Today is the day of Andalusia, and as my first year celebrating in Sevilla it has been interesting to see how proud Sevillanos are to be "Andaluz." Throughout the week the school was decorated with green and white balloons and projects with maps of Andalucia including different information about each province. Andalusia has eight different provinces: Sevilla being the capital, Cadíz, Malaga, Jaén, Almería, Cordoba, Granada, and Huelva. Typical food included salmorejo, cheese, ham, and pescado frito (fried fish).
With 3rd grade we watched a documentary about El Rio Guadalquivir that goes through Sevilla and the National Park Doñana which includes several different types of wildlife, including the Iberian Lynx which is mostly only found here in the Iberian Peninsula.
On Friday to celebrate the school had a traditional Andalusian breakfast of toast with oil and sugar with orange juice. The younger grades read different poems about Andalusia. 5th and 6th dressed up in typical Flamenco dresses and Traje Cortos to dance Sevillanas, a typical dance usually danced during Feria in the month of April. In addition, as a school we all sang the regional anthem or Himno de Andalucía together.
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