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

Last three weeks

Hello, everyone!

We went all these Fridays to ask what people has been doing, we’ve found out that they are searching a lot of information, we were surprised because they are very implicated and patient and try to do their best. 

They’re searching for new ideas because they need to know exactly what they want to do, like know how to create a car that goes with solar energy or know how to create a business plan.

Last week we all draw the logo, too. They were all very artistic and everyone was motivated to do the best one.

In the next weeks we decided which one we liked the most and we are eager to know which logo is the most voted.

See you in our next post!

Second week

Hello, everyone!

We're going to explain to you all how the groups are doing their Research Project:

Group 1: Formed by Araceli Calahorro, Bruno Barneda, Carina Céspedes and Raquel Catalán. They are doing Multilingualism in INS Sant Quirze, and they would look for the information about the different languages and do surveys to know how many people talk different languages here.

Group 2: Oriol González, Jan Salvat, Isaac Macías and Dario Rosado are in this group. They are doing the project called How we go to school and they have looked for information about different transports and a survey to know how people get to school.

Group 3: Composed by Diego Armario, Àlex Cladellas and Gerard Soler. Their project is How does a Solar Electric car work? and they're thinking about what they are going to do it because they aren't sure yet.

Group 4: With Jordi Farré, Joan Gomà, Marc Montañés and Roger Baraona in it. They're doing How does a Solar Electric car work? and they aren't sure what they're going to do yet.

Group 5: Daniel Jiménez, Sergio Espejo, Gerard García and Aran Jiménez are in it. Their project is Biking in Sabadell: a bicycle sharing system. Business plan. They have been searching for information about different bicycles sharing systems and try to do a business plan here in Sant Quirze.

Group 6: Being part of it Ainhoa Saus, Guillem Peréz and Aina Teva. They're doing How much energy do we waste in one day? but they are still not sure of how they're going to do it.

Group 7: Marc Garcia, Raúl Montero, Daniel Lupo and Xavi Jiménez are in it and the project they are doing Let's build a solar car and they want to design and construct a small solar car.

Group 8: Formed by María Cabello, Sergi Montoya, Alex Navas and Josep Maria Oliva is a group doing Public Transport VS Private Transport and they do surveys to people of different ages in different classes in the school and search information on the internet.

Group 9: Being part in it Jordi Estrada, Eloi Jiménez and David Trujillo. Their project is Energy efficient cities in Denmark: A model for urban planning though they still aren't sure of what they are doing yet.

Group 10: Formed by Guillem Canudas, Adrià Barrés and Pedro Romero (not all of them in the photo). They're working on Eco-cars and they search information on the internet to compare petrol cars to ecologic cars and they'd do surveys to know what do people think about eco-cars.

Group 11: Formed by Blanca Vila, Claudia Fernández, Paula Lorite and Elena Espinilla. They're doing The Rubbish-lorry route and they'd draw the rubbish-lorry route here in St. Quirze and they'd make an alternative route that improves the collection of rubbish.

Group 12: Formed by Judith Raduà, Xavier Jiménez and Jorge Arnedo. They're doing Public Transport vs Private Transport and they don't know what are they going to do yet.

Group 13: Francisco Peris, Enric Mateus, Albert Tudela and Carles Vizarroso are in it. They're doing Public Transport vs Private Transport and they plan on looking for some information of the prizes and asking students in our High School how they mostly move.

Group 14: Being part of it Nayeli Ocampos, Aroa Casado, Ana González and Daniela Aguila. Their project is How do you get to school? and they are going to go asking class after class how the students and maybe teacher how they get to school.

Group 15: Marcel Blas, Gonzalo Cantañera, Oscar Canales and Bruno Cortés form it and they're doing Carpooling, the best way to save energy and they plan to analyse the pros and cons of share a car.

See you in our next post! 

-A -L

First Week

Hello, everyone!

This is the second week doing the Research Project. Last week the groups started looking for information and planning how they would do their project.

This week most of them have caried on thinking how their survey would be, looked for information and talked to each other to know what should they do.

Here you have some photos of everything!

See you in our next post!

-A

WELCOME TO OUR RESEARCH PROJECT

Hello, everyone!

We are Andrea, Raquel, Cristina and Laura, and we're going to post things about our Research Project in this blog.

We're going to post interviews, photos, videos and reports about the groups that work with Block 1: Efficient Energy Transport.

See you in our next post!