My last two weeks of travels I decided to take pretty easy and spend most of my time on the beach Week 36 (June 6-12) started off pretty low key. Monday I had just gotten back from morocco so Tuesday was my first day back to work. It was also the last day of preparations before the 4th grade English test so I helped out in their class all day rather than attend my normal classes. In the one day I worked with them I think some will do okay, but I don't think they will do as well as 2nd graders did. After school I had a few private lessons (now that it is June my lessons are bring canceled more often), and overall they went pretty well. Wednesday, once again, I was with the ... read more

May 16th - 22nd So this week started out as normal as any other but come Sunday I had definitely changed as a person. Friday I woke up bright and early and caught my flight to Berlin Germany. I have been to a few different German airports but never in the actually cities so I was really looking forward to this trip. Upon arriving in Berlin I caught the 20 minute train ride to the city center and headed straight to my hostel. After getting all checked in and settled I headed out into the city. The first place I went towards was Museum Island which houses numerous museums and the Berlin Dome. The Berlin Dome is a cathedral, and it was unbelievable. I was extremely impressed with the contrasting colors on the exterior architecture and ... read more

Finally caught up on the blogs...so this is for last week… This week started off pretty bad but turned out to be amazing! I had spent the entire weekend in bed trying to recover from being sick. I had high hopes that this would make me feel better sooner. I had a trip planned for the weekend and I didn’t want to cancel it. Tuesday I headed to work and tutoring as usual. Surprisingly, the day wasn´t as bad as I was expecting. I was able to push through, and make it through the entire day without feeling too bad. However I probably should have canceled some of my tutoring because Wednesday I couldn´t seem to function at all. I ended up having to call in sick to work because I was so congested, I couldn´t ... read more

April 17th – April 23rd Semana Santa was so relaxing and much needed. Sunday I slept in nice and late and did my normal work out. Afterwards I headed to the park to read a book and lay in the sun. From there I headed to Sol to meet up with Sandy. Over Semana Santa Sandy was taking a Spanish class so we headed to the yogurt place, picked up some food and then went to the plaza to work on her homework. We finished up fairly quick so we walked around the city until her boyfriend Sam finished up at work. He is a chef, so we headed to his restaurant and he gave us a quick tour before joining us for a jug of amazing Sangria. Afterwards I headed home and got to chat ... read more

March 27th – April 2nd Well the week and weekend passed very normally and relaxed but Wednesday I got to do something new and quite entertaining with the 5th and 6th grade classes. Rather than spend a day at school I headed to the 5th grade classroom where we grabbed our stuff and loaded up on a bus, heading into the mountains with a few guides. The trip started off fine, with the kids having tons of fun. Unfortunately the road was very curvy (kind of like hwy 34) so in no time at all we had kids throwing up. None of the other teachers could handle the curves so I had to deal with it. I felt so bad for the students. They sick kids were miserable and those around them as well. Being stuck ... read more