Foreign Country, Foreign Family

By Sandra Cepero García, 4th year ESO.

 

Me and some boys and girls from my school were part of an exchange with students from Prague. They were here (in Ferrol) in February. It was really funny but it was difficult to start talking with my partner Marie.
We travelled to Prague about three weeks ago and I really liked the city. It has got beautiful old buildings and, from the top of them or from high zones, you can see how a lot of these buildings are very pointy, with large spiky towers. It’s really beautiful when you get this view of all the city.

 

Something that surprised me was that, when we arrived, it was snowing. I was very excited about it and I think Prague is more beautiful with snow.

Prague from the point of view of Czech students

A group of students and teachers from IES de Catabois in Ferrol visited Prague last March as part of an exchange of students between our school and Arcibiskupské Gymnázium, which is a secondary school located in the Vinohrady quarter, quite close to the city centre.

During the days we spent there, we did lots of activities and visited many places. Some of the most relevant ones were explained to us by some of the Czech students involved in the exchange. Below, you can watch a video which shows some of the activities and the explanations our hosts gave us.

  

Video of the experience

Prague: A Fairy Tale city.

By Nuno Baamonde Beceiro (4th year ESO)

This year we´ve been lucky: we took part in a foreign exchange with a school from Prague, seventeen of us and fifteen Czech students. They came to our school and houses in February, and we returned the visit in March, the week before Easter.

                                   
THE VISITS:
The first day we arrived late, but we had already booked the apartments for the first night. Next morning, all of us were surprised at how soon the sunrise was, and went to the most famous bridge in Prague, Charles Bridge, before breakfast. It was less than five minutes from the apartment!.  

 

My Experience in Prague.

By Lara Castro López (4th year ESO)

The foreign exchange I took part in this year with the boys and girls from Prague was an unforgettable experience. Despite the cold,we could go to a lot of amazing places.
The first day, we arrived in the evening and we slept in an apartment. We had dinner in a tasty restaurant which was next to our apartment. We ordered a lot of drinks and we spent a lot of money because, for example, a bottle of water (a small one) cost 4 euro! When we had finished dinner and were going to the apartment it started to snow. We stayed at the apartment and noticed that my suitcase was open. We called the boys and one of them came and slept at our apartment.

                              

Ahoj from Prague.

By Laura Álvarez (2nd year ESO)

Two weeks ago, me and other fifteen Spanish teenagers had the chance to travel to Prague (Czech Republic) and be part of an amazing exchange programme.
It was quite an experience to me because, first of all, I had never been outside of Spain and I just took one plane when I was seven years old. At first, it was amazing to me to see everything in another language (which was almost impossible to understand to a Spanish person) and to see a completely different lifestyle, but, in the end, I got used to it.

FERROL CONOCE A PRAGA. FERROL MEETS PRAGUE. (Español e inglés) (Spanish and English)

Desde el pasado 15 de marzo de 2018 hasta el jueves día 22 un grupo de alumnos y alumnas checos, de Praga, visitaron nuestro centro escolar I.E.S. de Catabois en Ferrol. Durante esta estancia de intercambio nuestros visitantes se alojaron en los hogares de alumnos y profesores españoles con la finalidad de mejorar sus competencias lingüísticas en español al mismo tiempo que se impregnaban de la cultura española en diversos ámbitos: celebración del carnaval, horarios de comida, tipos de comida, hábitos diarios, etc. Aunque la adaptación a algunos de nuestros hábitos resultó un poco complicada, el resultado de la experiencia ha sido muy positivo y enriquecedor para todos, incluyendo a las familias, quienes han participado de una forma muy activa en el desarrollo de las actividades que fueron propuestas. Nuestro enorme agradecimiento por su desinteresada colaboración.