Nicky Nestor is an eighteen-year-old girl from Holland doing an internship in Spain and cooperating with the USJ. She came here in order to improve her English, managing all the trip’s problems by herself, and found out that Spain wasn’t exactly what she expected.
Why did you choose to come here to Spain?
Well, actually I first wanted to go to Canada, but it didn’t work out and a teacher of mine had contacted with a teacher from here, so since I had a place where I could do my internship, I came here, and I liked it.
Is it easy to communicate with people from Zaragoza?
Not really. I try to speak a little bit of Spanish, but I haven’t studied it. I just try. When someone doesn’t know English, I usually just ask another person.
Has anything from Spain surprised you?
Not a lot of people speak English. When I arrived in Zaragoza, at the information point they didn’t speak English and I asked them how to get to my hotel by bus, but they sent me to the wrong bus. And I was surprised because all of the movies are in Spanish, not in English. In Holland all the films are in English.
Spain is very different from Holland. Here people live outside. There are a lot of people in the parks and that here, but in Holland they don’t go outside so much because it’s always raining.
What do people from Holland think about Spain?
Spain has fame for its good food. Also they think that Spanish people have strong family relations and that they have a lot of temperament, that when they get mad, they get really agitated, but from my experience I don’t think that’s true. People here are very nice.
What have you done so far here in Spain?
I have spent almost all of the time shopping and at restaurants and bars. I also went to El Pilar, and tomorrow I have to give a presentation about the school system in Holland. I know more or less what I will say, but I’ll mostly improvise.
What do you think of the university?
It’s too white (laugh)… It looks nice. I went to the Communication Faculty, to the radio and television studios, and I had never seen something like that. I liked it very much.
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