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good morning good morning thanks for tuning in to the podcast today this is your host

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ryan happy to introduce a special guest the beloved blonde of el molar today i have with me

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colette colette welcome to the show how are you doing today i'm good thank you ryan this is so

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exciting i'm so glad to have you here um how's the day going what have you been up to how have

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been feeling um everyone's been like out of school today so there hasn't been a whole lot to do but

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it's been quite fun um a lot of chilling a lot of relaxing awesome yeah chilling and relaxing

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and now we're doing a podcast this is perfect wow what a great day um well so what I'm hoping to

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tell a bit uh about talk about today with the listeners I want to give them insight kind of

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into this this unique experience we've had living here right as oxus um especially people moving

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from abroad into spain and maybe perhaps we'll even get into some of those there's barriers

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people have to overcome the highlights definitely so if we were just to start with something like

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positive um let's talk about like the highlights of spain here like what comes to mind for you

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there okay loaded question um i think it's just like generally like the culture is like one of

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the most positive things like it's obviously very different to back at home um but as a whole

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everyone has just been so lovely and welcoming like Spanish people are so friendly so like

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personal um so that's been really positive and then Spain as a whole I just absolutely adore

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as a country um I think just such a beautiful culture beautiful country and have you gotten

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to see much of the country traveling to be fair not as much as I should have I've been to I went

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to the north to um Pais Basco I went to Bilbao um and that was amazing at like Christmas time

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absolutely love that the food was unreal I've never like eaten I remember yeah you did the

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the food hopping yeah that was awesome yeah because I haven't made my way to Bilbao yet

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but I just found have you heard about it the um abono unico they're doing uh oh wait I might

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yeah 30 euros for the month you can take any bus anywhere unlimited i'm gonna do a day trip to

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bilbao yeah right after a weekend in granada right after you know i see you from one end of the

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country to the other i'm gonna be hopping around because like you i maybe haven't taken the best

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advantage of my time here in the sense of traveling right it's a huge uh country with so much to see

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I've only gone context for our listeners this is my second year here so in theory I should have

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traveled a lot more than not his first rodeo not my first rodeo but I've been to Almeria the

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just once Granada twice it's my favorite that's why I'm going back I'm finally having a ticket

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booked for La Alhambra which you have to book out so far and then what else oh and I'm going

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on to Sevilla for the feria are you going for the feria yeah what I think we're going at the

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same time whoa I'm going on Friday morning I'm going Thursday evening but holy guac and when

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do you come back I think on the Sunday that is so exciting so you're learning Sevillanas as well

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yeah if I put on a song here maybe you could give me a demonstration I think that's quite ambitious

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we'll check back in at the next episode after I've been to La Farina I'll come back and absolutely

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we'll both be doing good um side note um travel aside because obviously that's always a highlight

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everyone loves traveling one of my highlights was actually a flamenco class have you done any

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have you done any fun classes here I think I attempted to do a salsa class once but I was

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really really bad I have terrible coordination yeah but it's nice to watch other people do it

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like wow like I can really appreciate that just not for myself um but no that sounds so cool

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what was it like it was a blast first of all the class just came about of such coincidence like

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a friend of a friend of a friend um I'm very lucky that I've forced my way into a Spanish

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friend group so I feel like that's helping with the immersion and that was really highlighted in

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a way that a friend who arrived to this get-together was a professional flamenco dancer

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coincidentally and decided to hook us up with a friend of his who gives beginner classes at a

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flamenco school not too far from me so the next day um we were in bright and early learning

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bulerias with one of the songs by yurai cortez have you heard of him yet no up and coming you'll

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love him okay there's a there's a podcast no podcast no a song I'm in the podcast movie a

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documentary about your element okay he just made a a new album it's like flamenco guitar and they

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made a whole oh watch my mouth they made a whole documentary about him and it's bomb okay and we

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danced to one of those songs and gosh I was awful I was gonna say were you good I like I still

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remember the dance that was a year ago okay I'm locked into your memory absolutely we just watched

