Radio Illescas again

Today we got invited to the radio again! :) This time not only to give an interview, but also to help with interpreting an interview with 2 Dutch musicians. Since they couldn't find anyone available who speaks English, Raquel the interviewer asked us to help out and we thought why not. :) It was a lot of fun, though I had some difficulties translating the specific musical vocabulary, but I think it went fine in the end.

With the musicians

Of course after the interview we also had our own, about how our experience was here in Illescas, what are we going to do next and so on... I liked it, I felt much better than the first time, more relaxed and I'm pretty sure my Spanish was also much better hehe. :)

Here are the links to the interviews:

The one with the musicians

Our interview

Oh and speaking of Spanish... Yesterday we found out that we both passed the Spanish exam of UNED! :)

My workshop in the library

I'm proud to announce that 2 weeks ago I had my very first and very own workshop of quilling in the library of Illescas. :) 

The idea came up a couple of months ago: when we were organizing one of our English events together with the library we thought that maybe Dilya and I can also have our own workshops there on a Saturday morning. We started arranging mine first since I already had more or less in mind what I wanted to do. The idea got so interesting that I even got a short phone interview in the radio of Illescas to talk a little bit about quilling (you can listen to it here - available only in Spanish).

The workshop was a big success, all the places got filled up, mostly with kids and some mothers. They all enjoyed it a lot and didn't want to leave in the end, so I was very happy. :)

Here are some pictures of the event:

Smily faces with their masterpieces :)

Week of fame

Last week we had our week of fame. :) No, this doesn't mean fancy red carpet events, paparazzi or getting rich (at least not in terms of money), but we did get an invitation to the local radio for an interview. 

So last Wednesday we went and had a very nice chat about what we do here at Ecocompartimos, what is Erasmus+ and EVS, what kind of programs we organize, how we feel here in Spain, how do we spend our time and so on. I've never ever had such an experience before (certainly not in Spanish), so I was a little nervous in the beginning, but the girl interviewing us was so nice and had such good questions, that it turned out to be a very good experience. :) I also hope that it will help us in making our activities at least a little bit better known here in Illescas.

If you're interested you can listen to it here. (only available in Spanish)

Dilya and me waiting for the interview to start

Together with Helena, we are ready to talk :)

After the interview when we got back to the shop we had another nice surprise: we are featured in the local newspaper too! :) We sent them the article weeks ago, but had no idea if they were to publish it or not... finally they did, so we had another round of "publicity" for our activities. :)

THE article :)

The girls excited about the article :)

PS: On a different topic, I finished my first piece made of mosaic, here it is:

:)