Hey everyone, this weekend we went to Brighton on Saturday, and we had chapel on Sunday.
On Saturday morning, Laura, Charlie and I went to the Oxshott train station, a 10 minute walk, to see our train departing. We had to wait half an hour before the next one came. After that, we had to change in Wimbledon to the tram service. After a long sit in a constantly stopping tram, we arrived at East Croydon train station. We then ran to catch our train just in time to go to Brighton. This train was much better than our first train, and we thought we accidentally sat in the first class (which we didn't). After one and a half hour in the train, we arrived in Brighton, where the other exchange students (Steijn, Leonie and Ida) picked us up. We first went to the pier, which was great fun. There I ate a hotdog, and went to the arcade and some sort of small fair with a rollercoaster and other attractions. Then we went to the mall, where Charlie, Steijn and I did not very much, but looking for the table tennis-table that wasn't there. Time flew by, and it quickly became time for supper. We decided to go for pizza. After fife minutes we found a very good looking restaurant, and we had dinner there. After the delicious pizza, we had to go back to Reed's already, because of the long journey, so we said goodbye and hopped on the "nice train" again, just in time (luckily). We hopped of on Clapham Junction, to figure out that there were different schedules due to maintenance. We took the train to Wimbledon, and from there we managed to find a train that did go to Cobham. From Cobham we took a taxi to Reed's, where we arrived at around ten o'clock.
On Sunday I didn't do much, I only studied a bit for the ANW PTA of Monday. In the evening we had to go to chapel. There we were told about Christ and the resurrection. All because of Easter of course. It wasn't too bad, because it didn't take the entire evening, and it wasn't too boring.
This was the weekend update, there will be one final post when I get back home, and untill then, see ya.
Monday, 25 March 2013
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Dutchies and Test Week
Here we are again, this is my last full week at Reed's, I willl be staying 4 days next week, and then I'll be flying home already. Time flies having fun.
This week is the test week in Wassenaar. I have to make Math B and D, Latin, Greek, Dutch and ANW over here at Reed's. At this moment I have already finished Math B, and I have a good feeling about it. My next tests are 2 x Latin this Thursday. Friday I have to make Dutch. The next week (the 4 days), I make ANW on Monday, Math D on Tuesday, and the last one is Greek on Thursday; my final day. You might be wondering: 'Why does he then write a blogpost when he has got so much stuff to learn?' Excellent question audience. My answer is: I have many frees (free periods), and right now, I have one, so I have all afternoon to study, Yeah!! This way I spend my school time on the blog, and I will have preptime at Reed's in the evening to prepare for the Dutch tests. By the way, I am uploading this in the evening, because i didn't have 5 minutes to finish.
Also, on top of that, the Dutch 2nd grade students have their England-trip, so we receive them at Reed's today (Tuesday), Wednesday and Thursday. We will give them a tour and show them the Reed's school and all that is part of it. It was a lot of fun today, so I think that will relieve some stress. Also, one of the Dutch people has got toothpaste for me, which is really nice since I am running out at critical speed.
That is roughly the plan for the last 10 or so days of my exchange to Reed's. I will post something next week, and possibly something around the weekend. Stay tuned.
This week is the test week in Wassenaar. I have to make Math B and D, Latin, Greek, Dutch and ANW over here at Reed's. At this moment I have already finished Math B, and I have a good feeling about it. My next tests are 2 x Latin this Thursday. Friday I have to make Dutch. The next week (the 4 days), I make ANW on Monday, Math D on Tuesday, and the last one is Greek on Thursday; my final day. You might be wondering: 'Why does he then write a blogpost when he has got so much stuff to learn?' Excellent question audience. My answer is: I have many frees (free periods), and right now, I have one, so I have all afternoon to study, Yeah!! This way I spend my school time on the blog, and I will have preptime at Reed's in the evening to prepare for the Dutch tests. By the way, I am uploading this in the evening, because i didn't have 5 minutes to finish.
