Tenth Radio Broadcast!

I felt like the Spanish never enforced the law. Either that, or they didn't have laws. They drink in the streets, the kids don't have curfew, the cops don't enforce drug laws, etc etc.

This broadcast talks all about law.

Song: "I fought the Law"--The Clash

Ninth Radio Broadcast!

Living with Lola the dog was something new for sure, since I never had a pet in my life. The way Spaniards treat their dogs and how they walk them around without leashes inspired my ninth show on pets...which are called "Mascotas."

I have a couple interesting things to say about this broadcast...

You would wonder what they call mascots...they call them "mascotas" also. Although, mascots truly are an American concoction since their sports really don't have mascots.

The song used is "The Underdog" by Spoon. They don't have a translation for an underdog because it really doesn't exist. They don't have that cultural idea of surpassing mediocrity to get to greatness. That's an American concept.

Eighth Radio Broadcast!

Clearly schooling was different in Spain. Not just the education, but the culture of how to address teachers, how to dress in class, or whether or not it's okay to eat!

Here is my 8th radio broadcast on schools.

The song is "Me and Julio Down by the School Yard" by Paul Simon (one of my faves!).

Seventh Radio Broadcast!

I finally got around to uploading more of my radio shows. Not all of them are up yet, but at least I got to number 10!

Loly (the radio director) suggested I do one about women, since it was women's month in March. So here is my 7th broadcast, on women.

The song is "Just a Girl" by No Doubt.

Recording my Radio Show

Here is what the studio looks like, and here is me recording my final segment.

This is out of order because I plan to post the rest of my radio shows on here for you to hear.

However, I didn't want to forget that I had this clip, so here you go...

Final Generation Y broadcast!!!

Listen to it live at 1pm Chicago time TODAY (wednesday) at www.radiosanvicente.com.

Go to the site and click "escuchanos" to stream it live!


THIS IS MY LAST ONE!!!

Generación Y Radio program

My radio program will be on TODAY, Wednesday, at 1pm Chicago time, once again.

be sure to tune in at www.radiosanvicente.com and click on "escúchanos"

Sixth Radio Broadcast!

Perfectly in time for earth day, I have uploaded my week six broadcast of my radio show (this was from over 6 weeks ago!) on the topic of the environment. It's so old, that when I uploaded it I cringed at how American my accent sounds. I think I improved...or so I hope.

I used TV on the Radio's song "Staring at the Sun."

Interview with ME

Usually they do interviews with other people, but Tomorrow, Wednesday March 17th, I will have a 10 min. interview on the radio about studying abroad.

It airs Tomorrow (WEDNESDAY) at 1:15ish pm Chicago time, at www.radiosanvicente.com and click "escuchanos."

All you need to know about me on the Radio.

Sorry I forgot to tell you all that I was on the radio again today at 1pm Chicago time.

I think you should get to know the schedule by now...


Wednesdays at 1pm Chicago time---Generacion Y (round table discussion...usually in first 30 min. of program) I am unable to record this because it is recorded as one long hour program...so I can't just cut the excerpt that I am in.

Thursdays at 6:40am-7:00am Chicago time---the program I write about cultural differences, which I post later online. It's only 7 minutes long usually, but it can float around somewhere in this time slot.

To listen to it, go to www.radiosanvicente.com and click "escuchanos" to open the live streaming player.

TODAY! RADIO! ME!

Listen to me on the radio! Today on Generation Y (a university student program about stuff we're interested in), we talk about childhood obesity. Of course I mention the obesity of America. GOOOO AMERICA!


(listen live at 1pm Chicago time TODAY MARCH 3RD at www.radiosanvicente.com under "eschucanos"...my segment is around 1:20)

Fifth Radio Broadcast!

This one is about the previous weekend's two big holidays: Carnaval and Valentine's Day.



The song is "Celebration" by Madonna. Of course.

Fourth Radio Broadcast!

This one is about fashion, clothing, and style.




Of course, the song is "Fashion" by Lady Gaga. It was very distracting trying to speak over that audio. Very, very difficult.

On the radio again, TWO TIMES...and in other news, Dante goes to ER

Today, Wednesday the 17th, I will be live once again in the "generation y" program that is an hour long run by some kids from the university. Today I join them in their discussion about tobacco and smoking, and the new smoking ban.


