By: Kendylle Wolthuis
The French and Spanish culture has been celebrated worldwide for hundreds of years. PHS offers a French and Spanish club separate to each other to teach individuals about, and help them celebrate these different cultures here, in the comfort of their own local town.
The Spanish Club run by teacher Paula Desouza and the French Club run by teacher Sarah Boven are offered after school once a month.
The French Club offers activities that relate to the French culture around the world.
Some of the activities that students have participated in are “dinner at the Henderson Castle, The festival of trees at Frederik Meijer Gardens, and visiting the Chicago art museum,” said Boven.
The activities vary from year to year based on what is available and what the club officers choose to do.
The Spanish club offers activities that relate to the Spanish culture around the world.
“In October we made papal picado,” said Desouza. This is a traditional decorative craft made out of paper cut into elaborate designs.
The Spanish club celebrates it diversity by eating its own culturally specific foods. The club likes to celebrate the Spanish culture by making food that ties into the specific regions where these cultures were founded in.
“We cook a lot and get to experience what other cultures eat,” said Meagan Maguire ‘18.
Students in the club have also gone to Casa Real, a mexican restaurant downtown Otsego.
The club allows students time to hang out after school and enjoy themselves.
“I like talking with everyone, Overall being there is fun,” said Maguire
Students that are in the Spanish Club said they were looking forward to getting t- shirts and planning a trip.
“This month the kids decided that they’d like to start planning a trip to Mexico next year,” said Desouza.
The best part about both of these clubs is that you don’t have to speak the domain language of their respective countries in order to learn and to be a part of these clubs.