Today was hands down one of the best days/nights I have had since being here in Spain :) I headed into Almeria in the morning to get my "tarjeta de extranjero" which is my temporary identification card to let me come back to Spain in January. So the day started off well - nothing ever works out so easily at that office in Almeria! Then I headed to school and showed up to semi-chaos... the mothers had come in earlier and dressed up as Santa to give all the kids presents. Then they made tons of hot chocolate so the kids were wired. No classes were happening so it was a fun time just getting to see the kids having fun.
After school, we had our staff lunch. At 3:30 we all got together at a restaurant called "Bodega de Jamón" and began a 4 hour meal! It was TONS of fun :) We ate some good Spanish food like chipirones (small little fried squid), anchoas (anchovies - first time trying them, last time consciously eating them), and then bacalao (an awesome white fish). It was delicious! Then after eating presents from amigo invisible (aka Secret Santa) got handed out. Stephen and I got surprise presents and then had to make speeches haha It was really cool. And everyone loved their gifts and was so happy - ah the joys of Christmastime!
At 8:00 we ended the meal and headed out to a dance club! This is about 4 hours earlier than most Spaniards go to dance clubs haha We got there and it was packed with other teachers from around the area! It was so much fun. And it didn't last until 3 in the morning so I was actually still feeling some energy when we left haha They played some English diddies for a little bit including Bon Jovi (yes!) and I learned some Spanish dances. One teacher, his name is Amador, can dance the fool out of his shoes! It was tons of fun getting to dance correctly to Spanish songs haha Then we ended up leaving around 11:15 and headed back to Roquetas! Tomorrow is the Christmas play at the school and then I'll be heading to Almeria waiting for my flights on Saturday to THE UNITED STATES :) Random - one of the teachers will be on my first flight to Madrid haha
¡Buenas noches!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Football Madness
Well we are in the Christmas season in Spain! This weekend Sarah, Sofie and I went to Mini-Hollywood in Tabernas, just outside of Almeria. It's one of the 3 western towns where tons of movies have been shot (Indiana Jones, The Good Bad & Ugly, Charro, etc.). It was like a ghost town but super cool! There was a can-can show in a saloon and an outlaw/sheriff drama thing in the "town square." There's also a huge zoo there that we had to run through so we could see everything before the park closed! It was fun! Then Sarah and I went to Handel's Messiah at the Roquetas Theatre - a free event thankfully! - and it was great! There was a choir and an orchestra and it was really good. It put me even more into the Christmas spirit! When we left the theatre, there was a torrential downpour outside so we essentially had to ford a river to get to a taxi haha
This week is pure craziness at the schools as kids do not want to concentrate one bit and teachers are more than willing to oblige! Today at 12:00 we all went outside to the courts and had a teacher vs student soccer game. It ROCKED! Our director came outside decked out in this bright red soccer uniform with knee-high socks and it was hilarious! So we ran around and played against the 6th graders for about an hour. The younger kids had all made signs and were cheering for the teachers, clearly the right choice, and it was so much fun! Tomorrow we have our staff lunch which will probably last at least 4 hours and then Friday is the theater day - every grade performs a song or a small skit. One class is performing a scene from Beauty and the Beast I think. Definitely excited to head back to the States (even though it was about 65-70 here today!) and can't wait to see everyone! ¡Feliz Navidad!
