Monday, 30 September 2013

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. B
ecause 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