Visiting Spanish professor at Colorado College, Marty Slayden, took her class in block seven to the Baca campus for a couple of days. For those who are not aware, the Baca Grande is Colorado College’s campus located at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the San Luis Valley, created as a space for reflection in order to enhance learning. Numerous field trips as well as block breaks have been conducted at the Baca, making students’ experience in college much more exciting and interesting.

Despite a terrible wind storm, Professor Slayden led her Spanish 201 class on a successful and fun-filled trip. Much of the trip consisted of her students spending a day with sixth-graders from the school located in Center, CO, an agricultural town with the majority of Spanish speakers. CC students engaged in various activities such as presenting their two plays, entertaining students with basketball, guitar playing, Latin dancing, and much more. Then everyone enjoyed lunch at the Desert Sage. Professor Slayden remarked that there were a lot of factors that contributed to the success of the trip, including support from her assistant Ana Gaby Pajera Alfaro, the Spanish house CPC and Latin dance teacher, CC’s Collaborative for Community Engagement and Office of Field Studies, and staff from Center School.

It is clear that everyone involved enjoyed the trip a lot!