Friday

Today I teach 4 classes in a row then I go home yay! :) The second years were fine. 1C they're really good, polite well-behaved. If they want to ask me a question they whisper it, it's OK to speak...! They always get everything, just like that and when I walk round monitoring the speaking exercises, they're all actually speaking in English! But yeah they're just lovely. I don't know if this is deliberate, but it's like some classes seem to have the harder working students and just seem to work well and progress really quickly and other classes seem to be less interested, wanting to talk and have problem students. 1D and 1B are like that, but they both worked better today and 1B finished their exercises quicker than I expected them to, so I had to give them more to do.

Little things

I love learning about all the little differences between our countries. In 2nd ESO yesterday the teacher was saying some of the students couldn't tell their left from right so I showed them the L trick which I suddenly realised they have never used as we all know in Spanish left is 'izquierda'

What a weekend

We had a fabulous time at the weekend. The vegan restaurant we went to even had our Loz almost converted and they gave me a free brownie. The food was glorious and the waitresses were the sweetest! Then we went for a boogy which was such a laugh, everyone has got serious moves but we were missing the full crew.

On Sunday Ella, Cathy and I explored a drizzly Valencia. Our Cath has come up with the perfect Spanglish phrase- sozziento. The escape room was amazing very grateful to Schola for organising it, my team and of course Sebastian

Just another Manic Monday

What a week oh my days!
After fainting at school on Monday (I have reached a whole new level of extra) and a bit of a dreary start to the week things are finally picking up. I had 3 really great classes today and tried Emile's bus idea to teach road signs which went down a treat!
Hope everyone's had a lovely week :)

Thursday

Just past the half way mark and I'm tired, really, really tired.

Our little haven

Our little haven

You can't beat our little flat here in Gandia.
Tom has been given a guitar and is so talented honestly feel so blessed to be able to listen to him play. We had a little jam the other day which was wonderful.
Apologies to be soppy but I love living with these gems, having dinner together after a long day has become a ritual which always results in some kind of hilarity.
We've all known each other for less than a month but it feels like so much longer
Gracias amigos for all of your support and giggles
Love you long time

Food, wine, and the guitar

Just rocked up in Valencia to see fabulous friends after a great week teaching in my school in Gandia.
I've already eaten most of the food in their apartment. I'm basically a teenager.

Food, wine, and the guitar...

Peace.