Almu-NOTES

people need time to feel 

when we wre in the small islands. 

we were there only 3 days. 

but was the smallest island. 

a long trip through south america. 

cuzco

one month

during that month, 

we felt the city like our home. 

cuzco is the city to start the trip to maccu pichu

Cuzco is a large center but the city center is small.  

arond the city you can find a lot of suburbs, but poor suburbs. 

a hotel with 4 stars

 a 4-star hotel

we did a volunteer work with children

It was a good experience to know bettter the city. 

one of my ideas was that, bedause i wanted to travel but also did a volunteer work (do)

because it’s good way to know the community more. 

i wanted to do a volunteer work. 

VA said ok, but in a city, not in a small town, 

they preferred to stay in. city with faiclities, servicies.

the coordinator was very friendly

the volunteers had to organizate the activities with children.

the objective of the program was to help them with their homeworok

but we organized a dance festival (bollywood)

el vesturario

the wardrobe

we sold the tickets, and we donated the money to the program. 

the place was a church, i think so.   (I think)

we explained them our idea. p.  

we had different tareas

tasks p. 

grapadora

stapler

then, few months later,….. 

if they had good behavior

if they behaved

2 years after this travel i was in kenya.  

working a small NGO working with women. 

if you do a volunteer work ou can work with women and with their children. 

comercio justo

fair trade

they did bracelates

small figures with cloth

tote bags. p. 

a small island in kenya that called Lamu. 

they combinate the trip of Tanzania with Zanzibar. 

lamu is a very staml isanldn in keny similar Zanzibar. 

we almost lost the next flight

when i finished some tourists were raped p. 

llevo muchos anos pensando to visit Egypt. 

now is not a good moment, but not for

i think if you go there like tourists, probably you dont have problems. 

in that countries

ARAB SPRING, LEARN ABOUT ARAB 

los ultimos anos

the last few years

if you want that international medi talk about you

you have to do these things. 

human resources told us that we can work in home

I didnt have cold, or hot. 

i like the good weather. 

mi abuela

today, finally, i work in home. 

she grew up in an village in extremadura

and when my mother was a child they moved to madrid. 

she lives here since for a lot of years. 

in th e60’s barrio de pilar was created. 

construyeron

they built

big buildings and cheap buildings

thin paredes

la Vaguada

one of the first malls in madrid. 

there live a lot of people.  

i have friends that all sundays go to their fathers’ home for lunch. 

your brother have ot take care of them always? 

Is she 

I dont like change the line in the metro. 

I prefer to go by walk to metro. 

they are comfortable flats.  p.  

i prefer that my parents move there before My birth. 

I would have preferred 

in madrid all is expensive. 

work mates = ok, or

coworkers, colleagues. 

Pronounce: Unicef 

all years, in Unicef, some workers are elegidos…

Every year, in Unicef, some workers are chosen. 

some of us win an activity for 2 days. (past)

some of us won an activity for 2 days. 

so tomorrow some of us are going to the country 

so tomorrow some of us are going to the countryside.

we are going to do a special activity. 

trekking

hiking. 

and then we have a lunch together. 

a coach activity

to find the best of the team

to bring out the best of the team. 

i love cooking. 

p. recipes. 

we are going to a cooking class. 

our direct boss proposed some of us. 

perhaps he recommneded more of two people. 

the bosses could recommnded 

last year, for this activity, went other coworker of me. 

subi de posicioni

i was promoted

premio

prize

reward

a van take us in the office at 9:30

pick us up. 

cercedilla

rascafria

navacerrada. 

Cascadas del purgatorio

Indonesian Waterfalls. 

catarata / cascada

me quede

i was

i stayed

all in all, 

equinoterapia

cleaning horses. 

i want that they live in their world. 

no se si lo siguen haciendo

i dont know if they still do it. 

 silk

a litlte duck

a chick?

maltrato de animales

animal abuse

when i was a child, it’s usually, that in the rastro, podias comprar little ducks and turtles, birds, chickens. 

sometimes they were painted of different colors.  

i was for a long time ask for my mother 

for a long time, I was asking my mother for a little duck. 

in one moment, my mother said, Ok, i buy a duck for you.   

when i was in home with the duck. 

i had a neighbor that he was my friend. 

si no fuera alergica

if i weren’t allergic. 

