Erasmus Espagne Eleec Villebon

Huesca and our journey to Spain.

We went to Spain for our work experience, From the 18th January to the 12th February.

We were 8 and did the trip by plane and bus. We met our families and were divided by 4 groups of two.

We somehow managed to meet up at the same place to talk about how were our families and stuff like that.

2 days after, we discovered our work placement and met our tutor and boss.

The first week-end after our arrival, we did sports activities like hiking and horse-riding in the mountain, we also did shoe-snow hiking and visited the Lloares castle and the city of Huesca, During our trip we met up a lot to play football, or just to talk in the city park.

For the working part, some of us worked direcly in the city in small companies and the other worked in big enterprises (Hydrogen Fundation, Véolia...)

Personnally I was working in "Hydrogen Fundation" with one of my student colleagues, It was a big national fundation which did research on renewable energies and in particular on Hydrogen. We worked on electrical schemes and assembled an electrical car. the staff was really nice to us and were really helpful. We mainly talked english in the Fundation, even if in the city the main language spoken was spanish, by the way it made us learn a bit of spanish.

For the two students who were working in Véolia, they mainly worked in an solar panel field and were doing the maintenance of the panels (320 solar panels). It was really interesting for them to discover this type of renewable energy, and more they learnt how it worked technically.

So, about the families, in general they were really kind and welcoming. we were pretty free, and no big problems really happened. almost all of us discovered and enjoyed the spanish culinary culture and tradition.

Overall, we liked this experience cause we were all together and had a lot of good times, everybody discovered the Aragon region, and liked it. We felt really autonomous and improved our technical and professional skills. For most of us, it made us want to go abroad on a professional ground, not essentially in Spain, but also in another European and worldwide countries.

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Huesca

Huesca is a town in Spain, capital of the province of the same name, in the autonomous community of Aragon comarca of Hoya de Huesca

Geography

Located in the Hoya de Huesca, the average altitude of the town is 490 m. It is crossed by the Isuela River, south of the Sierra de Guara in the pre-Pyrenees and a few kilometers from the mountain pass Monrepos.
The province is located on the southern slopes of the Pyrenees. The region Aragon / Huesca Province's border with Navarre, France, Catalonia and Aragon Spanish province of Zaragoza.
Climate

The city of Huesca is subject to a continental Mediterranean climate. We thus find in Huesca relatively mild winters, with frequent freezes and the occasional snow and temperatures down to -6 ° C and very hot summers with July and August temperatures most days above 30 ° C.

The average temperature in Huesca is 13 ° C, with a maximum recorded at 42.6 ° C airport and a minimum of -17 ° C.

It receives rainfall of 500 mm / year. The rainiest months are November and December.
History

The discovery of flint and ceramic supports the hypothesis that the first men to settle there since the Neolithic, there are about 6000 years.

    Huesca is born with the Iberians, to the pre-Roman era, as the Bolskan. Around 179 BC. AD, it was conquered by the Roman Praetor Terentius Varro that renames the Osca. She belongs to the province of Hispania Hither, then Tarraconensis. She was chosen as the place of residence as "seat" of Quintus Sertorius, who established a senate of 300 members and created the Academy of Latinity for children of local families, which the Sertoriana University of Huesca, one of the oldest in Spain, considers himself backward.
    With the Visigoths, the city erected a bishopric dependent of the Archdiocese of Tarragona.
    Conquered by the Arabs in 719 by agreement or capitulation, it is part, after the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the Taifa of Zaragoza.
    In 797, Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine, son of Charlemagne, led the siege of the city 1.
    The city was conquered in 1096 by Peter I of Aragon made his capital. Huesca is the origin of the legend of the Campana de Huesca (Huesca bell), during which the King Ramiro II would have beheaded twelve nobles who opposed him.

The Renaissance painter Juan Soreda worked in the altarpiece of the collegiate Bolea2. the influence of Castilian Juan Borgoña3 observed there.

    The territory was formed as a province in 1833.

Languages

Distribution of languages in Aragon.

Huesca contained the last areas to speak Aragonese (Fabla, meaning Aragonese language) in some valleys of the Pyrenees (valley of the river Aragon, Sobrarbe, Ribagorza Western). There are also several areas to speak Catalan in the fringe is (Oriental Ribagorza, Litera, Cinca Bajo Oriental). It has previously spoken Basque.
Economy

This is a very prosperous city economically [ref. necessary].

In 2007, an airport was built in Huesca. It is closed in April 2011 due to lack of profitability. He received 6000 passengers per year, while the government provided 160 0004.

HUESCA 4-16 APRIL 2016

Huesca : Huesca is located in Spain Aragon this city is great there are a lot of young people there are tobaccos, restaurants, a swimming pool, park, football stadium, tapas bar, student parties, a butcher

Host family :  the family was very nice they were really good they paid attention at us they asked us if we were hungry or if we were going out or what we were going to do.

School : The school Pyramide is better than ‘’Les cotes de villebon’’ There is WIFI, a restaurant, a football stadium, a  swimming pool, a fitness room, a tennis stadium, a park. But the teachers are too strict because they don’t explain well but with the teachers there was a problems because of the Spanish\ English language

Positive points : I discovered a country I spent a good time with my friends that was fun I visited Huesca and the castle of Lloares and some old little cities we rode horses and walked that was cery cool   

Dylan Sacirovic 1BE

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Mme Dumas