GYMKHANA

"We are constantly thinking about how do the international students can discover Barcelona in a non-boring way but the traditional tours."

For this reason, the International Club La Salle (CILS) organized for all students, on October 30^th, a competition, where planning and integration of each team mates were the fundamental key to the victory.

We started at Plaza Catalonia, where we gave the teams, a map of Barcelona and the questionnaire of Spanish and Catalan Culture. 

The winner would be the team that got to prove that was targeted everywhere in the map and knew correctly the answers.

Everything was valid to fill the questionnaire and also to travel the city, from taking a taxi to rent a bike for each team member. Asking the driver of a bus what is the typical vegetable to eat in “La Castañada”, or go to the Library of Raval to search the encyclopedias.

The participants could make the routes using google maps or asking a policeman how to arrive to this or that place. But even with so many tools available for the find all the right answers, the Gymcana is not easy to win, therefore, all are in search of the prize of 100 euros.

At the end, is hard to have everything correctly, because have so many specific information, like take a pictures in the north door of the church, when usually the people never go to this door, so many places to go and everything in a short period of time. Around 1PM, after running around the city, on a Sunday morning, we finally meet our winner: YELLOW TEAM with students from the Master in Project Management. Iuliana (Romania), María-Magdalena (Romania), Anthony (Perú) and José Rodrigo (Guatemala), CONGRATULATIONS for a great victory.

After the activity we all went to the 100 Montaditos Bar to celebrate their victory. It was a really nice way of spending a Sunday morning. We hope all of you join us next time.    

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WELCOME TAPAS MASTER

After the first week of class, we had the opportunity to meet the people out of the university, we did our first Welcome Tapas, during the night of Friday, 21^st of October. The meeting started with a quite atmosphere at 9PM in the Cacao Gastro Bar but around 9h30PM everything changed. The place was full of international people and the quite atmosphere left space to a new one. 

Everybody was talking, laughing and always greeting with a lot of new friends. We stayed in this mood, with interest to discover each person who will be on our side during this new experience of life, after all, these new people will be our family. Around 1AM, unfortunately, we had to make a decision and take our responsibilities, that is, to say goodnight to our new family because we usually have class during Saturday morning.