Day 137: Ooops

I was running on four hours of sleep.

But that wasn't the worst of my problems, upon waking up, as it turned out.

The day before in his private play-lesson, Nacho had been tinkering with my phone (this time while I WATCHED, so that he wouldn't go and hide it again!). I let him figure out how to unlock the screen and gave him ten seconds of random button tapping after that before I took it back from him and continued the lesson.

What I didn't know was that in those ten seconds of random button tapping, he had somehow managed to set my phone on "Vacation Mode" and, thus, cancel all of my alarms.

If Abby hadn't been walking around and looking for things in her drawers, I would have never woken up in time. But as luck would have it, she was, and so I did. Barely.

It was 8:28 when my eyes opened.

The bus leaves at 8:34. It's a four minute walk to the bus-stop.

EFF.

I jumped out of bed, blindly grabbed the first pair of pants and long-sleeved shirt I could find in the dark, threw on a coat and some Uggs and RAN for it. Literally.

It was at some point on the school bus ride that I was adjusting the buttons on my jacket and realized what shirt I'd grabbed.

It was my black and bright pink hoodie I'd purchased weeks ago. On it, it read, "AMSTERDAM Cannabis" along with a giant pink Adidas/Cannabis leaf.

Fail.

Fail. Fail. Fail.

I immediately wrote Abby to tell her (I knew she'd appreciate the humor in it), and went to find the teacher who'd once asked me during lunch, "Have you read '50 Shades of Grey'? It's the best book I've ever read!"... knowing that she'd be liberal enough to also have a good laugh about it. She offered me her art teacher smock and I accepted, but really I just wore my big, fluffy and colorful coat for the whole day and things were fine (a little sweaty, but fine). :) Haha!

After class was university classes - which were in Spanish and thus not as awful as expected. In the middle of the class we had a meeting with a representative from Madrid's Ministry of Education. As it turns out, they were there to offer and guarantee us a full time position starting October 1st! The offer is for teaching 16 hours per week, 4 days per week and earning 1000 euro per month! ^_^ Not bad, considering how much down time you'd have to get private lessons set up and travel every once in awhile. :) Deadline to turn in your info is March 15, and I'm pretty sure I'll turn my paperwork in. We even get to choose the district of Madrid we want to teach in and live (can you say MALASANA)!! ^_^

XOXO