Paella&Pizza: Recent Episodes
Silvia Ruiz
Exchange students Edo, Lucia, Pamela, and Silvia sit together and share their adventures about their year abroad in the States. Prepare for actually useful advice and realistic experiences! There will be guests and plenty of fun episodes! Lucia & Edoardo part of the EF exchange program Pamela & Silvia part of the CHI program
You can follow our Instagram @paellaandpizza
“One day your dad took you to school for the last time, and you had no idea”. In this episode, Silvia and Kelsie discuss moving out, growing up, and cherishing all the little moments that will be in your high school memories forever. This is a bonus episode since we already closed up the season, enjoy! @paellaandpizza
All of us are one last day at the recording studio, for this last episode. The exchange year is coming to an end and we wrap up what we call Season 1 of Paella and Pizza! We don't know what will happen to the podcast once school starts again, as Silvia is unsure about her future in the States. We would still love to put more episodes whenever we can and the Instagram account will definitely remain active! Thanks for sticking with us! @paellaandpizza
- Sky and Marina are back!! In this episode we talk about the transition between middle school and high school, and its differences with Spain. We also talk about how the high school community feels and how these years affect our friendships!
Skyler's Instagram here!
Marina's Instagram here!
@paellaandpizza
- In this episode, Silvia and Pamela talk about how their exchange year has opened their eyes and changed their ways to view people and the world around them! Being more inclusive, discovering religion, and exploring faith are just the surface of the episode! Tune in to listen!
- In this episode, we invite Charlotte and Capucine, both french exchange students staying in South for 3 weeks. Enjoy and tune in to listen!
- Lucia hosts Kep and Kadin and they have a great time talking about sports, classes, funny stories, and more. A different episode with a lot of fun and interesting things. If you want to know more about sports and classes in the US make sure to listen to this podcast! @paellaandpizza
- From how making friends can be hard during the exchange to feeling disconnected from your home country. In this episode, we talk about making friends at the beginning and who are the real ones. Then we shift to talk about our lives back home, and how it can feel when you haven't been with them in a while. We hope you enjoyed this episode as we navigate the complicated topic of friendship. Shout-out to @exchangesstudentsss on Instagram! Amazing account with relatable content, as well as their own shop with Exchange Life items! Check it out! @paellaandpizza
- After months of trying to get TJ in the podcast, she’s finally here! They talked about how English improved, making friends, people in the States and how preparing to leave feels. @paellaandpizza
- In this episode we all read and answer your questions, from was to prep for you year language-wise to how Covid has impacted our experience. We left some questions unanswered so we hope to do a part 2!! @paellaandpizza
- Growth can be uncomfortable, but it is truly those things that will make us change as a person. Getting out in the world and experiencing news things will make our experience richer and will open our minds. In this episode, we all sit down and talk about we have gotten outside of comfort zones in different ways and the great things that has brought us!
- Taking care of yourself should always be a priority, but during your year abroad, there are always a lot of things happening which can result in getting overwhelmed and simply forgetting some basic things. In this episode, Lucia, Edo, and Silvia discuss difficulties they have had in their year so far, like injuries, burnout, COVID, etc... Not only physical, but mental health is important! They also talk about struggles and things that make it easier!
- The first day of school can be terrifying, especially if you overthink it. In this episode, Pamela, Edo, and Silvia talk about how it went for them, the beginning of making friends, the first day of the second semester, and much more! Thank you for listening and make sure to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify we really appreciate those! @paellandpizza
- Lucia hosts Sadie in this episode as they talk about sports, friendships that it has given them, teamwork, and much more! Tune in to hear the life of an American student-athlete and her friendships with exchange students.
- We all look forward to Fridays but when you are in an American high school Fridays become full of excitement and school spirit when they are accompanied by a football game! Tune in to listen about one of the things that will definitely impact your exchange year, sports! We talk about the different seasons, dressing up for games, making friends outside of a school setting and more... @paellaandpizza
- In the sequel to the first episode, the girls keep sharing their experiences and stories so you can have a better REAL insight of American life. Make sure to be all caught up, as we jump right into the topic in this new episode! @paellaandpizza
- In this episode, Silvia hosts, Marina and Skyler and they talk about relationships, dating, awkward stories, and much more. Marina and Skyler are both juniors at South and they join us today so we can see how different relationships can be in the States versus in Spain. If you want real insight into American love life, this episode is for you!! There will be a second part soon where we jump right into the rest of the episode! @paellaandpizza For Marina's Instagram click here & for Skyler's Instagram click here!!
- In this episode, we have our first guest: Austin Gienger! Lucia's host brother tells us all about becoming a host family, adding someone else to the family, and how much he has learned from hosting a foreign exchange student. @paellaandpizza
- In this episode we talk about how the first day in our adventure began, airport day full of flights, stress, and high emotions. Tune in to listen to our first REAL episode, enjoy! @paellaandpizza
- In this episode, we finally sit down and start talking about how we all became exchange students, where we are from, our friends' opinions on our year abroad, and more! Lucía's microphone was non-existent, we were sharing Silvia's so the audio can a little bit tough to hear in her parts, just put the volume a few points up, hopefully, we will have fixed it by the next episode! You can follow our personal Instagrams and the podcast account!! Bear with us as we all learn the best ways to do podcasting and transmit all of our thoughts with you! @luucia.mp @edo_gava @pamelaagonzato @silviaruizz_ @paellaandpizza