Most of you know that I have finished my internship at Just Landed by now and have started work at two NGO's: Centro Hispanico-Colombiano and CEAR (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado). At 'El Centro' I am teaching English at the moment to groups of migrant children (mostly from South America). This is very rewarding work although I have to admit that I need to pollish up my English grammar. The other day the smartest of the bunch asked rather casually 'could you please explain the conditionals please'. Taken by surprise I hesitantly replied 'we will do that next week...today we will do colours..'. After class I quickly looked up what the hell conditionals actually do. Needless to say I am hoping that fending off difficult questions like these will not be so easy in the future.
At the second NGO (CEAR) I am responsible for making contacts with other NGOs and forums throughout Europe. By translating CEAR publications into English and by distributing them to other NGOs we are realizing stronger cooperation. CEAR is a much larger NGO dedicated to helping refugees in finding the correct documentation and sticking up for their rights alltogether. Both jobs are highly satisfactionary and a very good learning experience.
Now for the fun stuff!
Two weekends ago we had a visit from our friend from Japan (yes, another Erasmus mate!) Maiko and her boyfriend Hikaru. It was very nice to see them again and we made some nice trips through Madrid (as you can see in the pictures below) and beyond (we went to the small villages of Alcala - the birthplace of Cervantes - and Guadalajara).
On saturday we had another small Erasmus get-together at our flat and afterwards we went out in La Latina to the ever-rewarding nightclub Vendettas! For the Erasmus crowd reading this: Fred and Julie (Kumshamra) both also made it to Madrid which made a grand total of 7 former Erasmus students.
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