Castle Santa Maria de Frieda
Today, we went to SO many places! First, we went to the Santa Maria de Frieda castle. It was absolutely beautiful and full of history. We then went to a school for lunch and all the students there were following me, Tal, Lucy and Holly around everyone and asking us for pictures! We then visited the paper museum and watch how paper was made and recycled hundreds of years ago. It was very interesting! Finally we went to a workshop making traditional sweet bread for Santa Maria dr Frieda. It was really fun having a go at making it and also hanging out in the village afterwards!
Talia's entry...
On Monday we went to school and performed our presentations in front of other countries, I enjoyed them all! We then got changed and went to lunch and played a bit of volley ball with the other countries. We went to the town hall and listened to a talk on the history and about the famous breads! We sat with the family in the evening and had a lovely meal. On Tuesday we went to school and had a class taught by the Cyprus teacher, it was ICT, we learnt about photoshop on pictures. After that we got the coach to the paper museum and I had lunch in a different school. We then went in to a bread museum and sculpted our own bread. We then had soup for tea with the family, it was delicious!
Views from the castle
When I arrived at school today I was introduced into some of my hosts friends who were very friendly. We then got split up into groups and went to a lesson . I was put in biology class room but two teachers from Italy come in and did Hamlet with us which was an added bonus as we did it in English so I understud very well. After lessons we went into room for coffee break like the same as yesterday. We then all got on the coach to go to St Maria da Feria which means the castle of St Maria . I got lots of good photos in the castle although there were a lot of stairs to climb . We then headed back to the coach and went to a paper museum where we learnt how paper was made some the 1900s . We saw all the old mechanisms which created the paper and even got shown how to fold a piece of paper into a old fashioned paper bag.
On are way out we saw all sorts of coloured toilet/kitchen roll which was as I would call the 'rainbow of the loo rolls'. For lunch we went to a Portuguese school where we had pasta and chicken . We then had a look around the school when a big group of boys started following us and taking pictures holly,tal,teya and Lucy.
Finally we went to a cafe in the town centre to learn the history of the fogaça about how the people of St Maria gave fogaça to the poor . Then we got shown how to form a fogaça which is where you roll the dough into a sausage shape the roll it into a spiral shape then cut for slits into the top, you slit the fogaça because when it bakes it will for the shape of a castle . We then got the coach back to school to be picked up and taken back to school.
Paper museum
The view from the castle
The old costume in the bakery
Lucy's blog for Tuesday:
Today, we went into school and went into classes. In my class, the Polish teacher taught about the history of Warsaw, as it was a history class. The history teacher spoke amazing English and the students had a positive attitude on the lesson. After, we went to the Paper Museum and had a fascinating experience and an incredible insight on the past of paper making. For lunch , we went to a junior school where all the kids were intrigued by the fact we were English. I thought it was very busy but welcoming. Finally, before returning home, we went to a famous bakery where the national sweet bread is made. I also tried to make one which looked really nice. In the evening, we had a delicious meal with the host family where we ate soup and pasta and had lots of laughs.
The paper hanging to dry in the museum.
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