Saturday, 22nd May

This morning we had to get up very early in the morning because unfortunately, it was the day of our homeward journey. When I woke up, I first had to pack my suitcase. After that I still had time to eat some toast before I had to leave the house. We had been told to wait for the taxis in front of our houses at half past six. My taxi arrived after at a quarter to seven. At our meeting point we waited until half past seven because some taxis arrived very late. The weather was really wonderful and we all felt nostalgic about leaving Cambridge. The journey to the London Heathrow Airport by bus wasn’t very interesting. Many of us fell asleep, including myself. At the airport we had to wait until ten past twelve, when our airplane should start but we waited a little bit longer for a new captain. In this time we could walk through the duty free shops.
In the rest of our journey, we didn’t have any complications. Thanks to the weather, our flight was very nice. We could see much more than on our other flight. As we landed at Zürich airport, the weather was as good as it had been in Cambridge. After we had grabbed our suitcases, we immediately went to the train station. The atmosphere was really good but most of us were very tired. At the beginning, the train was very crowded but after Winterthur we had enough place to sit and also for our luggage. The train arrived at five o’clock at Kreuzlingen. We weren’t in time because we had to wait in Weinfelden for about ten minutes because of problem with the rails.
I was happy to be back home but otherwise I will miss the time in Cambridge. We had two wonderful weeks there.

Friday, 21th May 2010

The last real morning in Cambridge. When I woke up at some minutes past 5 o’clock I immediately knew that it will be a great day with lovely weather. The birds were singing and only a plane disturbed the quiet atmosphere.
After my daily shower I checked my mails and went downstairs having breakfast and only some few minutes later I started for the last bike trip to school.



In the school’s cafeteria we heard some good and bad news from Mr. Morf. The good ones weren’t so special but in the bad news he confirmed that we will be picked up by taxis very early the following morning: 6:30 o’clock…

All that couldn’t destroy our good humour and we had two funny lessons with our favourite teacher Tendayi . At the end we made a group picture and went to the computer room to add our new “friend” in Facebook. Half an hour later the lesson with our second teacher Helen began. Unfortunately it wasn’t as amusing as the precedent ones. We played two boring games which nobody really enjoyed and were happy to receive our certificates after 1 o’clock.

Less than 50 minutes remained for our lunch break because we had to meet up with everyone at
2 o’clock for going bowling all together. We decided to cycle to the Leisure centre. Here we ate different things from Tesco and were punctually at the meeting point. I tried some corned beef because I thought I should not go back to Switzerland without having tasted this British speciality. It wasn’t as bad as many people say.

The bowling afternoon was not what I expected. There was no real atmosphere and I played very bad. After only one hour we had to leave the bowling centre and return ou

r bicycles. The first time I went home afoot.

In my room I packed everything in my suitcase to be ready to leave the follow ing day. After the last delicious meal with my host family I went out to the park to meet some friends and we discussed different things. Quite early we all went home for the last night in Cambri dge.

Friday, 21st May 2010

On this sunny day, I woke up at 6.45 a.m - as usual. I had to get ready for the last school day. We met at 9 a.m. in the school cafeteria. The teachers gave us the plan about the departure back to Switzerland on the next day. We had to leave Cambridge on Saturday already at 6.30 a.m.! But that was not a big problem, because this Friday was very relaxing. First, we mixed our group with another one to watch some films. One film was about a crazy cook who didn’t use “normal” ingredients for his dishes. It looked disgusting. After that impressive documentary, we watched “The Simpsons” until the big break.

For the last time in this school, we made a little trip to Parker’s Piece. The two teachers (Joel and Ondine) mentioned different possibilities to us: either we could relax a bit in the park (the weather was beautiful) or we could go “last minute shopping”. I decided to go shopping a bit with some other girls. After these not too exhausting classes, we met again at Eurocentres for a last time. We received our diplomas and they turned out to be very good. During lunchtime I only ate a sandwich because we didn’t have much time left. The bowling afternoon already started at 2 p.m. It was funny. In addition to this, we had to return our bikes.
The next day meant departing in the early morning. So I had to pack my suitcase already today. Something went wrong with my host mother’s water – so I’m already looking forward to using water at my real home.
The first week here passed by very slowly, but suddenly I found myself in the second week and I had to pack all my things. Altogether, this last day was a “successful” and relaxing conclusion.

