As part of my teaching hours at my school, I meet one-on-one with teachers in the bilingual program to either help them with any specific vocab for class or sometimes, we go to a bar across the street just to practice speaking in English (totally normal for teachers to grab coffee at a bar during school hours in Spain lol). One day, two of the teachers, Jorge and Joan David, combined their two hours of conversation and proposed the idea of taking me to El Castillo de Calatrava, which is a sweet castle about 30 minutes away from Puertollano. The exchange was they were to be my tour guides and speak only in English. So I got to sightsee while they were practicing English. So technically, that day I worked at a castle!
The guys who took me told me that many people work on the castle to try to restore it, but they do it for very little pay because the government doesn't support it very much. It was crazy seeing the people moving concrete blocks, one at a time, as if they were old laborers from that time. Call me lazy and pessimistic, but I just could not have the patience to do such labor on such an ENORMOUS castle.
Jorge and me. Jorge teaches biology and natural science.
Hanging out with Joan David, a music teacher at my school.
The views were out of this world!! When I told my friends that I went to this castle, many were like, oh big whoop. I'm like GUYS CASTLES ARE NOT NORMAL!! lol It's like castles are no big deal to people out here. This castle is especially cool because of its history. It was the center of war areas back in the time of the Christians trying to take over the Muslim territories.
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