I had to get up at 6:45 a.m. to be at school on time. I did the same things like every weekday: I took a shower, ate breakfast, brushed my teeths and then I ran to the bus stop to catch the 7:54 bus. The first part of the bus ride lasted for about 20 minutes and then I had to change at the Medical Center to continue with bus number 30 to our school. I arrived there at 8:45.
Today was an ordinary day at EC English School. Class started at 9 a.m. Keith was our teacher on Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning and every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. He tried to teach us how to form one sentence out of two without changing the meaning. It was quite difficult but interesting.
We ate lunch at the burger's lounge, a restaurant only two blocks away from the EC English language school. It was my second time that I ate there and the food was so well prepared that we decided to go again.
In the afternoon Brian was my teacher and the topic we were talking about was Hollywood. That was by far the more interesting part of the school day. To finish the afternoon we played a game called Tabu.
EC San Diego, La Jolla is a great international school. Here you meet people from all over the world and it’s fascinating to get to know them.
After school, Mr. Hediger gave us a lift to Downtown San Diego. From there we crossed the Coronado Bay Bridge which crosses the San Diego harbor over to Colorado island. It's not really an island but rather a peninsula. As you can read in Marcel's blog you will find the luxurious, outstanding five-star Hotel Del Coronado where back in 1959 the movie 'Some like it hot' was shot. Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon played the main characters. In this hotel you will also find one of the oldest elevators in San Diego.
To finish our downtown sightseeing tour, we drove along the harbor where we admired the 'Star of India'. This beautiful sailship was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India then to New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska then to California route. After retirement in 1926, she was restored between 1962 and 1963 and is now a seaworthy museum ship ported at the San Diego Maritime Museum in San Diego. She is the oldest ship that still sails regularly and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating. The ship is both a California and United States National Historic Landmark.
We also had a look at the amazing USS Midway, an aiplane carrier from World War II, one of America’s longest-serving aircraft carriers. Visitors to the USS Midway Museum enter a floating city at sea and walk in the footsteps of 225,000 Midway sailors who served the United States of America and upheld the American ideals of strength, freedom and peace.
After our tour we went home to our hostfamily. Our host mum took us to a rather unusual restaurant, the 'Corvette Diner'. If you feel like reading more about this restaurant, check out Marcel's blog.
Late in the evening we had to finish our homework for the next day and then I was totally ready to hit the sack. Believe it or not, it was only 10 p.m.
Thomas Gämperle, PET course, Ibach
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