By Layla Samhi Yesterday, February 2nd, we went to our high school to carry loads of second-hand bikes in Biciclistas’ van. The bike room was a complete mess with bikes all around, used and punctured tires, pedals… Besides, there were in-line skates and big rolls of colourful paper. We took all the bikes out, tidied […]
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Kahoot contest
By Doa Elliasmine and Alejandra Gutiérrez My partner Mariale (it’s what we call Alejandra affectionately) and I, Doa, presented a kahoot about Ole Kassow’s TED talk on Cycling Without Age. We squeezed it in the 15-minute weekly meeting we have to stay updated about Erasmus activities and achievements. Before Christmas Toño asked us what we […]
No goodbyes, just see you soon, Belahrizi sisters!
On the last day before Christmas, December 22, Inés and Manel Belahrizi confirmed that their family moved to Tudela shortly and that they wouldn’t study in our school from January 2021 on. These were very bad news because these two sisters have played a key role in our Erasmus: Inés was extraordinarily commited since the […]
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Erasmus volunteers in urban planning commission
By Layla Samhi I, Layla Samhi, and two friends, Michelle Guevara and Manel Belahrizi, have been working on this tree inventory for a couple of weeks. The mayor, Gorka García, and the town councilors wanted to know first-hand our tree inventory and they asked us to present it again in the plenary hall on Monday, […]
Presenting our tree inventory
We’ve presented today our tree inventory in the plenary hall of our town council. Our mayor, Gorka García, and the environment town councillor, Félix Bienzobas, have listened respectfully and appreciated enormously our volunteers’ effort and the tree inventory we’ve handed in today. Layla, Michelle, and Manel have worked very hard with trees, numbers, to make […]
Fourth Erasmus board
Today we’ve lived an extremely hectic, productive, and fun Erasmus evening. We had to finish the tree inventory, the presentation for tomorrow in the town hall and make the new Erasmus board. Thanks to Aitana, Michelle, Luis, Layla, Manel, and Eliane for your excellent job today. An thanks to Catalina and Ilenia, who pitched in […]
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 […]
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 […]
