Building a Human Tower in Spain

Every year in early October in Spain teams of people compete to see who can build the largest tower made out of humans!

Members of "Vella de Xiquets de Valls" fall as they try to complete their human tower during the 26th Human Tower Competition on October 2, 2016. #

See more photos here.

Watch this video to see one being built in action.

Here is an another article and video about the human towers.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer 4 of the following questions in complete sentences based on these images.

• What are the human towers called?
• Where does this take place? What is the region of Spain?
• How many people does it take to make a tower?
• What is the history behind this activity?
• Would you ever participate in this competition? Explain.

End of the Year Traditions

There are a lot of ways to celebrate the end of the year! Check out the infographic below to learn a bit about some Latin American celebrations.

Also, Kristen does a fabulous job of describing a couple of traditions. 

Hot Tamale Activities - Complete one or more of these activities as an advanced/Hot Tamale blog post. Title your post the title of this blog post.

• Translate some information from the infographic above and find images online of the celebrations to include in your blog post.
• Find end of the year (or new-years celebrations) traditions not mentioned and explain them in your blog post.
• What are your end-of-the-year traditions? What do you do to ring in the new year? What was/is your resolution? How is it going?