Gap Year
Hi, I'm Belén Cañadas from Uruguay and I'm going to talk about how my gap year changed my life
Friday, 8 May 2015
My volunteering experience...
During my gap year, I was staying with a very kind family. I really love them, thanks to them I could realise my wonderful gap year, that means, a new culture, new habits, new life, new friends, and the thing I value the most... EXCHANGE, exchange of learning and teaching, exchange of favors, of love. While I was teaching to this family to speak spanish and helping at the house-work, they helped me with my english, and to be open-minded too. I learnt plenty of things, and they did it too. I really think that taking a gap year is always a good idea, and it's a diffrent way of learning (solidarity for example) and discrovering new things (culture, etc..) , doesn't matter where you go. London has many differences from Uruguay, different people, habits, everything, I really loved London, and of course I will come back as soon as I can.
Thursday, 7 May 2015
3rd day: Hyde park!
Last day of the fantastic tour:(((
We spent the whole day at Hyde Park, it is a really big park it's one of the largest parks in London, everything is green. It is one of the Royal Parks of London too. It's well known by the ''Speaker's corner'', here you can talk about any subject as long as you want. There, in winter, there are many shows like ''Winter Wonderland'' (one click for a video to see how it is like). We spent all our morning there, and for lunch we ate a very typical dish of there, called ''Fish and Chips'', you can't go to London and come back without eating, at least once, fish and chips. That's the end of our three-days tour:( It was amazing every place I went, everything I saw. London is a really beautiful city.
We spent the whole day at Hyde Park, it is a really big park it's one of the largest parks in London, everything is green. It is one of the Royal Parks of London too. It's well known by the ''Speaker's corner'', here you can talk about any subject as long as you want. There, in winter, there are many shows like ''Winter Wonderland'' (one click for a video to see how it is like). We spent all our morning there, and for lunch we ate a very typical dish of there, called ''Fish and Chips'', you can't go to London and come back without eating, at least once, fish and chips. That's the end of our three-days tour:( It was amazing every place I went, everything I saw. London is a really beautiful city.
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Fish and Chips |
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
2nd day...Shopping!!!
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Oxford Street |
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Oxford Street |
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Piccadilly Circus |
Monday, 4 May 2015
Day 2... Shopping, Big Ben and London Eye!!!

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Tube map |


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Palace of Westminster |
Finally, we went to the London Eye. The London Eye is a giant ferris wheel on the South Bank of the river Thames, it is also known as the Millenniun Wheel. It is really amazing because it offers you the highest point of view of London, and from there you can see all the city!! That's why it's the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom.
First day at The Tower of London and Tower Bridge

Saturday, 2 May 2015
First impressions...
Hi,

I'm belen and I'm going to talk about my gap year in London. I was 17 years old, and I decided to take a gap year to improve my level of english (I'm from Uruguay). When I arrived to London, I was shocked, everything was clean, the street was neat, no rubbish. The weather was different, almost everyday was rainning or cloudy. I couldn't see the sun shining like in Uruguay. The people were very kind, and multicultural. When I walked on the street, I could see people from all around the world living in the same country. The structure of the houses was very similar. I was perplexed when I take the escaletors and the people were standing on the right to let other people arrive faster if they had to.My first day's impressions were that London is a multicultural, clean, with many touristics attractions, and a very organised city.


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