Aka. "Destination Anywhere", "The Boy and Girl from County Bavaria"... After a very intense year in Würzburg (Germany), I'm back in Salamanca. I probably won't have that many experiences to write, but there's always an excuse to post a new entry!

My courses ended about a week and a half ago. I promise soon there'll be an entry in which I will complain tell you all about them, but you should know that this master's course is far from over. I'll have to hand in a research project (AAARRGGHHH!!!) at the end of May or beginning of June and, before that, I'm spending three weeks teaching German at a school in the heart of Salamanca. And it's turning out to be way more fun than I thought!

I started my internship (if you can call it like this) last week. Of course, I was pretty nervous and kind of scared, even though everyone knows how much I love speaking in public. Yet it turns out I'm the calmest person in the world when I'm standing in front of the class! I thought those 13/15-year-olds would give me a hard time, but it seems like I made a good choice with those groups. Some of them seem really motivated, and even those who are not that good at German have been pretty nice to me. Besides, the teacher gave me quite some freedom to work with them, so we've done a lot of fun stuff, from introducing ourselves to games. I got to choose the topics I'm doing with the older ones (in fact, we've just been working with a Christina Stürmer song and they seemed to love it) and the unit I'm doing with the younger ones (dates and seasons of the year) can be a good excuse to talk about other topics, such as important dates in the history of Germany, birthdays and so on.

All I wanted to say is that I'm really enjoying it. It's ironic to think that when I was little and someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, my answer usually was "Anything but a teacher!" Of course, this is not quite a real situation, since they know I'm just learning and they see me almost as one of them because of my age, but it's turning out to be a lot of fun.