My favourite city:

In these ten days we visited many different cities, and if I have to choose one, I think that I’ll choose Amsterdam. We didn’t stay for a long time, so I wanted to visit more places there. I liked the Anna Frank’s house, and I enjoyed being in the Van Gogh museum, but what I really liked was the Hard Rock Café. I visit it in my free time, and I saw incredible things that I always wanted to see. Amsterdam is not so different to Barcelona, but there are lots of bikes, more than what you can ever imagine. I liked visiting Amsterdam, and I expect to visit it again.
Lucía Morillo

Van Gogh:

Van Gogh was a painter of the nineteen century. In the visit to the museum we saw some of their paints, like “los comedores de patatas” this was one of his firsts paints, and in it you can see how was poor people living. The name is because poor people use to eat only potatoes, or soup. We also saw one of the most famous paints “los girasoles” and they explained us his life. They made us choose a paint, and I liked one that I can’t remember the name, but it was a forest painted with a lot of paint and with different kinds of green. If you are near the paint, you can’t see really well how it is, but if you go a little bit far, you see that it is a beauty forest.

My experience in Holland:

Being in Holland is one of my best experiences, not just for visit a new country, you also know a different way of living, made lots of new friends, and knew a different culture and I also learned a little bit more of English and some words in Dutch.
I’m the exchanged of Selma Bentalev, and she and her family are really sociable. I had a really nice time there, I met her friends, and she take me out everyday.
I miss being there, if I could I would stayed there for a month. There are beautiful views, the people are very kind and sociable, and we had a perfect weather.
But this is just the half of the project, now they have to come and continue their experience and I can’t wait to the seven of April!

Lucia Morillo

Van Gogh's Museum (By Gonzalo)

The 22nd of this month (March) we went by coach to Amsterdam, and also to the Van Gogh Museum. We had a guided tour in the Museum, and the guide explained to us a lot of things obut the life of Van Gogh and his paintings. For example, Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands, but he removed to France, the country on he died. My favourite painting of Van Goghs is “The starry night”, but there wasn’t in this museum, it’s in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But other of my favourites paintings is “The Sunflowers”. The Sunflowers is a paintig was painted in the year 1888, in France. The painting looks like a sad painting, because the sunflowers are dead, but also it looks a little bit happy because there’s a lot of yellow colour. This paintig has a little bit of japanese style, because it hasn’t any shadow and it ha lines that goes along the images.

My School

-Introduction: This is our High School, called IES Dolors Mallafrè i Ros.

-The classes: In the classes there are minimum one computer and a lot of tables and chairs.

-Library: In the library, there are a lot of good books.

-Laboratory: There are two labs: the biology lab and the chemistry lab.

-Arts class: There are a music class, a theatre class, and some classes of plastic arts.

-Gym: The gym is very big, and we practise a lot of different sports.

-Canteen: The canteen is like a bar.

-Playground: The playground is big, and there’s a football camp. Also, there are a volleyball camp and a basketball camp.

School Ideology:

In the school, we have to study for in the future, we will be able more rich persons in knowledges.
In the school, we have to do our homework and study for the exams for to will be able have good marks.
We must to be good persons and have a good conduct with the teachers, if we don’t want to be ejects of the school.
If we go to school, we will be able to have a good job and have a best vocabulary and a best knowledge about maths, languages, arts, science... and a lot of more important things.
In the school we can make a lot of good friends too.

Group: Marc Castillo, María Cortada, Giovanna López, Gonzalo López

My School

Our school is very small. The colour of the exterior is beige and the interior is white, with blue windows and doors. In our school there are two plants. In every plant, there are twenty classrooms. There are 600 students and about 50 teachers. There are eleven subjects and six courses.

School Ideology:

-In the school we have to have a good relation with the companions.
-In the school the teachers teaches us about life.
-We have to learn for to be good citizens in our country.
-We also have to learn for to be good citizens in others countries.
-If we go to school, we will be able to have a good job.
-If we go to school, we will be able to speak with people.
-Going to school is going to learn new knowledges.

Group: Martí García, Marc Llorens and Wissal M’bari.

My School

My school’s name is IES Dolors Mallafrè i Ros, it’s a white and blue building. In the school there are a playground and a lot of classes. In the playground there are a garden, a gym, a canteen, a camp of football and a lot of trees. The school has different subjects to teach: chemist, biology, music, technology…
The equipment of the classes is: computers, tables, a blackboard and a projector, but some classes don’t have computers or projectors.

School Ideology:

This is what we have to do in school: In the school we have to do our homework and study for the exams.
In the school, we have to study for optional subjects too.

Group: Nerea Álvarez, Andrea Ezquerra, Roxana Giménez and Marcel-Karl Krüger.

My School

My school has got a gym, a music class, some arts class, two labs, two technology classes…
My school has got a canteen, a basketball camp, a volleyball camp and a volleyball team too.
The optional subjects or 3rd of ESO are gardening, “image and design”, classical culture, French…
The playground is very big.

School Ideology:

We have to go to school. In the school there are big tables, computers for each table and some instruments in music class.
In the school we have to learn biology, chemist, piano, English, how to use the program Adobe Photoshop in the computers, technology…

Group: Cristina Aldehuela, Luna Amoza, Judit Andreu and Héctor Correa

My match

My match is a girl and her name is Sanne Tuk, she's 15 years old, she has blonde hair and blue eyes.
She lives in a terraced house with her father, mother and her sister.
She has a dog and his name is Bingo.