This week is pure craziness at the schools as kids do not want to concentrate one bit and teachers are more than willing to oblige! Today at 12:00 we all went outside to the courts and had a teacher vs student soccer game. It ROCKED! Our director came outside decked out in this bright red soccer uniform with knee-high socks and it was hilarious! So we ran around and played against the 6th graders for about an hour. The younger kids had all made signs and were cheering for the teachers, clearly the right choice, and it was so much fun! Tomorrow we have our staff lunch which will probably last at least 4 hours and then Friday is the theater day - every grade performs a song or a small skit. One class is performing a scene from Beauty and the Beast I think. Definitely excited to head back to the States (even though it was about 65-70 here today!) and can't wait to see everyone! ¡Feliz Navidad!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Los perros
I don't remember if I have mentioned "the dogs" before. Every morning we drive into La Mojonera for work. Just about every morning there is a group of dogs hanging out on this one street corner. We believe them to be a gang. A viscious yet cuddly looking gang. They never bark at us, they never follow us, they just hang out at their street corner. Across the street from their street corner is a construction zone and a building is being remodeled I think. There are steps leading up to the building. For the past week, the gang of dogs has been sitting on those stairs staring straight into the sunrise. It is seriously one of the most precious things I have ever seen. I am hoping to get a picture of it next week. What a great way to start the day though right? Just sitting calmly, patiently, watching the sun rise up and warm everything it touches! Sort of reminds me of the angels in "City of Angels" when they head to the beach every morning because they can hear other angels sing when the sun rises. Maybe dogs can hear something we cannot.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
El día de acción de gracias
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!
Celebrating in Spain is a tad bit different, especially with all of the fam off at a family reunion back in the States! But we are making the most of this most joyous "day of eating." I realized yesterday, as I was about to go to class and talk about Thanksgiving, that I really did not remember the history of said holiday. I learned quite a bit from Wikipedia. The first recorded Thanksgiving celebration and meal was in fact... Spanish! It happened in 1565 when about 600 Spaniards landed in Florida and ate and gave thanks for safe travels across the Atlantic! The more traditional story of Thanksgiving didn't happen until the 1620s in Plymouth when Squanto helped show the Pilgrims how to eat/celebrated the harvest.
It was not even an official holiday until 1863!! The early Presidents had to appoint a Thanksgiving Day and Thomas Jefferson didn't even do this during his term in office! George Washington said this about making a day of Thanksgiving:
"to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed"
Talk about run-on sentences. But I just think this was so cool! It was Abraham Lincoln who made it an official holiday to be celebrated on the last Thursday of every November. FDR was the one who changed it to the 4th Thursday of November in 1939. In 1941, Congress passed a bill declaring officially that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on this day! So Thanksgiving, federally speaking, is less than 100 years old!! What young traditions we Americans have! Just another reason I feel like every time I talk to a Spaniard about America, they are always thinking like the father in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when he said "While my people were developing philosophy, your people were still swinging from trees." Ha.
Hope everyone has a great holiday! We found a turkey and marshmallows for sweet potatoes so we have a whole spread planned out! Stay warm, eat well and have a great time with your family or wherever you may be! Many blessings!!!
Celebrating in Spain is a tad bit different, especially with all of the fam off at a family reunion back in the States! But we are making the most of this most joyous "day of eating." I realized yesterday, as I was about to go to class and talk about Thanksgiving, that I really did not remember the history of said holiday. I learned quite a bit from Wikipedia. The first recorded Thanksgiving celebration and meal was in fact... Spanish! It happened in 1565 when about 600 Spaniards landed in Florida and ate and gave thanks for safe travels across the Atlantic! The more traditional story of Thanksgiving didn't happen until the 1620s in Plymouth when Squanto helped show the Pilgrims how to eat/celebrated the harvest.
It was not even an official holiday until 1863!! The early Presidents had to appoint a Thanksgiving Day and Thomas Jefferson didn't even do this during his term in office! George Washington said this about making a day of Thanksgiving:
"to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed"
Talk about run-on sentences. But I just think this was so cool! It was Abraham Lincoln who made it an official holiday to be celebrated on the last Thursday of every November. FDR was the one who changed it to the 4th Thursday of November in 1939. In 1941, Congress passed a bill declaring officially that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on this day! So Thanksgiving, federally speaking, is less than 100 years old!! What young traditions we Americans have! Just another reason I feel like every time I talk to a Spaniard about America, they are always thinking like the father in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when he said "While my people were developing philosophy, your people were still swinging from trees." Ha.
