Ok ok, les cuento.... Me tiraron en mi 3ra familia a una casa en donde solo viven dos personas. Un caballero que pesa menos que un paquete de cabritas pero tierno y una vieja que manda en la relacion y ademas CULEADA. Como ella es una profesora y ademas loca, quiere que " yo me vaya a chile con algo que pueda usar toda mi vida". Se calento porque nunca iba al colegio y poque nunca hice tareas. La senhora me consiguio un trabajo en Roskilde Festival, uno de los festivales mas famosos en Europa y ademas carisimo(150 mil pesos la entrada). Al trabajar alla se consigue la entrada gratis a cambio de tres dias de trabajo. La vieja me lo consiguio pero me obliga a la vez a hacer tareas. Cualquiera diria que es lo minimo y que es normal que un estudianta haga tareas. PERO la situacion cambia cuando es VERANO y estoy de fucking VACACIONES!
bueno, aqui les dejo mi reporte que le tuve que pasar a la vieja sobre mi eurotour:
Eurotour 2007
After we left København, the bus started filling up slowly. We had at least 3 or 4 stops until we left Denmark and in each of those stations, more exchange students entered the bus. After the last stop we were around 60 students. We took the ferry to cross the sea to Germany and then we continued on the bus to Berlin. We arrived there around 6 p.m. placed the bags in the rooms and went downtown to visit a very turisty place and have a spare time. That day we came back to the hotel at 12 with the rotary people because we didn’t know the city very well and the hotel closed at midnight. The second day we went for a bus tour to see more of the German capital. Things like the Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Dome are unforgettable places of this trip. One particular thing of this city is that the history can be felt everywhere you go.
After 2 days in Germany, we took a ride towards Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. A former communist country that has developed very fast to almost be part of Western Europe. Some of us had trouble with the Danish visas while leaving Germany and the bus was stopped at the border, without air conditioning, for 2 hours. When we arrived to Prague, we had little time to check in at the hotel because we had to go to a theatre which was very famous in the city, “The Black Light Theatre” which was an amazing way to start our visit in Prague.
The fourth day of our trip was started early because we went to the Castle of Prague, which has the Cathedral of Prague inside. After climbing the tower of the Cathedral, we took a tram to Charles Bridge that crosses the Vltava river . That is the place where all the artists are drawing and painting and the street culture is alive in only one bridge!
Then we visited the walking street for tourists, the astronomical clock and of course tasted the great Czech cuisine. We met a Dominican Exchange student who took us to a very good restaurant where we had a traditional Czech dish. For dessert, he showed us the oldest ice-cream factory in town in which they mix the ice-creams with all kind of liquors and creams.
The fist thing we do when we arrived in Vienna, the capital of Austria, is visit the Imperial Palace. The same one that the Habsburg dynasty used for years and years. This is the city I liked and it impressed me the most. With its elegance and majesty this city showed us how a well managed city works. It’s a very green city with a good transportation system and, of course, culture. We as exchange students couldn’t step out of this and a big group of us bought a ticket to see a Classical Music Concert. And it was worth it. Vienna, is the place to go for classical music. If you go, you MUST go to a classical music concert and we were lucky enough to get that opportunity. Even when you walk down the gardens you get into the real feeling of Vienna, with the busts of all the great classical composers staring back at you.
Although the next main city was Venezia, Italy, we stayed in Lido di Jesolo for a good part of the trip. A little and calm beach-town that is an hour away from Venezia. That evening and for the first time since the last Get Together( February) we officially met the students from Jylland. Everybody was very happy to see each other again and we all went to a club near the hotel. The next morning the group from Jylland left very early in the morning and it was also our first DAY OFF. Some woke up early, some slept in, but we all enjoyed the beach and the luke-warm Adriatic Sea. Later it started raining so we all had to get into the hotel or go shopping.
The most exciting day in Italy was about to start, the day in which we went to Venezia. The journey started at 8 to have breakfast and take the bus that led us to the boat we took to go to Venezia. The day there was very exciting as well as fast. We arrived there at 11.00 a.m. and were meant to be at the meeting point at 16:00 p.m. So we took the traditional Gondola (paid by rotary) and then practically ran to reach all the places. We went into St. Mark’s Square and St. Mark’s Basilica and to the big tower called St Mark's Campanile that is now a sight-seeing place.
