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    For my project week I went on a trip to

    Berlin with a big group of students from

    the College. I had never been before and

    was really excited about being in a city I

    had heard so much about from

    History class back home.

    As we arrived at our hostel, one of

    the first things we saw was a

    section of the former Berlin Wall. It

    was surreal to see it right there in

    front of us and walk by almost as if it

    were nothing, but at the same time be

    fully aware of what it stood for only

    twenty years ago.

    On our first day in Berlin we walked

    around the city and went to a few of the

    main sights including the Reichstag, the

    seat of the German Parliament, where

    you can go on to the roof and get an

    amazing view of Berlin.

    During the trip we also visited a number

    of the sights including the Brandenburg

    Gate, Checkpoint Charlie and the Jewish

    Museum. Every place was interesting and

    brought to life what I had learnt at school.

    One of the best things about the project

    was getting to know everyone else from

    AC better.

    p o s t c a r d s

    Postcard from Cadoxton Nursery

    During project week we went to Cadoxton

    Nursery School in Barry. The

    School had

    contacted our College and

    asked students to help for one week in the

    purpose of an exchange of cultures.

    The school started at 9am for the first

    group of children. Our first task was to

    help them put their names on a board so

    that the teachers knew the number of

    children each day. The children were

    divided into two groups which started

    with the introduction of the day and date.

    Afterwards most of the children went off

    to play, outdoors and indoors so our

    responsibility was to take care of theirsafety and get every child involved in

    the games. While they were playing,

    some of them were called to be

    taught by their teachers. We helped

    to prepare the snack time and to

    clean up. The children thereafter

    were told a story or they learned

    from visitors coming from organisations.

    The morning group finished at 11:30. We

    had our lunch together with other

    teachers to get ready for the next group

    that started at 12:30. Both morning and

    afternoon groups did the same session

    which ended at 3pm. The children were

    then picked up and we helped to tidy the

    Nursery and prepare it for the next day.

    from

    We both enjoyed our project very much

    and got an interesting insight into the

    British Education system. The school

    really enjoyed participating in project

    week as well and have written to the

    College inviting more students next year.

    Kesey Sar (Cambodia) &

    Lena Gorgen (Germany)

    Postcard from the French

    Exchange

    This project week, eighteen of us

    visited the small town of Ceret in

    French Catalonia where we

    participated in the French

    Exchange. We stayed with host families

    for five days and personally, after only

    having started learning French at AC itwas quite an experience being immersed

    in a household that spoke no English, but

    it was a valuable lesson and I came out in

    one piece.

    In the morning we went to

    classes

    with our

    hosts. It was a challenge

    having to wake up at around six every

    morning to catch the bus to school but itwas a neat change of scene and another

    fantastic opportunity to spread the UWC

    ideals! In the afternoon we visited

    different sites around the region such as

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    proJe Chateau de Caladroy, Belesta, a four-

    hour, 20km gruelling hike through the

    mountains and the enchanting seaside

    village of Collioure. On the last night

    we had a tasty banquet that ended

    ate in the night with boisterous

    singing competitions, and I'm proud

    o say that the AC team finished firstby a long shot.

    The entire group fell in love with the

    people and the culture and I, think

    we all now want to pursue French at

    university. I'd like to take this opportunity

    o thank the "Conseil Regional du

    Languedoc Roussil lon", "La Vil le de

    Ceret" and "La DARIC" for their generous

    contributions, as well as Monsieur

    erome Campos for organising such an

    enjoyable week. Merci mi lle fois! Nous

    adorons la France!

    Nikita Avdiushko (Russia/USA)

    '. .

    As March began, I along with three fellow

    tudents set off for Northern Ireland. We

    pent the first few days in a beautiful little

    illage near the Giant's Causeway in the

    North and, despite what I'm t old is t he

    ypical Northern Irish weather - rain - it was

    n enjoyable experience. We motivated

    urselves to go out for rather wet but

    nvigorating walks along the coast to see,

    mongst other things, a narrow rope-bridge

    hat hangs high above the sea joining a

    mall rocky island to the mainland, and a

    arbour, which due to the windy weather,

    was truly amazing with great columns of

    pray shooting off the rocks.

    he highlight was going to see the Giant's

    auseway; it looked exactly like huge

    acks of giant fifty-pence pieces,

    lthough it's commonly described as a

    oneycomb. We also found the giant's eye,

    oot, organ pipes and granny! We then

    we

    spent

    our final couple of days

    exploring Belfast City. A tour in a

    traditional 'black taxi' revealed to us the

    evidence of the Protestant and Catholic

    separation as well as the murals and the

    shipyard where the Titanic was built. The

    trip was a really great experience and weall learnt how to invent some rather

    interesting recipes due to limited

    availability of ingredients!

    Miriam Dobson (UK)

    I was a bit apprehensive about going

    to Yemen, as if you look on the British

    Embassy's website it tells you to avoid

    going at all costs. But we went, and it

    was 'incredible', the sort of experience

    that words like incredible don't really do

    justice to.

    The city itself was beautiful and the food

    was delicious, especially when eaten with

    your hands. The girls in our group decided

    to adopt Yemeni dress for the week. This

    wasn't compulsory, but we felt i t would

    help us to fit in, which it did. We still

    attracted lots of curious looks, but

    nowhere near as many as when we f irst

    arrived at the airport in our own clothes.

    But more than to help f it in, I 'm glad I

    wore it because I was able to experience

    what it's like t o be so covered up like that.

    The group attended a big event to mark

    International Women's Day, where

    a woman completely veiled spoke

    passionately about women's rights.

    This seemed hypocritical to m e, as I

    saw the veil as oppressive, but

    through being covered up myself, and

    talking to Yemeni women about why

    they wear what they wear, my view haschanged.

    The Yemeni people were so hospitable.

    Because of the way it's portrayed, Yemen

    gets hardly any tourists, so people were

    curious to know what brought us there.

    We got to talk to many people just when

    walking around the city, which was great

    as we got to practise our Arabic, and find

    out about their cultures, and they could

    ask us about where we were from.

    Our programme was organised by a groupof university students our Arabic teacher

    Nidal Alcalde had met on a previous trip

    to Yemen. They gave up their whole week

    to spend time with us, and made the trip

    what it was. We were able to

    be much

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    more than

    tourists, and the night we left

    they told us that we could go back to our

    countries and be ambassadors for Yemen, .

    telling people what it's really like.

    Lauren Pilgrim (UK) >