London 2012: Our Last Day (Daria, Germany)

London 2012: English Breakfast and more... (Florian, Germany)

When we stayed in London, I realized that breakfast in England isn’t much the same like in Germany, but it tastes very good.

Breakfast at the hotel was prepared by the nice staff. Especially the serving lady was very pleasant, because she greeted everyone and spoke in a very mannerly and friendly way that I have not often experienced before.

In accordance to this we modelled our behaviour on hers and took breakfast like real gentlewomen and gentlemen.

After setting off on that morning, we visited the famous Camden Town Market in London.

At this big market “being polite” is not so common because many customers hassled me, so I didn’t like the market.

For a nice close of the day, we had dinner at an Italian restaurant in Leicester Square.

The waiter was very friendly to us, so our group behaved well and was very polite too,

using the cutlery and eating without sounds. Also, we kept our voices down, because we weren't the only customers at the restaurant.

London 2012: Exploring London (Lisa, Germany)

I am going to tell you something about my day!

London is great! On this day, 14th June 2012, we went to explore some parts of it. Here you can see our German group at Piccadilly Circus:

Everything is so big!

One time we saw a very funny thing: “Borrow a bike” There, you actually get the chance to do your exploring on two wheels!

Here you can see my favourite bridge: The Millennium Bridge!

We also went to...

... the London Eye...

...and... 

Foto: M.König

...Big Ben!

London 2012: Our day off (Schems, Germany)

We were all excited about this day, Friday 15^th June; because it was the day we pupils were allowed to follow our own interests in groups of a minimum of three. Helen, Daria, Lisa and I decided to first go to Regent’s Street.

To get there we had to take the underground.

When we saw the station, we had to rush by crowds of people, who were blocking all the ways. All of us were in a hurry, because we wanted to get on this train so we wouldn’t have to wait some minutes for the next one. We rushed down the escalator without pushing or punching any people. When we finally reached the platform I jumped in before the doors closed, thinking the other girls were with me. Suddenly the doors shut and I saw them still standing on the platform.

As if we weren’t frustrated enough, a man behind Daria, Helen and Lisa clapped his hands and waved, saying: “Great! Bye bye!” We thought it was very rude of him and not nice at all. He certainly wasn’t showing manners.

Furthermore, when I rode along on the tube by myself, some people wouldn’t stop laughing at the situation. It was really embarrassing!

But thankfully I knew which stop I had to get off so I did just that and waited.

Some minutes later I saw my friends getting off the next train and then we were all reunited.

In the end we couldn’t stop laughing about it either, because we hadn’t expected anything like this to happen at the very beginning of our “day off”.

We were glad when we arrived at Regent’s Street. It’s great! There are so many shops!!

This day was really fun and we saw many memorable things - including a person from the royal family when Camilla Parker-Bowles was driving past us in front of Buckingham Palace and waving at us...

London 2012: Traffic and London Landmarks (Ioana, Germany)

On the third day the German delegation explored the roads and sights of London in the morning.

The best idea the English ever had, was to introduce the zebra crossings. We all knew that the traffic was organized differently in Britain, with people driving on the left. But still, we wouldn’t have been able to cross the road safely without this support or the written reminders next to the curb stone.
 







 










Picadilly Circus was the first famous landmark we saw.

After that we we were very impressed by Trafalgar Square with Nelson’s Column. Also, our delegation had a lot of fun taking pictures on the lions in front of it. As you can see, it was very tricky to climb on the big and smooth animals.

At noon, we met the other delegations and had a picnic in the park by the River Thames in front of the Tate Gallery. 

 A cultural highlight we very much enjoyed was the musical “Blood Brothers” by Willy Russell, which we all saw in the afternoon.

 
 



  












We finished our day in London’s Chinatown in Soho where we had dinner together in a Chinese restaurant. There, we learned again something new, namely the difference between soft and crispy noodles. The crispy variation is a little bit undone. And this is not necessarily to everybody’s taste, which we found out on this occasion.