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Postcards from the land of no spice
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One fateful evening in 2004 an Aussie chica was taking a stroll in San Sebastian when this guy came up and said.... (actually no idea what he said as the aussie chica didn't speak a word of spanish)... one thing led to another as they say and the aussie chica married the guy and now lives in a town you've never heard of in Basque Country, Spain... these are her adventures, teaching english, learning spanish and generally, assimilating!!
- Author: Mondraussie
- Listed in: Blogging Culture
- Tags: spain Culture expat learning spanish teaching english basque country
Recent Posts
how to learn euskera..
step 1: buy the book (check)step 2: open the book and browse thoughtfully through the first couple of chapters (check)step 3: put down the book and run screaming from the room (check)it's all very well to have meaningful chats with people and read ar...
assimilating...
i go into the bookshop in mondragón and search the shelves for the book... there were others along the same lines, but i'd been told this was the best one, so clutching my bit of paper i go to the counter... "did they have this?" i asked, handing ov...
friday 13th...
it's friday 13th which according to tradition is apparently a bad day for us anglo saxons... a student has just warned me about it, he told me to look out for viruses... i don't know if one can actually "look out" for viruses, but i was so proud of h...
genius...
one of the advantages of teaching english in the factory from which you have just purchased your brand new kitchen appliances is that if something goes wrong, you can go to class and ask your students about it (all under the guise that it's good for ...
rest in peace...
they're tearing up the old cemetery in mondragón and turning it into a park... i know this because my regular running route (15 mins climbing up the almost perpendicular hill behind my house, 15 mins running back down it again the long way to the sp...
ode to autumn...
photos taken at parque nacional de ordesa y monte perdida, saturday 31 october...
