Preparations

Querido amigos,

Welcome to my blog! Over this coming academic year I will be updating my blog, hopefully on a fortnightly basis, with bits & bobs, mostly photos & stories from my wee town in the region of Huelva, Andalucia, so that despite the distance between us, you can follow my progress & remember me!

Right now I'm still in the UK, and despite all the frustration & impatience that comes with preparing to embark on a year abroad in a new country, with a new language and different culture, I'm also becoming increasingly excited about it all. Little Miss Organized that I am, I have been spending the past week emailing, calling, googling (is this actually a verb now?) various contacts in Spain, trying to sort out accommodation and working out what my job entails, working hours etc. Typically Spanish, I have received thus far no response from my school. It has been known that assistants show up to find that the school wasn't aware of an "Auxiliar de conversacción". Oh dear. I haven't even arrived in Spain, and I'm already learning that maybe my slightly Germanic way of leading a structured and organized life may need some re-adjusting this year! The theory of "manaña" comes to mind. Nevertheless I'm trying to stay positive and believe that our heavenly Father has a plan, and even if it may not be the organized and meticulously detailed plan I had been hoping for, it is the better one by far. So watch this space.....


One thing that is most definitely official is my flight ! I depart from Liverpool to Faro with the wonderful Easyjet on Sunday 27th September, at the very disagreeable time of 04:45am. Yes, this time was my choosing as booking so late meant the prices of flights with a sensible departure time were over my budget!Anyway, on a positive, I'm very blessed to have my mum flying over with me = 20 kilos extra luggage (so I can bring all my dresses ;p), a familiar face and a chauffeur to drive me across the border into España and to my wee town in the country. (More details on the town to come in future blogs as right now I know next to nothing!)


The plan so far is to book some temporary accommodation in a B&B/hotel for a couple of days and frantically search for a 'piso' (flat) of some sort as well as organize my life with regards to opening a bank account & getting the official N.I.E (identity card) documentation dealt with. Oh, and that small detail of introducing myself to 'el director y el jefe de inglés' in my 'colegio'.

That's all for now. As soon as I'm set up with internet in Spain I will update you all on la vida en España. I hope all you St Adrians are enjoying moving back to the beautiful bubble of ours. Praying for a successful & inspiring 'free'shers week :-)

Blessings,
Un beso y abrazo,
Corkster xXx