Anyway, so... due to unforeseen circumstances... I am without a Laptop and therefore unable to post the lovely photos of my time in Alicante with Ro and Tracy. However, I will fill you in on my time there. Well, what can I say, it was fantastic, the most wonderful time I've had in a while! The sun, sand, sea and Sangria, I cannot wait for September! Although, before I can start to enjoy myself and get ready, I need to find accommodation... dun dun duhhh! What a polava! If you think finding a flat in Great Britain is difficult, try doing it in Spain, and even worse, try doing it in Spain from Great Britain. I'm getting kind of desperate despite the fact I have two months to find somewhere. Halls of Residence, unfortunately, is not an option... the prices are ridiculous, so a flat share is, as the French say, necessaire! I have however had full confirmation that I am attending the University of Alicante in September 2012 now, so full steam ahead for Espana!
On another not, Belgium, like Alicante I have been fully accepted to the Université de Mons... Fantastique I hear you say? Yes. It. Is... I'm really feeling the excitement about this year now and I'm frantically trying to use my languages still on a daily basis. Reading has been the main source of my continuity of Language. For French I am reading a classic, Candide by Voltaire... and for Spanish I am reading La Lluvia Amarilla by Julio Llamares... I wont like to you readers, I hate it. One of the worse books I've ever read, and so difficult to get through, on the other hand Candide is wonderful, fairly easy to get through, a lot of Passé Simple for you buffs out there, but all in all, very good read.
Vocabulary cards have been a great source of knowledge too, particularly when it comes to Italian. That's right. I'm back on the Italian bandwagon again. Hoping to develop it back to where I was at the end of first year, but we shall see. Dutch is coming along nicely too, I hope to have that to a sufficient standard maybe B2 level if I can by the end of my time in Belgium. And then that brings to my next language ventures, Catalan and Galician. As part of my time in Spain I am taking a free course in Catalan to build you up to GCSE standard, which I am happy about and then Galician, we shall see, I just would like a grounding in it as it's quite an interesting language and then I have 3 out of 4 official Spanish Languages under my wing at either basic or advanced levels.
Well that is a lot! I'm gonna leave some photos of the places I am visiting so you can see for yourself! More later readers... if anyone is reading...
Alicante, Espana
Mons/Bergen, Belgique/België
Firenze (Florence), Italia
so excited that we're going to the same places (bar Italy) ERASMUS TWINS
ReplyDeletei don't like candide. i got bored and told geraldine i'd read phantom of the opera instead.
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