summer camp
How to Learn English
9:15 am and my students are as listless as ever. Javi grumbles under his breath as he surrenders his iPod to me. I fiddle with the thing, feeling much, much older than my 24 years and trying to hide my utter terror as the screen flashed. David Guetta’s heart-pumping rhythms get some of their ears perked up, a few [...]
If January Marks the Start…
Let me tell you a little story about peer pressure. When I was 11, my parents informed me that the dog had taken the news well. She faintly wagged her tail. “What news?” I asked, hoping for the trampoline I’d begged my parents to buy us for ages. Oh no, it was the M-word. We [...]
Big Bad Boss Lady
I promise I haven’t left you. It’s just, well, I’ve been really busy these days. So busy, in fact, that I went to bed on July 3rd and now am waking up three weeks later. I’m in La Coruna, the northerly capital of the wild corner of Spain that rests above Portugal. For the past [...]
Vaya Campamento, Parte Dos
When in Coruña, I met two other Forenex vets, Lais and Bryan. Both had met the summer before at the grandaddy of all FNX camps: Uclés, a real summer camp. The kind with friendship bracelets and roughing it. Not like Coruña camps, with their sailing classes and shopping trips. I decided I wanted to give [...]
Vaya Campmento!
Sevilla is a frying pan in the summer. Nothing like leaving your air-conditioned apartment at 6pm to see this terrifying sight: I was suffocating from the heat, suffocating from boredom. July 10th couldn’t have come fast enough. I’m currently in La Coruna, Spain, a beautiful and quirky city on the northeast coast in the province [...]
Fotos del Campamento
with camp friends in Madrizzz on Angelo’s last noche madrilena the Fluency group – Fraser, Dave, Matt and me Los que se quedaron – Diego, Javi, Alberto, Lara, me, Silvia, Ana and Marta. Good ninos. Unos teachers in Santiago de Compostela in front of St. James’ Cathedral Jill, Ivan, me and Luis celebrating la Feria [...]
Something fishy…I mean swiney
As the midway point of camp arrived, all of my students were getting lethargic. During the day, they have absolutely free time to rest or realx…it´s class, lunch, buses to activities, showers, dinner, parties, bed. But of course sending kids to bed at 11pm doesn´t mean they won´t stay up late talking to their friends [...]
Summer Camp, part 2
We´ve just finished our second day of teaching. MAAAAAN i am wiped! Being an auxiliar really didn´t prepare me well for coming to a camp and teaching four straight hours, seeing as I have to plan everything (worksheets and listenings and materials provided) and think about routines and classroom management. I have a group of [...]
Summer Camp
This post may be a little preliminary, seeing as I don´t officially start teaching until Monday, but I´m preoccupied with a few things and need to just disconnect from my brain a bit. Today has been awful. I had to wake up at 4:45 to catch a 7am flight to A Coruña after not sleeping [...]
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