Having good and bored time at the old expensive Cafeteria during a break

Great Eike, Gideon and Manuel

Hello guys :)
I promised to show you some pictures of England and my exchange.

Chester - The big town 15 minutes away, from the village I live called Mickle Trafford. In Chester are a lot of different shops and on the weekend  there are a lot of people. For me the town looks like in a fairytale :)

 Helsby High School

 Every wednesday we have these assemblies in the big dinning hall. Here you can see the chairs for the assembly, but to be honest, it is often boring but it is obligatory. 

The big dinning hall if we have break or lunch -  it is like in a jungle :)

My timetable - it is a bit confusing but basically we have five periods/ lessons per day and after one week we have timetable 2

The big fields of the school

My new home

My own room 

My view out of the window

Rain- Even if the sun is shining in the morning and you think the wheater will be good, it rains almost every day. 

My hostsister Viki and me 

The cat Fibi - She is so cute.


Have great time in school :)

Before the Holidays...

Hi everyone:)
Here's just a quick reminder of what we did in our English lessons in the last week before the holidays:

We looked at and completed most of the excercises on pages 52 and 53 of our student work books. We also looked at the education vocabulary on page 150. In our half-classes we carried on with discusing our novel, Of Mice of Men.

We hope everyone had a fun vario week and great holidays:)

Meryem and Isabel

Elena in England :)

Hello guys :)
I am sorry that I haven't written earlier but I am very busy here in England. Anyway now I have time to write and tell you a bit about my exchange. =) I am really happy here in England and I wish I could stay longer than just half a year, because the time passes very quickly. I think I have the best hostfamily ever. I live together with my hostmother and my hostfather and my hostsister from Hungary. I also met the children of my hostparents, but they don't live in our house, because they are 19 years old and 22 years old and go to the university. Our hostparents are very easy and we don't have to help a lot in the household. My hostsister is lovely and we can talk about everything. I am glad to have her, because the whole exchange makes just more fun. I have my own room and it is so cute. It was the room of the daughter and that's the reason why the most things in it are pink and red =)
In England are a lot of things different than in Switzerland especially the school system. I only have 4 subjects, which I could choose. I chose photography, media studies, english language and history. No sciences and no gym :) The school starts at 8.45 o'clock in the morning and finishs at 15.05 o'clock in the afternoon. During the year we never write tests, we just have a big exam in the end of january and also in june. For me it is literally like vacation. The teachers are all very young except of my male photography teacher, but he is really funny. In every subject we have two different teachers and mostly two different themes of the subject. That's the reason why we often have a lot of homework but it's fine. This weekend I have written an essay of three pages for history about Russia between 1924 and 1930. I has taken hours..... :)
I have learned a lot of new words in English and I've already started to pronounce the words in British english. I just love the english accent.
Everybody told me that I will miss the bread in England, but I have to say I don't miss it. There is a bread called "Crumpet", maybe some of you know it and  you have to toast it but it's really good. :)
At the moment the wheater is really cold and windy. I always wear a lot of clothes, because the school doesn't turn on the heaters until november. I hope they will turn on the heaters in the near future.
My holidays start next week and I will go to Liverpool for the first time.  I am really excited :))

Maybe I will post some pictures, so you could see how I life here in Chester in the north of England :)
I wish all of you a really good start in school tomorrow :))
Best regards
Elena

Hello guys!

We hope you enjoyed your Vario-week and your holidays! We did! :D
We're a bit late but we thought it could be a good idea to write something about our Vario-week.
In this week, Jaqueline, Manu, Gidi and us ( Timna and Michelle S.), learned a lot about how to groove and a little bit how to do improvisations on our instruments. Every morning began with rhythm exercises. After this, we rehearsed some songs. The songs were quite cool and really groovy and we all liked them. During the song "Guantanamera" we even had to dance Salsa because one of our teacher loved to teach us some Salsa steps. By the way Manu was the chosen one for doing the "claves" (a very important rhythm which was the basic for all other musician there). We were really proud of him. Finally, in the end of the week, we had two gigs. The first one was quite spontaneous because we met Miss Kuenz and she wanted to hear us playing so we (there weren't all of the group... just us from our class and Serge)  did a little gig only for her. Because of this little gig we were almost late to our "real" gig at the Zentrumsplatz in Wettingen.
But all in all, it was a very nice week with a good gig at the end and we had a lot of fun together! :)

Here some pics from the last day:

Many greetings

Timna & Michelle S.  :)

The G1C (G2C) Haka

Hope you all enjoy Autumn break - here's a first treat, because some of you have been at work on this blog ;-). Ameet, Eike, and Ben - giving their very best!
Cheers, your "Miss"