England day 2

Hello everyone!

On Tuesday we went to Sandown Bay Academy every day and I went to all the classes of my buddies, Libby and Megan. In English we would go to an advanced English class and I was surprised that I could keep up. We worked on a Thomas de Quincey's text about drugs and depression.
We had lunch in the canteen with other friends there, such as Chris, Hayden and Sophie. Later in the afternoon, we went by the minibus around the island and to see the beach, but as there was a lot of fog we couldn't see much:

In general it was a great day.

See you in our next post!

-R

Eleventh week.

Hello, everyone!

In the eleventh week, when we went to ask, the groups were doing:

Group 1: They were correcting the grammar of the surveys, revising an Excel about nationalities that the local government had sent them and searching the language from each nationality.  

          

Group 2: They were finishing the survey that they will do to everyone and creating a new for specific people.

Group 3: They were translating their work.

Group 4: They were searching for more info because they realized it wasn’t enough when they did the pp. 

Group 5: They searched the biking map in China and roads in Sant Quirze del Vallès and Sabadell. They were creating the name and logo for their business.

Group 6: They were searching what the energy is and how to calculate the energy that cars, motorcycles, etc. consume.

Group 7: They were designing with computer the electrical circuit that they will build inside the car to make it work. They’re using “Crocodile Clips” app.

Group 9: They searched for information about what did Denmark do to emit less CO2.

Group 10: They were compring if it's better to use a gasoil car, an electric one or an hybrid car in a period of 25 years.

Group 11: This group was translating information and they haveto send a document with the summary, about the kind of remains, the routes and possible buisness.

Group 12: They started the Power Point.

Group 13, 14, 15: These groups are doing surveys.

Next week is Carnival here so we won't be able to do our projects.

See you in two weeks!

-A-L

Tenth week

Hello everyone!

We're going to explain what were the groups doing the tenth week:

Group 1: They corrected the survey, because some questions weren’t exactly how they wanted.

Group 3: The components of the group weren’t there, so they couldn’t keep going with their project.

Group 5: The components of the group were waiting for Dani to send information from Wight Island and searching for the bicycles’ maps that they couldn’t find last time.

Group 7: They were searching for information about how to build an electric car.

Group 8: Some of the components of the group were reading a climate adaptation report about Wight Island to know more about it so they can have more information for their work, and the others were correcting some of the information they had found.

Group 9: One of the components was searching for information about the solar roads that are being inaugurated in France and the other was still with the information about Copenhagen.

Group 10: They searched for helping plans to finance a renewable car and compare if it’s more expensive to charge it for a long period of time or to fill a deposit.

Group 12: They were searching for pros and contras about public and private transport to see which one is the best to use in your daily life.

Group 13: They searched prices about flies in Spain and Europe and were going to start surveys.

Group 14: They were searching for information about how much it pollutes if you go every day by car to school.

Group 15: They were writing the questions for the survey to see if people would do carpooling or not.

Groups 2 and 6 were writing the questions for the surveys.

Groups 4 and 11 started the Power Point.

See you in our next post!

-L

Ninth week

Hello everyone!

We went to the classes and the ninth week the groups were doing:

Group 1: They finished with the research of information about the multilingualism; they did the hypothesis and made the questions for the surveys. They’re picking people without any patron.

Group 4: The Wi-Fi wasn’t working, so they can’t continue with their work.

Group 5: They did a survey and wrote the answers on the computer. They’re going to calculate how many people they should ask to obtain enough information.

  

Group 7: They started the Power Point and the technology teacher will help them building the electric car.

Group 8: They changed their project and now are from the second block.

Group 9: They were trying to look for solutions to stop the Co2 emissions.

Group 10: They were searching what brands have sold more eco-cars and in what place of Spain more eco-cars are sold. They used information of 2015 because it’s the most recent information they’ve found. They were searching for other types of renewable energies to make a car work.

Group 11: In the latest weeks they have met the Land Use Committee Head of the Local Government of SQV. They asked for information and he is starting to send it to them now.

Group 12: They were making the PowerPoint.

Group 13: They were still searching for information about public and private transport.

Group 15: Searching for information about carpooling.

Groups 2, 3, 6 and 14 have started planning the questions for the survey.

See you in our next post!

-A -L

England day1

Hello everyone!

As you might have already guessed, I, the one writing, am the member of the group in England. I'm Raquel, but here they call me Rachel, as it's easier to pronounce in English, but first things first.

Yesterday, we met at 9am at the airport of El Prat and at about eleven or eleven thirty, the flight began. We were on that plane for two hours or so and landed at 1pm or 12am here in England. We then had lunch there at the airport and took the train, in which we were for two more hours. This train took us to the port, where we got on the ferry, which -of course- took us to the Isle of Wight. We then walked 400 meters more or less until we met with a woman who took us to our hotel.

We then had dinner and went back to the hotel, hang out the five of us and watched a movie.

A simple but also tiring day.

Today though was very different. We woke up at 7am and met to have breakfast at 7:30. We then got picked up and taken to Sandown Bay Academy, where we met everyone and were shown around. 

The students there have to wear a uniform, but the good thing is that girls can choose whether to wear pants or skirt. We also learned that they are out in classes, like instead of being put together people from the same year, they are put in a way that is like the ones born from the August of a year, until the ones born on July of the next one.

From my point of view, everyone was nice (boys and girls) and I personally felt comfortable with them and connected with some girls called Libby and Megan. We first talked on first term, which was Spanish (a little bit weird, as their Spanish level is more or less like our French level, maybe a little less) and was with them practically all day. 

Also (if I hadn't said that yet), their schedule is way more different than ours, as they start at nine, have tutorial class (which is just to check that they are wearing their uniforms), then two classes, a half-hour brake, a class, lunch break and then two hours more. And we just have a simple one starting at eight, having three hours of class, half-hour brake and then three more hours.

Today we had dinner with the students we met at a pub nearby and right now we (the Spanish students) are in our hotel rooms just hanging out before going to sleep.

See you on our next post!

-R

Eighth Week

Hello everyone!

This is our eighth week and we now know that there will be one of us going to Sandown (one of the other countries working on this Erasmus+ project) in the next days, and we will keep you up. 

During these days she will be updating everyday telling you how it's going and the other ones staying here will update on Friday, just like we've been trying to do every week since we started.

Last day, though, we didn't do much. We just went over everything we had been doing on the last term. It wasn't really productive, but we fixed some things from the previous posts and make them better.

Remember that you will be living our experience in England with us!

See you in our next post!

-R

Sixth week

Hello, everyone!

In this new post we're going to explain how the groups are doing with their projects:

Group 2: They were thinking which questions could they ask on their survey.

Group 4: They were searching for information to know how does a Solar Electric car work.

Group 5: They looked for information about the bicycles map of Barcelona. They wrote what does it cost to rent a bicycle (an electric and a normal one) and they also looked for a map of Sant Quirze to draw an itinerary of the bicycle rout they could do.

Group 6: They decided that they wanted to do the same project (How much energy do we waste in one day) but only about transport.  

Group 7: They were analysing a solar car to see if they could use it to do their project or they would have to search for another one. They realized the energy that the solar car produces is alternative, but the battery they need is unalternative, so they needed to keep working on it. 

Group 10: They were searching how an eco-car works and ideas to promote it.

Group 11: They were looking for the garbage truck itinerary.

Group 13: They were searching for the price of the different kind of transports and making a comparison. 

Groups 1, 3, 8, 9, 12, 14 and 15 didn't finish the motivation letter so they were trying to do it.

Our winter holidays are coming soon, so the next days we won't be able to post. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

See you when we come back to the routine! 

-A