It has been an exciting week for a group of German students –a week long trip to Salamanca, Spain to learn Spanish!

Roman bridge, Salamanca

Sevillanas on the School, Ole!!

Travelling from a school in Remsheid – near Cologne – and accompanied by their teacher, Carlos Sanchez, the group of fifteen have been enjoying the sites of Salamanca, one of Spain’s most beautiful cities.  One one of their first days they took a guided tour, lead by one of our teachers, Elisa…though their own teacher Carlos could well have done the tour too – he’s been coming back to Salamanca with different groups since September 2005 and knows the city inside-out!

As you’ll be able to see from the photos, the group of students enjoyed a special program, some gorgeous weather in Salamanca during their trip and with all the activities organised by the school, they were really able to take advantage of it.

In between their Spanish learning, amongst other activities, they enjoyed a tapas tour, a salsa class, a film night, a

Taking Tapas and something to drink!!

cookery class and a Sevillana dance class.  The activities are a means to make Spanish learning as fun and diverse as possible: whilst the tapas tour is a great opportunity to get to know fellow students and to see the city lit up at night – a really stunning sight, the cookery class and the film night give an insight into Spanish culture, often quite surprising to those students who come here thinking all of Spain is like the holiday regions! Each activities works to encourage the students to speak Spanish outside of the classroom – an invaluable experience towards their learning!

What will have most opened their eyes to Spanish culture however is their homestays.  The students have been staying with various Spanish families during the week, an opportunity which has allowed them to live as the Spanish do and practise their Spanish to the maximum.

Dance class!

The week’s been a total success and we hope an inspiration for the students to carry on with their Spanish learning once back in Germany!

See another account of a German group in Spain here.