IH Barcelona @ Rockport School

Parece mentira pero ya estamos en casa… Nuestra aventura ya ha acabado y ya cada un@ ha vuelto a la normalidad. Han sido tres semanas muy intensas!!! Hemos aprendido más o menos Inglés… depende de cada un@ pero lo que si hemos hecho tod@s es hacer much@s amig@s !!! Amig@s de es@s que esperamos sean para toda la vida!!

Hace ya cinco dias que volvimos y una vez descansada tengo que reconocer que…. os echo de menos a tod@s!!!! Marta C., Montse B., Laura G., Laura V., Laura T., Fernando B., Toni M., Adrià G., Anna D., Adrià P., Marc A., Dani T. , Victor C., Maria C., Adrià D., Ari P., Ares O., Marta P., Mònica A., Làia G. (prometo que lo he escrito de memoria, ahora que ya os conozco, me acoradaré siempre de tod@s) "MY KIDS". Gracias por compartir conmigo estas semanas en las cuales tod@s habeis aprendido y descubierto mucho de vosotr@s. Espero que vuestro balance sea al menos tan positivo como el mío!

Perdonad si en algún momento os ha parecido que os controlaba un poco demasiado, pero esa era una de mis funciones: asegurarme que estuvieseis lo mejor posible y devolveros a casa "sans i estalvi". Aunque a veces he tenido que "daros el toque", la verdad es que os habeis comportado muy bién!! También espero haber ayudado a aquell@s que acudieron a mi en momentos un poco difíciles… Podeis seguir contando conmigo, pero a partir de ahora, como amiga!!

Ha sido un honor ser vuestra group-leader Con vosotr@s al fin del mundo!!

Además quisiera enviar un beso muy fuerte a tod@s aquell@s que hemos conocido en Rockport: Edu, Victor,Carlos, Isa, Pilar, Nil, Roger, NIna, Margalida,Marc, Sara, Laura, Vicky, Clara, Elma, Elsa, Mar, Carmen, Roman, Abdula, Mohamed, Pipo, Roberto, Federico, Alvaro, Sergio, Gonza, Frances,Steph, Pauline, Peter, Sam, Sean, Kris, Marta, Diane, Robert, Allan… y much@s más!!!

Matrícula de honor a todos los papis que han ido siguiendo este blog día a día, gracias por todos los coments de apoyo y agradecimiento. Por mi parte ha sido un placer hacer el blog. Deciros que Tom W. seguirá actualizando el blog, lo que quiere decir que quedará abierto y los comentarios que hagais seguirán publicándose. Cada vez que os sintais nostálgicos siempre nos quedará el blog…

Y finalmente, gracias a todo el equipo de IH Barcelona: Esther T., Cèlia E., Montse B., Jonathan D., Tom W. (hard work!!!) y Lidia C. y IH Belfast: Nathalie y Paul. Gracias a ell@s hemos tenido la ocasión de vivir esta aventura!!

En fín, gracias a tod@s por ser como sois!!!

No olvidaré nunca Rockport 2009

Belfast del 28 de Junio al 19 de Julio.

Hasta siempre

Vaya dia que llevamos hoy….

Hemos ido a la ciudad de Armagh y visitado el complejo historico de Navan hoy. La verdad es que l@s chic@s no estaban muy concentrados porque hubiesen preferido quedarse un poco mas en Rockport y despedirse de tod@s l@s amig@s que han hecho… que mira tu por donde son de Madrid casi tod@s… para que luego digan….

Han hecho una lista interminable con todos los emilios de cada un@ de ell@s para seguir en contacto, pero igualmente, los llantos, abrazos y todo el carinyo que se han cogido…. emocionante… lo confieso… a mi tambien se me ha escapado alguna lagrima… sniff…

Buena suerte a tod@s los que hemos conocido aqui, os deseamos todo lo mejor!!

Un beso enorme y hasta siempre!!

Os paso las webs de estos bellos lugares que hemos visitado hoy:

• www.visitarmagh.com
• www.ni-environment.gov.uk/navan.htm

Pre-Intermediate 2, con la dulce PAULINE!!!

