Proceed to Spain!: About a week ...

Thursday, February 20, 2014

About a week ...

About a week ago I started my TESOL course. TESOL stands for 'Teaching English as a Second Language'. I have always wanted to do this course. When I was at school one of my career choices was to teach English, but I went in another direction. The idea is to have this as another string to my bow and teach English when we move to Spain.

I have already set up a TESOL information page on the website wwwenglishforspeaking.com. It isn't linked to my blogger site yet so if you want a look go to 'www.english4speaking.blogspot.com.au'

I can't believe how difficult English is to learn. Jeepers I must be clever being able to know the language so well! What takes the joy out of learning a language is all the technical stuff. Speaking a language is a bit like driving a luxury sports car, but learning all the past perfects and other stuff is like opening the hood and getting to know all the bits of the engine and how it works. Eek!

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Welcome to "Proceed to Spain!"

I have much to tell you. This is the story of a journey that started in my mind many, many years ago when I was a younger man. But first I would like to explain the title of this site.

Having decided to make the move to Spain, Sarah, my wife, suggested I write a book about the journey. So I had the idea of creating a website to record the steps along the way. I was looking for a title and came up with all sorts of headings, but the domain name was either not available or was too expensive ... names like "Living in Spain", "Return to Spain" were all taken.

I hit on the name "Always Spain" although I wasn't comfortable with it because I kept seeing "Always Pain"! Then at the bottom of the page I noticed the "Proceed to Checkout" button. This means that you are ready to commit to the purchase and it hit me that this would be a great title. Sarah and I are now very committed to moving to Spain and so there is no looking back, the journey has begun and we will "Proceed to Spain!"

Another little tip here about our thinking. Yes, we are taking this journey because we intend to live out our years in Spain, for reasons that I will explain later, but we have no concept of the word "Retirement" ... in fact that is the last time I shall use the "R" word in this story. For us it is a rite of passage, a chance to reinvent ourselves once again. It is a birth and renewal of the soul.

Welcome once again ... lets proceed to Spain.....

David is a Change Management Consultant with international experience as a senior executive responsible for implementing transformational change across all levels of the organisation. A professionally Accredited Prosci Change Management Practitioner, David has also completed the Advanced Program at the Change Management Learning Center, Chicago, USA.

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