18th of July

ALTON TOWERS!!

Today we had to woke up earlier because we were going to Alton Towers and the coached leaved at 8 o’clock but we didn’t mind because we were so excited about going there. 

The coach came to the residence but we had to stop at Moor Street for the Leamington group. We had one hour and a half of trip and finally we arrived to Alton Towers, approximately at 10:30. 

We entered in and before leaving to go to the attractions, Chema said us that we will meet at 2 o’clock in the frogs lake to see that everyone was fine and to eat all together. Then we slipped in groups and we went to enjoy the park. 

The first attraction that we went it was Sonic Spinning Ball: it was about a roller coaster that turned around in circles all the time, then we went to the smiler (the biggest roller coaster with most loopings in the world). There we did 3 hours of queue line. At first we thought that it was very boring but as there were a lot of us together we finally had a good time talking, and the waiting it was very worth it!!! 

Because of the long queue, the group that were in the Smiler couldn’t go to meet Chema at 2 o’clock, but as Natalia and Cristina were waiting there with us, there was any problem. 

At the afternoon we could go to 4 or 5 attractions more and they were all awesome, but our favourite was the smiler and sonic (the ones that we went on the morning). 

We caught the coach at 17:15 and we returned to have dinner to the residence. We were very tired so some of us slept on the coach. We arrived at quarter to eight and we had a good meal waiting for us: some pizza and strawberry ice-cream. 

Finally, we had some pop-corn while we watched “Despicable me”. Then we did the prayer and now we are going to sleep. It was an incredible but very exhausting day!!!! 

Good night 

Arnau Moliner and Guillem. 

17th of July

POOL AND QUIZ DAY!

Today we woke up at 8 o’clock. We had breakfast and then we went again to class. When we arrived, we separated in two classes according our level of English and then at class we created our theme park “Aloca coca”, it has got a song, a mascot, shops for souvenirs, a map, shows, and lots of roller coasters.

We had lunch at 13:00h, we ate pasta with garlic bread and strawberry ice-cream. After having lunch, we went directly to the swimming pool. We had to take two trains to get there, because the pool was in Coventry. We chose this swimming pool because there was a slide, but today there were fixing it, so we couldn’t use it. Anyway, the pool was bigger than the other one and had some waterfalls. 

We returned to the residence to have dinner, but we didn’t like

what we had: it was a very strange omelette. But the dessert was very good: we had some donnut filled of strawberry jam. 

The activity after diner was very challenging: we separated into four groups and did a quiz about different topics (BCU, leaders, children, food and England) and there were questions about them. It was so funny and we think that we did it pretty good! Finally the group BALA (formed by Berta, Àlex, Leyre and Ariadna) and the Four Pack (Arnau Moliner, Blaca, Óscar and Marc Miralles) were the finalist, so we did a final quiz to see who was the winner and it was BALA! 

Finally, Chema gave us a little bit of information of Alton Towers to have information about the best roller coasters but it was shot because we wanted to go to sleep early for tomorrow, we have been looking forward this day since the first week! 

Now we are going to do the prayer and then to sleep. Good night!

Óscar and Valetina