Sokołów Podlaski- Neustadt exchange!

Our school has an exchange program with school in Neustadt, in Germany and three months ago, in June, our students went to visit this beautiful country. 

Neustadt am Ruebenberge is a town in the districkt of Hannover. It's the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area, though only about 45,000 inhabitantslive there. We were able to visit this place and a lot more.

We went there by bus, our journey had to start at 5 a.m., because we had a lot of kilometers to cover this distance. We were at the place at 17 p.m. It was a long, tiring trip, so almost everybody in the bus were sleeping.

 We stayed in our german peers houses. Even though it was a trip, we had to go with our german friends to their school and be at their classes. For many it was difficult to understand what is lesson about, but it was new experience for all of us. After the classes we always had trips to surrounding cities. 

We were in Hannover, where we made a tour through the town. We saw a beutiful building of a town hall and royal gardens. We were amazed with architecture and scenery of this place.

TOWN HALL

ROYAL GARDENS "HERRENHAUSEN"

We were also in Bremen. There were more sightseeing, we went to the old square, we saw a statue "Four musicians of Bremen". We met with very unusual things for us like really tight streets that can hardly fit 3 persons, we tried their sweets and enjoyed the great weather in such special place. 

FOUR MUSICIANS OF BREMEN

The biggest attraction for all was "Heide park Resort", a theme park in Soltau, near Hamburg, one of the biggest german amusement parks. It's full of rollercoasters driving 100 km/h.

One of the best attractions for us were: 

"Colossos", a wooden roller coaster.

The wing coaster "Flight of the demons".

"Scream"- a 103 meters tall Drop Tower.

"Kraken"- dive-coaster, whose angle of the first bleed is 90°.

It was such an adrenaline! We were there whole day but we still didn't have enough time to try everything. It was one of the best thinghs we saw in our live. Other afternoons we spent together on tours through Neustadt or we had other trips to nearer places.

 

It was amazing advanture for all of us. We were able to experience the other culture, use foreign languages so they could understand us, see many beautiful places and make awesome friends. For sure this excursion will stay in our mind for long time.

Fabulous Italy !

Several students from our class were on a trip to Italy. It was at beginning of June. We spent there almost two weeks. Everyone had a good time and nobody – I think – regrets.

All journey started from long and exhausted drive by bus. It was – without lies – horrible to sit on the one chair for above twenty hours.  But we survived this really bravely :D.

I was afraid of our communication in the hotel firstly but it turned out I didn’t have to. Whole hotel was provide by Polish people. Happily.

Almost every day we spent our days on the beach 200 m away from our house, so if you forget about something, you can come back fast. It was really funny when we saw our beach – it was word for word about 100 m². Everywhere were sunbeds which were booked for customers other exclusive hotels. Our seaside was just public but it didn’t stand on way to good fun.

One day we were in ancient city Rome and in Vatican. We had beautiful weather so our walk was safe and sound. This trip took us all day – from 4 am to 10 pm. But it was worthy experience.  Our guide had originally humor and very fast gait. Sometimes we just didn’t keep up for him. Guide told us in short the most important things we should know. He didn’t bored us. I liked it.

Other day we were in San Marino – small country 30 km away from our city San Mauro Mare. It was awesome medieval place. It was built with rocks which gave incredible atmosphere very old and cozy city. We laughed when some people there said to us ,,dzień dobry’’ or ,,cześć’’ and they didn’t know any words more in Polish. It was cute. San Marino was… no - is mysterious but really nice.

Finally it was time to pack our things and leave this lovely town. Nobody knows when this time have lost but everybody knows it was fantastic time !

A poem on happiness

Where the sun hides behind the horizon slowly,

Where stars fall down hastily to the earth,

There in bushes lies in wait snow-white owl,

Which because of her night gig forgot about stage fright,

 

Where the blue sky smiles in the morning

Where the silver moon sent his brightness,

There bigger than another tree is standing

And a squirrel hid in his branches.

