About cooking and NawiTech-day (4.11 - 8.11)

An interesting and scientific week:

Hey guys, this week on monday we had one of our famous "Group discussion". The original topic was school, but then we digressed via Manuel's statement (Only women should learn how to cook at school) to the discussion whether Miss Nyffenegger should offer a cooking course for Variowoche next year or not.

In half classes we made some final talks about our book "Of Mice and Men".

On Wednesday, sadly, there was no English class. But we had the possibility to visit various scientific places and universities. For example at ETH, we had the opportunity to have a look at particle accelerators and at some pieces of "Ötzi" or listening to a presentation of a Nobel prize winner about quantum physics. 

Some spent the day at Technorama or at other universities. There were many different options.

Pieces of "Ötzi"

Great Gideon & Manuel

About brains, twilight and mice & men

Hi everyone

This week (28.10.-01.11.) was quite easy, because on Monday and on Wednesday we discussed our listening comprehension test. Some students faught about every single point and that was a bit exhausting for Miss Nyfenegger (and not just for her). But on Wednesday we also talked about books we had read so far and how they have influenced our way of looking at things, this was fun. We found out that Manuel was born as a genius and that Eike likes Twilight. And as to Twilight: Miss Nyfenegger told us that Twilight is like a 'Happy End mix' of Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet; such a cheating.
In the half class we finished discussing 'Of Mice and Men'. Now we've finally read our first English novel, what a feeling.

Greetings,
Alina & Meret

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"

Hello from Arkansas

Hey guys. I have been here in Norman, Arkansas for more than one month. For me it is unbelivable and it is awesome here. They people here are so nice and I have a very good time.

 This is my lovely host family: My mum Ginger, my brother Braden (21), my sisters Bailey (left, 20) and Kobie (right, 15). There are a very good family for me. Of course it is different to my family in Switzerland, sometimes that is good and sometimes it is not so good. From Monday to Friday it is just my mother, Kobie and I because the other two are at college. Sometimes they come over on weekend. On the picture we have been on a wedding in Dallas, Texas.

Here in Arkansas it looks simillar to Switzerland. Of course everything is bigger., except my town. Norman is very very small. Here are huge forests, fields or lakes like the Lake Ouachita. It is very pretty. The forests are very important for the people here because their biggest hobby is hunting. Almost every guy is addicted of hunting. It is usual here to have a couple of different guns. There are even some guys at school, they skip some days school to go hunt. For these guys it is also unthinkable that huntig is not very important  in Switzerland.

This is my school. The CHHS: Caddo Hills High School. It is very small. There are just about 250 students from 9th to 12th grade. That is pretty cool because everbody knows everbody and it is like a huge family. Here you can do basketball, and cross country (runn ing). I am in the basketballteam. Although I am almost the worst of the team it is a lot of fun. We have practice evey day after school. Besides me there are ten other exchange students from Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Germany, France, China and South Korea. Sometimes I feel like I am on a International school but we have a lot of fun together. Here you can chose your classes. So I have every day the same eight classes. My classes are English, US-history, International Travel, FACTS (family and consumer sciences), Child Development, Algebra 2, Drama and Basketball. In some classe we do something and some classes are just to hang out. 

This is the fair of the Montgomery county. Here this is a big attraction. You can do some rides with stuff like the ferris wheel. I had a lot of fun because there have been many other students. Today a part of the fair will be the rodeo. 

Last weekend we have been to a football game of the Razorbacks. This is the the footbalteam of the University of Arkansas, a college which is placed three hours away in Fayetteville. The Razorbacks is the famous team here in Arkansas, because they don't have a team in the NFL. 

The game was awesome, because to be live at a game is a highlight. And after my brother told me little bit about the rules of football it was more interesting. We had a  lot of fun. 

I hope I gave you a little impression of my life here and I wish you first a good vario week and then a very nice break.

Love

Nora

Hey guys!!
We hope you're enjoying your exchange! :)
Last week, sadly there weren't as much English lessons as usual. So there was just the test about all tenses and other weird stuff. The class hadn't really a good feeling about it. And our feelings were right: As Miss Nyffenegger told us today, it wasn't really our best test.... So let's move to something else ;)
Tomorrow will be the 5km Marathon, so you guys from the exchange are very, veery lucky that you don't have to run too (especially in this rainy and cold weather -.- )  ;) . But after this marathon and two other exciting tests, we will finally have holidays :D By the way, would you mind to put some pictures of your exchange into this blog? It would be very nice to hear or see something from you :)

Happy Birthday Bianca and Elena D. :) we wish you all the best for the new year of your life!:))

 

Week of the 2. september

On monday we talked about the SoNaFe. We were talking about how our Bar and the Sonatopia went. By the way we had profit. After talking about the SoNaFe we started repeting tenses. But rather then that we didn't do anything else on Monday. On wednesday we talked about how we arn't very active in our Blog and that G2b are way more active and theirs looks better but I bet we can change that :)

Luckily the weather at the sonafe was really great. At the beginning with blue sky and later in the night with a delightful latesummer breeze. At 7 o'clock when the gates opened and the SONAFE officially started our bar was not visited often and we started worrying about our concept. But with time also came the rush on our thai and nachos. World Record suspicious were we taking new orders and filling in thai and nacho cups. But our bar was not the only masterpiece of understanding the needs of the young crowd, an especially unique highlight was the Sonatopia bar wich attracted magically the crowd into its futuristic party paradise. Alltogether this years sonafe had a greater atmosphere and spirit than the previous. And finally we could fortunately gain a big profit out of our first SONAFE bar! But brace yourself for next year!

For more pictures visit the www.kswe.ch homepage.

 The legendary Aaron & Ben

Have you guys ,while enjoying your exchange, already seen the new english class-chat?