For those of you who don't know me, I'm Becky. AKA Beckers, Bex or Little Bo Peep. The super awesome American girl moving to Spain to teach English for a year in the TINY southern town of Ubrique. Please refer to the map below, curtsey of Andalucia.com.
Thanks to the grant I am receiving from the Spanish government, I shall be working in a public middle school helping to teach English to I believe middle school aged kids. (I still haven't had the official ages yet.) From October first through the end of May. I found out about the program from a fellow blogger who was repeating her second year in Spain and was kind as to give me the information. Hopefully next year I can pass on that same kindness. So I applied for the program on November 1, 2011 and was officially accepted on May 21, 2012. After a VERY long and arduous process that required much paperwork, the promise of my first born and a blood donation for testing to make sure I was human; just kidding about two of those, I was finally eligible for selection. 7 months of waiting to find out where I would be placed. Since the Spanish have a very relaxed was of life, I waited several weeks past when we were told we would find out to actually receive my placement. Almost a full two months actually. Then came the background check, notary stamps, half a dozen trips to fed-ex, and lots of nervous shakes worrying I didn't have the necessary documentation when I needed them etc. But that was just the start of this tremendous journey and I shall write more about the lead up next time.
I would like to put a disclaimer on this blog in case you've already gotten a bad taste in your mouth from my not so perfect style of writing. I am not an English major, nor do I care that I am not the most eloquent blogger. I have started this blog to make it easier for my friends and family back home to keep up with me while I am abroad. So please, if you don't like it, please feel free to not follow this blog. :-)
Hasta Luego!
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