El Rebumbio de Sara la de Inglés

Well, I’ve thought my first post should be devoted to explain some things about this site, and the first one is probably the name!! When I still updated my previous website (elrebumbio.org), many people asked me what the name meant, and not only English-speaking visitors but also Spanish-speaking ones.

The word “rebumbio” means, according to the Royal Academy of Spanish Language, “ruido retumbante“, that is ‘booming noise‘. However it is not a common word in the Spanish mainland,but it is  in the Canary Islands, where we speak  quite differently  from Castillian Spanish.

I chose that name because I wanted my website to be a “noisy” one, somewhere where I could mix loads of different stuff aimed at helping students to communicate in English.So it became “El Rebumbio” de Sara Martín. But after some time, when I decided to design a new site for my students, I wanted something easier for them to remember.

I’ve always found  the way students refer to their teachers really  amazing. They might not address  me as Sara, ‘though many of them do, but call me “seño” (abbreviation  of  traditional “señorita”, which is used for female teachers, although it actually means “Miss”…) so despite having been married for a long time,  I am doomed, like all female teachers in the Canaries, to be addressed by my students as an eternal spinster!!!

But that’s only when talking TO me. However, when talking ABOUT me 99% of  students refer to me as “Sara la de inglés“, that’s  “Sara,the one who teaches English“…and they even ask other teachers where “saraladeinglés” is, as if it were my complete name and surname. And if you can’t beat them…at least they’ll remember your site!

So this is the long story of why this site is called “saraladeingles.com”. And if you are a teacher in the Canaries, think about it…you are probably known as “pepeeldehistoria” or “luisaladematemáticas”…