Anneke in Leicester: Day 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15

Hey Everyone!

Another message from me ... still live from Leicester of course! It has been a while but then I've got loads to tell you!

Wednesday 18 - 02 - 2009: Day 11

Natalia and I haven't done a lot of cultural activities that day because we really felt the breath of mister Cruysweegs and mister Smet in our necks. That's why we were working on our endwork all day long. The rest of our leicester group went to explore Leicester a little bit more.
In the evening we started devising our dance for the dance lessons. We're devising a dance for the song "Break the Ice" from Britney Spears.

Thursday 19 - 02 - 2009: Day 12

Still not much news from the Leicester Front. We all stayed in to work on our observations, endwork,... In the evening we went to the local pub which was really nice, telling each other our "painful moments". We really laught so much!

Friday 20 - 02 - 2009: Day 13

Nottingham time! This was a really nice visit. Although I expected Nottingham to be a little bit smaller it still was a nice city. We went to see the castle of Nottingham, which was really fun.

In the afternoon we went to a museum called "crime and punishment" and it was really really scary! It was with real actors and everything was put into scene. First of all we were put into a courtroom and the ones with a hood and the ones wearing green were the suspects. A judge took care of them. I first was an innocent person but then the judge noticed that I was also wearing a hood... Oops :D
Evi was being accused of being a witch and a prostitute. The judge asked how she was planning to solve this crime. Evi answered "I can give you some personal pleasure!"
We were then taken to the prisons and a real guard was standing there. Only we hadn't seen him and when he "came to live" everyone was screaming. Luckely this guard looked very nice and when he was saying "You do as I say"... Tanja replied to me quietly: "That's kind of kinky". I really started to laugh so hard, so the guard asked "what so funny". When the rest of us had asked "has it something to do with this boy?", they also started to laugh so we had a whole Belgian group laughing and laughing...
Luckely the trip went on so we were taking into a cell, into a chamber where the medical control was done, were the laundry was done by some female prisoners,... It was all very good and very interactive!

In the evening we were all so tired that we didn't want to go out anymore. So we stayed in and watched a Pirates movie...

Saturday 21-02-2009: Day 14

Today we all stayed in and worked on our lessons. I devised a part for History and Timmy and I were working on the ICT lesson. In the late afternoon we awarded ourselves a visit to... BORDERS! This is a HUGE bookstore which is both heaven and hell for me. I only bought two books but I'm planning to buy the whole serie of Louise Rennison because you can't get these books in Belgium in English. And they are so funny... If you don't like these books... You don't have any humour... (Or at least that's what I think! =D)

In the evening we were all so busy with our work / books... So we didn't went out...

Sunday 22 - 02 - 2009: Day 15

Again a working day. I don't have a lot to say about it... Working on History, ICT, Travel and Tourism and Religion. I finally managed to do most of the job, so I hope I can have quite a good week of teaching practice.

Right now, I'm kind of nervous because I really don't know if my teaching style will fit Groby... But one thing is for sure... Tomorrow I can tell you everything about teaching at Groby!

Sweet dreams,