11th July

Today we woke up at the same time as every day, we had breakfast and we went to class. Today at class, we finished the menu: we pretend we had a restaurant and we serve food and we imagine what menu we would like to have. For instance, there’s tacos, salad with tomato, pasta, wraps…

We finished the classes earlier to go to Stratford-upon-Avon: the Shakespeare birthplace. We got there by train.

Just arrived, we had lunch: we ate the omelettes that we prepared yesterday in a park. Then we started walking: we first saw Trinity Church and we entered in. In this church Shakespeare was baptised and buried.

Then walked near the river Avon and we the national theatre, swans and the Clapton bridge. At the end of the river some of us make some tattoos, we saw ship entering in the canal and others ate some ice-cream.

Then we walked to the principal street to buy souvenirs. In this principal street there’s Shakespeare house, and some of us (the ones that we wanted) could visit it. They said that it was amazing.

We bought gives for our families and some sweets.

Finally, we returned by train to the residence to have dinner. We ate chicken hamburgers, chips, tomatoes and smashed potatoes while we were watching the would cup match. Today England and Croatia were playing, and Croatia won.

To end the day we went to the accommodations to take a shower, talk a little bit In the kitchen and go to sleep because we had an exhausting day, we walked a lot.

Good night!!!

Arianda & Aleix

10th July

Today we woke up at 8:15am and we had breakfast. We ate cereals, toast with ham with butter. We drunk milk and tropical juice.

After breakfast, we went to class to do worksheets, they were about food. We learnt some vocabulary about how to make a menu. Today we finished the class 30 minutes earlier because we were going skating. We had lunch at 12:30. We ate a Subway sandwich and we drunk water. 

We took the bus at 13h and we travelled to the ice skating place for 35 min.

When we arrived we put our long socks, our gloves and our skates. We could skate for 2h. Some of us felt a lot of times, some almost didn’t...some of us were very fast!!!

Then, we changed to our normal shoes and walked to a park. We spent some time there, playing football, card games and chatting. 

After that, we took the bus home and we had dinner. For dinner, we ate salat, rice, chicken, spring rolls and vegetables. For dessert we ate a cake and a piece of fruit.

Then, we watched the France vs Belgium. France won 1-0. Guillem went to help some of the leaders to cook omelette for tomorrow’s packet lunch. 

When the match finished, we all returned to the accomodation and we preparer out tupper. 

Then, we did our daily shower, we spent some time in our kitchen and now we will go to sleep!

It was a really good day because we learnt how to ice-skate!! It was amazing!!

Good night!

Guillem & Valentina

9th July

Today we started again English class, we did a recipe of potion and a Harry Potter dossier.

The ingredients of the potion were: some cats, snakes, spiders, vegetarian sausages and tomatoes. In the Harry Potter dossier we had information about their films and books, and we worked hard with the regular and irregular verbs.

We had lunch, we ate some lasagne, fries and some fruit for dessert. For the last hour of class after the lunch we did a presentation of the potion of Harry Potter.

 

At the afternoon we went to the swimming pool, we played some catch game, we swam, we did races… We stayed there for two hours, and we had a good time.

We got again to the residence to have dinner, this time we ate fish, potatoes, some pasta, salad, vegetables, tomatoes and finally we could have some lemon cake and fruit.

Finally, we did some sport doing some races in the field. It was very funny because we run a lot, we fell and we did our best to win.

Today it was a good day but we are very tired because we walked a lot to get to the pool and then the racings were exhausting. Now we are going to do the prayer, some talking in the kitchen and go to sleep.

Good night!!!

Óscar and Arnau Moliner

8th July

Today we woke up a little bit later, we had breakfast and we went directly to the centre.

When we arrived, we went to mass. This mass was special because it was the first the priest that gave us the mass. Paula and Guillem helped carrying the bread and the wine, so they were very happy.

After that we went to have lunch. We ate some chicken, fries and coke at KFC. When we finished to have lunch, we went to the bullring to do some shopping. We had three hours to buy everything that we wanted. Some of us had ice-cream and slush too.

The most popular thing that we bought were: perfumes from Victoria’s secret, teddy bears, headphones with microphones, some sweets and some of us clothes. We think that the bullring is very big and cool, and it’s more similar to la Illa Diagonal of Barcelona or Gran Plaza 2 of Madrid than Corte Inglés.

