COMING UP THE SHOW YOU HAVE ALL...

...BEEN WAITING FOR.

Our jokes evening.
Our leading raconteur (Juan Antonio) has a repertoire.
He will help to explain to the obstacles in your way to speaking English properly.
We are sure everyone will want to tell us their story.

Lots of lovely pics from San Francisco

Hill St?... The bay

Pretty shop Skyline

Read about Ana's impressions and sensations of this city below.

Cowboy country.

They are beautiful, Ana.
Keep writing!

Custar city     &     4th July

On the ranch

Here is more from Ana.
Ana is a law graduate from U.A.M. and lives in San Sebastián de los Reyes.
She's seeing a lot of the U.S. The lovely family she is staying with are really keen on their children learning Spanish.

Dakota has Mount Rushmore, as you can see in the picture.

Well, about 70 years ago, a family decided that if it was important to dedicate a memorial of this magnitude to the memory of four U.S. Presidents, why not one to the American Indians? Hence the idea of building a stone monument dedicated to American Indians, called "Crazy Horse Mountain."
Crazy Horse is funded by a family with the money they get from tourism, which is why unlike the 14 years it took to build Mount Rushmore, this one has taken 70 years, and is still incomplete).

And what about the cowboys?
Well,the mentality in the state of South Dakota is generally of self-sufficiency, i.e. no state intervention, so there are many farms and families and they usually spend day after day working hard. The day begins early, at 5 or 6 am and usually ends with lunch at 12h.

Meanwhile, checked shirt, hat and cowboy boots!

Ana's America from Ana Rodríguez Bartolomé

HERE ARE SOME OF ANA'S PICTURES

THIS IS SOUTH DAKOTA

Now I'm in San Francisco again, a wonderful city! In August I'll go to New York so I'll have more impressions about the U.S.for the blog!!

Sensations and impressions in San Francisco:

When you get to a new city the first thing you say is "WOOW" and naturally the most difficult thing is to adapt to the language and customs! Food! You must adapt to eating times, at 12 a light lunch, then the dinner at 7 and it is a heavy meal! People! It is curious to see the kindness that surrounds people in San Francisco, always with a smile and kind words, despite you're unknown to them.

Downtown! The first thing you think is: "Welcome to hell, the slopes and hills are certainly a divine punishment" after a while you get used to them and learn the bus routes and will adapt to the automatic car!. It is a wonderful place to walk and wander, every neighborhood is different , not only aesthetically but the people, colors and even the smells (the Mission neighborhood is a real Latin place where the smell of street food mixes)What you can not get used to, being Spanish, is getting up in the morning, to see the calendar set July 15, and through the window you see a cloudy day with rain. As Mark Twain said,'Never spent a winter as cold as that summer in San Francisco.My final assessment: Wonderful city. If you can, come here!!!

Sensations and impressions from a trip, Denver-Dakota:Open your eyes and what do you see?, a road that is lost in the horizon and large extensions of ground on both sides, sometimes a farm, that's it!

Stop at a supermarket, do you know the first thing that surprised me? Boxed food to take away industrial size. Everything here is in a big way, including cowboy hats and belt buckles, ooooh yeah I'm in the Wild Wild West!

Sensations and impressions Dakota:

Once you leave Wyoming behind, things change, we are in late June early July, and the fields could not be greener, yes, the good weather is accompanying us....Dakota is awesome, a rural people, their customs are deep-seated, but never ever forget their smile!Wonderful place to unwind, writers are welcome here ...you will finish your novels!!!.But..... yes!!! it's essential to have a car, here the distances between points are very very long, don't forget,

EVERYTHING IS BIG IN THE USA!

Things we do. The walk is next.

Here are some pics as we wait to hear about Ana's America.

Some good paperbacks at the Biblioteca Central Sanse



Pub Quiz at Nuba with prizes from Food Hall

Of great interest

ASEDOW is now registered with The Spanish Irish Business Network.

SIBN was launched in January 2008.
Its primary purpose is to serve as a dynamic network of companies and individuals working to promote business links between Spain and Ireland.

Everybody should know about this initiative.
ASEDOW is happy to spread the word and encourage thoughts and ideas on how to look for ways to help both countries use their greatest resources....their young people....to emerge from these difficult economic times.
As the song used to go...
United we stand. Divided we fall.

The Lemon n' Lime Marsascala Malta

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If you still haven't got your holidays, you'll enjoy this visit to the Mediterranean.

Sit on the terrace sipping a beer and enjoy the view of the bay. There's lots to read.

Then have a look at the jokes page. You can send one in to them.

The handsome man in the logo, Mr Patrick Malachy King, happens to be the owner of the pub and happens to be born in Castlewellan too. He also happens to be my twin brother, Paddy!

Want to know more? Come by on Thursday and ask me.
Biddy

Thursday 7th

Hi,

Come by the café in La Casa de la Juventud on Thursday at 20h if you want to use your English and hear about our upcoming activities.