During Spring of ´09, I decided to go to Spain and study for a semester, just for kicks, without the slightest idea that I´d really love it and that the experience of leaving my comfort zone would change my life so much. But, here I am nearly a year after my return to the States preparing all my documents so that I can get my long term Spanish visa and head over in September to start my new job!
Last Fall after a month or two of googling and researching how to legally move back to Spain for awhile, I ran across a program through the actual Spanish government that hires North Americans every year to work as language and culture assistants in their Spanish-English bilingual schools. The job almost sounded too good to be true, work only 12-16 hours per week, earn a monthly salary, free medical, and get a long stay visa residence card to be a legal human being in Spain. But as it turns out, this program is legit and I have been accepted to work in Andalucia- though I may be waiting and checking my PO Box every day til July so that I can know the actual school I´ll be working in. Besides that, the only thing that stands between me now is a load of bureaucratic fun: background checks, medical releases, visa apps, and maybe even a road trip to San Francisco to visit my "local" Spanish Consulate. Anyone up for a 16 hour drive??
Soo, I haven´t quite finished my degree yet, but I have the benefit of WSU´s online program, so I will be finishing my BA part time while working in Spain. I should finish up in another few semesters with a Bachelor´s in Business Management and Ops with minors in Mathematics and Spanish. Oh yes. I have some ideas as to what I might do for a career and with my life later on, but I don´t believe in planning too far ahead...you never know where the road might take you. I just know I like the road I´m strolling down at this moment- I think one of my biggest fears is graduating college, entering corporate America, and then having a hard core midlife crisis before I´m 30, which would probably lead me to do the Camino de Santiago and hike 100s of miles by myself again.. I´d rather just do that for fun.
Great blog, easy to read, I enjoyed it a lot. Bueno.
ResponderEliminarSo you were able to get into this program without your bachelors? I am currently working on mine and wasnt sure that I should try.
ResponderEliminari think the program says you have to have finished three years of your bachelors. or at least i was in my 3rd yr when i applied and now i'm finishing online while working here. it's working out well!
ResponderEliminar