I’ve been on many a great field trip, but the one I took with my International Marketing class yesterday was hands down the best one I have ever had.
He tomado muchos viajos buenos, pero uno que tomé con mi clase de International Marketing ayer estaban el mejor viajo que he viajado.
Since this field trip was for my class in English and I have a lot to say and not a lot of time, (this is my last weekend here and I have two papers to type, both at least 8 pages each, plus two final exams next week) I’ll only be typing this post in English. (Sorry if anyone in my Spanish classes are disappointed in me – hopefully Dr. Calvin and Dr. D’amico won’t be reading! 😦 )
To start off, we visited the Mahou-San Miguel Beer Factory in Malaga and got to see how the beer is made and marketed internationally. It was an incredible experience – we saw everything from beer cans, beer bottles, beer liters, and beer kegs being mass produced. I would never have guessed that the process was so complicated. We first went through the part of the factory where the beer is placed in the containers – we were unfortunately unable to take photos, but I did get a few in before and after!
“Welcome to where your beer is born!”
Next, we went to the distillery. It was interesting because the aroma all around the distillery was similar to that of baking bread, so we were all hungry by the time we finished seeing how the beer itself was created.
After looking through a little museum showcasing all the different old bottles and containers. Our guide explained to us that they developed their “San Miguel 0,0% Alcohol” to meet the demand for beer without alcohol in Spain and muslim countries. In the past, many companies could market alcohol as “Sin Alcohol,” but according to Spanish law they could call their beer that if they had 1% of alcohol or less. Therefore, San Miguel decided to stop deceiving the public and create a product to truly stand out among the others.
After that, we were off to Marbella for a day full of fun, tours, and flowers! There’s so many pictures here that instead of writing a lot, I will post the pictures and have the explanations below as necessary. Unless otherwise specified, the pictures are of the Old Quarter in the old part of Marbella.
Fountain in the Plaza of the Old Quarter
This was on the boardwalk!
Fountain of the Virgen of Rocio
In this picture you can see one of the many little chapels that dot the streets of the old city. Anyone can visit them to pray, but our professor informed us that there are holidays where people get together a parade of sorts and travel to all of them to pray.
Iglesia Mayor de la Encarnacion
This building includes the remnants of an old Catholic hospital/monastery. Nuns are buried within the building, because it was considered holy ground. Fun fact: in the past, if you were not Catholic and you died in Marbella (Or other parts of Spain), you could not be buried in the holy ground of the cemeteries. Therefore, they would just lay your body out by the sea and let the water take you away. (!!!)
Murallas del Castillo – the old city walls.
It seemed like there was a whole forest growing on this building!
Here’s another chapel in the little blue box!
Nikol and I enjoying the flowers!
Here we started walking down what my professor called “My favorite street in my city!”
Roomie pic with Ariana!
Daniel doesn’t do pictures xD
One of the last older houses by the beach in Marbella
And that was Marbella! Absolutely gorgeous, although I am sad that I didn’t get to see the port famous for its fabulous ships and shows of wealth from the richest people around the world. I just got back from a weekend in Granada, and let me tell you – you’re in a for a doozy of a post there! For now, I’ve got to attend to my class work… you know, the whole reason why I’m here. Haha!
Nos vemos,
Kenna
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