One of the lightbulbs is burnt out in the hallway, and I tried to fix it earlier today, but even on a chair I can't reach the blasted ceiling. Marcos took the reins tonight, with me playing the part of surgical assistant: "Screwdriver. Take the screws. Lightbulb." It was actually another good lesson in how to swear in Spanish, because Marcos' ( Read more... )

Funny things I want to jot down ( Read more... )

Something about the use of megaphones at the school next door to try to keep the children under control at recess makes me crack up. From my experience with working with Spanish elementary school children, I have no doubt they're an effective tool at making yourself heard above the din. Everytime the megaphone starts up and delivers some ( Read more... )

It got cold here very suddenly. On the plus side, it really feels like fall. On the down side, the rain makes it rather difficult to do laundry. There are so many things about the way the US celebrates fall that makes it bitching awesome: pumpkin pie, apple picking, brilliantly colored leaves. The American store is currently out of canned ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't been up to much lately, just teaching at the school. The teacher I work with the most was out sick last week, so I was making up the lesson as I went along. The first graders are incredibly active. No one is ever seated at the same time, and it's tricky to work with their short attention span during lessons. The third graders ( Read more... )

Well today has been a day full of minor annoyances. It seems I can't open a bank account at the BBVA near me without a NIE or a NIE application stamped by the police, neither of which I have, because our program collected all our documents to apply for our NIEs in a nice big group so we could get appointments faster. I have no idea when I'm going ( Read more... )

I am so pathetic. I keep looking through photos of the people I miss and sighing. When did I get so dull?

On the plus side, I bought presents today! Ooooooh!

Hi there! I've been in Spain for a week, and haven't updated here. (Sorry!) To be fair, I have been writing things up on my laptop since I moved into my landlady's house, and it doesn't have a wifi connection here. Before that, I was running around looking at apartments, so nyah. Let me break down what I've done so far for you, bypassing the ( Read more... )

Oh right! So I'm going back to Spain in a week to teach little children English for 8 months. It's sort of slipped my mind to post it here, and a little bit in my non-virtual world. I haven't packed anything yet. I haven't even made a list. I've only compiled a few of my childhood videos to entertain little childrens and see if they're still ( Read more... )

Livejournal,were it not for your flashy little icons and pretty layouts, you would be dead to me. But I have to have an excuse to use these things. Damn! Damn you.