To conclude.....

Overall the whole trip was a success!! Everyone had such a great time!  Prague was an amazing experience and I would love to do it again. I'm so glad that we were able to go to Prague as a whole group.

I forfulled my roles and responsibilties throught the planning stages and whilst in Prague which I think helped make the trip what it was :)

I was organised, I lead the group to all the activites really well. I kept within budget and time scales (expect for my assignments oops! ) so its all good!

I will remember this trip for the rest of my Life. Thanking you everyone for making it so memorable!

For the last time...

S xx 

Last day of Pragueeness :(

The last morning was quite hectic at first, trying to pack and tidy up but it was fine :) Kaleigh collected all our key cards and yes we actually had all 10! We then put all our luggage in the luggage room whilst we went out for our last attraction/activity :) Then we were all checked out of the best Hostel everrrr Sir Tobys!!

Our last activity of the trip was the castle walking tour... there was a bit of a miscommunciation and lack of research with the castle tour as we thought we would be getting headphones to tell us everything about the castle tour... but we didnt oops :/ But it was fine as Lauren was our guide for the day and told us everything she knew/made up lol  ;)

the castle was up a hill... so what goes up must come down.... I counted how many steps there were and there were 210 steps (thats alot)

We wanted to go back to the city centre so we went over Charles bridge which was nice. Most of us went to touch the statue of St. John of Nepomuk this is lucky (apparently) it either gives you a wish or means that you will come back to Prague again! We then had some free time till 4 (the time we had to go back to the hostel) bought a t-shirt and other  bits and bobs! 

Then we went back to the hostel and got ready to leave prague :( The lovely transfer people gave us a lift to Praha Airport which was nice.

Whilst at the airport, I made the finishing touches to the AWESOME PRAGUE QUIZ! once i'd finished writing up all the question it was to to do it! Everyone really enjoyed it which was what I wanted. There were 2 sections of the quiz - one section about Prague and one  section about us lot.

The quiz finished just in time as it was time to baord the plane... :(

The plane journey home was great fun, i was marking the quiz answers, we were signing each others Prague T-Shirts and having a laugh with the cabin crew... before we knew it we have landed back in England.

We went through passport control and then me mum was there waiting for us :) I had kept the whole group in suspence with the results of the quiz. I finally read the results and......KRISTY AND MEGAN WON WOOO. Me and gemma had brought little prezzies for the winning team and they  won a shot glasss each! :) Kaleigh, Ross and Steph got dropped off in Braintree and everyone else got picked up at insititute.

Then we all went home and our trip was finished :(

S xx

Friday 13th May 2011

Day 3 of Praguenesss

Day 3 is a good day (Besides the weather)! We got a lay in which I think we all needed after that 3 hour walking tour yesturday lol Just like yesturday morning some of us had breakfast in the hostel and some of us ventured out to the supermarket again....

Once we were ready, Megan and Kristy got the tram and metro tickets and we were off to the traditional Prague festival.....

At the festival we went to our chosen tent - tent 2! It was such a  fun day! The people were working were dressed up which was cool. We had 12 trollers to spend, most of it on beer :D and food! it was traditional food, nice to experience it but my tummy was a bit iffy. :S

There was quite alot of things to do at the festival there were rides, which i wasn't expecting! and sweetiee stalls! :)

Eventhough the weather was rainy it didn't affect us that much as we were indoors! We wanted to explore around the festival so we went in the other tents as they were more lively and bands.

It was about 6pm and we was all getting hungry again so i thought i have more traditonal food in a different tent. We got there at 2pm and didn't leave to about half 8 in the afternoon.

So it was a good traditional day and was all together :) We got back on the metro and the tram and got to the hostel about 22:00. We had some chilling time, chatting and fun downstairs in the bar ....... then bed! :)

S xx

Thursday 12th May 2011

Day 2 of Prague Awesomeness.....

After only a couple of hours sleep..we were up and ready for breakfast...YUM

A few of us had breakfast at the hostel and few of us ventured out to the supermarket down the road. A little while later and we were ready to go....

Kristy and Megan sorted out tram tickets for the day which was valid for 24 hours, we collected everyones money..it came to 120 Cornas each. We then got a tram into town and met our guide at the tourist center. 

It was such a great day for walking around and exploring Prague! As I was part of the attractions team and I was in charge of the walking I was the group leader for the day!

The walking Tour was very interesting and a nice way to see all around Prague. Prague is actually a really pretty place and we took loads of pictures. It was good to hear some local stories and seeing famous buildings. Our tour guide was the head of the office so he knew what he was talking about!

Once we had finished it, after 3 hours of this with no break we was all pretty tired so the tour guide showed us some interesting places to eat, local and just a cafe. We all decided where we wanted to eat and went in groups.

It was quite late afternoon so we went back to the hostel by tram to get glamed up for the River Cruise. We got the tram there and was on this river cruise for 3 hours. This was also another great way of seeing beautiful buildings when outside. There was a jazz band while we were eating, the buffet food was very nice and traditional. Most of us just had chips! lol and the desert.....well that was gone before I even had the chance to look at it!

The cruise finished at 10pm and we got the tram back, we went back to the hostel and went to the bar again and then went to bed.

S xx

Wednesday 11th May 2011

PRAGUE.....WOW THAT WAS GOOOOD!

I have some good news .... and i have some bad news!

