1st week of class

The first week of class is over and things are really moving now!

We got the students together in Parque de los Principes for some pizza and frisbee and some time to get to know each other better. The park is near to where many students live during the semester, in between the Los Remedios and Triana neighborhoods. It is a great place to spend siesta time or to get some homework done in the afternoon.

The next day we challenged the students to complete a photo scavenger hunt to get them acquainted with more of the city.

Andrea, Tasha and Jason stand in front of the statue of Curro Romera near the Plaza de Toros. This photo scored them two points.

Bergen (from the winning team) stands between columns in La Alameda de Hércules that were 4 points.

Kori (the other half of the winning team) shows the clock on the city hall building for 1 point.

The girls fight over Jimmy in front of one of the many bridal shops around Plaza del Salvador for 3 points.

The doves and pigeons in Plaza de América were 3 points.

These students displayed one of the many tile mosaics in Plaza de España for 1 point.

These girls display the fruit from one of the fruterías in the local market for 4 points.

Shannon and Katie stand in front of the weird structures under construction that the locals call las setas (or the mushrooms) in Plaza Encarnación for 3 points.

After the second day of class the girls got together for a Noche de Chicas to hang out together, eat fruit and chocolate, and go paddle boating in the Guadalquivir River. The Triana neighborhood makes a perfect background for photos.

A couple nights later the guys got together to play some wii at the school and go out to eat at 100Montaditos.

Montaditos are little sandwiches and 100Montaditos is a restaurant where you pick between 100 different ingredients for your sandwich including different kind of cheeses, meat, salmon, and even chocolate. The guys split 34 sandwiches between the 8 of them. SIS students Jason says that his favorite was the salmon montadito.

This friday we head to Cordoba!