JOURNEY HOME - Pascal

The journey back to Switzerland was really stressful. I would say all the students were tired. First we had to drive by bus for about one and a half hour. When we arrived, we were at Gatwick airport in London. The queue at check in desk was extremely long, so we had to wait "a few minutes".
I checked in at 4 pm, so afterwards I had a lot of time to eat and drink something. The departure time of the flight should have been 6:15 pm but it was a little bit later. When all the people had taken their seat, we had to wait about half an hour. The reason why I don't know.
The flight with Easyjet took most of the journey time. But the fewest people realized that because they slept.
When we arrived at Zurich airport it was already late in the evening. Most people in my class drove home by train or in their parents' car.
WEGA was on in the same night so I don't have to say much more about that .... :)

PASCAL

WE'RE LEAVING ....

THURSDAY 26th SEPTEMBER - Michaela

Yes, today was the last whole day in England. I find it a pity that the two weeks have gone so fast away, but I look forward to my own bed again at home.
Today, we had our final exams and wrote a real Business English Certificate Preliminary. This was only an exercise so that we feel safe at the right examination in November. After the exams we went  to a café with our English teacher because it was our last lesson with Toni. She is definitely the craziest teacher I know! She is about 50 years old, her favourite music is Heavy Metal and her old VW-car has thousands of adhesives on it.

After teatime, we went to the famous Seven Sisters cliffs in Eastbourne and enjoyed the beautiful view. I think it will always be one of the loveliest places on earth for me. We also went to Beachy Head, that’s the biggest cliff in Eastbourne and it is well-known for the many suicides that are committed there.
Later we went back with our sightseeing-bus and ate dinner with the host families. The school organised a Goodbye-Party for our class and so we enjoyed the last evening in Eastbourne. It was a great time!

MICHAELA

JOURNEY HOME - Lea

It’s Friday, two weeks after we arrived in England.
It’s a very quiet day. Everyone is tired but I think happy to go home. The day started at 9 o’clock as usual. Everybody came to school with all their luggage and bags. All of them were very heavy and some people had place problems because of too much shopping. 

Unhappily, we had to go to our classes for the first few lessons. Nobody was motivated for that but finally we managed it. After these horrible lessons, we met in the student lobby to watch movies and pictures made by our teachers and us. This was very funny!

We laughed about our presentations and some ridiculous pictures which Mr. Bischofberger had made of us secretly. Finally, we gave a little present to Mike, our entertainer and friend in these two weeks. He was surprised and happy about it.

After having had lunch we went to the airport by coach. Everyone was sleeping and listening to music in there because the way took us one and a half hour. When we arrived at Gatwick airport everything went fast. We checked in, went to eat something and then to our gate. Our flight left at a quarter past six, but it was nearly dark during the flight, so everyone could sleep.

Finally, back in Switzerland at half past 9 after some problems at Zurich airport which were the reason that we couldn’t land on time. We took our baggage, said goodbye to nearly everyone and went home. Someone went by train and others with their parents which were waiting at the airport.
I think the two weeks were very exciting and funny, but everyone was happy to arrive at home on this Friday.

LEA

SCHOOL BREAK AND...

LOOKING BACK ON FABULOUS MOMENTS

FRIDAY IMPRESSIONS - Oliver and Michiel

 

JOURNEY HOME - Joël

In the morning, we received the marks of our tests and then we watched all the presentations. We then had an unusually long lunch break until the coach arrived.
After the bus journey, we arrived at Gatwick Airport in London. Because they weren't allowed to smoke, a lot of the smokers were really annoyed, even though it was the most inappropriate moment they could have chosen. 

We then checked in and after that we had to wait one more time, - with special thanks to Gatwick Airport, which is truly one of the worst organisated airports I've ever seen! 15 min before the gate closed, or officialy should have closed, the monitors informed us about our gate.

On top of everything, as we then boarded the plane, we realised that it hadn't been properly cleaned! But what else can you expect from these cheap and stingy discount airlines...

PROUDLY WRITTEN BY JOËL

FRIDAY 27th SEPTEMBER - Justine and Dominik

This was our last day in Eastbourne and when we came to school with our suitcases we had already said goodbye to our host families. Most of the families had been very friendly.
In the morning we got the results of our exams, which we had written a day before. During the school lessons we were all very tired because we had gone out the night before. Mr Bischofberger then showed us the videos with the presentations which he had filmed and we had clipped. The students could vote for the best video and the best liked one was the “Tower Bridge” presentation. The winners received some presents from Mrs Marolf. 
Afterwards Mr Bischofberger showed us some other videos and photos which he had taken during our stay.
After these impressions we gave Mike, our social organiser, some money and a card as a thank-you gift for what he had done for us. He was a really good social organiser and we all liked him.
Then Mike took some pictures of the whole two classes. After this we had a break. Many students ate in Mc Donalds because we didn't have much money after these two weeks. Some of us slept during this break. After that we all said goodbye to the team at Eastbourne School of English and we started our journey home. 

JUSTINE AND DOMINIK

THURSDAY 26th SEPTEMBER - Corinne

Today is the last whole day that we spend in England. I'm pretty sad that we already have to leave again - the two weeks have flown by. I met some very lovely people in our school like a girl from Korea. 

Today we had our final exams. We wrote a real Cambridge First Certificate Exam but it didn't count for real.
After the exams we had the chance to visit Beachy Head, the famous cliffs in Eastbourne. About 10 students from our classes went up there in a typical sightseeing-bus. When we stood by the cliffs the view took my breath. The sun was slowly disappearing in the sea and some seagulls were flying over us. The feeling was undescribable. If you ever get the chance to see these cliffs on a sunny day, take it! 

