...:: Life on Campus ::...

Hello again!!

Now, we're going to explain you some things about "life on campus". We think it’s a very interesting thing to tell you because we spend a lot of hours here not only studying; also we go to University parties.

Our campus' name is Vegazana and there are a lot of faculties on it. We are studying English Education, so we are in the ‘Education Faculty’. As many people are studying "magisterio" (that’s the name in Spanish referring to our degree), we have recently moved to a new building in which there are the seven specialties: Foreign Language (our speciality), Infantile, Primary, Physical Education, Hearing and Language, Special Education and Musical Education (before this, we were distributed in two different buildings and we had to move from one faculty to the other one). In our opinion, it is better to be all subjects in the same building because it is easier to meet people from the other specialties.

As you can notice, our new faculty is a big building. Inside the building, there are lots of classes and departments. A very peculiar thing inside, is the color of the toilets: they are extremely yellow as you can see!

In spite of, the walls are completely white and empty and there is a bad contrast with the baths; we mean that your eyes have to get used to the light of baths; the stairs haven’t got depth and you can see the floor when you are upstairs, so some people even get dizzy!; the classes are slightly big and our desks are quite uncomfortable. Sincerely, when you stay there for a long time you finally get used to this change and we have to admit all the disadvantages (buses don’t arrive there, they leave near the old faculty; we are a bit far from the other faculties… and so on).

Near our building, there are other faculties, like economics and engineering but what we visit more is the “Dani & Jose’s” café! We love going to this place when we have no classes; there, we talk and play cards, specially, one Spanish card game called ‘mus’. It’s so fun!! :)

Our festival is on the 23rd of November, and our patron is called "San José de Calasanz". This monk found the first Christian state school for poor children and he taught them warmly and patiently. These days, people organize games, quiz and sports activities like for instance soccer, volleyball, etc. which you can have a good time with your partners and friends.

Finally we want to tell you something about Universities’ parties. They're called "espichas" and are celebrated for all things you could invent: birthdays, going out with your friends… while you are drinking a typical drink from Asturias: "sidra". Between the sidra and the festive enviroment, the jokes, pranks, laughs and typical songs often appear quikly...

The name "espicha" comes from the widget formed by a thin stick with a kind of tap that is inserted into the barrel in order to test the contents of this.

Regards :)

-Irene, Clara & Paula-