David Bisbal Concert

After another week of vacation, it was back to work! I had my first day of school on Friday. It was great to see everyone again and the best part of the day was to see that one of my favorite coworkers was back this year! She's my age, so she was a first year teacher last year and I figured she would have been placed in another school this year which is typically what happens. However, she is doing one more year at the school!

I still haven't received my schedule for the year. There are supposed to be two other assistants at the school since our bilingual program goes to 4th grade this year, however the second assistant never showed up and the school hasn't heard anything from her. Hopefully she'll show up on Monday, or they'll send a new assistant soon. Either way, I hope to have my schedule finalized on Monday.

In other news, my roommate and I were randomly looking at what concerts would be taking place in Madrid in the next couple months. We happened to discover that one of our favorite Spanish artists David Bisbal was having a concert this weekend! A little background on David for those who don't know him...he won a singing competition much like American Idol, in 2002. Since then, he's had a lot of success in Spain and Latin America. His most recent song, "Wavin Flag" was a World Cup song which was hugely popular here for obvious reasons! I tried to upload a video of him singing it at the concert, but couldn't get it to work so a youtube video will have to do!

I first heard of David when I lived in Spain for a month with a host family in 2002. My host sister always played his CD in the house, and although I couldn't understand much of what he said, I liked the music and began to associate it with my time in Spain. I eventually ended up buying the CD before I left and would listen to it back in the States. However, I didn't keep up with his career through the years, but I was reintroduced to his music in 2007 when I studied in Sevilla. My friends and I always joked about seeing him in concert and we finally got a chance this weekend! The concert took place on a soccer field in a suburb of Madrid. Luckily it wasn't too crowded and since it was general admission, we got to be pretty close to the front.

I'm so glad we were finally able to make it to one of his concerts while we were here. For me personally, it took me back to the first time I came to Spain and made me realize how far I've come since then. If you would have told me then that I would be living in Spain now, I would have never believed you. I knew very little of the language and felt like a total foreigner, now eight years later I've come a long way with the language and each day Madrid feels more and more like home.

Until next time!