Blogs from Vigo, Galicia, Spain, Europe - page 6

Friday night, Jan. 23, we played against the third place team in the league at home here in Vigo. After our loss last week and 7 straight days of rain I was beginning to think that I brought some bad luck here with me. Luckily, we spanked the opposing team by almost 30 points and are now in sole position of second place in the league. I played around 17 minutes and had a sub-par to decent performance. I need to be more aggressive and play with less of a conscious and I will be good to go! A little dose of the San Diego attitude and I'll be perfect. But, winning the game was the most important thing and it provided us a with a reason to celebrate. After the game the majority of the ... read more

Thursday the 15th we headed to Pamplona after a morning practice for what would be my first game. Pamplona is about an 8 hour bus ride from Vigo and is the city where they do the famous running of the bulls. The drive there was very scenic. The first few hours were huge mountains with clouds in all the crevices. It felt like we were driving in the sky. Then we went through a stretch where it was snowing and the mountains looked like you could ski on them. At the end it was completely flat and empty reminding me a lot of the drive from west texas back to Arlington. That was weird because I have never seen any place in Europe so bare. It is normally so crowded with old buildings here in Spain ... read more

Vigo es una ciudad que se encuentra hacia el norte, en el extremo occidente de España, es uno de los puertos más importantes del país y por allí entra gran cantidad de los productos marítimos que van hacia el centro del la peninsula. Vigo tiene aproximadamente 300.000 habitantes. La ciudad es incluso parecida a Manizales en su geografía excepto por la playa y por esta época en el clima. Vigo esta muy cerca de Portugal. Ya casi me voy de Vigo y estas son algunas de las fotografías que tomamos durante nuestra corta estancia.... read more

Well upon reaching Vigo, we were invited to teach english at company owned by our friend from Pueblo Ingles, Manuel. Although he required someone to work for 2-3 months, we trimmed it down to 4 weeks and a bit to fit our travels. So we are coming home a bit late, 4 weeks or so to accomodate for this change. I won´t go into details about our classes, but we teach 4 staff members who work for a company called Equantia. One part of the company deals with foerign trade, they offer advice to companies who want to sell their products internationally. They also offer advice to companies on Social corporate responsiblities and data protection software. We have been staying with a very nice spanish couple, Carmen and Amarlio who have been taking good care of ... read more