Hola!

Hi everyone! Welcome to the English version of my blog. It’s not going to be as fancy as the Spanish version because I’m not getting graded but hopefully it will be more fun since I can write about whatever I want. First of all please excuse any spelling errors as I switched my computer language to Spanish when I got here to try to fully immerse myself so now I can’t spell check the English. Okay well anyways I guess I’ll give you an overview of what I’ve been doing here so far. I’m taking two classes, one which is the Spanish culture and technology class where we make the blog, and the other is a “curso de practices” where I have class in the morning and then the rest of the day I work at a summer camp for the YMCA Toledo. Most of the time I am a regular counsler and then for an hour a day I teach an English class to the kids. This is probably the biggest challenge I have encountered here as the kids range from 3 to 13 and speak no English. A lot of the time after trying to get them to calm down and listen to the lesson I give up and revert to teaching them an English song or game like the hokey pokey. It’s really fun though because I am definitely learning more Spanish from them than they are learning English from me. The rest of my time here is usually spent going to the pool, playing soccer, meeting with Spaniards for “intercambios” (a meeting with someone trying to learn English where you speak half the time in English and half in Spanish), squeezing in a museum visit, and of course checkin out the Spanish night life. The time is really flying since I am so busy during the week and then gone traveling every weekend but I’m loving it. I can’t believe I only have less than two weeks left! It’s really too bad because I am finally starting to see some legitimate improvement in my Spanish skills and starting to settle in and I already have to leave. I’m just going to try to make the most of it and get everything out of this experience I can in this short time. I’ll try to keep you updated!