Dachau and BMW museum

Last Saturday I went to see the concentration camp of Dachau with my sister, my brother in law, Pol and Edgar. Dachau is 30 minutes from München.

We heard a recording of a day in the concentration camp for a one person. It was very sad.

Then We went to eat together.

On Sunday Pol, Edgar and me We went to the BMW museum. We saw the first BMW cars and the new cars, We also saw bikes. But my favourite cars are these.

Then we climbed a tower that shows the whole city.

Decorating the Xmas Tree + Trip to Santa Claus Village

Hi everyone,
Yesterday we decorated the Christmas Tree of the school with Juhani and Suvi ( thats are two of the tutors), we met at the school at 12:00 and had luch at 12:30. We were decorating the tree for one hour.
The tree was decorated very beautifully.

Yesterday, also we took a train form Helsinki to Rovaniemi at 6:52 p.m., and we stayed all the night there and arrived to Rovaniemi at 7:30 in the morning. The journey was a little bit tired but okey.
When we arrived to the station we had to take a bus to go to Santa Claus Village that was like 30 minutes, there the first thing that we did was of course seing Santa and took a picture with him. After that we went to see all the village and we took a lot of photographs. Finally Angel and Marta went for a ride with the reindeers and we also went to have lunch there.

Before going to the train, we went to see the city of Rovaniemi that its a small but very beautiful, there we bought souvenirs of Lapland. Finally we went walking to the train station to see what was like the rest of the city. At 9:10 we caught the train to return back to Helsinki in the next post I am going to tell you how was  the journey of returning back.

Concentration camp in Dachau

Today we get up at 8 am and we meet with Nerea and Nerea's sister and her boyfriend (They come Germany to visit her). Then we went to Dachau to see the concentration camp.
We arrived at 10 am to the station train of Dachau and we get a bus, than we lost three times after
getting it.
Later when we arrived we visited all the camp (rooms, crematorium, church...). We read that in the camp died thousands of people incluided spanish people,1 of them from Badalona (San Roque).
Moreover we returned to MarienPlatz and we eat in a restaurant there.
Finally we arrived home and we rest for tomorrow.

Places that we visited, etc.

Hi!!
Here is Marlena again, and I will explain how my week was.

At  work this week there were many things to do, I have been working at the bakery department serving the costumers and helping my colleagues.

My classmates and I found last week a cafe where we go almost every day of the week and some of the waiters are spanish  and we can dialogue with them in spanish, it's funny. The name of the cafe is Coffee Fellows and they do really good coffees and hot chocolates.

In these 2 weeks that we have been here we have noticed that there are a lot of Spanish people, and sometimes we speak with them.

Nerea and I were at a guided tour with bicycle and we visited the Englisher Garten, The Royal Family's house,A house that was built at the 2ww's time and some other places.

Marlena.

IBERICUS 2016 - 2017

We have pleasant to inform that our vocational training department has stablished a new collaboration agreement with the vocational training school in Business and Administration and International Trade, San Jose de Calasanz, located in Bilbao. The project, called Ibericus+, is one of the 900 activities that are integrated in the European Vocational Skill Week.

The aim of the project, which took place last week from 27th November to 2nd December, is that students from both schools collaborate for this week in different types of activities, as academic as professional, in order to acquire knowledge about Catalan companies and their traditions. The project seeks to improve the educational and professional relationships between students and staff.

The main activity was the students from Basque Country joined with our students to their annually training to have a first impression about local business. Moreover, they visited the most interesting and innovating places in Badalona as Anis del Mono factory, the Museum of Comic and the future lock of the city.

Fourteen companies from the suburbs of Barcelona, especially from Badalona, worked together as partners to accomplish the project, with the collaboration of Augusta Students Residence located in Barcelona city centre, in which the student were hosted all their stay.

Join us in: #FpIBERICUS2016

For further information you can see Badalona News in the next link:

http://tvbadalona.xiptv.cat/informatiu/capitol/30-de-novembre-de-2016?s=977&e=1094#.WEAF7Slv4qd.twitter

Wednesday

Today, has been a normal day,  than consist in:
First we get up at 8 am ,we have a shower and we eat something for breakfast.
Later we go to the work with the subway, and we do a ride of 25 minutes.
Our work time is from 10 am to 4 pm, at the middel of that we have one hour to eat normally we do it from 1pm to 2 pm.
Moreover when we finish  work we meet our Spanish friends and we go to have dinner in a restaurant.
Finally we return home and we go to bed.

A cancelled journey, an X Factor Finalist and a National Day

Hello everybody! How's going?

Here the weather's a little bit crazy because one day we might be at 6 degrees and the next one at -12, but, it's Finland!
Okay, so on Sunday we were actually going to Tallinn (Estonia), but the trip by boat was cancelled because of the weather, so we went to the offices of the company to request the refund of the tickets. Later on, we stayed at the centre buying some gifts at the Christmas markets there are.

