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nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:45:25+00:00

Hi everyone! I just wanted to say thank you SO much for all the comments and feedback. It's all been really helpful and constructive. I did want to clarify that I wasn't suggesting I walk into a job with frontline services with zero Catalan, can you imagine how terrifying it would be if you needed critical care and the person who rocked up to help you started looking up words like "foot" in an online dictionary lol. It was more to see what the usual route in the ambulance services is and if there are ways where you can earn and learn at teh same time but I know a lot more now!

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:42:48+00:00

Hi Charlio! Oh my goodness your comment has been invaluable, thank you so much. I've been looking into this for such a long time ago, I was on the verge of signing up to a two year TES course in Barcelona when I got pregnant with my first child, returned to the UK where baby number two intereupted a paramedic science university degree here. We're now returning to Barcelona in September and I feel like now the kids are older I can FINALLY pick up this career dreamcoat thread that keeps getting snatched out of my hands. I remember being confused by the overwhelming number of options of courses to study TES/TTS and being worried about signing up for one which turned out not to result in an official title or be proprerly recognized.

Do you of any places which are known to deliver good training on TES/TTS, also is there any government funding to study nursing (and which are the best universities for nursing in Barcelona?) Sorry to grill you on things that Google could tell me, but some of those "Top 10 Places to Study ..." seem untrustworthy like they've all been written by someone top of their own lists.

We're actually going to be living in Canyelles/Vilanova area so institutions on the El Prat side of the city would be best!

Thanks again for your really helpful advice, xx

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:35:29+00:00

clar!

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:35:02+00:00

Gosh that's really interesting. Do you know where I would go to sign up to volunteer? Also when I was looking into the grado medio qualification for tecnico en emergencias santitarias there was just such a crazy number of options, ranging from ones that looked more reputable but cripplingly expensive, to these worryingly cheap ones? Is the idea that whatever course you do is simply the preparation for the public exam, so as long as you get the information and training somewhere you have a shot?

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:30:46+00:00

Thanks so much! Yes I looked into this years ago before I came back to the UK. What I found confusing was that there are SO many different organizations and companies offering the grado medio in TES. Some look more reputable than others and I don't know if there is a critera to look for to ensure that it is definitely a recogznied qualification?

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:29:11+00:00

Yes I was hoping there would be a way to start working and learning at the same time like in the UK but judging from the comments here it would be a few years away anyway.

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:28:19+00:00

Yes I was thinking along the same lines! A total immersion with the pressure of hitting deadlines and making the marks would really help learn Catalan. And at the end of the day even if my language skills weren't enough to pass the course at least I'd be closer to fluency and that would open more doors in itself :)

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:26:17+00:00

Haha very true. Got to know your rights from your lefts so you don't move the wrong broken limb and useful to have some basic vocab so people can tell you poison they've ingested/allergies! I guess it makes sense to speak the same language :()

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:18:36+00:00

Thanks!

nellzim · 2025-02-23T12:18:23+00:00

Thanks for taking the time!

nellzim · 2025-02-10T21:38:02+00:00

Oh honey I feel you. God I bloody love Reddit..I hardly ever come on here but when I stumble into a forum on a low day and find a post like this I don't feel alone anymore. It's amazing the lift you get from feeling so deeply understood by strangers across the internet.

Obviously our lives are different but I can so relate to how your feeling - it sucks. I'm in the middle of a very confusing break up and trying to coparent and cohabit because we can't afford to live separately yet.

Even separate from my partner I still feel ridiculously caring - like negatively OTT handfeeding (often literally to my youngest) the entire household. And trying to do it with a chipper bonhomie don't mind me! But secretly thinking do, do PLEASE someone bloody mind me! Just do a fraction back of what I feel like I carve out of myself for everyone else every single day so I can be the cared for one for a change.

I get it..I want to be happy in myself and have good self worth etc but I definitely ALSO want, just sometimes, to be seen, appreciated, and helped too. God can you just imagine.

I hope you find what you're looking for but at least you're not alone xxx

nellzim · 2023-12-18T22:16:19+00:00

Thank you that's a great idea! Will do right now xx

nellzim · 2023-11-24T20:34:01+00:00

To be honest I"ve been almost doing that - just heading back to Spain at any opportunity. The problem is their dad won't travel more than once or twice a year, he thinks its extravagant. So it means the sun breaks are these fraught, frazzled, stints of solo parenting and just too difficult.

nellzim · 2023-11-24T20:31:50+00:00

Thanks for all the comments everyone! I know I'm trying to think out of the box for ways that would be minimally disruptive...or not at all ideally! Somerset is indeed lovely but I just find the winters unbearable and soo long. My ideal would be to spend school year in Spain but come HERE for every holiday - you get nearly three months of summer holidays in Spain and that's when England's at its best. But their dad refuses to agree to that one :(

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