London - WeekendStudents, Parents,

Two Teachers And A Lot Of FunJune 2009

Starting At Piccadilly CircusA weekend inthe BritishCapital with lotsof sights,culturalhighlights andsome shopping,of course

Three girls ready for a great day in the heart of London

Here we are atPicadilly Circus -visiting a crazyshop selling allsorts of things thatpeople might enjoybut that they donot really need -includingcorcodiles andsnkaes made ofplastic

family and boys also in good mood

Picadilly Circus

a nice way to experinece swinging London

British girls on a day trip in London

"We wear a uniform here in Britain!"

Be careful!In Britain peopledrive on the leftso the touristsmust be verycareful not to berun over by acar that youdon't expect.

Monument for the women in Whitehall near DowningStreet

10 DowningStreet

heavily protectedagainst terrorists.Gordon Brown,the British PrimeMinister is havingvery big problemsat the moment.Five of hisministers havejust left him.

Coming closer to Parliament Square

Big Ben just round the corner ... not quite a real guard yet.Yes, sir!

...so good to be travelling with mum

an interview for Iranian Television - thank God there weren't anyAyatollahs

Teachers on Tour

The British Museum

Mrs. Daume gives us a lecture

Listen carefully, please!

Most famous Egyptian Art

An Old Type of London busses, a pity there are only a few left

At horse guards in Whitehall close to where the Prime Minister lives and works

Student Impressions

I think that the people in England are more open-mindedthan the people in Germany, because there are so manypeople who allow students to stay in their family for anexchange. Additionally, our hostmother talked very muchwith us. The English people always drink tea, not only inthe afternoon. Once our hostmother was at a party and shereturned at 9.30 pm with two friends and had a cup of teawith them. They are also very helpful. Friends of the familycooked for us and they all have mobile phones, the youngkids, too. They always watch TV while they are eating. TheTV is even switched on when they aren't there. What I alsonoticed was that the English laugh very much. (LisaWienströer)

I was looking forward to our third day in Englandbecause it was the day of our trip to London. This wasthe only rainy day - typical of the capital of England.But nevertheless I was happy to see all the sights ofthe town which I had only seen on TV so far.Unfortunately, we didn’t have much time in London,so we couldn’t watch a shooting of a Bollywood film orsee Tower Bridge, for example.On our last day we visited Blenheim Palace inWoodstock. The Palace was huge and splendid andthe gardens were wonderful. I think that was a niceend of our stay in England.All in all this week was very much fun, interestingand eventful and I don’t regret to have spent my timethere.(Svenja Bouwmann

My Impressions of EnglandI like England but I think a lot of things are different e.g. food, houses and everyday life.One of the biggest events was London because it’s such a big city and there is a lot to see and visit. Butthe city of Oxford is great, too. One day we visited Blenhem Palace which was very big and beautiful.After a guided tour of the palace we visited an exhibition where we no longer had a human guide but anelectronic guide. Of course we didn’t understand everything but it was fun.The family where we stayed for that time didn’t have a large house and the front door was open all thetime. Moreover, the rooms weren’t tidied up and the shower was dirty. The child switched on the TV inthe evening and it wasn’t switched off at night. I didn’t really like the food because it was the samefastfood every day.Although our family wasn’t perfect I liked them because it was an adventure and interesting to see howothers live. We were lucky that some of our schoolmates lived next door so we were allowed to visitthem in the evening.So all in all England was a great experience and I saw some great cities – Oxford and London. (VivianeSchmidt)

I stayed with a group of schoolmates in England for five days in September. There we visited collegesand other sights on a guided tour of Oxford. My impression of Oxford is very good because of theshopping centres and all the colleges with the nice, big gardens. We also visited Blenheim Palace,which impressed me a lot because of its gardens and the size of the house. By driving through the largepark on a train we got from one part of the garden to the another where we visited a beautiful butterflyhouse and a maze. All in all the five days in England were very interesting and much fun and weenjoyed every day of the trip. (Nadine Grote)

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