Sunday
Today we had to be up for 10:15, which is classed as a lie in belive it or not. We were all excited about having an extra hour in bed as the clocks went back, but when we woke up it didn't feel any different. We all came down at the correct time and we were ready for the trip to the Oceanografic. We set off to catch the Metro to our destination and discovered this was becoming a high point of our daily routine, as we always enjoyed ourselves when we were on it.
We got off the Metro and we were lead to the Oceanografic by our tour guide, Maje. On the journey up to the Oceanografic we walked across the dried up river bed of the river Turia. This was an unusual experience as we had never walked across a River bed before (obviously). Along the way we walked past the Valencia Opera house which was extremely eye catching; it looks quite similar to the Sydney Opera house.
A short while later we were at the Science museum where we discovered a huge arc; we could communicate to each other at each end, even though we had nothing to project our voices and we were at least 100 feet away from each other - our words were crystal clear. Five minutes later we were at the Oceanografic where we had lunch, everybody was excited as instead of the usual 'buttie' consisting of olives and who knows what else we had cheese and ham or ham and cheese ( it depends on which ingredient is put down first... apparently).
After lunch we went into the Oceanografic where we split into groups and went to see our favourite sea animals. Later we got the chance to watch a dolphin show or go to the 3D cinema. The decision was split, most of the lads went to watch the 3D cinema show whilst the girls opted for the dolphin show. Everybody enjoyed the Oceanografic and 3D cinema experience, even though it was very strange lying on your back watching a film.
Later on...
We got the Metro back and enjoyed the usual banter that takes place whilst riding it. Everyone seemed tired but excited as we were dressing up for Haloween. We got back to the residence and got given a lot of free time which everyone took advantage of, we then started to get dressed up for Haloween.
James Davies, Joel Howard-Davies and Gareth Jones suprised the group when they came down as they weren't in Haloween costumes at all, they were dressed as girls! This was pretty scary. The rest of the group came down all dressed superbly in their outfits and finally we set of for dinner dressed as wierdos.
On the way down to the resteraunt we got a few looks as there wasn't only three transvestites in the group, there was a banana and a chilli pepper too. We had dinner which was sausages, ommelette and chips. For our pudding we had a nice cake. We finished dinner and we walked to the residence, everybody stayed in the common room as we were having a party!!! One of our party games was the box game, which tested our flexibility because we had to pick the box up with our mouth and every time the group was successful another strip was ripped off. Joel Howard-Davies won and was able to bite the box even when it was literally 3cm from the floor.
Another game was the muffin eating championship, contestants had to eat their cake as fast as they could without using their hands. Lee griffiths won, the video is below. The final game was musical statues, where we discovered it was more competitive than we thought when Gaz threw his gloves off when he was disqaulified. The winner was Lauren Caldwell. After this we all went to bed and got a well deserved rest.
Buenos Noches, Matt :)
Today we had to be up for 10:15, which is classed as a lie in belive it or not. We were all excited about having an extra hour in bed as the clocks went back, but when we woke up it didn't feel any different. We all came down at the correct time and we were ready for the trip to the Oceanografic. We set off to catch the Metro to our destination and discovered this was becoming a high point of our daily routine, as we always enjoyed ourselves when we were on it.
We got off the Metro and we were lead to the Oceanografic by our tour guide, Maje. On the journey up to the Oceanografic we walked across the dried up river bed of the river Turia. This was an unusual experience as we had never walked across a River bed before (obviously). Along the way we walked past the Valencia Opera house which was extremely eye catching; it looks quite similar to the Sydney Opera house.
A short while later we were at the Science museum where we discovered a huge arc; we could communicate to each other at each end, even though we had nothing to project our voices and we were at least 100 feet away from each other - our words were crystal clear. Five minutes later we were at the Oceanografic where we had lunch, everybody was excited as instead of the usual 'buttie' consisting of olives and who knows what else we had cheese and ham or ham and cheese ( it depends on which ingredient is put down first... apparently).
After lunch we went into the Oceanografic where we split into groups and went to see our favourite sea animals. Later we got the chance to watch a dolphin show or go to the 3D cinema. The decision was split, most of the lads went to watch the 3D cinema show whilst the girls opted for the dolphin show. Everybody enjoyed the Oceanografic and 3D cinema experience, even though it was very strange lying on your back watching a film.
Later on...
We got the Metro back and enjoyed the usual banter that takes place whilst riding it. Everyone seemed tired but excited as we were dressing up for Haloween. We got back to the residence and got given a lot of free time which everyone took advantage of, we then started to get dressed up for Haloween.
James Davies, Joel Howard-Davies and Gareth Jones suprised the group when they came down as they weren't in Haloween costumes at all, they were dressed as girls! This was pretty scary. The rest of the group came down all dressed superbly in their outfits and finally we set of for dinner dressed as wierdos.
On the way down to the resteraunt we got a few looks as there wasn't only three transvestites in the group, there was a banana and a chilli pepper too. We had dinner which was sausages, ommelette and chips. For our pudding we had a nice cake. We finished dinner and we walked to the residence, everybody stayed in the common room as we were having a party!!! One of our party games was the box game, which tested our flexibility because we had to pick the box up with our mouth and every time the group was successful another strip was ripped off. Joel Howard-Davies won and was able to bite the box even when it was literally 3cm from the floor.
Another game was the muffin eating championship, contestants had to eat their cake as fast as they could without using their hands. Lee griffiths won, the video is below. The final game was musical statues, where we discovered it was more competitive than we thought when Gaz threw his gloves off when he was disqaulified. The winner was Lauren Caldwell. After this we all went to bed and got a well deserved rest.
Buenos Noches, Matt :)
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