Last exchange day

It's really, really sad I know but unfourtunatly the end of our exchange is here. Now it's time to go home, do homework, and came back to the real lessons.

It's strange yesterday at this time I was on a plane coming home, but only a few hours before I was in the Netherlands, spending my last exchange day with the best exchange people I can ever met.

During this five days I had a lot of emotions, great moments, I found really nice people, I found similarities between the dutches and the catalans but at the same time differences. I tasted some new foods I didn't known until last week. I... I... I just had the best time I ever had before on my life.

It has been a really amazing experience, I met some new friends I wont forget, I found a girl who sometimes could be just like me. Because of our way to think act and all that... I WONT FORGET THAT EXCHANGE!

We do not pass a really long time with them but It has been an amazing time and they weren't just normal people. They were our exchange people! During this five days I had a lot of emotions, funny moments, tiring days, I visited a lot of places and know I start to realize what I really did this five days. THESE REALLY AMAZING FIVE DAYS!

It's strange the think yesterday I was in the Netherlands and now home againg, but it's ok.

By the way yesterday morning we visited the tower of Utrecht, there were a lot of stairs but at the end we could observe Utrecht on a really amazing way. Then we went climbing, it was triring and funny, I could arrive at the top one time! Just after that we went to school and we had the "good-bye party" everyone was crying and it was really sad and emotional too.

So during this five days I really discovered how similar Aoife and me are. On Barcelona I thought we were similar but now I'm absolutely sure. But never so similar as Sara and Iris, of course.

But like it's says in Spanish "Lo breve y bueno dos veces bueno" So the exchange it's just like that and like that it's how it has to be maybe It could be longer or shorter but like that it's just AMAZING!

Sunday in the Netherlands

Sunday, The last hold day in the Netherlands. Today I got up around 9.30 we have breakfast, with a lot of thinks like bread yogurts, eggs, bacon....

After that I went with all the family of my exchange partner to Madurodam. Madurodam is a place where you can see everithing which is in the Netherlands in a small size. It's like "Catalunya en miniatura". It was great so after that we got something to drink and bought some souvenirs. Now I have souvenirs for everyone,great!

When we came back we just prepeared ourselves for Calvin's party. I spend all the afternoon there with almost all the exchange people. Then I went to a restaurant to have dinner.I was really hungry but on that restaurant we ate pancakes. Mine was a "Sicilian pancake" It was not bad but It was too big. So now I'm not hungry anymore until tomorrow.

Just after that I came back home and we eat a cake, I almost couldn't eat the cake because I was really full with the pancake.

Now I already start packing again, now it's more difficult because I bought things so, let's see.

I really don't want to leve Netherland here i feel like the day is longer It's bussy however at the same time it's funny. Here everyone lives like in the American films. They almost don't have clases and.... I think I could stay here for at least a week more because It's not really bad. But the true is that I'm absolutely tired. Anyway I don't want to leave! I like that!

Tomorrow will be a long, long day. Unfourtunatly the worse day of all the exchange.

PD. Mama, papa hoy no he hablado con vosotros pero bueno manyana ya nos vemos. Estoy llenisima ahora mismo aunque esta tarde era todo lo contrario... como aqui no comen, solo cenan pues.... Pero bueno, todo genial!

Starting my Dutch weekend!

Today is the first day of my Dutch weekend. This morning I woke up at 9.16 when Farner's called me because she was on the way of our home. After insisting a bit yesterday we finally get it! Today Farners came with me to Aoife's match instead of go to Wazjma's cousin place. We spend there almost all the morning and when we where on the way of came back home in the car we both start telling each other what do we wanted to eat in that moment, because it was "spanish lunch time" and we concided! After this amazing morning we wnt home we had shower and we ate something.

Then we went to the river and there I had a lot of fun with Marina just takeing to ourselves silly pictures. After that we went to Emely's place where we had dinner and we had a party. It was awesome I'll remember the best moment of the night which it was when we were all around the fireplace with the guitar and singing "wake me up when september ends" I really loved that It was like in a film... I don't have words to express that because I never thought the simpliest thing of the exchange would be the one I loved the most until now!

By the way, today when I was about to have a shower my aunt called me because she heard about a man who start shooting people on a mall in Holland.

It's really a shame that this has an end. And this end is every moment closer because I don't want to leave yet I want to stay here for at least a month but eating vegetables and fruit. I want to eat vegetables and fruit. Today on Emely's party everyone was eating meat and I was eating tomatoes with Oscar and Marina!

PD. Acabo de hablar con vosotros y como ya he dicho lo que mas se hecha de menos son las comidas, comidas. Aqui durante todo el dia chuminadas y pan solo cenan. Ahora mismo un arroz con tomate y luego un lomo rebozado o libritos, o croquetas acompanadas de una ensalada. Y unas fresas o un platano por postre.... entrarian genial. Ya que tampoco comen casi fruta

Visiting Amsterdam!

Today the third day on the Netherlands. We went to Amsterdam. There we visit Anne Frank's home It was really cool, then we visited Rijksmuseum, a painting museum. There we did some activities I had plan to kept them and put it on my portfolio but one of the Netherland teachers kept them.

