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Hola Vamos estudientes, Thank you again for a great day with our social events. On Saturday we enjoyed a Paella cooking class with the London Paella School. It was great to see so many smiles, high spirits and eat such good paellas. Paella is one the most famous dishes from Spain and it was a pleasure to share the way it’s cooked with our students; that’s why we decided to run this class and I have to say your paellas…

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This novel is one of the most famous plays by the Peruvian novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa, who was awarded with the Nobel Prize of Literature in 2010. The feast of The Goat (La fiesta del Chivo) shows the different stories surrounding  the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (also known as The Goat) in the Dominican Republic.  The novel follows three different storylines. One is the return of Urania Cabral to Santo Domingo to visit her ill father and the memories of…

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Hola Vamos film lovers, What a film to end the year and to enjoy with such great company. For those who thought it would be an entirely sad film, well obviously some parts were, but on the other hand there were times that weren’t sad and in my opinion a happy end as Ramón achieved his goal. I remember Ramón´s story always being in the news. He was the first person to tackle Spain’s lower courts, higher courts and even…

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Hola Chicos, Next Friday is our last great movie of the year, Mar Adentro (Sea Inside). The film is written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar, who was born in Chile just before the Pinochet dictatorship, which led his family to move to Spain. There he would spend his life and later become one of the country’s greatest cinema directors. If you have never seen an Alejandro Amenábar movie, please do because he has some masterpieces: His first was Tesis in 1996, which he…

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This year’s collection of scary Halloween costumes may well include some Mexican paintings of skulls, colourful flowers and flags, all of which go to recreate el Día de los Muertos – a happy festival celebrated in Mexico on 1st and 2nd November where children receive toys and sweets in the form of chocolate skulls and sugar skeletons. The origin of the festival is pre-Hispanic when natives offered flowers to show their respect to the dead, but always with music and lots…

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