I would like to take a moment to note how amazingly sketchy MEC and the auxiliar program are, by copy-pasting for you the following email:

Dear candidates ( Read more... )

Check out this website: MEC: North American Language and Culture AssistantsThe deadline is April 15th, so if you pull some materials together VERY FAST you might make the deadline. Hell, even if the deadline has past, just apply, it doesn´t hurt to try, as there is no application fee. The only thing you lose is the time you spent putting together ( Read more... )

Coming at you live from Cordoba, Cordoba.

Adi and I took the bus together from Hinojosa to Cordoba so that we could get get our permiso de estancia (residency permit). We took the bus leaving at 7:20 AM and arrived at about 8:50 AM. One of the workers at the delegacion de educacion had made a special arrangement for all of the language ( Read more... )

I can't believe that orientation is already over! Tomorrow I have the wonderful breakfast of Hesperia one last time and then I take a bus to Cordoba and then to Hinojosa del Duque. I'm very excited! Oh I hope I can get internet ( Read more... )

I'm officially scared to go to my school to teach. I'm excited too, but I heard a lot in my orientation sessions today about how Spanish teens (I'm teaching at a secondary school) are apathetic and rude spoiled brats. Though I guess we got plenty o' those in the US too. But from what they described, it sounds like there are lots of problem ( Read more... )

I've had a really good day today! Breakfast at the hotel is really yummy... the fruit is great. Orientation didn't start 'til noon (for the Spanish track, which I'm on), so I went with Melissa and Lery to walk a bit in Seville. Melissa's studied abroad in Seville before and knew of a cafe she liked so we went there and had coffee. It was a very ( Read more... )