Saturday 27th february, Boston

I have arrived at Boston-Logan International Airport around 3pm local time. Bad Not a good time to arrive, even worse bearing in mind that my flight was changed at the last moment suffered a last minute change and I couldn’t notify contact the person responsable of responsible for giving me the apartment keys. I arrived at the apartment headquarters (a. k. a Beacon St. 237) two hours early.

The truth is that while the responsable was coming, I have met around 10 students at headquarters At the time that the person in charge was coming, I have met around 10 students already, all of them are studying they all study in Boston, some in at the university (MIT, Boston University and Harvard University), some studying study english (it seems that in Boston there are a lot of english academies, although all the universities have english courses.

The hall of the headquarters, there are nobody as you can see...

This because if a person wants to study here at the university or a post-degree you need to have the “International English Language Testing System”, IELTS -or something similar like TOFL- and this english certificate has to have be less than two years). The common denominator of all of them is that everybody speaks in spanish; even the responsable of guy responsible for the apartments is latin and have has spoken to me in Spanish!

So far have it has been impossible for me to practice my english, they speak me spanish everyone speaks spanish to me, no matter what I do. I thought that here was the best place to learn english!

Now, I’m at in my apartment, it’s so pretty as you can see in the pictures below. I was lucky and my studio was not in the headquarters of Beacon St., It was in is at 267 Newbury St instead. I guess so that I guess my neighbours will be older and with more interesest in the language. I also know that all ot them are studying english in the same place than as me, but I haven’t met them yet.

That’s the way life is…

… and yes! I have a lot of mistakes and I need to correct them in the same text :P

My work place

Sofa and furniture... plenty of clothes

My bed for 1 month. ¡Is confortable!

General view of the studio

The Bathroom

The fridge, some fruits, butter, milk and orange juice... they seem soap bottles!

The kitchen, bread and cereals to have breakfast

8 Comentarios

Christian Fuentes dice: 28 Febrero 2010 - 13:51

Nice appartment! The sofa looks exactly like the one in Trovit :P

Have a nice english-learning time and be careful with the parties ;)

Sergi dice: 28 Febrero 2010 - 14:07

Dani! estás viviendo en EUA un tiempecito por trabajo o placer? o solo por una conferencia o algo parecido? Que te vaya todo muy bien! un abrazo y disfruta de la experiencia.

Daniel Giménez dice: 28 Febrero 2010 - 14:11

Estoy en Boston haciendo un curso en inglés y mi intención es ir a visitar empresas de aqui con las que podria tener sentido trabajar con Trovit. En un mes, dejaré Boston para irme a California (Estaré en el plug and play tech center de Sillicon Valley trabajando y supongo que viviré en San Francisco).

¡Un abrazo Sergi!

jesus dice: 28 Febrero 2010 - 15:06

mola, mola, tu ves explicándonos tio!!!

Chema dice: 28 Febrero 2010 - 17:30

Hi Dani,

That’s a great idea, there’s no other way of learning English properly. But not everything it is about writing properly. Don’t be too tough to yourself about that.

Depends where are you going in California, they may speak even more Spanish ;)

Wish you good luck, with lot of envy from Spain.

regards

Daniel Giménez dice: 28 Febrero 2010 - 21:58

@Christian A lot of party in 1 day… too much for me ;-)
@jesus I want to explain you everything!
@Chema Thanks Chema I have english classes everyday (tomorrow I’m going to start, 6 hours per day), I think that will be good even though some people talk to me in spanish!

Santiago Lizardo dice: 1 Marzo 2010 - 00:20

Ey Daniel, sure my english is worse than yours, but just my 50 cents: don’t put the exclamation sign at the begin of your sentences. “¡” follows the same rule as “¿” (they don’t use it).
See you on the net,

Daniel Giménez dice: 1 Marzo 2010 - 23:05

Yes! You are right! I correct it because it is an epic fail, but I know, I know… :-) Thanks a lot!

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