my school trip to Croatia
Croatia
(03.04.2009 - 30.04.2009)
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Like many schools, we had a school trip this year. After
discussing a lot about the actual destination of our one-week excursion, we
decided to go to
Everybody in my class really enjoyed an awesome trip
and it was obvious that we all were sad being back in cold
http://en.
http://www.crombes.hr/MEDICON2001/images/map_pula.gif
One day after we arrived in
We have seen the Arch of the Sergii, the house of popular
Irish author James Joyce, the amphitheatre; and basically the whole town itself
since it’s really tiny.
After arriving at the hotel again in the evening, we
immediately went to the closest store in which we became regular customers
during the week cuz we spent every day in there to buy beer, sparkling wine,
liver sausage out of the can, bread and much more beer (we loved Heineken!) –
we later then put all the drinks in a full bath tub of cold water to cool the
drinks.
The first night we didn’t do much because we were
tired from walking so much all day long. We just sat together, had a few
cigarettes and beers together and then went to our rooms where I fell asleep
watching strip poker on DSF^^ - it was funny cuz at night we all woke up
together and somehow realized that strip poker was still on.
This day we went to an ocean school, which was about
ten minutes away from our hotel. But of course Mr. Hussong (a geography
teacher!!!) couldn’t read the map and so we ended up walking for about half an
hour until we found the ocean school.
The day was really nice like the day before. The sun
was shining and it was quite warm for April. After learning about the different
areas close to the sea and the creatures that have their natural habitat there,
we had a break in which most of us went to a pizzeria. Afterwards we went back
to the ocean school where we changed into neoprene suits cuz almost everybody
in the course wanted to go snorkelling! :) Dang, I really loved it! Especially
when Mr.
Later we went back to the hotel, played volleyball,
took a shower, went to the store again to get more alcohol and then after
dinner we met up again to go to the beach. It was a wonderful night! You could
see the stars in the sky and hear the sound of the waves. I remember me missing
Debbie so incredibly much that I later even prank called her and we ended up
talking for quite a long time… too bad she couldn’t have been there with me!
Another interesting thing was that after a while a boat
was coming closer to the beach. It started flashing at us repeatedly! The boat
came closer and stopped at about 15 meters from the beach and we all were
confused and even a bit scared. Therefore, we decided to go back to the hotel.
On our way back, a group of neo-Nazi-looking guys bumped into us – this was like
the freakiest night ever ;)
CNN is a nice way to wake up in the morning.
It took us again about half an hour to reach the city
centre, where we then started the second part of our sightseeing tour through
Later when I saw my teacher, we talked about going to
the beach again. I complained that the pool at the hotel was still closed and
Mr. Hussong said I could therefore go into the sea. He joked as the sea had a
temperature of about 12-13° Celsius! In the end Marcel, Jonas and I went into
the sea for eight minutes and won the bet that we would make it to stay at
least five minutes in the cold water. Dang, it was truly f***ing cold! And I
was even about to leave the water, but telling myself all the time that it was
okay kinda helped – plus, I wanted to show the boys that I can also stand stuff
like that ;D Never thought the water would be so salty… but well, I took a
shower afterwards and everything was okay again :)
We spent the night again with lots of alcohol.
Ps: I even found a picture of the beach close to our
hotel that we went to at night and where we went “swimming”.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pula_beach_(1).JPG
On Monday, we went to the
It was a funny day, as our guide, Pranka, was
presenting EVERYTHING that exists on that little island – even the 10th
hole of the golf course with 18th holes!
Here a link about the national park:
http://en.
We first had to take a boat to get to the national
park. I never thought that there would be so many free-roaming dogs in
On our guided tour through the national park, Annett
told me she felt sorry with that old lady who was always left behind and
therefore missing Pranka presenting all the things. I then went straight to the
old lady and asked her if she mind us keeping her company. She seemed all happy
and was really open, told us that she was 90 years old and from
After a while we became more and more keeping company
with the old woman which forced Pranka to wait with her presentation. Everybody
was looking weird at us as our whole class was now walking veryyyyy slow next
to the old lady. I loved it! Felt so good to see the other people in the group
started realizing that old people are important as well! They later started
talking to her and I think we all felt like we did something good that day.
Wine tasting in the ghetto (28.
On this day, we didnt do very much. Only went to a
small village where we got lost. We were on our way to a wine tasting and met a
group of drunken men telling us to come and celebrate together with them. They
said their wine was much cheaper lol
We were surprised when we found the wine store,
because the house and the village created an odd dichotomy together! Nevertheless,
we had a lot of fun tasting the three glasses of wine (and I was lucky cuz they
mainly serves dry wines and not sweet ones as the majority in class would have
liked it ;)
Bale + Rovinj (29.04.2009)
Waking up and moving your ass out of bed was probably
one of the hardest things of the day, as we stayed up late drinking, smoking,
chatting, singing or doing some other shit.
I remember falling asleep in the bus to the medieval
village Bale and banging together with Sarah’s head as my head tilted to the
side when I fell asleep. Man, that so hurt! Lol
However, Bale was a waste of time! – especially for a
group of students that comes from an area where medieval buildings can be found
everywhere.
In the afternoon, we then went to Rovinj, a beautiful
tourist town in which the prices were even in Euro. We spent a bit of time on
seeing the town and then had free time which we spent in the sun close to the
sea. The park close to the town is the perfect place to relax! And it’s
incredible how clear the water in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovinj
Another thing I should mention is that sea gulls were
crapping on us! Tina got crapped in her cleavage and Julia sat down into crap.
And later we were just all scared of these gulls and had a lot of respect
In the evening, we had another “room-party” where we
drank n smoked together. Thanks God we always used the boy’s room cuz it was
stinking so much afterwards! It was fun cuz we got super drunk and played
volleyball in the dark and started singing on the balcony.
Anyway, Jonas got super drunk! He even fell down the
balcony n hit his face lol
I just remember Kai coming into our room, all panicked and asking what to do. I
just told him to bring Jonas to the toilet as that’s the only real help when
you feel sick: just puke n you’re gonna feel so much better lol
Later Mr. Hussong and Ms. Schleiden were looking for
Jonas but couldn’t find him. Well, they sort of knew that he was in the
bathroom puking but they didn’t say anything.
Last day in
Pula (30.04.2009)
The next day we had our punishment for being drunken
the day before. We walked for a long time along the sea but none of the ones
that partied was really bothered cuz the air was really good for our headaches…
only the ones that didn’t party with us were complaining and moaning about the
walking.
After the “punishment-walk” we went to a fort on the
top of a hill. He looked around, took some pictures and went back to the city
when it started raining. Oh I so hate rain!!! Arriving at the hotel I was so
wet that I even had to blow dry my shoes!
We stayed in the hotel until dinner and then went to
the airport.
