Field Trip to Rome

Today I'd like to share with you an amazing trip I had together with my classmates a few months ago. At our highschool you get two field trips to foregien countries in your three years of school. One in your second year, and one in your last- and third year. As I'm currently in my second year, we got the great opportunity to go on a field trip this spring together with two of our teachers.

It all began with choosing the country/city we'd like to travel to. We could pretty much decide on every big city in all of the countries in Europe. I felt we were very privileged, because we had so many destinations to choose from, whereas most of the other second year classes had to choose between very few choices. After some voting we ended up choosing Rome, Italy as our field trip destination. Originally we had to use the trip as a part of an assignment, which the other classes also had to, but our two teachers choose not to use the trip for our assignment, which we were very content with. But even though we didn't have to do the assignment in conjunction with the trip, we still had a program for everyday, visiting all the famous landmarks in Rome.

We had five days in Rome and the first day was a travel day. It was a pretty tiresome day, because I had to get up at 3:30 AM to be in the airport at 6 AM. Everyone was tired but excited, and we made it through the airport security and into the plane. Even though we were tired, the plane ride was actually quite fun, as we were surrounded by each other and it felt like we had a great little community. We landed in Rome on a cloudy day, and went to our hotel. Our hotel only had two stars but I was very pleasantly surprised with the rooms. We lived in a great area in the city where we could just walk to Colosseum, Forum Romanum, The Spanish Steps and so on. We also saw the Vertican which was colossal and very beautiful. Of course we also tried a lot of delicious foods, such as pizza, pasta and "gelato" which is the Italian translation for "ice cream".

Of course we also went into the city in the evening to have fun, which we did and resulted in almost everyone being hungover every morning, but it was totally worth it.

I was very satisfied with visiting Rome, and especially together with my classmates. The funny thing is that none of us wanted to go home at the end of the five day trip, and I'll remember it forever and what a good trip it was.

We also took loads of pictures and videos over there, and here a some of the pictures I took of beautiful Rome.

My Trip To Crete!

As I've mentioined in a blogpost, I went on a holiday this july with my very good friend and her mother, to Crete. The holiday were from the 16th of july until the 27th. On july the 15th I packed all my stuff for the 30 degrees warm holiday and went home to my friend's house for a sleepover, since we were flying very early the following morning. We were in the airport so early that most of the expensive designer-clothes shops were closed, but there was no time for shopping anyway. We went on the plain at about 7 o'clock flying to Crete. Crete is a greek island, and as a matter of fact one of the biggest greek islands. You might think that there might would have been some economic problems on the island, since they are having some crises in Greece, but everything was fine and there were no problems what so ever. When we arrived, we arrived in a very small airport, and after checkout we grabbed a taxi and drove for about 45 minutes to the hotel we were staying at. On the ride I also got a chance to explore the island for the first time, of course only out of my taxi window. The island is very hot, and the nature is very dried out, but they grow a lot of oranges, grapes, limes, lemons, olives and lots of other fruits/vegetables, which was very funny to see, when we cannot grow oranges out in nature in my country. There are also a lot of mountains and cliffs and beautiful villages with traditional white greek houses facing the ocean. The reason some of the houses are white, is because it is a special kind of paint, which gets all the little bugs away. They also use the paint on the lime trees, instead of using chemicals, to keep the fruits organic. My friend and her mother had been at the hotel several times before, but this time we got a better and bigger room, that they had gotten the year before. The room was on the 2nd floor, had a small kitchen and living room, one bedroom and two gigant balconies, where we could look at the ocean and pool on one side, and the city on the other side. The hotel was right by the beach, so we walked down there everyday to just lay in the sun and relax.

The people that owned the hotel were really nice (all the people were actually really nice) and they had a lille beach café, where we ate our lunch whilst playing cards and talking. One of the days we also went into a town called "Chania", which is a beautiful lille town with loots of lille houses, with lille paths you could walk through. There were also a big harbor and many shops, restaurants and cafés.

We were only in Chania one day, and the other days we just relaxed by the beach all day and sometimes by the pool accept for one day were we went on a turist train. The turist train was a really cool train, that drove us all the way out of the city we were staying in (Agia Marina, it was called), and out to the countryside where we heard about how they grow fruits and vegetables and how they use it to make vine or olive oil. I also got a chance to buy some real Greek organic olive oil, to take home with me.

In the evening we went to a very cosy little restaurant where my friend and her mother knew the owner very well, because they always ate there every evening, every year. The owner and staff was very nice and the food was so delicious.

There was only one night we didn't go there, because I had a stomach ache. On the last day we had to leave our room at 12 o'clock midday, but our taxi wasn't going to pick us up before 4PM, so we just sat at the little beach café, talking together and with the staff until we got picked up. Unfortunately there was a very loud screaming baby on our plane home, but I just blocked out the sound with my headphones and some good music. We arrived at home around 10-11PM, and I already missed the trip the day after. It was a really fantastic trip, and i highly recommend taking a trip to Crete.