15 Quotes That Will Make You Want to Travel to Spain

15 Quotes That Will Make You Want to Travel to Spain Suzy S. Traveling can be one of the most amazing and rewarding experiences of your life. If you’re in the process of learning Spanish, why not travel to Spain to practice your skills? Adventuring to a Spanish-speaking country is a fantastic way to improve your Spanish speaking and listening comprehension skills. Youll also learn about the culture and how native speakers use the language daily. Below, weve rounded up some of the best travel quotes weve come across to help you get inspired! 1) I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain! â€"  George Orwell 2) “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” â€" Robert Louis Stevenson 3) “There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.” â€"  Ernest Hemingway 4) “Like Spain, I am bound to the past.” â€"  William S. Burroughs 5) “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” â€" Clint Borgen 6) “An investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” â€"  Matthew Karsten 7) “In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”  â€"  Federico Garcia Lorca 8) “To travel is to live.” â€"  Hans Christian Anderson 9) “It’s like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.” â€"  Lenny Kravitz 10) “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”â€"  Gustave Flaubert 11) “I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.” â€"  John Edward Masefield 12) “Traveling â€" it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” â€" Ibn Battuta 13) “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” â€"  St. Augustine 14) In Spain, the best way to keep a secret is to write a book.” â€"  Manuel Azaña 15) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” â€" Mark Twain The above 15 best travel quotes should encourage you to experience new things and travel to new places. So what are you waiting for? Enjoy a new adventure in Spain! Want to brush up your Spanish-speaking skills before you go? Find a Spanish tutor near you! Interested in Private Lessons? Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Sign up for convenient, affordable private lessons today! Search for Your Teacher Photo by Patrick

3 Things Introverts Do to Screw Up Their Career and What to Do Instead - Introvert Whisperer

Introvert Whisperer / 3 Things Introverts Do to Screw Up Their Career â€" and What to Do Instead - Introvert Whisperer 3 Things Introverts Do to Screw Up Their Career â€" and What to Do Instead The reason we study history is to learn from both the good and bad things others have done. We try to repeat the good things and avoid repeating the bad ones. Generally, that history lesson is isolated to leaders of nations and sometimes business leaders. Why not history lessons for those of us Introverts coming up through the ranks? I’m here to help introverts avoid some of the more common problems they create in their careers driven primarily by their personality tendencies. I see these thing Introverts do to screw up their careers almost daily. Yes, these issues can be avoided we are all capable of changing without compromising who we really are. Issue #1: Under-Developed Social Skills Granted, not all Introverts are socially underdeveloped, but many are. It’s easy, especially if you’re in Introvert, to slip into a mode of simply not interacting with others enough to build your social skills. Let’s face it: it’s hard to develop the all-important Know-Like-Trust recipe with someone who is difficult to interact with. (Tweet this!) Do this instead: If you aren’t sure if this is you, find out immediately. You need to get some feedback. Ask your boss who is apt to give you the most unvarnished view of your behavior. Ask an HR representative, coach or therapist. (This may have been something your mother never told you but should have.) Consider taking classes in speaking, emotional intelligence, communication or even sales to help build your social skills. Without adequate social skills, you are in for a career and life of disappointment. Issue #2: Lack of Strategic Relationships This is related but separate from #1. You won’t get far by your good looks or skills alone. Your career growth is dependent on whom you know and who knows you. As you climb the ranks, your ability to reach new levels will increasingly become about the relationships you have made. Think about it this way: Do you think Bill Gates got to where he did solely on his computer genius? No, he had equal prowess figuring whom to be aligned with. And yes, he is a big time introvert. Do this instead: You may need to practice to get your relationship-building mojo going, but building skills is what career growth is all about. Start by thinking through 2 or 3 people who you think would be good for you to know both now and in the future. Start slowly getting to know these people and forming reciprocal relationships. A good place to start is with a group “rising star.” They are always easy to pick out and get to know on their way up. Issue #3: Adapt to Your Situation As Darwin said, adapting is central to our existence. Change is a constant even though it’s an urban myth that we resist change. If you aren’t figuring out how to adapt your style of interacting or performing your job on an ongoing basis, you will quickly become a problem. This is the best way to become obsolete or difficult to work with. Yes,, you are an Introvert, but is all of that tendency serving you well in all situations? Probably not. Do this instead: Be conscious of the situations that don’t turn out as well as you would like. For those that tend to repeat, think about alternate behaviors and interactions you can have that might reshape the outcome the next time. Look at how and what others do as possible models for what you could do. Obviously, you won’t adapt behaviors that make you cringe. Keep in mind that the definition of insanity is doing things the same way but expecting different results. If you need additional ideas, comb the Internet for ideas or find books to help you develop solutions. Go to top Which of these three pitfalls have you observed in your own career? Share your survival stories in the comments! Image: Flickr Let me emphasize that Self-Promotion doesn’t have to be obnoxious to be effective. But, if you don’t Self-Promote you, who will? If you ever want to get ahead, you have to learn how to Self-Promote. I want to help you accelerate your career by connecting you with your Free Instant Access to my video that shows you simple, yet effective ways to Self-Promote. Start watching now: CLICK HERE Brought to you by Dorothy Tannahill-Moran â€" dedicated to unleash your professional potential.

