1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,700 To start off the first episode, Titan TV caught up with Ms. Noguere, 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,919 PHS students, and fellow foreigners as we take a look at the Foreign Exchange Program 3 00:00:07,919 --> 00:00:09,740 that was held in late September. 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,619 This whole idea about the exchange program kind of came at us very quickly. 5 00:00:16,059 --> 00:00:18,679 I got a phone call from Spain in my classroom, 6 00:00:19,539 --> 00:00:23,359 and they talked to me about this great program that they had. 7 00:00:23,420 --> 00:00:26,440 I'm not exactly sure how they found me, but I'm really glad they did. 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:34,200 Ms. Nuguer asked us if anyone would be interested in doing a cultural exchange program and so 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,500 they needed a certain number of people who would be willing to take someone and I was 10 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:43,679 like oh well I'll just ask my mom and she ended up saying yes. 11 00:00:43,679 --> 00:00:47,619 So that's how we ended up with Sonia and it was just really fun. 12 00:00:47,619 --> 00:00:53,899 We Skype chatted over the summer so it was like texting just whenever we could. 13 00:00:53,899 --> 00:00:59,920 When I see these kids coming together who've never met, the only thing they have in common 14 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:04,500 is that they're both really enthusiastic about this whole idea of getting to know each other's 15 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:05,620 culture. 16 00:01:05,620 --> 00:01:11,239 When they meet, they're excited, they put their best selves forward, and they form a 17 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:12,239 relationship. 18 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:22,959 I was nervous because I'd done another exchange, and I was close to the persons there, but 19 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:30,640 I didn't have like a relationship and now I have known the culture and I have a friendship 20 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,859 so that's fine. 21 00:01:32,859 --> 00:01:38,000 I was a little bit nervous about the English thing, not understanding a single thing and 22 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,200 in a mess, this high school, going to classes and changing from classroom to classroom. 23 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,579 I was really nervous to meet Adriana first but then we became really good friends. 24 00:01:48,579 --> 00:02:04,439 I didn't know what to expect. I was very nervous. I was afraid Jorge wouldn't like me. I was afraid he wouldn't like Pembroke. I was afraid I would have to speak Spanish, but it turned out great. He's awesome. He speaks better English than I do. 25 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:11,120 It's kind of nerve-wracking to have someone come live in my house with my crazy family, but it was fun. 26 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:16,639 Well, I've lived quite a few years in Spain, so I've had the opportunity to experience 27 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:23,780 the culture, so have my children, and I get frustrated when I try and convey those feelings 28 00:02:23,780 --> 00:02:29,259 that learning to students, it's just hard to do. 29 00:02:29,259 --> 00:02:35,840 I was expecting to see the culture and know the culture from America because I really 30 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,719 like the culture that I saw in movies and everything. 31 00:02:39,719 --> 00:02:56,719 I think my favorite part was going to Boston because I didn't come to the United States before and it's a really different country from Spain. 32 00:02:57,719 --> 00:03:03,719 And my favorite part was going to the beach too because I like so much the beach. 33 00:03:04,219 --> 00:03:11,419 My favorite part was when a friend of an American teacher invited us to go on a plane flight 34 00:03:11,419 --> 00:03:14,939 in the Hanson Airport, I think it was Hanson Airport. 35 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:21,819 And it was a lot of fun because, you know, I like risky things that airplanes do. 36 00:03:21,819 --> 00:03:26,939 My favorite part has been the community of teachers that we have 37 00:03:26,939 --> 00:03:29,800 with the two teachers that came over from Madrid. 38 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,800 They're English teachers in Madrid. We're Spanish teachers at PHS. 39 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:40,800 And just communicating with them and seeing how they work and comparing it to how we work, 40 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,800 getting ideas from them, talking about things because they're very open, they're very intelligent. 41 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:50,800 The main differences were the schedule, the daily routine. 42 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,800 You know, we get up later because school starts later. 43 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:00,800 I kind of need to readjust my timeline and my schedule. 44 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:05,800 They eat at strange hours for us. 45 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:13,800 Like we have the dinner at 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock in the evening 46 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,800 and they have the dinner at 6 o'clock. 47 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:22,800 So there are three hours of difference and it's really strange. 48 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:29,800 They do it a lot. We don't eat that much in Spain. It's not very healthy food, but yeah, I do like it. 49 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:41,800 I saw an American football amateur play and it was really boring because they don't pass the half of the field. 50 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:49,160 The idea that when they meet here and then they maintain and develop their relationship 51 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:55,120 over what, a five month period before we go over there in February, that they're opening 52 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:02,060 themselves up to all of this diversity that they weren't open to perhaps before and all 53 00:05:02,060 --> 00:05:05,959 of these new experiences, all these different points of view, that they just didn't have 54 00:05:05,959 --> 00:05:13,199 have a window necessarily in Pembroke to look through and see this diversity, this different 55 00:05:13,199 --> 00:05:19,779 way of thinking and now they do, they have a friend and they're maintaining a relationship 56 00:05:19,779 --> 00:05:24,860 and opening themselves up to a lot of new experiences and new ideas. 57 00:05:24,860 --> 00:05:28,660 And they're developing their communication skills in real time. 58 00:05:28,660 --> 00:05:32,939 They have to communicate here in English but then when the kids go over to Spain they have 59 00:05:32,939 --> 00:05:34,100 to communicate in Spanish. 60 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:35,720 So it's just practical. 61 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,019 I just, I'm excited just to see Spain. 62 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,839 I think it'll, from the pictures I've seen, it looks very different than America. 63 00:05:42,420 --> 00:05:46,259 Everything's very much older, and it just will be a neat experience. 64 00:05:46,519 --> 00:05:51,339 I'm excited just to see, because she got to see, like, where we go to school and what we do for fun. 65 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,319 So I'm excited to go to Spain and experience all the same things, but in her hometown. 66 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,779 I'm really looking forward to just seeing the city of Madrid 67 00:05:58,779 --> 00:06:02,000 and also experiencing all the food and just the culture. 68 00:06:02,620 --> 00:06:08,860 Now we have all these friends from Spain that we can Snapchat and Instagram and text on WhatsApp. 69 00:06:09,139 --> 00:06:10,180 It's just really exciting.