Welcome to Southampton 2011!!!

Hello everybody!! and sorry for the delay in getting started with this Blog! We arrived very late the first night and we couldn’t access the Internet until today. The students will write every day or every two days in groups of two, the Group Leaders will start today!

The flight went well and a member of Summers Abroad’s staff was waiting for us to take us to the bus. We had a little snack and then we started sorting the rooms out (boys on the first floor and girls on the second floor).

The first morning, we got up at 6:45 am and walked to the dining place (about 15 minutes from our residence). We met Mr. Russell and he gave us some instructions of how to queue up to get the food (there were different cereals, croissants, sausages, bacon, eggs, orange juice, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, etc).

After that, we walked across the park, up to Southampton Solent University and after a short Welcome speech, the students started a level test (including writing, listening, grammar and conversation) in order to put them into different classes according to their knowledge.

Once everyone finished their oral tests, we had lunch and headed for the first classes in the new groups. After 3 hours of class (with a 20 minutes break) we had dinner and then went to watch a movie: GREASE!!! Some of us had already seen it, but it was fun anyway!

Finally, we went back to the Students Residence, took a shower and had a little snack for supper.

The students had some free time before they went to sleep to talk about the day, play cards, read, etc.

At 11 it was time to go to bed…the day after was going to be a looooooooooooooong day!

Duncan & Elvira
Group Leaders.

AVISO IMPORTANTE PARA LOS PADRES: los m'oviles se quedan en las habitaciones de la residencia. En cuanto llegan, 11 - 12 hora espan'ola (esta hora puede variar en funci'on de la actividad realizada ese d'ia) estaran localizables en sus tel'efonos. Gracias.