Monday, August 11, 2008 - Sunday, August 17, 2008
The second week of school was more intense with more teaching, introduction of additional projects and papers. Each day of teaching is better than the one before, getting more comfortable in the teacher role and even getting to know English much better:) The first two weeks were spent teaching Advanced students, and then the last two weeks of the program are spent teaching Elementary level students. The advanced students are actually pretty good with speaking and know their grammar very well...in some cases they may be able to teach me a thing or two about English:)
This week, there was a Spanish holiday on Friday, giving us a three day weekend...the holidays are definitely a benefit of Spanish living:) So Friday a group of us headed up to a town called Blanes to find a remote beach to enjoy the sun and the sea! Trains, buses and walks later, we found ourselves on a beach with white sands and crystal clear blue water!
The Festival de Gracia was also this weekend, and was one of the best festivals I have been to! North Beach Festival definitely had some competition with this street fair! The streets were all decorated with different themes, and the various blocks have competitions for the best decorations. Each block had a different band that corresponded to their individual themes...the American themed block had WWF statues and they were playing the "YMCA" song in Spanish, so of course we had to stop and join in on this dance:) This festival lasted a week and there were people dancing and having a great time in the streets...in one night we were swing dancing, then doing the YMCA and ended with some Latin dancing, it was a great festival and a fun way to spend a few evenings!
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