Hello everyone,
My first schoolweek at Reeds has come to an end. I have just started to settle in. I can find most of my classrooms by now and I have made a couple of new friends. I am also getting involved in schoolactivities by now, as I have joined the orchestra (I play the clarinet) and the senior clarinet ensemble. Furthermore, I will take clarinet lessons at school. Switching from music to sport; for the games every wednesday, I did swimming. Personaly, I thought the swimming was mental. Would you believe me if I told you that the warming up was forty laps of twenty five metres? The swimming pool is also much more chlory here than the Sterrenbad in Wassenaar: when I came out my eyes were burning and I basically looked like a vampire (except the long, white, pointy teeth). Next time I'm going to wear goggles! Last but certainly not least of my recent after-school activities: CCF(don't ask me what it stands for, because I don't know either). As you'll probably have no idea what CCF is, let me explain it to you. CCF is basically a youth cadette force of Reeds. So you walk around in uniform, learn how to fire a gun, and sometimes you go camping with your CCF buddies. Sorry folks, the description is a bit vague, but I can't describe it any better than this so you'll just have to stick to this description. Anyway, I am getting involved in quite a lot of after- (or before-) school activities and I am certainly enjoying it here. Halas, it's time to conclude for now, thus: I am enjoying it here and I hope everyone has had a nice holiday and no one has broken something because of a nasty fall on skis.
Pictures are following!
vrijdag 24 februari 2012
maandag 20 februari 2012
My first day at Reeds
Dear everyone,
I have just started my first day at Reeds and it is awesome! It is totally different from Rijnlandslyceum Wassenaar. For one thing, the school grounds are enormous. I got a tour when I arrived and it felt like I would never be able to find my way around here. Furthermore, there are not a lot of girls here: they only start Reeds in sixth form. Also, you go to school by bus (I had to wake up at six thirty), you have a warm lunch served at school and the school days are much longer. Anyway, I love it here: the kids are kind, the subjects are interesting, with music technology as my absolute favourite, and the teachers are enthousiastic. The thing that I love best about Reeds , apart from the kindness of everyone, is that the children have a house of their own, one house for form one till five and one house for sixth form, both lower (the form which I am staying in) and upper sixth, where they can hang out with each other and relax.
Before Reeds, I have already enjoyed a couple of days in England with my family. I was brought by car, together with my massive pile of luggage, on Friday and we hired a bed and breakfast in Shear, which is a villlage in the hills of Surrey. There we had dinner in a traditional English pub. The next day, we went for the full English breakfast: scrambled eggs, sausages, bacon and baked beans and of course, we went to London, were we saw the London Eye, the Big Ben and a couple of other famous buildings. We even went into an actual M&M shop! On sunday, we had the tour around Reeds, which I have already mentioned in the beginning of this post, and my parents dropped me of at my guest's family house, who are really nice. Unfortunately my blogging activities for today are about to come to an end. I promise to keep everybody up to date and I wish everyone in the Netherlands a very nice holiday!
I have just started my first day at Reeds and it is awesome! It is totally different from Rijnlandslyceum Wassenaar. For one thing, the school grounds are enormous. I got a tour when I arrived and it felt like I would never be able to find my way around here. Furthermore, there are not a lot of girls here: they only start Reeds in sixth form. Also, you go to school by bus (I had to wake up at six thirty), you have a warm lunch served at school and the school days are much longer. Anyway, I love it here: the kids are kind, the subjects are interesting, with music technology as my absolute favourite, and the teachers are enthousiastic. The thing that I love best about Reeds , apart from the kindness of everyone, is that the children have a house of their own, one house for form one till five and one house for sixth form, both lower (the form which I am staying in) and upper sixth, where they can hang out with each other and relax.
Before Reeds, I have already enjoyed a couple of days in England with my family. I was brought by car, together with my massive pile of luggage, on Friday and we hired a bed and breakfast in Shear, which is a villlage in the hills of Surrey. There we had dinner in a traditional English pub. The next day, we went for the full English breakfast: scrambled eggs, sausages, bacon and baked beans and of course, we went to London, were we saw the London Eye, the Big Ben and a couple of other famous buildings. We even went into an actual M&M shop! On sunday, we had the tour around Reeds, which I have already mentioned in the beginning of this post, and my parents dropped me of at my guest's family house, who are really nice. Unfortunately my blogging activities for today are about to come to an end. I promise to keep everybody up to date and I wish everyone in the Netherlands a very nice holiday!
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