“We are so excited to go to Bilbao to represent the school for the national session of the EYP, where we will be encouraged to speak, defend, and represent our values and ideas in front of students from all Spain.” This is how we finished our last post on our journey in the European Youth Parliament. We now have returned from Bilbao after 4 days there, and we can certainly say that it has been a wonderful, very enriching experience. We have debated topics that ranged from health to culture and economics and, following the same procedure as in our last EYP session, we had to reach and defend a resolution. We have been able to foster our critical and independent thinking, not only through extensive debating, but also through meeting people from all across Spain with different cultural backgrounds. Beyond our experience, Alexandra Torres has been selected to go to an International Forum in Tirana, Albania. I, Nicolau San Millán, have been selected to represent Spain together with other 7 Spanish students in the International Session in Kortrijk, Belgium, the flagship event of the EYP that brings together about 300 young people from around 40 European countries for 9 days. Now, we are so excited to go to Tirana and Kortrijk to represent our school.

by Nico San Millán