First let's go right back to the beginning of these 3 months! with youth group we went to a place called Torrevieja! it is a very beautiful town but a las we were only there for the night and didn't see much! will have to go back sometime! Apparently it's a very english tourist location! one of my flatmates is from there!
Here is a video of us performing a hand theatre thingy! you can see me at the end when the lights come on! :D
Ok so my third year classes and i we all went on a field trip to see The Siyasa Ruins in a town called Cieza! so we all jumped on a bus and went to Cieza nice and early in the morning! first we went to a museum where one group watched a video about the history of these ruins! basically it was a muslim city built here in Spain many years ago, i don't remember which century tho XD i had no idea there was a huge Islam Influence (for lack of better word) here in Spain! there was a large scale conquest from 711 to 1492! Spain has such rich history and i feel totally oblivious to it all! Anyways the other group went and watched a theatre thing in English about an islam woman and an English soldier (more historic influence). Afterwards the two groups switched! the English theatre was really good and i'm pretty sure the kids liked it! they showed us traditional dance and everything! oooooooh i had to laugh at some students! XD Around lunch time the 2 teachers and i left the kids at the museum and went down the road to a cafe! i have to say that seemed really strange thing to do! i can't ever imagine that happening in NZ! anyways by this point it was raining and everything was wet so we recived the bad news that we couldn't go to see the actual ruins up in the mountains! but such is life! one of the teachers had been before and said they were really cool!
Ok but after that we were allowed to go see a mill! so that was cool! the bu wove us through the tiny one way street maze that is Cieza (actually i think in general street here are far smaller than NZ! here, other than main streets everything is one way! i always freak out when the bus navigates it's way around these narrow streets thinking it's bound to hit something! XD) Then we listened to some lady talking and went for a walk to see the mill! in all honesty it was a little boring! but don't tell anyone! lol
Don't they look excited?!! :D
English theatre lady
Reconstructed courtyard of a typical Siyasan building
This is called 'Lattice work'
Walking to the mill!
Ok so in these last few months i have been round to the houses of a couple of the English dept. Teachers! First i went to Maria's house for lunch! It was really nice and i got to meet her two kids! We ate outside on there deck thingy (lack of better word) and it was so sunny! i really liked it! then i one day i went to Carrefour! which is like a big warehouse type store and supermarket! really cool! anyways i decided to buy some speakers for my laptop and on the way home i ran into an English teacher Isabel! and she invited me back to her home! so that was really cool too! also meet her two kids!
Before we continue i have to say sometimes the differences in food can be a little difficult here! what i mean is that here you can't find things you'd be able to get easily in NZ! and i know when i go back to NZ i wont have any hope of finding some of my favourite foods from here! hahaha i walked to 3 different supermarkets the otherday in search of celery salt but no luck! however at the last supermarket i found CADBURY CREME EGGS! super stoked with that! needless to say i bought far too many! XD aaaaand also it is impossible to find sour cream here! but i did find some really nice sweet chilli sauce in the international department!
Ok moving on! to another school fieldtrip! My first year classes and i went to spend the day in Cartagena! to see firstly the roman theater ruins and then a fortune house ruins and i have no idea why it was called that! it was basically just some ruins of an old street! nothing that exciting! it was the second time i went to the roman theater but was still good! the kids really enjoyed it! it was for their social studies class but i was lucky enough to go with them! It was strange, another thing that is different here in Spain is that there were only 2 teachers and myself for 2 classes! i'm not sure there is some sort of rule of teacher student ratio here! i know in NZ by law it's something like 1 adult for every 6-8 students!
Arriving at Cartagena
CLass pose! can you see me? :D
Mural on a building i thought was pretty cool!
Roman Theater
Inside the Fortune house!
Well that's about it! finally in classes we have been talking about Easter and how differently it is celebrated here in Spain! Basically here they have spring festivals and Semana Santa which is holy week! Anyways i am now on holiday for the next 2 weeks so i will update my blog with all the going downs at the end of them!
Great to hear about your recent goings on. Love
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