Hello families! Welcome back to the blog! Sorry for the delay, we had some troubles with the Wi-Fi connections, and it was impossible to upload the blog. Anyway… on Thursday kids learned a lot of new Smithwick’s, a beer which brewery was founded in Kilkenny in 1710. As every day we have met in the common area at 7.45 a.m. to go to the cafeteria all together. After breakfast, we had the ‘Monday Day Tour’ at «The Smithwick’s Experience Kilkenny». We learned that Smithwick’s Brewery was founded by John Smithwick in 1710. The brewery is on the site of a Franciscan abbey, where monks…
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FIRST WEEK in Malvern
Good morning mums and dads, Last Sunday started this magnific experience in England. We are enjoy this language course abroad with English Summer S.A. Some of us had met in Tamarit’s Summer Camp before and the other ones, in the airport this Sunday morning when we took the flight from Barcelona’s airport to Birmingham. Once there, a bus drived us to Malvern, the village where we’ll stay for the next two weeks. The organization explained us all the rules of the School. At 18:00 we went to have dinner and after that we make some introductory activities to know better each other. After all, we were…
¿Qué pasa este fin de semana en English Summer SA?
Time flies in Vallclara, Poblet, Tamarit y Prades, ¡seguimos non-stop en los campamentos de verano! Al igual que el tiempo pasa sin que nos demos cuenta en los cursos de idiomas en el extranjero, algo que ya sabréis si seguís el blog de English Summer S.A., en el cual os ponemos al corriente day by day de la infinidad de actividades que están llevando a cabo. Hoy, como cada viernes desde que empezamos la temporada de verano, toca explicar qué pasa este fin de semana en nuestras casas y en el extranjero. Ready, steady, GO! PRADES Hoy es el último día de campamentos para todos los…
DAY 5 Bournemouth – Disco night!
Hello families and friends! Are you missing us yet? We’re having so much fun in the language course abroad. As every day we have met in the common area at 7.45 a.m. to go to the cafeteria all together. After breakfast we have gone to class. We’re almost done with the English projects, which we’ll tell you all about tomorrow. We’ll just give you one clue now: the topic is International. For lunch pasta was on the menu with the choice of tomato sauce or Bolognese. It was delicious! Then the children have been given the option to take part…
Kilkenny DAY 10 – Paintball and Assault course morning
Hello everyone, It’s our last week in the language course abroad and we’re glad to tell you that this experience couldn’t be nicer. We are enjoying all the excursions and activities that ATC monitors have prepared to us, and we have made lots of new and different friends here. At 7.45 a.m. we have met in the common area to go to breakfast. At 9 a.m. three Group leaders of different places were waiting us to go to our morning activity. We went to do Paintball and a Assault course with Italian and Spanish kids. After walking half an hour, we arrived at an enormous…
DAY 4 Bournemouth – Sandbanks and speed boat!
Good morning from the language courses abroad in Bournemouth! As every day, we have woken up at 7.15 a.m., but today it was particularly hard to get out of bed. Later on, at 7:45 a.m. we have met in the common room and a member of the jury has announced the winner of the photography contest. Guess what? Our students Pau, Arnau, Roger, Hugo and Aleix have won!! After a continental breakfast with croissants and toasts, we have gone to class. We are practising English at all times and we think we have already improved a bit. At 1 p.m. we…
Kilkenny DAY 9 – Kilkenny Castle!
Hello everyone, Are you ready to know everything we have done today in the language courses abroad? We haven’t stopped a second! At 7.45 a.m. we have met in the common area to go to breakfast. After breakfast, we have gone to visit Kilkenny Castle, a castle built in 1195 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. We did a self-guided tour of the castle interiors which have included the so called ‘medieval room’ in the basement of the North West tower which is the only surviving medieval part of the castle, then moving upstairs, we have seen a couple of impressive…
DAY 3 Bournemouth – Beach BBQ Party!
Hello everyone, Are you ready to know everything we have done today in the language courses abroad? We haven’t stopped a second! At 7.45 a.m. we have met in the common area to go to breakfast and Angelo, one of the English teachers, has announced the winner of the photography contest. Everyday we have to take some photos, the funnier the better, and the winner is announced the next morning. Today our student Claudia Torralba has come in second place, congratulations! After breakfast, we have been told in which level we are and we have gone to class. In total…
Kilkenny DAY 8 – Irish night!
Hello families! Monday was a very fun day. As always, we got up at 7:45 am to be the first to have breakfast, at 8:00 am we were all on time to avoid the line and have time to spare to brush our teeth and clean up after breakfast. The class schedules are now different, so that in the mornings we do the activities. Yesterday was a very sporty morning, where the instructors taught us to play baseball, and then we did some tennis matches. At 13.00 pm we went to the dining room to have lunch, and at the…
DAY 2 Bournemouth – Placement test!
Hello everyone, It’s our second day in the language course abroad and we’re glad to tell you that the weather couldn’t be nicer. It’s sunny and warm, and our residence hall is just 15min from the beach, isn’t that ideal? At 7.45 a.m. we have met in the common area to go to breakfast. The cafeteria is right next to the classes which is very handy. At 9 a.m. the centre manager, Nathan, has explained us the rules of the school and introduced us to the members of the staff that we couldn’t meet yesterday. They are all very nice and friendly.…