Great fun at Reed’s

My first week is over and I am looking forward to the next four weeks. It has been a very pleasant stay and I am really enjoying myself. On Sunday you always have the Sunday trip for the boarders. You sometimes go to the movies, but Phillip and I were lucky, because this time they were going to play paintball. We arrived there at about half past ten and soon our first game began. In total we played six games. The first game I played really well and I shot somebody in the neck. Because it created a big wound, the victim was awarded with a medal of honor and he thanked me for shooting him. After the first game and I only had 50 paintballs left of the 200 I received and I still needed to play five more games, so at half way I bought 200 paintballs and I was back in the game. The paintball trip was lots of fun and the rest of the day was also great. After being here for a week,  I feel that my English is getting much better. In the beginning of the exchange I had sometimes problems with my pronunciation, but I am now confident about my English and this also helps me with socializing. I have made some friends and I now know all the boarders who are sleeping in the Sixth form house. The school program goes fine and with Design and Technology Phillip and I now finished the catapult and tomorrow we will test it if it works and how far it gets. Out of the subjects that I initially chose (DT, Physics, Chemistry and Business Studies) I changed Chemistry to Psychology. I did this because Chemistry was much different from how it was given at the Rijnlands Lyceum and after a week I still did not understand something of it. Psychology is also quite hard, but I will never have it at the Rijnlands Lyceum and it is an interesting subject, but also very important for doing Business, so there for I chose it. In Physics we are learning about the same subjects as at home so this is really good for us and we can understand everything quite well.  Tomorrow I have a match with hockey and I have a lot of other homework to do so I will stop here.

Greets Rogier