Abroad in Spain: Travel Blog

Guides talk about a human scull found at the Atapuerca site in Spain.

If you read this blog regularly, you probably already know that this week there are several Italian and Turkish students visiting my school.  Since I’ve kinda become their “official translator/guide” for the week, I had the chance to take them to the Atapuerca Archaeological Site that is located just a few kilometers away from the city of Burgos. 

Before going on this little excursion with the students, I was kinda grumbling to my friends about having to go.  Honestly, I didn’t think there would be much to see at Atapuerca and I felt a little as if I had better things to do with my time.  I was wrong.  Continue reading this post…

Me with Turkish and Italian students who were received by the mayor of Burgos.

Well, I’ve finally ”made it big.”  I’m now a star in the city of Burgos because I was in the local newspaper here.  Please, leave your autograph requests in the comment section of this post (ha!).

You see, the high school that I work at participates in the European Comenius Program.  If you’re unfamiliar with the program, it’s basically a student exchange in which students from various foreign countries come to Spain to spend a few weeks at our school and afterwards students from our school go abroad.  In this way, students from across Europe (and its surrounding areas) get to meet their counterparts in other countries. 

Anyway, right now some Turkish and Italian students are at our school visiting with the Comenius Program and, because they don’t speak Spanish but do speak English, I have been spending the week acting as their “official translator and interpreter.”  This means that I had to accompany them yesterday to a welcoming ceremony held in the Burgos Town Hall by the mayor.  Of course, since the mayor was involved, the press was there and I had the lovely photo that you see above taken with the students. 

This picture actually was printed in two — yes, two — newspapers (one local and one national).  I’m assuming it was some type of “standard press release photo” because in both papers the same photo appears with the same caption.  I literally “took a picture of the picture” in order to post it on my blog, so I’m sorry if it’s of low quality.  Also, I’m way in the back of the photo behind most of the students; sooooo, although you probably can’t even see me, I assure you that I’m there.  Continue reading this post…