senior program summer site : conversations : first session



	juan from spain (7/15) Juan is a rising junior from Spain. It is his first summer at Explo, and he's enjoying his digital imagery course and basketball mini-course. He loves working out, swimming, and playing basketball and squash with his friends at Yale’s Payne Whitney Gym. What is your first course and how is it going? My first course is digital imagery; it’s my favorite course. It’s about working with Photoshop and how photos can become others ones with the program. I like how you can change colors, and do almost everything with the program. I’ve not used it before, I’m learning. Do you use your own imagery? In the first classes we used photos that we took before, but the last few days we have been using other photos from the Internet. We have looked at CD covers and made our own after picking a favorite singer. What about your second course? It’s an English [for Speakers of Other Languages] class. It’s discussing American things, how our cultures are different, and all that stuff. There are things that are quite funny. I’ve never known how to use prepositions, but I’m learning. The other day our teacher explained to us the rules of baseball, and then we played. What do you think of American baseball? I don’t like it very much, because I’ve never played before [laughs], but it was good. Do you have a favorite subject that you might want to study in college? Everyone asks me the same thing [laughs], but I don’t have a favorite subject. I know I don’t want to do medicine or biology. What is your favorite mini-course? Basketball. I didn’t really want to play basketball here; in Spain it’s the sport that requires the most training. I wanted to do other things, but I like it here because there are good players and I just enjoy playing my favorite sport. The courts are very good at the gym. I love the gym. What else have you done at the gym? Every day all my friends and I work out in the gym. Then we play squash. Finally we go to the pool to relax. What has been your favorite main event so far? The hypnotist. It was awesome. I thought it was going to be fake, but then I saw the silly things that people did and I was amazed. What is your favorite thing about living in the suites at Yale? That nobody asks me to clean up my room. Although I do it, nobody asks me, it’s whenever I feel like it. What advice would you give an international student coming to Explo for the first time? Bring good shoes for the gym and all that. Have you find it difficult to meet new people? No, I have met a lot of people here from Italy, Spain and America. What has been your favorite trip so far? I liked the beach. I relaxed in the sun, and tried to learn how to throw a football, but I’m not good at it. I got tan though. Are the beaches in Spain a lot different? It depends on which ones, but yes. It’s all about the sand. There are famous beaches in Spain, in the south and north you find the best. What are you going to miss most about Explo? The people. more conversations > first session \| second session