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| I started my three weeks in Madrid, staying in a hotel on Gran Via, in the classic, elegant center of the city. |
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| It's a great place for wedding photos too. |
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| This is what a more ordinary neighborhood in Madrid looks like, by the way. |
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| I loved the way Spaniards spent time outdoors, eating in cafes, taking walks, and hanging out with family and friends. |
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| Madrid has lots of wonderful museums, including this one, the Prado. |
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| ...and the Reina Sofia, with modern art, including this Roy Lichtenstein sculpture... |
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| And the Caixa Forum, with this garden wall. |
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| The view from my hotel room: On Sunday 9/9 La Vuelta a Espana (like Tour de France) finished up in Madrid... |
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| ...and on Saturday 9/15 there were protest marches against the austerity measures. |
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| And now for some photos of my teaching workshops. |
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| The
new Fulbright English Teaching Assistants and some of their Spanish
host teachers, getting ready for the wonderful year-long Global
Classrooms project. |
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| Secondary
teachers of history, art, PE, science, geography...who do it all in
English! They're upgrading their bilingual teaching qualifications. |
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| The secondary bilingual teachers in Madrid. |
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| A group of bilingual teachers in Santander--about 60 of them, ranging from pre-school to secondary, teaching all different subjects in English. |
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| A group who teach oral English to adult students. |
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| Santander bilingual ed teachers |
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| One
of six groups I spoke to about maximizing the potential of English
Language Assistants in bilingual classrooms. These people coordinate
the programs in ~300 Madrid schools with 3000+ young American ELAs. |
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| Santander bilingual ed teachers |
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| Even though I was working very hard, I tried to take some time off to see more of Spain. On Sunday 9/16 I took the high speed train to Toledo. (I wish we had such a train--it would mean the from LA to Santa Barbara would only take 55 minutes.) |
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| Toledo
is a UNESCO heritage site where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived
together relatively harmoniously around the 10th c. Wish there were more
places like that today! |
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| A
Catholic procession, with mourners, acolytes, a statue of the body of
Christ carried by a dozen men under a covering, and a band. |
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| A Jewish synagogue before 1492 and now the Museo Sefard | i |
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| Another day trip was to Bilbao, home to a wonderful Guggenheim museum, designed by Frank Gehry. This sculpture is by Anish Kapoor. |
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| The city has been transformed by the presence of the museum--a fascinating study in urban renewal. |
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| I also got to meet one of my online MA TESOL students and his family. The giant flowery dog outside the museum? A sculpture by Jeff Koons. |
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| Another Jeff Koons' sculpture, Tulips. |
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| I especially enjoyed the exhibit of David Hockney--a collection of over 200 large and small landscapes. | |
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| My final two weeks in Spain were spent in Santander, on the northern coast. Some days the surfers were out, some days the kiteboarders. |
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| Sunrise over the Sardinero Beach in Santander. ("Red sky at morning sailors take warning"--there was a hot wind that day and later a rain shower. |
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| On Sunday 9/23 some of my students invited me for a ride in the Cantabrian countryside. Our destination: El Pendo Cave. |
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Click on this link to see the cave and one of the pre-historic paintings estimated to be 23,000 years old.
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| We finished the day with churros and chocolate in Puente Viesgo. |
