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Barcelona: Bird’s Eye View

Posted on 21 April 2010 by k

Wow…how far we’ve come! It’s incredible to think that a month ago we could speak only in the present tense 🙂 Now, a month and four tenses later, we’re well on our way to being able to carry on a … Continue reading →

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Spanish Sentence Mapping…my personal hell!

Posted on 7 April 2010 by k

Rough day. Ugh. I’m a perfectionist. And I like to feel that I can hold my own…I think this is true of most of us. Today, I couldn’t and didn’t hold my own in Spanish class and felt a bit … Continue reading →

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Picnic in the Park…

Posted on 29 March 2010 by k

23245 23240 It’s amazing what a difference a few extra degrees makes. If in London today, we would have likely experienced temps in the 50’s. But, luckily for us, Barcelona’s experienced a bit of a warm weekend with temps in … Continue reading →

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Una Primera Semana Buena en Barcelona…

Posted on 28 March 2010 by k

Wow! What a great week! We learned 3 new tenses, loads of new vocab and passed our first exam! Now, we’ve officially upped-level. And to cap it all off, we spoke to each other (G&I) almost exclusively in Spanish yesterday … Continue reading →

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¡Barcelona dice hola!

Posted on 23 March 2010 by k

We’re now in sunny Spain and have successfully completed day two of our classes. And we have seen the sun, afterall. As we’ll be here for 4 weeks in total, and we’ve been in classes for 4 hours each day, … Continue reading →

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Bath Half Marathon

Posted on 8 March 2010 by k

23106 Yesterday, I ran in my first ever half marathon (yes, this is K writing…can you believe it?). For years I’ve said that I wanted to get into better shape. I just wanted to reclaim muscle tone that’s been lost … Continue reading →

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Embracing Change

Posted on 21 February 2010 by k

To be fair, as you may have guessed, our daily life is fairly boring these days. Hence, the slowdown in blog posts of late. But, since a bit of time has passed, a few developments have finally come about that … Continue reading →

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