4 Tips to Create a Summer Learning Plan With Your Child

4 Tips to Create a Summer Learning Plan With Your Child For most students, continued learning is not at the top of their must-do summer activities list. However, with the absence of regular school studies, its important to find ways for your student to retain the skills and material learned during the school year. Developing a game plan to prevent summer slide can benefit your students education and introduce fun academically-geared activities into your summer plans. Tips for creating a summer learning plan with your child include planning a variety of activities, creating a smart schedule, and focusing plans toward your childs interests. Hoping to find productive ways to include learning in your childs summer? Keep reading to learn four tips to create a summer learning plan with your child. Create a summer learning plan by curating a variety of activities For many students, learning involves sitting down at a desk and completing worksheets or assignments. During the summer, however, it can understandably be challenging to get your student to focus in the same way they have throughout the school year. When creating a summer learning plan with your child, consider a wide variety of activities that can help boost your students learning while keeping their minds and bodies active. First, make a list of all the summer plans you already have, such as family vacations and summer camps. Next, create a plan to incorporate other activities, such as the following: A summer reading list Educationally focused screen time At-home science experiments Family field trips Volunteer opportunities Traditional worksheets or studying can be included if you like, but be sure not to overwhelm your child with too many of these activities. If youre up for it, you can also encourage your child to invite a friend or two on a trip to a local museum, zoo, aquarium, or other community center. [RELATED: 4 Tips to Prevent Summer Slide] Create a summer learning plan by emphasizing structure Its common for your students to be less-than-enthused about learning during the summer monthsespecially after a highly structured academic year. Structure, however, in a summer learning plan can help motivate your child and keep things exciting. For example, you might incorporate structure in your summer learning plan by designating certain days or times of the week to do specific activities, such as a day to go to the library or on a field trip. Structure can also come through scheduled sports activities or music lessons. If your child feels completely unmotivated, you might consider a more explicitly structured motivation system that involves points. [RELATED: 6 Activities to Keep Students Learning This Summer] Create a summer learning plan by incorporating your childs interests The summer is a great opportunity for your student to explore their interests. For your child, this could involve reading a series theyve had their eye on, but didnt have time to enjoy during the school year. If they like a particular branch of science, direct them toward experiments they can do at home. Your student can also explore documentaries, TV shows, or podcasts that focus on their interests. Consider encouraging them to learn the historical background of a sport or hobby that they like, or have them simply think about the connections between their non-academic interests and other areas of their lives. Think of creative ways your student can keep their brain active during the summer months while simultaneously exploring one or more of their interests. Create a summer learning plan by having regular check-ins Since your child will be doing the learning, youll want to have regular check-ins with them to see whats working and whats not. Youll want to gauge your childs experience and ask them for ideas of what could be done differently in their summer learning plan. This helps give your child more agency over their time and teaches important skills of reflection and problem-solving. Youll likely learn along the way different things you can do to support your child during these summer months. [RELATED: 3 Crafts to Promote Literacy Skills This Summer] Lastly, keep notes of your summer learning plan and initial reflections that you have. This will help you as you plan for next years summer. Any topics you want to know more about? Let us know! The Varsity Tutors Blog editors love hearing your feedback and opinions. Feel free to email us at blog@varsitytutors.com.

