. I already walked a full block past my house on my home this evening without even realizing it. As you all may or may not know my heritage is mennonite and tonight I was a disgrace to my people.For those of you who are familiar [...]
Tags: Stories
Musings and Upcoming Events - The Rainy Edition
November 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments
It’s raining. It’s raining like it will never rain again. I have gotten quite used to the weather here on the south coast of Spain. It’s very predicable. All summer you could count on sun and hot, now it’s November and you just have to ask yourself wether it’s going to rain [...]
Tags: Musings
El Supermercado
November 4th, 2006 · 2 Comments
This is a short story centering around a recent encounter at the local supermarket. It was a mostly average Tuesday (That is Tuesday Oct. 31st, Halloween was still hours away) morning, mostly average except for that in the last two and a half months I had only been out buying food once. The time [...]
Tags: Stories




