Just Village Things

The trials and tribulations of exile in deepest Catalonia

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Filling out the feedback form for the Ministerio de Educación like

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When the village throws an ACTUALLY AMAZING PARTY

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When the bus driver genuinely asks A for directions out of Barcelona because “it’s my first time and I don’t know the way” 

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Keeping yourself entertained in the village

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Most likely cause of village traffic jam

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When the youths drive past with their chumba chumba and J has a zumba routine to it all

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When you set your Tinder radius to a shorter distance than it is to Barcelona

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¡LOS OTROS ESTÁN CALLADOS!

aka when A and J get told off for daring to speak English on the bus

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truth.

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Trying to remember and pronounce my students’ catalan names

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Oh no wait, we haven’t stepped into the past, it’s just a Catalan village...

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Tried this on more than one occasion... it. does. not. work.

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Confronting old villagers who won’t stop staring at you in bars, the street, the library, the theatre, the cinema, on the bus, from their balcony...

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After a year of teaching English to imbéciles in a small Catalan village...

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Literally this

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When the villagers are amazed that you speak Catalan and shower you with adoration

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When Year 1 still don’t understand what “How are you?” means and you’ve asked them every day since September