We are looking forward next week to buy the things that we didn’t have time to buy, but first we want to see shops in London.

Then we returned to the residence to have a shower and have dinner. For dinner we had peas and meet, but we weren’t hungry because the meals timetables is very different from Spain.

Finally, we watched a film before going to sleep. It has been a great day!!!

Good night.

Paula and Mark

7th July OXFORD DAY

OXFORD DAY

Today we woke up at 7am very excited. Today we were going to Oxford!

Firstly, we had breakfast; we ate a toast with butter and jam, milk with cereals and biscuits.

After breakfast, we took the train to go from Perry Bar to New Street. Then we went to Moor Street and we took the train to Oxford. In Banbury we met the people from Leamington and we took a bus. The bus travelled to Oxford. There we another breakfast: a croissant with a “Kitkat” and an orange juice.

When we arrived to Oxford, we did a tour in the city. We had some explanations in each stop and we visited a lot of places. We started with the Christ College, the university that inspired Harry Potter books and films. After taking some pictures we saw some people playing cricket in a field and some people giving food to the ducks. The next stop was Saint Mary’s Church. There were bells that were ringing all the time!!! The other stop in the same square was the Radcliff monument. It was a building that was like a circle. The next stop was another part of the University of Oxford. Then, we stopped to have lunch in a “park”. We ate the wraps that we prepared yesterday. They were delicious!!! We also had chips and water.

After lunch, we went to a library that was very big and nice. There were a lot of books. To continue, we had some free time to buy souvenirs. We went shopping and bought some Oxford jumpers, clothes, teddy bears, keyrings, wands and other Harry Potter object.

After some shopping we visited “The Covered Market” and we ate homemade cookies. Then we walked to through the main street and some us bought “Squishies”. Then we returned to the bus stop and we travelled to Banbury.

In Banbury we took the train that brought us to Birmingham. In Birmingham we took another train to go to Perry Bar.

We went to the Den to had dinner. We ate chicken hamburgers, pasta and fries. For dessert we took fruit and cake. After that, we chatted with our friends, we also saw what the others had bought in Oxford. Then, we returned to the accommodation and we had a shower.

We are very tired today! But it was fantastic!!!

Good night,

Elsa and Mark

6th July

Today it was the last day of classes of the week.

He had breakfast, as usually, and then we went to class. Today at class we ended the arts and crafts activity about Birmingham and we prepared the presentation: this presentation is about the city of Birmingham, we talk about the canal, the bullring, the library, the trains, the weather and the BBC channel. We enjoyed a lot because we find this city very interesting.

We did a break in the middle of the classes where we could play and then at 1pm we had lunch. We ate pasta, fries, hamburgers and salad. After that, we did a video of the presentation and later we went to do the afternoon activity.

This afternoon activity has been about Harry Potter: first we did a poster of our shield, that we could choose between the four houses Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff and we draw and painted them by ourselves.

We needed these shields because then some leaders from other years came to play Quiddich with us. Quiddich is a game of magic people. We liked a lot this and we had a lot of fun, but we ended exhausted because we had to run a lot and fins the snitch.

Finally, we had dinner. We had some tacos and we ate a lot because we runed a lot in the Queedich game.

Now we are going to shower, prepare our wraps for Oxford, we are going to be fill them with chicken, corn, tuna, salad, rice and tomato. Meanwhile, we can play some table games, but today we are going to sleep soon because tomorrow we have to wake up very early.

Good night!!!

Blanca and Arnau Martínez.

5th July

Hello! Today we started the day with a very good breakfast, a toast with butter and jam, cereals with milk and and orange juice. After that, we went to “the Den” to do the classes with Jerry. During the class we invented our country and some worksheets. 

For lunch, we ate corn, salat, rice and pizza. As a dessert we had apples an ioguts. 

After lunch we did a writting exam. The teacher taught us some tips to write an email and after that we wrote the letter.

Our afternoon activity was bowling. We went to the train station and travelled to the bowling alley. There, we split in 3 groups of 6 and we played. 

After the game, we played with some of the machines of that place. Some of us won a lot of tickets and we received some presents.

We returned to the accomodation and we had dinner. We ate chicken, pasta, vegetables and sweet potatoe. Our dessert was a cake.

After dinner we called our parents and we played a game. We had to run to catch a piece of cloth. 

After the game we had a shower and now we are writting the blog. 

Now we are going to sleep.

Good night!!!

