After a restful night, our students spent their first full day in Santiago going to school with their compañeros at El colegio La Salle! When the students arrived at 8:30, everyone was excited to talk to each other about their first nights in their Spanish homes. They couldn’t speak quickly enough, telling stories about what had happened, what they had for dinner, and how nice their Spanish families are! It was so great to see them so excited that they were able to use their Spanish and impress their families.

After the story swapping, our host teachers, María and Gema, briefly went over the itinerary for our time in Santiago,  took us on a brief tour of the school, and then sent us off to classes.  Our students broke up into groups of two or three to attend classes, and got to see how Spanish students spend their school days.

After classes, our students headed out with their Spanish compañeros to spend the afternoon together. For the rest of the day, our AB students will be shadowing their compañeros, and accompanying them to whatever activities or social events they go to on a typical Wednesday afternoon.

We will meet up as a group again tomorrow morning, where we’ll do some sightseeing in Santiago and spend the day getting to know the city!

To show you were we were today, here are some pictures of the school. Also, we had problems loading pictures for the first couple of days of the trip (the time in Madrid), but have fixed the problem. If you’d like to see some pictures from our time in Madrid, have a look at the blog entries from those days. Enjoy!

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