Hola a todos! This Friday I celebrated Thanksgiving a day late with my flatmates in our apartment. Unlike Sofia and Mariana, I don't work at my school on Fridays so I had plenty of time to go out and buy all the ingredients for our Thanksgiving feast. I pretty much spent all day buying things or in the kitchen cooking but I had a good time seeing the fruits of my labor! There is a street market in Guardo on Fridays so I went there first where produce is much cheaper than in the supermarkets. I bought sour apples for our [View Full Entry]

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Dear family and friends, I spent last weekend in London visiting 4 friends of mine that I hadn't seen in a long time and had an absolute blast! It was so special to be able to spend time with all of them and explore the city for the first time. The budget airline company Ryanair has flights to London that leave some of the small airports in northern Spain so I was able to fly to the London Stansted airport from Valladolid and arrive in London on Friday afternoon, Nov. 13th, fairly easily. On Friday night I met up with my [View Full Entry]

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Hola a todos! I went to Salamanca for this past Halloween weekend where I met up with six other auxiliares in my program. Five of them are working at schools in Palencia capital and one is working in the Basque Country (in Vitoria). I had met most of them at my orientation in Madrid and had visited one (my friend Brooke) in Valladolid the weekend before (she is living in Valladolid, a much larger city, and commutes to Palencia for work.) Salamanca is known as Castilla y Leon's most beautiful city and it is one of its liveliest as well due [View Full Entry]

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Hola a todos! Life in Guardo has gotten much busier since the last time I wrote and with my travels a lot has happened in the past month! This update is long overdue... So... from Sept. 30th -Oct. 5th I was in Madrid for my teaching assistant program's orientation. The orientation events were only scheduled for Thursday, October 1st, but Spain´s Ministerio de Educación paid for our 2 night stay in the hotel where the orientation was held. They also paid for our dinner on Wednesday night, Sept. 30th, all our meals on Thursday during the orientation, and for breakfast on [View Full Entry]

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Dear family and friends, I've included my pictures from Palencia here as promised. I was really glad I decided to spend the night there and take in more of the city before all of my roommates arrived. It was really charming. A guy in a store told me that Palencia is one of the top cities in Spain in terms of most green space within its city limits. I'm including pictures of our apartment and more of Guardo here as well. Today all of my roommates left early in the morning for Palencia in order to apply for their residence cards [View Full Entry]

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Dear family and friends, I've now been in Guardo, Spain for about a week and a half and it's definitely time for an update! After a marathon of a journey from Washington to London to Madrid and then on to Palencia and Guardo via train and bus I arrived in Guardo on Friday morning, September 4th. I stayed in a hotel on the edge of town for 4 nights while I searched for an apartment. This was pretty much the only accommodation option in the town as all the hostels have closed but it ended up being really nice there and [View Full Entry]

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