LAST POST

Hello, everyone!

This is the last post we're going to write, because our project ends next week.
We only have the oral presentation left and we hope our project was interesting and will leave a good mark.
We think that this project was good, even though it was tiring and we haven't had much time to work on it at school.

We won't see you in our next post! :(

-A-L

The Netherlands. Last day.

SATURDAY 20^TH MAY

On Saturday, we woke up early because we had to take the bus to Amsterdam. It was sad because had to say goodbye to our Dutch and German friends. 

Once there, we walked around the city and we had a lot of fun. We were very tired but we still wanted to see the important places in Amsterdam so we kept on walking. 

In the end, we had to say goodbye also to our Italian friends too.

We finally took the plane to go back home and even we were really tired, we wanted to enjoy the last part of the trip and we didn't fall asleep.

It has been an amazing experience and we have learnt a lot from different cultures! I enjoyed every single minute and if I have in the future another chance to go abroad for some days, I'll join!

See you in our next post!

-A 

The Netherlands. Seventh day.

FRIDAY 19^TH MAY

We all woke up around six and seven in the morning. We got ready and we all went by bicycle to school. 

The program were international lessons by Allessandra and Roser, again, we went to the Italian’s teacher class because we couldn’t go to ours. Allessandra’s class was too easy, we already knew most of the stuff, and she was reading all the time from the power point. 

But well, later on we went outside to take a group picture. After that, we went back inside into the building to finish some project work. We had some time to rest and we had lunch. 

                                           

At 17:00h the parents came to school, we made the challenge while eating Chinese food for dinner. At around 19:00 we all went to Femke’s house, we had lots of fun! Finally, we all went to our houses to prepare everything for Saturday. 

See you in our next post!

-A

The Netherlands. Sixth day.

THURSDAY 18^TH MAY

On Thursday, we had to be at school at 8:45h to take the bus and go to the Wageningen University. There, we visited the facilities and a scientist that works there, explained us the climate change consequences in water systems. We did a little quiz with the first day groups that Frans made. That was quite interesting.

After that, we went to the NIIO, an eco-friendly building where some scientists work. They explained us some things related to toilet wastes and plants but it was quite boring. We had lunch there and we went back home. All of us (Spanish students) fell asleep in the bus!

In the evening we all did different things but some of us went to Minka’s house and we had a lot of fun!

See you in our next post!

-A

The Netherlands. Fifth day.

WEDNESDAY 17^TH MAY

Wednesday was a very nice day, at 8:30 we had to be at school so, according to the stereotype, we obviously took our bikes.

When we arrived, two workshops and two international lessons were waiting for us. We were very tired and I have to admit that they didn’t appeal us very much.

The first one was in charge of our Spanish teachers and in groups we had to create an NGO and made a poster to promote it.

In the second one the Dutch, German and Italian students had made some experiments related with climate change and we had to look at them and see what they had done (they were all awesome and I think it was the workshop we liked the most).

In the international lessons, two Italian teachers explained us what the circular economy was, which economical model we have nowadays… Well, I think you can imagine what kind of stuff we talked about…

The long-awaited hour of lunch arrived, you may be thinking of having lunch at half past two and if you think that, you are completely wrong. We had lunch at 11:30!!!

After lunch we could decide between doing sport (football or volleyball) or sing in a karaoke. Half of us decided to do sport (wrong choice because that day, nobody knows why, we had 29 degrees).

It was finally four o’ clock and we went to Floor’s house, a very nice Dutch girl who let us destroy her house trying to cook Italian food (obviously in charge of the Italian students) and Nutella croissants. 

See you in our next post!

-A

The Netherlands. Fourth day.

TUESDAY 16^TH MAY

We got up at seven on the morning to get to school by bicycle at 9:00 am. We first had some workshops related to the main problem known as global warming. 

Later, we had a lecture by skype from the Dutch National Metrological Institute that I found a little boring.

We had an hour more or less to have lunch and rest a little bit since we were really tired. After lunch, everyone could choose between international lessons by Walter or by Marta, but we had to go to Walter’s, since Marta is already our teacher. 

