Marketing internship in Madrid, Spain

marketing internship in Madrid, Spain

by Jessica Vaughn “I have got to be absolutely insane. How did I convince myself that this was a good idea? This may have been one of the top three worst decisions I have made in my 21 years of life. I don’t speak Spanish very well. I don’t know anyone on that side of the Atlantic. And I have never stepped foot off US soil.” This soliloquy was stuck on repeat the night before I left…

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Au Pair Experience: Choose to Soar

by Laura Albrecht As I sat with my feet dangling in the pool, watching night fall over Madrid and listening to the noises of Calle Acamar 17, I noticed the bats swooping down from the sky over my head. They make a fast dive straight down at the surface of the pool, and at the last minute they turn upward, saving themselves from an icy plunge. I had been in Madrid for a month now, and these…

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Au Pair: Become a Walking Sponge

walking sponge

by Tisha Hall I put my luggage down and stepped out onto the verandah overlooking the suburban neighbourhood that would be my home away from home for the next three months. I couldn’t help but pat myself on the back: “Well done! You did it!” I had left my job, apartment, family, friends (and cat) – my life as I knew it – behind and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to a foreign land. It would be…

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Best Programs Presents Videoclip ‘Inside Cuba Today’

The video is the idea and creation of the talented Cuban artist and photographer Waldo Regueiferos, and opens another door to Best Programs in its inclusion of Havana and Santiago de Cuba as low-cost packaged destinations. Jill Arcaro, founder of BEST and a finalist for the Innovation in Educational Programs Award GoAbroad in 2015, said today that the video´s intention is to expand cultural knowledge of Cuba to the public. Dance, music, Spanish, Thai massage, art studies…

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Jill Arcaro – Finalist for the GoAbroad Innovation Award for Internship Program in Cuba

With pleasure we announce that on April 17, 2015 in Colorado, the BEST Programs Director, Jill Arcaro, was selected as a finalist for the GoAbroad Innovation Award for their Internship Program in Cuba. The prestigious award from the most comprehensive educational website on the Internet, chose BEST´s La Havana and Santiago de Cuba programs in Cuba among 38 nominees as one of the five finalists. Since 2011 Goabroad has annually recognized the outstanding organizations in international education…

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