The BAD news is that we are home from Prague :( .... the GOOD news is... PRAGUE WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!

Tuesday the 10th May started off as a normal college day.... (yeah this is the story of our trip to Prague)
We had to do Marcellos lesson first, which werent too bad as our flight wasnt till the afternoon anyway. we finished that lesson around 1ish so we could get ready to leave at 1.30. The transport team made sure that everyone had their passports and stuff..everyone did so its all good :) 
We met my mum who tooks us to the airport in the college minibus...Thanks again mum :)

The airport was a bit of a palorva as a few of us didnt have the correct re-sealable plastic bag (oops that was me, i had a plastic bag just not re-sealable lol) but once everything was sorted it was all goood. we had some free time to roam around duty free and then our flights were called....wooooo!

The flight itself was fine..eventhough Blaise and Megan made fun of me and my special take off/landing position lol ( I have to put my fingers in my ears and chew gum..ok!?! lol)

As soon as we arrived in Prague, the transfer people were there waiting for us with a little sign just like you see in the movies it was great! They took us straight to the hostel which didnt take too long so it was good.

OMG THE HOSTEL...WOW! Ive never stayed in a Hostel before so I wasn't quite sure what to expect but it was soooo nice! Kaleigh and Lorna got us checked in really quickly and we got our room keys....

Our dorm was awesome! We had bunkbeds which were so funny... Megan (the shortest person in the class) had to have a top bunk which in itself is funny but watching her trying to get up and down was even funnier lol Plus she keep thinking that she was going to full off! what a numpty! :P



Our room!
Plus megan trying to get up
 on the top bunk ...lol



After alittle exploring in the hostel, we ventured out to find somewhere to eat..yum! we found this little pizzeria which was just down the road from the hostel. here we meet prague's own "Charlie Sheen" which was funny at first but then there was an issue with paying but it wasnt worth the hassle to get upset about it so we just forgot about it!

So we ventured back to explore what the Hostel has to offer.... We tried out the bar downstairs. It was really nice, we took over this big space in the sitting area bit and it was just a great place for us to sit and chat.... It was starting to get late so we said we'd go to bed. BUT it was the first night so we didnt get that much sleep ... about 2-3hours! Oops :)

And that was our first day in Prague....

S xx

Tuesday 10th May 2011 

Working at the Car Wash....woooo

As a way of raising money for our trip, the fundraising team made us do a car wash!

And actually it was really quite FUN!

Everyone bought a bucket, sponge, some brought car shampoo (I did) and this weird cloth thing that i have no idea how to spell lol. 

A few days before the fund raising team sent out a poster/email to all of the staff at college to let them know about the car wash and we got 20 responses!! Thats a lot of staff and a lot of cars! The replies to the email sent gave us their details such as car number plate, what make/model, their name and details on where they are to collect the money.

We started at 9 and filled our buckets up with water and we started on our first cars! It was really exciting!! lol To make it fair we all worked in our groups such as Transport (Kristy and Megan), Fund raising (Steph, Hayley and Blaise) Admin (Lauren and Ross) Attraction Team (Me and Justine as Gemma couldnt make it) and finally accomodation team (Kaleigh and Lorna!) 

After doing about 5-7 cars each we finished washing cars about 2:30ish, and corrr washing cars is harder than it seems!  It soooooooooo exhausting but well worth it! We made a total of £137.45!!! which is AWESOME!! WOOO GO US!! 

All together we have raised £404, this covers all our accommodation expenses and our walking tour. As we still have £45 left over we have decided to give this to NSPCC charity :)as we said we would on our first fund raising activity. 

Now all thats left is to pack our suitcases and go go go woooo

S xx

Friday 6th May 2011

The Parents have to get invloved some how.....

As this is a college trip, us students are planning everything ourselves meaning that parents havent got that much of a clue in what were actually doing :S so we have to let them know somehow...what better way to do it than a good old PowerPoint Presentation !! YAY!

Everyones mums and dads were invited, My mum was the one who came along...good old MOM! 

Doing this Presentation was a great chance for us to present what we are going to do in Prague, ensure all emergency numbers are correct so they know how to contact us and the go over the budget. It was also a chance for everyone to sign the code of conduct. 


Megan was choosen to desing and create the presentaion overall but everyone helped alittle by sending info to her to include in the presentation. Each team/person has their own slide and spoke about what we have done in our groups and different parts of the trip.

Kristy started off the presentation by saying that it was her destination that was picked and then spoke about what the weather is like and a little bit of the history of Prague. She then passed it on to Megan, who spoke about the transport information. Megan then passed onto Lorna and Kaleigh who spoke about the accommodation. Then it was ME...AAHHH lol sadly Gemma couldn't make the presentation evening so that left me to blabber on about the attractions. I just spoke about each attraction/activity like what it included, why we chose it..stuff like that :)
Lauren, Blaise, Hayley Steph B and Ross then went on to talk about each section, about the intinary and how much everything cost and how much the overall cost is.
At the end we gave a chance for parents to ask questions and Justine bought an example of a small hand luggage suitcase we can bring. Each parent got a copy of the pre departure booklet with all our numbers  in it just in case they need to get in contact with any one, and  a copy of our EU Health insurance card and passport (Just in case something happens to ours when we are away - which it wont ....hopefully lol)


Overall the presentation went really well, the parents seem happy so its all good and it only lasted for about 40 mins :)








S xx


Tuesday 3rd May 2011