Thursday, 20th May 2010

Today was the last day of the project work presentations. The sun was shining nearly the whole day and it was really hot. In the afternoon, after the morning classes, three groups of 3-4 students from our class enjoyed the warm weather while listening to one of the other groups who had to present their project about which they had searched some interesting information.
First we were in the Botanic Garden near the Eurocentres, our school, to have a tour through the different “plant islands” and listened to our classmates who told us something about the plants, the structure of the garden and the different gardens like the Glasshouse, the Stone Garden or the Dry Garden. The atmosphere was beautiful and there were plants we had never seen before. We also went into the greenhouses and there it was even hotter than outside. After the 45 minutes in the Botanic Garden we changed the location and we met half an hour later at Trinity College next to Market Square.
Today was the last day of the project work presentations
Trinity College is the largest college in Cambridge but in spite of this only 970 students are studying there. “Trinity College” is the abbreviation of the full name, which is “College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity”, and since 1546 it has been a federation of two older colleges: Michaelhouse and King’s Hall. The main entrance is called the Great Gate and used to be a part of King’s Hall. Above the Great Gate on the outside of the College there is a statue of the college's founder, King Henry VIII. Some years ago, his sceptre was replaced by a chair leg because somebody unknown thought this was a funny prank. To the right of the door, there are the former rooms of Sir Isaac Newton, the famous mathematician and natural philosopher who studied in Trinity College. The college planted an apple tree in front of the window of his rooms as a sign that he had studied there.
After the two tours we went shopping in small groups and we enjoyed the wonderful second to last day. In the evening there were the same everyday activities like bowling, going to a pub, playing snooker or billiard.

Wednesday, 19th May 2010

As usual we began the day by having some classes. Our English teacher had a creative idea; we had to doodle. Everybody of us doodles, some all the time, others occasionally. For an expert these doodles are not just insignificant scribbles, they reveal our hidden desires, strengths and weaknesses.
For example if somebody scribbles a series of short, straight horizontal lines, that signifies he is a reliable person or someone who draws rising stairs has got qualities of leadership. So we wanted to find out the meaning of our doodles, which was quite interesting. We also learnt that you can find some German words like Schadenfreude or Angst in the English dictionary and the English people know and use them. That’s really astonishing.
Moreover we had a discussion about the surveillance state or better known as Big Brother State, which has become an increasinglyimportant topic. Did you know that in Cambridge you are filmed 200 times a day? That’s a bit concerning, isn’t it?



In the afternoon our teachers offered us the opportunity to go to Ely. Ely is a medieval village with a giant church and it took an important role in the Middle Ages. The students who visited Ely told me that it was full of tourists and unfortunately you had to pay in order to see the whole inside of the church.




Other students that didn’t participate in this trip enjoyed their leisure time. The weather was brilliant, it was certainly one of the hottest days in these two weeks. So I could go to the city and relax and I went shopping while enjoying the sunshine. Besides all this, a few of us played some sport, they went to play squash.





In the evening I went to a club with some friends and we partied. I like the clubs in Cambridge very much; they are so amazing because each of them has got its special style, something for everybody’s taste. Some of the students also went to a pub and had some nice conversations there, some of them went bowling and others just spent the time with their host families. On the whole it was a great day!

