11/03/2007-18/03/2007

LONDON


"OUR HOSTFAMILY"

    Our host family is composed of Mrs. Stella, the mother, her daughter Jennifer and the grand-mother . Stella and her mother came here from Spain  30 years ago. Unfortunately we have seen Jennifer only once and we don’t know where she lives or what job she does.
    There are also two other guests, that stay here to study English: Alexander and Andrea.
    We know that Andrea is from Columbia and that she’s 15 years old. She told us that she is here to study English and she attends the “Swandean/ CES School of School” with us. Besides, Andrea goes to work every morning and she must get up very early.
We haven’t spoken to Alexander because he is very shy and he seems to hide when we are around.
    In this family there is also a cat: her name is Martrak and she is black and white.
    We are very happy to stay in this family because these people are really very kind, generous and they make us feel as in a real family.

"SCHOOL LESSONS"

    Our school is very nice. It is a private school where guys form others countries go to study English. Of this school we love the furnishings and the small, cosy classrooms.

       The school and the director

    Our English teacher’s name is Kathy and she is 34 years old. She is tall and quite slim. She has medium length, straight, blond hair and big, light blue eyes. She has visited 30 countries and she has taught in china for a year. Kathy is very unusual and funny but she is a very good teacher. 
    She likes cats and dolphins and, when she was in New Zeland, she swam with some of them. Her favourite food is fish and chips and her favourite drinks are cider and whisky while her least favourite food is  rice.. Her boyfriend’s name is Sunny and he works near London.
    With her help we have taken part to many games and exercises and we have studied English in a funny way. The exercise that we have loved most was when we had to mimic the jobs and the our friends had to guess them.
      The school
    The school here in England is more pleasant than the Italian school because it starts at 9:30 and it finishes at 13:00.
    We are very happy to have had the possibility to study at the Swandean School of English in a funny and entertaining way. We think that this experience has been really gorgeous and we hope that we will have the opportunity to learn the local language this way in others countries as well.

Vanessa Tassi e Veronica Otta

MY STAY IN LONDON   

My stay in London has bee very nice.

In the morning I  and my class went to the English school and in the afternoon we visited a lot of places, as monuments and parks. There was two of us in each different house and I was with Veronica. At first I felt embarrassed  because I had to stay for a week in a house of persons that I had never seen!

There were the landlady Stella, her mother and other two students, Andrea and Alexander who studied English like us.

Stella and her mother were Spanish and Andrea was Columbian. I don’t know which nationality was Alexander because I saw him only twice times and we just said hello and goodbye…..

Stella talked so much with Veronica and me about the weather, her garden where there were foxes, etc. In the evening  she prepared the dinner  for us and she and the other “components” of the family ate in the dining-room leaving us alone in the kitchen.

       Big Ben

The food wasn’t very good by I enjoyed the hospitality. We have talked a lot also to Andrea about a lot of things as the most beautiful cities of Italy or what she did in Columbia.

When we arrived she once accompanied us to our school on the first day, when I and Veronica had to return home we got lost!....

However the school was 40 minutes from our house: we had had to take two busses! Anyhow, the school was very great: there were a computer room and three floors with the different classrooms. Our teacher’s name was Kathy and she was a very good teacher. In five days we learned the grammar and the pronunciation with games and very funny, but, besides jokes it was very instructive.

Vanessa e Veronica in Trafalgar      Square

When we left the institute, we went to visit some places. We have visited Buckingham palace, St’ James Park (I love it!), St’ Paul Cathedral , British museum, the Tower of London, and other important museums. It has been a very good experience because I amused my self and I will repeat it.

 Tassi Vanessa

Week in London

The week from 11^th March to 18^th March we went to London for a stay with our teachers Mrs. Casanova and Mr. Mc Daniel.

During the week we went to school from 9.30 am to 1 pm every morning. At 1 pm we went to London by underground and we visited the most important places of the city. In the evening we returned home, we ate with our host-family and in the evening we could go out with our friends.

The English school was very nice. It was a private school where foreigner students go to learn English.

Our teacher's name was Kathy and she was 34 years old. She was very kind, funny and a grat teacher. With Kathy I've learned a lot of new words and my knowledge of the language is better now. Kathy played various game with us and with this method we learned English in a funny mode. At 11 am there was a break for an half hour and we went to buy a pizza at the “Panetteria Italiana” that was in front of the school and then we returned to our classroom to continue the lesson.

When the school finished at 1pm we went to London by underground from the station of south Wimbledon.

The first day we saw visited Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery and St James Park.

National Gallery

St James Park

The second day St Paul Cathedral, Museum of London and a tour of Wimbledon with Kathie and David, the principal of our school.

       St Paul Cathedral

The third day we went to the National History Museum and the Science Museum.

The following day we went to Greenwich to visit the Royal Observatory, the Maritime Museum. Unfortunately the Cutty Sark and the Queen's house were closed and we coulden't visit them.

Greenwich Meridian

The 5^th day we visited the Tower of London and the Clink Prison Museum.
On Friday we visited the Globe and Southwork Cathedral.
On Saturday we went to Covent Garden, where I went shopping and the British Museum that was very interesting.
The last day we saw the Tower Bridge Exhibition wich was very nice. The only moment of bed luck with the weather was on the last day; when we returning home it started to rain.

Tower Bridge

The places that I liked best were the Natural History Museum and St James Park! They were fantastic! And the place that infortunately I diden't enjoy so much was the Clink Prison Museum because I don't like torturing instruments. But I'm happy to have seen also this museum.

My host-family was very nice and composed by Mrs. Stella, Jessica, the Stella's daughter, two other guests Andrea and Alexander and the cat. Andrea and Alexander were two other young people who had rent a room in Stella's hause to went to study English. Andrea was 15 years old and came to school with me and Vanessa every morning. She was very funny and very nice. My host-family lived in Norton in a 3 floor semi-detached house. Mr Stella was a perfect chef and all the food that she cooked were excellent. Stella was also very kind and nice with me and Vanessa and I was very happy to stay at her house.

  Queen Elisabeth II

This week was very positive for me: I enjoyed myself, visited one of the most beautiful and famous city of the world and I was very good in London!

All was fantastic: my host-family, the places, the school and the teachers. For me it was the best week that I spent with my friends and my teachers and I'm ready to go away with them for another travel!

Veronica Otta