Photo Gallery: Spanish and German exchange students make pottery at Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge

Conni Backhaus, 17, Dusseldorf, Germany tries to slap her piece of clay into a cone as she works to center it on her potter’s wheel at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Catherine Condit, 17, of Pasadena gets hands-on help from instructor Miriam Bacazar at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Canada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. La Cañada students and students from the sister city of Villanueva de la Cañada, in Spain, made pottery together.

The hands of Eva Perez, 19, Villanueva de la Cañada, as she shapes a piece of clay into a bowl on the spinning surface of a potter’s wheel at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Ceramics instructor Miriam Balcazar introduces La Cañada and Spanish students to the introductory techniques of making pottery with a potter’s wheel at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Daniel Fernandez, 16, Villanueva de la Cañada, is helped by instructor Miriam Balcazar as he starts over to make another bowl at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. La Cañada students and students from the sister city of Villanueva de la Cañada, in Spain, made pottery together.

Ceramics instructor Miriam Balcazar introduces La Cañada and Spanish students to the introductory techniques of making pottery with a potter’s wheel at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Ceramics instructor Miriam Balcazar pulls the edge of a spinning piece of clay and shapes it into a bowl to the amazement of La Cañada and Spanish students at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

The hands of ceramics instructor Miriam Balcazar as she introduces La Cañada and Spanish students to the introductory techniques of making pottery with a potter’s wheel at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Students, from La Cañada, Spain, and Germany, work on potter’s wheels to make a piece of clay into a bowl at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Eva Perez, 19, Villanueva de la Cañada, Catherine Condit, 17, of Pasadena, Daniel Fernandez, 16, Villanueva de la Cañada, and Jack Applebaum, 16, of La Canada slap at a clump of clay to shape it into a ball about the size of their hands at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Daniel Fernandez, 16, Villanueva de la Cañada, and Jack Applebaum, 16, of La Cañada work on their clay at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

Kelly Steele, 17, of La Canada begins to work on her clay to shape it into a bowl at a ceramics class at the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.