CORPUS CHRISTI 2012

Last week, Corpus Christi Festwas celebrated in Granada. Corpus Christi is celebrated 60 days after Easter Sunday, but we celebrate it like a fair, which is very popular in Granada. This fair usually lasts one week.

The first day, at midnight, we celebrated the beginning of the trade fair with fireworks.

During that week, there are many bullfights with famous bullfighters, like: Francisco Rivera, El Fandi, El Cordobés, Cayetano…

The fair atmosphere can be enjoyed both day and night at the fairgrounds. During the day, it is typical to have Alpujarra's dishes: chorizo​​, blood sausage and potatoes, also there are many horses and carriages. A lot of people dress and dance flamenco, usually women.

The first Wednesday of the fair, at mid-morning The Tarasque, a very big dummy of a woman standing on a dragon and wearing the clothes that are fashionable in this season, is carried in procession along the streets of the city centre. Also, on Thursday, the Sacrament procession leaves the Cathedral and goes in the centre of the city. It is very beautiful and popular.

María Ballesteros & Belén Sola

 We, Belén and María, went to the fair on Saturday with our families,  wearing our 'sevillanas costumes'. A friend of us, who has a carriage, gave us a ride around the fairgrounds. We danced sevillanas and we drank a lot of rebujitos. It was a fantastic day, but the weather was so hot!!!

School Exchange - IES Padre Manjón - Methacthon High School

As everybody in our class knows, a group of students from Methacthon High School (Pennsylvania, USA) are coming to IES Padre Manjón (Granada, Spain) on an exchange visit on February 17 to spend two weeks here.
That is why I had thought it would be a good idea to prepare some projects with information about Granada and its surrounding area (the coast, the mountains) for them to know us better.
I know that you will be working hard on the projects that you have to present to the class because you are all very good students, you all want to get very good marks and, most of all, because you all want to show our American friends how beautiful our city is and how much they will enjoy their stay with your families and at our school.

In order to get ready for the projects, here you have some pictures and you will have to find out where these places are, what they are: a house, a restaurant, a hotel, a museum, a park, etc. and how to get there.

Spanish Revolution

Yes, we camp!

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