Alex & Leyre

4th July ARTS & CRAFTS

Today we woke up 8 o’clock and we had breakfast: we had toast and cereals, as every day. We didn’t get some juice but we had the choice. Then we brushed our teeth and prepared our bag to go to our class of English.

Today at class we did a listening, a writing and a reading test. We think that there were parts easier than other, but we could do it good. When we ended that, we make an arts and craft activity, that was about drawing and using our imagination to recreate Birmingham. As yesterday we went to the centre, we know a lot of buildings and structures from there. We did some boats for the canals, the bridge and the bull ring, that is a shopping centre.

Today for lunch we had pasta with tomato sauce, salad and sausages. We like it pretty much. As a dessert, we had strawberry ice-cream.

When we ended to eat, we went to the accommodations to dye our white t-shirts: we were divided in two teams (green and orange) and then we colour our t-shirt according the colour of our group.

Then we went outside to make some juggling balls with rice and balloons: we full a balloon with rice and then we put another to coat it. We tried to juggle but we were too bad.

We had dinner at 19h and we ate an omelette that we didn’t like it because it was made at the English way. Although we didn’t like the dinner we had energy for the next activity, that was very funny: we recreated the fish and chips program. We did a taboo, Pictionary, spelling, stop and password game. The teams were the orange and the greens one and we didn’t had a winner because we had a draw. The game that we liked the most was password because we laugh a lot with our answers.

Now we are going to have a shower and gossip a little bit in the kitchens all the girls together.

Good night!

Berta & Ari

3rd JULY - BIRMINGHAM TOUR

Hi! We are going to explain to you how our day was. 

We woke up at eight o’clock and we had breakfast. We had milk with cereals and a toast with jam. After that, we went to the den to have our english class. During the class we prepared a presentation. We talked about ourselves. At 11 o’clock we had a break and we played different games lile “one”, “headbands” and football. After the break we continued with the classes. We recorded some of our presentations and the rest will be done tomorrow. 

For lunch we ate potatoes with tuna and cheese, sausages with tomatoes and fruit (apple) and a cake. 

At 2 o’clock we took a train and we want to the centre o

f the city. There, we did a tour and visit the library, the cathedral, Victoria’s square, the mailbox centre, the BBC and the canals of Birmingham.

After the tour we slip in 3 groups and we did an activity for an hour called scavenger hunt. We had to go to different places with a map and we took pictiures. Also, we asked where the places were. This activity was very funny!!

After that, we returned to the accomodation and we had dinner. We are rice, chicken and salad. For dessert we could choose between icecream and fruit. 

The next thing we did was to call our parents.

Then we went to the field to play baseball. 

Finally we had a shower and had a snack in the kitchen.

We are very tired! Now we are going to go to sleep. 

Good night!!!

Claudia & Samuel

FIRST DAY IN BCU 2018

NEWS FROM BIRMIGHAM!!!!

FIRST DAY: CLASSES & SWIMMIGPOOL (2nd July)

Today it was our first day. We woke up at 8 o’clock and then we had for breakfast chocolate cereals, milk and orange juice.

After that we went to classroom to learn English. The name of the teacher is Jerry, and

she is funny, active and she likes playing games. We could make a break in the middle.

After 3 hours and a half of classes we had lunch. We had some onion bread and chicken and onion burritos, they were good. We could eat some fruit and some chocolate cake as a dessert, we ate both: we had an Apple and the cake and a mandarin and some cake too.

Finally, we had another hour of class to make a poster about our team that is related about presentation that we have to do, for example, our team is Oxford so we do a poster about Oxford. Although this activity was fun, the one that we like the most was the game of the gunman game.

At the afternoon, we went to the swimming pool. We had to walk a lot to get to there but once we arrived we had a good time.

Then we returned to the residence to have dinner, this time we ate fish and chips, pasta, carrots, and salad. We could eat some strawberry ice-cream but we preferred some fruit.

To end the day we changed our clothes to some sports clothes to go to play football to the field, as we play football in our city, we thought that it’s not very big. Then we had a shower, brush your teeth and then we talked a little bit in the kitchen to our friends and now we are going to sleep.

Today it was a tired day but we had fun and we are looking forward what we are going to do tomorrow.

Good night!!! 

And remember, you can see more pictures in our private Facebook group.

