It's been a while.
Where have you been?
Well... I was doing things and stuff
(Jajaja. You're so
not funny!) What about the other workshops? Tell me more.
English Playground is for kids aged between 8-11. Self-explanatory
but... we play games (such as word matching, taboo and charades) and try to
make the kids speak in English and fail at it! haha. It's not like they don't
want to speak English. They really can't. I'm not going to talk about how well
we all learn English at school but the thing is they are really good students
if we base it on the grades they get. They just don't have the chance to
practice. Like most of us! :D So, playing games is a perfect way to learn new
words and practice speaking.
Sometimes it gets so funny because they don't understand me
and I don't understand them and we end up looking at each other's faces.
Charla Intercultural is a workshop that we organise every
two or three weeks. Every meeting has its own theme. For example the last one
was about Christmas :) We both ate desserts and talked about how we all
celebrate this time of the year in our countries. Well, I didn't have much to
say about it so I preferred to just listen (as always:) My spanish doesn't
allow me to speak yet:p Hope I'll be more participative in the near future.
And unfortunately, Turkish Classes are paused as my students
are too busy and not attending. So
lately we're not having this workshop. I was just becoming a teacher! :P
Sorry to hear that.
What else is going on? How are you doing?
I'm doing fine. I've just recovered from a really annoying
stomachache. And it was the first time that I went to the doctor alone here (It
was an emergency. Normally Helena takes me to the doctor:) He couldn't speak
English so I just could say "Tengo dolor de estomago:(" and gave
short answers to his questions. Luckily it went well and the medicine worked!
Even though I still have to take medicine I'm enjoying being healthy again. It
was not the best time to get sick because we had our "Cena Solidaria"
last friday. So we had a busy week (invitations, posters etc.) but it paid off!
We had a fun night with the whole Ecocompartimos family. I hated the DJ at the
disco, though. (Take your old songs and go home. Time to retire abuelito! )
And this thing cured my headache haha cheers!
The big Ecocompartimos family:) and the painting!
Aaaand Feliz Navidad! Last tuesday, we ate roscon at the
shop and Helena gave us presents:) I got a box of hand creams from L'occitane! It
was really consoling after that raffle disaster at the dinner haha. I can
easily say that I loved this Christmas soul here. Here is a poem to express my
feelings:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Roscon is so yummy
So nom nom nom...
So everything's fine huh?
No, it can't be! I've had a "residency problem"
recently. I was hoping to go to Belgium to visit my sister, bought the tickets
etc. and then when I went to Extranjeria to hand my papers I found out that we
can't go anywhere until we get our resident cards. But I was supposed to get a
paper that allows us to travel around Europe. They didn't give me any papers!
So I had to change my flight, I will be going in March. And hopefully I'm
getting my card at the end of this month.
The end.
