Adventures in Spanish 2013: The Northern Alliance

One of the joys (and challenges) in learning a new language in-country is meeting people from all over the world. At Don Quijote (my school), there are students from America, Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Kurdistan, Turkey, England, Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Scotland (and many more places). Whilst I have interacted with people from many countries, I became particular friends with two lovely ladies, Rebecca & Mandy from Switzerland and Holland respectively, whilst in Salamanca. In Valencia, I have been privileged to become friends with two wonderful men, Olli from Finland and Sergei, Russia. So, I thought it might be an opportune time to introduce some of my new acquaintances. As they all come from northern Europe, I've nicknamed them - The Northern Alliance". I've had a lot of fun visiting places, eating tapas and having great conversation with them all. Helps that we are all at a similar level of Spanish so we can communicate generally quite well. Except for my Russian friend, the rest of us speak English well enough that if our Spanish fails, we can still manage. However, with Sergei, we had to speak Spanish as he only speaks Russian and Spanish. This was really good practice for Olli and I. I'll tell you more about our "adventures" in a later blog. I have their permission to tell stories (well, some of the stories anyway).