Feeding the flirty homeless and other anecdotes

[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com]. Hi! No theme to the blog post this week, just a few anecdotes and things I’ve done since last time… This semester I’ve started to get more involved in ESN (Erasmus Student Network) activities,

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Multiple languages, multiple personalities?

For me, being a language student has for years entailed speaking the target language in the classroom and mainly switching back to English otherwise. However, living in Spain for my year abroad has started to give me a different perspective

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Continuing hobbies on year abroad

[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com] Rewind to the beginning of my second year, and I was running around SUSU (the Students’ Union at Southampton Uni) trying out lots of taster sessions, including a lot of martial arts (I had

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Home for Christmas

[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com] Crazily enough, I’ve now lived in Madrid for 3 months, and it’s time for a trip home for the Christmas holidays! After a nice flight chatting to a fellow Brit I met on the

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Lyon- riots, rides and ravioli

Last weekend saw myself and a motley collection of friends descend on the French city of Lyon- the origin of Cinema, the world’s silk capital and heart of the French Revolution. At least, that’s what the guidebooks say. (Prepare yourself

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Spain vs. Britain

[Taken from my blog: http://madridmemories.wordpress.com/]. Hi everyone! I realise I haven’t written a blog post in aaaages – since I last posted, I’ve opened my Spanish bank account, found a flat, got an Erasmus card, got a travel card, enrolled at

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