NOT a last post (:

Hy guys

It makes me feeling strange if your all talking about the big meeting again. I could never think about going home now, my exchange is just about to get really fun and I can now enjoy everything more and more since I now speak Icelandic and know a lot of people. I really would like to see you guys all again, but for me it's no problem to wait until august (I'm coming home on 30th of July) because I know, that I'll see you after this every day for two more years and that's unfortunately not the same with my friends here in Iceland. So I really hope for Lena, Vanessa, Lara and Leana that it isn't too hard to go home for you, because I could never finish my exchange now!
I do know Vanessas' problem more than well. I also started mixing up all the languages, because I'm still often speaking English with exchange students, sometimes German with foreigners here and also French. And it happend a few times to me, that I had to translate a word from Icelandic into German while writing an e-mail in German. So I might speak Icelandic with you by accident, you can prepare for that :P

My school started again two weeks ago after a really long Christmas break. It was strange to start the 'normal life' again, but since I don't have to work anything for school if I don't feel like working that's alright. I also have 25 hours school per week, which is kind a lot here. So I always have a lot time to meet up with friends and do whatever I want to do.
We don't really have vacation -two days- but instead we finish school in end of april.
You see I live quite a different life here than your used in the south but I'm really enjoying that. I have much more time to do things I like and also to find out, what I do like and maybe should do more often.

We now started to read a new book in English, The Hobbit. We have a new teacher and also looked at some terms like protagonist and antagonist but we still only read the book at home and answer questions about the content. As much as I hear from you isn't that comparable with how you read books.

I don't really know, what else I should tell you, there are so many things I don't know where to start. But if you want to know something you can always ask me and it's always nice to hear from people back in Switzerland but I don't get angry when I don't answer immediately but I have often better things to do than sitting on the computer..

this is my favourite work of art and I shows the character of Reykjavík, there are also other funny things like a mini-library in a park where you can take a book but if you take one, you also have to bring one back (:

Another last post

Hi there

Now it's my turn to write one last post before we all meet again. Only four days to go and then I'm back home in Switzerland.
It's unbelievable how fast the time has gone.
Here, it doesn't really feel like winter, it's more like we're stuck in autumne and thta makes it even more unbelievable... It's already January and the 5 months are gone.
I'm really looking forward to see you all again and habe fun with you.
In the last few weeks, there were suddenly so many things going on and it felt like I did more in those three weeks, than in the whole time before :P
For example I could take part in an athletics competition (what a surprise :P) or I went to the pantomime with Millie from Athletics (that's like a theatre for children, but a lot of adults go as well and it was sooo funny).
On my last weekend I could finally visit Oxford and it was definitely worth it. It's an amazing city and I recommend it to everybody!

That's the room, which was the inspiration for Hogwarts.

Now it's time to pack my suitcase and I don't know yet how to manage it... :P
But somehow it will work and I'll see you soon.

For a last time a lot of greetings from Wolverhampton
Lena

Just about to come back-

Hey there :)

It isn't that long until we'll see each other again (except Daria) but I just thought I could post a last post before I come home. It is quiet weird to think about coming back-I think it's just because I didn't really realized yet that I'm actually coming back-
Sometimes when I hear myself speaking in swiss german, I feel kind of strange because I'm just not use to it any longer. It happened more than once the last few weeks that I couldn't remember the swissgerman term for something, but the english one when I was speaking swiss german. That kind of frightens me xD And I bet you will have some situations to laugh about my german vocabulary when I'll be back (but I still guess/hope that it won't just be me with difficulties in the german language xD as we will be 4 returning exchange students :))

A little thing about the british money which I found quiet cool; if you put the 1,2,5,10,20 and 50 pennies all together in the correct order they build a shield :) This shield is as a whole shield also found on the one pound coin. A cool fact I think :P

So see you in about two weeks again then :) 

Vanessa x

13th to 17th January

Hi everyone!
First of all it's great to hear that you all have a really good time in UK, US & Iceland! Enjoy your last weeks/month, we are SUPER excited to welcome you back in our class. :)

We had a quite stressful week because of exams, but knowing in two weeks we have holidays again make things a little bit easier ;)
In English half-classes we discussed about Chapter 7 of Animal Farm, which is a very bloody and cruel chapter but also interesting in terms of how the animals' lives have changed since their rebellion against the humans.
On Tuesday the lesson was cancelled because our poor Miss was sick.
Today we had our normal lesson; Miss Nyffenegger gave us information about the CAE and CPE (Cambridge English: Advanced/Proficiency) a certificate that many of us consider to prepare for. Deadline for sign up is on 23rd January by the way. ;)
The rest of the lesson we had to read our self-written house advertisements. We had to use fancy words while writing, that means no nice/beautiful/big but words more like gorgeous, magnificent or spacious.
This should help us to learn new words and extend our vocabulary.

