My favourite city

My favourite was Rotterdam. I didn't went with the school, I went with the family, but it was really nice! I liked it because there are a lot of shops, a big harbour(the biggest in Europe and one of the biggests in the world)... A really interesting thing was that there are boat taxis in the river, I took one and it was a good experience. In Rotterdam there is a big bridge to cross the river. The bridge name's Erasmus bridge. Another interesting thing was there is a european walk of fame. A bad thing was in the second world war almost all the city was destroyed, so is a very new city, but it´s nice.I liked very much this city!

My Match: Vincent

My match's name is Vincent Küttschreutter. He was born on the 14.2.1996 in Rotterdam. He lives in Bavel, a city near Breda, with his mom, his brother, his sister and his mom's boyfriend. He also has a cat. His favourite food is pizza, chicken and kebap. His favourites colours are green and red.

His hobbies are hangout with his friends, playing on his Playstation 3 and watching Tv. He likes playing football very much, and his favourite team is Feyenoord. He has football training twice a week, and once a week he trains a children team.

Van Gogh Museum

My favourite painting of Van Gogh is the undergrowth 1889. He paints the part of the forest that usually people don’t see. This painting has to be look with some distance for appreciate the things that Van Gogh paints. And here some explications of Van Gogh live. Van Gogh born on 1853 and die on 1990. Van Gogh paints 800 paints and more than 1000 drawings. He only paints all of his paints in 10 years. Van Gogh had epilepsy so he decides to go to a psychiatric clinic. He decides goes there when he cuts his ear. Van Gogh dies in Auvers-sur- Oise. The last picture of Van Gogh was the wheat camp with the ravens.  
Paula Salgado

	My favourite painting

The last painting of Van Gogh

VAN GOGH MUSEUM

My favourite paiting is The Pink Peach Tree because I like the colours and the sensations that that painting inspires to me. It inspires me tranquility and wellness. The colours are clear and bright . It looks like a snow tree but it's a peach tree with pink flowers because Van Gogh used a kind of paint that discolours, and in fact disappears.

Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He painted 900 paintings (including 27 self-portraits and 148 watercolors) and 1600 drawings. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life and died, largely unknown, at the age of 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

MY MATCH

My match name is Simone Reinshagen. She was born on the 3^rd of August 1996 in Holland. She lives in Breda in a house with her parents Fred and Carla and her sister Linda. The house is very beautiful and I like so much the decoration. Her room is big and she have a very nice bed and big too. In the garden they have 2 rabbits.

She has blond hair and green eyes, and I like very much her clothing style. She always go to the high school by bike. Her favourite food is pasta, she practise hockey and she's always chatting with her friends on the blackberry.

MY EXPERIENCE IN HOLLAND

My experience in Holland was very positive because these 10 days I learned english, I knew differents lifestyles and I made friends. The family of my exchange was very very nice, they tract me very good and they tried to speak english all the time so that way I could untersand they.

The first days my dutch and me didn't speak so much because we didn't know about the other and we were a little shy, but a few days later we spoke very much, and we had a very nice relation. I miss her and I can't wait until she comes to Spain!

I recommend to everyone to do an exchange because it's a great way to make friends and practise and learn english.

My match

 

My match name is Moniek Kokx. She had born on the 13-2-96 so she now has 15 years old. She is from Holland she lives in the city of Chaam on Glize Street. She goes to The Nassau School. Her hobbies are chilling with friends and playing soccer. Her favorite food is pizza and the food that she hates is meat because she is vegetarian. What she hates most is cycling a thing very strange thinking that the people use the bike for move in the city. In her mother’s house live her mother and her brother Remko and she. In her father’s house live her father and 2 cats. In the future she wants to be a layer and live in another house and have a Mercedes. So this is my match.  

My experience in Holland

My experience in Holland was fantastic. Naturally in my first day I was a little shy because I didn’t know very well but the mother was very nice with me she also has a brother but I hardly never took with him because he is never in the house. The house wasn’t so big but enough for 4 people living there.

