Yup, you read that right. New school. Not that I’ve moved from Clara Campoamor, but I am now working at two schools. I showed up in January and everything was fine, I said greeted all the teachers again, jumped right back into things and then BAM! Belen hit me with a bunch of news all at one.
1. SHE’ PREGNANT! :D I’m so happy for Belen because I know she’s been wanting a baby, so that was exciting news. She’s having twins and my only regret is that I won’t be here in August when she’s due.
2. I have to go to a new school for a couple hours now. I’m now going to Alonso Sanchez, which is another high school literally across the street from Clara Campoamor.
I go to Alonoso Sanchez on Thursdays’ now from 9:30-1 and work with a couple teachers there. Apparently, they had an auxiliary last year, but she never turned up and in November she officially quit. So they were without someone from the beginning and kept thinking she was going to show up. Apparently not, so the natural solution to things in Spain is to ask other schools for their resources for FREE! Yup, for free. So, after talking with the bilingual staff we decided that they get me only for 3 hours on Thursdays. I’ll go to Clara Campoamor in the morning for my one class with Maria Eugenia and then instead of having prep hours with my teachers I now have to go across the street and with with a history teacher and science teacher there for a while. Now, honestly I wasn’t that surprised. I heard about this happening on FB among other auxilaries, but they complained much more. The real problem, is that this school is taking hours away from my original school, prep hours which these teachers actually use and I enjoy. AND, they are not compensating Clara Campoamor for the hours I’m working there. In other words: I recieve 700Euros from Clara Campoamor for working 12 hours. Now I’m working only 9 hours with them but they are still paying me 700 Euros and I’m working for Alonso Sanchez for 3 hours and they are neither giving Clara Campoamor money for those hours nor are they paying me. BOGUS! My school is getting cheated out of money, but it’s all politics and the Junta won’t give me anymore money since I’m technicially still only working 12 hours. I then found out they stole another auxiliary from a nearby elementary school as well. Oh well, I’m not too upset about it, but it stinks. The staff is very nice and the coordinator is very nice as well. I think I’ll be happy there, the kids have a very high level of English so I can see a lot of opportunities, but it still stinks.
One of my students family’s owns a Flamenco House in San Juan, a little pueblo outside Huelva and she always brings her Flamenco flowers and make up whenever there’s events at school. So naturally, with the English students coming to visit she brought her box of trinkets and started whipping them out to show the English teachers and to show us. Then, she so kindly did my hair up and placed a flower smack dab on top of my head with the comb and everything. I just needed a Flamenco dress. haha. But it was so fun and she did the same for the other English teachers and one of the students as well. She really enjoys dancing Sevillana so she then took out her castanets and the other girls started clapping and singing. So her and another student began to dance Sevillana while everyone else watched. The afternoon turned from there into a big dance party, full of learning Sevillana, dancing to hilarious Spanish songs, the Macarena, the Cha Cha Slide and the Gangma Style. I had a great time dancing with my students and seeing them have so much fun with the English students. I might have been exhausted by the end of the day, but it was all totally worth it. Check out the photo album to see what we did!
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