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it we had friends over the other night my my friend who did the class and I um and we made

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them watch the video of us dancing flamenco um sorry I'm laughing because my mic keeps falling

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down I don't know why shoot maybe the screw's loose I don't know maybe it just doesn't like me

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okay that's fine but that was definitely like a we talk a lot you and I you know

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our instructors about side quests um maybe this podcast being one of them that was one of my

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favorite side quests was flamenco class and yeah what about yours do you have any side quests oh

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my gosh I feel like there's been so many things but you know when you're put on the spot I just

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can't think of one single thing I apologize for going off script with this yeah that's okay I

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didn't prepare we'll circle back to it we'll circle back to it you talked a lot about let's

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back to food um I know that that's like a central theme in your life I know you're a big eater um

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was it Bilbao was that really the food highlight of Spain for you yeah I think so what's the

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experience been like here in Madrid really good it's obviously like it's a different there's

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certain things that when I first came here there's things that I was used to cooking at home

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and I'd go to the supermarket I'll be like where the hell is it like um I can't find this thing

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um so it's adjusting to that um but I'm just such a tortilla fan at the moment I'm going through

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such a a phase where I just can't stop eating it have you challenged yourself to make them at home

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yes but I don't want to talk about that because it was really really bad did you flip it how did

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it go the flip was fine basically I'm gonna blame this on someone else for this one I was cooking it

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and we had like um a repairman round and at the moment where I needed to flip it he was like I

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need you to come upstairs and look at the work i've just done and i was like this is prime

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tortilla and he should have known he should have known because he was spanish that was rude that

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was so rude of him to come and fix my house um so the tortilla was very overcooked people to say

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i know and it obviously was like a long process to make as well that's not salvageable no but next

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time we come back stronger so i have high hopes and um i know the audience is going to want to

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know uh were there onions in your overcooked tortilla or if cooked tortilla there were not

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no onions i i know it's controversial i i don't think i like it with onions oh whoa i'm sorry i

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know um no that's fine um next topic moving swiftly on

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um the next thing i want to know a bit about is as a foreigner um especially after brexit right

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trigger warning coming coming over to the the mainland coming over to the peninsula on the

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continent yes um what has the music scene been like for you do you feel like you've gotten to

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dabble in in spanish music at all yeah like especially when i go out and stuff you're

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obviously um like super exposed to it a lot more but I will say that um when you're listening to

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like the radio or like going out to bars and stuff or you know wherever you might be there is a lot

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of like English and American influence so I am hearing like the same things I would have heard

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at home maybe that's because of the places I've been going to which might be you know more of an

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international scene but yeah I have noticed that although like I am now exposed to a lot more

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Spanish music there's a lot of things that I'm like oh this is from home that's quite nice as

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well because obviously like a far far away from home so a little taste a little taste of Manchester

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absolutely I would say it's good for newcomers perhaps or people thinking of doing the program

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to know that there are those international oh for sure landing spots where if you're if you're

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homesick you can go get all the lady gaga katie perry oh yes um i can't think of any oasis yep

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um you can find that and then if you're willing to explore a little bit if you're looking for

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something new there's definitely um i never expected this or i guess i should have i've

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really deep into the madrid indie scene yes i really like your song recommendations flamenco

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aside because that my I'm thinking often wow my poor new uh roommates in Providence are going to

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be listening to the white guy who went and lived in Spain and comes home and brings flamenco just

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clapping all the time because that's definitely like really integrated into my taste these days

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but yeah something usually I use music as like an icebreaker right if with a new friend if that's

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how I've made my friends here I've noticed that about you right right but I found lately not all

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of my music knowledge from Spain applies because they're too indie oh even for like Spanish people

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yeah no clue my students shout you guys out have no idea who I'm listening to and they're all bands

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from Madrid that I've seen okay well I feel like that's when you know you're winning winning yeah

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but also getting crazy looks from a bunch of 12 year olds well so you know pros and cons

