SPANISH STUDENTS’ LETTERS - Spain

SPANISH STUDENTS’ LETTERS

On November 16 students selected for the "Comenius" project left for Faro in Portugal.

We reached the city at approximately 2:30 am.

The next day we went to introduce the school to all project countries.
Joao de Deus school where we went to was around 60 years that is almost nothing compared to ours. That was the only day we ate at school, seafood is certainly taken to nap. Well the second day after lunch in Faro we visited the Faro museum. On the third day we went to eat at the beach and after being there for a while we left to our homes. The fourth day on Thursday we went to Sagres, an hour from Faro. We visited the fortress of Sagres, we went for a walk around the town and saw the church-museum of Sagres. Finally on Friday and last day, we left early to Lisbon about four hours from Faro. There we visited the fortress of Belem and Jeronimos Monastery. At one o'clock in the morning we were at the bus stop to start a fourteen-hour desperate trip by coach.
And this way concludes our trip to Faro from sixteenth to twenty-first November.
Juan Jesús Tomás Aparicio 4º B

The trip has been an unforgettable experience that I would repeat many times. You meet a lot of new people, the customs of the country you visit and mainly you make a lot of good friends. You learn to manage with English and you realize that you know more than you thought you knew.

During the trip, in the morning we used to go to the school all the countries together, in the afternoons we used to visit the town and in the evenings we went with the families that hosted us.

The families were very nice with you and tried to give all the best so that you could feel very well.

Food was different to ours but they were very good, so food was not a problem.

This trip has been wonderful and I won’t forget it in my life.

Lorena Martínez Sánchez, 4º B

This trip to Portugal within the Comenius Project our school is participating has been very good because we have visited Faro, Sagres and Lisbon. It has been a great experience as we have had the chance to live with teenagers from other seven countries (Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Turkey). We have had a wonderful time sharing beautiful and funny moments. We have learnt a good experience I think that will be useful for our future.

Vicente Armero Sánchez, 4º A

The beginning of the trip was an estrange experience because it was a family you don’t know and they offer themselves to look alter you for a few days. What I liked most from this meeting in Portugal was meeting and knowing how people from other countries are, but what I liked less was the farewell from everybody, farewells are always very bad and they are even worst if you have made very good friend with someone and you know you aren’t going to see them again unless you go to the country.

Faro, the name of the town where we stayed, is a place on the coast which means they eat a lot of fish, but I liked a lot a dish, which wasn’t fish, and we ate in a restaurant near the beach. The dish was with boiled potatoes and turkey with a sauce.

This trip has been an experience I’d like to repeat, but I think a week is very little time, it should be two weeks, because the first week is when you get used to being with the family and on the second you start having a great time.

As a conclusion, if you have an opportunity like this you have to make the most of it.

Mª Carmen Romero Martínez, 4º A

Hello, I’m Irene and I have taken part in the Comenius Project in Portugal. There, we have had a very good time and we have met a lot of people from many countries. We have learnt some Turkish and Portuguese words. We have made a lot of excursions. I have known a lot about our Portuguese neighbours.

Irene Olmo Villena, 4º A.