Recensioner av Españolé International House, Valencia, Spanien

"Det enda jag gillade lite mindre var matlagningskursen, som jag tyckte var lite för enkel och rusad. Bortsett från det, super."

"Stor skola med många men små klassrum för storleken på klasserna (12 personer). Majoriteten av eleverna bestod av unga människor som hade ett sabbatsår efter gymnasiet. De har en annan målsättning än vad jag har. Jag tyckte ibland att det var störande i gruppen. Det hade varit trevligt att få veta om detta i förväg."

"Vissa rum var inte lämpliga för undervisning."

"Ingenting"

"Endast ljudutrustningen i klassrummen var något otillräcklig, eftersom lärarna själva var tvungna att se till att ljudtexterna var tillräckligt höga och inte alla hade bra högtalare med sig."

"Lärarnas kompetens varierade. Det fanns lärare som inte hade "bra koll" på klassen. Som ett resultat uppstod distraktioner och störningar."

"Det fanns inget att kritisera för skolan!"

"Inga aktiviteter på kvällarna. Inget utomhusutrymme. Inga dagliga sportaktiviteter. Inte alls som annonserats på hemsidan. Vi beklagar bokningen. Vår dotter gick en vecka för tidigt. Vi valde nästan Enforex och vi önskar nu att vi hade bokat med dem. International House brukade ha ett gott rykte. Inte längre."

"Matverksamheten var lite låg när det gäller kvalitet och variation. Jag skulle hellre spendera mer pengar men få utmärkt kvalitet."

"Bristen på utrymme i klassrummen för större klasser."

"Det var mycket, mycket kallt i hela skolan."

"Grupperna var för stora (upp till 12) i rum som var för små. Många ungdomar som bara hade en begränsad lust att lära, bar inte sin mask ordentligt och störde ibland i klassen. Utflykter organiserades endast delvis."

"I didn't really enjoy the self-study part of the grammar class, but I get that it’s hard to organize this additional hour any other way."

"The quality and enjoyment of the lessons varied greatly depending on the teacher. Some lessons lacked structure, or the teachers spoke Spanish very quickly, which meant I couldn't understand them."

"There are some young students who disrupt lessons due to a lack of interest. And in November, it's not particularly warm in the classrooms. But that's Spain though."

"While the regular classroom’s instruction was outstanding, DO NOT PAY the additional expense to take their Intensive Language-Building program. It was a complete waste of time and money. Unlike the school’s highly interactive language instruction, their one-hour per day intensive program was more like a study hall or perhaps a more fitting description would be a detention-centre. Students were given pages to silently complete at their sitting place, and once completed to (again) silently hand the work back to the teacher for her written comments; her written reviews of these assignments were very brief. After 2-3 days of this “instruction”, I asked the administration to switch me the other intensive program that they offered—their conversation intensive program. The school immediately offered me that opportunity. But after talking to students who attended the conversation intensive program, they advised me that it was also a complete waste of time and money. As the school had only two-types of intensive programs, I opted not to spend my time needlessly sitting in a make-believe class. Instead, I joined independent city-tours offered by Valencia (which I would highly recommend!). The after-school activities were a disappointment, because they were not fulfilling. It was a surprise that the school didn’t offer more imaginative tours of museum’s and other landmarks. While taking a long bus-ride to walk for a few hours along a beach path, cooking burgers after class, doing yoga and/or a sports activity might be of interest to students in middle school/high school and college students of the freshmen or sophomore age, it didn’t appeal to the 30 plus crowd. My stay with the school was for two-weeks. There were three tours that the school offered which were worth a visit: - The tour of the town’s local graffiti. There, the school’s guide provided lots of information about the rich cultural history behind that art-form. - The archaeological tour was very good. Its guide was a well-informed historian who really offered insight to both the ruins and the history behind the ruins. - A tour, which I couldn’t attend because it was offered on the day after of my departure, may well also have been worthwhile. It was of an oceanographic centre."

"The Seniors were taught together with school children in the same groups. The afternoon activities were rather poor. In Sevilla and Madrid, the afternoon activities were much better and interesting."