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but the funny thing is and i don't know what this decision to move to spain

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looked like for you i never saw it coming for myself i was really i was marching around my

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campus in burlington vermont and by coincidence spotify you know discover weekly whatever

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recommended me one random little indie band from madrid um equal grupo and i i recommend it i saw

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them live too it's even better we run into each other in my lasagna whoa i was freaking out like

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oh my god that's sick they have no idea but i was marching around this little mountain

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college campus listening to this band no idea that a year later i'd be seeing them live in

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their city I love that right things come around the direction life takes you um wild what was

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this decision like for you why why did you end up here so I've always wanted to do it so when I was

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at university I studied French and Spanish and like we said before Brexit is obviously quite a

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major thing in the UK um it's ruined my life no I'm joking um positive positive um no it's just

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made things a lot more difficult um so on my year abroad we were the first year group that was

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brexit the first year group that we had to have visas for because i think that was when it was

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finalized wow so yes so it was voted for like years in advance but the when everything like

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came into place and we started losing the benefits of being in the eu was my year abroad here

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so my university were just like look we don't really know like the visa process so we were

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left by ourselves which is really great as a 20 year old to be left by yourself with no idea how

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to do a visa um so and it was also the year of covid so this is when it was like you couldn't

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travel to certain countries and you know it was like red warning amber warning I don't know green

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warning it was a mess basically so my year abroad I did end up going to France for four months at

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the back end of it from like April to August so I lived in Paris for four months so it was worth it

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the end we yeah we we but I didn't make it to Spain so it was always like I really wish I could

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have lived in Spain like to you know help my Spanish and you know it got to the point where

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after I graduated I was like I really feel like I've lost my Spanish now um and I still feel like

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I'm in a position where I would regret not going to Spain found out about the program applied here

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Bish, bash, bosh.

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Tu centro, tu voz.

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En Radio Cortes damos alas a nuevas voces.

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Descubrimos los talentos no escuchados.

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Desde entrevistas hasta podcasts, desde la voz del alumnado.

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Aquí, cada historia importa.

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No callamos, pero sí escuchamos.

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Síguenos y forma parte de nuestra onda.

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Bish, bash, bosh.

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Yes.

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Wow.

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What a beautiful story.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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I'm loving it.

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Yeah, because I think a lot of people expect that we come on this plan of wanting to be

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teachers, but I think usually it's the language immersion that pulls people in.

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Oh yeah, and the teaching as well, because I do want to be a teacher.

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So it is like, whoa, newsflash.

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Newsflash.

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I feel like that's not the case for a lot of people.

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What type of teacher do you want to be?

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A Spanish teacher?

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Well, no, I think English teacher in the UK.

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But yeah, it was also like a foot in the door.

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in that aspect as well teaching experience teaching experience exactly wow i feel like

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that's awesome because i don't know i feel like maybe it's a 50 50 i don't know many people here

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wanting to be teachers people are just here for the experience absolutely um definitely my vote

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right yeah i studied biology and art and i'm not going back to become a teacher no he's off to med

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school off to med school see you later see ya ciao ciao but I will advocate that I think being

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able to teach especially to someone in their second language the amount of kind of mental

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gymnastics that takes rewording understanding your audience I think that translates into

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probably every workplace yeah can you explain things well can you communicate can you handle

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yeah oh my gosh yeah working in front of a group yeah standing in front of the classroom and having

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all these faces staring at you I remember it'd be so intimidating the first day and then you

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obviously get used to it and I'm like whatever now I'm like you should be looking at me 17 year

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olds are all judging me right now yeah it's like every single thing you say I'm like oh my gosh

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like what are they what are they perceiving me as but I thought the worst would be like this

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like maybe some comments or like fighting back like oh i don't want to do that i don't

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know the worst i think is the the silence especially when i lack of participation i

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think when i throw an idea out thinking i'm bridging this like five year age gap come on

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it's not even like i'm some old dude here like i know what you're laughing about on tiktok like

