intercambio - Blogabond

so an intercambio is a person you pair up with that speaks the language you want to learn. so tonight we went for tapas with a group of intercambios that AIFS set up. i was kind of skeptical because most people tend to use the intercambio thing as like..a dating service.
in the CLM, the place i take my classes, anyone can go sign up for an intercambio. funny thing, you have to put your name, age, and picture in it. so there were a couple of girls who were telling me they went to sign up for an intercambio and they just looked for the guys within a certain age range and then of course had to make sure they looked good too.
so anyway we go to this intercambio, which is 7 american students, and well..4 spanish guys. HA.
it ended up going better than i thought it would. i was very nervous and didnt really get to talk too much until towards the end. we sat every other and the guy i was next to told me he was really good at English, but only really wanted to speak English. towards the end i was speaking spanish to someone else and he was speaking English. very strange at first, but it eventually worked out.

after three days of being miserably sick, i'm feeling a lot better, but still not fantastic. but we were told that at this exact time every semester the students start to get sick like this. when i left the office this morning my resident directer said, 3 down 47 to go, ha so that made me feel a little better...

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Taryn Hawkins on October 13, 2009 from Granada, Spain

from the travel blog: Granada

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I'm so glad you are feeling better. That is interesting about the intercambio. I love the little every day stories you tell in your blog Taryn, like the bus driver yelling at you, etc. Thank you for sharing your travels with us!

written by Teresa Haselmann on October 19, 2009

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