Extra-curricular activities
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To complement our courses and to help our students acquaint themselves with Cádiz and Andalusia, the school offers an activities programme which includes:
In-school
activities
Flamenco (sevillanas) and "salsa" dancing courses, concerts and Spanish
cinema, cultural documentaries and Spanish music are just some of the
cultural activities we organise on a regular basis. In addition, barbecues,
parties and plays held in the patio at GADIR enable our pupils
to get to know each other and to enjoy themselves out of hours.
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Activities
in the city of Cádiz
We believe it is essential that our pupils get to know the city
they are studying in and for this reason we organise regular guided tours
to the historic city centre, museums, churches and other places of interest.
Cádiz, with a population of 150000, is a city with a very active
and appealing cultural life - flamenco dancing and singing, theatre festivals,
cinema, folklore and opera and theatre seasons. All such activities are
accessible to our pupils who are promptly informed of the events which
take place in Cádiz so that they can take part in them. What is
more, together we can discover the local gastronomy and nightlife by eating
and drinking out - something we often do with our pupils.
Excursions,
sports and other activities
Both the city and its surrounding province are ideal places to practice sports of every type, from "traditional" sports such as swimming, canoeing, sailing, horse-riding, scuba diving, windsurfing etc. to the more "adventurous" such as bungee-jumping, rock climbing, rafting, delta-wing or potholing.
Added to all of this, in other schools which work with us in the city of Cádiz, GADIR's pupils can attend classes to learn flamenco or sevillanas,or other types of dancing (salsa, ballroom, etc) or they can follow courses in painting, photography, pottery or other similiar activities.
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As far as travelling and excursions are concerned, GADIR regularly organises trips around the province of Cádiz. Such trips include El Puerto de Santa María and Jerez de la Frontera, (world-famous for their wine cellars), trips to the White Villages , (such as Arcos de la Frontera, Vejer de la Frontera, Medina Sidonia, Zahara de la Sierra etc., the Costa de la Luz, from Cádiz to Tarifa and Gibraltar, theParque Natural de Grazalema, (with its pinsapos, the only Spanish fir trees in Europe) or the Parque Natural de Doñana, (the nature reserve of southern Europe).
What is more, from Cádiz it is very easy
to visit the main Andalusian cities (such as Sevilla, Córdoba
and Granada, as well as neighbouring countries: Morocco and
Portugal.
GADIR also offers linguistic exchanges with Spaniards.