BLOG 5 (2/2): VIENA, SCHOOL TRIP

The night between 24th and 25th of October was going to be our last night at the hotel and we knew that. We all felt that we had to enjoy this last night, so we started playing FIFA. But not normal football games, if your opponent scored you a goal, you  had to drink some nose medicine… On the first game, Kevin (an Austrian boy) and I  won Henrik, so he drank it. After his reaction we decided to stop that game, it didn’t look really tasty. We had other adventures related with: McDonald’s, showers, chocolate shops, mixing Mentos and CocaCola, but I’d better tell you more when I am back in Spain… My mother could read this blog!

Waking up on the last day was hard, but finally we did it on time and we had our first activity of the day: visiting a really modern university. At first, we went into a really cool big building that looked like the university… but it was just a library! After this visit I can say that the education system in Austria looks really good (my high-school has made me think the same).I show you here a picture of that building.

 After visiting all the university buildings we had lunch and then we went to a synagogue, a Jewish church. At the entrance we were given the typical small black hat that they wear at church. The building was really big and the architecture was very cool, but the guide spoke in German and I was very tired because of the previous night, so I fell asleep in the church. Then we went to the train station and we took the train home. During the two hour trip we felt hungry and we had a funny idea to solve that problem. At the train station there were people giving free “Mediterranean rice” that you only have to put in the microwave for a few minutes and it is ready to eat, so we decided to ask the man of the cafeteria   if we could use their microwave oven.  After insisting for some minutes, we finally convinced him. The train trip was cool and I must say that although that rice wasn’t as good as Spanish paella it was good too. Finally, we arrived home but the story doesn’t end here. We had been invited to a school party and we decided to go. We thought it was going to be a boring party because it was organized by a school, but surprisingly it was a good party. There were funny performances by the students, places to eat and drink and a cool disco. I met a lot of people there, and a lot of them were learning Spanish, so I think that I could win a lot of money if I became Spanish teacher here.

Well, there have been lots of fun in these three days away but they have been hard too, so now I am going to sleep, I need to rest!  Good night!

BLOG 5 (1/2): VIENA, SCHOOL TRIP

The school trip is probably one of the best experiences in our school life and I was really lucky because I could enjoy a three day school trip to Viena, the capital city of Austria. I was really excited about it and I got to train station two hours before the train arrived. The train trip took us one hour and a half but it wasn’t long for me because we had lots of fun on the train.

When we reached our destination we had  lunch at a shopping center and then we went to the hotel. I shared a room with five students and it was really cool because as you can imagine six friends in a room with an Xbox and games like FIFA and Call of Duty can’t be bad!

On the first day we made an interesting visit to the Austrian Parliament. Then we went to a cabaret where a comedian and musician made a performance which seemed to be really funny… but as  everything  was in German, for me it was a cool siesta.

The second day started with one of the coolest activities that we have done so far. It was a circuit without any lights, so it simulated that you were a blind person (they gave us the walking stick blind people use). It was very interesting and difficult because the guide (a real blind person) gave all the instructions in German. Our next activity was visiting a really cool and luxurious castle-museum, like the Selgas Palace but multiplied by ten. As a funny anecdote, I really appreciated that you are given a chair when you enter the museum so all that pain that you feel in your feet when visiting a museum does not exist there!  An amusement park was our next stop. As people that came to Barcelona last year know, I really “feel” roaller-coasters (I shout a lot) and here it wasn’t different. We only had time to go into one, but it was amazing. On this second and last night a lot of things happened, but I’d prefer to tell you about them when I am back in Spain… Sure you will be impatient! The last day of the trip will be in the next blog, there are a lot of things to tell and I prefer it this way. The pictures are from the parlament and the castle-museum respectively.

Regards from your Spanish-Austrian friend.