The International Amigos!

One of the coolest things about being Salamanca is meeting new people from all over. Salamanca is a college town of students from various countries. But I’ve noticed that Salamanca is also a place where young people who have graduated will come here to live. My goal was to come to Spain and meet the locals in order to really LIVE like a Spaniard. The hard part is that I love my American friends so much it’s hard to part from them. So, instead we meet the locals together!
It all starts with “Donde eres” (Where are you from). And then we take it from there….

ENCOUNTER #1 The first night of our Salamanca night life exploration, I ran into 3 awesome girls from Santo Domingo and Bolivia! We exchanged numbers and I introduced them to my friends the next weekend. It’s been great Spanish practice and we love dancing with them as they know the hippest places to go! Meet Karen, Margaret, and Rosa (intercambio).




ENCOUNTER #2 Along our excursions, we also met some awesome Frenchies who are studying here until March! The funny thing is that they’d rather talk to us in English than in Spanish. One time I was talking to them and Meourn yells, “English, English”. I responded, “silly I am speaking English!” Honestly, we’re really speaking Spanglish, but hey! That’s a start right? Meet Margoux below!




ENCONTER #3 So, there’s a place called the Irish Rover that plays lots of American music, but there are surprising a lot of locals and international students. One night I was lucky enough to meet a very attractive Espanola from the Canarian Islands. Unfortunately, he’s just graduated and now back home, but I asked him if he had a friend who wanted to learn English and he set me up with Rosa Jaspe. Rosa is the bomb & we started an intercambio. Stay tuned for my blog about Intercambios!




ENCOUNTER #4 Our newest international friend we met taking our language exam last Monday. Her name is Ana, and she is a 26 year old sweet heart from France. She speaks Spanish so good and not much English which is PERFECT. We’ve taken her out to café con leche a few times and looking forward to meeting her some more! She is in the superior Spanish level classes and it’s so much fun talking with her and looking up words while we both try to figure out this middle ground language. One of the girls in our program, Justine, is French but has lived in the US for half of her life. Listening to them speak French to one another is so cool. Gosh, I just wish I could learn every language! PIC SOON TO COME!