Settling Down...

Hey All!
Warning! This post may cause the reader to become overcome with extreme jealousy, read on at your own risk!  Lol but seriously... things are pretty awesome over here.  One of the teachers that evan will be working under hooked us up with an awesome deal and we are so lucky!  Our 'flat' (since everyone here speaks british english) is very big!  First of all it is furnished, and it isn't super modern or anything but it is very clean and well kept.  We expect to have many visitors because we have four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room, and a living room.  Everything is fairly spacious except the bedrooms (the master bedroom is good though).  There is a TV in our apartment but I can't figure out how to get more than one channel, at least it's a sports channel so at least I don't have to understand what they say to be entertained.
So far, from what i have seen most people here hang their cloths to dry (even our hotels), which I don't understand because it takes so freakin' long for things to dry here.  So we have a washing machine but, of course, no drier.  We hang our laundry to dry on some ropes that go out of our window!
We are on the third floor of our building and luckily we have big windows in the living room and bed room  because we have a beautiful view that overlooks.... wait for it.... the beach! :)  Yup, we are RIGHT on the beach!  The downfall is that our beach isn't very nice for swimming, but it's only a five or ten minute walk to get to the best beach in town, so i don't complain too much.  I think Evan liked the beach at Vigo a bit more because the waves were bigger but this is still amazing.  At night it is so beautiful because you can see the lights from Vigo across the water!  It is still had for me to get over the fact that we get to be here for eight months and that it won't just end in a week or two.  Anyway, the cost of our place is 350 euros plus utilities which will be between 50 - 70 euros on average we have been told.  Our place rents it for quite a bit more in the summer months but apparently it is pretty hard to find someone to live in it the rest of the year.  The biggest downfall is that we don't have internet and we will not have it in the foreseeable future.  At this moment, I am sitting in a cafe, drinking a water really really slow...  Anyway we are working on it.
It is strange to get used to stores here because you can't just go to Walmart and get everything you need.  There are fruit stores and bakeries, and electronic stores and movie stores and well you get the picture.  There are 'supermarkets' but most of them are very tiny and they only have packaged goods and a small selection of meet and fruit.  But we have pretty much everything we would need close by.  It drives me crazy that everything closes in the middle of the day!  Why do I always pick that time to go shopping!?
Also, lots of people told me that everyone in Spain speaks english and I have since discovered that this is like saying everyone in Canada speaks French.  Nobody speaks english!
I bought a comic book because I figure that it will be a good way to help me learn.  Im on Page 4.
Anyway, I better go make sure Evan isn't drowning in the ocean... (and Christy, I really hope I don't have strange creatures populating our apartment) besides, my water is almost gone.

PS. I am so sorry that I didn't take any pictures, and I forgot Evans iPhone which is the source of all our pictures until we can buy a camera (Evan doesn't think we need one, so I'm working on him)  I will try to remember to put lots on for next time!