 

Where the colourful rainbow rises above everything

Where modest rain sheds his tears,

There trumpets' hum announces a warning

The huge herd of big elephants draws near

 

Where the salmon swims to the top of the river,

Where red tiger warm himself in sun,

There four-leaf clovers have grown up for a year

And above them birds' singing resounds

 

Where is this place? Do you know what it means?

It's not far away, because,

If you'd like got carried away by your dreams

Your eyes just have to be closed.

 

Karolina Strus

An essay on happiness

Everyone wants to be happy in their life. For some people it’s enough to spend their free time with a group of friends and family. They need to talk to them without any pressure, whereas other ones set ambitious goals and they’d like to achieve success. However it’s generally thought that human life is full of problems and disasters which make us sad. Every day we get new experiences that can be good or bad. Furthermore, we live in 21st century, money make our world go round and there are a lot of technology and modern gadgets. Consequently, we forget about our feelings and necessities. We want to be strong and equal to life’s requirement, even though we’re not ready for this. During the pursuit of fame or money it’s really hard to relax and take a breath. Is it possible to be happy in this cruel world? Is it easy? These are the questions which I’d like to consider.

 It’s hard to deny that today we haven’t got as much free time as a few years ago. Students have been learning for hours and they find out new information. In other words, they are too busy to do something for themselves. The adults are in similar situations, because they try to earn enough money for their family. They work so hard but the employers usually pay peanuts. They are absolutely exhausted and they are not able to fulfill their obligations. They forget about health and as a result they fall ill or become depressed. It’s easy to conclude that they certainly aren’t happy. What is more people who look as if they manage to live in this modern world often have nasty habits. When they achieve success, they want to get more and more. Consequently they lose family and friends. They don’t understand that the love of money is the root of all evil. When they finally see their mistakes it’s too late. While they are going to be happy, they become victim of their ambitions. I’m sure they’re not satisfied with their life.

On the other hand, the world is certainly  beautiful. You just have to stop for a while to look around to notice absolutely gorgeous nature, hear the bird’s singing and smell the flowers’ scent. It true that today world is still on the run and everything is changing. We need to be ready for these changes but we’re not alone. There are a lot of helpful people around us who can give us a hand in each, even the worst situations. Apart from that we have to find out what is really important for us and worry only about it. You can set an aim and then fulfill it. You will feel proud of yourself and it means happiness. Try to make your dreams come true and you won’t regret it. Your dreams will give you a power to fight with bad fortune. It’s not expensive or difficult, just find a quiet place and let your dreams carry you away. It’s your fabulous world and no one can take it away. There you may relax and come up with new ideas. Life is great and you have to discover it!

To sum up, I must confirm that life in this world can be fine. While we are fulfilling our goals we feel pleased and excited. When we visit our favourite places we are relieved and laid-back. Although we often have arguments with our relatives and friends, we need to remember that blood is thicker than water so we can always rely on them. It’s sometimes hard to achieve our aims and it demands a lot of work but this effort will certainly bring many benefits. We should remember that despite the fact that we’re still in a hurry it’s worth a while to stop and think about our necessities. Try to recall good experiences which you have got recently and you’d like to repeat them. And don’t  worry if you can’t remember any of this kind of situations. Close your eyes and think about places which you like, see the people who are important for you. Your dreams will certainly raise a smile on your face. Don’t wait, just do it!

First year : summary

We started from elementary things that means from present tenses.  But I think nobody regrets. Everyone had a chance to recall this simple but very important grammar.

On English did everything -  we were speaking, writing and first of all we were learning. It was something like education by fun. Thanks to work in pairs we could get to know views of each other.

From time to time, at the subjects there were projects. We made one about a capsule time. This presentation included what we will put in here. It was curious and comic homework because of stuff hidden there.

Usually our units were finished by tests and some kind of essays. Of course between units appeared  (sometimes surprising) small tests.

To sum up, I think it was worthy year. A year with part of knowledge, work and fun.  I hope the next class will be as good as previous.

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