sábado, 5 de abril de 2008

sevilla catchup






The backblog continues...


This is Lindz and me in the Alcazar, a famous castle in Sevilla; we are learning interesting Spanish history facts as you can see.


Brian, my brother made it up there too for his infamous shrimp dinner at La cueva restaurant. Poor guy spent the first hour of the meal deshelling his prawns, then proceded to eat them all, and then I believe got food poisoning. Well he does look happy for the moment.


Wanted to put in one more video from the procession night in Sevilla. Learn more about the Holy Week events in Andalusia here http://www.exploreseville.com/events/semana-santa.htm.

And here's a link to a random youtube video that Brianna introduced me too. I think Lauren and I watched this three hundred times before we fell asleep on the couch the night before she left. Maybe you've seen it and it has already changed your life. Maybe your life's about to change.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM







So I don't know if I've mentioned it before or not, but I'm teaching English to a 9 and 11 year old here. Only three hours a week but at least it's something. The 9 year old girl really has no interest in learning English, so I try to do like 55% of the class discussion on things she does enjoy, aka making friendship bracelets and the other 45% actually teaching English grammar. Last week I started teaching the past tense (which is really difficult I think, because of all the irregulars). On the sheet of irregulars, I saw "drink" to "drank." And I'm doing a drill of saying a sentence in present tense and making her give me the past tense. But the first thing that comes to my mind when I see "drink" is "He drinks beer."


"ehh, como?" my 9 year old student asks. "Que es 'beeah'?"


And I'm the idiot who taught a 9 year old the word for cerveza.







1 comentario:

Shannon dijo...

ahhh i so wish i was there!!!