Excursion to Den Bosch and Kamp Vught (By Gonzalo)

Today we went by coach to Den Bosch. We visited a very big and beautiful church. The church had a lot of beautiful and colorful stained glasses. Then, the teachers gave for us free time for buy souvenirs, have lunch, visit the city...
At 14:00 pm, we went by coach to a Nazi Concentration Camp, called "Kamp Vught". The Concentration Camp was near to Den Bosch. This Concentration Camp, fortunately, was open only more or less one year and half, but a lot of jewish people died in this place. We visit this place with a guide, and he explained to us a lot of things about this Concentration Camps and his history. We visited the "homes" of the jews that were prisioners. Some of us, at the end of the visit, we wrote a note about what we thought about the Nazi's laws and the Concentration Camps and we put on a wall of the building to entrance to the Concentration Camp, like other people that they visited this Camp. Then, we went by coach to Breda.

When we arrived to the High School "De Nassau", we had a barbacue with all the people that they participed in the exchange (Dutch teachers, our Dutch partners, our teachers and us)for lunch. It was a very full and nice day!

My Dutch Partner (By Gonzalo)

My Dutch partner is called Valerie Desiree Huige. She’s a nice, quiet, a little shy and a tall girl with blond waved long hair, with light skin, with glasses and with a mix of blue and green eyes. Her favourite colour is orange, and her favourite animal is the dog. She was born the first of September of 1995 (now is fifteen years old). Her hobbies are read all kinds of books, specially manga; watch anime series and play with the computer. She likes manga and anime because are funny, very good draw and very addictive; her favourites animes are “Shakugan no shana” and “Zero no tsukaima”. She likes all the music in general, but specially Alexandra Burke and the Japanese song called “The flavor of Life”. Her favourite film is “The hangover”, in Spain called “¿Qué pasó ayer?”. She has a good relationship with her sisters, and of course, with her parents too. She was born in Holland, but when she was nine years old, she moved with her parents and her sisters to Germany (for her mum’s job). The last August, they removed to Holland again. She prefers Holland, because there are no hills and she can stay more near to her family (granny, cousins, aunts, uncles…). Of course, she can speak Dutch and German, and also a very good English and a little bit of Japanese. She likes good people in general (cheerful people, funny people, nice people…) and she doesn’t like bad people in general (mean people, arrogant people…). She also likes the videogames, specially Nintendo games, like “New Super Mario Bros.” for the “Nintendo DS”; because there are very funny and addictive and with these games you can connect it with other people.

Videos by the students of the exchange:

Some videos about the excursion to Kinderdijk and the Hague:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=197067303648008&saved

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=197067303648008&saved#!/video/video.php?v=197068583647880

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=197068996981172&saved#!/video/video.php?v=197068996981172

Visit to Kinderdijk and The Hague (By Gonzalo)

Yesterday (17th/03/2011) we went by coach to Kinderdijk and The Hague. Kinderdijk is a village in the Netherlands, about 15km east of Rotterdam. Kinderdijk is very famous, because there are some wind mills. The wind mills are very typical things in Holland. There are 19 wind mills in Kinderdijk. The wind mills work with wind (obviously), but they don't grind wheat or something similar, they control the level of the water of the rivers that are near of them. We went inside a wind mill, and it was very big and beautiful, all done with wood.
Then, we went to the coach and we went to the Hague, is the home of the Queen of Holland, a very very beautiful and big palace. We made a tour visiting some places of the Hague (the Queen's palace, is very beautiful and huge church...) and then, we had free time for buy souvenirs and other things. Then, we went to the coach again and we arrived to Breda. It was a very cool excursion! :D

Queen's palace

First day in Holland. My experience. (By Gonzalo)

Yesterday, it was my first day in Holland. When I arrived to the high school De Nassau, I felt a little bit shy waiting my Dutch partner and her family. When she arrived with her father, I felt more shy. Her name is Valerie, and her father's name is Eric. Valerie's father is very cheerful and funny! When we arrived to their house, I thought (Oh dear! This house is enormous! And very beautyful!). The house has two gardens and three floors. My room is on the third plant. When I was putting my suitcase in my room, I met Valerie's sisters, Isabel and Sophie. Then, I went downstairs carefully (by the way, the stairs are very very very steep!) and I showed my presents for the Dutch family (a lot of cured ham and olive oil) to Eric, but he said "Wait a moment! My wife is almost home. Do you want to keep the present for show late to the full family? Hehehe" I said "OK". When Eric's wife arrived home, she kept me three kisses, and she said "nice to meet you". Her name is Desiree (like the second name of Valerie) and she's very cheerful, like her husband! Then, I showed the presents to the family, but, oh dear! Isabel, the sister of Valerie, is vegetarian! But she said "I never eat meat, but thanks anyway :)". Then, I spoke 2 minuts with my mother with telephone (the Dutch family insisted to me for call to my mother in Spain, and I couldn't say no.). Then, we went to a chinese restaurant for have dinner and I ate noodles (my first time in a chinese restaurant, and curiously, in Holland xD). Then, we went home, and I was playing with Valerie with her computer and I chatted with she. Then, I brushed my teeth, and I went to bed. The family were very very very nice with me! :D

In Holland!!!!

an tired day but...
we arrived at Breda at five o'clock and at half past five we went at our new house.
we dinner at seven,later we play at the wii and later we went with some friends at the Bowling.