Greetings from a largely overrated teacher! ;-)

Thanks for the bundles of roses you're throwing at us (Fr. Prof. Spaller & me) and thanks for the great reports about your days and experiences. They are really enjoyable, if sometimes somewhat less eloquently stated than possible! ;-)
So, here's my report:
After not having had much time to prepare the trip to London with the class myself, I was happy to have a fabulous partner in crime, Fr. Prof. Mitter, who force-fed the students of class 7c with all the necessary information before our days in the UK.
After having arrived and witnessed several unpleasant shocks (where's our coach?, what the h*** is this room, it smells terribly, that's supposed to be our breakfast?) we ended up spending a magnificent time in the lovely capital of England.
And, despite the fact that some of you guys had been to visit there a few times already, I guess it was still a trip not to be forgotten in quite a while!
Cambridge and the punting, the walk with the "weird" man who sponsored some drinks and took us to Bleeding Heart Lane and past the "Kipferl" restaurant to see the place of Braveheart William Wallace's painful death through torture...
Portobello Market on a really busy Saturday morning, Camden Market in the rain, Covent Garden with its acrobats, ... I don't even want to know how many times you girls went onto Oxford Street to go window shopping! ;-)
All in all, including the afternoons in school, it has to be said that, even for me, it was a new and refreshing experience to be around some youngsters without (bad) attitude, with respectful behaviour and good manners who could take a joke and laugh about themselves (as well as others!). Another reason for going back as soon as possible. And do not forget that we did not see everything there is to be seen in London. The Tower, St. Paul's, a load of museums and musicals, Wimbledon, and so on and so forth!
London - a story to be continued... what do you think?
ERF

The Aquarium

Hi,

I'll tell you about my favourite day in London.
Paul and I were allowed to go on our own to the Aquarium. When we arrived there we recognized that we were about an hour too early. So we decided just to walk around a little bit. We wandered across Westminster Bridge and took some awesome pictures of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. The reason why the pictures were that awesome was that it was the sunniest day during our stay in London.
When we came back to the Aquarium we still had some time left and so we went to McDonald's to buy some burgers. What a breakfast ;-).
When we finished eating we got into the Aquarium and it was more expensive than I had expcted, but when we had seen everything we both agreed that it was worth seeing. We even touched a cuttlefish.
After the Aquarium we went to Hyde Park, our meeting point, to wait for the others.

Here you can see one of the pictures of the Houses of Parliament:

Yours,
Georg K.

Some unforgettable impressions from our week ;)

Meli

HMS Belfast

On Saturday I visited HMS Belfast, one of the most important warships in World War II but today it is a museum ship. The ship has three heavy guns and each of these needs 27 soldiers to be used. Belfast also contains butcher, a dentist, very small sleepingrooms and two huge enginerooms. Today the ship inculdes an exhibition about World War II, especially D-Day, where HMS Belfast supported the land forces with naval bombardment.

HMS Belfast

Wikipedia HMS Belfast
Fritz Kliemann

Hop on, Hop off ! Sightseeing Tour through London ...

One day we joined a "Hop on, Hop off "Sightseeing Tour through London. At first we were on a typical red double-decker bus and saw a lot of famous attractions like Big Ben, London Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge. After a little break we went on by boat.

When we started our boat tour it was great to see London from another perspective.

On the river everything seemed so peaceful, there was no bustle going on.

I'm very thankful for this day because I always wanted to do such a tour through London.

During this week I got to know another side of London. When we think about London, we think about Oxford Street or London Bridge but London is much more. In my opinion London is one of the most tolerating cities I've ever been. In London there are so many different types of people but that's no problem because everybody is treating each other respectfully.

Yours,

Melanie

:)

Some impressions from our class and class room. Of course these pictures were taken during the break.
Stefan Gsandtner

Walk in Charles Dickens' London

Hi,

On Wednesday a weird man picked us up after school and so we joined the so called "Charles Dickens Walk". The trip took us about two hours and our funny guide told us different stories about strange happenings like the death of crusaders, doctors or authors. The man was very fascinated by ghosts, mysterious things and fairytales and so all stories he told us were based on these things. In the end of this tour we entered a hotel bar to have a drink. The highlight of this trip was when Georg took his camera and mistakenly deleted all the pictures :-/

All in all it was a very funny tour through London :)

to see a few pictures KLICK HERE

Wolfgang Schmidtgrabmer