Hi everybody!

Today a nice girl came to our school and told us some information about her life, the university which she visits and so on.

Her name was Elise and she came from Basingstoke, a town which is about 30 minutes away from London. Elise came to Austria because she visits the Oxford University, she is in the third year of studies, and the students have to stay a few months in another country.

For examples what she told, that students which visit the Oxford University they have to pay 10.000 pounds, I think 10.000 pounds are really, really, really a lot of money. So many students have to take out loan, but the government do not give them money until they have a job.

And Elise told us before you pass the final exam you are an “undergraduate”, and then when you pass the last exam you get “bombed” with food like meat, fish, eggs or baked beans. I thought that must be an awful thing, but she said that’s traditional.

That’s some things which Elise told us. And today this was a really interesting and funny English lesson.

Regards,

Jakob

Neighbours from hell!

Hi everybody, I was watching a video the other day on You Tube and it was about neighbours from hell.

Basically what it says is that a man terrorises his neighbour all time. He threw rocks in the car windows and eggs on the house wall, but these are the not so terrible things he did. The most terrible thing he had done was, that he drove with his pickup past the neighbour’s garden and sprayed a mystery liquid out of the window on the lawn. And after some days the grass died suddenly and never came back.

I thought you might be interested because it was a quite shocking story which is really awful.

When I saw the video on YouTube I was actually shocked. And I'm truly glad that I have so friendly neighbours.

Regards,
Jakob