I traveled to Spain on March 2nd. CogState asked me to work in a sales booth for them. It was fun to go somewhere so exciting and different, but the trip was not without it problems!
First....did you know that they speak Spanish in Spain? haha Thankfully, I bought a study guide and my high school Spanish came back pretty easily. I managed to get around with a combination of broken Spanish mixed with English and lots and lots of charades!
The worst part about the trip was that our booth actually never made it through customs - so we had to sort of "make" our own from scratch (while not speaking the language) by going to stores and buying things. Keep in mind, that our competitors and the other businesses at the conference had these amazing, and very professionally done displays (some had cocktail tables with candles on them, some had flat screen TVs, several had live plants and flowers!!)...so this was more than a little embarrassing. But...we did the best we could by purchasing a projector and some table cloths and showing slides on the wall of our (bare) booth. We just tried to be very friendly and outgoing and actually made a lot of friends through the process. The booth (or lack thereof) ended up being a pretty good icebreaker!
The best part of the trip was getting a chance to meet Cindy, someone who I have worked with for a year, but never met in person. She is really nice and we had a great time together.
The weather was not cooperative. It was extremely windy and sort of cold (about 50 degrees). The food also left a little to be desired (for me) because I was expecting something more like Mexican food...but there was nothing like that even offered on any menu I saw. Instead, every place had seafood...but not JUST regular seafood...every dish had like 12 kinds of seafood in it (including clams and mussels and octopus and all kind of other chewy things).
I did watch several really good movies on the airplane. I would highly recommend "August Rush" and "Becomming Jane" to anyone who enjoys a good drama.
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I enjoyed August Rush too. It was really good, I would recommend it also!
~Kelsea
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