Also, on top of that, the Dutch 2nd grade students have their England-trip, so we receive them at Reed's today (Tuesday), Wednesday and Thursday. We will give them a tour and show them the Reed's school and all that is part of it. It was a lot of fun today, so I think that will relieve some stress. Also, one of the Dutch people has got toothpaste for me, which is really nice since I am running out at critical speed.
That is roughly the plan for the last 10 or so days of my exchange to Reed's. I will post something next week, and possibly something around the weekend. Stay tuned.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Pictures of my room
Finally, here they are, the first pictures of my room. It looks fine yet small in the photos, but right now, it is a big mess. I am not going to show you photos of my mess, because this might cause brain damage. Here they are (the toilet isn't actually in my room) :
Monday, 11 March 2013
CCF
I am back people!
I have just returned from a 3-day CCF trip into the wild. We left on Saturday afternoon, to set up a camp, and patrol. This seemed fun, but it got a bit boring, because after 5 hours of sentry duty, nothing had happened. The same for the night duties. I was lucky to have one from 6 till 6.30, but others had one from 4 till 5, and I am talking about am time. This was the start of a new freezing day. I had only two undershirts and the regular Cadet kit, but luckily I have a weird metabolism that makes it hard for me to feel cold. Just to give an example, all I wear in the winterweekends is one undershirt. I put on my gloves, and was ready for Sunday. On Sunday morning we went out to "attack" our enemies, but I wasn't allowed to carry a rifle, because I had not done a safety test. In the afternoon, we went for a hike of around about 14 kilometers. It was not exhausting, but mostly boring, because we had to walk one gigantic lap around a shooting range. My team came in second, which was pretty good, because we left as last team. In the evening we went to sleep in barracks rather than the bashes/tents we slept in the first night, because the temperature was about to drop to -8 degrees Celsius. Monday morning we woke up at 6 o'clock. After a quick breakfast We had some survival lessons about traps, shelter, clean water, and making fire. We then had to show what we had learned in teams by making fire, setting traps, and building shelter and finding clean water. I made a pretty good fire, which means that my team had a well cooked trout to eat. There was however a lot of smoke, making my eyes tear, and I still smell like it whilst I am writing this. In the afternoon, we went clay pigeon shooting with shotguns. After a quick instruction, we, in teams of four, had to shoot as many flying dishes as possible. I hit 6 of the 80, which was pretty good, because it was my first time, my shotgun blocked after the first 50 dishes, and most people didn't reach 5 hits. Call of Duty is good for something after all. Then we went back to Reed's, to have some rest.
That was my exiting weekend, I still have to upload my photos of my room (which is a big mess). The next post I will do it. I got this. Peace out.
I have just returned from a 3-day CCF trip into the wild. We left on Saturday afternoon, to set up a camp, and patrol. This seemed fun, but it got a bit boring, because after 5 hours of sentry duty, nothing had happened. The same for the night duties. I was lucky to have one from 6 till 6.30, but others had one from 4 till 5, and I am talking about am time. This was the start of a new freezing day. I had only two undershirts and the regular Cadet kit, but luckily I have a weird metabolism that makes it hard for me to feel cold. Just to give an example, all I wear in the winterweekends is one undershirt. I put on my gloves, and was ready for Sunday. On Sunday morning we went out to "attack" our enemies, but I wasn't allowed to carry a rifle, because I had not done a safety test. In the afternoon, we went for a hike of around about 14 kilometers. It was not exhausting, but mostly boring, because we had to walk one gigantic lap around a shooting range. My team came in second, which was pretty good, because we left as last team. In the evening we went to sleep in barracks rather than the bashes/tents we slept in the first night, because the temperature was about to drop to -8 degrees Celsius. Monday morning we woke up at 6 o'clock. After a quick breakfast We had some survival lessons about traps, shelter, clean water, and making fire. We then had to show what we had learned in teams by making fire, setting traps, and building shelter and finding clean water. I made a pretty good fire, which means that my team had a well cooked trout to eat. There was however a lot of smoke, making my eyes tear, and I still smell like it whilst I am writing this. In the afternoon, we went clay pigeon shooting with shotguns. After a quick instruction, we, in teams of four, had to shoot as many flying dishes as possible. I hit 6 of the 80, which was pretty good, because it was my first time, my shotgun blocked after the first 50 dishes, and most people didn't reach 5 hits. Call of Duty is good for something after all. Then we went back to Reed's, to have some rest.
