Students Travel to Spain
June 17, 2009
On June 1st a group of 9 students traveled to Spain for a taste of a different culture and the opportunity to practice the language they'd been learning for the past 4 years. During their 10 days abroad, the students visited sites in Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Costa del Sol, Córdoba, and Sevilla, in addition to spending a day in Tetuan, Morocco, Africa.
The students experienced different foods, eating such Spanish foods as Paella, Marzipan, and Gazpaucho, and a traditional Moroccan meal that included koos koos and mint tea.
The tour company filled their days with tours of art museums, bullrings, cathedrals, and palaces. They saw monuments related to Don Quijote, a book they had read in class; paintings by famous Spanish artists; the tomb of Christopher Columbus; as well as the Mediterranean Sea, which they visited from both the Spanish and African coasts.
The students saw the Royal Palace, a sword-making shop, a bull ring, and many cathedrals and Moorish palaces. In Morocco they visited a carpet bazaar, where they had to bargain with the merchants in order to buy the rugs, blankets, and table clothes for sale. Some students spent an evening in Granada watching Flamenco dancing, and others saw a bull fight at the bull ring in Sevilla, where the dirty look from one elderly Spanish man told them that it was not acceptable to root for the bull.
During their trip the students traveled by over 10 different modes of transportation, including bus, subway, taxi, the high-speed bullet train, and camel. The days were full of touring, eating, shopping, and traveling. Traveling with the students were 4 sponsors and a tour director provided by EF Tours, the company with which the group traveled.
