By bike to school at nine, a little bit slow but it went allright. first mrs. roos and mrs. reichart gave us an assignment to do in leiden. Then we had a cycling course, because last year there were some troubles with the italian people and the bikes. Jana and ocke, who participated last year, had made a parcours for us. After the course we went to town to do the poetry assignment. When we came back at school we chose one of the poems and made a poster of it. Then we had lunch with strawberries and mini-cucumbers. After lunch and finishing our posters we had some spare time. We went to the Albert Heijn with a very large part of the group. when everyone bought something to eat and drink we went to a parc and enjoyed ourselves for a few hours.. then everybody went home to prepare the dinner for that evening. for the buffet all of the dutch host brought something like pizza and salads.
At the end of the meeting in the evening the dutch prepared a ppt to introduce themselves to the italians and the italians sang a song for the dutch. To really end up the day everyone told something about their posters and poems. it was a very nice day!
Merel
Leiden, September 18th 2010
Italian and Dutch students met at 9.30 at school for the presentation of the program of the EEP project. Here, all the guys taking part in the project knew what they were going to do in the morning.
First of all, the Cycling Course: Italian guys just needed a little practice, so they did some useful and fun exercises. The first exercise was a competition between the six teams, just like a race. In the second exercise, two students had to “give each other a five” or throw a little ball while cycling. And the last exercise: how many people can you carry on your bike? That was the most funny exercise of all: you could see even five people on a bike at the same time!
Then, everybody left school for the poetry assignment: there are poems from all over the world written on the walls of the town and the students had to bike and find them. After exploring the city to find the most interesting poem, we came back to the Stedelijk Gymnasium for lunch.
Then, all the guys started the afternoon activity: they chose another poem from a foreign writer and they transformed the poetic language into a drawing that could explain it. Meanwhile, two students, an Italian guy and a Dutch guy, were working on the translation of the poem in their own language.
But the time was over and we had to leave the school. We had some free time in Leiden and the Dutch students showed Italian guys what a beautiful town Leiden is.
Then we met at Stedelijk Gymnasium for a buffet dinner. There was plenty of good food and everybody was very hungry.
After dinner, the day’’s activity was over: each group presented its own poem, by introducing both the two translations and the drawing.
The first whole day in Leiden had just ended, at least for the “school” part of it…
Matteo Bertero
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