After thet we had free time the most of people went to McDonalds but I decided to go with Joana, Anna, Paula and Miriam to buy souvenires. I bought a sweatshirt and some presents for all the family. Then we bought french fries and we ate them on the street. After that we went to the meeting point were we had to meet the rest of the group and the teachers. Just after that we took a boat and visited Amsterdam. It was so fun because we found a building called Nemo and Farners and me started saying "we found nemo" because of the film. And we laugh a lot with that. Then we had to wait for a long time the bus because it was lost.

When we arrive at the school we take our bikes and we ride until we arrived home. At home we ate pizza because we were late to have dinner. After having dinner and relaxing a bit we went to Tom's party, there we had a lot of fun eating and jocking and singing while Elisenda or Joyce or someone plays the guitar. We left the party an hour earlier than the others but it was great anyway.

It has been a full but great day. I'm really tired lucky tomorrow I don't have to wake up so early.

PD. Mama, papa. Acabo de cenar pizza asi que genial! Ya he hablado con vosotros hoy pero bueno.

Great Thursday on the Netherlands!

So yesterday I can not write about what we did because we arrived too late at home and almost everyone was sleeping so now I'm gonna explain all we did yesterday. So we get up at 7 o'clock on the morning and we meet Sara, Iris, Adriaan and Oriol to go cycling all together to the school. So when we arrive we just divided in two gorups so as we were on the second group at the first lesson we did and interview with our exchange partner.

After that our partners teach us some dutch so I learn how to rob a bank in dutch, you know, really nice and useful..... But it was really funny we laugh a lot because we teach them in spanish too. After that we had to do a kind of poster of europe but we didn't have much time so we didn't finished on time. At the end we did PE so it was really fun, we were doing gimnastics and then we play dutch ball that it's like a kind of shoot ball.

On the afternoon we went to Utrecht with Paula, Iris and Sara and there we met Wazjma and Farners. So after that I came back home and we had dinner the "typical Dutch meal" So I though it won't be tasty but it was ok at the end, I sure you I was really afraid of the dinner when Aoife told me what we'll have for dinner. I was absolutely scared about it!

After having dinner we met Adriaan, Ai Xi, Marina and Oriol and we went to the swimming pool. We really had a really good time there! then we came back it was too late and we had shower and went to sleep. And I couldn't wrote it because almost everyone was sleeping and the computer was closed.

PD. Papa, mama hoy ya he hablado con vosotros pero bueno, por aqui todo genial por el momento, me tratan bien, la comida, se puede comer y hoy en el desayuno habia chorizo de pamplona! jajajaja..... ya lo se venir a holanda para comer chorizo de pamplona...

1st day in the Netherlands!!

Hello! Today was an AMAZING day. So we got up at 3 o'clock in the morning and we met all the other Catalan students in front of the school. All of us were really, really, really nervous and almost anyone can slept well. So we took the bus to the airport. While we ere waiting for the plane we gave to Farners her presents. After beeing at the airport just freaking out we took the plane and wer arrived to the Netherlands at 9.00 am. Later we took another bus and we met the Dutch students in front of Cals College. All of us (catalan and dutch students) start screaming and no one knows why yet. So we did some activities and one of them we won.

At 3.00 o'clock we met at the mill with some of the exchange people we ate ice-cream and then we visted the mill. After that Iris, Sara, Aoife and me we went to Joanita's place but she wan-t there so we called her and she was on another ice-cream with Lieke and their partners. So we came back to the ice-cream and we were there until we decided to go back to Joanita's place to play Sing Star.

Aoife and Iris told to Sara an me that Joanita's place was really close to their homes but it was not true! And Sara and me thought that they were lost.

My bike is so big and I almost can not touch the floor, but it's ok.

While we were riding to Joanita's place for the second time I had two accidents, one because a man and me tried to pass at the same time for the same place, and another because I was behind Joana and he suddenly stops the bike so I moved to the right and she did it too so we both impact with each other.

But as I was not the only one who had problems with the bike. Sara and a woman tried to pass at the same time for the same place but finnally the woman stops and they do not have an accident but that woman say something in dutch to Sara, screaming her so we thing she insults her in Dutch.

At 20.30 we met some of the students who live in Ijsselstein and we were talking and having a great time. When we came back I almost had a bike accident when Oriol was driving me, because we do not have the practice Adriaan and Aoife have!

PD: Mama, papa ya he hablado con vosotros por aqui todo genial!!!

Ready for our trip!

After a bussy afternoon just prepearing my suitcase for our traveling to the Netherlands. Tomorrow morning at 3.45 will be at school just for take the bus to the airport.

I'm really glad, excited for our traveling it will be LEGENDARY!

Tomorrow on tecnology class I was prepearing a list of things I have to take on my suitcase with Oscar and Irene, you know, for don't forget a thing.

After prepear my suitcase I measure how hard is it and it's about 12, I thought I would be heaviest.

Here I post some pictures of my suitcase!

I'm really looking forward at the moment we will meet again all the dutch students. I've been talking with them and there are a lot of plants, parties, movies noights, singstar afternoons, swimmingpool, maybe canoeing. I think that will be the best experience I ever had. So it's time to enjoy it as much as we can because when we come back all will be like always. So at the

moment we arrive there until the moment we come back... we must have a really COOL-SMOOTH time (as my exchange partner, Aoife, and me use to said^^).

So now.........TO ENJOY THE EXCHANGE EVERYBODY!!