The last day...

Friday
Today it is my last day in Queenswood...
I`m happy to leave but I`ll miss some students...
I think it was a great time here in Queenswood and I really enjoyed it but I`m happy to go home...
The best things were the excursions because they were always interessting and good fun...
Tonight we`ll have a big party to say good by to the others and then we`ll wath a film with our house Waller...
We woun`t go to sleep tonight!!!!

To keep the contact to other people here is a link to the Juniot Yearbook 2008:
http://www.junioryearbook.blogspot.com/

Artists
Name: Pablo Picasso
Title: Les demoiselles d Avignon
Born: 1881
Died: 1973
Background: Picasso’s painting Les demoiselles d’ Avignon was probably influenced by the creations of other artists of his period as well. It is often argued that the structure he used, i.e. the arrangement of the nudes as “architecture of bodies”, alludes to Cezanne’s figurative works. However, certain texts, such as the book Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon (edited by Rubin W., Seckel H., Cousins J.), reject this notion and claim that only the initial sketches showed some resemblance and that the influence of Cezanne has been overestimated. Moreover, another artist that seems to have influenced Picasso’s work is El Greco and did so through his painting Apocalyptic Vision (fig. 10). Most importantly, the actual dimensions of the paintings were very similar. Even though Picasso’s initial sketches were horizontal in format, only at the very last stages does he change it to vertical. In addition, the “extreme figure distortions, autonomous drapery patterns, and the vigorous painterly execution” , as well as a certain degree of androgyny in some of the figures, are characteristics that are commonly shared by these two paintings.
Subject and Meaning:The painting shows a figurative composition of five nudes grouped around a still life in the foreground. The three on the left are angular distortions of Classical figures, while the violently dislocated features and bodies of the other two have all the barbaric qualities of primitive art. Avignon is a reference not to the French town but to a famous street in the red-light district of Barcelona.The painting is more a record of work in progress, of an artist in the process of changing his mind, than a resolved composition: the forms are dislocated, inconsistent in style, in fact unfinished. It is still a disturbing picture -- overthrowing perspective, single viewpoint, integral form, local colour, decorative colour

The second weekend

Saturday
On Saturday we went to London....
This was quite interessting...
First we went to Madame Tussauds...It was great..
There are a lot of statures of famous people made of wax.I liked the most of the persons in The museum because they looked realy real...
One of the interessting things was the Horror Room...
It was realy scary...
Then we drove with the bus to Oxfordstreet... It was very crowded and we had too little time...
We went in a group of 5 person to a big Sport Shop... All the sportwear was very cheap..I bought a Football T-Shirt of England for only 16 £...
Sunday
On Sunday we had a lot of games...There were sme games like sackrunning and other quinds of games...
It wasn`t so funny but it was ok...
The worst thing was the weather...It was very, very cold...
In the evening we had a Quiz .... Our house( Waller ) won the game....

All in all The Weekend was good...

The secund trip to London

Thursday

Yesturday we went to London....It was quite interesting...
We went threw London with our guide...This was the boringest tour I`ve eve had....
It was so boring because of the topics....
She told something about some buildings and so on...Before we went on we had half an hour of freetime in the Hays Gallery.... There was a little shopping mall and I bought some sweets and a magazine...
Then we went on the ship HMS Belfast...
It was very interesting because you could see how they lived on that ship...
There were a lot of statures which showed some persons who where on the boat...
After that we ate ice cream and made some photos...
The trip back to Queenswood was not so long for me because I slept all the time...
At saturday we`ll go to London again and then we`ll go shopping...
That will be a great day....

Monday
Yesturday it was a normal day like last week....
We had to go to school and than we had activities....
I played football with the other german people....
Then we had a meeting and then we went to bed...
It was a boring day like every weekday....

The first weekend in Queenswood...

Friday
On Friday we were in Queenswood and had a Assambly.
It was very funny because of the action....
The Workshops presented the work of last week...
Then we had activities and then we had to go to bed...
Saturday
On Saturday we went to Cambridge...
This was the best day since our arrival in Queenswood...
We had a lot of free time in Camebridge and I liked it. We could go in groups and I was with a group of 4 German friends... We went shopping....
I bought a nice sweatshirt at G-Star...
Then we went to Subway and ate a nice sandwich....
After that we went back to Queenswood, we had dinner and then we had a Disco...
It was very good because there was good music and good dancers...
Sunday
On Sunday we went to Thorpe Park....
It was very funny because we went with a very nice group of different nationalities...

There were German, French, Italian and Russian people...
We did a lot of funny activities like Roller coaster...
In the end we ate at Burger King...
Our first weekend was a very good oneand I enjoyed it.....

London

Our Trip to London

Thirsday

Yesterday we went to London.

The trip to London was about 1 hour and it was very boring....

I was listening to music all the time....

The Towerbridge near the Tower of London

Then, when we arrived in London, we took the lunch boxes and met the guide: she was very old and

she looked crazy...

We went with her around London and she showed us some churches and haunted places....

That was very boring!!!

But then we went to see the tower of London.....

We visited it and then we had freetime...

We had lunch in KFC and than we went to the Tower Shop and I bought some souvenirs...

Then we drove back to Queenswood....

It was a very long trip....

We were 20 minutes later than the other group...(I slept all the time...)

I think it was a very nice day because I really liked the freetimeLondon...

Monday
Hey guys....
I`m in Queenswood now since 2 Days and it`s great...
I`arrived in Queenswood Sunday night and I was very tired...
The first whole day was Monday the 7th Juley 2008...
I woke up at 8 o`clock...
Then we had breakfast at 8:30...
At 9 o`clock we had to do a test to know in what class we are...
Then we were separated in two groups...
The seniors and the juniors. I`m a junior.
We had school then: 8 lessons a day!!! It`s a lot but it`s funny.
Our teacher is very nice and we do a lot of interessting things...
In the evening we could play football or go on the internet or you could go swimming....
I`ve played football with three other German students. It was very funny!!!
After sport we met us with other German people and talked a lot....
Then, at 11 o`clock we had to go to bed...It was a very good day because i`ve made a lot of friends in one day and this is very important for me.