Monday was our first day at school, so we went for a guided walk around the place. First we went to their cantine and had breakfeast. Then we visited some of the very youngest students at the school – they were only 3-4 years old (but very cute)! Then we walked on through the halls looking into the classes through the windows, untill we arrived at the gym. The gym is really huge and is open to the public after school finishes. There’s a swimming pool, 10*25 metres, a fitness room with more than 20 machines, 2 short courts for playing squash, table tennis, table football and of course two gyms for playing football.
In the afternoon we went to see the Sagrada Familia. It was absolutely impossible to capture the greatness of the structure on a single foto, but this is the front and the backside of the building. It’s supposed to be finished by 2026, but some say it’s never going to be finished, because the project started a hundred years ago. One of the fascinating things about the cathedral is, that it has been built without government funding private donations and the entrance fee is paying for the construction.
We had planned to go karting in the evening, but we ended up postponing it for tomorrow. We were too many to go by one car so the spanish students went by train. It was about a 20 minute drive and we spent that time singing along on flamingo-songs. We had a good time clapping and learning the words of the songs. In one of the songs we identified “la luna loca”, which means the crazy moon, but Marta (“my” big sister) was just laughing it us, because it didn’t actually say that. Anyway, we sang and had a good a time.


I am glad you got to see the Sagrada Familia
– and perhaps learned a little spanish.
The spanish school system seems very different from ours. Do spanish students really stay in the same school from age 3 untill they turn 17 (or more)? There must be quite a lot of students at the school you visited!
By: Trine on marts 13, 2008
at 1:49 pm