Posts Tagged ‘Spain’
Ashton Lily Woolley, Madrid, Spain – January 2015
En realidad no he estado haciendo mucho desde que escribí mi último informe. Aunque, volví a mi casa de Inglaterra por Navidad para pasar tiempo con mi familia, amigos y con mi novio que no he sido muy aventurera en Madrid. Cumplí y celebré mi cumpleaños de 21 años en Inglaterra que era absolutamente increíble.…
Read MoreAshton Lily Woolley, Madrid, Spain – November 2014
Después de cuatro meses de vivir en madrid, un amigo me recomendió que ibamos a un mercado, el fin de semana anterior ha comprado una chaqueta de Levis por diez euros. Mis compañeros de piso y yo fuimos al Rastro el domingo pasado. El Rastro es un mercado de segundo mano en el centro de…
Read MoreMichelle Dalgety – Case Study, Bilbao, northern Spain (1986)
The year was 1986; I was 21 years old and had just finished a Business Studies Course at Bradford College. I had taken a linguistics option with advanced French and beginners Spanish so when I learned about the John Speak Language Scholarships I was eager to go to Spain to bring both languages to a…
Read MoreSpanish Super Cup 22 August 2014 – Ashton Lily-Woolley
Atletico Madrid beat Real Madrid to win Spanish Super Cup
Read MoreA final report to say “Muchas gracias y hasta luego” – by Hannah Phillips
My John Speak scholarship took me the capital of Spain, Madrid, to support me as I took part in a year’s internship within the Spanish multinational company NH Hotels. After previously studying in the North of Spain for 5 months, my year working as a trainee Buyer within the International Purchasing Department of NH was…
Read MoreTwo Weeks in Cordoba- January 2014
I have been staying with a friend in Cordoba for two weeks in order to improve my Spanish before starting the second semester in Geneva. I could talk about the monuments in Cordoba, Granada or Seville (as we also visited these two cities), or perhaps of the prodigious amounts of food, all delicious, which my…
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