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During February vacation last month, PHS Spanish teacher Christine Noguera took a group of her students to Spain to participate in the second part of the foreign exchange program.

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While there, Ms. Noguera caught up with some of the students to talk about their experiences and some of the things they'll remember most about the program.

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Well, Maite, I wanted to ask you, how do you think the bilingual program is going?

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Well, I think it is going perfectly well. They are very enthusiastic about it.

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about it. It is a great opportunity for them to develop their skills. Mine too. I'm learning

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too. So we are learning together. So it is a great experience, not only for them but

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also for me. I think it's great.

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Great. Thank you.

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I'm Laura.

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And Jenna.

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Okay. And Jenna, what's it like living with your host family here in Spain?

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It's fun, but it's a little weird because I'm with the teachers.

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But I like it. It's fun.

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And what's it like having them in your house here in Spain?

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It's great. It's amazing to wake them up and make them smile and see them improve their Spanish.

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Awesome. Okay.

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So what has been the best part of the exchange for you, would you say?

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My favorite part is probably in the car when you like look out the window and like it's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

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Like in like the bus rides, like to Segovia and the mountains. It was beautiful.

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Laura, do you think it was harder for you in the United States or for Jenna here in Spain?

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Probably for her, because I've been to the United States before and I kind of like spoke fluent English.

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But like she needs to keep improving and she will, I'm sure.

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So I think she had it difficult, but she'll do it.

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And how will you guys keep in touch after the exchange program? Jenna, what do you think?

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What's up, probably, and Snapchat.

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What do you think?

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Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of ways, like social media, and we'll see each other.

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I'm Travis.

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I'm Sergio.

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Okay, and what is it like living with your host family here in Spain?

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It's really cool. They're really nice. They took care of me a lot.

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It's very different from America, but I like it.

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but I like it. How is it different? The schedules are very different. They eat much later than

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we do. Okay. Like what time? I think last time we ate at like what, 10 o'clock? 10,

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yeah. Yeah. So dinner was at like 10 o'clock? Yeah. Just a little late. Very. And what was

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it like living with Travis's family in the United States really nice it was I

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would experience and we have fun it's different not here because they have

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schedules we have lunch very earlier here we have lunch we talked about the

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schedules, so do you think that it was harder for you to be here in Spain, or was it harder

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for Sergio to be in the United States?

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I think it was harder for him in the United States, because I still got to sleep for like

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seven or eight hours every night, so that was pretty nice.

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Sergio, what do you think?

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I don't know. I think it was harder for him because we have a lot of plans here.

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What did you expect and what did you not expect before you came to Spain?

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I'm going to ask you the same thing.

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What did you expect and what did you not expect?

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I expected a lot of food, which I wasn't that down on that.

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I didn't expect the amount of cars and the different type of cars.

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I thought that was kind of different.

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and I didn't really expect as much public transportation as we who's

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walking everywhere that's different what did you expect in the United States and

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not expect oh yeah I expect the same things the big cars because here we have

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a small cars and the food is very flat the houses it was bigger down here so

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what are your names? I'm Sarah. I'm Adrian. Okay. And Sarah, we're going to start with you.

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Which part of the exchange program did you prefer? Being in Spain or being in the United States?

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I definitely liked Spain a lot because I've never been to Spain before, so I got to try a lot of

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new things and activities and stuff. Excellent. What about you, Adrian? I prefer the part of

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United States because I have never traveled before out of Europe, so it's an experience.

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Excellent, okay. So what made the biggest impression on you? What surprised you the

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most or what just made an impression on you in the Spanish portion of the exchange, Sarah?

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Definitely how late they eat dinner because usually like we're in bed by the time they eat

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dinner. Especially on school nights and stuff. It's fun. It's different. I like it.

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And what made an impression on you? What surprised you about being in the United

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States? The bigger of the things. Like it's more, it's bigger than here. Like the

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food, the stores, all the things. And Sarah, what is it like living with Adriana's

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family I love them they're really nice and there his mom is asked they're

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absolutely the parents are it's really nice and the mom is definitely much

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better cook than my mom really good at cooking like and she ever make sure I

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want to always make sure I'm full and then what was it like living with the

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trophy arms they are really nice I'm very welcoming with me like I was like

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another brother for them so it's very good for me bye guys