Hope everyone has a great holiday! We found a turkey and marshmallows for sweet potatoes so we have a whole spread planned out! Stay warm, eat well and have a great time with your family or wherever you may be! Many blessings!!!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Field Trip
Today, our boss took Stephen and me to one of the thousand invernaderos (green houses) in La Mojonera! It was like entering a ballroom that is situated under plastic. There were 20,000 plants of red peppers in there! Unbelievable!! It was really cool and our boss took about 25 of the sweets from a candy dish so it was a delicious trip as well haha
We also found out today that we are going to have a real turkey for Thanksgiving! And we have found marshmallows - even though they are pink and blue and a little orange, they taste just like marshmallows back home! Crazy!! So sweet potatoes and turkey will be on our table in two days :)
I cannot believe it is almost December. We went bowling at the mall this week - only €4.50 for a game which was so cheap!! That was a good time and we also ate at our favorite little tapas restaurant in there.
Some fun phrases I have learned: que guay and que chulo mean 'so cool' or something like that
I will post soon about the weekend in Sevilla!
We also found out today that we are going to have a real turkey for Thanksgiving! And we have found marshmallows - even though they are pink and blue and a little orange, they taste just like marshmallows back home! Crazy!! So sweet potatoes and turkey will be on our table in two days :)
I cannot believe it is almost December. We went bowling at the mall this week - only €4.50 for a game which was so cheap!! That was a good time and we also ate at our favorite little tapas restaurant in there.
Some fun phrases I have learned: que guay and que chulo mean 'so cool' or something like that
I will post soon about the weekend in Sevilla!
Monday, November 10, 2008
Spaniards take us hostage...
Ok that might not be the best choice of words. No foul play was involved. Just some gringos not yet accustomed to the hospitality of the Spaniards. Case in point: Friday, my roommates and I went hiking with our teacher friends (seriously, they are ridiculously nice for asking us along on these outings!). We were told it'd be a fairly short hike and it'd be ending around 6:30. No worries. The sun has started to set just about 7 pm so I knew my choice of shorts would be okay if I was going to be back at my house around 7.
Stephen, yo, Sarah
Matei, Pepe, Mame and Natalia
We started off... the hike was beautiful! We walked over hills for some gorgeous sea views and down into some valleys with ramblas (dry river beds). Halfway through we stopped to snack at a tiny compound that was a family's self-sustaining house and farm about 100 years ago. You can still see the spot where clothes were washed and now a herd of sheep have taken over the nearby hill. We passed a tented area that the mountain goats use in the summer for shade HA I liked that. Finally we caught a glimpse of Almeria (the big city) and we proceeded to hike down into the city pretty close to the castle. It was amazing - such a cool way to enter a city! Reminded me of the camino quite a bit!
So we got back at about 6:15 and we were all ready to head back home and shower. No no. Spaniards say it's time for a snack aka tapas to reward ourselves for hiking! So we headed to 2 bars (what they call cafes here) and had some tapas. The second place we went was apparently a Mexican place (all I could tell was that they had a Mexican flag?) where they barbecue-grilled ribs and chicken right at the bar! The custom with tapas is you buy a drink, a plate of food comes free. So at that restaurant, the food that came free was a BBQ sandwich. I cannot tell you how excited I was to see real BBQ. Only after downing the sandwich was I told it was tuna covered in BBQ sauce. I cannot lie... it sounds gross but it was so good. I couldn't even tell. Still can't top Little Richard's though :)
So the trip that was supposed to end at 6:30 ended up lasting until 9:00 and my legs were a bit chilly but who can complain when you're being taken care of by a bunch of Spaniards? It was a fantastic little afternoon/evening excursion!
start of hike - Almeria in the distance!
end of hike - walking down into Almeria!
Stephen, yo, Sarah
Matei, Pepe, Mame and NataliaWe started off... the hike was beautiful! We walked over hills for some gorgeous sea views and down into some valleys with ramblas (dry river beds). Halfway through we stopped to snack at a tiny compound that was a family's self-sustaining house and farm about 100 years ago. You can still see the spot where clothes were washed and now a herd of sheep have taken over the nearby hill. We passed a tented area that the mountain goats use in the summer for shade HA I liked that. Finally we caught a glimpse of Almeria (the big city) and we proceeded to hike down into the city pretty close to the castle. It was amazing - such a cool way to enter a city! Reminded me of the camino quite a bit!