That was my exiting weekend, I still have to upload my photos of my room (which is a big mess). The next post I will do it. I got this. Peace out.
Friday, 8 March 2013
Police Officer
Day 12, still no open internet access before 8:30, still almost nowhere a signal on my phone. Blogger does seems to work, so I thought "Hey, why not do an update?"
Last monday the sixth form had a meeting with a former police officer. He told us about his job, and some cases from when he was a young cop. He showed us the most disgusting photos of a woman who jumped of a building, and fell trough a metal grid, causing her legs and head to be taken of her body. The head laid about 10 meters from the body. Then there was a pimp who shot his prostitue and then himself with a shotgun. Gross to say the least. The third and final case was that of a mentally handicapt boy, whose mother died, but he didn't know for about a month. Her head was eaten by maggots. You get the picture. The police officer seemed a nice man though...
This weekend I am going on a CCF-camp/trip. I'll be staying somewhere in the outdoors from Saturday untill Monday. I got my clothes and all that, and some smelly rations. After one day, I almost couldn't bear my room, so I put it away in the closet.
Also, the Reed's students got their grades this Thursday. Apearantly, everybody was disappointed, even a guy who had all A's (most people got D's and C's).
This was week two for me, I will try to get some pictures of the CCF weekend...
Last monday the sixth form had a meeting with a former police officer. He told us about his job, and some cases from when he was a young cop. He showed us the most disgusting photos of a woman who jumped of a building, and fell trough a metal grid, causing her legs and head to be taken of her body. The head laid about 10 meters from the body. Then there was a pimp who shot his prostitue and then himself with a shotgun. Gross to say the least. The third and final case was that of a mentally handicapt boy, whose mother died, but he didn't know for about a month. Her head was eaten by maggots. You get the picture. The police officer seemed a nice man though...
This weekend I am going on a CCF-camp/trip. I'll be staying somewhere in the outdoors from Saturday untill Monday. I got my clothes and all that, and some smelly rations. After one day, I almost couldn't bear my room, so I put it away in the closet.
Also, the Reed's students got their grades this Thursday. Apearantly, everybody was disappointed, even a guy who had all A's (most people got D's and C's).
This was week two for me, I will try to get some pictures of the CCF weekend...
Monday, 4 March 2013
Loads and loads and loads of stuff to write about
It has been a few days sinc my last update, and lots of things have been going on, so I thought, why not use a few of my frees (free hours) to blog about it. Now be prepared to be overwhelmed by information. Oh, and by the way, the 'e' key on my keyboard doesn't respond very well, so there might be a few e's missing.
On Thursday, I finally found out in what house I am. At Reed's, everybody is in one of the four houses. My house is Bristowe, colourd red, together with Charlie and Laura. The houses are mostly used for competition at Reed's. There was a hockey match planned between the houses, but it was cancelled that same afternoon. There are also many normal hockey teams, and I am in the C team. We train on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Thursday afternoon, the three of us went with some friends to a local corner shop. We had to walk through the woods for about 15 minutes, but it was a relief to have some sweets and coke (no worries, it's coca cola) in my room. The showers at the sixth form house are a real pain in the foot, because they are on a set, unchangable temperature of scorching hot. Something else I noticed is that despite the security meassures to block social networking, Skype works normally when you have downloaded and installed it on your laptop. Win for me.
I also took some pictures of my room, that I will try to upload this week, if the internet allows it. The light in my room still isn't fixed, eventhough I was promised it would have been fixed Thursday. We also had a fire practise on Thursday, during prep. It was perfectly timed, because prep was over the minute we walked back to the sixth form house.
On friday there was a cake sale by one of the houses, so I decided to take a cupcake. It wasn't very tasty however, because it contained cornflakes.
