Pueblo Ingles

August 12th starts our time at Pueblo Ingles. Pueblo Ingles is an organization that runs camps for a week for Spaniards to be fully immersed in English. They get “Anglos” who speak English as their first language to come be volunteers for the week and in exchange for our speaking English many hours a day, we get a free place to stay and free food for the week! So it is great for us!
August 12th we had a welcome luncheon and got some information before we started the next day. After the yummy lunch we ate with a lot of typical Spanish food, we got a nice Flamenco show! Jordan and I hadn’t planned on spending the money to go to one, so it was great to see the local show without paying for it! Here are a few pictures of the Flamenco dancers…




We met our bus at 1pm and headed off to Los Panascales for the week. We sat with a Spaniard on the bus, and our speaking time began. We pretty much talked for 10-15 hours a day. Everyday we had at least 5 “1 to 1’s” which means one Spaniards and one Anglo talking for an hour. Sometimes they switched it up and made it 2 to 2’s. We also had a lot of activities and theatre.

We had an excursion today and we went to a close-by village called El Escorial. This is the home of a very important monastery called San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Our whole group of about 50 decided that we all wanted to see this. We had 2 English speaking guides and split the group. It was a long tour, but very interesting. The most interesting part was the crypt where we got to see the tombs of most of the late kings and queens of Spain. It was pretty neat. There were a few missing because they were in a different area where they “get ready” for the crypt for like 25 years. Not sure exactly what takes 25 years to do, but it was interesting to say the least. Unfortunately we couldn’t take any pictures inside, but here are a few pictures of the outside areas. It was very nice and a good change from speaking so much English.





A different area of tombs with prince’s and princesses 137


Apparently, I did not know this, but Jordan is an actor. The second night of being here, we had some theatre. Jordan was asked to be part of the theatre, and did a great job. Jordan was playing a stupid tourist (commonly referred to as a "giddy" in Spanish) who gets robbed by these 3 girls. It was very funny and Jordan did a great job exaggerating his part. Everyone had a good laugh, and he kind of set the tone for the rest of the theatre performances.