Intercambio with local students

On Monday 22 October, BCEA students were joined by students from CETA, Girona College of Tourism Management to launch our Language Intercambio ( Spanish-English language exchange). This collaboration between BCEA and visiting students got off to a great start.

Although we felt nervous at first about our ability to express ourselves in Spanish ( and the CETA guys vice versa in English!), we soon relaxed and felt at ease with them. The Intercambio is a great idea, enabling us to meet young people of our age, with the same interests and motivations and creating a relaxed and educational environment from which we can develop contacts and make friendships.

The Intercambio as our Spanish language teachers have explained will be an ongoing project; Penfriend, and this week we received profiles written by the CETA students in English. Along with photos they sent information on what they like getting up to in Barcelona, and so we can take it from there, and get in contact with students we´d like to keep in touch and meet up with. We´ll now start exchanging emails written in English by them and Spanish by us, and we´ll correct one anothers emails.
The Intercambio has given me the confidence to start a conversation in Spanish, to not feel embarrassed to have a go and have a laugh. The CETA students are really friendly, really encouraging and it was great to make this contact with local people outside of the program. I really want to make the effort, because the results are really rewarding.