Blog de Cristina Durán Álvarez

Learning a language is a long journey, but in the end we all arrived

Publicado en may 2020

It was September 2018 when I arrived to Durham (UK) to study a top-up degree in Management (provided by The Open University). I had been studying a Foundation Degree in Business Management for 3 years in Madrid and during the year 2018-2019, thanks to the agreement that academy had with universities in the United Kingdom, I started my top-up degree at New College Durham. It was there I discovered that only when you have the necessary support fro...

Teaching online ... Group or Individual Lessons?

Publicado en may 2020

Do you think I was a good student? I was not the worst but nor number one either. I have never been an ordinary girl and always needed to make a great effort to adapt to general rate.  I was born and raised in Spain and there is no homeschooling here ... I wish I could have had a personal tutor and the opportunity to follow my own pace. However, I did have many private teachers who made up for the difficulties I had every single day at...

Haz lo que puedas, no lo que debas. Y todo irá bien.

Publicado en ene 2023

¿Sabías qué yo repetí 2 (DOS) veces y dejé 3 (TRES) grados universitarios? Pues ya lo sabes.  ¿Sabías qué después descubrí la FP (sí, sí, la Formación Profesional) y me cambió la vida? Pues ya lo sabes. ¿Sabías que tras finalizar mi primer título de grado superior (estoy en proceso de terminar el segundo) finalmente sí fui a la universidad y me gradué? Pues ya lo sabes. ¿Sabías que esa universidad donde estudié fue en Durham, UK? (Inglaterr...