My trip to Italy 2015

On the 9^th of March, my classmates and I were going to our school trip to Italy to celebrate we were finishing teh ESO.

Everything was going on so well except that I was sick: On Saturday's night I started feeling bad and on Sunday's morning I was in high fever, the same as Monday's morning, when I had to leave. I decided that I couldn't stay home even though I was feeling really bad, and at 5:30 am I was in the bus with all my mates.

That Monday we took the plane from Barcelona to Milan. Once there, a bus drove us to Sirmione, a beautiful village next to the majestic Lago di Garda, where we ate a delicious pizza and did some tourism around the peninsula.

After an hour in the bus, we finally arrived to Verona, where our hotel was. We were supposed to visit the famous Arena in the afternoon, but I was feeling so sick that I had to stay in the hotel.

The second day we had the trip to Vencie so we got up before 7 o'clock. I spent a really bad night, so the journey was quite heavy for me. Venice is gorgeous! We visited the most important monuments like Piazza San Marco and Ponte de Rialtto. Venice has no cars in it so the best way to move around is on foot: we walked a lot around the city and also had the opportunity tot visit a famous Murano crristal factory.

While we were going back to Verona by train, we could see a beatiuful sunset by the sea.

Once in Verona, we went to have dinner in a centric restaurant and go for a walk after the meal. It was my firts time walking around those streets, because all I had seen since then was the hotel's bedroom.

The third day was the most calmed: we just took the bus to go to Firenze. The journey lasted all the morning, so we just had time to leave the luggage in the hotel and have lunch. In the afternoon we walked through some of the most famous places of Firenze like Piazza de la Signiora or the Ponte Veccio.

That day I started to feel better.

Thursday, the 4^th day, was the heaviest. We did museums and spent all the day walking, we didn't have any other mean of transport. We also went on the top of Santa Maria del Fiore, where we could see all Firenze!

That afternoon all of us were exhausted and during the free time we couldn't go for a little rest in the hotel because we still had to do the shopping and get lost in the city... After dinner time, we all wanted to sleep, but the teachers made us go for a long walk around Firenze to say good bye, the next day we were leaving.

After a good sleep, we were ready to visit the last city, Pisa. All the morning was dedicated to tidy our rooms and prepare the bags, after that, we took the bus to Pisa, which arrived an hour late. Once in Pisa, we ate a delicious Lassagnia!

We all took the famous Pisa Tower picture and after we visited the Duomo and Baptisteri.

At 5 o'clock we were ready to go back to Florence and take the plane to come back home.

MY LAST SUMMER

WRITING

Hi people, my name is Anna and today I'm talking about my last summer vacations.

First I'll talk about my trips in the USA and the Italian Alps, and finally about the days in Calella de Palafrugell and in la Cerdanya.

When I just ended the summer I had ballet practice every afternoon because we were doing the ballet performance in a week. I was very busy so I didn't have time enough to begin the holidays.

The first of July I took a plane from the Barcelona Airport to Frankfurt and from Frankfurt to Washington DC (Dulles) to spend a month in the States. In Dulles, the Hammond's, my host familly, were wating for me with the other six host families in my groupmates. The Hammond's lived in a big house in Bristow, a little place in the state of Virginia. They had 4 children: Madeleine (8), Mathew (8), Ella (6) and Petter (4); and they also had a dog, a cat, a pair of guinea pigs and a bunch of fishes.

I started the stage with a big party: the 4^th of July, what the americans call “the Independece day”. They celebrate it every year with fireworks, songs and a big bonfire, so that's exacly how I celebrated it.

I also went to a Camp called Rockbridge which was in West Virginia. It was incredible. I met lots of people there and it was one of the bests parts in the trip.

I spent the rest of the month with the Hammond's and some of the days meeting my groupmates.

Finally the 4^th of August I took a plane from where I arrived to comeback home. It was a long journey that took me time enough to decide that one day I'll repeat this trip.

After a couple of weeks I went with my family to visit my Swiss cousins in Divonne. We did it as an excuse to spend a week in some of the most beautiful mountains in the world: the Italian Alps.

We went throught Suizerland, Austria and Italy by car and we had the oportunity to see the best ski places in Europe. The temperatures were cold so we had to put on winter clothes.

When we were driving back home we stopped in Monaco, where all the rich people go to share with the world their expensive cars, boats and purses. It was absolutly impressing!

Finally in Banyoles, I went to spend some days in Calella de Palafrugell with my friend Laura and we just did what everyone does on the beach.

I also went to spend a week in La Cerdanya to breath a little of fresh air before going back to school.

I had a busy summer but I really enjoyed it!

POWER POINT

MY CLASSMATES

Laia: She started the summer with the spansish chapmpionship in Sevilla, then she went to Ireland to improve her english and finally she went to Llançà.

Lídia: She started the summer going to her sister's wedding, then she went to spend a month in San Diego and finally she went to Joventura

Àlex: He started the summer travelling to Iceland and when he came back he went to l'Estartit.