As I write this, my time in Madrid has come to an end. The three months have flown by and I know I would have happily spent another three months in this city. The more I got to know Madrid, the more I felt there was to find out. Madrid has also been the city where I have lived alone for the first time, and for that I think I will always remember it in a specific way, and will probably continue coming back. Throughout the duration of this programme, I have learned what it is like to explore a city and make it your own, as well as getting a healthy dosage of Spanish culture. I hope to take a bit of the madrileño “gatos” lifestyle back to London.
I think what I have enjoyed most from the programme were the opportunities I got to meet people through the shared accommodation, the language school and the internship. As opposed to if I had just come to Spain without the programme, I had numerous situations booked and arranged in which I could get to know and interact with lots of different people. I have also enjoyed the opportunity to learn a new language, and specifically the challenge of having to communicate in the language whilst I learned and improved. By my final month in Madrid, I felt truly at home in my internship placement, and I will miss not just the friends I made but my bosses at the language school, with whom I spent many an hour, both at work and in conversation.