(high beat, techno music)
- Muy buenas, and my name is Chris,
and this is my ITA takeover, here in Madrid, Spain.
Oh, my mornings are genuinely the same.
I wake up between six and seven, depending on the day.
And then after getting my stuff together,
after having my coffee, I either walk to the train
or I walked to Plaza de Castilla
so that I can catch my bus and then go
to San Agustín del Guadalix where I work
at an elementary school.
One of the really cool things
about Spain's transportation system is
that you can go everywhere.
So, I live in Madrid and I have a public transport card.
With my public transport card
because I am only 23, 24 years old,
I get to travel around the whole state of Madrid
for 20 euros a month.
Everywhere, unlimited, bus, train,
every mode of transportation.
It's awesome.
(loud metal clacking)
(machine beeps)
(wind rushing and bus driving loudly)
(radio gently murmuring)
(wind rushing and car driving loudly)
Okay, coming up to the school right now.
Today's crazy hair day, as we celebrate carnival.
As you can see, your boy did not do any crazy hair,
but that's just because I was not informed,
but maybe next year.
So right now the students are going
through temperature checks.
So I actually have the classroom to myself.
So let me show you guys what we have up in here.
This is our classroom.
This is my third grade class.
I normally teach three third grade classes during the day.
And in addition to a fifth grade and a sixth grade.
What is up everyone?
I am done with my day at school.
It is one 1:15.
I am now walking back to the bus stop
and then I will be going home
and going to the gym before my private lesson tonight.
(speaks Spanish)
- Okay everyone, just finished my workout.
Now I have to go home, get my things together,
go make some prints, and off to the bus station I go again.
Hello everyone.
So I just had a phone call with a friend of a friend
about possibly going to Japan within the next few years to
do the JET program.
And now I am going to work center where I go make my prints
for my activities in my lessons.
And then I got to go back to Plaza de Castilla, get my bus,
and back to San Agustín we go.
(bus motor running)
(machine beeping)
- [Bus Driver] Hola, buenas.
(loud clanking)
So once I get off the bus in San Agustín, I always come
to this little park and I sit and I practice my Italian
and I study here while I wait for my lesson.
Where am I from?
Hmm, well, I say (in NY accent) coffee and dog
and sauce and walk.
So I am from New York, Long Island, New York.
Okay guys, now I'm walking to my lesson.
Look how beautiful and stunning this town is.
(bird chirping)
Out of this world, right?
On Tuesday and Thursday nights, I have four minutes
to get the express bus back to Madrid.
So, you know your boy is running throughout this town
to catch it.
I got my TEFL certification in January, 2020 at one of ITA's
partner schools in New York City.
Following my graduation, I was teaching Spanish
in a high school in long Island where I'm from.
And then I did not teach ESL until coming to Spain here.
Okay, so when you are an auxiliar from the ministry program
you get placed in a school, number one.
Number two, you are not the main English teacher,
you are the assistant.
And number three, everyone and their mother
and their brother and their sister and the cat and the dog
and the fish, yeah, everyone wants English class.
(speaks foreign language)
Thank you so much everyone for coming
and for me joining me on my ITA takeover, here in Spain.
If you have any more questions
or I did not get a chance to answer them,
please slide in my DM's @THECHRISSCALONE right here.
I will do my best to get back to you,
and to answer any questions you may have.
Peeps listen, for years,
it was me sitting behind the screen.
It was years for me watching ITA's takeovers,
watching the stories.
Now, here I am, living my dream.
And guess what?
It can be you, it will be you.
Chicas, wherever the wind takes you,
that's where you will be.
(high beat, techno music)