My stay in Bristol

After a little bit more then a week in Bristol i guess it's time for a first review. I'm quite happy about the fact that it turned out that BLC is a relative small school and so the classes aren't that big (about 3-8 students per class). I came into the CEA class which was for me somekind of unexpected because I really didn't rated my english that high. In my  morning class were only two other students Jan from Munich who also was a new student and Aisha Claire from Bern who ha s been at BLC for about 6 months now and in the afternoon class are three other swiss students (Chiara, Marine and Christopher) which results in five swiss and one german. But until now everyone is fine with english and no one speaks german or french (2 frechspeaking swiss) with eachother. The hostfamily is really nice, even though the information i got from the school about them was faulty at best (some things changed 15 years ago). Briget the host is a really nice person who knows quite a bi...

In the following 8 weeks, I will travell to Bristo UK, to improve my english and my knowledge of the english culture. I choose Bristol as destination because it's a location which isn't that overrun by foreign language students then other locations in the UK but still is a bigger city (Population of around 459'000 people (acording to wikipedia)) and so allows for more things to do. My main for the trip is the improvement of my english since it's nowadays nearly impossible to work without a good understanding of the english language. Following to that I'll spend 30h a week in a language school in Bristol (BLC). Especially I hope to improve my oral english and to increase my vocabulary. But it would be wrong to only vistit a school to learn the language and not try to learn something the people and culture around it. Also it will be my first longer trip in a country with a foreign language. With this only a few days after my 18th birthday, I'm also looking forwa...