Ready to start school

After three days of being gone in Madrid to attend an orientation and meet other people that are doing my same job here in Spain from many other countries I decided that I was ready to go ´home´ (to Logroño) and start work on Monday. I stayed in a hotel room with three other girls from England. It was great to meet so many people and exchange information with them in hoping we can visit them all around Spain during the year. It has been very busy here for my the past 2 weeks. I can´t believe I have been here this long already. It is great that I can call this place home as I feel very comfortable here.

I am supposed to start teaching on Monday morning but neither of my schools that I work for have contacted me as of yet. I am not sure of when schools start in Spain or where exactly I am supposed to go, but I guess I will find out more on Monday when I go in there hoping to find answers. We found out at the orientation that we are only supposed to work a maximum of 12 hours per week and that we usually will work Monday through Thursday. That schedule works great for traveling around. It will be very nice for the next year.

Tomorrow we are planning to sign a contract for our apartment. We will have it until June 30th. I have been living in my suitcase so far and it will be great to be able to unpack it and make the new living space our own. There is plenty of room for all to come and visit. We would love the visitors and be able to show you around our town!

Next week we have decided that we are going to find an internet company and get internet in our apartment. It is very nice to live very close to the library but we think it would be easiest for us to update blogs and write emails if we had an internet connection there. The internet is free at the library but it tends to be very slow.

I have adjusted well to the Spanish lifestyle. I am sitting here writing this blog at 8:20 PM and going to have supper afterwards. It is weird but normal now to eat so late. I will update you more on our apartment and put up some photos of it next time. We have found out that we are by about 15 different disco bars and bars so it might be loud on the weekends. We shall see. The great thing though is that around the corner from us is a 7 theater movie theater. I hope to be able to go and watch many spanish movies.

Since Ben and I have been to Logroño for a week already before going to Madrid we acted like tour guides today when 2 other people that were coming to Logroño for the school year came with us on the same bus. It was great! Little did I know I would already have so much experiences to share. We will have a lot more by the time other people come visit.

Hope everybody is having a wonderful start to the fall season. The leaves are just starting to fall here and are very beautiful! I hope to go on many walks and take a lot of photos. The leaves on the trees here are a lot bigger than back home.

¡Hasta luego!