Two years with Comenius! It all started in Year 7

Bordeaux

Before the arrival of our European friends, we prepared a video to tell

them about the weather forecast! What fun we had! Just take a look at

the photos!

The visit of our school, by Julia and Valentine

On the first day, we took our friends for a tour of our school.

Everybody said «Hello» to their new friends.

They attended lessons. They saw how the French students worked!

They met our principal and our teachers. Everybody was having fun! And

many boys said they loved the correspondent girls, or wanted to have

their telephone number!

In the afternoon, we had a sport tournament. There were three teams.

All countries mixed. We had much fun! Everybody ran!

And the green team won! I'm sure

they cheated! ; )

The visit of the Pyla Dune, by Julia

It is the highest dune of Europe and

the correspondents were so

surprised when they saw that.

When we arrived at the top of the

dune, what a surprising view!! They

were so amazed and they took many

photos of the Bassin d'Arcachon.

After, we were walking on the top when

some people wanted to do somersaults.

And then, everyone started that, and

that was so funny!!!!! :) So we were full

of sand!

We were laughing all the time! Then, we

went down and admired the view of the

Bassin d'Arcachon. The water was so

cold, so we didn't swim.

During the walk, two cute guys had had a good time throwing seaweed on

a girl' head. So she cried because she was cross; she didn't think it was

amusing! And she told the teacher.

Therefore, Mrs Cousty decided to give a lesson to the “cute boys” and

put seaweed back on their head.

They felt really humiliated, though it was not Mrs Cousty's intention!!!

They thought it was unfair!

The visit of Bordeaux, by Valentine

We weren't ready to do the visit of Bordeaux. We had not finished our

texts and we hadn't printed the exercises for the correspondents. But

we were enthusiastic and happy to be with our new friends!

But that was the worst disaster of the week!!!!

Only a few of us had prepared their text to explain the history of

Bordeaux, so the correspondents only looked at the monuments. We took

them to the Miroir d'Eau, the Notre Dame Church, the Place de la Bourse

and the docks of Bordeaux.

Some people visited a chocolate shop. And they loved that!!! There were

multicolor chocolates. They were amazed!!

The evening, by Julia and Valentine

On Wednesday, there was a little party. Everybody was there! We had a

wonderful dinner cooked by Mr Bebedcarrax.

A few weeks before, we had learned a dance... a traditional Basque dance

with Mr. Bedecarrax. We danced in pairs, a boy and a girl. And we

performed the dance that night!

But first it was the Swedish turn.

They danced “Waka waka” of

Shakira! It was beautiful!

The Dutch sang, danced, there were four groups :

And their final:

We were laughing due to the boys who were wearing pink scarves with

feathers!

And finally it was our turn to dance. We danced the traditional basque

dance, in pairs...

Mr. Bedecarax looked angry because

he was not satisfied with our

performance! XD

After the dance, the teachers offered

presents to the other teachers! Mrs.

Cousty was offered a grey sweatshirt and

Mr. Gioud had a stuffed reindeer:

And then everybody danced with the Swedish... It was really funny!!!

And this is a photo of us singing the

crocodile song.

Our flight to Sweden, by Marcel and Eddie

We left Bordeaux by plane very early, but we were so happy!

After two hours, we arrived at Amsterdam airport where we

bought lots of things in duty free.

Then many of us had fun in the airport; after that we took another

plane to Sweden. The steward gave us «food» which was not

comestible except for the great soda! After one hour, we saw

Denmark and Sweden through the window.

While we were landing, the families of our

correspondents were waiting for us.

Lost in the park, by Agathe and Manon

During our school trip which took place in Sweden, we lived a special

experience … This famous third day of our expedition in this cold

country...

We took the boat in the direction of Skansen that we nicknamed “the

park of the labyrinth”.

Groups were made, and we arrived in the middle of the park.

In the group, they decided to go for a

drink in a café, whereas Manon and I

preferred to continue our visit.

We saw several animals on our route. It was a

moment of pure

happiness.

