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It was a fantastic weekend! Saturday, we went to a brother of Pascual, who lives in a village in the mountains. In the morning Pascual made some lunch to take to his brother. The village is located in a valley. Pascual, Jaime, and I walked down, approximately 5 km from the top of the mountain to the village. The view was just ineffable!                                     On the way home, Pascual showed his livelihood when he was younger. He for example showed us where he lived, and where his parents worked.

Sunday, I had a very active day. In the morning, Jaime, Ria, Pascual, and I went to a fronton pitch (a kind of squash). It was my first time I practiced this sport, but I already played tennis two years ago, so I was doing okay with it. An hour later we went back home, and had lunch. Pascual made some Paella with chicken and vegetables. After we finished lunch, Jaime, Pascual, and I went mountain-biking in the surroundi

ngs of Salamanca. It was very nice to notice the much different the landscape is from the Netherlands. In spain everything is pretty hilly and yellow, but in the Netherlands everything is very green, fertile, and flat. As we arrived home, we had a little brake and after that we went for a 6 kilometers walk around El Encinar.

Quercus high-school in El Encinar .

My first day at school was very difficult, because everybody was speaking Spanish to me and I did’t understand them. 

Today I received my schedule. My subjects are Music, Arts, mathematics, Physics & chemistry, Physical Education, French, and English. I only follow half of the timetable my class does. In these gaps I have time to work on my own tasks from the Netherlands.

Today I met 6 teachers and only 2 of them spoke english. That will be an interesting thing.

There are 17 kids in my class. Boys and girls equally divided. Jaime is in my class and so are his friends.

Holiday in Spain

I arrived at Wednesday the 14th of September and still had five days holiday in Spain. These days we just stayed home. We were going to do things in the area of Salamanca, such as walking through the ineffable landscape and visiting Salamanca itself. Adriana (the sister of Jaime) is 18 years old and just has her own car, so she brought all of us to the shopping hall near Salamanca.  Here we bought a new Spanish sim-card for my mobile phone.

Next week we are going to visit a brother of Pascual. In this small village Pascual grew up with more than 10 brothers and sisters.  It’s a town located high in the mountains near Salamanca. My host family says that it’s a very nice place to be. I’ll see next week!

Day of departure

The big day arrived! This day was sometimes frustrating for me. It’s hard to leave your home and family for 3 months. But I felt better about it when I knew Skype and FaceTime is also possible these days.

At the day of departure there was a big traffic queue to Schiphol, so me and my family decided to go by train to the airport. The waiting time on Schiphol also was longer because the police was controlling for a terroristic attack. So we decided to leave one hour earlier to Schiphol. At the moment we arrived on the airport we had enough time to do everything before boarding. The boarding of the plane started at 13:15. And I’ve been flying with mrs. De Vries because she also had an appointment in Spain on the Quercus school. 

The flight took about 2 and a half hours. When we arrived in Madrid we haven’t had to go by bus to Salamanca because my host family picked us up on the airport.

As we arrived home it was already 8 o’clock in the evening, I was pretty tired and went to bed at 21:30 pm.