Love advice, according to a 16 year old

Would you care to read some more advice? I’ve included a few choice pieces of advice after the jump. Oh, and please leave me a comment if you have any love advice!!!

Some Carnaval ideas…

Here are our two favourite ideas for Carnaval costumes

How do you say “party on” in Spanish?

We ain’t afraid of no ghosts

So, what do you think? Ghostbusters or Waynes World? Or maybe you have another idea! Let us know!

Kelly – new contributor at Tiger Beat teen mag?

Here are some cute worksheets that I have been doing with my bachillerato students (16, 17 year olds). If you reply to the email address, I will read your answers to my class. We are working on 0 conditional sentences (If she calls him, she says silly things) and 1st conditional sentences (If you tell him that you like him, he will ask you to the dance.) I hope you get a chuckle out of them! My students thought they were pretty funny.

Kids say the darndest things

 

Here is a cute drawing made by a secondary student:  slavery according to 13 yr old.

Things I want to eat

That is all.

Interview with the stars

After many days in pursuit of the wild Detroitonian, I have finally caught up with the most sought after personality in Lavapiés, Miss Melissa. She was charming a group of Senegalese gentlemen when I stumbled upon her and happened to have a few minutes to douse the flame of curiosity that was burning inside me. Do you want to know what I was just dying to know?

Hi Ma, meet your new teacher

I want to let everyone know that there will be a second voice on the blog; that of the lovely and talented Miss Melissa. She will be sharing some of her thoughts about Spanish culture, politics, literature, philosophy, festivities, travel… marshmellow cream and other deep, deep thoughts. An indepth profile on Miss Melis COMING SOON…

Primero izquierdo

Kelly:  She draws really well.

Enrique*:  No she doesn’t. She is terrible. I want to jump out the window.

Kelly:  OK, then go. Jump out the window.

Enrique:  Ladies first.

*Enrique is one of my 15 year old students

It’s official!!!

After four years of inching my way towards Lavapiés, I have finally made it! Toma ya! See kids? Dreams do come true if you get kicked out of enough apartments. But don’t worry if you get kicked out, because your very own little apartment in the immigrant neighborhood is just a slumlord away.  Here’s a nice shot of Lavapiés in all it’s glory:

Just kidding about the slumlord part. Our slumlord is super sweet and gives us aloe vera plants and sets of knives. Slumlord love! Oh, and our place isn’t a slum. Pictures coming soon…

Back from the… dead?

I am going to try to start writing in this again. There are so many funny things that have been happening to me and I want to try to record some of them and share them with all of you, and also I am going to eat curry for 365 days and blog about that and see if I can get a book deal out of it. Just kidding…