Lucas & Aleix

VUELOS/ VÍDEOS

A continuación os damos la información relacionada con los vuelos de vuestros hijos:

Birmingham - Barcelona (22 de Julio)

Salida: 14:35 horas (hora local)
Llegada: 17:45 horas (hora local)
Vuelo: VY8753
Aeropuerto: Barcelona - El Prat (Terminal 1)

Birmingham - Madrid (23 de Julio)

Salida: 15:00 horas (hora local)
Llegada: 18:30 horas (hora local)
Vuelo: ZB994
Aeropuerto: Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas (Terminal 1)

Además, os adjuntamos los links de vídeos para que los podáis ver con vuestros hijos y observen la evolución de su segundo idioma:

BBC

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3XjGENmbUmUOU4wM3IwUzZBLVU

Chocolate

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3XjGENmbUmUM29xYXVNNHhyVXc

Experiences

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3XjGENmbUmUY2FOZ0RheDZhT2c

Food

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3XjGENmbUmURE95eGNjU3JtTW8

MTV

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3XjGENmbUmUOTZBNURfRHAtR1U

TV News

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3XjGENmbUmUVkJxVVhBUnYydzQ

AGRADECIMIENTOS

J

Estimadas familias,

Un año más acaban los campamentos Idiomas Padre Manyanet en BCU.

Han sido tres semanas inolvidables, se han pasado muy rápido y eso que los cursillistas han tenido diferentes sentimientos. No olvidaremos sus primeras caras, todos expectantes y nerviosos esperando cómo íbamos a ser, qué iban a realizar durante tres semanas y si podrían vivir sin sus padres tanto tiempo.

La primera semana fue una semana larga porque se estaban adaptando, pero a medida que se iban conociendo y haciendo nuevas amistades, el tiempo volaba. Tanto fue así que llegamos a nuestro primer viaje, Londres. ¡Qué emoción! Un día estupendo, cultural y fantástico visitando los monumentos y lugares más importantes de la capital inglesa.

La segunda semana voló, literalmente hablando, todas las actividades se nos hacían cortas y cuando nos dábamos cuenta les estábamos mandando a la cama para coger energías para el siguiente día. En esta semana tuvimos dos excursiones, ¿será por qué era la segunda semana? Oxford (tuvimos una guía estupenda que nos enseñó los mejores lugares de la ciudad) y Alton Towers (creo que no hay palabras para explicar un parque de atracciones) Fueron los mejores días del campamento para todos ellos.

Esta última semana, los sentimientos volvían a cambiar, ya no era preocupación ni alegría, sino tristeza porque ya se habían adaptado y no querían marchar. Estaban muy bien adaptados y los nervios empezaban a florecer porque estaban deseando ver a sus padres para contar todo lo vivido.

Por nuestra parte, agradecer la total confianza depositada en nosotros y no queremos decir un adiós, sino un hasta luego. En estas tres semanas hemos podido conocer a fondo a vuestros hijos así como les hemos visto madurar, reír, disfrutar, añorar y muchos sentimientos más que les harán crecer como personas, no nos cabe ninguna duda.

Un cordial saludo a todos y hasta la próxima.

Cristina y Manu

LAST DAY

Today we woke up excited, because it was our last day, and we are looking forward for meeting our families. We dressed up, had breakfast and we walked to the university to do our last hours of english of the summer camp.

During the morning we watched all our presentations which have been doing in the past three weeks. We also played games such as "the wolf", "soup of letters" of Harry Potter, "three in a line"; and we also sang some english songs all together.

We had lunch and we ate a baguette with lettuce, tuna, egg, sweet corn and french fries. Our dessert was fruit and a piece of cake.

Our last hour of class we watched a Harry Potter film called "Goblet of fire". Mo, our teacher, gave us a diploma and he said goodbye to us very touched.

Then, we finished preparing our Harry Potter party and we went to the Syndicate. It was time for our activities' gifts. The leaders gave a Rugby ball for the team that won the sports games, then a cooking spoon for the winners of Masterchef. The ones that won the MTV were gifted with cool headphones and the winners of "Factory of challenge" got a "Selfie-stick". The leaders also made a collage with all the photos we took in the scavenger hunt "find the bear". After that they gave us an envelope with a photo and a personal message for every one of us. We loved that texts, they were very nice!!

In the afternoon we came back to the accommodation, we finished our luggage, we took a shower and we dressed up for tonight's party.

Then, we returned to the university and we continued watching the Harry Potter film.

