By Nanny Sender When I left Corella two and a half years ago, after having spent 8 months here as a language assistant at IES Alhama High School, I promised myself and all the friends I’d made here, that I would be back. And so I am. A little sooner than planned due to Brexit […]
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Final step: watering!
By Layla Sahmi Today we had three different tasks in «el Villar», a recreational area just 1 km from Corella: to finish setting up the the watering system, covering with earth the ditches the excavator made to plant more than 300 trees and, last but not least, WATERING! Michelle, Manal and me, Layla Sahmi, have […]
Setting up watering system
We’ve celebrated today International Volunteer Day precisely… volunteering! We’ve started setting up the watering system for the 328 trees that we planted the previous days. It’s been 3 long hours in cold weather (around 5 degrees today) but it’s been definitely worth it. Thanks Víctor, Layla, Néstor and Michelle for pitching in in such a […]
El Villar esplanade, full of trees
Just a bunch of pics to ilustrate what’s the esplanade like currently after three days planting trees. Congrats everybody!
Planting trees is so fun!
By Elaine Acosta and Luis Andía Riccobene Today, Thursday, December 3 (and Navarra’s Day) we have resumed planting trees in Villar esplanade, this time in another area. At 10:00 in the morning we started working! Before we arrived Biciclistas de Corella, the organizers of the workshop, were making the measures to place the trees well […]
My first planting workshop
By Aitana Ayuso Torres I went with my friends to plant lots of trees in El Villar’s esplanade on Saturday, November 28th. We went to the Villiar at 10 a.m. biking or walking and we started to work. We worked hard to plant 151 trees: ashes, maple trees, acacias… 30 people collaborated to plant, 15 […]
New case for our Yayacletas
As we are not allowed, and we must not, use our Yayacletas to give rides to elderly people due to the terrible pandemic we are enduring, we’ve just bought two black cases for our trishaws so that they keep clean and safe. We hope we can resume our rides early in 2021. We are looking […]
Tree planting project with Erasmus volunteers
Today, Saturday, October 30th, we’ve planted 17 trees along a very special trail called Camino Bajo («lower track») in Corella with 35 volunteers, 4 of them Erasmus students: Ilham Abdiadi, Meryem Manssouri, Chihab Garni, and Yasmine Akrim. Apart from planting, we’ve restored an old fountain, «La fuente del piojo» (Louse’s Fountain). Besides, we’ve set up […]
Bye bye, Yayacleta rides
The pandemic is getting worse and worse in Spain and, especially, in Navarre, our region, the one with most cases in our country by far. Currently, our incidence rate is triple the national average. Due to this worrying situation, we canceled our CWA rides some weeks ago. You can see two pictures of two of […]
Surveys in «Ruta saludable»
Our Erasmus students are doing surveys in three points of «Ruta saludable y cultural del Alhama» (Healthy and Cultural Alhama Trail). The government of our region (Gobierno de Navarra) wanted to know to what extent this trail is used and enjoyed by the locals and visitors. These are some findings of the surveys: Thanks, girls, […]