Interview with Victor (French), 18 years old – 15-day stay with a host family in Spain, Madrid. (Part 1)
A day at a language school: early morning
Language school in Spain
Victor: “When I saw the BAC coming up and especially because I wanted language school philippines email list to work in Chile later, I looked for solutions to strengthen my Spanish. There were online courses, private lessons but I thought that a short stay in a city in Spain and with Spanish lessons would bring me more, because we live on Spanish time, we learn expressions, the culture… without any effort and without stress. Here is a typical day, as I a day at a language school in spain: from 3 p.m. to evening. experienced it with the stay at the Language School in Madrid:
Every morning, up at 7:10, leaving at 7:45.
The Spanish usually get up quite early, but since I lived in “Madrid intra muros”, I only school email list had to take one bus, on the same line, direct from the south of the Atocha station to the north of the Retiro Park , in the city center. I lived with a nice family and I had my own room, because their son worked in Barcelona.
Chocolate in a cup
Breakfast: taken with a host family or sometimes in a traditional café, near the Language School, with other friends. We were served a chocolate a la taza … a kind of thick milk chocolate, delicious … and if the day was going to be long, we would also ask for small churros (a kind of doughnut). There were often old people who took olive oil on pieces of bread in the morning.
Arrival at 8:30 am at the school.