MARTINA 

My experience in Spain was fantastic! I met many people and everyone was really nice and kind. In particular, I met Ana, the girl who hasted me in her house. In her family I found myself very well, they had tratted me like a second daughter. Ana and I are immediatly became friends; we have a lot in common, for example the tastes for food or fashion, the music and expecially the character. Also the other spanish girls and boys are very friendly. I Knew very well Laura, Iker, Juan, Beatriz, Denise and Salma but I think everyone in the school was nice. I lived in a small urbanization calls: "El Encinar". It is near Salamanca, one of important city in the north of Spain and here there was a large wood and so cold. In this area there are foxes, boars, squirrels and many other animals. In this place there were only hairdresser, pharmacy, the church and some bars. It was very small but I liked stay here! There were tranquility and peace. Salamanca is an important and historic city. It is very important for the univercities. (You can find many students of Erasmus here) The tipical spanish food is formed from: Paella, Churros, tortilla, natillas, ham, chorizo (is a sausage), Fideua.. But my favorites are Paella: is rice with fish or vegetables or meat

I liked very much stayed in Spain and I hope to return soon.

EMMA

spain, land of hotness, color, enthusiasm and sun .. What do you want to more if you do not visit the wonder?

Yes, just for me happened an adventure unrepeatable, to whom I have so much.

Towards the end of the school year 2013/2014 i have submitted the application to be able to study in Spain three months and, to my great impatience, i waited for the letter of response that would have contained the names of the two boys that would have crossed the threshold of the boarding gate, directed at Salamanca.

 Thus on 14 October i and Martina, the other Italian girl, we have games for this experience unprepared, scared and with great regret for having left our homeland, aware that the stay in Spain would have been for us the springboard to a new life.

The first month was not so simple, for nothing: the influence during the first week; the school was far from any other place with respect to ours; the family yet cosy and loving, she was a little strange, different; the boys very extravagant and frolicking; a new food.

I felt so insecure, i felt all the fears and concerns about me!

I found myself in an urbanisation, that had nothing to do with me, but I knew that at the end of the trip would have left an indelible mark in my heart. Ultimately you can't really complain, since all were ready to help, to make you feel welcome, make yourself a sharer in spite of the shyness.

The most natural of all this was the language. I didn't have many problems to speak spanish is certainly interact with people who speak daily with the possibility of finalizing and learn new terminology.

 To my great pleasure, i had the good fortune to also know two Dutch guys, very friendly and to be able to admire the beauty of neighboring towns to El Encinar.

I knew perfectly well that this "school trip" i would have given benefit, not only as regards the school, but also for my character.

I met a wonderful family, who has never pulled back when i needed help, that I was resting in the various circumstances and that i was accepted as a daughter.

After some weeks I have felt at home, and this is the best feeling that is to be expected! I was very fortunate to have met people who have done anything to get me to integrate and even to make me feel in my environment.

I returned with another passion for spanish (language extremely charming), with the heart full of emotion, with the desire to return to that wonderful land, and with the certainty that never, as this test, has made me become what it is.