Saturday 27th June: Our first Saturday turned out to be quite relaxing, since the students arrived later than planned – following the unexpected coach breakdown in Belgium. Once the students had all checked in, however, everything ran smoothly. The evening began with the welcome meeting in the park, and ended with a guided town walk of Bournemouth. The students were all very excited to see the sea and the beach for the first time! Luckily, it was a sunny day. In fact, we have been extremely fortunate with the weather for the whole of this week.
Here is the first photo that we took of the group standing on the cliff tops:
Sunday 28th June: We took the students to the beach in the afternoon, where we got them to find out more about each other via a speed networking session. This was followed by some beach games. In the evening, we had a gorgeous BBQ on the beach which involved eating cookies and roasting marshmallows over the fire as the sun set 
Monday 29th June: In the afternoon, the students participated in helping us to decorate the Ocean. This is a snapshot of their masterpiece:
Then our dear students could attend the welcome party with our wonderful chorography on “Ding a Dong”, the summer 2009 new IP song! The music was provided both by IP Team and students, who particularly enjoyed the German house music. Many students are expected to attend the next welcome party on Monday (with a special theme still being kept secret for the moment 
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Tuesday 30th June: The students got the opportunity to do some watercolour painting. As you can see, they were very creative!
In the evening, we all relaxed in the park for some all-important ‘Gut Drauf’. I.e. various Kick games plus Yani’s famous pizza massage It was great seeing the students learn and play what we ourselves had learnt in the training week in Chichester.
Wednesday 1st July: Today, we said goodbye to Lea since she was only staying with us for a week. We will miss her!
The students then went treasure hunting, where they all found some gold of course!
Thursday 2nd July:
During this evening, we gave the students the chance to relax…but only physically! Mentally, we tested their knowledge in a quiz with 35 questions about music, England, popular culture and celebrities! The winners, the “salt and vinegar crisps” team, won a great (and healthy) prize, since we can’t forget about the importance of Gut Drauf! 
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Tags: Englisch, Fotos, Gut drauf, IP Ocean, Sonne, Spaß, Strand
