Picture this: Just outside of the hustle and bustle of a city with 3 million people you can find a small town. One small town with a massive building at its core. A building with an interesting history and an immense presence.
When you are a foreigner in a new country, you want to take advantage of travel opportunities. Whether it be opportunities to travel around different parts of your new country or to leave it and see the beauty of neighboring countries. But if you do not consider yourself to be a good travel planner, this can be difficult to organize […]
How to Visit The Royal Palace (Palacio Real de Madrid) is open to the public on Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and on Sundays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. You can expect to pay somewhere between 5 and 13 euros to enter, or more if you want a private guide, which can run between 13 […]
There are actually a multitude of reasons you may need a student visa for Spain, other than just the typical undergraduate student studying abroad. There are cheap graduate programs for Americans in Spain. There are language schools for students of any age to learn any level of Spanish. And there is a position called an auxiliar de conversacion, or language assistant […]
One thing I have learned spending the early Christmas season in Madrid is that Christmas Markets in Madrid are much more impressive to Americans than they are to Europeans. I am part of an Erasmus club, where I have met students studying in Spain who are from Italy, France, the UK, Austria, and Germany. I have been told from these […]
What is an auxiliar de conversación? An auxiliar de conversación is a language assistant at a public school in Spain. Most language assistants help with either English or French courses offered at a public school. Their duty is not to be a teacher, but to assist the teachers for those language courses. Since Spain has bilingual schools, some auxiliares de […]