Podemos surf?

Having just been shouted at by my Dad for not blogging I thought I better write something!
Unfortunately I think I got sand in my camera at the weekend and its broken so these blogs might be picture-less for a little while!

At the weekend I went to Las Salinas, near Aviles with a big group of British Council people - we're really not doing a very good job at the whole speaking Spanish thing...
It was ridiculously hot! We all got a little bit burnt as we were all doing that classic British "I never see the sun, I'm not covering up!!"
Some people frollicked in the water, I did not. Although the paddling conditions were superb!
Surfing had been the idea of the day, but as we went on a Sunday, Spain was closed. Its annoying like that!
Speaking of Sundays, I went to Mass at the Cathedral on Sunday and couldn't find the congregation. Ten o'clock Mass was not the social event that it is back home and Mass was being celebrated in a side chapel. A side chapel that was bigger than St. Francis and completely filled with marble and stone statues, stained glass windows and tapestries. They do religion rather well here!

I started work at my school on Monday. The classes all seem nice. As nice as a bunch of teenagers being forced to speak in another language can be!
They seemed interested in haggis because its like morcilla and the bagpipes because they play the pipes in Asturias. They did not understand how a drink could be bright orange. Irn bru fail. Although once I know them better I might make them watch the Fizzy, Ginger, Phenomenal, advert.

Tonight I'm watching Scotland play Spain with a bunch of English people and two Americans... something tells me I may have to go watch it by myself at some point.
Its a holiday in Spain tomorrow (when is it not?!) so we're off to the beach again and to speak Spanish to a French girl. Sounds like a good day!