The day in Venezia finished with the rain being part of the journey and getting us all wet.
The 10th was started as soon as possible because we had to go to France without leaving Italy. One of the longest streches of travelling. First we went to Verona, to see the balcony where Romeo and Juliet had their affair and where most of that story took place. After being there for only one and a half hours, we took the bus again towards San Remo, a little place where a huge festival is held with famous preforming artists around the globe such as Take That or Britney Spears. The bus stayed there overnight and the next morning the suitcases were placed on the bus again to go to the one of the most famous principalities in the world. Monaco. After some hours of ride we finally arrived to Monaco, the group went to visit the tombs of the princes and princesses that have ruled this little but powerful principality. We also could the see seats and advertising from the Formula 1 race occurred only two days before! After 2 hours in the city, the bus started the trip to Avignon but after I asked the Rotary guide if we could stop for a little while to enjoy and swim in the French Riviera. He allowed it, and we went swimming for two hours in a city called Cannes, known for the film festival that is held in the area. We promised to be dry before we got back on the bus, as to not get the seats wet. To feel the sea for the last time in this tour was a chance that couldn’t be passed up. We reached Avignon at 8 p.m. and took a walk around to get to know the city. It wasn’t a big city but the layout of the streets was the most complicated thing we had to deal with, though maybe slightly less complicated than Prague. To get lost was the easiest thing to do because the streets were made with no pattern to them at all. This little city is famous because it was Pope’s residency for more than hundred years. The Pope Clement V went there fleeing from the problems he had in Rome. We visited the Pope’s Palace on the second day in the afternoon and it took us hours to cross it all. Earlier that day we had been at the Roman aqueduct, the same building that is present in the five Euro note. An old building that made us ask ourselves how early humanity could do such a thing.
In our 12th day of Eurotour we took the bus towards the City of the Lights, Paris. It was the second time that we met the bus number two from Jylland. Although some problems with the people from the hotel, the day was great to say goodbye to many people we were not going to see again. The second day in Paris was of sightseeing. The first half of the day with Rotary and the second by ourselves.
With the bus we visited the Moulin Rouge, Concorde Square and Notredame Church. I climbed the Eiffel Tower, and went to the Louvre Museum on my own and then met back at the hotel to go on a boat tour. We did it and it was wonderful to see the Outrageous Tower by night from the river. Something that only few will forget.
And the last day in Paris was spent in Tennis. We were told that Roland Garros was taking place in the French capital so on our day off, the first thing we did was get on the underground trains to the closest station to the tournament. As the tickets were sold out we had to go to the black market placed right outside the place. For 40 Euros we could enter and see not the best matches but at least we can say “We have been in Roland Garros”. When the journey was finished we were so tired that we could barely take the underground home and the first thing we did was fall asleep.
The end of the tour was near and the next city was Brussels, capital of Belgium and of the European Union. A city that we had only an evening to enjoy of but, as it’s not the biggest city in Europe, we could see most of it in so little time. The famous statue of the kid tinkling(Manneken Pis) was a funny way to start the sightseeing in this city. After the famous statue we went to the City Hall and of course afterwards me and my friends went for a waffle. We were in Belgium and it was a must to taste the traditional Belgian dessert. We kept walking for one hour more and then we went again to the hotel where we stayed until the next day.
This day was the day when we went to Amsterdam, the capital of Holland. We were only allowed to stay there two hours because Rotary is afraid that we could do something illegal according to Rotary rules. So we only had a boat ride, one hour and a half for ourselves and then we had to meet up in the bus to go towards Arnheim, a little town where we only stayed at the hotel because there was nothing to do there. It was our last night on Eurotour so we held a little party until twelve with the chaperons, and all the exchange students from our bus.
The very last day of this Eurotour was started early and sadly. We all knew this would be the last time we were going to be all together and for some of us, last time that we see some of the others.
After many many hours and farewells we finally got back to København at the evening and we proudly can say “ TAK FOR TUR”.
Nicolás Ríos Ramírez
Chile
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