A few favorites + the beginning of the last trimester

 Last trimester has already begun and I cannot believe I am in my final months of my first teaching abroad experience. It has been nothing short of amazing, all of it including the difficult teaching days and the days where I quite literally fell off my bike.

Or the day I lost in pingpong and pool (but won in bowling) and I had to wear a monkey onesie around Valencia - but I got wine, jamón and queso so who really won? Also I have never heard "que mono" more than this day.

  

There have been great days of day trips to the villages around Valencia. Hiking to the tops of beautiful mountains and hour train rides and lunches on the tops of mountains. This hike was in Llíria, Spain.

All of the days, including these rascals. This day everyone was dressed up in costumes (for their favorite books) when I got to school, so naturally I had to run home and grab my costume. The kids loved it and so did I. Can you spot the monkey in the back? 

I never realized how difficult it is to take a picture with thirty 10 year olds. But mission accomplished.