Hamburg-Vigo Exchange 2016- 2019

Our exchange happened over the course of two eventful weeks, so we decided to put an entry for every day of the Exchange. This post contains a list of all the days and the links to the pages concerning them in detail: Germans in Vigo 30.03.2017 - Journey to Vigo  31.03.2017 - Vigo Harbour Trip 03.04.2017 - Monte Castro                       - Stadium Visit 04.04.2017 - At the beach                       - Pictures of the beach day 05.04.2017 - Bus Tour Spanish in Hamburg

Vigo- Erasmus- Exchange 04.04.17 We went to the beach in the afternoon on Tuesday. There we got paired in groups in which German and Spanish students were mixed together. We got the order to build octopuses made of sand. My group started to get water from the ocean to tighten the sand we would use to build the octopus. We build a big sandheap as a basis for the following details. Afterwards we divided our group into smaller groups and gave different tasks away. I was suppossed to form the tentacles with other group members. Another group started to smoothen the surface of the sandheap and another one tried to give the octopus some characteristics by creating a beautiful face. It took us some time to create the perfect octopus. After some hours all the groups had to finish their work so we would able to admire the sand sculptures we created. The press visited us at the beach and five of us got interviewed about our exchange in Spain with Erasmus+ and what we e...

The Galician language When I was in primary school there was a study group on the Spanish language. I took part in it but we mainly danced and learned to play the guitar. After that I only ever learned a little Spanish here and there, so my speaking abilities weren’t really on the bright side when I came to Vigo. But I liked the language and was able to get around. On top of that there was also the Galician, I was confronted with it in a couple of situations. First of all, my host student took me to get to know her family. They were a lovely bunch of energetic people but they really did not speak a single word of English. While my host student was busy somewhere else, I was happy about how good of a dialogue some of her family members and me actually were able to have. After I had talked to everybody there for a little while, her grandfather waved me over to him. My host student had told me that he was the only person in the family that spoke Galician exclusively, so I was a little...