It was a wonderful weekend! Last week at school we spent time telling the kids what Thanksgiving was and why we celebrate it. It was pretty funny having to explain the meaning behind Thanksgiving in Spanish. The 5 year olds couldn’t really remember much about what I taught them about the day, but they remembered that we eat turkey. We did a lot of coloring as well. David, Rachel and I worked on the “Thanksgiving Tree” which is starting to look really cool. This week we will give each students a big leaf made out of colored paper and they will [View Full Entry]

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Last week we didn’t do much. Tuesday we had to go to Cordoba to go to the police station to fill out some information for our residence cards. We visited a synagogue from the 14th century, which was very tiny and not really worth visiting and the Alcazar, which is where the royal family used to live. We walked around the city and then took a bus home in the evening. The rest of the week was just the usual stuff, class every day and the gym Friday night we just made dinner and watched a movie. I made meatballs with [View Full Entry]

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It was a good week last week. School was pretty much the same as usual. We were still finishing up some Halloween stuff in some of my classes. Nothing too exciting ensued during the week. I was, however, excited that Obama won! Friday night we just made dinner at home and watched a movie. Saturday morning we got up early and the secretary from our school, Lourdes, came and picked us up. We met our English teacher, David, and his brother and drove to the base of the mountain to hike. Puerta de Cerezo was the name of it, and it [View Full Entry]

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It was a wild weekend! I am developing a very strong love/hate relationship with Spain. Friday was very cold and VERY rainy. The day started out with Rachel calling the airline to ensure that our flights were all in order, because we had been having trouble all week with our flight info, and they informed us that we only had our ticket to Palma de Mallorca, and not a return flight. So we had to buy another ticket over the phone (from a WOMAN name Fred), and it was twice as expensive. It was a very long and discouraging process. And [View Full Entry]

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Last night was a blast! We went to the library for a bit and then came home to start getting things ready for our pizza party. We bought caramels at the candy store to try to make caramel apples. But we couldn’t find any sticks to use for the apples, so we ended up using butter knives to stick in them. They looked really funny, but it worked. So we made the caramel and coated the apples. Then we crushed M & Ms to coat the apples because Rachel is really allergic to peanuts (and apples for that matter). They looked [View Full Entry]

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This week the weather has been crazy! Monday and Tuesday were cold and raining. I did my every day routine, went to school, had lunch , nap, etc. im getting sick so this week hasn’t been too much fun! Monday at school we sang Halloween songs and did coloring stuff. Tuesday in my 6th grade English class I told them about Halloween and what we do and we sang a song. Then we passed out masks for them to make and they were SO excited!! After school I went home and rested because being sick is exhausting. After siesta we went [View Full Entry]

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It was a pretty good weekend! Friday I was at school all day. I had coordination with Guillermo and Lourdes and I helped Guillermo with stuff for his gym classes cuz he is really absent minded and somehow lost everything. I helped Lourdes with finding flashcards for her music class. I had class with the 5 year-olds and we were working on personal hygiene. I went over the actions of brushing hair, teeth, washing hands and showering, etc. since they are only 5, they don’t know much English. So after that I tried singing “this is the way we wash our [View Full Entry]

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Back to the daily grind! Monday was good… I went to the library briefly before school and then I had class with the 4 year olds. I worked on the words “pencil, glue, crayon and scissors” with them. They are so cute! Then they just colored because I mean, they are only 4 haha. So after that class I had a break for a bit so I did some stuff in the office at school and then my last class of the day I spent half with 3rd grade English working on introductions and the other half I spent with 4th [View Full Entry]

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It was a good weekend! Friday morning I got up really early to make sure I had everything ready before I left for school. First thing at school I had “coordination” with Lourdes and Guillermo- the secretary and the gym teacher. Basically they practice their English and I practice my Spanish. It was fun and beneficial for all of us. Then I had English with the 5 year olds. It was ok, we sang a song and they colored. Its just hard cuz they don’t know any English and at that age you cant really do much anyways besides color. Last [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday and Thursday were good. Wednesday I had school for 2 hours. I worked with my 4th grade science class on healthy diets and the food pyramid. We did some good activities and the class participated well. After school we made lunch as usual and then went on another hike around the city. After the hike we showered and Jessica came over for coffee and snacks. We had a nice time talking about spain, schools and teaching. After that we went to the library to work on lesson plans and stuff. We also booked a hostle because we are going to [View Full Entry]

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