Walter’s international class was pretty boring and we did not like the fact that he was all the time reading from his PowerPoint instead of explaining it with his words, it would have been better if it had been more dynamic. 

Tuesday’s afternoon was very interesting; we went to Zwillbrock, Germany to a biological station. We saw a lot of birds and we learnt a lot about flamingos. 

After that we all went to Marieke’s house, by bike of course, we had dinner, we played games and we had a lot of fun! After that we all went home to rest. 

See you in our next post!

-A

Thirteenth week

Hello, everyone!

This week, we were all answering the surveys. Each class had a document where they could find all the surveys the groups have done, so we dedicated the hour to do that. There were twelve surveys that everyone had to answer, and one survey that only needed to be answered by eight people. 
The problem was the Internet connection, that didn't work well, so not every survey could be responded.

See you in our next post!

-L

The Netherlands. Third day.

MONDAY 15^TH MAY

We cycled to the school and we arrived at 9:00h. 

There, Frans divided us in 9 groups to do a tour around the school. After that we went to our host’s classes to see how they learn here and then, we had a break to have lunch. 
After that we had our first international lesson with Amos, the German teacher, about our carbon footprint. It was really interesting because we realised that we have to reduce our waste.

Later, we cycled to Voshaar to do a survival route in the forest and it was very fun. We built a boat, we made fire and finally we climbed through the trees. 

At the afternoon, we went back home and Dutch students cooked typical Dutch food for us, it was very tasty!

See you in our next post!

-A

The Netherlands. Second day.

SUNDAY 14^TH MAY

On Sunday morning we went by bicycle to play farmers golf. It was a different experience. The game was also different. We played with a soccer ball land with a boot in the end of a wood stick. We were playing by teams (more a less 4-5 in each team and we were mixed).

We were surrounded by cows and cow shit, some people stepped on some shits, it was very funny, except for the person who stepped on. 

Then we had lunch all together, we had some pancakes. They were delicious!!

Later, we cycled back home, we had a shower and then we had dinner. At eight o’clock we went to Iris’ house, after some time there with some students from all the countries we went to sleep, we were all very tired!!

See you in our next post!
-A

Twelfth week

Hello, everyone!

We're going to explain you what did the groups do in this week of the Research Project:

Groups 1, 2 and 3 were doing the surveys.

Group 4: They were translating all the information.

Group 5: They planned the budget for the bikes' route and did a web about biking to let people know what they do so they can find all the information there.

Group 7: They were also translating; they bought an electric car and are waiting for it to arrive so they can build it.

Group 9: There was only one of the boys in the group, and he was answering the hypothesis. He also searched information about the cleanest city in the world, Copenhagen.

Group 10: Pedro was translating all the information while Guillem was searching and writing new info about different electric batteries and electric motorbikes (where you can find it, the quantity of batteries sell in Europe and advantages).

Group 11: They were still doing the route of the garbage truck.

Group 12: They started the Power Point and did a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages.

Group 13: Some of them searched applications to travel and search travels, and the others were preparing a travel.

Group 14: They started the Power Point about how do people go to school.

They were all trying to finish their projects.

See you in our next post!

-L

The Netherlands. First day.

SATURDAY 13^TH MAY

We left Barcelona at 09:00h. We were very nervous! 

We arrived in Amsterdam at 11:00h, and we met the Dutch and German people at the airport. The Italians hadn't arrived yet. We went by bus to the centre of Amsterdam and it was really beautiful! We walked around the city and then we went shopping.

After having lunch, the Italian students arrived in Amsterdam.

And then, after some more free time around the city, we went to Groenlo and all the foreign students went to their hosts’ houses. 

It was the first night and first contact with the rest of the family.  

I felt really comfortable with my host, even though she was really shy and quiet.

See you in our next post!

-A

Eleventh week

Hello everyone!

This is eleventh and we now know that there will be one of us going to the Netherlands (one of the other countries working on this Erasmus+ project) in the next days, and we will keep you up. There will be German, Italian and obviously, the Dutch students.

During these days I will be updating everyday telling you how it's going!

See you in our next post!

-A