On Monday we went to work at the morning, like always. I work in Neste Oil Malmi, a petrol station with supermarket very near the school and of my home.
At the afternoon we went to see Saara Aalto, a finnish singer who is in the final in the XFactor UK. She came from London at the morning and at the afternoon she was in Helsinki centre. People was very excited that a finnish singer was in the final of a very important talent show.

Tuesday was Finland's National Day. They celebrate 99 years of the independence of Russia. We went to see the different activities there were in the city, furthermore we went home to have dinner.
I had a dinner between finnish and rare dinner. Before eating, I had toast with a tasty sauce with caviar. The first plate was a tick soup of cauliflower. The second was salmon with cooked potatoes and mushroom sauce and for desert, ice cream.

Finally, at the evening we went altogether with our brothers and sisters to the cinema to see The Accountant.

Next Tuesday more!
Angel

Ice Skating

Hi everybody!!, Yesterday we went ice skating! The truth is that for the time that we are not very cold.

It was skating in the afternoon about 7 pm after work, at the beginin Angel and I didn't want to go because we were bad enough but we made the best choice to go, because we had a great time with our brothers who came with us, and friends of them were nice and we laughed a lot.

At the beginning we are very embarrased and we very awkward but thanks to that we could laugh a lot, since like for example. Angel fall on Cristina and but little by little we took confidence and we left releasing more and improving.

After that, we had gotten loose and improved in skating we raced between us, we played hockey with a little boy on the track.

We had a lot of fun day and its diferent to the we can do in Barcelona.

 I hope you like them!!

 

Job + Museums + Concert

Cristina and at the moment I'm living in Helsinki, Finland.
This week I am going to tell about my work and a concert that i went today.
Here in Finland I'm working in a K-Market in Aurinkolahti that is near to the sea ( there is colder than in my house in Mellunmaki. I start work at 10 am in the morning and i finish at 3 pm, my job is there is restocking products and order them.

On Friday we went with the tutors to visit museums in the center of Helsinki, we visited the Kiasma and the Natural History Museum.

Today we went to a concert of a finish singer Benjamin, we wait there in the queue for two ours in fornt of Nosturi in the cold because it was -6 degrees. Finally when the concert started we were inside warmand listening the music it was cool and fun.

Saturday

Today we get up at 11 am and we went whith our german brother's to a  water park named "Galaxy Water Parc at Therme Erding". Moreover it is an hour from our home. Also is the biggest indor water park in europe.

We have gone with our german brother's and some friends of their.

Furthermore we've tried all the water slides and all the pools. For us the better thing is the outdoor pool, because in the outside it was at -2º and the pool water was 30º.

Finally we returned home and we eat some great food.
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Wednesday

Our Wednesday, was not really bussy, We started the day at 8 am weaking up to go to work like every day.
After the work, We returned home to take the gloves and the hat because it was very cold (-8º).
Later, we met our Spanish friends, we went to visit some shops, moreover we went to a restaurant named "Opatija" that makes very good food.
Finally we returned home to sleep.

Tuesday, workday

Hi everyone!

On Sunday my family took Marta, Cristina, Ayan (Cristina's sister) and me through a "car tour" over Helsinki. Actually, that was a very good idea because that day the temperature was of -6 degrees 😏. 

We were travelling to places we haven't been when we were at the centre, such as the house of the Prime Minister, the Spanish Embassy or the Sibelius Monument.

When we were near the sea, something shocked us. It was very cold and there was a swimming pool in the same sea. We went to look it carrefully, and was a sauna and a hot outdoor swimming pool.

Monday was a very exciting day because, finally, we bought our tickets to Rovaniemi, in Lapland, North of Finland, to see Santa Claus 🎅🎅🎅! We were wondering all the days about when we could go and finally, we bought them. We leave on Friday evening, we sleep at the train, we arrive on Saturday morning. On Saturday we visit Santa Claus home and the same Saturday we take the train back home.

The same day, I also tried sauna at home, very relaxing! 😫

Today, Tuesday, as always, working at the morning. My boss is really nice and my colleagues are very friendly. I really like my job, is not too hard and not too stressfull. I enjoy it. 

At midday we went to a lake that was completely frozen. We took photos in there and at the afternoon, we went to the library to do English exercises and to check tickets because maybe on Sunday we go to Tallinn (Estonia)!

Next Tuesday more!

Angel

My wonderful first week in München

My first day at work I was very nervous for meeting my colleagues, but now I'm happy because everyone is very nice to me.

I work in a designer furniture shop, The name of the shop is CAIRO.

Normally, I put the price of the furniture and I help them to decorate the showroom.

Every day I'm going to eat with a guy from the company and he teaches me the city, his name is Timo.

I haven't work today because on Saturday I have to work, and during the week I have a free day.

At half past two I've gone to get Marlena and we have eaten together, we went shopping later with Pol and Edgar.

It's been a fantastic day.