Wednesday, 19th May

The morning and the classes

After the usual process of getting up and having breakfast I started in another sunny and interesting day like everyone else. In school Mr Morf briefed us on the events of the day. Available were a trip to Ely in the afternoon and the musical “Alice in Wonderland” in the evening. I chose the trip to Ely, because I don’t really like musicals and I didn’t want to just hang around in the afternoon.
After the informative briefing the everyday school lessons began. Tendayi (say 10-Die) wanted us to do some question improvement exercises which nobody really cared to do. However, in the end it was a fun and instructive exercise. The rules of the exercises were really easy. Everyone got one sheet of paper, one student the sheet A, and the other student the sheet B. In order to complete the own sheet it was necessary to ask one’s partner certain things. Afterwards we had to invent our own, in our opinion perfect, country. Everyone liked doing this hilarious and active exercise. The first 100 minutes passed unbelievably fast, however everyone already knew that the next 100 minutes were going to be brimming over with boredom and tiredness (sorry, Helen, but it’s just the truth). In this mood the 30 minutes break unfortunately also passed very fast. Perhaps the boredom was/is caused by the specific time from 11am to 1pm because we are always tired then and if you are tired, it is harder to concentrate; you feel bored ;). Additionally, Helen wanted to do exactly the same as Tendayi had done before, which made everything even worse. However, in addition, we had to do some research for Glastonbury Festival, which caused an increase of our happiness because we’d thought it was going to be just a normal, boring “Helen-lesson”; fortunately she destroyed this bad opinion.
The results of the research were: Glastonbury Festival is the world’s largest festival for music and other art, like comedy or theatre. It has existed since 1970, after the death of Jimi Hendrix. Since then it has been taking place every year on the last weekend of June for 3 days at Worthy Farm in Pilton.
Towards the end of the lesson our job was to create an own festival, which was very funny as well. There were many different ideas like a festival on different islands or a festival especially for elderly people. Exactly when everyone had finished, the lesson was interrupted by the school bell.
Lunchtime was much too short today with less than one hour if you went to Ely. Silvan and me first tried our luck at Pizza Hut, which unfortunately was nearly brimming over with people. Another restaurant, called “Pizza Express”, was too expensive for such a small budget a student has, so we decided to go to Marks & Spencer to buy our lunch. In about 20 minutes we devoured our food and then took the train to Ely with some other students and Mr Morf.

Trip to Ely

The trip to Ely was very interesting and amazing. Mr Morf told us lot about its history. “Ely” derives from “eel” because they sell eels in many restaurants and fish shops. The city of Ely began to grow about 1300 years ago, in the 7th century, around the abbey of the future cathedral. From the middle of the 9th to the 10th century, the Vikings overran England many times. This rude people also burnt down the monastery, which, however, was rebuilt later on. In 1083 William the Conqueror started building a cathedral because of the already existing monastery. It took 200 years to complete it. In the 16th century King Henry VIII closed down the monastery because he wanted to have money, he didn’t like the Catholics and he wanted to found his own church in order to be able to divorce from his woman.

The wonderful cathedral of Ely with its Gothic and Roman style mix perhaps is only still there because Ely wasn’t a target for the bombers in the World War. Thanks to this the bishop of England still resides in Ely.
After collecting some impressions of the inside of the cathedral we were free and could do what we wanted to. We walked along some shops and enjoyed the good weather before we took the train home to Cambridge.
With this, just another great “Cambridge-Day” ended…

® Thierry Trafelet

Tuesday, 18th May 2010

Today I woke up at about 7.45 am. Afterwards, I ate breakfast (cornflakes, like always..) and then I went to school with Martina and Susanne. At 9 o’clock we had a short briefing of ten minutes to get the information about the afternoon. Then classes began. Our first teacher in the morning is called Tendayi and in his lessons you have no chance to fall asleep because I think his lessons are always funny and interesting. Today we started the lesson watching our films from yesterday, in which we had to present a country. My country was Canada but somehow it was quite embarrassing to see the film. Then we played a game in which we had to imagine that we’re in a hot air balloon which is going to crash and our duty was to persuade the other students that we have to stay in the balloon and that the others don’t throw you out. Fortunately, I survived :) Then, we had classes with a teacher called Helen but it wasn’t very interesting today so I got a bit tired...

In order to have some lunch, some friends and me decided to eat ‘fish & chips’ at the Eagle Pub. I have to say that it was really, really delicious and so far the best I’ve eaten in England (ok, honestly, it isn’t hard to top the English food in general). Then, Susanne and I shared a kind of chocolate cake for dessert, which was yummy, too.

Then I had some free time and until 4 o’clock I strolled through the city of Cambridge and we also took a look at the well-known round church. At 4 o’clock I had to be in front of the main entrance of the St. John’s College because I had to listen to a presentation. I absolutely liked the college (and the presentation, too) and the style of the architecture.

