hello hello and welcome back to the lights here in princeton community television i'm a show and here with us today we have in this matter said i who is my exchange student from barcelona and today we're going to be talking all about the whole experience of being an exchange ship in the differences between america and spain and all that fun stuff so just start why don't you and so this is my first time in usa and it was really strange when i come but now it's really cool and i'm really fascinating i went to new york and to philadelphia and i like it so much there are like  and like in these times they have like a lot of things king and it's only like you know it's funny because obviously the seasonal time period around here we have a ton of pumpkin and i kind of always over looked how much pumpkin we have during the season with how we in coming up and then thanksgiving and then things giving and she was like you americans are obsessed with pumpkins and i was like oh oh that that's just so seasonal thing but accurate observation so how long have you been here i have been here three weeks and i'm going to be here for one month so only one week more really tired i was like oh my god i'm going to bed also i didn't like half hungry i was like i didn't want to leave this it was really strange but now i'm ok i was the process of flying alone was it wasn't so bad i thought it was going to be like really bad but it was really i don't know it was easy then when i arrived of schools and i put it on my list as a choice to go to barcelona because that's been on my bucket list since i was very young i've always wanted to go there and she takes english so she wanted to come to the u s york so i was like i was really for how did your expectation of me and my family like how do we live up to what you thought we were going to be like i don't know i thought i'd like you are going to be probably not these worries and fears they were all coming into my head and was like oh my gosh and then like then i like saw you walk around the corner there oh she's here and then away immediately started to get along we were walking in the park on the first day and we really did have a lot of things in common that was really special and because i'm an only child it's like super knew like you know going to sleep in knowing somebody else in the room there to you and like waking up doing like let's face the state together  really sweet and also i have to brothers so it was like really strange to come like a girl like that and it was like it's really good i have to i like to have a  well unpopular opinions but philadelphia is beautiful and i respect that you have her come out to say such an unhurried what we've also been doing a lot of false festivities character because there's a port like a teenager who's crying and fears but we did go into one called alien counter and it's been the first time in a couple of years that i've successfully made it through without having to be scored out by one of really funny when we end because she was like which has been a big cultural difference as you mentioned what do you think of the food here in america and how does it compare to the food in spain like when i come it's like i didn't like anything like in the split of here but now i'm like i need more of these things and they are starting to like me but it's like i'm missing the photo first one of the ghost fairies like more healthy things and more good things everybody's like oh it's so bad that i like it so much i cannot wait to try it because i'm going to go live with you for a month after this so in march we're going to put it up and i to this what do you think of the school system here soon i think it's really good but i don't know it's like i think it's there because they have only four classes so i think it's you do online go and i don't think that had much to do with so would you recommend going on exchange to another country to people yes because you're going to improve a lot and i think that i improved a lot of i never d theater like the fault play and i kind of like it because all my life i like it theater so it's cool and also we don't have clubs like you have here and it's really cool  it's been like a truly wonderful experience like honestly it was it was like better than i could possibly picture in my head like the best case scenario that i was thinking before and it's like we're going to head over to best friends but it was even better and like i have to tell you every single night you can bet it's pitch black and our forty hysterical it's like it's silent it's stark we're lying in the same room oh yes we have similar interests too like yeah we have this whole plan what we're going to do tomorrow we like to bake yeah we're going to big cake we like to dance we like to better at the game together  please please so i have to let that's definitely and what do you think of new york like you already mentioned you prefer philadelphia but like new york is very famous everybody sees it in pictures and post cards you have this expectation so did it like how did it compare to your expectation whom i do know hot like they shuns because i was like if i have like really high expectations i probably be disappointed or probably not so i was like ok i'm not going to have ex one of her first days here and yeah you're sitting in front of hudson and like looking out to the side that's new jersey we're just sitting there and laughing and then we became friends the cockroach was oh my whole other story we named it billy and we were so we were eating ice cream on the terrace watching the sunset and so we were laughing about things and i put my empty ice cream thing down but of course it still has ice cream residue in it so then lo and can't like she can't she has to see that i can't wait it's going to be so much fun and i can't wait to meet your friends i can't wait to like your food and like be friends with your family and you know live for spanish life it's going to be fun and it really is it's going to be awesome and my dog is going to love  of her and it's really cute so do you think that because some people go an exchange for a little longer like a few months a year two years wherever it is you're here for four weeks do you think that even given such a short time period it's still worth it to improve your english and to become friends with other people yeah i think that still works here i think it's a good opportunity anything that could be like a really good experience for other people to try it that was a reference to a very famous video that we taped late at night when we were doing the really and i did to tape what was going on and we spent like days just replaying that video and well it's a very fun video i have to show it to you it's so great so i'm so happy that you like finally exchange the word and that you've been participating in the classes because some of the other to change who sometimes like check out the classes you know they'll be checking their what's up watching you tube videos for one year but in anything like that but she's been involved and the teachers and students have come to me saying they're very impressed with you so been a lot of fun so what are some like things with english that maybe you struggled with like towards the beginning of your trip but now know like how to talk about more or like an issue with your english that maybe you sorted out now like when i arrived i was and like so and to speak like all these but i think that now i'm more open and like i'm not so i don't know like something an i don't know my grandma or was worse and i think that i'm  to write a letter naturally because the teacher is going to see it she had to write it in english and she did a very good job i'm very impressed and i have noticed your improvement i think that you talk a lot faster and like you're less like apprehensive so what like what would you recommend to exchange students who are going to go on exchange any advice like about getting one to host family what to bring what to expect anything speaking all the time in english so you can improve listening and then if you tall like you can prove more than if you are doing something and not pay to the class so do you recommend going on make change like this yes i think that is pretty much a good note to end on so if there's anything that you'd like to say to well thank you so much for coming on the show it means a lot to us and i'm looking forward to looking back at this later or you know i don't know in five years and