MONDAY 14
Later we visited the shoool with the rest of the students and they explained us the subject and showed us the different places , then we watched the video of all the countries and we had a brunch.
After the brunch, all the students went to a big classroom. There we began to make the presentation of an imaginary company. At the end of the class, I went with Lisa to see the center of Ede, and finally we had a family dinner.
TUESDAY 15
We went to an auction company of plants. To this company we biked.
After that, we split into two groups and some of us went to a distribution company and others went to a paper company.
This is the distribution company:
This is the distribution company:
And this is the paper company:
WEDNESDAY 16
The third day, we got up very early. We went to Pallas Athene College, and after that, we went by bus to Hoge Veluwe. This is a natural park, over 5000 hectares. We visited the park by bicicle, and inside the park, there was the Kröller-Müller Museum and a big hunting house of Kröller-Müller family.
THURSDAY 17
Then, some students from the school Palas Athene College prepared a touristic tour in Nijmegen. We stopped at the most important places in the city and they told us some information about those places.
When we finished the tour, we went to two different factories where some entrepreneurs of different kinds work together.
At the end of all those activities, we went to have dinner in a boat, where we found a free buffet of plum cakes and we could enjoy the wonderful sights.
FRIDAY 18
On Friday, we spent the morning at Pallas Athene College, where we had to present our work about the creation of a new business. A friend of Lise's mother brought us to school by car ( Thanks God I didn't have to do another 9 km by bike!) and when we arrived we went to the first floor of the school to end our presentation.
Then we presented it, Lise wished me good luck a hundred of times because I was really nervous. She's so sweet!I think we did a really good job in that little time we had,our Ecological Beauty Products company was a success. In the evening we played games together with all the countries. It was really fun!
SATURDAY 19 |
At 6 o'clock or so, we went to Cinemec, the local cinema, and we watched Brooklyn in English. I didn't really like the movie. When we finished we said goodbye to the friends we made there, and then Lise and her family invited me to have dinner at a typical Dutch restaurant. I loved it and I miss my dutch family so much!
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Saturday was the last day we stayed in Holland. We woke up early to catch the train and we took some pictures with our host families.
I think everyone was sad to leave Ede, but also happy to return home with our families, who were waiting for us in Spain.
But before we left that fantastic country we visited Amsterdam.
This travel, at least for me, was amazing. I met a fantastic family that took care of me as his daughter. I found out a different kind of life. I 'survived' a whole week speaking only English. And the most important part, I had fun and learned new things.
That day we had lunch together and then we went to the airport. The flight went well and all of us arrived safe and sound. It was an incredible oportunity, I'm sure of that, and I wish everyone could have it at least once. I think it's very useful to practise your English and to learn to be independent and responsable. So if you have the opportunity to go, I advise you to go. At first I doubted whether to go or not, but now I don't regret having gone. |