Well, this year is over. I have created this blog with the hope of letting people know about our exchange every Tuesday, and how things develop, but it seems I have failed somewhat.
However, I have recently come to find that people ARE reading our blog, and that poeple DO read our facebook group and this makes more and more people come to our exchange. Therefore, the battle is lost, but the war is not over yet.
I have therefore made the resolution to resurrect this blog, and update this and the facebook group regularly, so I hope you like them and I how to have your support.
Happy New Year everyone!!
martes, 28 de diciembre de 2010
miércoles, 12 de mayo de 2010
Exchange, Tuesday 11-05-2010
Hello and Welcome back!
In this entry I'd like to give you an update of how things went in the last exchange we had on Tuesday 11-05-2010.
I'd like to begin by saying that it was a great success yet again, and we achieved to gather a whole of 20 people throughout the exchange. However, these 20 were not together at the same time, because some people came earlier and also had to leave earlier, etc etc...
From five past eight to around quarter to nine, we had the pleasure of counting with no less than 6 native speakers from different parts of the USA. They, however, had to leave quite early, so most of the people that came later, couldn't meet them. It's a real pity they had to leave so early, because we could have really enjoyed their company, and also we would have had a very didactic session.
Aaaanyway, the thing is, that soon after the 6 American natives left, the rest of the people started to arrive. A total of 13 people plus a person from Finland.
The session was quite fun and dynamic, and we got to speak and practice our oral English very well. We also learnt a lot about the military service in Finland and we had a couple of newcomers too.
All in all, we had a great time, but nothing like the exchanges we'd been having from about two months back when we used to get around 25 people. We must try to achieve that again.
I'd finally like to apologise for not having any photographs for you from this Tuesday, but I will definetly try to change that for next Tuesday. I will just have to remember to take the camera.
Thank you very much for reading this, and, also, I hope to see you next Tuesday!!^^
In this entry I'd like to give you an update of how things went in the last exchange we had on Tuesday 11-05-2010.
I'd like to begin by saying that it was a great success yet again, and we achieved to gather a whole of 20 people throughout the exchange. However, these 20 were not together at the same time, because some people came earlier and also had to leave earlier, etc etc...
From five past eight to around quarter to nine, we had the pleasure of counting with no less than 6 native speakers from different parts of the USA. They, however, had to leave quite early, so most of the people that came later, couldn't meet them. It's a real pity they had to leave so early, because we could have really enjoyed their company, and also we would have had a very didactic session.
Aaaanyway, the thing is, that soon after the 6 American natives left, the rest of the people started to arrive. A total of 13 people plus a person from Finland.
The session was quite fun and dynamic, and we got to speak and practice our oral English very well. We also learnt a lot about the military service in Finland and we had a couple of newcomers too.
All in all, we had a great time, but nothing like the exchanges we'd been having from about two months back when we used to get around 25 people. We must try to achieve that again.
I'd finally like to apologise for not having any photographs for you from this Tuesday, but I will definetly try to change that for next Tuesday. I will just have to remember to take the camera.
Thank you very much for reading this, and, also, I hope to see you next Tuesday!!^^
jueves, 6 de mayo de 2010
Bienvenida v2.0
OK, this is my second entry, and an update on the first. I believe I forgot to mention a couple of things which I will be addressing now. Firstly, I would like to say that the exchange is an English-Spanish, exchange where people who know Spanish and want to learn English, and people who want to learn Spanish and know English meet at A Caldereria, and have a language exchange. Just wanted to clear that up.
On another note, there will be 3 people writing on this blog, and The language we write in MAY vary. For example, I may write in English or Galician. Javi (Cuchillitos) told me he would write in Spanish, and I suppose Turco will too. Therefore we will have quite a variation of languages for people to read in.
Finally, if for any reason anyone would like to get in contact with us, you may write to:
santitorr@hotmail.com
And in subject please write O Parrafeo, because otherwise, your email might be deleted befor being read.
I hope to see everyone next Tuesday, and I will be giving everyone the new URL to the blog. Also, I would really like to take a group picture and post it here next Tuesday and keep a log of how many people attend.
Thank you very much and I hope to see you soon.
On another note, there will be 3 people writing on this blog, and The language we write in MAY vary. For example, I may write in English or Galician. Javi (Cuchillitos) told me he would write in Spanish, and I suppose Turco will too. Therefore we will have quite a variation of languages for people to read in.
Finally, if for any reason anyone would like to get in contact with us, you may write to:
santitorr@hotmail.com
And in subject please write O Parrafeo, because otherwise, your email might be deleted befor being read.
I hope to see everyone next Tuesday, and I will be giving everyone the new URL to the blog. Also, I would really like to take a group picture and post it here next Tuesday and keep a log of how many people attend.
Thank you very much and I hope to see you soon.
miércoles, 5 de mayo de 2010
Benvida-Bienvenida-Welcome
Welcome to the official blog for the exchange O Parrafeo which takes place every Tuesday in A Calderería (Santiago De Compostela).
In this blog I will be bringing you news and other things related (or not) to the exchange with the help of Javi (Turco) and Javi (Cuchillitos). We will also post videos and pictures taken in the exchange.
As I said before, the exchange takes place every Tuesday in the bar A Calderería, in Santiago de Compostela. It officially starts at eight o'clock in the afternoon, but anyone can drop in at any time. The exchange is open, free and anyone can come anytime they want.
This exchange has been going on for some time now. I personally don't know how long. I started to go in November 2008, and it already had some time. Since the previous organizer stopped coming near the end of 2009, and since I was the most veteran and the most regular assistant, I took on his footsteps. I began to remind people to come to the exchange and encourage them to come.
Finally, we decided to make this blog for varoius reasons. Firstly, I wanted a webspace to keep everyone posted on the exchange and news, etc etc. Also, I had the Idea to post a Picture every Tuesday to show how many people really come, and thus encourage other people who read this to come and give this a try.
Anyway, This is just a brief intrduction (and an improvised one...as you can tell). I hope this does something, and I hope more people come to the exchange thanks to this.
Thank you very much and Welcome to the new blog!!
In this blog I will be bringing you news and other things related (or not) to the exchange with the help of Javi (Turco) and Javi (Cuchillitos). We will also post videos and pictures taken in the exchange.
As I said before, the exchange takes place every Tuesday in the bar A Calderería, in Santiago de Compostela. It officially starts at eight o'clock in the afternoon, but anyone can drop in at any time. The exchange is open, free and anyone can come anytime they want.
This exchange has been going on for some time now. I personally don't know how long. I started to go in November 2008, and it already had some time. Since the previous organizer stopped coming near the end of 2009, and since I was the most veteran and the most regular assistant, I took on his footsteps. I began to remind people to come to the exchange and encourage them to come.
Finally, we decided to make this blog for varoius reasons. Firstly, I wanted a webspace to keep everyone posted on the exchange and news, etc etc. Also, I had the Idea to post a Picture every Tuesday to show how many people really come, and thus encourage other people who read this to come and give this a try.
Anyway, This is just a brief intrduction (and an improvised one...as you can tell). I hope this does something, and I hope more people come to the exchange thanks to this.
Thank you very much and Welcome to the new blog!!
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