So we got back at about 6:15 and we were all ready to head back home and shower. No no. Spaniards say it's time for a snack aka tapas to reward ourselves for hiking! So we headed to 2 bars (what they call cafes here) and had some tapas. The second place we went was apparently a Mexican place (all I could tell was that they had a Mexican flag?) where they barbecue-grilled ribs and chicken right at the bar! The custom with tapas is you buy a drink, a plate of food comes free. So at that restaurant, the food that came free was a BBQ sandwich. I cannot tell you how excited I was to see real BBQ. Only after downing the sandwich was I told it was tuna covered in BBQ sauce. I cannot lie... it sounds gross but it was so good. I couldn't even tell. Still can't top Little Richard's though :)
So the trip that was supposed to end at 6:30 ended up lasting until 9:00 and my legs were a bit chilly but who can complain when you're being taken care of by a bunch of Spaniards? It was a fantastic little afternoon/evening excursion!
start of hike - Almeria in the distance!
end of hike - walking down into Almeria!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Weekend Excursions
Well it has been a whirlwind of a weekend! I am sitting here eating fried green tomatoes (oh yes, my roommate Stephen can cook like you wouldn't believe) and these past 4 days have felt like 2 weeks. Today we did not have work because it was a national holiday so maybe that is why it has felt so much longer! I just can't wait to get back to my school!
On Friday, Sarah and I went with the missionary family from Texas to the immigrant area of Roquetas de Mar. We met a woman from Venezuela, some men from Gambia and Senegal and another man from the Netherlands! It was so cool to see such a mixture of people and nationalities!! We delivered vegetables to these people and happened to see one of the apartments that was burned during riots in early September. Nothing has been done to that apartment since the fire... 2 months later.
Saturday I headed north to a town called Elche with about 50 people from the church where we have been going. It was a 4 hour bus ride but the views were great and the weather was actually a lot warmer than I expected! We were in town for a GOSPEL CHOIR concert, yes Spanish gospel music! We handed out flyers for the concert all over town and saw a huge procession brought to you by the local Catholic Church. They carried a life-size Mary and there were men dressed in robes with glued-on beards and mustaches representing the apostles.
It was craziness but the crowd was great and we got to hand out a ton of flyers! The concert was at 5 in a beautiful theater and it was truly unbelievable! People were spiritually on fire up there and it was so cool to see! They ended the concert with "Oh Happy Day" which was amazing and had me listening to the Sister Act soundtracks on the bus ride back :)
I've been looking and hoping to find ways to serve while I'm over here working so it was awesome to finally get out there! It was a great weekend and really fun to see God working not just in the USA but with His people all over the world!
Oh and I got to talk about Lost with a German in Spanish haha talk about a show connecting people! It was awesome and my roommates and I have been watching season 1 and are going to try and review every episode before the new season begins in February!!
That's all from Spain - tomorrow is Election Day and Krispy Kreme is giving out free donuts to everyone who comes in with an "I voted" sticker... so please, if for nothing else than a free donut, VOTE!!!!!!!!! It is truly a beautiful thing to get to vote and have a say in the future of our country :)
A quick picture of some kids I'm teaching!!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Cuando está en España...
A few customs I have learned about the Spanish:
on New Year's Eve, right before the clock strikes midnight, they eat 12 grapes and then give a kiss. then they stay up until 11 or 12 in the afternoon eating churros and big meals with their families and friends
they eat octopus about 4 different ways. i have tried 2 and they are pretty good. very chewy.
they do not eat breakfast. instead, they have coffee about 4 times in the morning until lunch around 2.
lunch is usually their biggest meal of the day. afterward is siesta. then they eat a light meal at 10ish.
they love their football (soccer). i told my high school class yesterday that i like real madrid the best of all of the Spanish teams and about half the class exploded in applause while the other half booed (the booers like barcelona).
they like to mix things with wine. there is a drink called a calimocho that is coca-cola mixed with red wine. then there is tinto de verano which is sprite or 7up mixed with red wine.
