I lived in Ponteareas, Galicia, Spain for the 2010-11 school year teaching English with a program offered through the Spanish government. My job was to assist in an English classroom at an elementary school, helping prepare lesson plans, activities to teach cultural aspects of English speaking countries, holiday activities, and presentations. A friend mentioned to me that it’s design because it’s communicating the old school way: in a classroom in front of a board.

This also allowed for time to be immersed in a different culture, further practice Spanish, fill sketchbooks with observations and documentations of new styles, ways of life and design sensibilities. See blog posts for further documentations from the journey, especially this one.