This has been one crazy fall. At the very beginning of this month we had a long weekend, so some friends and I took a trip to Extremadura, which is a region of southwest Spain boarding Portugal. It's famous for the Roman ruins in many of the cities. We went to three cities: Trujillo, Mérida, and Cáceres. Trujillo was my favorite, although I can't really pinpoint why. It's a nice little town, not too touristy, and the Plaza Mayor is really pretty. I also really enjoyed Mérida because it has the most Roman ruins, including a Roman theater and amphitheater, which are really cool. The last city, Cáceres, is also very pretty and the entire old town is actually a UNESCO world heritage site.
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| The three of us in the alcazaba in Merida. |
Anyway, as of right now I'm liking my preschool (infantil, as they call it here) classes; most of the kids, especially my 5-year-olds, are quite smart and cute. I also have 3-year-olds, who are challenging because they don't really know a whole lot in Spanish, let alone English, and 4-year-olds, who are, of course, somewhere in the middle. I also have seven classes in primary (elementary school), with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. Some of good, but those kids are much more challenging because they know how to misbehave more than the little kids do. On the other hand, I like that most of them (the good classes) can actually have a conversation with you in English, so I can do more activities and games with them that I couldn't really do with 5-year-olds.
So that's autumn thus far in a nutshell. In a couple of weeks we'll be planning Thanksgiving and then at the beginning of December there is another long weekend, so I'm going to Lisbon, which should be fun!
