Thursday, June 24, 2004 (End of Term Party)

And the rain went on … I don’t know if there is the same phrase in English, in German we say “it rains like strings” and again I didn't want to go outside. Wendy and I were wondering; Elsa tried a slice of a melon for breakfast… ;-)

James tested our team ability in his lessons. He gave us a list of the top 40 words from 2003 and we had to explain them in a short time. We tried to distribute the words among the four members of our group, I wrote a template and then we looked in the Internet for words like “bogotify, sheeple, trolleyology, saviour sibling, etc.”
For the people who would like to look for this words, you will find them at www.macmillandictionary.com/New-Words/2003-Top-40.htm

Then we received our certificates from the school, ok, a little bit early then I wanted to stay here for another week … and we received our last homework from James; we had to write for him “what I learnt in Edinburgh” till the next day. I ignore this order then I wanted to complete this diary and then write him that I couldn't compress it into five or more sentence. :-)

For lunch I tried pork chops with noodles and for this, “our thick group” looked for a dry place in town. We needed a little bit more time to finish this lunch and to find a dry place.

In the lesson with Kirsty we did a lot of games to wrap up the lessons and for the last time I had an intensive lessons with James. I’m not sure about the theme but in these two weeks we heard a lot about phrasal verbs. You have some verbs like “bring, get, go, put, take, turn”, then there are the prepositions or adverbs “up, down, out, in, off, on” and now you bring them together like “bring in, take out, go off, get on with, etc.”. James told us, that the right use of phrasal verbs also would bring us up to a higher English level and I can confirm that, then everything that you learn brings you further. :-)

After school I went shopping in the Tourist Information Centre in the Princes Mall. I just needed some stamps for the last postcards, but when I saw the books and maps, I needed time to rummage through these too. So I found maps from Scotland, they will be excellent for our stay in August.

After our short visit home for dinner, we went back to town. We met in Ryan’s Bar in Edinburgh’s West End for the End of Term Party. There was live music, a lot of pictures were taken and a lot of discussion went on. Upstairs, they were showing the football match Sweden against England from the European Championship, and sure, the Scots helped Sweden – but in the bar there were a lot of English people too. I liked the conversation with two Iranians comparing their with our culture.

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