First week of freedom...

Monday, September 1, 2008 – Sunday, September 7,2008

After officially completing the course, I am now certified to teach English! This week I had a few classes to teach at Oxford TEFL as a real, paid teacher! This was now the beginning of my job search!

After a few days of job searching and teaching some classes, I took a break and went to Sitges for a few days with some friends. Sitges is a cute town on the coast with great beaches and a small downtown area with fun restaurants and bars. We were lucky enough to have a friend with a great place close to the beach, so we spent the days swimming and laying on the beach, and the evenings cooking dinner and then checking out the downtown. We kicked off the first night with a midnight swim, which was great as the water was warm and full of waves to jump:)!

After coming back from Sitges, we spent a day in the city catching up with running and shopping and friends in the city. That Sunday, I headed up to a small town called San Cugat to check out our friend’s place for the day and then checked out Tibidabo in the evening. Tibidabo is a high point in Barcelona, from which there are amazing views and has a Cathedral standing on top of it. There is also a carnival and small town up there which were fun to see. It’s amazing to check out the views from this point at night with all of the lights throughout the city!