Today sports class was cancelled because of the floorball (Unihockey)-Mittelschulmeisterschaft that takes place at KSWE. Jana and Alexandra are participating in the tournament in the woman-team of Wettingen. And of course we are good class mates and cheer for the team! ;)

Our sporty Alexandra&Jana and Danilo&Noah who had to count the points ;D

I wish you a nice weekend! - My-Nhien

Holidays are over...

Hey everyone!

It's the end of the first week after Christmas break and therefore our turn to write the blog entry. :-)

First of all, we're so glad that days are finally getting longer. Good bye, darkness!^^ School started rather differently depending on subjects. Some were easy going like English for example. We talked about what we were doing during the holidays and apart from doing some exercises we watched the short-film "Dinner for One", which was really cool! However, in other classes we got back some of the exams we had written before the holidays. And in Biology we even had one yesterday. :-(

Anyway, it was nice to meet everbody again in the new year.

Greetings,
Nicole & Xenia

America :D

Hey my lovely Swiss friends :P

I hope you all are doing well and had a good start in school again.:) My school over here is really small (we have about 300 students) and it’s pretty easy compared to Wettingen ;-). I’m also playing sports; in the fall-season I played volleyball and now I’m doing track. We practice six times a week, which is really hard sometimes, especially because we have to run outside! (Today it was -10 degrees Celsius and we have snow.) But a bit of exercising isn’t too bad, because the American food might be a little unhealthy sometimes ;P

I’m having a lot of fun here in America, I’ve found many new friends and my host family is making my exchange to an amazing experience. They took me to beautiful places and we also went to bigger cities like Boston, New York and Washington D.C.

Now I’m enjoying my last month and I’m looking forward to see you soon! :)

Leana

 

My host sister and my host dad went to a Bruins ice hockey game with me. It was really loud and everyone made sure there was a great atmosphere. :)

This is in Boston, at the Harvard University. It brings good luck if you touch his toe.;-)

Once a year, the girls try to play american football. It was funny to give it a chance, but I don't think I'll ever do it again. :P

My host family and I in New York. It was amazing. :)

Hello everyone! :)

I hope you're all good and enjoying school.. I wish you all a late merry christmas and a great start to 2014! And for the ones with any new year's resolutions, good luck!

I've just started my school again this Tuesday after a lovely and festive holiday with loads of cake, sweets, presents and christmas shopping besides no snow at all here in England. Nevertheless I had a wonderful time and now I slowly have to face my return to Switzerland, which is pretty soon. It's gonna be hard to get used to the kanti lifestyle again, since I only have 5 lessons a day at max, and  sometimes I just have two lessons a day, which is more than relaxed!
I simply enjoy everything here, in England: friends, hostfamily, school, visiting cities and places, food (especially all sorts of cake, cupcakes, shortbread,..) and of course the shopping! ;) Even the weather is totally fine, sometimes rainy and cold but since there's no snow it means there's no danger of slipping or getting attacked with snowballs..
So to make it simple, I'm very well. I'm looking forward to seeing all you mates again soon and until then, have a great time!

Got some pictures for you too, if you are interested..

In Liverpool at the beach, however the city is cool too, with great stores.. ;)

One day I went to Cambridge (an awful long car drive) and had the experience of 'river punting', which was great! It's kind of the 'gondola' in Venice.

And this was one of the best HOT CHOCOLATE WITH MARSHMALLOWS, I've ever had. Besides a lovely maltesers cheesecake! yummy! Maybe you've heard of the place, it's called 'Central Perk', the local cafe in the famous sitcom called 'Friends'.

However, this wonderful picture is located 5 minutes away from my home by foot!












Lovely greetings from abroad, your Lara :)