Ashton Lily-Woolley, Madrid, Spain – March 2015
Nunca he estado en unos bares tan increíbles en mi vida como los bares de madrid. Una tarde, se puede visitar a un iglú, o a una playa y otra tardes se puede entrar en un bar que se parece como un salón de IKEA. Hace una semana, mi compañera…
Congrats to Sian
Congratulations to our new scholar Sian! Sian has spent the first semester of her third year working in Strasbourg, France. She is studying a 4 year undergraduate degree in French, Spanish and European Union Studies. From September 2014 Sian has been working as a Marketing, Communication and Translation Intern…
Carnaval in Madrid!! Ashton Lily Woolley, February 2015
Celebrated annually in the week before Lent in the Spanish capital of Madrid, Carnaval brings the city to life with parades, processions and parties – all the things the Spanish do best. Centred around the Paseo de la Florida in the city centre, Carnaval is an explosion of colour…
Sian Summerton, Barcelona, Spain – February 2015
¡Mis primeras semanas en Barcelona! Llegué en Barcelona al principio de enero. Acabé de pasar seis meses en Francia, así que estaba un poco preocupada por el choque cultural y el cambio de idioma. Durante las vacaciones de Navidad, entre mis periodos de prácticas distintos, pasé un par de semanas…
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…
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…
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…
Atletico Madrid beat Real Madrid to win Spanish Super Cup
A 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…
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…