What Is The Surrealist Art Movement

What Is The Surrealist Art Movement How Surrealism Inspired Art Changed Perceptions Chapters10 Characteristics And Ideas Of The Surrealist StyleOne Of The Most Well Known Surrealist ArtistsA Well Known Piece Of Surrealist ArtSurrealism was a movement that took the artistic journey inwards. They were deeply inspired by Freud’s principles on the ‘inner world’, they saw the conscious mind, society and social dogma as a restrictive construct. Surrealists believed that our inner truth could only be discovered and expressed when we learned to surpass our conscious mind and draw on the pure power of the subconscious mind.They believed that the subconscious held the core of our creative potential and primal human expression.  In their work, they strove to discover and explore the limits of natural human expression, potential and truth. To do this, they created brilliant artworks which were also seen as a weird dream, mind-bending, socially awkward, uncomfortable, and some may say a little crazy. Through film, painting, sculpture, books and other art forms, they opene d themselves up and shared what they found with the world.These art classes near me will help you improve your skill.This was a revolutionary movement that set the stage for many other movements to follow it. Photo Source: UnsplashSurrealism was inspired by Sigmund Freud, his book the interpretation of dreams. The book presented the idea that dreams and the unconscious mind plays a pivotal role in emotion, desire, sex and violence. Although mostly repressed our inner worlds in all of their complexity can reveal the core of our humanity.Surrealist imagery is created from the imagination. Sur, which means above and realism come together to mean above reality. The surrealists dealt with and reproduced art that was inspired by everything above our conscious reality. Imagination, dreams, and spontaneous inspiration as provided by the subconscious.Surrealist image is very striking because it is not based on anything that you have seen before. This exclusivity makes it hard to define and a t times, understand. The imagery is meant to confuse you and jolt you out of your comfort. A little like waking from a dream yourself.Surrealist imagery often has very autobiographical themes since it is created in the mind of the artist. The mind of the artist is feed by things that have happened or are happening in their lives.Artists often had reoccurring items in their images; For example, Dali had ants and eggs, Ernst had birds.As automatic writing is for the pen, Surrealism is for artistic expression (which also included auto writing) Surrealism is whatever allows you to suspend the conscious mind to allow the suspicious mind to express itself freely.The purpose of empowering the unconscious mind was to release pure imagination and overcome the repression of the conscious mind. Repression caused by, they believed, social conditioning and taboos which limited the natural flow of life and the imagination.Surrealism covered many art forms, including film, dance, literature, sculp ture and architecture.Surrealists aimed to be bizarre, unexpected, irrational, poetic, unconventional and above freely unrestricted. They wanted to revolutionise the experience of the everyday person giving them permission to live freely.This was a revolutionary movement that set the stage for many other movements to follow it.For Surrealists the subconscious held the core of our creative potential. Photo Source: UnsplashOne Of The Most Well Known Surrealist ArtistsDaliSalvador Dali is my favourite artist of all time, from the moment I saw his work in a gallery on a school trip was hooked. I love his recurrent themes that show up through his work, things like the ants, the eggs and the landscape which represents the town of Figueras where he was born. Let me tell you all about him.Dali was born in Spain, in a small town called Figueras, which is between the French border and Barcelona. His family were well off, and he was loved dearly as, before his birth, his older brother also cal led Salvador had died. He was often told that he was his older brother back from the grave.He had a strong personality from an early age and also showed an interest in art. His family encouraged him with drawing lessons, art school enrollment and exhibitions at home.Now one of the most lovely things about Dali is that he was not just an artist that created art. But he also was a walking work of art, he dressed in clothing from the 19th century accompanied by knee-length britches, he kept his hair long and began growing his infamous moustache. His eccentric personality proceeded him and his work in most cases. He is famously quoted as saying “I myself am surrealism”.Despite being curious to explore and discover new ways of seeing the world and art as a whole. He was expelled from