Teaching short stories in the past to primary school children.

2. • Dear Diary
 July 2, 2013
 July 16, 2013
 July 23, 2013
• Bedminster College

3. July 02, 2013
Dear Diary,
I’ve just arrived to London, I’m very excited. I’m going to be here
for three weeks, in Bedminster College, a very big school where I
am going to meet people from all around the world. It’s not my
first time in the UK so it won’t be difficult for me to get used to the
food, the people, the weather, …
I am at the airport right now, waiting for the bus to take us to the
school. I’m with a group of Spanish people. They seem to be very
nice and I suppose we’ll become good friends. Most of them are
from Madrid, the others are from Valencia and Galicia, and I’m the
only Catalan. I already know a few because we went together to
Bristol last year; it’s nice to be with them again.

4. The bus has just arrived and I am starting to feel
nervous. Will I like the school? The teachers? My
classmates? I hope so. I love meeting people
from other countries and making new friends.
My friends and I can’t wait to get there, last year
was fun but we want this year to be even better.
I have to leave; they want us to
get on the bus. I’m very
excited!!
Love,
Bea

5. July 16, 2013
Dear Diary,
I’m having so much fun! I’ve made a lot of friends. I am learning a lot
of English. Every day is great but today has been quite interesting.
The day started well, like all the others. I went to breakfast with my
roommates and then to class. Angela, a girl from Valencia, is the only
Spanish person a part from me in my class so we always sit together.
After class we went to lunch and then we had to choose which
activity we wanted to do. We could go to drama class, play football or
go indoor climbing. I was with Angela, both of us are quite
adventurous so we decided to go climbing and convinced Marta and
Cristina to come with us.

6. The teacher was very nice and showed us what to do. We were
having fun until Marta got to the top and looked backwards.
She started to scream and she was so frightened that she threw
up on our teacher who was going to help her. She was very
embarrassed when she got down, but we couldn’t stop
laughing, you should have seen the teacher’s face!
I’ll never forget this day it has been interesting and I’ve had a
lot of fun.
Love,
Bea

7. July 22, 2013
Dear Diary,
I’m so upset! Tomorrow we are going back home, I don’t want to leave!
Today is our last day in Bedminster College, we’re all very sad, most of us
have spent all day crying. We’ve made very good friends, from Spain and
other countries: Russia, France, Italy… I hate to think that I’m probably not
going to see any of them again except the Spanish ones.
This last week has been the best, we already knew everybody perfectly
and it felt as we had been friends for a long time. The ones who I’ve spent
most time with were from Spain and France. We were a group of ten girls
that always went together, I can’t imagine going back home and not being
with them, it’s going to be very strange.

8. Yesterday we went on an excursion and we tried not to think about
Sunday, the day we leave. We went to a museum, to Piccadilly Circus and
then we went shopping in Oxford Street.
Today almost all the groups have left, except for the Spanish ones. We’ve
been packing all morning and taking photos of the college and with our
friends.
I have to leave, I’m going to lunch.
Love,
Bea

9. It was a hot summer day, I was at the airport. I had just arrived to
London. I was going to spend the next three weeks in Bedminster
College with people from all around the world.
I was waiting with a Spanish group for the bus to take us to the
school. I introduced myself to everyone and started talking to the
people who would be living with me these weeks. I got to meet
Angela, Cristina and Marta, three lovely girls from Valencia who
would become my best friends later on. The rest were from
Madrid and Galicia. Everyone was anxious to get to the school,
who would have told us that we would all become such good
friends and that this summer would be the best of all.

10. The three weeks passed very quickly. On the first week we met
the people who we lived with, we were distributed in different
classes depending on our English level, we met our teachers,…
We basically got to know how the school worked. The second
and third week were very exciting, we already knew everyone
and the College.
Every morning we went to class and in the afternoon we could
choose which activities we wanted to do. This was complicated
because all of them were fun, we could go to dance classes, to
yoga… But I’ll never forget the indoor climbing class.

11. It was Thursday and we had just had lunch. Natalia and me
wanted to go indoor climbing, we wanted Marta and Cristina
(the other two girls from Valencia) to come too, but there was a
problem, Marta was scared of heights.
We finally got them to come with us. Everything started fine. We
were the only ones who went to that class so the teacher,
Mr.Roman, could pay us more attention. He showed us how to
use the climbing equipment and helped us with our climbing.
We were getting good at it; even Marta seemed to be having fun
until she got to the top and looked back. Natalia and me were on
the ground and Cristina was far from her.

12. Everything happened very quickly. She started to scream and
cry, other people from other classes came to see what was
happening, our teacher started to climb telling her to keep calm.
Suddenly she slipped, she almost fell. She had got so frightened
that she threw up, the problem was that she threw up on our
teacher.
Mr. Roman closed his eyes and made a great effort to not say
anything. He helped her get down and went to the bathroom.
Angela, Cristina and me told the people to go away and calmed
Marta.

13. When Mr. Roman came back she apologized. He told her that these
things happened that she shouldn’t worry.
Marta was very embarrassed so we decided to get back to our
residence. We told her it hadn’t been her fault, that these things
happened, but she felt annoyed.
We never went back to his class again. However, the day before we
went home, we remembered what had happened and couldn’t
avoid laughing, it had been very funny. Even Marta recognized it.

14. We did many things those three weeks, some were fun and
adventurous and others weren’t so much. We played cricket and
football, dressed up in front of all the school, danced in a talent
show,… I had a great time and will always miss that place and all
the people I met.

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