I am going to be here for two weeks and I'll be attending some elective courses. Yesterday I had a class on Marketing for Services. Today I'm attending a seminar on International Finance and I will also be attending lectures on: Communication, something called "Clienting" (mysterious), Electronic Marketing, and a seminar called Doing Business in China.

 

As for the major difference between classes at MIB and EOI, what is certainly interesting is being in a truly multicultural class at MIB. For everything else, you can always learn something from any lecture (here or there)...

 

Even if I'm from Venezuela, my home is in Trieste. I'm staying in a hostel so I cannot cook and I miss that! I miss good coffee. From MIB I miss of course my classmates: they are the best mates in the world and what is nicer is that our group at MIB is really international while here most people are Spanish. From the school (MIB) I REALLY miss Natasha in the cafeteria! She is just awesome: you get there sleepy or grumpy and she does not even have to ask you what you want, you get your coffee in one second and have a nice chat with her!

  

The School here is bigger than ours and so is the city... My hostel (called Dolce Vita) has plenty of red curtains and soft lights so the first day I felt like I was caught in a nightclub! However I felt very relieved when I saw normal people like me staying there!

 

I'm in the very center of the city (Madrid) and it takes me around 45 minutes in the subway to get to EOI Business School... I have to say that I felt Triestinized this morning when it took me so long to go to School. Back at home (in Caracas) I was used to spending 1 hour and a half to go to University and if there was traffic things could get a lot worse!!! Now that I am Triestinized I complain about 45 minutes!!! It is incredible!

 

The School here looks pretty cool. It's a lot bigger than ours and the cafeteria and restaurant are a lot fancier. Still, there is no Natasha who serves me coffee how I like it without saying a word... Pity! And like Jo I have been ruined by coffee in Italy because I find that coffee here is very bad: they don't even know how to do a good espresso (nero, caffe, or however you like to call it!).

 

Each day I get to know Madrid a little better... I have walked for hours just looking around. For what I have seen for now (I was never in Madrid before while I had spent in the past a couple of months in Barcelona) this is a city that is growing a lot. I learned from my Madrid Guide that one in every 5 Madrid residents is a foreigner so the Madrileño culture is being diluted

each day more and more... What I don't like is that I have been told that not everyone accepts multiculturalism in Madrid so an underground racism is growing and creating tensions... A shame... Racism (in my opinion) does not take anybody anywhere.