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San Cristóbal Week 5 Daily
Finally, on Sunday, I went to Kinoki's independent film documentary restaurant, which I didn't have time to visit last time. Most people come here to drink coffee, eat, and watch the scenery. The third floor has an excellent view. You can see the city center and even the scenery of the mountains in the distance. Unfortunately, it started to rain after a while on the third floor. It's pretty much free here every night...
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San Cristóbal Week 4 Daily
Attended a couch-surfing event for the first time on Sunday, there are very few couch-surfing events here. Before I went, I saw that there were more than a dozen people signing up, but when I arrived, except for the organizer, I was the only one, and I arrived 15 minutes late. He moved here from the neighboring big city Tuxtla three years ago, and has been teaching Spanish online, especially English...
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The second week of San Cristóbal
This week, I will continue to take the Spanish class as usual. My class status is good and bad. Sometimes it seems like a chicken blood, and I have a special desire to communicate. The three-hour class feels very fast, and it is over before I can finish it. Sometimes I feel like my brain is overwhelmed, my knowledge is saturated, I can't answer even the simplest questions, and I look forward to leaving the get out of class quickly. But most of the time...
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Daily routine for the first week in San Cristóbal
The Spanish class has been on for a week. On the first day, the girl at the front desk of the Spanish language school still remembered that I came last month. I've been a teacher for so long that I forgot what it's like to be a student. From Monday to Friday, there are three hours of Spanish class, one grammar class and one oral class, taught by two different teachers. They are all good teachers and I am very satisfied. Been there for almost 10 years...
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Peneda-Gerês National Park
Unexpectedly, the penultimate day of the trip to Spain and Portugal became the biggest highlight of the entire itinerary. Due to the high unknown coefficient, it experienced the ups and downs without risk. Everything has to start with the high school principal in the San Francisco Bay Area that I met the day before yesterday. He had just gone hiking in Peneda-Gerês, the only national park in Portugal, and showed me pictures,…
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Porto
When I woke up in the morning, I received a lot of messages from my friends, all about the impact of the new crown virus. Trump just announced that travelers from Europe will be banned from entering the United States for 30 days starting on the 13th. I am worried that I will not be able to go back. I will check the specific policy right away. Fortunately, this policy does not cover US citizens and permanent residents returning to the United States from Europe. I went to the Youth Hostel before I even came to wash up…
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Seville (2)
Finally warm enough to go for a morning run! This was the first and only run of the trip. After that, I went to the Catedral de Sevilla Seville Cathedral. I checked online that it should have opened at 11 o'clock and charged 10 Euro tickets, but when I passed one of the doors at 8 o'clock, a beggar opened the door and said that I could enter...
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Seville (1)
The third time I used the ride-hailing software BlaBlaCar and I had a total of four passengers, two Spanish natives and one Salvadoran tourist, all of whom only spoke Spanish. One of them is from Sevilla. I asked her to recommend me some delicious and interesting local food. She immediately took out her notebook and began to write me two pages seriously. …
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cordova
I was supposed to take the train to Córdoba at 8:00 in the morning, but when I got dizzy last night, I set the alarm clock for 7:50, which should have been set for 6:50. I arrived at the train station in a leisurely manner only to find out that it was almost nine o'clock, so I had to buy a new ticket for ten o'clock, which was the first time I missed public transportation when I grew up. To the owner of the sofa...
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Ronda
The second time I used the ride-hailing software to travel from Granada to Ronda. Besides the car owner, there was another passenger who carpooled together. The scenery along the way is beautiful. The owner of the car is from Madrid, but he is doing a PhD in marine history at a university in the south and teaching assistants in history classes. His undergraduate studies in Madrid, postgraduate studies in Barcelona, first year PhD in Norway...