Saturday morning there was an open morning at Reed's, so there were many parents looking around. I felt being watched at, but we (Laura, Charlie and I) went off to Kingston with two friends that afternoon. We sat about 2 hours in the Starbucks, because that was the only place with Wifi. I, as you may know, have a simple nokia, which means that I had to study my piano homework, which I inceidentally left in my pockets. It was great fun though.
On Sunday the same three of us went with the train to London to meet the other exchange people from Lewis. We had a great time, and went to the M&M store, had a free espresso at the Nespresso store (it was disgusting). We also went to the TGIF, where we had a big American lunch.
One thing I miss from the Netherlands is the Dutch tv. Last sunday, I had to watch Who is the Mole in my room on my laptop. It was very exiting though, because it almost was the final episode.
The people here are all very nice, despite the fact that they are older than we. Many of them have acadamic, sports, or musical scholarships, which means that almost everybody is good at something.
Some things that are different in England that caught my eye are that the car brand Opel doesn't exist. In stead, they have Fauxhalls, which are completely identical to their Europian brothers. The money here is also hard to get used to. There are some really weird shaped, and the one pound coin is really fat.
Today (monday) I went to the CCF, which is a kind of like the army. We are going on camp for the entire next weekend. I haven't got the equipment, but I have collected my rations, and it is not too bad, since there is chicken, and other good food in it.
That is about it for now, I will try to upload some visable evidence asap.
On Thursday, I finally found out in what house I am. At Reed's, everybody is in one of the four houses. My house is Bristowe, colourd red, together with Charlie and Laura. The houses are mostly used for competition at Reed's. There was a hockey match planned between the houses, but it was cancelled that same afternoon. There are also many normal hockey teams, and I am in the C team. We train on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Thursday afternoon, the three of us went with some friends to a local corner shop. We had to walk through the woods for about 15 minutes, but it was a relief to have some sweets and coke (no worries, it's coca cola) in my room. The showers at the sixth form house are a real pain in the foot, because they are on a set, unchangable temperature of scorching hot. Something else I noticed is that despite the security meassures to block social networking, Skype works normally when you have downloaded and installed it on your laptop. Win for me.
I also took some pictures of my room, that I will try to upload this week, if the internet allows it. The light in my room still isn't fixed, eventhough I was promised it would have been fixed Thursday. We also had a fire practise on Thursday, during prep. It was perfectly timed, because prep was over the minute we walked back to the sixth form house.
On friday there was a cake sale by one of the houses, so I decided to take a cupcake. It wasn't very tasty however, because it contained cornflakes.
Saturday morning there was an open morning at Reed's, so there were many parents looking around. I felt being watched at, but we (Laura, Charlie and I) went off to Kingston with two friends that afternoon. We sat about 2 hours in the Starbucks, because that was the only place with Wifi. I, as you may know, have a simple nokia, which means that I had to study my piano homework, which I inceidentally left in my pockets. It was great fun though.
On Sunday the same three of us went with the train to London to meet the other exchange people from Lewis. We had a great time, and went to the M&M store, had a free espresso at the Nespresso store (it was disgusting). We also went to the TGIF, where we had a big American lunch.
One thing I miss from the Netherlands is the Dutch tv. Last sunday, I had to watch Who is the Mole in my room on my laptop. It was very exiting though, because it almost was the final episode.
The people here are all very nice, despite the fact that they are older than we. Many of them have acadamic, sports, or musical scholarships, which means that almost everybody is good at something.
Some things that are different in England that caught my eye are that the car brand Opel doesn't exist. In stead, they have Fauxhalls, which are completely identical to their Europian brothers. The money here is also hard to get used to. There are some really weird shaped, and the one pound coin is really fat.
Today (monday) I went to the CCF, which is a kind of like the army. We are going on camp for the entire next weekend. I haven't got the equipment, but I have collected my rations, and it is not too bad, since there is chicken, and other good food in it.
That is about it for now, I will try to upload some visable evidence asap.
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