"Dont forget those CCQ's!" A TEFL Tour of Duty

Heading off to Bangor today to look at Hilary's slavery exhibition at Penrhyn Castle. This has become the pinnacle of her work since she was appointed as Project Interpretation Co-ordinator for the National Trust. Looks like we'll be living in Bangor for a few months after we're married so it will be interesting to look around.

25 years since the Falklands invasion. Two bald men fighting over a comb. More about that later.

This must be the laziest blog ever written. I havn't updated this since December last year, so now that I'm taking a week long break in Wales, why not write something. Since I last wrote, I became engaged to Hilary (not all that surprising) and life is fairly dominated by wedding organisation. The ceremony takes place in Donegal of course, The Church of the Sacred Heart in Carndonagh. Everything is more or less booked although the priest in Carndonagh is naturally inquisitive regarding my Christian background: I am after all not a Catholic so suspicions are naturally aroused. The situation grew desperate when he enquired whether I was confirmed in the Methodist Church or not. Goodness me, I made sure I was as far away as possible from Truro School when all that was going on.

Spain life is carrying on nicely. School is going really well. In February I was able to showcase my EFL roleplay adaptations in front of 14 EFL teachers at the St James teacher's conference and last week I received my PDI (prof development interview) with Borja. Apart from my terrible organisation skills, he was very happy with my progress. At the moment, the Semana Santa festivities are taking place...

This is basically Seville's Holy Week festivities, a week long devotion to the death of Christ and everybody wearing Klu Klux Klan type outfits. Some unfortunate young men have to parade the streets carrying heavy loads of stone in the name of penance. Yes, this is a good time to get out of Seville for a week.

June sees my stag weekend in Barcelona. Flights with Clickair are booked and it looks like I will have a total of 13, 5 or 6 from UK, the rest from Spain. More soon.