(upbeat music)
- (speaks in foreign language) and hello everyone.
My name's Molly
and I'll be taking over ITA's Instagram today
to show you a day in the life of Valencia, Spain.
Okay so I'm on a break from work now
and I have a little more time to tell you about what I do.
The school that I work at is
in a little Pueblo called Manises
which is about 30 minutes outside
of the center of Valencia, by train.
I work there about three to four days a week.
Unfortunately, I can't take pictures or videos
of the students at my school
but I will try to show the classrooms
and the school later on today.
But for now, I have a leisurely three hour break
for lunch and siesta.
So I'll use it to show you around and answer questions.
Unfortunately, I can't take pictures or videos
of the students at my school
but I will try to show the classrooms
and the school later on today.
But for now, I have a leisurely three hour break
for lunch and siesta.
So I'll use it to show you around and answer questions.
(car engine rumbles)
(door slams)
(scanner beeps)
- [Molly] Welcome to our apartment.
This is my boyfriend, Dalton.
- (speaks in foreign language)
- [Molly] Living room.
Kitchen.
Bathroom.
Bedroom.
And the spare room just has laundry and an air mattress
in it so I will spare you.
(crowd murmurs in foreign language)
- Cheers!
Yeah so we are doing a government sponsored program
as language assistants.
So we have a student visa because it's very difficult for
non EU citizens to get a work visa.
You can also get a student visa by taking--
- You can also get a student visa by taking classes
through a Spanish university.
There are other ways to get a visa
but they're a little bit more complicated and expensive.
- Okay this one's a really good question,
we were both pretty unhappy in our jobs
about three years ago.
And we actually first started teaching in Thailand
where we were about two years.
And after Thailand, take it away.
- We moved to Spain because of the program,
ability to live in Europe on a visa,
and we wanted to learn Spanish
because it would be really useful to us
the rest of our lives.
- Yeah and Valencia was an easy pick.
Valencia's not too big and not too small,
it's about one million people.
The food is really good, there's a beach here,
there's great nightlife, but it's not too overwhelming.
- It's cheap.
- And it's really cheap, yeah.
- We didn't have any trouble getting accustomed
or with culture shock because coming from Thailand
which was much harder to get used to,
Spain was sort of a stepping stone back to our own culture.
So apart from the language it wasn't so bad.
Yeah I think we can save a good amount of money
here in Spain especially because
A, Valencia is really cheap
and our supplemental income from working online
helps us save a few hundred. - Mm-hmm.
- I'll make a chart on like our spendings and earnings
but if you have anymore questions in the meantime
let us know because dinner doesn't start
for another three hours.
- 10 o'clock, so. - There's time.
- Wine 'til then. (glasses clink)
- So on my free days I usually wake up at nine or 10 AM
to do VIPkid classes and on my half days from school
I start at around two and just do a few classes.
Yes, we do take Spanish lessons with a group
of around six people
and we've met a lot of our close friends that way.
We're not fluent yet but it's helped a lot
at our schools and just in regular life.
Yes, I do have a degree in communications
but it's not required for this program.
(upbeat music)