After that, I took my bicycle and cycled home to get my “tasty” microwave food : ( .. but at 8.15 pm I again met some friends and we decided to go to the park. It was relaxing to only sit on the green and to talk and eat a bit. So, at about 11.30 pm I fell in my bed after a beautiful day...

Monday 17.05.10

The sun was shining on my face, so I woke up. I looked at my watch: 5.30 am. Hell, this is too early! I closed the curtain and tried to fall asleep again. But in this moment my “host brother”, an Arabian guy, turned on his radio. Now the chance to fall asleep was definitively over, because Arabian music isn’t helpful to get back to sleep. So I got up and because I didn’t have any idea what to do at 5.30 am I began to watch a film on my laptop. The film’s called “Lord of the Rings”, do you know it? I hope so; it’s a very good film… But anyway, I’ve seen this film so many times that I fell asleep again. The second time I woke up because of my alarm clock. With some difficulties I managed (with a delay of a quarter of an hour) to get out of my bed. After I’d taken a shower I went downstairs to eat breakfast. It wasn’t a typical breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon and Earl Grey Tea. It was like in Switzerland: cereals with milk and toast with marmalade and tea. At home I had been looking forward to having a typical English breakfast for the first time in my life, but shit happens, the only typical thing was the tea, at least one thing.

After breakfast I took my school bag and race in a hurry to school. I was a little bit late, because after waiting for ten minutes the tea still wasn’t enough cool to drink without danger. I managed my tea-problem in this way, that first I put some cool water in it. Then I could drink one half, for the other half the time was too scarce, so I poured it down in the sink.

After my brilliant way to solve the tea-problem, I was able to go to school. The traffic was horrible but I arrived at the school without an accident.

The first half of the school time this morning, we had a teacher called Helen. Her lessons were… let’s say: not so interesting. I won’t to tell more about this…

In the second half we had a teacher who’s called “Tendai”, I don’t know how to spell his name, but something like this it would be. His lessons were… let’s say: amusing. He has a kind of humor I like very much. So, the second half was much faster over than the first one. My fist impressions (I’ve only been here since Friday evening) about school here in Cambridge were that when we have a capable teacher, the lessons make sense and fun and I’m able to improve my English.

Because we only had 50 minutes of lunchtime, we went to McDonald’s. When you have only 50 minutes time to eat, you must have fast food, so McDonald’s. (It wasn’t really good food.)

In the afternoon I had to listen to some presentation about special places in Cambridge which had been prepared by the others.
The first one was by Thierry and Patrick about King’s College. I think their presentation wasn’t bad, but the two had a little bit an unfortunate way to present their work.
The second one was by Livia, Laura and Laurie about student’s life in Cambridge. It was interesting, because they had also talked to some students and had asked them about their opinion of this subject. Another good point was that they changed the location during the presentation. The only disadvantage was that sometimes it was very loud and I couldn’t hear what they said.
At least I voluntarily joined the presentation “Bridges of Cambridge” by Susanne and Bettina. This was also a successful presentation. They also showed us different places and told us something about the different bridges. For me it was especially interesting because I’d never seen the river Cam before. I noticed that there are a lot of really beautiful places around the river.

After the presentation I went to the Eagle with some friends to eat an apple pie with vanilla cream. I must say, I had never had any good experience with English food, but this apple pie… It was heaven on earth.

After this beautiful experience, heaven got lost and I was back in reality at a normal English dinner.

At approximately 8 pm I met the other guys and we went to the leisure centre to play bowling. It was very funny, but I lost all the games.

So, that’s it, all the experiences of a normal day of a Swiss student, who’s in England for only one week.

