Again, 3 FAB days of school :)

Dear everyone,

Wednesday was already our third day of school and again (!!!!) I really enjoyed it. J Let’s not talk about the time we arrived at school that morning….. (we were in class on time though, so nothing extremely bad or to worry about)

Wednesday, first two periods, I had my first lessons of psychology together with Jop and Manon and about 10 other students. It was really nice to have a subject I normally don’t have at school and it was very interesting. After psychology, I had two free periods in which I worked on some of my Dutch work. Fifth and sixth period, just before break, I had biology. When we entered the classroom, one of my biology classmates explained that the teacher wouldn’t be there to teach us, but we would have to make notes on a certain chapter of the book (yes, WITHOUT someone in the room to keep an eye on us….). Any of my Dutch classmates or Dutch teachers reading this would know that at the RLW, there wouldn’t be a chance, not even a tiny one that the students would stay in the classroom and would seriously start making notes until the absolute end of the lesson……. I was absolutely amazed!! (Yes, of course YouTube appeared on the smart board after a while, but at the end of the lesson everyone had made notes!) Finally, after 2 periods of physics, we met up for the sixth form hockey match to compete against Plumpton College, an agricultural college. It was very different but nice to play with a mixed team as the boys, many of whom are training to become farmers were very physical but to my great joy we won! J

Thursday morning, I was ready and set around 7.45! Christine and I had a lovely long walk with Teddy, the dog. We were back home around 8.40 and around 8.55 Manon and I left for school. Since it takes us about 10 minutes to get to school, we were about 5 minutes late for registration…… On Thursday I found out that Thursdays here in England are just as bad as Thursdays back home in Holland. I don’t know why but I’ve always hated Thursdays… After starting the day with 2 free periods, stupid Thursday continued with 2 periods of physics, 2 periods of psychology and 3 periods of chemistry (my hate for Thursdays absolutely isn’t because of the combinations of subjects this day, because I still like these subjects here, but it’s just Thursdays in general). After 4 o’clock, Jop and I stayed at school because we would join my physics class in the astronomy trip to Sussex University where we went star gazing. It was really impressive and unreal to look at the moon (obviously through a telescope) and be able to see so many details.

Today is already our last day at Christine’s house! This morning we were only 2 minutes late for registration!!!!! :D We started off today with 2 periods of psychology, followed by 2 free periods in which I started on this blog update J. 5^th, 6^th and 7^th period I had biology. A biology lesson at LOGS is very different from a Dutch biology lesson! Where a Dutch biology teacher would explain and elaborate on a certain topic, an English biology teacher would tell us for 2/3^rd of the lesson exactly what to write down!

After school, Manon and I walked down High street to buy Manon some shampoo and other stuff that had been taken away from her at the security at Schiphol. Afterwards, we had a nice iced tea and a piece of cake at Costa. When we got back home, we had some tea, did all our laundry: black, white and coloured (everything is clean now and will be ironed tomorrow morning J), had dinner and repacked our bags for tomorrow when we will change houses (more info on that in next update).

I had a FAB (Amy, I know you’ll be reading this :P) first week. I ENJOYED every day of school and I am very curious for how long this will last 0: D….. I absolutely LOVED meeting so many new people and HATE that I still don’t remember all the names (it’s getting better though!!) I’m very EXCITED for next week and truly hope and actually know already, that it will be just as good as last week!

Xxx <3