by Amalia Herencia Grillo | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
The North American Language and Culture Assistants Program is an initiative of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain to provide North American students who are native speakers of English or French with the opportunity to assist teachers in the English...
by Amalia Herencia Grillo | Nov 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Picture by Johannes Plenio According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, resilience is: 1: the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2: an ability to recover from or adjust easily...
by Amalia Herencia Grillo | Oct 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I strongly believe that, before enrolling on a program or experience abroad, before travelling to another culture, we should all try to learn the most about it and review what we know, what we don’t know, and what we should now. In order to do this, we need to...
by Amalia Herencia Grillo | Sep 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Picture by Dineslav Roydev One of the agreed goals of most study abroad experiences is achieving or improving Intercultural Competence. In order to do this, participants need to build their experiences with the skills they already have and combine them with who they...
by Amalia Herencia Grillo | Jul 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
According to the last Open Doors report by the IIE, there is still a majority of US students going abroad to Europe. From these, most of them spend their time in cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Granada and Bilbao still host around 80% of students). The remaining...
by Amalia Herencia Grillo | Jun 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Following an interview by James Rhodes, a British concert pianist currently living in Madrid, I’d like to go through some “fun facts” about what is life in Spain. Rhodes says:” I have no reason to lie when I tell you that everything is better in Spain” (you can read...