From chilling to teaching...
[ Posted by Alia Merali Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:56:00 GMT ]
Wow so a huge amount of time since I last blogged - and loads has happened. We're still in Barcelona, still in our cosy flat and enjoying the sun, sea and sand!After our barcelona-london-dubai-london-barcelona trip and our annual Guadec conference (which btw was loads of fun - we stayed in a caravan, i helped out with the conference and got a t-shirt to show for it. It wasn't the only t-shirt I got - google were among the ppl giving them out this year!) my friends came over from London. Hamida and Fatema came over - 2 of my bestest friends. We had lots of laughs and late nights and I cant thank them enough for making the trip!
July - I started my TEFL course (Teaching English as a Foregn Language) and Oxford House College. This is where my bike really came in handy and I made the 30-40 mins cycle each way every day for the month! I was quite proud of myself. The course was amazing - I met some great people, learnt bucket-loads and conquered my fear of getting up and talking in front of people (adults). Oh and I have the greatest husband in the world who put up with my hours and did everything (8am-12am day plus studying full time on the weekends!) - apart from the cooking!
After the course we made another quick trip to london - this time only 3 days. 16th August was our 3 year anniversary, and we celebrated it in Valencia! We stayed at the Silken Puerta - a really nice hotel with amazing decor. Check out the pictures on our flickr site. We spent the days visiting the Arts and Science Centre there. The best parts of it were the aquarium with a spectacular dolphin show, and the hemisphere - a huge dome which is a cinema screen. All in all an anniversary to remember.
September came and it was the start of the new academic year and the chance for me to start working. At the moment I am working for a company which provides english teachers to companies. I basically teach their employees during the working day. So far I have really enjoyed it. Its different teaching adults as opposed to teaching children which ive always done. This way though, I get to have fun in a different way - by teaching english through exposing students to different topics that can be discussed - and most importantly have a laugh at the same time.