WHAT ARE HTE PROS AND CONS OF ____ (long format)

owning a dog vs owning a cat? 

i have friends in Pontevedra, 

i took the flight to Vigo. = good, or

I flew to Vigo. 

a

galicia has changed the weather. p.  

the weather of galician

now there has better weeather than other years. 

estuve en santiago hace muchos anos. 

you can’t go by walk (to the beach)

peatonal = pedestrian. 

you can go on foot

baja california for holidays. 

we took the flight to sandietgo

when aida and me was there, nobody walk.  all people in car. 

more friendly like american cities. 

buenos aires, 

quito

enorme

enormous

you have all the different neighhors. (neighborhoods)

all types of … 

you dont have the real vision

you dont get the real picture

it’s possible that next summer that i go to take english classes

curso intensive. 

intensive course. 

bueno, 

well, 

the meal is better in tijuana

they didnt looks like latin. 

i cant say in spanish also

i dont know say

tijuana have a lot of hospitals

“hospital hotels”

you have cancer, perhaps

let’s say

the company born in galicia

lean left, lean right

communicty govertm

municipal govt. 

local govt. 

more of the times is from PP. 

all of the people who works in PP.  

take our works

steal our jobs

have works that people from here dont want to do. 

in Unicef I do campaigns.  

people call our dnors to ask them about a donation or something like that. 

we went to the company that do this iind of calls 

it’s very tired

it’s very tiring

people are desagradable

unpleaasant

some years ago I do the auditory

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telephone number for information. 

in colombia. 

now do.  close at 3:30 in the night. 

i love classic filims. 

aida tell me that all the time. 

The Office. 

p.  i watched

 some time ago

a while ago. 

temporada

season

you can compare with them

you can identify with them. 

in the deep

deep down

en lo profundo? 

he looks strange = 

sopranos, bareaking bad, didnt like these too much. 

the series that takes place in the 1950’s. 

publicidty

advertising

it describe the real life in that years. 

it was a man world. 

sobre todo

especially

sobre todo work world

espeically the professional world. 

climb the corporate ladder

but other woman protoganist works a lot.  she’s publicist.  work with other old men.  

radiografia

general picture. 

you cannt do that because you are a woman p.  

you dont have to stay here

you shouldnt stay here. 

all of my life i work in companies where the majority are women. 

empresas

companies

we are the 

people who donor Uniceif

people who donate to Unicef

me, now, I’m the responsible of making campngins to get money from you donors. 

fundraising. 

500,000 donors and 

if we have to reply him. 

i am prepareing a campgin to donate petition to our 

to petition donations for our partners. 

and try that they donate a part of their quota.  

donacion puntual

one time donation

p.  earthquake

inundacion = flood

sudan south

south sudan

thanks for their collaboration, in 2022, wecould vacunate half the children in the world, less 5 years. 

i am friend of both

I am a friend of both 

I am a friend of both of them.

i met Aida before Vane

we met in Dublin a lot of years ago.  

we met in Dublin many years ago. 

we lived together for 7months.  

we moved together also to Asturias and we lived 2 years there.  

we also moved together to Australia and lived there for 2 years.  

she moved here a lot of years ago. 

she moved here many years ago

she moved here a long time ago. 

WHERE IN MADRID ARE YOU FROM? WHAT BARRIO?  HOW MUCH OF MADRID DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU KNOW?  COULD YOU DRIVE A TAXI IN MADRID? 

and then she start to live with Vane. 

and then she started to live with Vane

and then she started living with Vane. 

Vane moved

and now Aida and Me work in Unicef also. 

and now Aida and I work in Unicef as well.  