university but not before being exposed to some of the greatest minds of the time. People such as Einstein, Calder Stravinsky and Freud. His expulsion freed him to travel, he visited Picasso in Paris and was impressed with his Cubist movement. He was studious and delved further into the psychoanalytic of Freud, metaphysical art by painters like Giorgio de Chirco and surrealist artists like Joan Miro.He worked on refining his style to reinterpret perception, reality and experience. His first film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ ( an Andalusian dog) made with Luis Bunuel caused a shocking stir for its content. This film laid the foundation for Dali to join the surrealists in Paris and more importantly to meet his future wife Gala. Gala, who was a key source of Dali's inspiration was married at the time of their meeting, to another surrealist artist named Paul Eluard.Throughout his life and work, Dali used techniques of illusion, cubism, realism, and automatic creation. Dali’s work was greatly autobiographical and symbolic. He believed that the subconscious minds of all humans echoed with repressed themes of sexuality, death and identity. He felt that his work could communicate with all huma ns on a subconscious level.Top Artworks: The persistence of memory (1931), the great masturbator (1929), Christ of Saint John of the cross (1951), The Burning Giraffe (1937) Lobster telephone (1936)Birthplace: Figueras, SpainLifeline: 1904 - 1989Art Style: Surrealism,Art Forms: Painting, sculpting, Film makingSurrealism covered many art forms, including film, dance, literature, sculpture and architecture. Photo Source: UnsplashA Well Known Piece Of Surrealist Art  'Metamorphosis Of Narcissus'This is one of my personal favourites of Dali’s surrealist art. As the name indicates, this painting is about the greek legend of Narcissus. Narcissus was a hunter blessed with extraordinary beauty, and many fell in love with him. However, he had no interest in his would be suitors and treated people poorly. The god saw fit to teach him a lesson and so one day while gazing into a pond he fell in love with his own reflection. He couldn't break his gaze until one day he realised it was his own r eflection. Brokenhearted, he committed suicide and was turned into a flower.In the foreground of the image, your eyes are drawn to 2 figures that sit by the pond side by side. They look the same but are actually to symbolise, narcissus before and after his transformation. One figure is the man and the other a hand which holds an egg with a flower growing from a small crack.The figure of the man on the left is almost abstract, he is sitting in contemplation looking into the pond which reflects his image. The colours are warm, yellows reds and browns cover the canvas perhaps to communicate the emotions of love, lust, happiness and life.  Behind this figure, we see what could be his rejects lovers squirming in a distraught state.On the right side, the painting shows a stone hand holding an egg with a flower growing out of a crack on its surface. The flower is a daffodil and also knows as the Narcissus flower. The hand looks fossilised, and the once clear reflection is now muddied and clouded. The flower has black spots on its petals, suggesting it is wilting and no longer beautiful and pure. This side of the canvas uses a blue, grey and black palette suggesting death and sadness.There is too much interesting symbolism to discuss in this article, but take a closer look at this iconic piece of work and see what you can see when you look deeper into it.Artist: Dali Date Painted: 1937 Size: 20 inches x 30 inches Medium: Oil on canvasOther Well-known PiecesBirthday by Dorothea TanningCarnival of Harlequin by Joan MiroThe human condition by Rene MagritteMama, Papa is wounded by Yves TanguyThe accommodations of desire by Salvador DaliThe palace at 4 a.m. by Alberto GiacomettiBattle of fishes by Andre MassonLuncheon in fur by Meret OppenheimThe barbarians by Max ErnstMannequin by Man RayThe surrealism movement is a very interesting artistic movement as it asks us to look past our limitations and our superficial emotions. And invites us to delve deeper into the core of w ho we are as individuals and as human beings, leading us to the thread that connects us all.It is expressive without being expressionism, created base on an impression without being impressionism, and it deals with psychoanalytical topics without being science. As you see the work, you must delve into your own inner world to understand it. Projecting and thus unlocking your own subconscious onto the canvas, creating new meaning for you as the viewer on a deeper level.If you enjoyed this why not read about the Baroque art movement.    check out the Impressionists next or the Expressionists and how they painted differently or maybe about Pop artists who changed art forever

