Twenty-four third-year ESO students from the Yaiza Institute enjoyed a tour with literary content through Navarra, after presenting a project to the contest "Literary Routes 2012" and it was one of those chosen by the Ministry of Education. The IES Yaiza project was one of the five chosen from the Canary Islands for the development of educational skills, highly valued in the call.
During the week of April 14 to 21, accompanied by their mentor and professor of Language and Literature, Manuel Romero Álvarez, and another teacher from the educational center, the southern students, aged between 14 and 15, visited Navarra and part of France to analyze books from the place of origin of each story, in marathon days of up to ten hours. "We reinforced our knowledge of literature, discovered cities and learned to fend for ourselves with a map," commented student Alejandro Aguiar. Jorge García, for his part, highlighted the "integration and coexistence" with colleagues from the IES Ossa de Montiel in Albacete. The passage through the Pyrenees was also for many young people their first contact with snow.
The young people felt from different locations the literary production of the Middle Ages, transporting themselves in time to works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They found that much of the universal fame of the Sanfermines is due to the written references of Ernest Hemingway, who visited Pamplona for the first time in 1923.
Professor Manuel Romero reserved a chapter for the "outstanding" behavior of the boys. "Those responsible for the route, the people who attended the hostel and in general with whom we shared, highlighted the respect of the students among themselves and the respect they had for others." Romero also praises "the mature attitude of the kids, the responsibility and the desire to improve themselves in a loyal way."
The Yaiza City Council, through the Department of Education and Culture, congratulates the group of IES students and teachers who traveled to Navarra for this "excellent work" that promotes the habit of reading and enriches the knowledge of cultural diversity.
