students will sometimes stay at the school until dinner time for an activity.
Most of their favorite foods are tortilla de patatas, fabada (the bean dish with blood sausage) and cochopo, which is pounded pork with cheese and ham, deep-fried like a chicken-fried steak.
The languages spoken at the school are Spanish and the local dialect of Bable, also known as Asturian. Sometimes the students will speak a mixture of the two without realizing that they are code-switching. With me in the classroom, they are supposed to speak English, though with my younger students I have to use Spanish to help with comprehension.
The most common names for the students at the school are Manuel, Carlos and Pelayo (this is a distinctly Asturian name) for the boys, and girls are Maria, Covadonga (the patron saint of the region) and Ana.
I talked with three students about this specifically, and all of them agreed that they like English when they have a native speaker in the classroom, but most prefer either chemistry/physics or technology classes because they get to do something different.
