Maite Sebastiá Frasquet, Subdirectorate for International Action and Educational Planning in the Environmental and Tourism Sector, Gandia’s Campus.
Define the Gandia Campus in one sentence: “We are a very diverse little family”. Our campus has always been characterized by including degrees from different areas, which means that very varied profiles coexist and that the experience is very enriching. In addition, our students often express that, upon arriving in Gandia, they find their second family in the new friendships they make here, coming from different places.
A book: The open veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano. A great book to better understand the world.
A movie: Dirty Dancing. The typical movie that I don’t mind watching again and again. Good music and impeccable choreography, with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.
A series: Merlí or Sex Education. Two series that take place in secondary education, a stage in which we seem to have to make transcendental decisions. Both teach values such as thinking differently and tolerance.
A song: Obriu les portes by Txarango. Music is the heartbeat of the people.
One destination for travel: Ensenada, in Baja California, Mexico. Located in the Peninsula of Baja California, next to the Pacific, accessing from Tijuana by the Scenic Highway, landscape of many movies. With an excellent gastronomy, especially seafood and fish tacos, and for being the birthplace of the margarita. It has the Wine Route, with important wineries in the Guadalupe Valley, and a growing tradition in craft beers. It has a great wealth of fauna, with the sighting of gray whales and sea lions. It is also a world surfing reserve.