By bad luck my exchange wasn’t very friendly with me she hardly never spoke with me and she never concerned how I was.

But this is less. I had a good time seeing all the cities that we visited and our free time for buy things. So this is my time in Holland.

Paula Salgado

MY FAVORITE CITY

My favorite city, without doubt, is Amsterdam. I love this city. My first impression was there are a lot of bicycles, people, traffic, monuments and shops. We walked a lot on the city, to see different important places. We visited the Anna Frank’s house, Red Light District (that are streets with bitches in the windows), Van Gogh museum, monuments, squares… There are different shops and when we went to shopping and I bought a lot of presents for my family. In the Van Gogh museum we had a guide that she explained us the paintings of Van Gogh and a little bit of his life. I want to live there but the only drawback it has is the weather; always almost it’s very cold and raining.  

Júlia Montaner Soldevila

KAMP VUGHT

It is a concentration camp where the Nazis killed people of toher races simply because they were different. The Nazis told to he families taht they bring to a new place, the best place where tehy could be better. The families that they belived all were separated forever. Entrabts to the filed the children were left over an they killed more directly and the men were working where requierd great force. They only were a numbers with a strioed clothers.

For me, this issue gives me great respect, alwasy the people tal about this 'm very sorry for all the families that were separated and killed by didn't do anything.

What surprised me was that Jews or people of other races, the place they liked best were the bathroom, because the guards closed the door by the smell it did, and then the Jews could talk about the things, send letters, plan strategies to escape...

Júlia Montaner Solevila

VAN GOGH MUSEUM

Vincent Van Gogh was a famous painter who was born in Holland, 1853, and was died in France, 1890. Ne had neither children nor women, only a married brother. He painted 900 paintings (including 27 self-portraits and 148 watercolors) and 1600 drawings. He is famous because, in addition to paintings, he cut off his ear.

My favorite painting that I saw in the museum is “Los girasoles” because it is a contrast between the colors, that are clear and bright, and the position of the flowers is looking down. This painting it´s very famous and I listening a lot of people talk about it.

Júlia Montaner Soldevila

MY MATCH

Her name is Jaimy van der loop. She has got 14 years old and she is very nice! Her hair is blond and she has got a brown eyes. She is a little bit shy and funny. Her family is very nice too. She has got one bother whose name is Jordy, and her parents are Bianca and Ron. Her house is very bigger than my house. It is very modern and I like it so much. They have got a garden with a fireplace and one Jacuzzi. Her favorite food is pizza and she really likes the shoes. She always listening to music and she don’t talk a lot. I had very good days with them.

Júlia Montaner Soldevila

MY EXPERIENCE IN HOLLAND

My experience in Holland was great. From the very first day to the last day they tract me like a queen and with my exchange have been perfectly, even at first cost because we are a little bit timid. During those days I had to speak English, I learned a lot from this language and know myself well on express not understand something. I learned some words in Dutch too. I think it's a unique experience that must be seized.

Júlia Montaner Soldevila

My favorite city

My favorite city is Amsterdam. My first impression was the greatness of the city and the lot of shops that has different. We walked a lot of for the city, walk in Amsterdam is difficult because it have tram, and you have to be watching all the time. The visit to the Van Gogh museum was very short, the guide told us just three or four paintings, and there are a lot of. We can see the red light district and the home of Anne Frank. I was surprised the red light district, for bitches in the windows, in Catalonia are only at roundabouts and it’s better as they do in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam I buy presents for my family. Amsterdam is ok, but I prefer live in Vilanova, because the weather in Holland is very cold and sometimes it’s raining. These last days I felt tired. In Holland we had a great time, spring was coming.

Joana Sisa Carbonell

Kamp Vught

In this concentration camp like many other children were nuisances. The Nazis told the families that children would lead to a better camp for them. Families believed it all, they thought the children would be better, but all they did was to separate children and once in the concentration camp, were killed in the chamber of gas. All those families with the name and a life ... in the end they were only numbers with striped clothing.

