A Spaniard in The College of New Jersey
My first two months here have been extremely riveting. I remember the day I arrived on campus and I cannot believe that the first half of the semester is already gone! In two months I have already been faced with participating in situations that I have never experienced before in my life. Ultimately, the only […]
Anuncio de la Teletienda – La mantilla española
Angela Arguson, The College of New Jersey; Abrar Ebady, The College of New Jersey; Claudia Gargano, The College of New Jersey; Brooklin R. Jones, University of Oklahoma; Klara M.N. Owens, SUNY, Stony Brook. Vídeo que han realizado los alumnos de la asignatura “España a través de los Medios”.
Women’s Soccer in Spain Part 2: Being Aficionado
In junior high and high school, I played competitive soccer five days a week. Soccer came before school, before friends, and sometimes even before family. After two years of playing up with older girls, I got burnt out, hung up my cleats, and decided to focus on other things. When I started playing with the […]
Halloween en Alcalá
Halloween in Spain goes back to the origins of the holiday. This day is meant to be scary. Here you will not see people dressed as cute or sexy anything like you would in the USA. Everyone from adults to children will put all their efforts into creating costumes that are out to horrify. Blood, […]
Inmigración en España
Beth Strumpf, Chris Dinon, Cinthia Bonilla, David Adlai-Gail, Emily Roberts, Erica Roman, Melanie Salmon, Thelma Carrera, The College of New Jersey. Antes de venir a España, ninguno de nosotros sabía que Alcalá de Henares tenía una población grande de inmigrantes. Alcalá de Henares es una ciudad que tiene 207.000 habitantes, de los que 44.459 son inmigrantes, según datos del Instituto Nacional de […]
Travel tips – Getting from Spain to the rest of Europe
Living in Spain gives you the opportunity to “country-hop” and explore new cultures and languages easily. The United States is so big that you can drive eight hours and still be in the same state, cough, looking at you Florida. Whereas here in Europe you can drive a few hours and have already crossed three […]
Experiencia de dos estudiantes de otoño 2014
Emma Trobia y Deanna Berlin fueron dos estudiantes durante el semestre de otoño 2014 en el Instituto Franklin de la Universidad de Alcalá. Emma Trobia, University of Arizona; Deanna Berlin, Slippery Rock University
¿Y si hacemos nuestra solicitud de trabajo más divertida?
Brittany Panko, Kooper Taylor, University of Oklahoma; Marisa Hoffman, University of Arizona; Pornprom Tauthong, SUNY Stony Brook; Mitchell Macheske, University of Central Florida; Julia Rivera, Anna Morgan Couch, Auburn University; Hannah Powers, University of Colorado. En la clase de Español para los Negocios vimos una serie de personas que habían creado sus propios currículums (CV) […]
Alcalá y América: bajo la luz de Grecia y Roma
Elliot Montesinos, St Mary´s University. U.S. Capitol: Progress of Civilization tympanum (ca. 1863) in Washington, D.C. by Thomas Crawford La influencia greco-romana en nuestro mundo actual ha sido el resultado de un largo proceso a través de la Historia de Europa. España envió en sus viajes a Cristóbal Colón en el 1492 al nuevo continente de […]
Análisis del uso de las Redes Sociales e Internet y su importancia en la actualidad
Andrés González, St Mary’s University; Cassandra Camacho y Claire Tomlinson, University of Arizona; Quinn James Cordeiro, Colorado State University; Victoria Newkirk y Rachel Friedman, Rider University En la clase de “Español Avanzado” con la finalidad de trabajar la conversación y practicar expresiones de opinión, hemos hablado sobre el uso de las redes sociales e Internet […]