Cześć!
I am in Poland now, in Tychy. This is the school nr 10 and the children from English Club. The school patron is Gustaw Morcinek. There are two floors, two computer classrooms, the teachers' room, three gyms (one big and two very small), school gallery and the canteen.
We're going for a trip around the town.

We're near the statue of Richard Riedel. He was born 9 Sep 1956 and died 30 Jul 1994 He was a singer and songwriter. He was also the leader of a blues band - Dżem (Jam), where he sang and played the harmonica. You can listen to their songs on You Tube.

This is the Town Hall. The President of Tychy, Mr Andrzej Dziuba works here. You can get important document and arrange different cases.

And here we are next to the music school. children learn to play many instruments - guitar, violin, flute, piano, percussion, trumpet, clarinet, accordion, cello, double bass and viola.

Hurray, the swimming pool! Maybe we could go swimming? Here are 3 pools, a slide, sauna, gym and jacuzzi. On the second floor there is a hotel.

I want to be a newspaper reporter! This is the office of the local newspaper "Echo".

Look! The bears! And the fountain! This is "The Bears' Park" with the sand pit, slide, see-saws and three stone bears. They are 51 years old.

The hairdresser's "Kasia". A mother of our student, Natalia, is cutting clients hair. I want to try this!

We're going home on a trolley bus. Trolley buses are only in three cities in Poland - in Lublin, Sopot and in Tychy. They are electric vehicles.

In the end we are at the playground. It's a pity spring is so late. Normally it's green in Poland in April. Everybody is waiting for a better weather. 

Open air day

Last Friday – the day before one week of Winterholiday – we had an open air day. We went to a nature area, close to the only castle at Aland, called Kastelholm.

There we went downhill by sledges.

We brought something to drink with us, too. It is nice to have picnic out in the snow. The temperature was about – 3 degrees C. OK it is a little bit cold but with hot chocolate I could very well stand it.

We went there and home by bus and the busdriver was very kind to me.

I had to say goodbye to all and continue my trip. Bye Bye!

/Daisy

Teacher stand in

A little computer work is relaxing after all outdoor activities.

Yummy!

On Tuesday we ate  ”fastlagsbulle”. This is a small sweet bun, which is eaten filled with whipped cream and almond paste/ jam. They eat these to celebrate the beginning of lent, the time of fasting, leading up to Easter.

Erik served me one with jam so I tasted it. Yummy!

Skiing downhills

Here I am together with Mathias and his friend downhill skiing. You can see that Aland isn´t flat all over. It is a very nice view.

I was a little bit afraid, but they took good care of me.

They told me that there is just one place (this) where they can perform  downhillskiing at Aland.

I have arrived in Finland

Hello!
After a long time waiting for transportation in France I have now arrived in Finland.
My first day here, on Thursday, I went together with the pupils. They went skiing and as I don´t have any skis with me I was allowed to go in bag at Mathias back.

It was nice to be there and all pupils were very kind to me. 

Here you can see one of the girls in the class. She competes in skiing so she wears the official dress for skicompetitors of Aland Islands.

Later the same evening I went home together with Alexandra and in the evening we went skating. Exciting first day with lots of new sports to me.

Bye bye for now. You will hear from me again after the weekend!
/Daisy

My stay in France

 I was welcomed by my French friends, they were very happy to see me !

Here I am ! I  traveled safely and was happy to meet my new friends and be able to visit their school in Dormans.

 I sat with them in English class. Here the classes last 55 minutes. They have 4 hours in the morning from 8:30 to 12:30 (with a break at 10:30), and 3 hours in the afternoon from 1:30 to 4:30 (with another break at 15:30).

On this picture, I attended an English class. I was able to work with them. We learnt some English vocabulary and grammar. It was very interesting.