last day in school

Dec 18, 2008 Published under education, life in Valencia, work

For me today was my last day at Babylon Idiomas. My “studies” español has therefore come to an end and I am supposed to be ready for life and work in Valencia ;)

I have completed nearly 3 months of study, 11 weeks to be precise, and I must say that looking back at it, it definitely has been worth my while!

I actually have 1 week of 4 hours per day left, but today also was the last school day of 2008 and for me it makes no sense to go back to school for 1 week after a holiday of 2 weeks. Instead I have decided to split that week into 2 separate weeks of conversation classes and I will take them for example at the end of January and February.

Obviously I will fall into some sort of gap as much of my work will take place at home and in school we were basically talking Spanish for a minimum of 4 hours each day, plus all the extra activities. Therefore I think it makes sense to have the two separate weeks to keep up my conversational level of español.

This last day of the year ended with a Navidad (Christmas) lunch where many students brought a dish from their country. We ended up with a pan-European smorgasbord and I of course made “Piet’s famoso pollo con coca cola” as some of the teachers were almost begging for that after having heard form our little dinner parties over the past weeks!