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- Hi everyone, my name is Ezri, and I am from Texas.
Today I want to show you what my day-to-day is like
in Ourense, Galicia.
For those of you who might not know,
Galicia is that northwestern region right above Portugal.
This is my second year here in Spain.
My first was in Andalusia, the southern part of Spain.
And I currently work at a vocational school,
so I work with adults.
So I got this job with the
Auxiliares de Conversación program.
It is the Ministry of Education program,
so I am here legally with a visa for eight months.
So next I want to show you a few of my students,
and they will introduce you to our school,
and what we do here.
So let's go.
- Hi, I'm Surela, I'm a student at Villamarin.
- Hi I'm Nelia and I'm a student at Villamarin too.
- [Both] And we are studying tourism.
- We are getting prepared to be in a reception
or in a hotel management position.
- Villamarin also offers students cooking, ironing,
baking, and service-centered courses.
- Welcome to our school-started bar and cafeteria.
- This is our bar,
and here students prepare natural juices
and cocktails in their cafeteria services classes.
- So this is our coffee-making zone.
Here our students and teachers can order
different type of coffee
like latte, Americano, cappuccino, and others.
- Food is also offered here,
like sandwiches, pancakes, crepes, and a lot of types
of delicious food.
- (both) Thank you for touring Villamarin with us.
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- Those were two of my students.
I teach the English courses here,
and if you have any questions
I'll go ahead and put a little box up there
so you can ask away.
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So one of the things I love about living
in a smaller town, Ourense has about 100 000 people,
is that everything is cheaper.
Transportation, rent,
groceries, everything,
is much more affordable.
Which allows you to save a whole lot more,
and I will definitely be discussing budgets
and how much we earn here.
So my visa is valid from the 1st of October
to the 31st of May,
and you can renew as long as the school
that you are finishing in rates you positively
and checks off that you are good for the next year.
I would choose Italy, I love the language, I love the food,
and it was one of the most beautiful countries I've visited
since my time abroad.
I didn't find the visa application to be very difficult.
I will say it requires a lot of patience,
and a lot of self discipline
because there are deadlines you need to meet,
and certain things you need to make appointments for
with several weeks in advance.
I currently work 16 hours.
That is a new rule for the autonomous community of Galicia.
Other regions usually work about 12,
but that is why I earn a little bit more than
the average auxiliara.
Health insurance is provided by this program,
the duration is from the 1st of October to the 31st of May,
which is the duration of your contract.
I'm not sure exactly how much,
but I've been to the doctor three times now,
and I've never been charged.
I believe it's a couple thousand dollars.
- [Ezri] Hey y'all, so I want to give you a quick tour
of the apartment.
So the first area we have here
once you enter through the front door
is the kitchen.
The kitchen is one of my favorite rooms of the apartment
mainly because of this beautiful tile
that's all over the walls.
Has a very Portugal, Spain feeling which I just really love.
Our stove is this one.
When I lift this up it exposes the burners,
but we normally keep it shut
just to have a little more counter space.
If we come this way, we have the living room.
So very cozy, very small,
but only two of us live here so it's totally fine for us.
So this is it, all of this came furnished,
and our landlady is from France,
and she brought us back these little paintings
so we could decorate the apartment,
which is very sweet of her.
Over here we have our bedroom.
This is the only bedroom we use.
Basic, but nice size bed and plenty of storage space for us.
This way we have the second bedroom.
We don't use it since we are just a couple,
but we do like to have this
just in case someone comes to visit
or needs a place to crash.
And again all the sheets were bought brand new
by our landlady.
If we come this way we have the bathroom.
This is our shower.
We have the toilet, and the washing machine.
So convenient to have it in the restroom.
I don't know why I didn't think of that before (laughs).
And lastly, over here,
this is what was supposed to be the third bedroom.
So we decided to keep this room empty
and use it as a little classroom for online teaching.
And that's it.
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I'm just about done for the day
so if you have any more questions
or you want to see a bit about my travels,
feel free to follow me and thanks for watching.
Bye.
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