Sevilla - really hot and a beautiful city - nothing more to say. Apart from the map reading skills of me and the new found friend, Tam, left a lot to be desired. The instructions to reach our hostel baffled us enough without the added problems of things not being on the map, us holding the map upside down and just the general (and i'm tying not to be sexist) women can't read maps thing. We did stubble upon a fair few different lovely things whilst lost and also...

LAS FALLAS!!!! So i've been in Valencia for the last two weekends to see their festivity - the making and destroying of figures. Every area of town creates a different falla, sometimes even two an adult one and one for the infants. These can cost up to 190,000 euros to make and take practically all year, starting with the designing, fund raising (obviously) and the actual making of the statue. The first weekend most of the fallas were still in the building stag...

So home for xmas, no problems, and made it safely back to Spain with no dilemmas apart from having to pay for luggage on my final flight - ridiculous!!! Spent the new few days by the beach, getting to visit a few seaside resort along the coast. A welcome contrast from the cold bitter weather of Scotland - temperatures reaching 25 degrees during the day and getting to walk along the artificial beach of Campello. We went to see the multicoloured buildings in the...

So Christmas is nearly upon us, and my classes have gone into full xmas spirit. No more books, just lots of different activities depending on the age of the students, taboo and Twas the night before christmas for the older ones, and making santas with moving arms for the kids, although I think secretly the adults want to make the santas too. Many of my classes have been canceled this week, I haven't had my germaine class, and my Aitex classes finished up on Tues...

second time lucky - the internet crashed as i was trying to write this the first time. So it has been a while since my last blog, however I have been doing things, lots of things to be honest, I will try keep this as short and to the point as possible. School and teaching has been pretty much the same, I had reports to fill out for all my kids and teenage classes, this seemed to take me a heck of a long time . . . lucky I only have to do that once a semester. H...