Bernard

6th of July, 2006
Hola!

As part of the certification in Professional Spanish that I hope to soon obtain, I have to do a service learning project. This service learning project is basically an internship, but not only is it for gaining experience in your chosen field of study, but rather, it immerses you in both a foreign language as well as your field of study. In my case, I'm currently interning in "la empresa de Luis Melia Informatica", which is a computer repair/installation company catered to local small businesses here in Valencia, Spain. The pictures provided show the workroom where we repair all the customer's PCs. Of course, working on several PCs at one time generates a big mess (as it can be seen!) Once the PCs are repaired, they are either picked up by the customer or delivered (and sometimes installed and/or configured) by the technical team--Luis, Jose, Pablo, and of course, me. All the magic of repairing computers begins at about 9:00 a.m. and ends around 8:00 p.m., or a bit later on those problematic days. So all and all, Luis Melia Informatica is your typical computer-repair shop just like any U.S.-based store of that type--with the exception of closing between 1:30 and 4:30 for "la siesta." ;-)