Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a Americain holiday inwhich we celebrate the event were the Native Americains gave the Pilgrims from England help. The Pilgrims came to America to escape religous prosecution in England, they left for America with little idea of what waited for them. They faced harsh weather, and they did not know how to cultivate the land. They were starving, and the Pilgrims feared that the harsh winter coming ahead would kill them all. The Native Amercains helped them by supplying them and teaching them how to survive in the harsh terrain.

On the last Thursday of November, we celebrate Thanksgiving with a large feast which includes traditional amercain foods, such as apple pie, pumkin, stuffing, and turkey. There are also parades and other celbrations. On this day we give thanks to all who have helped us and to the Native Amercains who helped the Pilgrims.

zalacain el aventurero

This weekend we had a field trip based around the novel Zalacain el Aventurero. During the trip we followed the novel, for the tripo we all had to choose a location that occurs around the novel. I choose San Jean Pied de Port, a small town in france in the mountains.

San Jean Pied de Port is a location along El Camino de Santiago, it also seved as a very important location in medivel times. This town served as a stragitic fort location for the Kingdom of Navarra. It also served as a adminsitrative capital for Navarra´s territory of Ultrapuertos. In the 17 century San Jean Pied de Port became part of France. San Jean Pied de Port is a well preserved part of history. It contains a wall with several amazing doors and important churches.

San Jean Pied de Port also has a Castle on a hill which offers great views of the surronding area. Today San Jean Pied de Port is a beatifull town full of amazing places and great tales.

Summer Vacation

This Summer me and my family returned to Spain for the Summer. We usually come to Spain every summer to visit family and friends. We came to Spain in July and went directly to Bilbao were we spent two weeks there. In Bilbao we visited our cousins, Aunts, uncles and grandma. We spent a lot of time with them, going to the beach, or doing other fun stuff around Bilbao. Me, my two sisters and my brother did a surf camp at Sopelana, it was fun to surf all together and have a warm drink at the bar at the beach.

After enjoying a great time in Bilbao, we headed towards Navarra to family's farm/ There my entire family by my moms side was there, I really liked being together with all of them and doing trips with them. The farm is for cows so me and my brothers, sisters, and cousins did Bull fighting but with the cows. That was really fun and then in the afternoon we usually went to the pool at our house or went on a little trip to visit some landmark. We spent three weeks there and after we headed out towards el mar menor.

There we do a lot of sailing, we have a boat there so does my two uncles. We pretty much spent the day in the boat sailing around and at night we would go out for a walk and ice cream. There my family from my dads side was there and we had lots of fun with our cousins. The last week of summer we spent in madrid with friends and more family.

http://www.spain.info/

http://www.navarra.es/home_es

http://www.murciaturistica.es/es/turismo.inicio