Just a few to name. This is not a custom but I do believe they are the most laid back people in the world, at least the most laid back I have met!
on New Year's Eve, right before the clock strikes midnight, they eat 12 grapes and then give a kiss. then they stay up until 11 or 12 in the afternoon eating churros and big meals with their families and friends
they eat octopus about 4 different ways. i have tried 2 and they are pretty good. very chewy.
they do not eat breakfast. instead, they have coffee about 4 times in the morning until lunch around 2.
lunch is usually their biggest meal of the day. afterward is siesta. then they eat a light meal at 10ish.
they love their football (soccer). i told my high school class yesterday that i like real madrid the best of all of the Spanish teams and about half the class exploded in applause while the other half booed (the booers like barcelona).
they like to mix things with wine. there is a drink called a calimocho that is coca-cola mixed with red wine. then there is tinto de verano which is sprite or 7up mixed with red wine.
Just a few to name. This is not a custom but I do believe they are the most laid back people in the world, at least the most laid back I have met!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Weather maps are beautiful!
Every other morning we wake up and turn on the news to look at the weather forecast. Every morning, or about every morning, it shows rain in almost all of Spain. All of Spain except for Almeria :) I love to look at weather maps!
The wind has been a bit more ferocious lately but I love the wind and especially a beach wind so it hasn't become too much of a hazard yet. Things are starting to close down in our little beach town as the winter begins. It should all open back up in March or April when Northern Europeans start to venture down here again. But I think the places we go the most will be staying open all throughout the year!
Last week I went to Bingo for the first time and sat with an incredibly nice British couple!! I could hardly understand Charley with his thick English accent which was odd to me because that is usually how I feel when I talk to Spaniards! Bingo was great though and that will definitely be a regular Tuesday night outing for me!
Halloween is this Friday but I do not think I am going to get to celebrate it :( This is seriously one of my favorite holidays because I LOVE getting into a costume! Who knows I might find something super cheap so I can wear it to school on Thursay and give some candy to all the little kiddies :) This coming Saturday is going to be an adventure! I signed up to go on an Evangelizing project (?) with the church I have been attending. I have absolutely no idea what is going to take place other than I need to bring 2 meals and there will be a Gospel choir. So we´ll see what happens!
It has been an awesome week this past week getting to spend time with the Word and I am loving Donald Miller´s "Searching for God Knows What" - it is a fantastic book! YL application is almost finished and can´t wait to see what happens with that!
My roomies and I have Lost - Season 1 on dvd so we have started watching those and since season 5 doesn´t premiere until Feb 2009, I think I am going to attempt to watch every season again because I know I have forgotten many things.
We had a little outing last Thursday night with some of the teachers from my school! We went to a Tapas bar in the nearby town, Aguadulce, and were there for about 3ish hours. It was such good ham (Spain is very passionate about their ham) and there were legs of ham hanging all around the bar! When we left, I thought we were heading home but instead we ended up at a discotech until 3:30 am. I think that is the latest I have been up since being here and it was a Thursday night! These teachers had to get up and be at school at 9 - I don´t know how they did it! Apparently the norm is being out til 6 or 7 am though, having a coffee, and heading to school til 2 then napping! Crazy time schedule but I guess that is why the siesta is so important here!
In school news, I am now working one day a week at the instituto (secondary school) and only 3 days at my colegio (primary school) which will be interesting! I am excited to see what the older kids are learning here! Well that is the latest from Spain! Hasta luego!
The wind has been a bit more ferocious lately but I love the wind and especially a beach wind so it hasn't become too much of a hazard yet. Things are starting to close down in our little beach town as the winter begins. It should all open back up in March or April when Northern Europeans start to venture down here again. But I think the places we go the most will be staying open all throughout the year!
Last week I went to Bingo for the first time and sat with an incredibly nice British couple!! I could hardly understand Charley with his thick English accent which was odd to me because that is usually how I feel when I talk to Spaniards! Bingo was great though and that will definitely be a regular Tuesday night outing for me!
