Instituto Internacional: Inglés Americano para Jóvenes

More Summer Fun

The fun continued in the last two weeks of Summer in the City!

We started with a California theme week, with lots of great ideas from Alicia, Christine and Katie, who are all from California. We also had guest speakers from the US Embassy to talk about California and high school life in USA. Christine taught the students to juggle and gave them an introduction to fencing!

Our trip in week 3 was to see the greenhouse at Madrid Rio, where we could see plants from desert and subtropical climates, which exist in California. After that, we went to cool off at the fountains in the “Playa Urbana.”

For week 4 we got ready for the Olympic Games, with lots of games and art projects, includng the Olympic flag, olive wreaths and torches. We had some special guests, Judy Clericuzio and Jack Jamison of Cañones y Mantequilla, who taught us a bit about country music and Texas Line Dancing.  On the last day we went to the Retiro for a Field Day, with different games such as sack race, three-legged race, hula hoop games, egg toss and wheelbarrow race.

Kids and teachers had lots of fun. Thanks for spending your summer with us!

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Summer Fun in the City

Our SUMMER IN THE CITY camp has started off really well.  Our first two weekly themes were THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD and FANTASTIC STORIES.  We had parties with healthy snacks prepared by the students, did lots of interesting projects in class and in the computer lab, and went on a trip to Cibeles Centrocentro to see one of the “wonders” of Madrid.  We also had guest speakers: Jordan Elist, who started his own organization called Save a Bottle, Save a Life,  two interns from the US Embassy, and Louis Lobel, who told the us about his experiences as a volunteer in the Peace Corps. To go along with our FANTASTIC STORIES THEME,  we visited the Museo del Romanticismo and Caixa Forum to see the Piranesi and William Blake exhibits.

Two more fun weeks to go! Our next two themes are CALIFORNIA DREAMING and THE OLYMPIC GAMES!

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