One of my kids sat and explained this to me today when we were talking about budgeting - how to live like a "true" Spaniard...
Firstly, parents pay for everything...from uni fees, to accommodation, to food. If you want to go to uni far away make sure you have relatives who you will stay with and they will pay for your food. One of the other boys said to just phone your mum for some cash but the other boys were like "no, we have too much honour."
Secondly, only fools pay for electricity and wi-fi...Why not just "borrow" some from your neighbours. One of the girls said that this was just like borrowing sugar and if the wi-fi is locked? Well then you bribe the children with 20 euros to give you the code.
Third, if you have an old beat-up car that you couldn't sell to a Spaniard then you sell it to one of the Moroccans who will pay 500 euro for it. The father of this kid sells 3 or 4 a year.
And then on an unrelated note: people laugh at the telemarketers because they are all from Latin America and have funny accents. The father of one of the girls tells the telemarketer that whoever they are looking for has died. He even does it when they are looking for him...
The kids also had no idea how much stuff costs. No idea how much rent would be, how much your bills would be. And none of them have jobs. It just isn't done. That makes a change from every student looking for jobs in the UK.
Reyes, the teacher, started laughing saying how I was going to think that they were a third world country...
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