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Students Travel to Spain

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4a385f89c2a12 We're waiting at O'Hare to start our almost 9 hour flight to Munich.
Our flight from Chicago took us to Munich, where we boarded this smaller plane to fly to Madrid.
We're sitting in front of a fountain with the Royal Palace in the background.
We're in front of the bullring in Madrid.
Who's the matador here?
We're in the Royal courtyard about to tour the Palace.
On the outside of this building you can see Olympic advertisements. Our trip took us to two of the four candidate cities, Madrid and Chicago.
Madrid was full of round-abouts, which each had a monument or fountain in the middle. Here's an arch in the middle of one of the major ones.
That's the city of Toledo in the background.
...Toledo again.
We spent a day in Granada touring La Alhambra.
...at La Alhambra.
...at La Alhambra.
...at La Alhambra.
...at La Alhambra.
One of our first stops in Morocco was to ride camels.
We're sitting at a carpet shop in the city of Tetuan, Morocco, Africa. We had to bargain in order to make our purchases.
...another shot at the carpet bazaar.
Here we are in Sevilla.
Here's all 41 in our bus (the other groups are from North Dakota, Tennessee, and Arizona).
We're in Sevilla at the foot of La Torre Giralda... and we still haven't found Osito.
A few of us went to a bull fight in Sevilla.
On our last free day in Madrid we visited Retiro Park, filled with palaces, roses, boats on a lake, and books.
Here's our group with our tour director, Jesús, the evening before our flight home.
We're waiting at O'Hare to start our almost 9 hour flight to Munich.

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.

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