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05-30-2007, 11:03 AM
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Living in Spain... free food and board...
I found an awesome website www.olespain.org that can hook you up to live with a spanish family... here's the info they emailed me
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• Spanish families offer you free full board and accommodation (one bedroom,
furnished and fully equipped), in exchange of 3/4 hours per day
conversations in English with the family or their children.
• If you want: Also you will be able to practice Spanish with the families
• We find centrally located accommodation for our members who come
Spanish to work, study, or simply to see the sights spanish speaking or not.
• Free Saturdays and Sundays.
• For stays of 7 nights and over.
• Short or long stay
• Living with a Spanish host family is a great opportunity to make sure that
your Spanish improves rapidly
• Spanish host family is that the standard of family's home is in general
higher in comparison to a student flat.
• Members receive ongoing assistance.
• From 18 years
If it is interested, without commitment, it must give to dossier and photo to see profile and preferences. When a family accepts his to dossier, quickly she receives data family to decide day of arrival and data to confirm the program.
Important: the payment of total fees for program (158 euros) to be paid only after agreement by the host family
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Yeah... there is apparently a program fee 
I was going to try to do this in June, but now I think maybe it would be better to do later, after I have learnt a bit of Spanish so that I can then improve it a lot. Anyway, thought it was a very interesting/cool thing to share...
I meanwhile think I will be heading to Ireland very soon. I don't like travel very much at the moment... I just want to live somewhere again. Or go home 
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05-30-2007, 11:41 AM
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Aww, don't be sad! Enjoy Ireland. Maybe you'll find somewhere to settle for a little bit.
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05-30-2007, 01:01 PM
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I agree with Lauren, if you're feeling burned out and road weary just rest your head for now. Go to Ireland and or Britain and settle.
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05-30-2007, 02:09 PM
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cool. i'm going to spain in september for two weeks and i really want to find a way to improve my spanish. maybe i'll look into this. thanx! also, how much was the fee? very expensive?
enjoy ireland! i was there last year...so gorgeous! killarney to be exact, but we drove about half the country, so i saw alot of it. good luck with the travels.:D
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05-31-2007, 03:11 AM
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It says 158 euros. Which is a decent amount of money for some accomodation for a week or more.
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