In June I changed my puesto in work. 

In June I changed my position at work. 

some years ago I practiced more because i was working in a little NGO

the NGO works with volunteer people, people who wanted to visit other countries and to do volunteer.
the NGO works with volunteers, people who want to visit other countries and do volunteer work. 

monjes 

monks

the next of the travel.  

the rest of the trip

was a moment that you have to do that 

it was a split-second decision

medicamentos 

medications

i finished my medicaments and I had to buy in a pharma

I had finished my medication and I had to buy it at a pharmacy

today i got up at 6:15

and went to the office becuase  we work sometimes in the office and sometimes in home.  

and went to the office because sometimes we work in the office and sometimes at home. 

we change the turn

we change the shift. 

we alternate shifts. 

wednesdays one week we start in the office 

what are some benefits of working from home? 

boss is at home. 

all the time working with boss

i have my head explode. 

working with the boss all the time

my head explodes

worst than at home.  

I go by walk to sol, 

I go to Sol walking. 

I walk to Sol

tardo lo mismo

it takes me the same time 

(it takes me the same time by subway as by train)

a lot of hot in the morning

a lot of heat in the morning

very hot in the morning.

mochila

backpack

pilates, yoga, tai chi = body balance. 

estirar

 stretch

it’s similar like yoga. 

it’s similar to yoga

Forus (gym)

Gilly Meno, ilsland, best part. 

worst part, Jarkarta. 

TELL ME MORE.  

YOU HAVE TRAVELLED, THE THREE OF YOU TOGETHER, BEFORE.  HOW DID THIS TRIP COMPARE TO GREECE, OR MEXICO, OR ANY OTHER TRIP YOU’VE DONE? 

DID YOU WORRY ABOUT GETTING SICK THIS TIME?  HOW IS THE FOOD AND WATER IN INDONESIA?

a lot of polution, a lot of traffic.  

almu.fuentem@gmail.com

i ran itno you in aida’s home. 

i had dinner with vane y aida. 

all tuesdays we have a friends’ dinner. 

WHAT DO YOU TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE THE DINNER? 

last wednesday, i started my work week in home.  

at home. 

in the afternoon we went to the hospita, bercause my bf had a little surgery. 

the rest of the days i didnt do too much because 

i had to take care him. 

on thursdahy and friday i had a quiet days. 

on satuday i went out with two friends for a little time, for a moment. 

There are a bar in casino park.  

but we didnt like because to order something you have to pay with the phone, 

and

i thought was because

i thought it was because

they afraid with theif

they were afraid of being robbed. 

when the sun go out

when the sun sets. 

we went at the beginning of summer when they opened. 

when teh tabaqualera working

when the tabaquealera was open

mosf of them were women. 

at the first, the building inside casino park 

I’m not religious. 

alcobendas. 

ciudad dormoritio = suburb? 

people live there because it’s cheaper than madrid. 

but didnt work there, have to go to work by train or something like that. 

that is changing because a lot of companies are there. (have moved there)

now they live in mostelesetc. 

but some years ago, no. (they didnt)

it’s different like 10 years ago.

than

20 years ago you only 

the constrction of aera Chamartin has started, 

so that people had to move. 

i hae to across the parking.  

i hae to cross the parking lot

not necessary

not necessarily

descampado 

empty lot

when i was a child i didnt ike too much alcobendas. 

amigo sde toda la vida

my lifelong friends. 

depend of hte day

depending on the day

I changed house a lotof times. 

i moved many times. 

and then i moved alone. 

and then i moved into my own place. 

when start the pandemic, we start to live otgether, my boyfriend and me/i. 

i started to work in home. 

30m2. 

we moved to anothe flat.  was a big flat.  

he lowered the rent = from spanish. 

finally we have to moe. in the end we had to move . 

friend gave a bigger flat, lowered rent. 

not friends anymore. 

 plagas

infestations. 

trampas

traps