Hello World.

It's a good time to be alive right now, isn't it? It's like there's something in the air. After months of uncertain anticipation, it's finally happened; hope has arrived. One man, with the backing of millions, has written his name in the annals of history, and now holds the power to change the world. Yes: I've started a blog.

Oh, and some American dude won a vote. He seems pretty cool.

Anyway, here's the lowdown: In September I moved to Huelva, a small city on the South coast of Spain, to teach English in a language school for the next nine months. I started writing potential blog updates in the front room of my flat, listening to conversations from the popular local bar on the floor below, and scratching the fuck out of endless mosquito bites on my left shoulder (always the left: what's wrong with my right arm? Has it gone off?). It's taken longer than I'd hoped to get online, though, and right now I'm using the wi-fi (pronounced "whiffy" over here, to my childish amusement) in the public library. Never mind, this blog's officially on the go now, and I'll try to drop in the early updates I've saved once in a while alongside new entries.

I'll do my best to give a bit of insight on life here in Spain, without being pretentious ("one man's attempts to swim in a strange stream and cross cultural boundaries", and all that) or boring ("I had some nice tapas last night", etc.). I'll also be talking some bollocks about the books I've read, the games I've played, the TV I've been watching, but you can always skip those bits if you want.

Either way, I'll be really, genuinely happy if you take the odd few minutes a week to read it. In fact, as I'm a teacher, you can have a shiny gold star if you bookmark this blog. And if you're all computer-clever and subscribe to it (there's a little RSS thing on the left there), you can have two gold stars, and you get to go first when we play hangman at the end of the lesson.