Every year the Spanish students have the opportunity to travel to Spain and this year is no exception.

This year the students will be spending some time in London before traveling to Barcelona and Valencia. While in Barcelona the students will get the chance to visit Las Ramblas and La Segrada Familia.

“It’s educational in the fact that our students are going to be using the language and the fact that they are staying in peoples homes so they are going to have to use Spanish the whole time so its putting into practice what they have learned,”said Spanish teacher John White.

While in Spain the students will be staying with host families and they will be going to a school in Spain for a day to learn how they differ from schools here. The school they are attending is the same school that former Westside Spanish teacher Asumpta Biosca used to teach at.

“Two years ago when Biosca was teaching at Westside, they set it up where 24 Westside students went to Spain for a little over a week and stayed with host families. Then the high school students in the host families traveled here and stayed with our students families. That was the best trip I’ve ever done,” said White.

Senior Amy Elliot-Meisel has gone on one of the previous trips to Spain. She found the trip to be highly educational in both the Spanish culture as well as the language. On her trip they arrived in Barcelona, Spain. From there they traveled to Valencia which is where their host families were located. Meisel’s favorite thing to visit was La Segrada Familia which is a famous church in Barcelona.

“For me it was my first time traveling abroad so really just going abroad was my favorite part,” said Meisel.