Archive for the ‘Spain’ Category

• Ibiza Es Paradis

  Date: 2009.07.28 | Category: Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 0

  Mas de nuestras vacaciones.  Me encanta Ibiza y no puedo esperar visitar el ano proximo!

  

  

  

  

• Visiting Barcelona & Sitges

  Date: 2009.07.23 | Category: Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 0

  Spain is one of my favorite places in the world to visit.  Here are some pictures from Barcelona and Sitges.  Since this is our second trip to Barcelona, next time we are going to take a look at some flats.

  

  

  

  

• Vicky Christina Barcelona

  Date: 2009.03.26 | Category: Movies, Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 1

   

  

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  After sitting around on our coffee table for about two weeks, we finally took the time to watch Vicky Christina Barcelona.  This was a very thoughtful romantic comedy and I enjoyed it for many reasons.  One, it dealt with complex relationships in a mature and honest manner.  Because there was truly no “right answer” on how to live your life, I thought Woody Allen did an excellent job leaving the ending ambiguous and true to the story – one could read the ending two ways depending on what one believed the “right answer” was for the protagonists.  Two, it was fun to watch the various characters play the neurotic, over-analyzing Woody Allen character – mostly Rebecca Hall, but Scarlett Johansson and Kevin Dunn also got in on the fun, too.  Three, I see why Penelope Cruz won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.  Her presence on-screen was mesmerizing and invigorating.

  However, the best part of the movie were the lovely shots of Barcelona.  Barcelona is one of my favorite cities in the world and Woody Allen showed a lot of the great sites – Ramblas, the Gaudi architecture, the beaches, the beautiful Spanish sun.  For anyone who knows and loves Barcelona, this film is friendly reminder of this wonderful corner of Spain.

• Conversational Spanish

  Date: 2009.01.10 | Category: Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 0

  This week I began conversational Spanish lessons from Carolina Mery-Wood at Pura Buena Onda.  Before the Holidays, I met with Caro for a short one-on-one interview\conversation to gauge my skill level.  She told me that while my vocabulary was excellent, I needed to improve my listening comprehension – I was between a beginner and intermediate.  She said it was up to me if I wanted to be the star pupil in the beginner class or perhaps the weaker of the intermediate students.

  I had my first class today with six other people and it was a lot of fun!  I was a bit anxious about my ability coming into the class, but I just dove in.  It was not as bad as I imagined it to be.  This is going to be fun and I am really looking forward to next week.

  

• More on Spain

  Date: 2008.07.16 | Category: Personal, Spain | Response: 0

  I found a really cool blog, Notes from Spain, about living in Spain from theNotes In Spanish people. I have been using the free podcasts to improve my Spanish comprehension and listening skills. This blog about what it is like to live in Spain provides a really great insight of how it feels to be an expat – a dream of mine for a while.