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LIVELY DEBATES AND DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLISH EVERY WEDNESDAY
If you're a foreigner, it is an opportunity to socialise with the locals; if you're a Spaniard don't let your English get rusty!
(18:30 - 20h Av Baunatal)
A week until Easter Sunday and schools are off for the Easter holidays.
We will be
back on April 20th2022. Enjoy the mini holiday.
In the
meantime here you can browse some articles about Oscar Wilde.
His beautiful
writing is timeless.
The children’s
story The Selfish Giant was the touching inspiration that gave this association
its name.
On another note, this poem is appropriate for Palm Sunday which is today.
The children of the Spanish civil war is a term used to describe the plight of families who had no alternative but to send their children to the safety of countries such as Britain, Mexico and Russia where they awaited the end of the atrocious war. However, the elected government of Spain’s second republic was replaced by a dictatorship that lasted forty years and there was no return.
Franco passed
power on to King Juan Carlos who allowed a referendum where the Spanish people chose
democratic rule.
Spain now
has a constitutional monarchy with King Philip VI as head of state.
This period
is known as the transition and has been exemplary for other nations emerging from
dictatorships.
When
President Zelensky of Ukraine addressed the Spanish Parliament yesterday 5th April 2022 he invoked the
memory of the bombing of Guernica in 1937 when the children of the Spanish
civil war were shipped to freedom from similar horrifying scenes in the Basque
country as in the Ukraine today.
An ancient
oak tree in Guernica survived the bombing and its acorns have been collected
and are given as gifts to symbolise the desire for peace. The current tree
standing in its place in the town of Guernica has grown from one of these acorns
and is only fourteen years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernikako_Arbola