Later, we had dinner (roast beef with potatoes and peas, gravy sauce, fruit and a piece of cake).

At night we did an amazing party, where we danced all together all kind of music. To say goodbye, we sang "We are the world" from Michael Jackson. 

After that we came back to the accommodation and we took a shower. Today we are going to go to sleep a little bit earlier because tomorrow we are catching the plane to Barcelona. 

See you tomorrow families!!!

Núria & Berta

TAKE A PICTURE

Good evening families,

Today we woke up at 8 o´clock like every day and we had our breakfast.

We went to the university and we had class. Today we prepared presentations about our experiences during the three weeks which we spent in Birmingham.

Then, we had lunch (chicken with potatoes and salad, fruit and brownie)

After lunch, we continued the class and we presented to our colleges our presentations. We were a little bit nervous but we did very well. When we finished the class, we started to prepare our Party. We chose a topic "Harry Potter" and we prepared main characters´ masks and posters with the heraldry shield of the different houses.

At 5 o´clock we went to the accomodation to play our last scavenger hunt. We had to take pictures about different places where we lived and some funny moments.

At 7 o´clock we went back to the university for having dinner (lamb hotpot, vegetables, fruit and chocolate icecream with maltesers)

Finally, we returned to the accomodation, started to packing,
took a shower and went to sleep.

What amazing day!!!

María & Vega

FIND THE BEAR

We woke up at 8:00 o'clock as usually, we dressed up and we had breakfast.

We started our class at 9. First, we presented our advertisements about chocolate. Then we saw the film Romeo and Juliet (but the kids version). After that, our teacher Mo explained what we were going to do during our last days of class: a presentation about our experience in Birmingham City University (BCU).

We had lunch and we ate an eggplant lasagne, a potatoe croquette, a garlic bread and fruit. We could also eat a cake with seeds.

After lunch, we returned to the class and started our new project. At 3 o´clock we caught the train and we went shopping in Bullring. We could shop for an hour and, after that, we made an Scavenger Hunt "Find the bear".

Our leaders gave us photographs about different bears´sculptures that were located in different parts of downtown. Our purpose was to find them and take "selfie photos" with them. We were divided in three groups: the first group found two bears, the second one twelve and the third founded sixteen.

We came back to our university for having dinner (rice and chicken, salad, chinese bread and strawberry with brownie)

Then, we played baseball in the field next to the accomodation and we finished playing a battle water. Finally, we took a shower, ate a snack, talked for a while in the kitchen.

See you soon families!!!

Lucía & Sofía

CADBURY WORLD!!

Today we woke up like every day, at 8 o’clock. Then we dressed up and we had breakfast. After that we walked to our university to have classes.

During the class we talked about chocolate, Cadbury and how its chocolate is made. Our teacher taught us how to make an advertisement. Our Project today was to make one of them, for example a video or a poster. We had to invent a new Cadbury’s product. We finished our class a little bit earlier than usual, because we had a trip to Cadbury.

At 12 o’clock we cached the train and we arrived in our destination at 1 pm. Before going inside the museum we had lunch (sandwich, crisps, a chocolate bar and a fruit). After lunch we entered inside and we began with our Cadbury’s experience.  

Firstly, we saw the cocoa beans and very realistic statues in a jungle environment. Secondly we saw a video about the founders, two brothers called Benjamin and John. We learnt that John’s son, Jorge was the one who created Bournville, the village that had the accommodation of all Cadbury’s workers. Then, they told us how they make the chocolate. While we were watching the video, the benches moved at the same time of the machines. To continue we took a photo, on we looked like we were surfing on a chocolate bar. After that, we went into a ride that consisted on a car that followed a route. There, we saw the cocoa in the different seasons of the year. Then we bought our chocolate bars in the biggest chocolate shop that we have ever seen. To finish our visit, we watched a 4D film. We had a lot of fun!!!

At 5 pm we took the train to come back to the accommodation. When we arrived we had time to practice our performance for “MTV show”.

Later, we went back to the university to have dinner (lamb, potatoes, salad, fruit and a chocolate mousse).

After dinner we did the MTV show, with all our performances. We saw dancers, singers and magicians. We enjoyed the actuations a lot.

We finished the day with our daily routine: we took a shower when we arrived at the accommodation, we did the prayer and talked for a while in the kitchen while we were having our night-snack.

Good night families! Kisses to all of you!

Paula & Noemí