Day 6 - My First Day of School

School started today.  What a long, great, information filled day.  The teachers are amazing and from what I understand, they took it easy on us today.  We had an overview of what we're going to be learning and doing. In addition, we started with some lessons and even observed a recent grad (yes she graduated on Friday) teach a C1 level class.  There are 6 levels in total starting with A1 so C1 are pretty advanced.  She played a few games with them including Pictionary, story-boarding and the one where you say a word and the next word has to start with the last letter.  For example, dog then groovy.  And that's another thing we learned - teach by using examples.  See how fast I learn.  I'm well on my way to being a fantastic teacher.  They also showed us around the joint and all the resources we have access to.  In additional, they provided us lunch which was a mix of typical Spanish foods like paella, meats, cheeses, potato things - one like a pie and one fried, olives, breads, and even a glass of tinto (wine).  My classmates are fantastic as well.  Everyone is so friendly and they all have such interesting stories of why they're here.  

selfie with my classmate

To get to school this morning, I walked.  It took about 40 minutes but it was nice and refreshing.  Tomorrow I'm going to try to leave a bit earlier and get a coffee on the way.  By the time school was over, I was exhausted to I took the Metro which is only four stops.  The good news is I can choose from 4 different lines so tomorrow maybe I'll try another one.  I love all these options.  

When I got home, I ate dinner of food that I picked up from the grocery store as I didn't feel like going out.  I finished it so tomorrow I'll either have to stop at the food store or go out.  In retrospect, I should have gone tonight as things will get more and more crazy as the weeks go on.

So, I do have some bad news for all of you new found visitors - my blog posts are going to be much fewer and farther in-between this month.  My course is extremely intensive and I'll probably only be able to write 2-3 time per week, if that.  Thanks for reading and feel free to comment with your thoughts, ideas, feedback, etc.