Halloween is this Friday but I do not think I am going to get to celebrate it :( This is seriously one of my favorite holidays because I LOVE getting into a costume! Who knows I might find something super cheap so I can wear it to school on Thursay and give some candy to all the little kiddies :) This coming Saturday is going to be an adventure! I signed up to go on an Evangelizing project (?) with the church I have been attending. I have absolutely no idea what is going to take place other than I need to bring 2 meals and there will be a Gospel choir. So we´ll see what happens!
It has been an awesome week this past week getting to spend time with the Word and I am loving Donald Miller´s "Searching for God Knows What" - it is a fantastic book! YL application is almost finished and can´t wait to see what happens with that!
My roomies and I have Lost - Season 1 on dvd so we have started watching those and since season 5 doesn´t premiere until Feb 2009, I think I am going to attempt to watch every season again because I know I have forgotten many things.
We had a little outing last Thursday night with some of the teachers from my school! We went to a Tapas bar in the nearby town, Aguadulce, and were there for about 3ish hours. It was such good ham (Spain is very passionate about their ham) and there were legs of ham hanging all around the bar! When we left, I thought we were heading home but instead we ended up at a discotech until 3:30 am. I think that is the latest I have been up since being here and it was a Thursday night! These teachers had to get up and be at school at 9 - I don´t know how they did it! Apparently the norm is being out til 6 or 7 am though, having a coffee, and heading to school til 2 then napping! Crazy time schedule but I guess that is why the siesta is so important here!
In school news, I am now working one day a week at the instituto (secondary school) and only 3 days at my colegio (primary school) which will be interesting! I am excited to see what the older kids are learning here! Well that is the latest from Spain! Hasta luego!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Tapas, Toros y Teaching
¡Bienvenidos a mi blog! I arrived in Spain on September 26 and stayed in the "big" town of Almeria for a few days while searching for a place to live. It's a pretty cool town with a huge street called La Rambla in the center with tons of restaurants and shops. I was very excited when I got off the plane and realized it was about 75 degrees outside and every day since then it's been about the same, if not hotter. A few days after I got in, my roommate and I met her school's director who agreed to let us rent his summer home for the 8 months we will be teaching. SWEET DEAL! We've got a duplex with 2 floors on each side and a garage and it's all located about 50 feet from the beach... seriously an above and beyond answered prayer! We moved in and started school last Wednesday. I teach in a town called La Mojonera at a school for ages 3-12! It has been awesome so far - all of the kids are excited to have Americans in their classrooms and the little kids are absolutely adorable!!
On Saturday my roommates and I went to the mall and had tapas and saw "Che - El Argentino" which was really fun. We had great tapas (little appetizers) like chicken with a hot sauce, pork with peppers and a potato cake. If you have a tapas restaurant near you, I highly suggest checking it out!
This week has been the festival week for the town where I live, Roquetas de Mar. On Sunday night we went to the bullfight (my first one!) which was interesting to say the least. While not all Spaniards like the bullfight, I found myself surprisingly enjoying it except for the last part where the bull actually dies. At first I could barely stand any bit but by the end I was really glad I had gone.
Now the working has officially begun and I'll be working with the little kids until January! Hopefully I'll be pretty good about keeping this blog updated so definitely check back in for more adventures from Spain!
On Saturday my roommates and I went to the mall and had tapas and saw "Che - El Argentino" which was really fun. We had great tapas (little appetizers) like chicken with a hot sauce, pork with peppers and a potato cake. If you have a tapas restaurant near you, I highly suggest checking it out!
This week has been the festival week for the town where I live, Roquetas de Mar. On Sunday night we went to the bullfight (my first one!) which was interesting to say the least. While not all Spaniards like the bullfight, I found myself surprisingly enjoying it except for the last part where the bull actually dies. At first I could barely stand any bit but by the end I was really glad I had gone.
Now the working has officially begun and I'll be working with the little kids until January! Hopefully I'll be pretty good about keeping this blog updated so definitely check back in for more adventures from Spain!
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