Final Reviews in Alicante

While the majority of my classmates traveled to different countries on our free long weekend, a small group of us stayed behind in Guardamar. The day before, we had met Jose Luis since he had organized our tours of La Illeta, Lucentum, and Alicante's Museum of Archaeology. While waiting for Tim, he started talking to us about our weekend plans since he had overheard that we would have a free weekend. When we told him we'd be staying behind he smiled and suggested we check out the final reviews of students from Alicante. There would be a showcase of projects from many grade levels as well as final fifth year presentations that next evening. We were initially hesitant because of the bus schedules and having to stay in Alicante for the night, but he offered to make arrangements for us. He initially organized for us to spend the night at some of his student's homes, but when we got there, it didn't workout because one of the girls had to leave for a personal emergency. So rather than stay with the students, he got the keys to his cousin's house who was away for vacation and let us crash there. The place was right on La Rambla, the most active strip in Alicante at night.

We were very excited about having the opportunity to actually see how architecture is taught as well as how it is produced, and presented in Spain. To our surprise it is extremely different. I don't think any of you would believe it if it weren't for the following video. I'll let it speak for itself...



...and yes the guitarist's microphone is attached to the foot of the dude doing the handstand.

This presentation just kept on getting crazier, and in reality more creative as the students presented their ideas and processes of their projects through songs and games.








I'm assuming that a more formal final presentation was done prior to this, but regardless it is evident that the students had a lot of fun, which further highlights the Spanish culture and its celebrations. The celebrating continued all night at Mulligan's, a club located on La Rambla.


--Cecilia Cardenas