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IU HP FL León, España 2022

IUHPFL ‘22: Arriving in León and meeting host families

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June 08, 2022

This is the moments when students met Sira (our on-site coordinator) and their host families for the first time.

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IUHPFL ‘22: First day of classes and first time eating at La casa blanca

June 09, 2022

The students had their first full day of classes! This are a few pictures of the students in instructor Nico’s Spanish Grammar and Communication class. This was at the end of the students first meal enjoying the helado de nata y fresa (cream and strawberry ice cream).

IUHPFL ‘22: Segovia (part 1)

July 13, 2022

After a few tears, we said goodbye to our León family and headed to Segovia to begin our final days in Spain. This morning in Segovia we went on a guided tour of the city and visited the famous El Alcázar, which is where Queen Isabel lived and was coronated as queen of Castilla!!

IUHPFL '22: Final Post

August 19, 2022

Equipo ‘Team’ León (2022) was led by high school teacher Sara Grauvogl along with Santiago Arróniz Parra and Nicholas M. Blaker both PhD candidates in Hispanic Linguistics at IU. The team led 23 highly motivated Indiana high school students studying Spanish to León, Spain for six weeks where the students lived with host families, took courses in Spanish culture/literature, grammar/communication and linguistics and participated in a variety of activities (e.g., Spanish movie afternoons, a tapas tour and scavenger hunt, a 4th of July celebration with host families, sports, singing/dancing and art, among others). The students also had the opportunity to visit and explore surrounding cities, for example, Gijón (Asturias), Vigo and the Islas Cíes (Galicia), Segovia and Madrid. The most exciting excursion and the most integral to IUHPFL León was student’s participation in the last 12 miles of the famous Camino de Santiago departing from Pedrouzo (Galicia) and ar...