Intermediate 1, con la maravillosa STEPH!!

Intermediate 2, con el divertidisimo PETER!!!

Upper-Intermediate, con la ingeniosa DIANE!!

On Sunday morning I slept until eleven o'clock. Then, I had a shower and I had a traditional Irish breakfast with bacon, toasts and eggs.

Afterwards, I spoke with my Barcelona's family and I wore a t-shirt, a sweatshirt, trousers and trainers. At one o'clock I had lunch some sandwiches and two hours later I went out with my Irish friends until seven o'clock.

Finally, I had dinner some hamburgers with lettuce and bread and I went to sleep at ten o'clock.

Adria G.

My little holidays in Donegal!!

Last weekend my Irish family and I went to Donegal. Donegal is a little village in Ireland, but our house is near the village but is in the middle of nowhere!!

On Saturday, we got up at 12 o'clock and we had breakfast. Then , we made our suitcase and we began our trip. At 3 o'clock we had lunch and we visited Sara's uncle. Finally, we arrived to Donegal. Then we ate pizza and watched a film.

On Sunday, we got up at 12 o'clock. It was sunny and  cloudy, but we didn't do anything because Sara was sick and I felt very dizzy, so in the afternoon we went to the lake and to the beach to take some photos. At night, we watched "Da Vinci's code" and we went to sleep!

On Monday, Maeve and I got up at 12 o'clock again.. and it was raining a lot again!!! So we went to the fun fair, but we didn't spend a lot of time in this place because it began to rain AGAIN!!!!

In the afternoon, we went home and when we arrived the street shocked me a lot, because it was like a very big bin!!! AGGG!!

We found an umbrella in our garden!! (Maribel says: ???? )

Well, bye!!

Little Anna D.

Last week we went to the Belfast Activity Centre. The monitors who were in there left us choice between two afternoon activities: rock climbing and kayaking. Some of us (including me) chose kayaking as it seemed to be very funny.

But after we found out that it was also dangerous, but in the sense of getting wet. Nobody wanted to get wet, but kayaking monitors and Maribel.. really wanted to.

They tried to make our boats sink by saying that it was impossible to change seats (between all the people in the boat). The two friends who were with me in the boat and I thought that it wasn't a good idea at all. Everyone that did not found out this tried to change seats.

As you can imagine, everyone got absolutely wet including us, because when the others saw that we weren't wet they didn't give up throwing us water until we were as wet as they were!!! "

Dani M.

Today in the class we prepared our project. For lunch we had pasta or lasagne. At 1:30 p.m. we got on the coach to go to Lisburn swimming pool. In the swimming pool there are many slides and there is a lazy-river. The lazy-river is the swimming pool part of the complex.

At 5:00 p.m. I went to the the cinema with my Irish family. We went to watch Ice AGe 3. The film was funny. Finally we went home and got dinner.

Today was really fun!!!

Kisses!!

Laia G.

En este nuestro ultimo viernes l@s chic@s se han esforzado muchisimo en su project work!! Hemos pasado otro rato delirante!!! No tiene precio, todo un espectaculo de imaginacion y talento!! Chapo!!

Despues de cenar …. a mover el esqueleto en la disco!! Ha sido muy especial ya que ha sido una especie de despedida de tod@s l@s chic@s que han vivido esta experiencia tan especial

Rockport 2009.

Un beso para tod@s, see you soon!!

¡¡Qué estrés!!! Es el último día que hemos ido a Belfast y despueé de las clases y comer hemos pasado la tarde en Belfast Centre para hacer las últimas compras!!!

Os puedo asegurar que están hech@s un@s shopadicts!! A la caza de gangas, solo les falta regatear… si es que no lo han hecho y yo no me he enterado… en fin… matrícula de honor en shopping!!

"Last Sunday I was my English family. In the morning we went to Belfast zoo and we had lunch there. I liked the zoo because it has got a lot of animals. In the afternoon we returned home and I had dinner with my English family in my host mother's sister's house. I like my family because they are very friendly and the girl, my English sister, is very chatty "

by Marta P.