Today the kids' brains were overstimulated by 8 continuous hours of Spanish at school (well... except for the couple of English classes where they collaborated with the English activities). It was a fun day and kids were in heaven: they were the center of attention of the whole school.
We started with a tour around Gonzaga with Sonia, who coordinates the exchange program here. She also prepared a game for Spanish fluency called TABU... and the kids rocked! Later, we attended a Spanish Language class, where they participated in a group activity (students needed to write an opinion article about particular news - they were comparing the subjective tone from the objective one in news writing). Then, we played "Police and Robbers" in the English class. We were the "criminals" creating the perfect alibi to not get caught... but we didn't succeed. Apparently, we will not make good criminals... thank God!
Then we had a delicious lunch in a marvelous "hour and a half" lunch break. Physical Education came next and a Religion class was the most challenging of all. Felix, the Philosophy and Religion teacher, gave a lecture where he compared Judaism and Islam... in Spanish! At the end, we attended another English class where each of our Trinity students were interviewed by different groups. Ayyyyyyyy! Long, interesting and stimulating day! Desireé even commented that it was getting easier and easier to understand everything.
At 4:30 the kids departed with their respective hosts. Apparently 20 students at Gonzaga are going with them to the "mercadillo" tomorrow, an open market in Majadahonda. They were also talking about going to the pool and watching a soccer game.
Let's see... You'll need to check OLÉ next week to get information about their weekend!
MONDAY: TOLEDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: If I haven't mentioned it, you can get to see the pictures on this site with more detail, by clicking on them...
¡Feliz fin de semana! (Happy weekend)
2 comments:
the spanish school was fun but really different. and yes, that religion lecture would have been boring in enlglish, but the fact that it was in spainsh made it about 58395262950 times as boring baecuse i could barely understand wht he was saying.
oh and just in case anyone was wondering heres a little info about our weekends so far...
friday night we went to the mall and hung out (nothing too exciting)
this morning kathleen and i went to the market and then the pool, and i have no clue what s going on on sunday. ha im glad that i know so much about what is going on around me:)
why did he keep asking me questions?
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