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Holland : friday

Friday 12th April
Activities This morning the students’ assignment was to write sketches that they will play tonight for parents’evening. The French will speak English and the Dutch will speak French. THey had to write and rehearse together all morning. It was hard and serious work.
Katell and her Dutch partner
Sarah
Catharine
Solen
Dounia
EVE
noeline and co
Malo
Angèle
And we all wish Claire a very Happy Birthday
Lucie and Léa
Sarah and Sophie
anne fleur
Hector
Malek
Lucile

Tonight they will all be stressed and excited. It is our last day here so this is the final page of this travel journal. The teachers all agree that the French kids were AMAZING !!!

Unexpected
After breaking his umbrella Mr Jourdan broke his bike

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Holland : monday

Monday 8th April
Weather today Fantastic weather today. These two radiant teachers have just scored some goals in a football game with the students.
2 teachers
Activities In the morning we had a Dutch lesson. The pronunciation is really hard but we got help from our partners.
thomas et jeanne



In the afternoon we played Hockey and football

hockey sarah ba agathe bertrand
football flore thomas catharine anna louise
Unexpected The Queen’s horses. Queen Beatrix has announced that she will abdicate and hand the crown to her son Willem-Alexander on April 30th
horses

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Holland : saturday

Saturday 13th April
Back in France « All is well that ends well » Shakespeare.

We are all back, safe, sound and happy !

See you on Monday !

Mrs Guillemot and the boys
The Unforgettable Pink Blanket

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Holland : sunday

Sunday 7th April
Weather today Sunshine all day !
News We had a great trip and a warm welcome in Holland.
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Mood of the day Meeting with Dutch partners !
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Holland : thursday

Thursday 11th April
Weather today Unfortunately today it was raining ! Too bad for the visit in Amsterdam !
Windy too Mr Jourdan s umbrella broke one hour after he had bought it
Come back Last night we had dinner together at two Dutch families’ houses. Everybody had cooked a dish and the teachers were invited too.
Solen Thomas Dounia and Zineb
Colas sharing the food
Activities In the morning we visited the Van Gogh Museum and in the afternoon Anne Frank’s house. We had lunch and dinner in Amsterdam too.
Van Gogh s self portrait
Anne Frank s house

In spite of the misty weather verybody enjoyed this day along the canals of Amsterdam.

Prinzengracht
Flore Sophie Claire Solen Dounia Marianne Katell at the restaurant

Mr Gallais explained in class that Amsterdam is a sustainable city (or eco-city) and he showed us the electric cars that drivers are encouraged to hire.

electric cars
Augustin cycling back home a 45 minute trip
Unexpected
a quirky window decoration in Amsterdam

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Holland : tuesday

Tuesday 9th April
Weather today sunny AGAIN this morning ! Everybody was so relieved because today was cycling day !
group photo
Activities At school we attended a conference about Holland and one of its artists : MC Escher. We will go and visit the Escher Museum tomorrow.
Esther giving Bertrand important information



At 10.30 we left the school to cycle in the sand dunes on a plank or concrete path. The dunes act as natural dikes : they protect the country from the sea (20% of the country is below sea level, 50% less then one meter above sea level). They are protected area where you can spot many species of birds and even wild horses.

The beach
Léa on the beach
The dunes
Pauline and Enora on the beach

We stopped at an endless beach and then reached our goal : a pancake restaurant, Mijendel.

pancake restaurant

From there the students had to cycle back to the city for a free afternoon.

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Holland : wednesday

Wednesday 10th April
Weather today Cloudy and cold (but still no rain !). Not too bad for cycling in The Hague.
The Ducth Prime Minister s office in The Hague
Activities Today we have visited two interesting museums in The Hague. The Art Museum and the MC Escher Museum.

We have seen world-famous paintings like the anatomy lesson by Rembrandt, View of Delft by Vermeer (unfortunately The Girl With the Pearl Earring is currently travelling in Japan and the US).
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp



There were lots of paintings by Piet Mondrian too. He was a pioneer in abstraction employing an irregular checkerboard drawn with black lines, and with the spaces paints mostly white or sometimes in the primary colors of blue, red and yellow.

vermeer view of delft



As for MC Escher everybody knows this unconventional graphic artists or at least some of his works . But if you want to know more about his work visit this website : http://www.mcescher.com/

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Escher Belvedere 1958
Escher tesselation
Lucile and Bertrand and Jeanne at the Escher Museum
Daphné Agathe and Enora at the Escher Museum
Unexpected
cycling in Den Haag

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