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Radio workshop in Salamanca: speaking for listening

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Professional radio station ‘Radio Espacio’ came to our School for a new project.

Starting the radio Workshop

Passion creates radio:

The feeling of preparing a radio programm melts our team with our heart and its strength, pronounced through our voice.

Mester, a well known language school for foreigners in Spain and Radio Espacio realized a lively project for its students with a professional radio station. Target group for the radio station was a group of foreigners which are most interested in to get to know background knowledge of the work from radio.

First they got to know how radio works from its first steps from birth, basic knowledge of broadcasting union to engineering department and infrastructure for beeing prepared for the workshop during their Spanish studies.

After it the group did a guided tour at ‘Museo del Comercio’ with all its nostalgic radios from ‘Augustín de Castro’. They discovered ‘the voices from yesterday’ who were essential wittnessers of our history. Another part was to get to know the actual radio from Spain. It combines a potention vision for the future in radio which is fortunately very complimentary.

Visiting the radio exhibition of Agustín de Castro

Doing a interview

In the end expected values of the students were very strong with lots of emotions for brightening the radio. We started to work out our own program for radio transmission. This will be an unforgettable experience for the participants, because its their first time beeing heard in whole Spain.

No one will be able to remove that memories of the students who joined the workshop and did a radio broadcast on their own. We could see the proudness after the work was done as well as certainness and satisfaction because of knowing that everybody is going to listen to it.

Creaters of the group are: Lina (upcoming student for law and psychology), Nan (ambassador and cicerone from China), Zong (publicist), Lee (language teacher), Amaryllis (organizer for cultural program), Andrea (upcoming Spanish teacher) as well as Daniel as leader from Radio Espacio and Francisco for the technical part.

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Italian Group enjoy their last week in Spain!

Friday, July 31st, 2009

The Italian Group that we’ve had staying with us the last two weeks have now finished their Spanish Course with us in Salamanca! The group have been here for 2 weeks to improve their Spanish and to see Spain. They’ve joined in some fantastic trips and seen a few cities, including a trip to Portugal!

Salamanca at night

Salamanca at night

The group all together in Segovia

The group all together in Segovia

The group is made up of 9 students and their teacher Vania, who’s also taken part in a Spanish Teachers course with us, and have come from the Science school Belfiore in Italy. There’s more about what they got up to in their first week on our blog and about the Teachers Course that Vania, the group’s teacher, has been taking during their stay in Salamanca.

The Cathedral of Segovia

The Cathedral of Segovia

The Ancient City Walls of Avila

The Ancient City Walls of Avila

The group has taken part in the normal activities that we offer as a part of our Cultural Program, including cookery classes, Tapas trips, a guided tour of Salamanca and conferences in the school – amongst other things! You can read all about this in our previous blog post on the group.

The beach at Aveiro

The beach at Aveiro

The group in a Spanish Class

The group in a Spanish Class

This week the group have enjoyed a trip to Aveiro, a beach resort in Portugal, which was a great trip and the weather was great for everyone to enjoy the beach! They’ve also been lucky enough to take a trip to both Segovia and Avila, two local important and beautiful cities. They’re both old walled cities with loads of history and culture and important buildings to see. The Cathedral of Segovia is particularly impressive! You can see the walls and the Cathedral in the photos above.

Rubén and Asun, the group's teachesr, with Vania

Rubén and Asun, the group's teachers, with Vania

The Italian Girls and Vania at the door of our Salamanca school

The Italian Girls and Vania at the door of our Salamanca school

The group has some fantastic photos of their trip that you can see on Facebook in the album of photos that we have for them, of all their trips and of the group too!

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German group come to Salamanca to Learn Spanish with us

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

This week we’ve had a group of 25 students from the city of Moeckmuehl in Germany come to study Spanish with us in Salamanca, north Spain. They’ve come with their 2 Spanish teachers, Roman and Caroline!

The group have had a great time with us in Salamanca and enjoying the Cultural program that we organised for them they’ve seen most of the cultural and historic sights of Salamanca! They were lucky enough to go and visit the Cathedral of Salamanca and, thanks to the ieronimus project went up the Cathedral and saw the city from the best view point. The ieronimus project lets you go up the Cathedral and walk around the outside at the top, go inside the Cathedral very high up and has loads of information about the Cathedral and it’s history. It’s beautiufl inside and has some amazing views from the top where you can see all of Salamanca! The Cathedral of Salamanca is actually made up of 2 Cathedrals, the old and the new one. It took so long to finish builidng the Cathedral of Salamanca that we talk about the old and new Cathedral. The construction covers a range of styles, but the New Cathedral is both Gothic and Barroque in style.

