Letters to Illustrious People

Here we have the letter we sent to our incredible line-up of this amazing project:

December 2015 – March 2016

Mr. Ricardo Bravo Rodríguez, Director of CRMF, Salamanca. (Dec, 2015)

Our Majesty, Felipe VI of Borbón, King of Spain. (Jan, 2016)

Mr. Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, Mayor of Salamanca. (Feb, 2016)

Mr. Fco. Javier Iglesias García, President of the Castilla & León Deputation. (Feb, 2016)

Mr. Bienvenido Mena Merchán, Representative of Salamanca in Castilla & León. (Mar, 2016)

Mr. Vicente del Bosque González, Coach of the Spanish National Football Team. (Mar, 2016)

Dear Sir,

Some students of Santísima Trinidad School of Salamanca are engaged in a national contest called EUROSCOLA. This has been called, among schoolchildren, to commemorate the 30 years of Spain in the European Union.

Our participation makes us doing different activities and we are getting into a blog created for this purpose.

Among the proposals, it highlights interviewing different personalities on what they have meant to them and to Spain 30 years of accession to the European Union.

My students and myself -as their coordinator- will be greatly honored that you could answer our eleven questions about this issue. Your testimony will be a huge incentive for us to keep working hard and for the joy of the whole  school. In attached sheet I describe the questions that students have designed for this purpose.

Given the above, we would beg to consider this application hoping you to accept it. We would like you could answer our questions in writing to upload on our blog and this would help us a lot to get (thanks to our daring and our initiative) the desired prize of a trip for students and teachers to the European Parliament.

In the desire to see fulfilled these expectations, I remain at your disposal.

Amaya Fernández Garmón

English Teacher at Santísima Trinidad School of Salamanca

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QUESTIONS:

1- What do you think has been the biggest breakthrough in Spain in the last 30 years? Had this been possible without the EU?

2- As in similar EU economic policies are followed, why do not we also follow the same education policies?

3. What would you design in a euro coin commemorating the 30 years of Spain in the EU?

4- If Spain ever decides to leave EU, would you agree with it? Why? Why not?

5- With regard to education, what aspects do you believe to have changed the most?

6- What has been the most important news to you in these 30 years?

7- Before joining the EU, how it was when the Spaniards traveled to other countries? And now?

8- What has sharing the new currency in the majority of the European Union countries meant for citizens?

9- What has it meant for you entry into the European Union? Has it changed your life in some way?

10- Do you remember the moment you learned that Spain would join the EU? And if so, what did you think then?

11- What would  you suggest to the improvement of the EU?