Aventuras y tareas de los estudiantes de City Colleges of Chicago

lunes, 9 de julio de 2007

An unforgetful trip to Toledo



Este día he viajado a Toledo con el programa de excursiones de la Universidad de Salamanca. El grupo lo hemos formado los alumnos, los profesores y el guía. Hemos ido en autobús y hemos llegado a Toledo más o menos a las 11:00. Nosotros hemos visitado los lugares turísticos como la Murallas y puertas, la Iglesia de San Juan de los Reyes, La Sinagoga de Santa María la Blanca, la Catedral, la Iglesia de Santo Tomé. Dentro de la Iglesia de Santo Tomé hemos visito el cuadro de El Greco llamado El entierro del Señor de Orgaz. Yo he sacado muchas fotografías pero no podíamos sacar fotos con flash hasta que la pila de mi cámara digital se ha gastado. También he comido mi primera paella y he bebido mi primer zumo. Nosotros veíamos y admirábamos los tallas y los cuadros de estos lugares y escuchábamos los historias de los lugares.

The trip would be a wonderful event if it is not for the many mishaps that keeps continuing throughout the trip. Firstly, a girl fainted because she has not eaten breakfast. When she fainted another girl (which I forget the name but she is in my global communication class) caught her before she fell to the floor. The second incident is that another girl (a different one) cut herself when she was walking, She is lucky as one of the professors in the group had brought a first aid kit so that we don’t need to go to the hospital. When it was time to leave Toledo there is one person that did not turn up after we had waited fifteen minutes after the appointed time. Therefore, we had left her there in Toledo. The last and the most exasperating misfortune that occurs was what happened to the bus.

The group was taking a fifteen minute break at one of the highway stop but when we intended to leave the bus door did not closed which in turn the bus engine would not start. The bus driver did try to close it forcefully but the engine still did not start. He tried fixing it he got the automatic door to function but the engine is still dead. He probed and he probed he still cannot get the engine running. So then he called his company and they told him that a mechanic will come and solve the problem and they would also will be sending two small buses to take us home. They told us that it would take 2 hours for the bus and the mechanic to be there. But that was not the case, only the mechanic that came. So it is another 1 hour wait for us. We were tired, hungry, sticky, stinky. When the bus was able to function all of us in the group cheered and applaud. To make the long story short I got home around 02:00 a.m.

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