firsties: ¡es mi cumple! (it´s my birthday!) Yay!
seconds: i have received a few messages talking about the time change. for example, someone to remain anonymous wrote speaking of my birthday, "i think you celebrate tomorrow, but we dont celebrate it here for a couple of days." so, in light of this confusion i will try to give a few clarifying words. it takes the earth 24 hours to make one revolution. the earth is divided into 24 "time zones" which are correlated to the coordinated universal time (or UTC -or- more commonly referred to as greenwhich mean time, GMT) gmt is the time that it is in london, england. each timezone then is described as gmt +/- #. for example, the time in spain is gmt+1, so when it is 10:00 gmt time (in london) it is 11:00 in spain (+1 hour). make sense? for the pacific time zone (where most of you live...please tell me you know what the pacific time zone is...) the time is gmt-8, so when it is 10:00 gmt, it is 2:00 in portland, or (minus 8 hours). to calculate the the difference in time between two places you need to simply compare the time zones as they relate to the gmt and do some simple math. spain_gmt+1 portland_gmt-8...oh to hell with it, it´s nine hours earlier in portland than in spain! well normally it is, except for the last two weeks, since they have an earlier daylight savings date in the states than in spain, it is currently only 8 hours difference, until this weekend, then back to the normal 9. that was ridiculous, moving on.
third: not actually, try reading the last paragraph in one breath! i´ll give a euro to anyone that can do it.
fourthen: i´m leaving tomorrow to go to bilbao and san sebastian. they are in the north of spain in the basque country. the basque country is famous for rain, the best tapas in spain, having a completely unique language unlike any other in spain, the eta, the town of guernica (wiki it if you dont know)...(by "wiki it" i mean you should look it up on wikipedia.org ...if you didn´t know), and surfing. it is a region that spands from northcentral spain into southwest france. to say the least, i´m a little bit excited. except for the the potential car bomb, that would put a hamper on the trip.
fiff: i have some plane tickets for when i get back to the states. before, i only had a ticket from madrid back to philadelphia. now, i have a ticket on the 14th of april from philly to kansas city. i´ve been wanting to spend some time at ihop (not the pancakke house, the prayer house) and what better time than when i have no job, no money, and have been outside of my comfort zone for 3 months. afterwards, i have a ticket from kc to portland on the 23 of april. i hope that appeases some of y´all´s quandry into my post spain plans.
six: it´s not my birthday anymore, buenas noches from spain, buenas tardes to you (eight, but normally nine hours, back)
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Caleb,
My email postmaster informs me that the last email I sent on the day before your birthday still didn't go through so I hope you had a great birthday and got the ecard we sent.
Love you son, Dad
OK Punk let me explain since you think I am retarded. Mom told me that we are a 12 hour difference from you. So when I was writing you on the evening of the 23rd it was going to be the morning of your Birthday the following evening here. However it would not be you birthday for two more days here because it was only the 23rd. So even if it is only a 9 hour difference my statement holds true. Either way I hope you had a great birthday even though you publicly mocked me. Love you.
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