The whole thing you can hear at 1pm Chicago time at radiosanvicente.com streaming live. Click on the link "escuchanos" at the top of the page.

The discussion part of the segment regarding smoking is around 1:15pm.

And TOMORROW you can hear at 6:40am Chicago time my personal radio segment that I write every week, this one being about this past weekend's celebrations of Carnaval and Valentine's Day.

I will post the audio from the Carnaval/V-day segment, but the other one is part of an hour long segment, so I don't have any copy of that for you to hear.

But I can tell you this: the first time it was my turn to speak, I start talking about something completely different but have to ramble on towards a point b/c I can't rely on trailing off like I normally do when it's recorded live. The question was regarding kids buying tobacco, and I start off my response with the idea that tobacco should be illegal period, along with some awkward dialogue, and then smacking the microphone stand to make awkward noises all while the spanish university students stare at me intently.



And in other news:
Last night I met with my "under the table" intercambio Carlos, who I met at the English school I teach at. So I invited him to come to my friend's place to watch SKINS with us (a british TV show that I happen to have on my computer, with spanish subtitles) and he loved it. We had a nice chat afterward in spanish, but we spoke english mostly before that.

Tomorrow I meet with my "real" intercambio (number two) that I was pretty much forced to take b/c the USAC office had an abundance of spaniards who signed up. So this one is a girl, and I will meet her tomorrow. Since I never met her before, she told me she will be wearing a black coat, jeans, and she has brown hair and brown eyes. Gee, thanks, Ana Maria, you and EVERY OTHER SPANIARD HERE. So this should be fun picking her out. What is she gonna say next? That she will be wearing boots and smoking? That could SURELY pick her out of a crowd.

Also, my host dad Carlos (confusing, with the two carlos', I know) just told me that Dante fell today at school and had to go to the ER to get stitches. He said it was minor, but he somehow just hit his head when he fell. He'll be fine. I mean, I am surprised this hasn't happened already the way he wobbles around on steady ground, let alone stairs. Or when he takes plastic chair and tries to sit on it on the sofa. He is lucky that this only happened once.

Third Radio Broadcast!

A little side note: The song I used, "Wheels" by Cake, contains an amusing lyric (PS: The group is from Sacramento)...

And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians
While the overweight Americans wear their patriotic jumpsuits

If only I could just do a whole program on hating on Americans. It wouldn't be very hard!

Radio again!

Hey, tomorrow (Wednesday) I will be on a segment of the radio station called "Generation Y" which is an hour-long segment run by University of Alicante students. They choose the topics every week and have a variety hour talking about current events, music, movies, and other fun stuff. They always have a discussion about something, and this week it is about Valentine's Day and love.

I will be participating in this conversation. I received the Q's and I will be answering them off the cuff in the session, which I will record in the afternoon tomorrow.


It (the hour long variety show) will be broadcast "live" at 8pm my time, which is 1pm Chicago time. Again, listen on www.radiosanvicente.com and click the tab "escuchanos" to stream it.

I won't have a recording of this to post on here b/c this is more of a "live" sort of thing, so don't miss out!

Second Radio Broadcast!

First radio broadcast!

Check it out:

Radio Segment TWO, Live tomorrow!

Tomorrow, at 1:40 or 1:45, you can hear me play LIVE on Radio San Vicente via a live stream on their website.

It is 6:40am Chicago time, TOMORROW Thursday Jan 28th.

Just go to http://www.radiosanvicente.com/programas.php?user=__public__
and there is a bar that says "escuchanos"(listen to us) and if you click there, a popup with the streaming radio comes on.

But remember, it will be at that time, so I would advise listening around 6:30am or so.

Even if you don't understand what is being said, I think you'll know what it is when the fluent spanish speaker stops talking and you begin to hear a slow, poorly spoken 6 minute segment.

Enjoy!

On the radio

I signed up this semester to do an internship with USAC.

How it works is I fill out an extensive list of things I like to do, I write a letter about what I like to do, then submit a resume.

On my list of things I like to do/interests, I wrote a mountain of things:
-work with kids
-art
-music
-TV
-radio
-cooking

This was back in November or so.


