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January 2012
News
Foreign Exchanges
German students from the Ratsgymnasium in
Bielefeld arrived for a ten-day exchange on 9
October. Whilst some of their time was spent
in school, the rest was spent sight-seeing in
Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick Castle and
Portsmouth’s historic dockyards.
As the German students left for home, Abingdon’s
Spanish linguists departed for a week with our
exchange school in Santiago de Compostella,
with its beautiful thirteenth-century cathedral
where the boys were lucky enough to see the
famous botafumeiro ceremony. A day spent at La
Coruña took in the oldest lighthouse in the world
and the Aquarium Finisterre.
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