Our student Carmen is in Canada this academic year.

 Dear friends,

Carmen Moreno, our 4th ESO student last year, got one of the Amancio Ortega´s grant to spend a whole year in Canada and going on with her upper studies.  We are in touch with her and has sent us info about her new experience there. Her aim is to encourage students to go and study abroad as she is doing!!!

Thinking to study abroad?

Hi, I ´m Carmen and I ´m studying grade 11 in Canada with a scholarship. 

I ´m living with a host family in Camrose, a small town in Alberta 8000 km far from Spain.

Learning English, meeting new people, learning a new culture, and traveling is all what you ´re going to do studying abroad. 

I ´ve already learnt many things about Canada since I ´ve been here. 

The high school is completely different from what it is in Spain. You can study subjects such as foods, cosmetology, mechanics, woods, design studies and many more. You can play sports in the high school. I ´m in the curling team.!!!

Going by bus to the high school every morning is awesome.

After school, I ´m doing bowling on Mondays and I ´m volunteering some Saturdays with the “special Olympics” which is an organization for handicapped people in my town. And I love it because I ´m going with my host brothers who actually have Down syndrome and they are twins. I ´m so glad I ´m leaving this experience with them. 

I ´m going to start giving Spanish lessons to some kids, which I ´m very interested in.

Have you ever wanted to skate in a lake? That´s something Canadians do in winter. Eating marshmallows, celebrating thanks giving,rememberance day…… Depending on where you are you ´re going to learn many new things about that culture.

And not many more things I can tell you. There are as many things you want and as you can imagine to do. So far, this is being the best year of my life. Don ´t be scared if you ´re thinking to  go abroad, just be self confident.