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King Edward’s VII – La Safa      

 

November 2010

 

          There were tears as the English pupils retreated to get on their bus to Valladolid airport, but you wouldn’t have imagined it when they arrived a week before with looks of apprehension and stuttered greetings in both languages.  The same tears that prompted one teacher from England to ask the bus driver if he’d brought his mop. The tears were mutual and those pupils from 1º of Bach returned to their usual break time with low spirits, but warm hearts. All this emotion was indicative of the wonderful relationships that both sets of pupils, not to mention the Spanish families, had built up over the week.

          The classes on the Thursday brought home to the English students just how difficult listening to a foreign language for 3 hours really is. However, the afternoon’s treasure hunt seemed to warm the relationships and get them working together, all to be topped off with fantastic golden views of Burgos as the sun began to make its exit. By this time, the pupils had started to make a group which was very apparent on Friday’s excursion to two of Burgos’s most renowned villages, Santo Domingo de Silos and Covarrubias. The visit to the world-famous monastery, morning mass and the ‘ask a monk’ interview were met with some apprehension by English and Spanish pupils alike. Nevertheless, the interest from pupils, especially in the interview with one of the younger monks, surprised all the teachers. Of course, what they enjoyed even more was the free time to take a look around the latter village and eat one of the ubiquitous Spanish omelette or chorizo sandwiches prepared by the welcoming Spanish families.

         All the students came back on Monday with smiles on their faces so we decided we would prefer not to know what happened over the weekend. Like all Mondays, this one also started slowly in class and those from year 10 got stuck in with the little ones. With a visit to the local newspaper and the Museum of Human Evolution, we were already into the final afternoon.  The weather didn’t respect us too much for the traditional game, but we persisted in true British fashion to the surprise of the Spanish students. We returned soaked to the school to see the students getting along famously, a feeling that continued through ‘the last supper’ and up to the aforementioned ‘goodbye’.

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