The students also did a tour with us of the Convents of Salamanca. The convents are old and historic and full of culture and history of Salamanca. The best way to visit them is to go on a guided tour so that you can find out all about how and when they were made and the history of the monks and nuns that live there. There are convents all over the centre, sometimes hidden or so discreet that you don’t even realise they’re there!

On Saturday the students went to visit the nearby cities of Avila and Segovia, two beautiful old cities in Castille and Leon and near to Salamanca.

The students have had a great time in Salamanca improving their Spanish and we’ve really enjoyed having them with us this week. Their group program was organised just for them, just like we can organise a group program for your school or group. The students that come with us to study as a group don’t have to be from a school or University. If you’re interested in a group trip to Salamanca, Granada or Seville you can find out more on our website or get in touch with us at the school! You can see an example of a group trip plan in Salamanca on our website, and you can also check out a budget for your group trip to Spain with us.

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The Summer Tapas Tour

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

This Monday the latest Spanish Students staying with us in Salamanca got the chance to go and enjoy some of the best local tapas! The Tapas Tour is a trip we run every week as part of our cultural program, and offers the students the chance to get to know each other and the city a bit better, whilst trying some of the best local food!

On the trip we normally go via some of the best bars in Salamanca, including: The Cuatro Gatos (The 4 Cats) on the Rúa Mayor, Delicatessen, Doctrinos, where they serve the best jamón! and Mater Asturias, an Asturian Cider bar serving typical Asturian Cider and delicious food. Some other bars include Bambú, a bar next to the square serving loads of different tapas and rations of delicious meat cooked on the grill, amongst other things.

Spanish Students enjoying Tapas in Mater Asturias

Spanish Students enjoying Tapas in Mater Asturias

In Salamanca some of the best local foods are the famous Jamón, the best type coming from near to Salamanca itself! and the delicious Tortilla Española. The Tortilla is made up of fried potatoes and eggs and is sometimes filled with different things. Some of the most typical are ham and cheese, or vegetables – more often than not including tuna and salad.

Another typical food of the region is Farinato. A Spanish type of Haggis! It’s meat and bread with herbs, onion and seasoning inside either a real or synthetic stomach lining, and can normally be found in the shape of a sausage! It normally comes served fried with a fried egg.

This week the Spanish Students currently staying with us in Salamanca enjoyed the Tapas Tour and here you can see a photo of them enjoying some pinchos, tapas in the Mater Asturias bar, right next to the Plaza Mayor. There are loads of photos on Facebook of other Tapas tours that we’ve done in the past so that you can see what we get up to! There’s also posts on our blog telling you more about the Tapas tours!

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Summer Spanish Students welcome Party

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Last week a big group of Mester’s Spanish students took the oportunity to join in the Spanish Culture and celebrate the San Fermin celebrations with a party of their own!

Group of Spanish students enjoying the evening in Salamanca

Group of Spanish students enjoying the evening in Salamanca

We organised a party in the local popular bar Camelot, in the centre of Salamanca, for the students to party and celebrate together! The party was on Monday last week and we organised food and canapés for the group of students to have some food, and there were 2 free drinks at the bar for our students! Lots of people dressed up in fancy dress for the occasion and the bar in Salamanca was also decorated for the event!!

Everyone had a great time and there was music and dancing all night. One of our students has made a Facebook album of the evening where you can see more photos of the Spanish Students enjoying the Spanish culture!! Every week we have a welcome party in the centre of Salamanca to welcome the new students to the school. It’s a great opportunity to get to know the other Spanish students.

The San Fermin festival is enormous in Spain and is a long standing cultural tradition that takes place in Pamplona every year from the 6 to the 14th of July.  The most famous part of the celebrations is the bull chasing through the streets of the city and is popular with people from all over the world who come to take part! There’s also music in the streets and loads of different types of bands (rock, jazz etc!) do shows across the city as part of the festival.

The festival also has a procession that goes through the city including the local band and is for anyone and everyone who wants to take place. It leads up to the Cathedral to collect the saint of the Festival, San Fermin, because all Spanish festivals are related to a saint!

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