Been busy with updating and connecting all my online social networking stuff, you can see it in the sidebar of my about page.
You probably also have noticed posts with links coming in every day at 4am. No, that is not me being still awake (although sometimes I am), it’s delicious posting a feed of my bookmarks of that day.
Soon you will also find a similar feed of Twitter, which I joined last night. So even though I have no news to really write about, still every time I bookmark sth interesting on the web and every time I place sth short on Twitter, you’ll find it back here. Hardly any of my friends is on Twitter it seems and if you can’t pull them in it, you’d better bring it to them 
Had quite a nice day. When I woke up to my alarm clock today, the sky was a blue blanket! That helps to put a smile on my face! Went to check some language schools for Mia and myself today. First school was nice, run by a single guy it seems, His English was ok, though heavily accented. The second school was much more professional, in the historical center of Valencia, just east of “Placa de la Reina“.
Just finished a 40-page WordPress-CMS Tutorial (links to PDF) this weekend and still in the writing mood, I made an as objective as possible brief for Mia; she is the one that has to study the longest time after all.
Now the choice has been made, fortunately for the 2nd school, so the wheels are set in motion. I start on Monday with my 12 weeks intensive course and Mia’s target date is to start on November 17 with her super-intensive 20 weeks course followed by 3 weeks preparation of DELE Superior, which should enable her to study an MBA in Spanish for the next two years.
I have not been able to find any Chinese ingredients here, or resembling for that matter. And although I still don’t have a real craving for Chinese food, which is weird in itself, I wouldn’t mind scoring some real chillies and soy-sauce (jiangyou).
This evening I found a reasonably compromise. In another supermercado than the one next door I found “semi-picante” peppers and “soja sauce”, it’s sweet and has no resemblance whatsoever with the real stuff except the colour! It’s more than Dutch “ketjap” than anything else!
Anyways I cut a few peppers up and mixed them with chicken, threw a bit of salt over it and quite a lot of red pepper powder (it says picante, but it’s definitely not chilly). Fried an onion in the pan, added the chicken-mix, added some long beans and added a tomato and garlic as well as some salt and fresh-ground pepper.
And it actually tasted quite good! So for now, if I need my spicy-fix, I know what to do!
Yo, Hua found in Alicante some chinese stores which had good ingredients for cooking some Sichuan dishes. I guess they will be in Valencia also.
Mazzel.
David
Yeah of course there must be shops here too, the question is though where and how to find them?
will keep you posted on any progress!
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