Christmas greetings from La Llagosta

Christmas greetings from Veendam!

Hi everyone!

We would like to wish you a merry merry christmas and a happy new year!

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Henrieke, Jos, Lisa, Mr Bruins, Nick, Mr Jager

Niek, Tania, Nina, Eline, Khadra.

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Feliz Navidad!

Henrieke

Heey!

My name is Henrieke, and I'm 16 years old. I live in a village near Veendam, called Spijkerboor. I've lived here since I was 4 years old.
I'm in Havo4, on the Winkler Prins.
I cycle to school everyday, I leave at 7.10 and school starts at 8.00..

I live with my parents and little sister, who is 14 years old and she also does Havo. We also have a cat, his name is Tijger, which means tiger in Dutch C: We always used to go to Norway in the holidays, so I've never been to Spain!


When I'm not at school I like hanging out with friends, having fun, drawing, taking photos or listening music. I like reading books, too. I mostly listen rock and indie and I like going to concerts. I have a job, but most of the time, I only work at Saturday, except for the holidays.

After Havo I want to go to the Academy of Arts, because I'm really into art and culture. And I'd really like to travel for one year, or go on exchange.

I'm really excited to go to Spain, because I've never been there, and I really like travelling and meeting new people.

xx from the Netherlands
Henrieke

Eline

Hello!

My name is Eline. I'm 16 years old and I live in the city Veendam. I go to school at the Winkler Prins, I'm now in the fourth grade. My parents are divorced, I live at both of the houses. At my mothers house I live with my mother and my younger brother he is 13 years old. When I am at my fathers house I live there also with my younger brother, my father and stephmother. I also have a younger stephsister she is also 16 and 2 stephbrothers they are 21 and 23.

I go to school by bike, it takes me 5 minutes to go to school..

When I'm not working or go to school I like to watch movies, listening to music ( most of the time I listen to rock music, but when I go out I also like house music) and having fun with friends! :)

In the future I want to study Journalism and after that I think I'm going to study politics on the university.. The subjects the I like are social science and art the subjects that i dislike are economic and maths..

I'm looking forward to go to spain, because I like to meet new people and to travel :)

Kisses,

Eline

nina

Hi everyone!

My name is Nina. I'm 15 years old. I'm a student of the Winkler Prins college. And I'm in Havo4.
I live in a house in Veendam with my parents, brother and sister. I have always lived in Veendam. My sister is 12 years old and my brother is 9 years old. I also have pets, a dog and a hamster. And we have fish in a pond.
I go to school everyday, i go by bike. It's about 15 minuten from my house. School starts everyday at 08:00.
In my free time i like doing a lot of different things, like playing volleyball, I train 3 times a week. And almost every saturday I have a match. I also like MSN, hanging out with friends, having fun, watching tv and i love music. I almost like every kind of music, pop music, house music especially. I also have Twitter and Facebook.
I really love the summer. Because of the weather and the sun. And because of the vacation. In the vacation we go on holiday to another country. Last summer i went to France. Next summer I hopefully go to Italy or Danmark and my best friend is going with me. So I'm really excited about it!
And the exchange.. It's my first time i go on an exchange. I think it's a great opportunity. And i think it's a lot of fun and hope there's much to learn. And i love Spain!
I hope to see you soon!

xx From Veendam,

Nina.

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Hello, my name is Óscar and I am 17 years old (for the moment). I am currently studying 1st batxillerat for the second time (A levels in technology) ... because I'm repeating (obviously I studied "a lot"). From 8:00h to 14:30h, I live in the INS Marina, but otherwise I have a beautiful home to sleep just 5 minutes from school.

I live with my parents, my sister of 14 years old and my pets: My dog Trina, a giant Schnauzer, my cat Coco and Gris, a rabbit. The birds: a magpie, and, approximately 15-20 parakeets. I can’t forget the fishes, turtles, hamsters and my favorite: My two big-spiders (Taran and Tula, because in Spanish a big-spider is a tarantula). Unfortunately, you can’t meet them because they will die before the exchange. Also I have a Geko (like a salamander) and Pogona (like a smaller iguana).

In my free time, when I'm not taking care of the animals, walking the dog or on the computer, I like being with my friends and walking around, watching movies and basically laughing. I like any kind of music, so I listen to the radio and do not know what else to write ... so... Bye

From Spain,

Óscar

Sandra

Hi!

I’m Sandra. I’m sixteen years old, since last week (5^th November).

I have always lived in La Llagosta. La Llagosta is a little town, maybe it can be a bit boring, because you always see the same things, but the good thing is that you have more freedom, and it’s very near Barcelona, the big city. I live in a flat with my family, 10 minutes from school.

I’m studying technology batxillerat (A levels). I’m really interested in drawing, and in the future, I will study Architecture at the university.

In my free time, I like painting, reading, listening to music (rock music especially) chatting with my friends and going to the gym. I really like the indoor cycling class. At the weekends, I always try to be with my friends, because they are so cheerful and fun.

It isn’t the first time I am part of an exchange. In 2008, I went to Turkey, and it was a very good experience. This is why I wanna repeat.

I 'm looking forward to going to Holland, because but I love travelling!

If you come, I think you will love Barcelona, because it is a fantastic city...

See you soon!

Sandra Pacho

Erica

Hi !

My name is Erica. I am only 16 years old. Next year, in August I will be 17 years old. I live in la Llagosta, at 10 min by train from Barcelona. I live with my parents and with my sister, she is 21 years old. I don't have any pets, but I love animals.

The timetable of my school is from 8:00 to 14:30. I am studing to be a scientist. I go to school by car although I live very near the school...because I am so lazy...I go to school every day except on Saturday and Sunday.

I like pop music, house music and all kinds of music more or less. In my free time I work at the library, I am a librarian, I teach basketball to 10-years-old boys, I go to an English school, I am a player of basketball and of course in my free time I surf on Facebook, I hope you know what this means. Last week, on Saturday I went to a disco, because it was de birthday of a good friend, it was relly good!

I used to swim, but I left the team because I was bored. My favourite subject at school...if I need to tell you one, is Biology I think it's interesting.

I went to Turkey with school exchange for a week two years ago. We were only 5 girls...however it was really fantastic! I love traveling and meeting people, I go abroad every year: Italy, French, Greece, Egypt, England, Germany..and I hope to go to the Netherlands!

From Barcelona,

Erica Guinó

Nati

Hi everyone!

My name's Nati and I'm a teacher of English at a secondary school in La Llagosta. This town is 13 km away from Barcelona, and the train station is very near the school.

I live in a flat in Barcelona with my child and I get to school by train. I usually have lunch at home with my son. He's sixteen years old and is studying to be a mechanic.

In my free time I like doing lots of different things, like rollerblading, going on excursions, going to the theatre, to the cinema and sometimes I go dancing too. I'm learning how to dance salsa and will soon learn how to film and edit my recordings. I like technology!

I'm keen on travelling and went to Greece and Berlin last summer holidays. At the beginning of December I'm going to travel to Marrakech with a group of friends.

I also speak German, and that proved to be very useful when I travelled to Austria and Germany.

What about you?