We were not looking at the time and didn't know where we were heading

to... but we were simply enjoying! After a few minutes, we realized that

we were lost! We were really scared, so we started to run in all

directions, trying to keep cool and to look for a person who could help us.

But fortunately, we saw two teachers; we were relieved and became quiet

again. What a relief!

When we arrived at the entrance, we realized that everybody could have

left without us! It was time to go back !!!! :)^^

A skiing experience in Sweden, by Antoine Caliot and Albert

Flottsbro Friluftsområde

The second day, we took the bus to go to the hill to ski. Some guys learnt

to ski and others knew how to ski very well.

We skied all morning and after we ate hot dogs grilled on a barbecue

near a frozen lake. After eating, we went back skiing again and after this

very busy day some of us had a pizza with our family

The visit of Stockholm, by Edwin, Lucas, and Hugo

We visited the center of Stockholm.

We went to Österlmans Saluhall, a covered market.

That was the

first time we

ate reindeer

and elk. It

tasted very

nice but it

was

different.

We walked in shopping streets.

From Bordeaux airport to Amsterdam airport, by Antoine

Lacoste, Xavier, and Maximilien

We met at the airport to check in.

Behind the security doors, we ate

our breakfast...

And let's get on board!

Later, despite Mrs Cousty's advice,

we took our candies out and started

to eat them up...

And we also started reading

magazines.

After a 30-minute flight, the air

hostess brought us a sandwich

whitch we didn't like (Gingerbread,

mustard, curry and turkey...). Beurk!

After some time waiting, we had a

fun shopping tour: girls went to H&M

and the boys went to Burger-King!

Later we took the bus to Emerlood.

The Netherlands, by Marion Castay, Lucie, and Clara On Wednesday, we went to a

football stadium.

First, we felt like it would be

boring because we don't love

football, and it was very cold.

We were visiting the museum of

the stadium when the guide told us that we would

visit the private lounge. It was the best time of the day; we were sitting

and having a lot of fun. We looked like baby stars!

Then, we went on the pitch and could touch the

grass; the boys were very good substitutes but not

strong enough to play, the girls were the best

coaches in the entire world!☺ At the same time

Mme Cousty found her vocation, a gardener: she admired the grass for

ten minutes. At the end of the morning we had a tour in the stadium

souvenir shop.

It was a very good experience, we had

been stars for three hours in our life !

Ice-skating, by Louisiane, Yassmine, and Marine

Some were good, some were bad at skating! For some, it was the first

time!

It was funny… Many fell down, such as Louisiane, who skated into a

professional skate; Mrs. Cousty had a very tough time trying to remain

up!

This activity allowed us to get even closer to the others!

There was a small ice rink, which was for children, and there was a side

for professionals...

Unfortunately Marine and Yassmine had

lost the key to their locker where all

their belongings were kept. Finally, after

a long 30-minute wait, they found it

next to another locker!

A fantastic day in Alton Tower, by Valentin, Hugues, and

François

On the 3rd day, we went to Alton Tower, a

splendid theme park for everybody. Our

favorite attraction was «Oblivion»,

because we fell twenty meters down in a

very dark tunnel at a very high speed. At

the top of the attraction, Célia was so

scared that she didn't stop screaming .She

was screaming so much that our ears hurt!

We adored

«Nemesis»

and «Air»,

two

attractions

where we

were upside

down . Valentin has vertigo so he didn't try.

And, you're going to laugh: We didn't have a splendid guide because he

lost us many times but finally we arrived in a fabulous garden!!!

The last party, by Beryl, Marion Dulas, and Célia

For the party, we dressed well because our teacher had told us that the

English girls liked to dress really well for parties. So after one hour

of preparation, we were ready to go. Once there, we sat in the dancing

hall where they did performed a dance show.

After that we learned some hip hop steps and Mr Esteves thought he

was a professionnal dancer, it was sooo fun!!

All the French were seating at the same table And we noticed three

Swedish boys alone at another table . Don't laugh but when we sat at

their table, they left without saying a word!!At the end of this “party”,

we took a lot of photos with the other Europeans.