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chill for a minute when i try to bridge that gap maybe put put myself in a place of vulnerability

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to connect a bit nothing other than maybe someone in the corner shaking their head

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silent just for pity though yeah it was like yeah okay okay Ryan speaking of pity um

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yes this wasn't on the docket either we'll get back to the the agenda yeah um I have one student

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and I won't say names because but this is a very positive view of the student I have I have one of

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these classes where it is the silence and it's just it's nothing negative it's not a lack of

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enthusiasm it's just a quiet class but it hurts when you stand up there and you're like good

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morning everyone how's the day going get hit with nothing silence and this student out of pity just

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to break the silence because sometimes i'll like stay and make us all sit in the silence okay

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everyone has to be awkward i know look at everyone's face and like watch them not move

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their mouth and he just breaks the silence with yes teacher oh and i'm like well i asked how are

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you guys and i got a yes yes as the answer um it's better than nothing but i appreciated it

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beggars can't be choosers yeah and yeah oh i love you love that yeah that's awesome i love that

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participation you're literally like someone's got my back thanks king i told my roommate about you

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shout out to you um the last thing kind of we were aiming for these pause these highlights

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of spain we've definitely wibble wobbled away from that topic but has there been anything

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maybe outside of the typical things that come to mind of like travel food or music

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that stood out to you in spain like what are you pulling from this experience how much do you have

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left and what are you going to be looking back on like that was awesome i think um just in general

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it's like the friendships you make over here like that's really surprised me I think it's so

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daunting to obviously move to a different place but it's not only just a different place it's a

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different country you know different culture different language like it's really intimidating

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at first but you meet all these people and everyone's just like just so nice and like

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accommodating and it was my birthday on Saturday and like I was so overwhelmed on my birthday

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happy birthday yes happy belated birthday to me i've noticed no one has said it to me at school

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joking um thank you children um and on my birthday i was just so overwhelmed by like how

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generous kind like loving like people are um and i don't know it just really brought to light like

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the way that i've moved somewhere i've built a whole life here in the past few months and like

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got all these people around me and it's like tough being away for your birthday when you're not with

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your friends from home or your family or whatever um and I was like oh my god I'm just so grateful

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for all the people I've met over here pretty wholesome I think it's going to be making

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leaving really difficult don't I'm dreading it because I got a taste of it when I left

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for the summer um and I was saying goodbye to friends that at that point I had only known

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four or five months four months maybe and um some even gifted me like parting gifts they were like

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tearing up hugging goodbye and I was just like in the same sense I'm like wow yeah we really got

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close really freaking quick like you really scooped me off the sidewalk where we literally

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met we met on the sidewalk mind you and next thing you know like you're hosting a goodbye

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for the summer ryan party in your backyard yeah i'm like who are you guys it's insane

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shout out shout out my hitafe girls um but wow i hope you're listening

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yeah we let me see how many viewers we have right now um yeah just a couple thousand

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so maybe they're among them this is live oh no girl this is linked live to that

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i use um if they stick out these instagram hello everyone didn't even realize they can call in we

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have a phone okay no sorry this was all a lie right ryan keeps doing this we can cut this part

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out cut the cameras i would say what who's listening who the hell is listening at 12

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minutes past one on a tuesday get a job get a job go home um well i would say friends aside since i

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think you covered that so well yes um one of the decisions i made here that i think i'll be most

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grateful for as i look back and as i as i currently am is this little store i keep talking about

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i i volunteer at a charity shop um deborah piel de mariposa tiene solidaria piel de mariposa

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and it's just this cute really rolls off the tongue yeah right it's the ngo name and then

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it's the organization and then it's the store name whatever um but it's just like a little

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thrift shop run by volunteer old women and men down in the neighborhood and i feel like that's

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where I got a lot of my little immersion um it makes me use the language and we do all sorts of

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fun little events like we just did a sign language event we have a storytelling event this weekend

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we have a planting like um trimming exchange event where people bring clippings of their

