My Business Card

I have recently started to advertise for Spanish tutoring lessons. This is my business card but for obvious reasons, I have covered my mobile number, would not be happy with crank calls. I am very happy with the design and £14.99 for 250 of these things is a decent price to say the least. I am hoping to get some reaction and always a nice way to earn some money on the side, especially with my trip to Canada coming up :)

Another Cool Wimpy Napkin

So, as I have published one of these before, it shows that Wimpy not only produce delicious food, but also make awesome napkins with cool messages or quotes. As well as the Smoky BBQ Burger with chips and a Fanta for my drink, this little napkin was quite cool that I saved one in order to take a picture of it. Sad I know! I hope the message is well understood and well thought of by you peeps as much as it was and is by me. Also, go to Wimpy if you can, it is a lovely place with friendly staff and tasty food. I know that I sound like I work for them, I do not, but if I could, it would be great for a bit but I would probably hate the food after a certain amount of time, I could not do it due to this reason.

Cool Wimpy Napkin

I was in a small restaurant called Wimpy, of which I only know exists in the UK, please let me know if it has been seen abroad anywhere! Anyway, there were napkins and this is one which I kept in order to take a photo of and then upload it onto here to share the cool quote. In addition, I think that it is an awesome way to produce quotes via napkins although it is probable that many peeps will not even look at the quote and even consider reading it. I have faith that some peeps will read it and make a note or a take a picture like me. Sad I may be but I thought and still think that it is cool and I hope other people agree with me.

Advert in the local paper

I have recently posted an advert in my local newspaper for Spanish tutor lessons and I will be officially starting my lessons this week! I am quite nervous but excited at the same time, nothing new there then. I have had two call backs in response to my advert and so I am eager to get started. As advised by my beautiful girlfriend, I have had to lesson plan in advance, something which I did take for granted until now. Accommodating to different individuals is quite tough but interesting too. A week from now, I hope to post another entry to tell about my first couple of lessons. I know that I have help and support and I have confidence in myself that it will be a learning experience, hopefully more so for the better. Wish me luck peeps. Have a great week!

Back to the drawing board

So today I started my search for a new job. Even though I am super excited about seeing my darling girlfriend in August for two weeks, I do want to get some more money together for some spends when I arrive. There are some jobs which I am trying to get, mainly tutor and language assistant which are not too bad due to the not too high demand for qualifications in order to do these jobs. However, for other possibilities such as; interpreter, translator and teacher, qualifications are necessary. For me to get said qualifications, it may happen that I will be doing a teaching course come September but never say never about another job introducing itself before September arrives. Watch this space!

A Visit from a Friend

While I was in Spain during my Year Abroad last year, as well as meeting the Canadian who is now my beloved girlfriend, I met one of her friends who I call 'My Second Favourite Canadian' :) Her name is Krista and since coming over to Great Britain to teach in a secondary school in Ipswich, she has wanted to come and visit me in Liverpool. As well as having a good catch up, she wanted to see the city and so I had to try and be a tour guide for a few hours anyway. She is a very independent woman and so she always has a plan and will visit what she wants to, as I found out in both Barcelona and Madrid, one of the reasons she is so cool :)

Anyway, it was great seeing her over the May Bank Holiday Weekend, when I showed her different monuments although my descriptions were not exactly interesting. It was fun but strange trying to describe your city as a tour guide but experience is experience, you never know that one day I may have that job, never say never! Over the Saturday in which we met up, we saw the Albert Dock, Liverpool One, outside the Cavern Club where she got a picture taken with the John Lennon Statue, as well as other things. As a reward, she bought me a hot chocolate from Café Nero, was delicious. As always, it was amazing to see her, have a good natter about stuff and things, and enjoy Liverpool.

My Argentinian Football Team

About 5 years ago, I met an Argentinian woman who was visiting my Sixth Form (Formby) called Cecilia and she invited my Spanish class and myself to start conversation exchanges via email with her students who were studying English. Fortunately, I have continued since 2007 in conversing with some students from Argentina, which has converted itself into Facebook and possibly Skype very soon.

The actual city in Argentina which is interacting with Liverpool is called Rosario, not too far from Buenos Aires. After getting to know a few of the students in the school, one topic that linked us all was football. They knew about Liverpool FC but I did not know about their team, Rosario Central. Since 2008, probably, I have been trying to purchase a Rosario Central shirt. Finally, not too long ago, I found a website selling one and I now have a football shirt from Argentina. It is awesome. As I would say to my peeps in Argentina, 'Vamos Central!'