Well take calm.

Here in Spain people is sociable, and you won't have troubles to do new friends.

If you are 15 you will go to the last compulsory years of study and after you will start the Bachillerato.

Many people here in Madrid know to speak English, it depends where you go... And also we like to do new friends from countries like USA.

In Madrid (as in Spain) people like sports [Football (not soccer), Basketball, F1, MotoGP...]

I'm 17 and two years ago i used to go to the cinema, bowlings, and "botellón" What's that?

You must to know whats that word means haha. Botellón it's a "party" and people go to a place (park, parkings) and began to drink. If you don't drink, don't drink then, but you do a lot of friends there.

Begin to learn Spanish, it's a similar language. What language do you learn as second in your school? If it's Spanish, OK, if it's French, well it's similar to spanish and will help you with the tenses and if it's german bye-bye, you will have to learn another language haha.

Well... good luck :)

Ne4w York to Madrid...not as different as you may think. Both big cities, fashion and business centers of the world. Of course, Madrid IS much smaller than NY. And, yes, they speak Spanish, and you'll make new friends.

But you won't lose the old ones. When I was your age, we had to write letters...no one had cell phones, we didn't USE international long distance, unless something was a serious emergency! It took two weeks to get a return letter...by which time you had forgotten everything that was happening when you wrote, and weren't able to answer their questions. You have the internet...instant chat, testing, email, skype...staying in touch is so much easier!

You're young. You'll adjust. You'll find yourself really enjoying it in no time! The lifestyle is much more relaxed than NY.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you, it really is.

Start working on learning the language now. That will need to be ongoing.

Otherwise just take everything as it comes.

Where? The regions are very different.

You'll HATE it...Holes in the ground at gas stations...beggers...HASSLE!! bad drainage problems, mice, rats, cocroaches you name it HELL!!

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Thinking Of Moving To Almeria and looking for work

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