Then, once I got here (and as Luis promised in a previous email) we got to talk about the details. He chatted with a person at the nearby radio station and he was pretty sure he could get me an internship there. He told me this two weeks ago (the day before classes started, on Tuesday), and I got excited.

THEN, on Thursday, he secured it. For SURE I will be doing this internship, he said. I just had to work out the schedule. I could choose to get 1, 2, or 3 credits for the class, and since I didn't want to take this boring narrative class I was enrolled in, I chose to take the 3 credits for the internship. To do that, I needed to work 9 or 10 hours a week.

I planned it all out with a woman in the foreign language office that USAC is located in, and she was all happy about it. Luis was all happy about it, too. Apparently he has been telling Larissa (admin. asst. in the USAC office) how great it is. And I was happy too, of course!

So I figure that it is an internship, which typically means "being in the professional environment" and "filing" and "attending meetings" and whatnot. Basically, pretty boring stuff.



But the first day of the internship, which was last Monday, Luis got a cab with me to the station to show me where it was. He introduced me to Loly, the program director. Then I got to meet the staff, which was about only 6 people, and watch the soundboard guy record an interview that the other program director was doing with someone over the phone.
Loly got to explaining, and she was like "you can do whatever you want here! Just let me know what you want to do, and we can make it happen. Do you write? Yes? You want to write a program to air? How about a program about a girl from Chicago in Spain, and all the cultural differences?"

Thus, my radio show was born! Yes, MY RADIO SHOW. How is it so simple for me to secure a FANTASTIC internship here in SPAIN, when I have to go through an interview process and nervousness and anxiety of doing the same thing back in America? Apparently, you just need to go to a country where you don't speak the language in order to do something AWESOME.

So Monday was just a basic overview of what I was doing, and Loly took down my contact info. Tuesday is when the "real work" began. I wrote my first entry, which could be on WHATEVER I WANTED, so I chose food. I wrote about differences in food, restaurant culture, portions, etc. I only work 2 hours on Tuesdays, so I basically used the whole time to write it.

Wednesday I came in and made some corrections. Then I printed it and went over it with Loly for grammatical errors. There were TONS. But it seems like she knows English, since she was able to figure out what I was trying to say by my word-for-word translations. I learned that I need to re-read my work a billion times over before going to Loly with it (she was totally nice, don't get me wrong, but I felt like a fool when I was going over stuff that I should have caught myself).
After I corrected what I hoped was all that needed to be fixed, I got in the studio to record it. Yes, that's right, I am one of those people who can say "I got into the studio to record it" now. And I recorded it. It was terrible. The essay I wrote was in Spanish, by the way. And I have to read it, in Spanish of course. First of all, I figured out that I can't read numbers correctly. Two hundred becomes two thousand. Milliliters becomes something completely unrecognizable.

But I recorded it once through, then I listened to it 5 or 6 times, reread the script, etc etc. Then I recorded it again. Still not up to Lin Brehmer's style. I don't know how I sound in a foreign language (other than bad)! Loly recorded herself reading it, so I could listen to her excellent Spanish and try to fix mine.

Meanwhile, when Loly read my comments about how I thought there wasn't bacon-wrapped dates here, even though they are in the Spanish restaurants in the states, she was like "um, they totally ARE here" and I was shocked. My family in San sebastian LIED TO ME. Then, one of the soundboard guys ran to get food and bought me some! And they were DELICIOUS.

And when I was eating bacon-wrapped dates and re-reading my writing a hundred times over, I also was peeking over to the studio, where 5 or 6 University students were recording a segment called Generation E (or something like that) where they just sit around and chat about current events and whatnot. Loly saw my wandering eye and said "you could record with them in that segment, if you want. Wanna do it next week?" I was like "whoa there sally, let's hold our horses. Clearly I can't write coherently in a foreign language, yet you expect me to record a live conversation of me confusing some words for others, as well as giving 'can you repeat that' responses to everything? I don't think so." But it came out more like "maybe I'll watch, then try next week!"

I am so excited to do that, though, because then I will get to meet kids my age who go to my school, and who are SPANIARDS!

Seriously folks...why should I stay in the states when the dream internship was here all along!?