..La Dolce Vita..

Maybe you guys will say "Why you always traveled around?" Well , in fact, i have to do the school visit twice a week!!..OMG~~ for a whole day~~But, i love it~ Coz i can be with so many cute children.

The school i visited is called Inchmarlo Pre. School. It is a boy school for p1 - p7. I was told that this is the best Pre school in the city! Have to mention is that, teachers there are so nice! They not only provied desert to me when having break. They also taught me so many teaching skills.   Took the children to city tour. And, i ever had chance to teach the children something about China! Wow..and my Teacher--Laurence was there , observed me!! To be honest, i was quite nervous at the beginning. However, due to the children were soso active, i was so in the mood.^^..And the teachers gave me so high credit! *smile*.. 

Now i wanna mention something about the educational differences.

As far as I know, there are some differences in education system between U.K. and China. Here are some examples. The ages for children to go to primary school is different; here is 4-11,yet in China is 6-12.Another big difference is the categories of schools. In U.K., there are controlled schools, voluntary(maintained) schools and voluntary (non-maintained) schools. And there are protestant schools and catholic schools. In China we just have one type of school, namely, government-managed schools. Schools in the whole country have almost the same subjects and they have no big differences in the teaching policy. But there’re some big differences between the condition of schools. Owing to the funds for the big cities and remote areas schools have large differences. After our primary study, we no need to take Transfer Test to go to junior schools ;we go to junior school which is near where we live. That is to say, it depends on the location.  I started my school observation from the first week of October, and I treasure this opportunity. Due to different conditions, China has a different method to train teacher. In my university, we start our observations in the second semester of year 3,and start to teach as practice teachers in our year 4.Namely,we don’t have much teaching experience as students here. Moreover, as far as I know, primary teacher here teaches many subjects whereas we have different teacher teaches different subject in China. And the number of students here is just around half or one third compared with China.

Let’s take a closer look to the students in class. Children here are so active and willing to answer questions through their own guessing. At the same time, teacher encourages  children to keep on guessing even though some answers are not right. In China, most of the time, children just sit there and listen to teacher talking about the facts by rote. Teacher is more in favor of student give the right answers. Nowadays this situation changes a lot because we realize that guessing out the answers is a very helpful process for study.

Pizs of my boyszzz~~

Jack, Jack, Zac!

Conker competition! The hottest game ~

告别父母, 独自一人向英国奔去，心里是那么地兴奋。很荣幸我可以去英国做为交换生，即使是孑然一身。Mummy和daddy 一直想送我去坐飞机，可是我拒绝。因为我早已做好“功课”，知道坐什么车，怎么坐。并且我觉得一个人挺COOL的，是我独立的一个很好佐证。

在路上折腾了好一段时间才到香港国际机场，恩。。check in, on board..最后等到晚上11点50分才上BA的航班。坐下，发现其实国际航班的座位空间很窄的，OMG， 我的神啊。11个多小时，要这样直立着睡觉，会很不爽的！不过值得欣慰的是每个座位前都有一个小的screen，可以听歌，玩连机游戏和看电影。YEO。我一定会物尽其用的。一上飞机就跟邻座女生聊上了，她是一为将要去LEEDS读MASTER的菲律宾女生，很是NICE。一路上我们聊了很多，最后留下了各自的email以便keep in touch. ~希望她在那边一切安好~学习顺利~!

在伦敦转机去我的第一个目的地---SCOTLAND的首府EDINBURGH，一个我梦萦魂牵许久的地方。之前在lonely planet 看过相关的介绍，里面有很多出名的景点及美食介绍。像是爱丁堡城堡啦，Cliton Hill，小狗Bobby,地窖等。还有传统的苏格兰美食Haggis（注：将羊的心,肺,肝等内脏和燕麦粉煮成的食物）。我尝了，可是不太喜欢，味道有点怪！

我在Edinburgh呆了近4天，因为有个深圳的师姐在那里，对我超级好。不但提供我住的地方，多次下厨给我弄好吃的还有带我到处逛！甜蜜蜜啊~~

下面上照片~ 我住的街道啊~    街上演奏苏格兰传统乐器(BAGPIPE)的老伯伯      爱丁堡城堡（Edinburgh Castle ）鲜花妖娆.

是苏格兰的重要象征，耸立在死火山岩顶上。美丽而浪漫的城堡令人回想起这座城市血雨腥风的历史。城堡最早可以追溯到公元前850年，现存最古老的部分为1150年的建筑。

   城堡的山脚下有提供给小朋友游玩的设施.

 在城堡里.

 从城堡上远眺.

 远眺Again. 大家都看到,爱丁堡是背山面海的.

小狗BOBBY & JIM,Nina~    

  CLITON HILL!  

   感觉是有点像雅典卫城.

   Royal Mile,是爱丁堡旧城的最主要街道,通往城堡的必经之路.

    街道旁的橱窗.

   我们还发现了好可爱的长鼻子皮诺曹~

   日落的PRINCE STREET 是爱丁堡新城的主要商业街道.

    从PRINCE STREET 看城堡.

其实爱丁堡是一个不大的城市, 主要的景点和名胜之间都可以徒步到达.

 SCOTLAND NATIONAL  MUSEUM ...

  THE EDINBURGH DUNGEON.意思是地牢.  

  里面是挺恐怖的,还有真人SHOW啊.那些演员扮鬼扮马,很吓人~