Welcome! Bienvenido!

Hello, friends! Hola, amigos y amigas! Welcome to my first ever attempt at blogging. In T-minus 19 days I leave for what will soon be the most exciting adventure of my 23 year old life thus far. Back in January, for poops and giggles, I applied to be an English Language Assistant through the Meddeas Program in Spain for the 2018-2019 school year, not thinking I would get in. I’m no teacher, I don’t speak any Spanish what so ever and the farthest I have ever been away from good ol’ Rhode Island was Florida. But I applied anyway, because you know, why not?  So you can imagine my surprise when I found out in mid May (two days before my college graduation) that I had been accepted and placed at a school in Aljaraque (Huelva), Spain. Since finding out my placement, these past three months have been a whirlwind of collecting paperwork, research, and attempting to learn at least some Spanish. (Hablo un poco de espanol).

But what the heckity heck is an English Language assistant? I am still kind of figuring it out myself. But long story short, I will be helping students at my school with their English speaking and listening comprehension. The school I will be teaching at (I am not fully sure if I am allowed to give the name of my school yet online, but I’ll check on that) is an all girls Catholic school that goes from Primaria to Bachillerato (grades K-12). As far as I know now, I am the only language assistant in my school, so I am going to be bouncing around all the age groups. While in Spain, I myself will also be taking classes. I will be earning my TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certification. Which I think is pretty cool. To make the whole experience even more awesome, I will be living with a host family for my year abroad. But more on that later..

Thank you for taking the time to read this little lame intro post, I promise there is more exciting stuff coming up. Thank you for everyone who has encouraged me these past few months about all of this, and I am super excited for where this journey will take me!

Thanks for reading!