Oliver Gross

Monday, 17th of May 2010

This day began again with a lot of sunshine so we started the second half of our stay in a more or less motivated mood. After the short briefing in the cafeteria at around 9 o’clock, classes commenced. With our first teacher we had to make a short presentation with a poster about a country assigned by our teacher. But we didn’t have to present them in front of the class but in front of a video camera in a separate room and tomorrow we will probably watch them. I think it will be funny but also very embarrassing to see oneself on TV. After these again special lessons of our teacher we had classes with our second teacher Helen. With her we talked about crimes and punishment and played a little game: One half of the class was officers and the other half were suspects but one of them was also the robber. So in order to find the right one the cops had to make a police questioning. But first the suspects had to talk to each other in order to have the same story, but something had to be impossible so the officers could find the right robber. Before the lesson ended the cops had to say who the robber was but unfortunately we didn’t find him and had arrested one of the innocent suspects.
After lunch at McDonald’s we had our first project work presentations about King’s College, the Student’s Life and Bridges and the River Cam. But not every student has to go to every presentation. Everyone has got to do just one and to listen to two, otherwise it would be too exhausting.

After this interesting afternoon with lot of information we had time to ourselves. And after the not very delicious dinner we met at the roundabout which is close to everyone’s home and went to the Leisure Center where you can play some videogames, billiard or bowling. We decided to play bowling and after nearly two hours we were still bowling. But when it became too late we had to go home in order to be fit for the next school day.

Sunday, 16th May 2010

Today was another excursion day – we visited London and many of its famous places.

First of all we were at St. Paul’s Cathedral, with the quite huge, amazing dome.
Near Westminster Abbey we stopped, left the bus and split our two classes into three groups, which made some different tours through London.
So we visited, as I already said Westminster Abbey, the House of Parliament (with its clock tower; Big Ben), watched the Changing of the Guards, saw Trafalgar Square and ended our tour a bit later at Piccadilly Circus.
From then we had some time off, so we could, for example, buy a little souvenir for someone. [We were - like everybody from the continent - at !MC DONALD’S!, the last reasonably safe point of good taste in the whole United Kingdom, as Mr Weber had told us.]
So we spent the afternoon doing those different activities and made some interesting

experiences:

• In the Royal Park (everything is Royal in England, as Simon noticed) we sat down and fed some squirrels. They are so cute; also elder people become children if they look at these really cunning animals.

• After this trip through the Park with - you wouldn’t believe it - !Royal! grass, we met somepeople on roller skates, who skated through the streets, with music, a really peaceful demonstration.

• Also interesting were those souvenir T-shirts you can buy in many shops, with funny prints saying things like “(front) I am schizophrenic – (back) Me too”.

• Finally, we made a boat trip to the Tower Bridge, the very famous and great building across the river Thames.
  Our guide told us during the tour some interesting information like this: “London (!) has spent 9 Billion Pounds for renovation work for the Olympic Games in 2012!”

Thus, the day contained a really well mixed program with funny parts to laugh, boring parts to buy something to eat and amazing parts were you could only be astonished about this busy city.

Sunday, 16th May 2010

On Sunday I woke up a bit too late for the trip to London. But I wasn’t the only one… Then with a few minutes of delay, we left for London by coach. During the journey, Mister Morf often said something to the region or the city of London. I found it very impressive to see these big buildings. Our driver took us well to our first stop. There we could see St. Paul’s Cathedral, which was open for the tourists. After aproximately twenty minutes, we met in front of our coach for the continuation of our trip. While our chauffeur was driving through the city, we could see many special and interesting buildings. Along the street there were many little shops, e.g. candy shops, coffee shops or some pubs – and not to forget Mc Donald’s, which exists certainly more than ten times in the CBD! In the heart of the city, we could see a demonstration. The people demonstrated against the war in Afghanistan, I think. In the middle of the streets, they were camping on the grass and all around them, they had put some banners and signs with slogans on them.
After the bus ride, we split up into three groups. Each group went with a teacher for a short tour through the city. On this walk, among other things, we saw the Guards of the Queen near the Buckingham’s Palace. They walked along the street and some members of the band played the trumpet and another one cried some incomprehensible words. I think this is a real tourist attraction. Afterwards we were free to do what we wanted. In order to eat some “special London food”, we went to Mc Donald’s.
Next, we searched for the Hard Rock Café. The restaurant was very crowded and all the people there ate many chips, steaks and hamburgers. Inside the restaurant or café you can see a guitar or some clothes of famous stars, e.g. the guitar of Eric Clapton. Next to the restaurant, there was also a shop with many clothes, most of all shirts and pullovers.
To relax, we walked to St. James’s Park. There were many trusting and cute squirrels. Soon, we went on to find the meeting point at Westminster. Unfortunately at this moment it started to rain. This was the first time that it had rained since we arrived in England. Later we went on a boat ride and we could see the city from the River Thames. Our guide informed us about the different buildings and bridges. He told very interesting things but the jokes were incomprehensible for me… In front of the tower bridge our boat trip stopped and our journey in London as well. By coach, we went home (Camebridge) again. During the bus ride everybody was very tired but soon we arrived at the police station, where our bicycles were waiting.

