About the Author
Little known (or perhaps highly predictable) facts about yours truly:
- After 3 years of teaching K-8 Spanish at a charter school near Detroit, I received a Fulbright grant and am in Alicante, Spain as a English Teaching Assistant.
- I love learning about language and culture as much as I love teaching it.
- I am very jealous of people who can raise one eyebrow independently of the other. I can’t.
- I am determined to have bilingual children.
- I have a tattoo of a mother pelican on my left shoulder blade, and stretched ears… but it is self and world modification I am interested in, more than body modification.
- I used to be able to spell in English but Spanish ruined me.
- I got a lisp in Spain, according to some, but I think I am still muy gringa.
- I am the oldest of seven children.
- I am terrified of heights but I love them. You will have to push me out of the plane when we go skydiving.
- I know how to pick locks, though I’m out of practice.
- I hate being anywhere without my camera and my journal, but constantly forget my keys, my phone, and my glasses.
- I need to clean up my language.
- I was home schooled until college.
- I don’t think I have ever successfully operated a combination lock without serious difficulties. May be lack of locker experience as a child.
- I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
- I am not afraid of PDAs (that is, Public Displays of Affection).
- I am afraid of PDAs (that is, those yuppie planner things with a lot of buttons).
- I drink my coffee with cream & sugar & in copious amounts.
- I sometimes cut hair as a sign of affection.
- I am infamous for falling asleep just about anywhere. Desks, alleys, gay bars, innumerable couches…
- I have cats. I have been known to sit at home alone with them and a bottle of wine, which may make me an early-onset cat lady.
- Teaching is my career and my passion, but I dream of having self-funded hobbies. I have sold some photography already, so that’s a start.
- I wear out shoes until the soles come apart.
- I could spend all my grocery money in the fresh produce aisle.
- I will go back to Europe someday.
- I love people with bookshelves.
- I make lists sometimes for lack of eloquence.
Sara –
we were destined to be friends
or…i was destined to stalk you
my monday nights are nothing but free
Sara – I hope you don’t mind me leaving this here but I’ve been searching all over the internet for you — stalking indeed. Well, not quite I hope. I just wanted to get in touch with you about a poetry book I’m trying to compile…Could you email me an I’ll give you the details? Feel free to delete this message, I simply couldn’t find a contact anywhere on your page.
I love Your Page!!!!!!!!!
Hola Gringa!
Tambien estoy muy interesado en las lenguas extranjeras. Soy Gringo y, de hecho, aprendí el espanol por mi propia cuenta. En este momento, dedico mucho tiempo de estudiar el japones. Para mi, es una obsesión, pero una q’ me ayuda en la industria de caballos de carreras.
Soy encargado de una finca en Versailles, Kentucky, y tengo muchas oportunidades de comunicar con los hispanos. Hay muchos trabajadores y clientes de centro y sudamerica q’ estan involucrados con los caballos.
Bueno, me encanta muchísimo su pagina! Tengo tres hijos, y los dos primeros no estaban interesados de aprender el espanol, pero tengo un nuevo…un bebe q’ ya comenzo de charlar un poco espanol y japones!
Tienes mucho razon acerca de la pérdida de su lengua original despues de aprender otra! De vez en cuando, olvido una palabra en english y no importa si soy capaz de comprenderla en el espanol! jajajaja….Esa me vuelve loco!
Chau!
Ken
Hi Sarah –
Your Dad and I just recently had breakfast together in Dundee and I was asking if you were in Spain and he told me that you were, and that you have a blog you had been writing. I looked at some of the pics in your blog – wonderful!! The landscapes look really beautiful too! How are you doing in Spain? How is the weather now? I hope this note finds you doing well and benefiting from your experience in Spain. Ann & I have some friends who lived there for about 5 years and he did not want to come back when it was time for them to return to the states.
Warmest wishes!!
Dave Kontur