By Alicia Díez Three Erasmus girls, Inés Belahrizi, Alejandra Gutiérrez and I, Alicia Díez, have become STARS ambassadors for three days. We are explaining STARS program, Erasmus and Cycling Without Age to the youngest students in our school: 1st of ESO (compulsory education). Today we’ve done three presentations of 55 minutes each. Most of the […]
Escape room to celebrate Women’s Day
Corella’s Town Council has organized a number of activities to celebrate Women’s Day: presentations, demonstrations, new (feminist) versions of old fairy tales… Our Erasmus students pitched in to create an escape room to pay a tribute to the 123 women who died in 1911 in the worst industrial disaster in New York’s history: Triangle Shirtwaist […]
The «Citizens’ Garden»: the making of
By Rebeca Ochoa Salcedo I am the lady, above mentioned by Alejandra Gutiérrez, responsable for the Citizens’ Garden. First of all I want to start explaining how this project became a «Green» reality 12 years ago.Since I was a child, like everybody else in Corella, I often went to «la Estanca» for a walk. To get to this amazing place we […]
Four generations fit in our «Nanacycle»
By Olga Arellano Last Sunday, February 23rd, something really especial happened: four generations of women shared and enjoyed our Nanacycle or Yayacleta, the name we gave in Corella to our lovely tricycles. Lola, the granny, Olga, the daughter and pilot, Naiara, the granddaughter, and Layla, the grand-granddaughter, enjoyed a wonderful ride with our unique Yayacleta. […]
CWA Spain meeting in Albacete
Cristina Gallo, Juan Luis Echarri and Toño Peña attended a CWA Spain meeting in Albacete this weekend, March 21-23. We explained the nuts and bolts of our Erasmus and, specifically, CWA Corella. Chapters from Basque Country, Cataluña, Alicante and Albacete participated in the meeting. Future chapters (Lorca, Valencia, Madrid…) attended the meeting too and, hopefully, […]
Planting in the citizens’ garden with Rebeca
By Alejandra Gutiérrez Rebeca Ochoa, a lovely lady, started in 2009 to embellish a patch of derelict land that is right in the way to the cemetery and La Estanca, the favourite recreation place for people from Corella. Over the years, she has turned this neglected corner of our village into a beautiful space that […]
Fabric bags workshop
As part of Environment Week, Entretelas organized a workshop to make fabric bags. Three girls participated in this interesting workshop: Bianka, Inés and Alexandra. Thanks, Entretelas and all the participants for making this workshop possible and entertaining!
Bird-ringing workshop in Corella
Thirty-five people participated in the bird-ringing workshop that Biciclistas organized on the Alhama river banks on Saturday, February 8th. We started the workshop at 6:00 setting up the nets to catch the birds. Then we put them in fabric bags to let them breathe and relax. Finally, kids held them, opened the bag, the ornithologist […]
Third Erasmus board
Finally, we got our third Erasmus board done. It took four girls two hours to design the board, paste the pictures and set up the Erasmus board, but it was definitely worth it! Thanks, Alexandra, Inés, Catalina, and Bianka for your great job. Well done, girls!!!
Second and last bottles-becoming-lamps workshop
We developed the last workshop to make lamps out of bottles on Monday, February 3rd. We sold them on Friday, February 7th, when we inaugurated the exposition and the whole Environment Week. We sold nine lamps and got 45 euros. We felt so proud! Thanks everybody!