Hotel Almazara Loja
Cerro De La Estacion, Riofrio Loja, Andalusia, 18313, Spain and Canary Islands
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Like a Rock ...
... to be the Spanish way of `living the dream ‘.......and given
how beautiful this southern part of the country is, maybe that’s not such a bad
dream to live. After all, 47 million people call this country `home’ and 50
million tourists visit annually so Spain’s certainly doing more than one thing right.
But I digress.
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Now comes the interactive part of ...
Our first few weeks teaching!
... speak veryyyyy quickly. However, they always encourage me to join in on their conversations and tell me to speak up if there is something I don’t understand.
With the first, second, and third graders I help teach English and also help in science class. So far the main focus in English has been classroom materials and in science they are learning the parts of the body and five senses in English as well as Spanish. With the older students, ...
La Alhambra
We have been enjoying lovely sunshine for two months but decided to take a chance on the weather when we headed for Granada, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. We certainly wondered if we had made the right decision when the temperature dropped to 4 degrees and we shivered our way round the Alhambra but the snow later in the afternoon left no room for doubt: time to move on. Granada's other attractions can wait!
Despite the cold, we ...
The Alhambra
... Alhambra. En route, we once again saw the Sierra Nevadas, which had kind of taken our breath away as we approached Granada the day before. This snow-covered range seems to stand alone, towering far above anything close to it. It was pretty spectacular.
The Alhambra is a palace complex built between 1238 to 1492 by the Moors. They considered it to be "paradise on earth." ...
Last nights' talk
... up to go to work and you, you’re just leaving a club. Weird.
At home before I went to bed I was eating the pieces of dried banana out of my muesli, it was fun… because while eating I was discussing the night with my flat mate… who was actually surprised by the way Spanish guys approach girls. I think I stated my theory about this like a thousand times: They see ...



