First Day

Sunday 22 february

Jeroen:

This day we flew over to Gatwick Airport. It was a very short flight only 45 minutes. It was like we were just at the right height and the plane was already descending. Arrived at Gatwick airport we asked if we could take a look in the cockpit. We chatted for a short time with the pilot. It was very interesting. After that we got our luggage which came very quickly. I phoned the taxidriver and we waited outside for the taxi to come. It was a 30 minute drive to Reeds school.
We were greeted by Ian Clapp the house master of the sixth form house. He gave a little tour around the house and showed us our rooms. We unpacked our luggage. We meat some boys named Toby and Tim (a dutch boy). There were not many boarders back yet. That evening Mr Clapp ordered some pizza's for us two and Toby to eat. It were very nice english dominos pizza's. Normally I don't like dominos pizza's, but these ones were very good. The special thing was that garlic sauce was given with the pizza, typically english. I liked it. The funny thing was Toby could also play with a Rubiks cube like me. We did a match and unfortunately he won.
More and more boarders came back that evening.

Wichert:

Finally the big day had arrived. The day we were going to Reeds. I had been really looking forward to it and today it was finally the day. I got up quite early in the morning because I had not packed anything because I had come back from snowcamp the day before and my mom was busy washing all my clothes. When I had finished all the packing of my stuff I said good bye to my father because he had to stay home for the dog.. Before we went to the airport we first went to Steph to pick her up, because then Steph and I could say good bye to each other. So together with Jeroen my mother, my sister and Steph we went to the airport. We where way to early so my mom decided to go to the Starbucks and get something to drink. After the Starbucks it was time to say goodbye to my family and Steph. I was really sad when I walked through the customs. I waved for the last time to my family and friends.
There I was suddenly on my own. When we were waiting for the flight I phoned my family for the last time that everything had gone alright and than we got on the plane.
The flight was really short it was only 45 minutes. Before the seatbelt sign had turned off it already went on because we were decending again. After we had landed on Gatwick airport we had a quick chat with the pilot and a look in the cockpit. When we had picked up our luggage we phoned our cab driver that we had arrived and he picked us up. A funny thing was that the cab driver had lived in a lot of the same places as jeroen did.
When we were entering the surroundings of Reeds we started to recognize a few things we had seen two years ago. There it was the familiar Reeds building. The cab stopped in front of the door and Mr. Clapp was already waiting for us. He showed us our rooms in the sixth form house. The rooms are not really big but everything you need is in them. A desk, bed, closet and also a few shelves to store some books on. We decided to unpack our stuff. When we were finished we went to the computer room. Mr. Clapp came over to tell us that he had ordered some pizza for us. It was really quiet in the house because most of the people were still on holiday. While we were eating the people most of them start to come in. We were so tired that we went to bed early. Our first day on Reeds was a nice experience.