Fun, Food and Frazzled This past week was crazy. The days seemed longer than the usual, waking up early and being faithful to the programme that the teachers planed for us, and at night going to party with this amazing, awesome Dutch group. I stayed in a cottage style house with a very friendly family, most of the days I had to cycle in the morning to school, even under the rain, for about 20 minutes or so. Then, at school we would wait for the teachers, met up with everyone and go do our programme. Although at first the programme seemed a bit boring, it was diverse and fun. We saw Amsterdam, the must-see city; Delft, a town with loads of historic background; we went horseback riding, which turned out to be an amazing experience; and we painted tiles and some benches, which turned out to be really great even though some of us didn’t believe we had such artistic skills. After the programme, we usually cycled back home and had dinner with our host family. The food was great, I loved it. My host father used to cook at the weekends, and in this week he cooked and I felt as I as was in a fancy restaurant eating, or something made by a “masterchef”. And after dinner we went out to party with the rest of the group, and every night was awesome, dancing and laughing, stories would pop out, and new people were met. And now, at the end of this amazing week, some might ask themselves, “do I miss home?” and they’ll answer “Not really, I wish I could stay here for one more week”, because after all the exhaustion of this week, it was amazing and awesome, and I have no words to describe it. Pedro Akos Costa

program details saturday and sunday This (friday) morning our Portugese and a small group of Dutch students left for a very rainy visit to the city of Delft. With one hour delay because of a defective bus. Here are some details for our programme on saterday and sunday (family diner) Saturday: we expect our Portugese students at our school at 12.00u because we have an Open Dag. On a special table in the central hall (aula) we have made an information point for new students and parents; the Portugese table. Lurdes made a roulation schedule; we devide the portugese group in small groups of three students. While sitting near the Portugese table they inform (new) students and parents about Portugal and the exchange in english for 20 minutes. The other students visit the school activities. We open one classroom to make some music. At 14.00 we leave for StichtingC tot finish the art work on the street furniture we started on thursday. We will be finishing the programme at 15.30u. Dutch students are welcom to join this activity, or to pick up theyr partners at StichtingC at 15.30u to go home or otherwise. Sunday. Family diner at Udens College, entrance Drossaart. Door is open at 18.00u Dinner starts at 18.30u Please bring your own food. Enough for the amount of people in your family (they are welcom to). We will make a nice buffet with all the brought items. Soups, main courses, salads, deserts, breads, snacks, vegetarian items, fruits, drinks etc. please use our reply button to inform other parents what you will bring. We will provide coffee and tea. groet, kareldb

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With some delay we can give you some insite information about the program. It is open for some small changes and input of out students. But the daily activities, concurning the Portugese group are not open for discussion. We have to hire busses and makeall kinds of appointments.