Walk-me-through the Main Features

Walk-me-through the Main Features You may have noticed the latest addition to the Virtual Writing Tutor grammar checker main page. Its a short little walkthrough of the principal features of the grammar checker for newcomers. You only get to see it twice before it disappears forever. Why did we add it? The Problem One usability issue I see again and again is my students rushing to click on the grammar checker button, forgoing all others. Why is that a problem, you ask? It is a grammar checker, after all. Simply put, the grammar checking engine works much better if you eliminate your spelling errors first because it needs to recognize the parts of speech for each word in a sentence before it can tell if your sentence has any errors in it. If you write It dont work, the system cant check for a verb agreement error if it doesnt recognize dont as a verb first. Clicking the Check spelling button, eliminating your spelling errorsin this case by adding an apostropheand then clicking Check grammar is likely to produce better results every time. As with any tool, using the Virtual Writing Tutor step-by-step will help you eliminate more errors in the long run. The Solution So, how can we get users to learn the steps to produce the best results? A little training is in order. Thats what motivated us to add this Show-Me-How walkthrough tutorial. Of course there are other features that are underused and could learners improve their writing if they only knew about them, so here are the 9 steps of the walkthrough we added to the VWT. If you follow or dismiss the walkthrough tutorial twice, it will never show again. We store a cookie in your browser to keep count. Add this feature to your website If you would like to add this Show-Me-How feature to your website, drop us a line and well send you a quote. It wont be expensive because we have done all the design, research, and testing beforehand. Youll benefit from our experience. Please follow and like us:

What to Do With Your Undergraduate Research

What to Do With Your Undergraduate Research pexels.com Whether its individually directed or under a professor, beginning undergraduate research is daunting. After all, you dont have any letters after your name you might not even have a full year of college under your belt! Is there really anything you can do? Yes! There are entire conferences dedicated showcasing undergraduate research. Besides that, a foundation in research is great way to grow in your area of study, serve the community, and bulk up your resume. Heres how to get started: Find A Research Project Maybe you already have something in mind, something you wrote a paper on way back when that youd like to explore. Fantastic! If not, thats okay, too. There are several different ways to get involved in undergraduate research. You can work on your own project if you or a group of your friends have an idea. Or, if you have no idea where to begin, you can get involved in faculty research projects. Most big universities have faculty performing research in a variety of disciplines, from chemistry to psychology to English literature. Most of the time, these professors use graduate and undergraduate students to help them with the nitty-gritty research categorizing articles, writing case briefs, sorting and clean vials, etc. If you really have no idea where to begin, pick your favorite professor and ask if theyre working on research and, if so, could you possibly be involved. They might say no and thats okay they may be able to direct you to a project you can work on or advise you as you c reate your own. Get Cracking! Once you find or create your research project, get moving on logistics. Can you get funding for  undergraduate research or a scholarship for participating in a faculty project? What about community service hours? You might even be able to get school credit for it. Talk to your academic adviser, supervising faculty, or research department if your school has one about the tangible benefits of undergraduate research. They may surprise you! Find an Audience Youve made leaps and bounds in your project, come up with startling conclusions, and you want to tell the world. But how? You can try for publication at your school if they have an academic journal. You can also talk to your academic adviser or supervising faculty member about publication opportunities. You can also apply to present at conferences such as the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC) and ACC Meeting of the Minds. These two conferences are devoting to showcasing undergraduate research and are held yearly. Not only are they great opportunities to publicize your work, but theyre great networking opportunities. Undergraduate research really bulks up a resume, particularly if youve been published and/or participated in a conference. pexels.com So what are you waiting for? Get out and get researching!

Winter Solstice 2019

Winter Solstice 2019 Today, December 22nd is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in 2019.   Winter solstice takes place on December 20th, 21st or as this year on December 22nd. Why? Ask one of our astronomy tutors.   To my Germanic ancestors winter solstice was reason to celebrate, because the darkest time of the year will soon be over as sun rays bring more warmth to our Earth. This festival was called Yule. Fathers walked into the woods with their sons to bring back the largest log they could find. For as long as the log would burn the Yule festival was on. This meant eating plenty of meat, drinking  copious  amounts of beer and telling ghost stories about Odin,  Frea  and Thor. Now these  customs  and stories are a part of European History.