Franziska Schleusser

Saturday 15th May

It was the 1st day in Cambridge without school in the morning, a perfect condition for a nice day. I had signed up for the excursion to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.

I got up at 8.45 and met my friends at 9.15 at the roundabout near our homes. We first rode to Tesco to buy some food for lunch and then we went to the train station, where we met Mr Bosshardt, who accompanied us to Duxford. We had to wait long because our bus was too late. While we were waiting, we blocked a man’s way and he didn’t catch his bus because of that. He was really angry later on. Finally our bus arrived and we arrived in Duxford after around a one-hour journey.
The enormous hangars, where all the planes and the other things of the museum were in, impressed us immediately. We got to the first hall whose name was AirSpace. I think that this was the best and most interesting hall. There were two giant rooms. In the first one, there were two very impressive planes. They were around forty metres wide and 10 metres high. In the second room, there were around thirty airplanes from different times and of different dimensions. Personally, the British Concorde impressed me the most. Then we went on and had a look at the different hangars with other planes, ships and tanks. We had agreed to meet at five o’clock, but at two p.m. we were sick to death of all the freaks and cadets who were walking around and we took the bus back home.

In the evening we agreed to meet to go to a park near by, talk a bit and play football with bottles. It was a nice evening and we went home at around 11 o’clock.
Altogether it was a nice day and we had a lot of fun.

Saturday, 14th May

On Saturday morning, I had to get up quite early, because I had to go by bus to our meeting point for this day. Normally, I would have gone by bicycle, but Ezgi, with whom I always go to school, had had a puncture the evening before so that she had to leave her bike in the city centre and we had to take the bus this morning. We had not gone by bus before, so it was rather challenging to get to the meeting point in the city centre, but we managed to get there on time.




Finally, we got on the bus to Newmarket, in a group of around 15 people, and arrived there after a -nearly 40-minute-ride. Newmarket is a cute town with approximately 15.000 inhabitants and is very famous for their horses. First, we visited a training ground, on which the riders could practice and there were lots of jockeys practising because there was a horserace this afternoon, and the horses passed by with an enormous speed.




After that, we had to hurry to catch the bus to the National Stud of Newmarket, which is very famous, too. There, we had a guided tour by bus and watched the mares being outside with their foals, and the stallions in their stables. These fastest and most successful stallions are treated like kings, which means that e.g. their hooves are lacquered and they get everything they want. Many horse-owners also want their mares to be covered by those strong stallions, which costs around 10’000 £. We also watched one of these coverings, which took place in a big stable, called “the honeymoon suite”, and last for up to two minutes, which was pretty annoying to us.
In the end, we left the stud and had to wait for nearly an hour until we got a bus back home. We got something to eat in a fast-food-restaurant which was really awful, and afterwards I went home and later on the evening had dinner with my host-mother and two of her friends.

Friday, 14th May 2010

Like every morning, the sun woke me up at 6am. But I could fall asleep again, and slept for one more hour. For breakfast, we had the typical English breakfast: cereals. That’s what one of our teachers had said. Then I went to school with Livia, Christophe and Julia. It took us 20 minutes to get there, 5 minutes less than the day before. There was a short briefing about the day before school, and then we went up in our respective classes. We didn’t see Ondine as usual. Another teacher came and said that he would be our teacher for the day. He also said that Ondine had lost somebody close to her. It was a sad moment.

