Catherine's Rotary International Youth Exchange in Spain 2010 to 2011

Experiencing life as a Tenerifian. Being introduced to the different language, culture,customs and landscape of my Spanish island and commenting on my travels and interactions with the inhabitants.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Saying Good Bye

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TOMAMOS LA CALLE - WE TOOK THE STREET

Golden fountain in a huge barcelonean park

Some Arch with Dana and his friends

Museo de Catalunya

Barcelona´s Olympic torch

truthfully it was kind of ugly :P

where Gaudi use to live

The building on the right with the cross in the top window

This is the row of houses all designed by Gaudi

Normal buildings, then in the middle a purple building? only in Barcelona

Another Gaudi building

Another example

This one isn´t as cool, there is like 3 houses that are really strange all in a row on one street all designed by the same guy

Example of Gaudi´s strange buildings

People use to live in this house, then they turned it into a museum because so many people wanted to check it out

Other side of Sangrada Familia Church

It actually huge and they still have like 5 towers to build still!

SANGRADA FAMILIA

they have been building this church for ages and there not even half done!

El Teide from the Plane

You can see the city below and the volcano above! soo pretty, I love it

Flower´s I picked from Ricardo´s

Tiny Apple

This was from Ricardo´s garden

This VACA (cow) was on the side of the road, literally

Our cottage was about 3cm away from the clouds.

Trust me, we were in the forest. Hence the name of the house! Casa del Monte

Feeling Salty? Because I am!

No this isn´t a pile of snow inside, it´s SALT!

this was literally like 20 feet tall

Merci and I

These are Salt Mines, they put ocean water in these holes. Let them evaporate and they leave a moutain of salt. Which they later sell in a store. Very economically friendly and natural!

This beach wasn´t there 40 years ago, why? because it was made by the last volcano

Diana my host sister and I on the beach

What up Volcano

Group Shot, Carmela, Marcos, Merci, Diana and I

Group Shot!

I love my spanish family :) GO CABRERA BAEZ´S

Yes these crazy Canarian´s are walking along the volcano that errupted about 40 years ago..

Yes I am one of those crazy Canarians :P

guess what, volcano is still hot, even though its suppose to be sleeping...

Ricardo told us to put our hand in this little hole. It was probably 20 degrees hot. Yes, I was flipping out.

2nd last erruption in La Palma, the picture of the giant hole.

This is what it looks like, not walking along the top..

SUPRISE! Another Volcano

Where the people are, is where the erruption came out. The last erruption exploded out of multiple volcanos, this is one of them

Lava is apparently good earth for growing grapes and bananas..

Burnt trees from the lava, although it was about 100 years ago

Sky View of La Palma

you can see the giant hole from a volcano in the middle, on the point closest to the top of the page is where the last erruption took place

Volcán Teneguía

Last volcanic erruption in canary islands, happened in 1971

Giant hole formed from Volcanic erruption

2nd last erruption in Canarias

Other city on the other side of La Palma

Most of the houses are seperated in La Palma because a lot of people farm, so they need space to grow crops

Ice frozen to the plants in the moutains, yes you heard me ICE!

tips of all the mountains, in the distance you can see El Teide the volcano on Tenerife

I just thought this picture was really pretty with the clouds

All the Satelites

Largest Sphere Shaped Satelite in the World

In La Palma they observe the sky at night and in Tenerife they observe the sun

Santa Cruz de La Palma

not a very big city, but its very pretty

Float going into the church

this float was probably 350lbs and 6 men were carrying all over the city on their shoulders

Other hooded characters..

First glimpse of the hooded characters...

Now imagine them sighing and swaying back and forth.. understand my fear yet?

It was colder then I expected

My cute jacket i found and wore all weekend. One side was yellow the other this pattern

La Casa del Monte Fuera - The outside of the House in the forest

this is the house of Ricard and Carmen, they live in Tenerife, but Ricardo is from La Palma so he was our tour guide

La Casa del Monte - The house in the forest

SNOW and I!

Snow and Beach?

Black Beach of the North

El Teide with snow the same day I went to the beach

El Teide on my way to Switzerland

LOTS OF SNOW!

View of Santa Cruz

When to this look out point with the 2 Canadian´s from Newfoundland

Zurich City

Zurich for the day

went with an exchange student living in Luzern that is from Australia named Jill

Exchangers from 7090 meet up in Luzern, Switzerland!

Touching snow for the first time in a year!

March till almost April without touching snow!

ALPS!

impresionante!

Tippy top of the Pilatus!

The background is Luzern

Going up to the Pilatus with Silvan and Nora

The Lake

LAKE or sea (what they call lakes in german)

Linus and I climbed up 2 hills to see this amazing view. We were both exausted when we got to the top aha

My bridge

In this photo we actually had nice weather :)

5 dollar frank...

It was so big it weighed about 5 lbs too

Different Currency - Franks are so pretty!

I arrived in Switzerland thinking the money was the same as the rest of europe. Nope, I was wrong.

ROQLETTE

This one didnt have very much stuff in it, but the cheese alone is delicious!

ROQLETTE CHEESE

Melted cheese, YUMMM!!

CHOCOLATE!

I ate probably 7lbs of chocolate while in Switzerland..

Little Colourful hamburgers - Luxenburgers

These were actually the size of your thumb and were a desert..

Lion memorial, looking fierce

Linus quote: You only go to see this if your a tourist. I never go here..

Seeing my bridge for the first time!

A little bit excited, you could say...

DAY THREE - TIGRE

Used Adrian, my host brothers costume from when he was a kid.. hand made and all aha

DAY ONE - Friday

My first costume - Indian with María

Flawless family shot

yes, it was my idea... xd

COMIDA

pollo y papas - chicken and potatoes

Zumo de Parcita

Parcita (passion fruit) grows in immense amounts in my yard

Place Setting

Place setting for noche buena

COMIDA

shrimp, some sort of sauce, and an egg all in an avocate

Traditional Christmas Deserts

YUMM MY FAVOURITE

Noche Buena Dinner Table - Christmas Eve Dinner

Welcome to Spanish Tradition - LAS UVAS

12 Grapes in 12 seconds at midnight = Good Luck?

Arbol de Navidad - Christmas Tree

I was suprised too that they did the whole Christmas Tree ordeal!

Largest Nativity Scene

note: this is in my house

Table Setting for New Years Eve

Cena por viente? - Dinner for twenty?

Mi Familia Espanola! - My Spanish Family

Fin de Ano - New Year's

Excursion with Rotary

Inside a Borranco - Thousands of feet high, stone surrounding me, breath taking

GUA GUA (Canary island word for bus, note: only canary islands say this)

This is of the bus station in Santa Cruz, in the background is the Atitorium, designed by the same architect as the one in Australia. The Gua Gua is my main source of transportation because it takes me to Basketball every Monday, Wednesday and Friday