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plants and we do a little workshop and you can go home with new plants we did a philosophy of

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secondhand fashion and wine event say less and we have a fashion show did I tell you about the

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fashion show may 30th mark your calendar not joking okay is our annual fashion show are you

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going to be modeling yes and candle hopefully um get this so all the volunteer all the models

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are volunteers yes dressed by fashion students from local schools or volunteers who dress them

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with outfits of things found only in the store they get like a like a local fashion or a model

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scouter they get like a cinematographer videographer their photographers families of the people with

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this disease are able to come and participate and then they sell all the outfits that the models

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showcase and then right in the local neighborhood bars come and sell drinks and tapas and it's all

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like fundraising out in the street that's really nice last year i missed it oh right because not

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so nice so i was a designer and a model okay so excited was going to be there bright and early

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8 a.m never booked my bus home from granada what an idiot you find out at the bus stop that you

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don't have a bus ticket that's really what do you do really stupid i'm sorry to say so i was

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fluyendo i was trying to chill hopefully find a blah blah car right because those are last minutes

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no no nada and so i was in fact stranded in granada and thank god i have a friend who lives

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there i re revamped i reconvened with him but it was so stressful because he's like i just have

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somewhere i have to be at nine so hang with me till nine like word because this next bus i i'm

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looking at 11 um nope that sold out next one's 1 a.m i'm rolling in as the fashion show starts

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i'm like whatever i'll do it i'm out with him at a event he invited me thank god um

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ticket never went through never got the bus ticket again the app was yeah a little broken

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it seems um so i got to spend the night which was fun thank god i had a friend

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yes down in town it's nice to have friends but i miss the fashion show that's so rubbish

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yeah rubbish as heck rubbish as heck um but that was the experience um and we've been blabbing a

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bit here i don't imagine this we should drag this out too much further indeed but how about we end

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on a positive note uh and in another podcast we'll maybe get to some of those more logistical

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things bureaucracy housing oh my favorite um this is just more I guess an experiential reflection

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a chit chat if you will if you will I will yeah go on then so so how about you go ahead and tell

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me about maybe a bud what's like something you're looking forward to in the coming months oh my gosh

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okay so I've only actually got one trip planned apart from going home um over Easter um and that's

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Sevilla which I'm really excited about that's like one of the places in Spain which is like top of

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my bucket list my parents are absolutely obsessed with Sevilla they've been like multiple times

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never got the invite um so I always wanted to go and I remember my Spanish teacher at school

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um always talking about it especially during like the orange season he was like you literally walk

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down the streets of Sevilla and you can just smell oranges I'm like amazing but I'm going

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for La Feria so I'm very very excited um I am worried though about the Spanish in Sevilla

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because I've heard that the accent is very difficult so this will be a learning curve for me

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um but yeah that's that's my one thing I'm looking forward to and then also just spending as much

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time as possible in Madrid I think feel like now the weather is so nice it's just you can really

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make the most of it so everything absolutely that's awesome well I'll see you in Sevilla

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I know I'm excited we can struggle through the accent together Ryan help me

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well I'll say when I got off the when I was fresh off the boat in Almeria

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I was lost I was drowning off the boat yes um because we weren't just in the city I feel like

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city centers the accent's less thick same as in the u.s and whatever but we went rural almeria

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we drove an hour outside the city to a pueblo of 34 people oh my gosh for the the festival because

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it was a friend of a friend's hometown and oh my gosh the accent there was gonna kill me yeah

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eight hours later fluent fluent it was awesome yeah never mind cut

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but I guess Sevilla yeah that has to be and just you know aprovechando the rest of my

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few months here yeah um but any any closing notes you want to end on we're kind of coming to the end

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of our time here I don't think so what about you uh no well thanks just I just want to thank you

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again for finding the time to come in today thanks for having me um I hope the listeners enjoyed and

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guys make sure um you you tune in for the next one if you want to hear a bit about bureaucracy

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and and that experience and you're all looking forward to it and until then take care ciao