Missing? Not quite! Just busy with other things for a bit #Blogging news

Hi all! (or ¡Hola!):

I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be a bit busy in March, so you might not see me around as often as usual.

I’d like to tell you this will be me:

But not quite. Yes, I will be attending an intensive course in March, but I suspect I might end up like this:

You are free to imagine me in a place like this:

Although I bet it will be something like:

No, seriously. I just love the picture and it reminded me of my time as a medical student, even if I studied Medicine in Barcelona and not Austria.

This is more like it:

Although I think all the students will be a bit older. What am I going to study? Some of you probably remember I don’t seem to be able to stop studying.

Yes, I need to get a copy of that sign to decorate my apartment.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll remember I mentioned the University of the People, and I volunteered there for a while as an instructor for their English Composition course. Although I knew many students would not be native speakers of English, I didn’t expect them to have as many difficulties expressing themselves in written English as they had. And that got me thinking about what it takes to teach English. I also decided that I would like to try to teach in person, rather than always online, and I am therefore going to take a course that, all going well, will help me get an official certificate to be able to teach English abroad. (It’s not that I haven’t thought about teaching Spanish as well, but I have not studied a degree in Spanish, so it would be a much lengthier process, and there isn’t a similar course recognised across countries). The course is here in Barcelona, but it is an intensive course, and we also have to prepare lessons and teach students, so I’m not sure I’ll have too much time for anything else. (We are warned we shouldn’t try to hold a job and do the course, as there isn’t enough time for everything).

I hope I don’t need to become a superhero to pass the course, but, of course, we all know that teachers are superheroes/heroines.

So yes, I hope in the future, my desk might look like this:

Don’t worry, though. You know how I feel about books:

Read, read, read, is my motto. Or this one:

I will keep reading and trying to get on top of my ever-growing reading list:

And you’re likely to see some reviews here, but probably not as many as usual. Don’t be worried. Now you know what I am up to. Every time you wonder about a grammar point or correct some spelling mistake, think of me.

Thanks for your patience, enjoy the month of March and keep reading and smiling!

Oh, and thanks to Unsplash and its collaborators for the awesome images!