Italians safely brought home by our own Romereis bus

Above you can see mrs Marchese looking very worried because she had to announce that the Italian students had to deal with the fact that their flight was cancelled. As soon as the debate started everybody tried to forget the volcanic ash and did their best to perform well. It was a very good and well prepared debate: according to the outsiders who observed the debate very good indeed! A fine way to end a week of hard work and lots of fun!

Extra information about the ashcloud

At tne moment we are arranging a bustrip home for the Italian students. At this moment we don't know yet at what time the Italians will leave. As soon as we know more about the time that the Italian students are leaving we will let you know.
We know now that we will leave tomorrow morning as early as possible and we will leave from the busstation in front of the Central Station, opposite the Kruidvat/former Chinese.More details as soon as possible
One of the propositions was about the sustainability of bustrips ..thank you Giulio!

Mrs Roos

Real sustainable buildings and a boottrip

In the morning we visited two sustainable buildings. The report about this visit is not finished yet but we do have pictures !

Delft afternoon: social sustainability and fine time

Wednesday 14th of april, EEP

Today we were in Delft. After having lunch at Van Nature, we split up in three groups. The afternoon contained two parts: The social assignment and the fine time. For the social assignment, the dutch students had organized a meeting at a municipality centre for children and young adults, who have problems participating in society. A friendly woman told us about her job. She helps children who have problems at home or at school by talking to them and motivating them. This way she supports them to change the way they are living now. They get a better chance at good future. She showed us the building and after this we went back to the place where we had lunch. Then the fine time started. We split up in groups again. Our group, group 2, rent ‘kickbikes’ (dutch: steps/ Italian: monopattino). With the kickbikes we went to the Nieuwe Kerk. We walked around inside the church and looked at the grave of Willem of Oranje, who was murdered in Delft in 1584. After this we climbed the stairs of the tower of the church. Those were a LOT of stairs, but it was really worth it because of the view. We left the church and took a break on the square. The sun was shining so we were very lucky. After the break we returned the kickbikes to the rental, where we got a tiny pair of clogs as a souvenir. Then the fine time was over and everybody could relax, shop or enjoy the sun. At seven o’clock we had dinner at Het Pakhuis. We all got six little dishes to share in pairs. First we had sushi and raw salmon. After this we got baked fish and little seasoned pancakes. The last dishes were pasta with pesto and feta and some chicken. We enjoyed dinner very much because of the different dishes. It was funny to see how the Italians couldn’t handle the Chinese chopsticks very well, unlike the Dutch students! In the end everybody got a bit tired because of the walking, kickbiking and climbing stairs, but we had a very nice day!
Jennifer & Patrizia

Italians at Den Haag

Oggi siamo andati a visitare la capitale amministrativa olandese Hague che si trova nelle vicinanze di Leiden e la prima tappa della nostra gita e’stata al Mauritshuis. Le cose che rendono questo museo cosi particolare sono I dipinti che illustrano la storia della pittura olandese e dei suoi maggiori maestri, ma anche l’edificio in cui si trovano, con tante belle sale che risalgono al XVII secolo.
I quadri che hanno colpito di piu la nostra attenzione sono stati “La ragazza con l’orecchino di perla” di Vermeer e “La lezione di anatomia del Dott. Nicholas Tulp” di Rembrandt, due dei piu preziosi capolavori custoditi nel museo.
Il Mauritshuis si trova proprio vicino al centro della citta’ e questo ci ha consentito, una volta terminate la visita, di fare un giro della citta e percorrere le vie principali dove abbiamo goduto di due ore di tempo libero in cui ci siamo dedicati all’acquisto di qualche souvenir e abbiamo potuto gustare i tipici pancakes olandesi.
Verso sera abbiamo preso il treno per tornare a Leiden dove ci attendevano i nostri compagni olandesi. Anche se la giornata e’stata molto impegnativa e’stato divertente visitare la citta’ di Hague e trascorrere del tempo insieme. Ora dopo un breve riposo in famiglia ci prepariamo per la serata che come al solito sara’davvero cool.
Today we have visited the Dutch administrative capital Den Haag that is situated close to Leiden and the first stop of our trip was at the Mauritshuis Museum. What makes the Mauritshuis so unique are the paintings that illustrate the history of the Dutch painting and its most important masters, and also the building in which they can be seen, with a lot of beautiful rooms going back to the XVII century.
The paintings that have more captured our attention are “The girl with a pearl earring” by Vermeer and “The anatomy lesson of Dott. Nicholas Tulp” by Rembrandt, two of the most precious masterpieces in the museum.
The Mauritshuis is close to the city centre, so at the end of our visit we could walk through Den Haag’s main streets where we enjoyed two hours’ free time, bought some souvenirs and also had time to taste the typical Dutch pancakes.
In the evening we took the train back to Leiden where our Dutch school mates were waiting for us.
Even it was a tiring day it was amusing to visit the Hague and spend the time together.
Now, after a short rest with our families, we are getting ready for the evening that, as usual, will be really cool.

Italians in Amsterdam

(this is the beach on saturday--no pictures of the amsterdam available at the moment)

On Sunday the 11th of April we went with a large group to Amsterdam. It was the “ familyday” but we thought going with a large group to Amsterdam would be much more fun!
At 12.00 pm everybody arrived at Central Station and we were very excited, because Holland maybe is a small country, but everybody knows en loves the great Amsterdam! After 30 minutes we arrived at Central Station, and I couldn’t believe it, the sun was shining! Even though Amsterdam is of course a beautiful city, but in the sun it’s even more beautiful!
You can see a lot of things in Amsterdam, like a vodkamuseum, the red light district and a condomerie Everybody heard about the many many coffeeshops, so some of us, were quite interested to (just)have a look.Everything is possible In Amsterdam! We had lunch in a small café, I think they were very happy with us, because everybody could hear us…. After lunch we split up, because some wanted to go to the ‘ Vondelpark’ en especially the girls wanted to see the huge numbers of shops! The favorite shop was a tourist shop with souvenirs, I’ve been in like 3 of them. (They are all the same but…) But also shoe shops were popular on our shoppingtour! Who says only the Italians know what nice shoes are?!
Time flies when you’re having fun, so at 17.00 pm we gathered all together at CS again to discuss further plans. Some of the group wanted to eat at the Mac Donalds, but my mother cooks great (my opinion) so we decided with some others to leave Amsterdam. Tired but satisfied we sat in the train, laughed about all the funny things we saw and talked about the next days. The Italians will go a Second time to Amsterdam, but I’ m sure, it won’t be the last time!

Eva Galbiati and Eva Rabe.

Mondaymorning

This morning we went to school very early. When we arrived at school we went to the classroom to listen to the introduction. After that everyone had to work on their statements in their groups. We were send to different classrooms. We had to think of two statements about specific topics from sustainability. We have to discuss about these topics on Friday. It was also important to think of good arguments to defend yourself. Then we had to look up some facts on the internet, to support the statements. We also had to make a powerpoint about our subjects with some extra information usefull for General assembly on Friday.







Hessel Stuurman and Allessandro Balduzzi