First day school

Monday 23 February

Jeroen:

That morning I had to wake up so early. Although I knew it would be an exciting first day of school. We missed breakfast because we woke up to late. First someone brought us to Tutor group. That is a sort of mentor class. You have registration every morning to check if everybody is at school. After that we went to Mr Atkins for making our schedule. We chose the subjects Physics, Chemistry, Science and Economics. We chose them, because they correspond with the subjects at Rijnlands Lyceum. After the chat with Mr Atkins we made our way to our first lesson Physics. In physics we talked about electricity and temperature. It was quite difficult, but I got the hang of it. After physics we had dutch where we could make our dutch homework. We talked with the dutch teacher Mrs Dijkshoorn. We could ask her questions about the activity's we wanted to do. Then we had our first double hour of science. In science we had to choose out 5 drinks wich we would test on dyes the coming wednesday. After that we could have an early lunch. Lunch here is fabulous, because you have so much choice. And it is so much better than the food I get in in holland in Renswoudehuis. The negative side of the food is that it's quite fat making food. Our last two hours of the day were economics. I found it rather difficult, because of the terms. Nevertheless it was a whole lot of fun.
That evening after a delightful dinner I did something very stupid. We were working on a computer with a cd in it. I wanted to charge my ipod in the wall-plug with a converter. And then "BOOM" black smoke came out my charger and it stank to molten plastic. I was shocked. The 2 computers around it fell out and there came the second problem. Our cd was still in the computer and the computer didn't go on again. The only way was to find a paperclip and bend it, so you could open the cd tray without breaking it. So eventually after searching a long time we could open the tray. That night I didn't feel well, I had a headache, cough and stomachache.

Wichert:

I was woken by the very annoying sound of the school bell. I hated that sound and it was after ten minutes that I had found the power to get out of my bed. Breakfast started at 7:45 so I had to hurry up. If I was allowed to wear normal clothing I would have easily made it but that wasn't the case. I had to wear a suit. When I was dressed it was already 7:45 and I didn't know how to do my tie. Luckily enough Jeroen learned it from his mother a few days earlier so he could teach me how to do my tie. By the time we were ready it was already 8:10 so we had officially missed our first breakfast.
At 8:20 we had to go to registration. This normally takes 30 minutes and its purpose is to check if all the students are there and if everbody is happy. Also when something special is going on it will be discussed during registration. Our tutor for that lesson is Mrs. Nevins. She normally teaches English and she is very nice. After ten minutes most of the children left to go to the assembly. We didn't have to go there because we had to get our time table from Mr. Atkins. He is also a really nice man. We are following four subjects because we are doing A level. The subjects are Physics, Chemistry, Science and Economics. We have 8 hours of chemistry in the week for example, so Mr. Blom will be proud of us. After we picked up our time table we went straight on to Physics. The first thing I noticed was how small the classes were, only 15 people max. The Physics wasn't to hard because we had already done this subject in the Netherlands. All about moments and stuff only they go further into the subject which Jeroen and I liked. After Physics Jeroen and I met our Dutch tutor Mrs. Dijkshoorn. She normally teaches dutch. It was nice to speak Dutch to someone again. Mrs. Dijkshoorn told us which activities we could do and we chose Hockey and maybe Basketball. Sadly enough there was no cricket or rugby available. So after we had met Mrs. Dijkshoorn we went to Science, which was a lot of fun because we were doing a chromotography practical. We had to chose 5 drinks in which we had to investigate how much colour dyes were in them. After chemistry we had our first lunch. The lunch was very nice I had pasta and I nice desert from which I can't remember the name, but it tasted nice. When we were finished with our lunch we went to economics. This was prety difficult in the beginning because we had to learn all the English terms first before we could understand a thing, so we kept on asking when we didn't understand. After school we went computering and go to diner. I was so tired that I went to bed at 10 o'clock.