Upload
misterclessons
View
223
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
8/8/2019 article sur l'change paru dans la revue d'Atlantic College 2008
1/2
For my project week I went on a trip to
Berlin with a big group of students from
the College. I had never been before and
was really excited about being in a city I
had heard so much about from
History class back home.
As we arrived at our hostel, one of
the first things we saw was a
section of the former Berlin Wall. It
was surreal to see it right there in
front of us and walk by almost as if it
were nothing, but at the same time be
fully aware of what it stood for only
twenty years ago.
On our first day in Berlin we walked
around the city and went to a few of the
main sights including the Reichstag, the
seat of the German Parliament, where
you can go on to the roof and get an
amazing view of Berlin.
During the trip we also visited a number
of the sights including the Brandenburg
Gate, Checkpoint Charlie and the Jewish
Museum. Every place was interesting and
brought to life what I had learnt at school.
One of the best things about the project
was getting to know everyone else from
AC better.
p o s t c a r d s
Postcard from Cadoxton Nursery
During project week we went to Cadoxton
Nursery School in Barry. The
School had
contacted our College and
asked students to help for one week in the
purpose of an exchange of cultures.
The school started at 9am for the first
group of children. Our first task was to
help them put their names on a board so
that the teachers knew the number of
children each day. The children were
divided into two groups which started
with the introduction of the day and date.
Afterwards most of the children went off
to play, outdoors and indoors so our
responsibility was to take care of theirsafety and get every child involved in
the games. While they were playing,
some of them were called to be
taught by their teachers. We helped
to prepare the snack time and to
clean up. The children thereafter
were told a story or they learned
from visitors coming from organisations.
The morning group finished at 11:30. We
had our lunch together with other
teachers to get ready for the next group
that started at 12:30. Both morning and
afternoon groups did the same session
which ended at 3pm. The children were
then picked up and we helped to tidy the
Nursery and prepare it for the next day.
from
We both enjoyed our project very much
and got an interesting insight into the
British Education system. The school
really enjoyed participating in project
week as well and have written to the
College inviting more students next year.
Kesey Sar (Cambodia) &
Lena Gorgen (Germany)
Postcard from the French
Exchange
This project week, eighteen of us
visited the small town of Ceret in
French Catalonia where we
participated in the French
Exchange. We stayed with host families
for five days and personally, after only
having started learning French at AC itwas quite an experience being immersed
in a household that spoke no English, but
it was a valuable lesson and I came out in
one piece.
In the morning we went to
classes
with our
hosts. It was a challenge
having to wake up at around six every
morning to catch the bus to school but itwas a neat change of scene and another
fantastic opportunity to spread the UWC
ideals! In the afternoon we visited
different sites around the region such as
8/8/2019 article sur l'change paru dans la revue d'Atlantic College 2008
2/2
proJe Chateau de Caladroy, Belesta, a four-
hour, 20km gruelling hike through the
mountains and the enchanting seaside
village of Collioure. On the last night
we had a tasty banquet that ended
ate in the night with boisterous
singing competitions, and I'm proud
o say that the AC team finished firstby a long shot.
The entire group fell in love with the
people and the culture and I, think
we all now want to pursue French at
university. I'd like to take this opportunity
o thank the "Conseil Regional du
Languedoc Roussil lon", "La Vil le de
Ceret" and "La DARIC" for their generous
contributions, as well as Monsieur
erome Campos for organising such an
enjoyable week. Merci mi lle fois! Nous
adorons la France!
Nikita Avdiushko (Russia/USA)
'. .
As March began, I along with three fellow
tudents set off for Northern Ireland. We
pent the first few days in a beautiful little
illage near the Giant's Causeway in the
North and, despite what I'm t old is t he
ypical Northern Irish weather - rain - it was
n enjoyable experience. We motivated
urselves to go out for rather wet but
nvigorating walks along the coast to see,
mongst other things, a narrow rope-bridge
hat hangs high above the sea joining a
mall rocky island to the mainland, and a
arbour, which due to the windy weather,
was truly amazing with great columns of
pray shooting off the rocks.
he highlight was going to see the Giant's
auseway; it looked exactly like huge
acks of giant fifty-pence pieces,
lthough it's commonly described as a
oneycomb. We also found the giant's eye,
oot, organ pipes and granny! We then
we
spent
our final couple of days
exploring Belfast City. A tour in a
traditional 'black taxi' revealed to us the
evidence of the Protestant and Catholic
separation as well as the murals and the
shipyard where the Titanic was built. The
trip was a really great experience and weall learnt how to invent some rather
interesting recipes due to limited
availability of ingredients!
Miriam Dobson (UK)
I was a bit apprehensive about going
to Yemen, as if you look on the British
Embassy's website it tells you to avoid
going at all costs. But we went, and it
was 'incredible', the sort of experience
that words like incredible don't really do
justice to.
The city itself was beautiful and the food
was delicious, especially when eaten with
your hands. The girls in our group decided
to adopt Yemeni dress for the week. This
wasn't compulsory, but we felt i t would
help us to fit in, which it did. We still
attracted lots of curious looks, but
nowhere near as many as when we f irst
arrived at the airport in our own clothes.
But more than to help f it in, I 'm glad I
wore it because I was able to experience
what it's like t o be so covered up like that.
The group attended a big event to mark
International Women's Day, where
a woman completely veiled spoke
passionately about women's rights.
This seemed hypocritical to m e, as I
saw the veil as oppressive, but
through being covered up myself, and
talking to Yemeni women about why
they wear what they wear, my view haschanged.
The Yemeni people were so hospitable.
Because of the way it's portrayed, Yemen
gets hardly any tourists, so people were
curious to know what brought us there.
We got to talk to many people just when
walking around the city, which was great
as we got to practise our Arabic, and find
out about their cultures, and they could
ask us about where we were from.
Our programme was organised by a groupof university students our Arabic teacher
Nidal Alcalde had met on a previous trip
to Yemen. They gave up their whole week
to spend time with us, and made the trip
what it was. We were able to
be much
------~.---,"!"""._------_.--..,
more than
tourists, and the night we left
they told us that we could go back to our
countries and be ambassadors for Yemen, .
telling people what it's really like.
Lauren Pilgrim (UK) >