Happy Holidays!

Congratulations on finishing off this semester! Please enjoy this video from our bilingual teachers talking about their favorite thing about Christmas. 

Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

Celebrating Thanksgiving in Spain!

     This week in all our classes together, we discussed Thanksgiving: an American holiday celebrated at the end of November. This year, Thanksgiving was on Thursday, November 25th. On Thanksgiving, friends and family come together at one person's house to have dinner and give thanks for the good things they have in life. Thanksgiving is a holiday filled with family, friends, and food!  This was my first year being away from my family on Thanksgiving. As there are many American language assistants in Lucena, we decided to have a Thanksgiving together on Thursday since we all miss our family and friends from home. 

        My roommate and I hosted our friends and everyone brought food for our dinner. We made the turkey, gravy, and macaroni & cheese. Our friends brought other classic Thanksgiving dishes, like green bean casserole, bread rolls, mashed potatoes, and corn. They also brought desserts! We had apple pie, pumpkin pie, and cinnamon rolls. It was amazing that we were able to have a Thanksgiving dinner here in Spain, because many of the ingredients that we have in the US were not available. We all helped and it came together successfully!

      We ate around the dinner table and enjoyed the food we made. Some of our friends are from other countries, so they got to enjoy their first Thanksgiving with us. We all talked, laughed, said what we were thankful for, and played games. Everyone had a great time!

          This year I am especially grateful for getting to live and work in Lucena. I am so thankful for each of the teachers and students at Clara Campoamor! It is a pleasure to be here and I do not take it for granted at all! 

            I hope you take some time to reflect on the message of Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for?

     Best, 

Sierra Cady

Hi everyone!

 

        Hi everyone! My name is Sierra Cady and I am the language assistant at Clara Campoamor for this school year. 

        To introduce myself, I am 22 years old and I grew up in a smaller town in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. I then moved to Columbus, Ohio when I was 18 to attend The Ohio State University, which is the third largest university in the United States and has about 60,000 students. There, I studied chemistry and Spanish. Outside of school, I love music! I played the saxophone in band and sang in choir throughout middle school, high school, and college. Also during college, I studied for a semester in Seville, Spain and got to learn about Spanish culture. It was a great experience and I am happy to be back in Andalucía again!

         I know that language learning is hard, but I am excited to get to help you all feel more comfortable with English this year and share some of my American culture along the way. I am sure that we will have a great year at Clara Campoamor in bilingual classes! 

Thanks guys, bye!

WELCOME, SIERRA!! 😍

Welcome everyone back!!
I'm glad to be back with all of you, my students, my workmates, and especially our new language assistant: Sierra Cady. Have you met her? She is so charming and looks like she will be a great English teacher for you all!

Here you can see some pictures of her first lessons with our students, in which she introduced herself and told us lots of interesting details about her life. 

Come and meet her!!

Lucena: A Video Report

My impression of Lucena is a quiet little town, but apparently, it is the second most populated city in Cordoba. It has rich a history that makes it more interesting.

I like how it is not crowded—which is important during these times that we have to maintain social distancing. It helps that there are a lot of open spaces to move around in.

The city has got loads of nice typical Spanish residential homes and just like any other place. There is an inner-city slum. I don’t see much litter so the cleanliness is pretty well maintained. I noticed the people in Lucena love their pets so there aren’t any stray animals around.

 I really love the Lucena. However, I think public transportation can still be improved. People usually just walk on foot which can be inconvenient or drive a car to go from one place to another.