After the excursion to Beachy Head I went back home and had dinner. The school had organised a Goodbye-Party for our group in the evening and nearly everybody came. We had a good time and enjoyed our last night in Eastbourne. Hopefully I'll get the chance to go there again! 

CORINNE

SUNDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER - Jérôme

Today I went to Brighton with my friends for shopping. Brighton is a very lovely city next to the sea and there are so many friendly people. The shopping mall and the North Lane were very good for shopping and there were so many different restaurants, pubs and cafés where you could  drink or eat something.
In the morning we had breakfast in a very lovely restaurant and it was so good. After that we went to the North Lane for shopping. For me the shops and the people in the North Lane were a bit strange, but I think that's normal in Brighton and they were all very friendly and so everything was fine and we had no problems there.
For lunch, we stayed in a very good burger restaurant and in the afternoon we went to the shopping mall. After that we went to a shisha-bar near the mall.
In the evening we went to a pub to have a drink and then I went back home and slept very well after a very nice day in Brighton with my friends.

JÉRÔME

FRIDAY 20th SEPTEMBER - Jael

As usual we had classes in the morning. Afterwards, in the afternoon, we had some given free time, so we went into town to get some shopping done. (Because apparently we hadn't bought enough already;))
Later that day we all went home to eat the dinner the host families had prepared for us. As it was Friday night and we didn't want to waste the night, some of us decided to go to Brighton to check out the bars. And as we were waiting for everyone to come we met Mr. Bischofberger, who was just walking out of the train station. That was a funny coincidence.
It didn't take us that long to get to Brighton. Once we were there we walked towards the lovely pier to explore all the bars. We met some strange people walking down the street but we had a great time and we will never forget the time we spent together as a group.
We all went to bed with a smile on our faces.

JAEL

WINDSURFING - or rather paddling..

BEACHY HEAD

 

ENTERTAINMENT IN THE COMMON ROOM - Janis

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Well done, Janis!!

WEDNESDAY 25th SEPTEMBER - Fabienne

Today we went to Brighton, the capital gay town in Europe! After some lessons in the morning to prepare for our final exams tomorrow, we all took the train to Brighton. First we did some Sightseeing and visited the Royal Pavillon and the Pier. Then we had freetime :)) Some of us went to the big shopping-center to spend their last money and some of us went on the pier to ride on rollercoasters and gamble in the casinos. Finally we took the train back to Eastbourne to enjoy one of our last evenings. Two beautiful weeks are nearly over :(


FABIENNE

TRIP TO BRIGHTON - Natascha

THE ROYAL PAVILLION

The first part of this day was quiet normal. The school began at 9 o'clock as always and lasted until 12.30. But today was our last 'normal' school day.
We are going to write our final exams the whole day tomorrow and on Friday we will first round up everything and at school and also finish our London project and then travel back to Switzerland.

After school today we met at the railway at 13.15 and then we went on a short sightseeing tour to Brighton. As we arrived at Brighton railway station Mr Bischofberger had to talk to Joël. Joël was surprised but he went with him. Suddendly his sister jumped out from a corner. Tomorrow is Joël's 18th birthday and this was a lovely "birthday present".
Because of this, a small group of us (including our two teachers) lost the tour guide... Mrs Marolf phoned our tour guide twice and after ten minutes we all met at a small palace, - The Royal Pavillion.

YES, FOUND EACH OTHER ;)

'BEAUTIFUL' PIER... :)

Anyway, we continued our tour and walked to the pier. Unfortunately, the fog was so thick that we couldn't see the beach...
By the way; - this is what the pier normally looks like:

Then we had free time to do whatever we wanted to, - naturally most of us went shopping.

Afterwards we had to meet at the railway station at 17.45. My group was a little bit late and our teachers were waiting for us, but to our horror we missed the train :-(
The next train was about half an hour later. What a pity! While we were waiting some people managed to lose their train tickets and so they had to buy a new one. Luckily, though, we finally arrived untouched in Eastbourne... ;-)

NATASCHA

TUESDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER - Katharina and Simon

Today we stayed at school the whole day. In the afternoon we had to do a presentation about our host families. It was very interesting to hear about all the other hostfamilies. We all really like our families. 
After school we went to a little restaurant. There we drunk coffee and ate some cakes. In the evening we met our friends in a shisha bar. It was a very lovely evening.

Best wishes
SIMON & KATHARINA

MONDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER - Vanessa

It was a really beautiful day here in Eastbourne. We woke up early in the morning and the sky was cloudy. But a little later the sun was shining and the whole day was beautiful here in Eastbourne.

We had to spend the whole day at school. The morning was the same as the past few days here in England. But in the afternoon we finished our London projects. Unfortunately, though, the programme Movie Maker didn't work as it should... :-)
The social programme you could choose for today was Cream Tea in the afternoon and "The Duke and Cameo" in the evening. But I prefered to go shopping and spent a lot of money. After the shopping we had to go home because the shops unfortunately closed. I was happy to arrive at the home of my hostfamily, tired and with a lot of shopping bags.

VANESSA

MONDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER - Anduena

The weather on this Monday was just wonderful! As we came to Eastbourne, we all thought it would rain for the whole 2 weeks. But no that's not true! The sun was shining today and it was about 20 degrees :-)
In the morning we all were tired because of the weekend. We did and saw so much. So our teacher had compassion with us in the morning. But in the afternoon we had to do a speaking exam, which was similar to the FCE Exam. To be honest I think we were all a bit nervous, but I believe that we were all good.

ANDUENA