LA SEVILLA ROMANTICA

28.5.08

por Kelly McNamara and Tiffany Petrisko

¡Hola Padres!

You should know that we are learning by talking to many people and by talking in class. I don't know about your children, but we (Tiffany and I) are having to be extra careful not to throw Spanish words into this blog. We can't stop thinking in Spanish and now we are told to write in English!

In our classes today we reviewed past tense verbs and learned vocabulary for the movies. We also learned about Arab culture in Spain. After the classes, most of us headed home to our Spanish family for lunch and a siesta. We know you are jealous that you cannot take one!

Before our next activity, many of us headed to the commercial center of the city for some shopping! We somehow managed to meet up and hang out before heading over to Starbucks, one of the 10 million they have here. Once everyone arrived, we headed to the Plaza de España. It is very beautiful and is where one of the scenes from Star Wars was filmed! The architecture there is also amazing!

After finishing our tour of la Plaza de Espana, we went over to the Park of Maria Luisa for a very competitive (well, for some at least...) scavenger hunt. Some teams took off running all over the park and completed the five tasks in 20 some minutes of the given hour, while others took off to a slow "go with the flow" start. Congrats to Tiffany (not that I'm helping to write this or anything), Kelsey, Grace, and Chris on winning the scavenger hunt!

After that, most of us headed home, while some wandered around the streets of Sevilla, before going home to dinner (if they ever found their way home, we only get lost a few times a day - but don't freak out. We can speak Spanish, ask for help, and we have the life saving tool called a map!

We hope you enjoyed reading this journal entry! We miss everyone so much, but we are having

an amazing time.

In case you are wondering, we had way too much fun writing this journal.