Dreams to Reality

I decided to travel back to Madrid, Spain during my college's spring break in order to personally visit the TEFL and CELTA facilities that I had been researching over the past 4-plus months. I have heard, read, and now experienced that you can make a big impression if you physically show up at a company's doorstep as opposed to just touching base from an ocean and continent over via email. And doing so definitely worked in my favor!!

I have since applied and been accepted into a TEFL certification program that I will begin in early September. That's exciting, but the even crazier news is that I was in the right place at the right time and was offered a job *in Spain* for the summer!! The friend I have been doing a language exchange with for the past year (as well as the person I stayed with while visiting over the break) ---- his roommate is the director of a summer language camp. This is another bit of proof that physically being in the place you wish to work is the way to go! A few emails went back and forth, a request for my résumé, and I was hired!

Needless to say, I'm thrilled!!!!!!!!

I will continue to share as much information as I can as I venture back to Madrid in late June. All of these opportunities truly are "dreams-come-true" for my life after college!

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