July 21 - lesson & Nature

Bea

 


 Welcome to the National Botanic Gardens! After 6 hours of full immersion english conversation and fluency practice, our classmates and us decided to take a bus to reach out this authentic Paradise on earth. We felt rejuvinated and relaxed: a well-deserved break!

a purple poppy


Do you think these are stones? Hundreds of fat plants!


Bend your knees to the majestic blue Cedar 


                                                                A modern hut builded like a viking one
 

Agave stricta



Poppies and poppies and poppies...😍😍😍






Elena 
at the monumental  greeenhouse


Cute squirrels running around the park


You can see some black and white magpies among the grass.






     An amazing knotty poplar







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