Hello from Madrid!!

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Hello folks! Its been a while since I’ve updated my travel blog. Thought I’d give you the latest on my life here in Madrid. I’ve been living here since I arrived in October after a month of traveling. I did a teaching English as a foreign language certification course the first month I was here. I quickly picked up several jobs teaching English with three academies. Here in Madrid, teaching English usually means giving private lessons at someone’s house or at a company. I teach five students at their houses and I also teach three students at the Spanish military aircraft manufacturer. The work is interesting and allows be to be creative since I develop all my own lesson plans. The downfall is that I have to travel all over the city and spend an equal amount of time on the subway as I do in the classroom. Such is life.

So, overall, life is pretty good in Madrid. I live with four really nice people who are a mix of Spaniards and one Argentinean. We all speak Spanish a lot and they like to practice their English with me as well. I was also really lucky to meet a bunch of really nice people on my teaching course (mostly Americans). We are on a mission to visit every small town and bar in Spain. So, far we’re doing pretty good. Last night I was at a Spanish karaoke bar…I heard Piano Man by Elton John come on and was ready to sing all the lyrics when I realized that they had converted them to Spanish. It was pretty funny 😊

I'm heading off this Friday to Dublin, Ireland for the Christmas holidays. Very excited!! I'll be staying with my aunt who lives there and visiting with my cousins and my Irish friends from San Francisco who will be home for the holidays. It should be a great time.

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Photos

The big department store-El Corte Ingles
One block from my house

Comments

[David]

Piano man by Elton John???
Well, I´d rather say by Billy Joel...but guess doesn´t really matter.