Thursday 11th November, Skiing trip

I started today just like any other day. I packed my sporting equipment, my bag and grabbed my coat. When we arrived at school we had a regular breakfast, some cereals and some toast with jam. Our first class was science. And so was our second class, and our third. And when we thought we finally saw enough science for a centaury we had our science exam, which wasn't as much fun as you might think it would be. After school I tagged along with Mr. Vernon, he is a chemistry teacher (not our chemistry teacher) and a hobby skier. We took a bus to a artificial sloop. It was quite amazing, because it felt like I was skiing on an actual sloop, with real snow. We got back around 5:15, after which I was picked up by Steve, after we went to the supermarket to get some supper for Friday we headed back to Woking.

Wednesday = Games day!

I woke up quite early this morning, because my host parents predicted that there would be loads of traffic. I had breakfast, like the previous two days, at school with Jelmer and my host brother, Daniel. After breakfast I went to my tutor group, at Reeds we are meant to go to these sessions every morning before school and after lunch. Today was not a regular session, because we had chapel service. This is every Wednesday. The theme of the service was 11 November, which is a day on which English people reminisce the fallen British soldiers during the first WW. Our first class was D&T, Jelmer and I are busy building a miniature pool table, and even the students are quite impressed of our skills, which is also quite rare. After our regular lessons we had a games afternoon. During these afternoons everyone of the school play all kinds of sports, I was invited to play some hockey. There was even a match which I was asked to join. It was Reeds against Kingston Grammar School (KGS), we tied the game, 3-3. After the match I headed back to Woking, the place where my host parents live, and continued my work on Dutch, and English work.

First day at Reeds

Today was my first day at Reeds school. It was just like I hoped and expected it to be. Jelmer and I had loads of teachers to meet and work to do to get settled in, but we were almost done with these things quite quickly. We got our schedule, we met our tutors and we visited the classes of the subjects we had chosen. The subjects changed a bit this morning, because Mr. Atkins explained to us that PE (physical education) is not the same subject as the PE we know from the Rijnlands. PE at Reeds is the theoretical part of sporting, which is the opposite of what we have at home as PE. We were lucky that Mr. Atkins was able to warn us for this misunderstanding and we ended up choosing General Science instead of PE. After school we went to Mrs. Lams office, so we could finish our settling in. This took about an hour, after which it was time for me to go back to the house of family Roy.

First day in Great-Britain

Today was my first day here in Great-Britain, and just like any other Englishman I started off with a big, tasty English breakfast. We had breakfast together with Jelmer's family inside a pub next to our hotel. After lunch I went to family Roy. This is the family I will be spending my next 6 weeks with. The whole family is very kind, and they all seem very helpful. Around noon we went to Reeds, at Reeds we went on a tour with family Quist and Mrs. Lams. After our guided tour I said my goodbyes to family Quist and headed to my new home, well for the next 6 weeks. I settled in my room, which is quite small, but large enough to sleep in. Later that evening I had dinner alone with Mr. Roy, because Daniel, Andrew and Mrs. Roy were off to a swimming match of Andrew, he seems quite the athletic.