Saturday

Saturday,

We started the day with our German Sister, She show us some Munich monumets
1-. We went to a big tower in the center of MarienPlatz, we go up through the tower and we saw all the city from the top.
2-. Then we visited a very big church named: "Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Múnich"  in the city.
3-. Later, we went to eat in a very famous restaurant in the center of munich "Ratskeller München", with our German Sister and some friends of him "Ratskeller München". Where we eat "Snitcher", that it's a steak of meat breaded.

And Finally when we arrived at home we saw some movies in english.

Sunday, the last day of the week

Hi everyone!!
I'm Marlena and I'm a student that wents to München, with Nerea, Pol and Edgar. It was a great first week. I strated my first job at Tuesday and  I was really nervous but my colleagues were really nice with me.
I work in a Supermarket called Basic-Bio, and here is a photo.

I went to Austria with my dad and my stepbrother and we were in a Christmas festival, it was really fun but it was very cold...

I will publish a post every Sunday.

The first day of snow

Hello my name is Marta, I am another student, who has had the good fortune to go from Erasmus.

As you can see here it is always cold so always and it is typical to drink hot chocolate or tea.

This photo is from our first week and our first hot chocolate, with our teacher Montse.

And besides that today is the first day that snows, and this is a photo with the first snowfall of our trip.

My First Week

Hi, My name is Cristina Fernández and I'm one of the 3 students that we are in Finland.
We arrived in Monday like my friend Angel said in his blog, that day we went home and meet our families that are very nice people and also in Tuesday we meet our tutors that are from the school of Helmi and visit the center of Helsinki to took some photos.

This one is my favourite picture of all. On Wenesday I started working in K-Market thats it's like a Mercadona in Spain, my collegues of work are also very nice and friendly, the work it's not similar like the one i have in Spain but now I'm getting used to and the time that they're have lunch, because it's at 11.00am.

On Friday we met the tutors again at Helmi and we went with Suvi, Sanni ( that are two very friendly girls that now they are our friends) and Juhani ( that is the "brother" of Angel) to the center to catch the Tram to do a tour of the city and of course to take pictures.

Schuster shop (Edgar and Pol)

Hello, Our name is Edgar and Pol and we will be writing every Wednesday and Sunday,to explain about how is the live in "Munich", our day and what we do every day.

Today, we start the day going the work in "schuster sports", a very important shops in Munich. There are three shops:

The firts is a shop with all material necesary for to have sports and it have 6 floors, later there is the second shop especialized in shirts and material for practice fitness.

And finaly the third shop is for soccer clothes ,one curiosity of it is than there are a lot of t-shirts teams form all arround the world, especial the "La liga" football teams and also a lot of  historic football balls of all time.

Our work is about puting alarms to the clothes and all the logistic exercices than are in a normal shop, also we stablish relations with our work collegues to learn more about german people and how is his live here and obviously to practice and impruve our english.

Later on when we finish working we see how it's München and all the shops than have,

with a coffe in our hands, furthermore we meet our Spanish friend and whe talk of our day.

My first day in Germany

Hello, I'm Nerea and I'll explain my first day in Germany with Pol, Marlena, Edgar and our teacher Oriol.

At 9 o´clock we were in the airport, I was very nervous.

When we arrived, We went to the school to met the director and then we went to eat at a typical german restaurant. I asked "Gurmeteller", is a dish with different types of meat, I liked.

Then, I met Julia, is my sister in Germany. She is 28 years old and is very nice and always helping me in everything. 

My first day in Germany was great!!

Starting our Erasmus experience in Helsinki

Hello everybody. My name is Angel Rodríguez and I'm one of the 3 students we are in Finland.
The other 2 students are Marta Cabello and Cristina Fernandez and we travelled with teacher Montse to Helsinki from 21th November to 20th December.
Monday morning. We had our flight at 6:00 in the morning. We had to be at the airport at 4:00. We were all sleeppy...😪 The flight was nice, they gave us a little snack that was a little bit weird but acceptable 😊

We had a connection in Frankfurt for an hour so we had time to relax, go to the toilet, etc.

Finally we arrived to Helsinki.
You could notice you were there because it was 4ºC a warm weather there.
Later, our families came to receive us at the airport and we went to our houses to install ourselves.

At tuesday morning, we had to be at 10 at the school. I took the bus with my brother in there. A very curious thing is that the people prefer to be quiet, so there was nobody at the bus talking, just looking at the window.
We had a little meeting at the school, there we met our tutors, students volunteers that make activities for you, then a tour in the school. It's very different from our school: they have cafeteria, sports center, gym, PE room, theatre room...
Later on, we visited our job places, we all work in supermarkets in the mornings for 5 hours more or less.

After that, we went to Helsinki city center where we visited some cathedrals and shopping centres. It's a very nice city in this days because it's all decorated with Christmas trees, christmas lights... Tomorrow is our first day of work, we're very anxious!