During the lesson, two classes got together and we presented the meal we had had to invent the day before. The theme was: molecular cuisine. It was a very funny moment, because every meal was even more inventive and unrealizable than the one before. We had for example mountain with nitrogen which formed snow, or an egg which doesn’t flow.
Right after school, we had to choose if we wanted to go to the cinema, and if so, which film we wanted to see. We could choose between “Robin Hood”, and “The Back-up Plan”. I chose “The Back-up Plan”.
During the afternoon, we could go biking, but we had eaten so much at lunch that we couldn’t bike anymore. We went to a big park, and stayed for an hour, lying on the grass. Actually we could also work on our project word, but we had already done it the day before. Then we went shopping a little bit, and the afternoon was already over. Everyone returned back home for dinner.

The movie was funny. It was the story of a woman who wants to become pregnant. So she has an artificial insemination done, but right after this, she meets the man who will be the man of her dreams. So it was funny from beginning to end.
There wasn’t any special event today, but it has been quite a nice, relaxing day.

Friday the 14th of Mai 2010

From 9.00 to 13.10 we had school, but we met a new teacher because Ondine had to go to a funeral. Alex, the new teacher, was very friendly and he could give an answer to every question. The whole morning we were talking about our self-composed menus. Our task had been to create a famous, molecular, new menu (starter, main course, dessert) for a banquet of the Queen. We made a vote and the group of Christopher and Robin won. After that funny task we were talking about the pronunciation of English words. Sometimes it was very difficult to hear the differences between some words.
For lunch, some friends and me went to a bakery which is called West Cornwall Pasty. They sell traditional pasties which are handmade in Cornwall, and they were delicious. I had a pasty with cheese and vegetable.
After lunch we went on to Trinity College to work on our project work. We saw many things, like the chapel, the fountain, the library (where we saw some students studying too =)) and the famous clock of Trinity College. In the chapel we were allowed to listen to an orchestra and two opera singers. It was great and incredible to hear them in a chapel, it sounds so good.
For dinner I rode home by bus and ate very yummy chips with corn cutlet and heaps of pies. I like my host grandparents very much, because they talk a lot with me and they try to entertain me all the time. Liz, my host Grandma tries hard to cook something I like, mostly she makes the right choice and I like what she cooks very much.
In the evening, most of the class went to the cinema. The boys and a few girls watched the film “Robin Hood”, which is very bloody. Nine other people, Ms Fischer and me watched the film “The Back-Up Plan” with Jennifer Lopez. It was a lot of fun to watch that film but sometimes it was a little bit exaggerated.
The film finished at 10.00 pm and then the night began. Some class mates went to a club, some others were chilling and playing billiards and I took the bus to get home, because otherwise I wouldn’t have had a bus and then I would have had to walk home for 45 minutes, which would have been too dangerous. So I got home at 11.30 pm fell into my “springy” bed and slept till the morning.

Thursday, 13th May 2010

Another day here in Cambridge started and the day looked as if is was going to be a great day. We are on the British island, which you usually associate with rain. But well, the sky was blue and no cloud so far. School we discussed economy. First we had to discuss labels, their image and slogan. QANTAS has as the slogan “Spirit of Australia” and has got the image of a very safe Airline. Later we had to discuss food. We read about whether or not British food is the best food in the world. Well, I think everyone can decide that for themselves, but my opinion is that it’s not true. Of course it’s not bad everywhere you eat but can you find better food in many other countries. By the way, the weather changed a bit. Clouds appeared but nevertheless it was still warmer than on the days before.

But let us return to the food. My device for today was: You can’t go to England without eating the well-known Fish and Chips at least once. I could connect it really well with the project work. Jonas and I have to present the Eagle Pub and so we were dealing with its menu. So it can be said that the food is really good there. However, I’m not sure if I’ll eat Fish and Chips again. It wasn’t bad but it’s something you must try but that you don’t necessarily have to eat it again.

Cambridge also has an Airport. It’s not like those you fly to as a tourist, but rather for smaller prop airliner and small jets. There for it’s clear that I was really surprised to see a plane which used to be operating on longhaul flights. It’s a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar for those who are interested.

In the evening I first had to find my friends. They didn’t want to wait, but we finally met a bit later.

The rest can be described very quickly: The waiter forgot my order, the cakes weren’t to everyone’s taste and we chatted about funny anecdotes. And the day ended with low temperatures, like those before.

Roger Graber, 3md