When we were entering the rooms of cremation of people who died from beatings and starvation, and showed us the rooms of punishment, all damp and dark, I collapsed. For me all this things are terrible. I felt very sorry for all those families who were separated and could not see anymore.

Joana Sisa Carbonell

Van Gogh museum

I have chosen this painting for his colors, the beauty of the design and his history:

On January 31, 1890, Theo wrote to Vincent of the birth of his son, whom he had named Vincent Willem. Van Gogh, who was extremely close to his younger brother, immediately set about making him a painting of his favorite subject: blossoming branches against a blue sky. The gift was meant to hang over the couple’s bed. As a symbol of this new life, Vincent chose an almond tree, which blooms early in southern regions, announcing the coming spring as early as February.

Joana Sisa Carbonell

My match

Her name is Jamie van der Stelt, she is 16 years old and was born on October 5, 1994. She is from Breda and lives there, in a house. Jamie have 1 brother, his name is Mike, and four pets, three dogs and one horse.

She usually gets up at 7 o’clock and goes to the bed at 10 o’clock. Her hobby is horse ridding. Her favorite TV program is Jersey Shore. She likes reggeaton and in her free time she goes chill with her friends. Jamie likes Dönner Kebab and she hates some type of pasta. At 6 o’clock they take the dinner. She prefers the sea, and in the summer she and her family go to Blanes for three weeks.

                                                                                               Joana Sisa Carbonell

My experience in Holland

It was fantastic. We had a great time, with sun and worm. The excursions are interesting. The teachers have left us much free time and we con go where we wont. All cities were beautiful. The food is very different and the hours for eat too. My match is very nice and we understood perfectly. We go everywhere by bike.  They have the TV in English subtitled Dutch, is really strange. The houses have big windows. All I can say is that I really enjoyed it and everything I liked.

Joana Sisa Carbonell

MY EXPERIENCE IN BREDA

Hi!! Everybody I'm Tatamo We stay now in Holland, It's very cold, But when we arrived in here ,the weather was very good. Kiki, is my correspontend. She's very nice girl and very beautiful. Her parents and her brother are very good with me, they are really nice people. But the firt day I felt strange in here. Now I fell very well.
Yesterday, we were to go visit Kinderdijk and the Hague (17 March).In Kinderdijk we were visit the windmills, It was very interesting place and after we were visit the Hague, It''s a big city, in the free time we were ( my friends and me) go to shopping and visit the nice place.
We were have very funn!!! I hope you enjoyed it! Goodbye!!

The Travel.

At ten a.m. we had to be at school. Everyone carried large bags and backpacks. We waited for the bus for 15 minutes.

Up on the bus we met the students of Montgros. The bus ride was quiet, we where listening to music and talked all about our match. At the airport the first thing we embarked, some people had problems with the weight of the suitcase. Then we went for breakfast and then we boarding the plane. When we estay in plane we played UNO, read megazines, talk abotu the trip... The trip longed one hour and 50 minutes aprox. When we arrived at aiport of Breda we were very nervous for we can do, find, etc.

We are in Breda

Hi,

we are in Breda and is very cold. On Tuesday we arrived at Breda, at six o'clock the dutch came  and they took us to theirs houses.

on Wednesdey we went to the school and did the diary. The diary goes about what we do all the day. on afternoon we went to  saw a soccer match and we enjoied it. And also to play hockey field.

On Thursday we visited Kinderdij the windmills they are very beautiful and so big. then we went to Den Hauge here there is the parlament and where queen lives. here we also went shopping there are very good shops but they are so expensive.

Today Friday we are doing the diary and writting in the blog at afternoon we are going to Belgium by bike.

Holland

Holland is a very nice country, because all the people go everywhere cycling. Almost all the people play football. The houses are vey beautiful. The wheather isn't so good, every day is cloudy, but we're lucky as it isn't raining. De Nassau school is a very big high school, but for the Dutch students is small. I live in a village 20 minutes cycling from the school. My partner is Vincent, and he's a good and friendly . The first day, Vincent was sick, but now he's better.