our school experience in Oxford

In the last two days we have practised dramas and sketches wearing customs. The play is going to be performed on friday morning at 11:30 am in the theatre near the Eckersley school. These dramas are called "Graduation day","Robert of Normandy" and the sketches are called "Graduation day", "Robby Mc". We are very excitied and a bit worried. We hope the audience will like it. This is the last day in this school and we are very unhappy for this. In these three weeks we have learned a lot of things at school and in our families, and our English has improved. We've got to know their habits and ways of life that are very different from ours. We are very happy for this experience and because we've met very friendly people here in Oxford.

18th April 2007

H E L L O ! ! !

Today we tried again the four short pieces around the theme of medicine in the student's room. Two of the pieces are set in Salerno in medieval times, and the other two are translations of these stories into a modern context. Initially we had some discussion about the moviment and the clothes. A problem it was when we had laugh while we stay on stage. Another problem it was when someone of us didn't remember well the scripts. At the end, the drama, we have done well.
We tried every day and Friday we'll show it in the teathre for public. We hope that it will go very well.

See you tomorrow...

B Y E ! ! !

Our last monday in Oxford!!!

In the morning we wrote the blogs about Friday. After that we played new pronunciation game like Dominoes.We enjoyed our self with this game because we never played before.

After lunch we practised our dramas to remember well our script.
When finished the lessons there was the tea party because today were arrives another group from Contursi.They are 6 boys and 8 girls.It's a big group with friendly people.

Maybe this evening we going to the pub "Goose" behind the school all togheter.

Life in Oxford!!!!!!!

H E L LO ! ! !

This is the last week that we stay in Oxford... Now we talk about impression of life in here... Oxford is a nice town and very quite. There isn't traffic in the centre of Oxford because many people prefer travel by bus or by bicycle. Here transport is very efficient and very punctual in comparison with Italy. In the street there is also the place for the people that walk, the place for bicycle, the place for bus and taxi and place for car. The people are very quiet and the families are very friendly. The food is good enough, there are varius pub like McDonald's, Burger King, ecc where we eat the hamburger, chips, ice-cream, coke, ecc. In Oxford the people eat also the pigeon and this shock us. But we Italians prefer Italian food because it's more delicious and more genuine. The Oxford's speciality is the "fish and chips" that we tasted in the pub "The Eagle and Child" on april 7. Here pubs are very popular and strict because the under 18 can't enter because the body guards ask for I.D. cards...



In Oxford there is a beautiful bridge like the "Sigh bridge" of Venice.



Oxford is famous for its colleges. In fact in a Oxford's college which is "Christ Churc College" where is filming "Harry Potter" film. There are other colleges such as "Worcester College". Every college has big parks where the people relaxing and enjoying. We enjoy the differences from Salerno.

B Y E ! ! !

On saturday was sunny and warm. We went to London and we had a very nice day.
After a nice walk along the Thames, we visited the Globe theatre, it is very beautiful and we saw a group of people that made a practice of their play. This theatre is open air; the stage is in three parts: earth, gods and fame.
Then we went on the boat on the Thames and we saw the Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Big Ben and Saint Paul Cathedral.
After that we went on the London Eye and we saw a beautiful view.
When we went down we had an ice-cream and we met Rebecca with her friends.
Then we went shopping at Lilly Withes in Piccadilly Circus.
We came back at about 9 o'clock and we went to Pizza Express for a pizza.
It was a beautiful day, we had a lot of fun.
On Sunday we spent all day in the Christ Church park, we had a pic-nic, played football and volleyball.
It was a very hot day.

Our Second Day In London

Saturday 14th, we went another time to London...........
It was a very beautiful day..... the sky was blue, it was a very hot and crowded day!!! We started from Oxford at 8:00 a.m. after a good coffee. We arrived in London at 10:15 a.m. . Immediately we started to walk to get to "Globe Theatre" near the Thames. This theatre wasn't like we imagined because is very little and simple. We thought that was imposing and big. It is a Shakespeare theatre. After that, we took a river boat and we crossed the Thames. We passed under the Tower Bridge... is a strong emotion to describe... is very beautiful!!! When we finished the navigation we got on the "London Eye".We had fear to altitude, but was very excited because we can saw almost all London!! We didn't see everything because there was a little bit of mist. After that we went to Piccadilly Circus and we spent a lot of money in "Lilly Whites" :-) .... is very cheap shop for girls and boys, old and young. We started to London by bus at 7:00 p.m. and arrived in Oxford at 9:00 p.m., after the travell we went all together to ate a pizza at "Pizza Express"..... we were very disappointed because the pizza wasn't good... it was little and hard... it seemed dept freeze pizza!!! We were very tired but we were very happy for the beautiful day passed all together!!!

Friday filmed the sketch and Bicester village

Last Friday we filmed a sketch.It spoke about a graduation day nowadays.Daniela B. was the candidate,Nadia was Daniela's best friend,Michela,Veronica and Daniela G. were the professor,Valentina was Daniela's mother and Martina and Carmen were Daniela's sisters.
There were three scenes.In the first scene Daniela was tired and worried about her final examination.Nadia took a comomille tea to Daniela.She spilt it on her lap-top.She was very upset.In the second scene the professors asked questions to Daniela and she passed her final examination.She swore the Hippocratic Oath.In the last scene her mother and her sisters huged and kissed Daniela.To film the sketch we took three hours because Daniela and Nadia laughed sometimes.Also Rodney needed to film from every angle.It was a fantastic experience because we recited in front of the camera for the first time.Therefore we were very excited.


In the afternoon we went to Bicester village because we wanted do shopping.But we didn't buy anything because it was very expensive.
Bicester village is lovely place because there is a beautiful park.At eight o'clock we came back home and we had a dinner.
After that we went to bed.
Bye bye