Year Number Dos

What a different year it has begun to be compared to the last. For one thing, when I arrived, I was picked up in a car (instead of taking a 5 hour bus) and driven to Igor’s (my bf) place where his parents spoiled me to pieces (like Tracy last year) with a comfortable bed, delicious food, and all the comforts of home. Last year I had zero intention of getting into a relationship with a Spanish boy. We all know how well that turned out. Secondly, going to my school was much easier. I only had a handful of new teachers and two classes of new faces. When walking into the rest of my classes, I was met with familiar smiles and hugs and dos besos from everyone. And finally, I arrived with 9 months of authentic Spanish under my belt, so when I told my students that they were doing a project right away, and one responded under his breath ‘no me jodas‘ I was able to respond, “no I’m not kidding. It’s due next week.” But no worries, I’m not a harsh teacher, it was fun: a collage of their friends, family, likes, dislikes, all in pictures.

Now because I have not updated my blog in moths, I’ll give a brief rundown of my first three months back in Oviedo:

• I moved into a three bedroom apartment with my Cape Cod friend from last year, Beth.

• We didn’t have internet for over a month
• When we finally got it, the fan of my computer died and I brought it to the biggest department store in Spain, Corte Ingles, to be fixed
• There was noone in Oviedo, or the northern half of Spain available to fix my computer so it was sent to Madrid for a month and a half
• The government wasn’t able to pay us for almost two months (luckily I had my private lessons from last year and my wonderful parents to hold me over for a little while)
• I have traveled to Pais Vasco, La Rioja, Barcelona, and London and enjoyed every second of those trips! (more details in future posts)

• I am spending my free time preparing classes, catching up on things back home with casttv.com and facebook, and drinking delicious, cheap wine with friends

As Christmas is fast approaching, I’ll give you a little taste of how Oviedo decorates. They put up big lights across the main streets and speakers on the light posts to play Christmas music while people are strolling through the center.

Thanks for reading! Missing you all

December 8, 2010. Uncategorized.