I guess a holiday in Spain is the best way to describe it. The Counting Crows (great music by the way!) said it in the following words:

“I may take a holiday in Spain
Leave my wings behind me
Flush my worries down the drain
And fly away to somewhere new”

That probably sums it up for me as well. Next Sunday I will leave for Barcelona to study Spanish for 12 weeks. Exciting! Not sure about the holiday factor yet though… Just know that I will study Spanish for 20 hours a week (with some optional extra hours each week) and I will have to report for my first school day at crazy-o-clock 0800 on Monday morning. But I am quite sure it will leave time enough to enjoy it like a holiday! :-)

Don’t really know what to expect from the course yet, but I also don’t spend so much time worrying about it. I’ll just see what happens. The school (don Quijote) advertises the course as “Spanish for life”. Maybe a bit ambitious, but we will see. If they can teach me the ability to think in Spanish in 12 weeks, it must be a mission accomplished. But again, we will see what happens. I will just try to pick up as much as possible.

As the school was recommended to me by Martin (his brother went to this school as well to learn Spanish), I more or less went quite blindly with his recommendation and haven’t looked any further at all. So I know where you live Martin, if this school sucks! *hahaha* ;-) Just actually looked up where the school is located in Barcelona (see map), and it seems to be a nice location close to “Las Ramblas”. And even though I hardly know anything about the Barcelona city, I do know that the Ramblas is in the center of town! Yes, it’s probably about time I start to read up on that!! ;-)

The don Quijote school location

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