Dinosaurs, Cangas de Onis, & Covadonga

Oh what a week!

The students wrote some wonderful Ode’s to Vegetables for Literature and we decided (with the students help) to include some of them in our Oviedo Summer Magazine. Moisés chose 10 Ode’s and the chosen few read them aloud in front of their peers.  


















In their explorations of Oviedo, the students discovered this “amazing” spot called Dufen Dagels that has everything! Everything here is loosely defined as ice cream, coffee, and all things sweet and delicious. When I couldn’t finish my chocolate because it was too sweet, Georgia was all too happy to help me out.




Tyler tried to match my poof!


































This was by far our favorite part of the excursion: Los Picos de Europa. We were all so in awe of how amazing this view was. 








This is by far my favorite photo! Colin was super excited to experience it and the photo captures the moment












Cangas de Onis!






Can you read what their signs say? :)








La Basílica de Santa María la Real de Covadonga

Colin has a talent of walking dramatically towards things












Tomorrow we have our kayaking adventure at el Rio Sella! This coming week is going to be full of excursions and adventures. Stay tuned!

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