It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

Life is finally slowing down in the big Spanish city. A few weeks ago we had a frisbee tournament in Girona (close to Barcelona on the east coast of Spain). The tournament was the Spanish Coed National Championship. A good time but definitely wore us out due to our absurd selection of travel times - a return flight at 6:30 am followed by working 9 am - 6 pm. Anyways, Los Quijotes (our team from Madrid) took third place which was ok but we were hoping for a little better. Third place sufficed because they gave us a trophy and free sweatshirts which was fun. Its really not a surprise that third place gets a trophy because in Spanish ultimate it is litterally like everybody is a winner. No player left behind. And all that jazz.

But, the main point of this post is to say that Christmas is coming and we are getting in the spirit. We have a Christmas tree and stockings and hearts full of joy, love, and Christmas spirit. In reality, we will be traveling throughout Turkey during the real Christmas holiday so we are getting ready early. This coming friday my school has its Christmas Festival and all of the classes are going to do plays, songs, or dances. The third grade class I teach is doing a play that I wrote about Rudolph and the 5 year olds are doing a dance in which I will hopefully participate.






My school is also having a Christmas Dinner tonight where a bunch of us are all meeting up at some restaurant. It's apparently a really popular thing to do in Spain. Everyone goes out to a dinner with their coworkers for Christmas celebrations before the holidays begin. Should cook up some good stories about inebriated primary school teachers. Stay tuned.