Weekend activities - Sunday

Today I was on my own, the other two teachers had other plans: visiting friends and having a lazy Sunday.
But this is not for me, I wanted to see something! The fantastic Norwegean weather website "told" me the weather will be sunnier in EASTBOURNE than in Brighton, so I took a bus to this place. It's very shaky on a road on the top floor of a double decker bus!
When I got on the bus in Brighton it started to rain!!!
But, believe it or not, on my arrival in EASTBOURNE the sun came out. Still, it was very windy today with scattered showers.

Just to show you I'm NOT pulling your leg - here are some pictures from my day trip:



the Grand Parade - the name of the street



view from Eastbourne Pier



Who would do that?!



Can you spot the seagull? - over the Pier!


 



Brighton after a heavy shower

When I came back to Brighton it was pouring down or you could say, it was raining cats and dogs. What made me taking that photo was the light: Do you see the dark sky in the background and still it looks sunny!

Well, this will be all for today. Tomorrow I'll be back at school, lessons from 1 to 6 pm.

I really do hope that at least some of you read a bit of this and I'm not doing this completely in vain ...

Take care,

Mrs. Bird





Weekend activities - Saturday

old habour complex in Portsmouth

The weather forecast for the weekend was horrible: HEAVY RAIN and SHOWERS along the coast. My friend from Sweden told me about a weather website which she finds very reliable and I checked it and found out that the weather in PORTSMOUTH should be quite ok on Saturday afternoon. So, we changed our plans and went there instead of Eastbourne.

See the pictures - the website was right!

the Spinnaker Needle

it's a freaky feeling



view from the Needle towards the Isle of Wight

My family back home tell me that the weather is also not so nice there - so just in case you want to find some good weather go to http://www.yr.no/


You don't have to speak Norwegean they also have An English version.
I'll do one more entry before I go to bed.


BYE!



Weekend activities - Friday afternoon

The college does everything to keep us teachers happy, so they managed to change our timetable and gave us some morning lessons, which we really appreciate.
That's why we were able to go on a nice afternoon trip to a lovely place in the countryside called LEWES, on Friday.
We went there by bus, which was included in the price of our "Saver Ticket". When I say WE - I speak of two other teachers from my course. 
Here are some pictures of LEWES: 

musicians in the streets are called BUSKERS





people were shorter in the 15th century



money was tight in the evening

Ups, it's already Thursday!

It's incredible how time flies. It's already Thursday but it feels like I arrived only yesterday.
First I'm going to tell you something about my school: We have lessons every day from 1pm to 6pm. We have two teachers who take turns teaching us. Mainly we do speaking activities and they give us tips how to use them in lessons. Every class room is equiped with an IWB (interactive white board) and this is an amazing gadget. The school is full of young people who learn Englisch. In Brighton there are lots of language schools, They have a real industry of learning English here. So, it can be a bit crowded. My "host father" is a taxi driver and he is mostly working in the night shift, and then he takes all those party people home - not me , of course :)


I'm going to add some impressions from the school:

view from our class room to the back garden

front view

back view



Because it was such a fine day today we visited the Royal Pavilion in the morning before school. It is one of the best-known sights of Brighton. I don't have to say much about it, I just let the pictures speak:

I promise I won't let you waiting so long for the next post.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Bird

Arrival in London - first day at school

Boarding in Fankfurt

Tower Bridge from the plane

London Heathrow

 Today I got the code for the WiFi from my host and now my "project of blogging" can really start. This will be a short message only, I'm writing while I'm waiting for dinner to be ready - I'm rather hungry and curious what I will get to eat.

I've just finished dinner, for all of you who are gastronomically interested :)

I had a very spicy (and tasty!) chili con carne with potatoes and lamb's lettuce.

My first school day was interesting and exhausting as well. We are a group of 14 teachers, from Poland, Greece, Spain, Sweden, and the majority from Brazil - and me from Germany. There's one more German in a parallel group.

I think I'll sign off today - my evening programme I'm keeping a secret :)

Best wishes from Brighton,

Mrs. Bird

I'll be taking off tomorrow!

Guess, what this is? - Yesterday I went to town to buy some little presents for my host family. If you've read my last entry you know something about these people. I bought two puppets for the girls, Mrs Magpie and Mr Fox, a book about Erfurt and some fruit tea and chocolates.

Well, next time I'll write from Brighton if I have an internet access there. I'm going to take my laptop with me and it made my suitcase heavy.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Bird

4 days to go!

Nothing important has happened since I wrote the last entry.
Interesting for me was that I got a message from the college telling me something about my host family:

It will be a young family with two small children (4 years and 4 months old), their mum is at home on maternity leave and the father is a taxi driver. They live in a nice neighbourhood - that's what I can see on GoogleEarth and StreetView. Their house is about 25 minutes walking distance away from the college. I have printed out a map of the town and I found out that I could also take a bus to school, but I think walking will be more interesting and better for my fitness :)

I'm already beginning to wonder what to pack into my suitcase: Do I need a warm pullover or can I pack shorts and sandals as well?
If you like you could check the weather over there in the UK:

http://uk.weather.com/weather/today-Brighton-UKXX0215

That's all for today.
BYE,

Mrs. Bird