Scarborough: here I go!

 Hello to you all!

My name is Julio Monge. For those of you who doesn't know a bit about me, here's some basic info. I'm a 38 y.o. Social Science teacher in Spain. I work in a little pretty seaside town in the province of Huelva, southern Spain, very near to the Portuguese border. I put my life in the line every day trying to teach History, Geography and English to those big brained bags full of hormones we usually call secondary students. As I really have so much fun with my job, I reluctantly jumped straight with both feets into the opportunity to go as far away as I can. Which, in this case, is the city of Scarborough, in the United Kingdom.

The idea is to (try to) improve my teaching skills and my command in English. I also intend making new contacts and share experiences with workmates from all over the E.U. Hopefully, I will also be able to have a look at how other European educative systems deal with the kind of problem we deal with in my school, like students getting asleep while I try to get inside their heads interesting historical stuff. Yes, it is interesting stuff. 

During the weeks to come I'm going to tell you a tale. The tale of a poor and provincial Spanish teacher travelling to the very cosmopolitan, and a little bit turbulent right now, United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland. Well, nothing new here, all Europe is a little bit in turmoil right now, isn't it.

But I need your help. As I like to prepare things in advance, I'm preparing a "talk list" so I have some prepared topics to talk about when I arrive in England, so I can make a lot of friends over there. The list, as for now, is as follows:

Topic 1. Touching the Rock. No, really, couldn't we share Gibraltar as goods kids? Kind of hundred years shifts. No?

Topic 2. Brexit, theory and practice of what the hell are you going to do. Now, seriously, what the hell are you going to do? Better together, don't you remember? We're going to miss you.

Topic 3. Anglo-Spanish shared experiences. Let's talk about all those battles we fought together and how many limbs did we lose to each other. Yes, I've said together. Well, you know, we were on the same battlefield. Sometimes even at the same time.

Topic 4. Scottish Gambit; how to play it. But I have to be careful as I can get into a dreadful Catalonian Defense. If so, I plan a bold Irish Counter-Attack.

Would you like to suggest me more topics for my talk list? You now, the kind of topics that will keep me away from problems? Like if you please, comment if you dare!