A story goes around the world

A school class from Dubnany/Czech Republic

20story09 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:30:19 +0000

Hello, we come from Dubnany from the Czech Republic. Do you know, where it is? It is around 1000km from Köln. Our school starts every day at 8am and ends at 1pm or 2 pm.

We are lucky – last year a new school was built which is much better and nicer than the old one. There is also a sport center, built 4 years ago, where we have our physical education.

We play football or floorball, bowling or squash. There are two places in Dubnany that we like most: in summer it is the lido (swimming pool outside) with two big spiral chutes. See more fotos here!

and in winter two ponds, which freeze over and where we ice-skate. That’s so funny! It snows in our town in winter, but there are no mountains, where we could ski.

There are only several hills where we sledge. Although our town is small, we are happy to live here.

South-East of the Czech Republic: Dubnany

20story09 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:08:44 +0000

Hello, I`m Ivana and I come from the Czech Republic. Many people from Germany don’t exactly know, where my country lies. But it’s easy – the Czech Republic is right behind the german borders, to the East form Bayern. The Germans and the Czechs are neighbours. I live in the Sout-East of the Czech republic, in a small town called Dubnany. Its name comes from an oak tree because there are many oaks in the town and in its woods. The town would be called The Oaktown in English. It’s a small town with only 7 thousand inhabitants.

I love my hometown for its nature. Wherever you go for a walk, you will reach a forrest or fields. You can go there, when you want to be alone.

It is also a town of wine and tradition – every year in October the girls and the boys, women and men, grandmothers and grandfathers put on ther traditional costumes and start a celebration that lasts for three days. The celebrations are organised by the queen and the king of the feast.

So what are the haunts of my town? The nature (the forrests and fields) and the traditional feast.

See even more fotos here:

My favorite place in Czech Republic: Mikulov

20story09 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:22:36 +0000

I am Kate, and I live in Uherske Hradiste in the south-east Moravia, which lies in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. One of my favorite places in our country is quite a little town named Mikulov. This town is well-known for its excellent wine that is grown in this area in a large scale. That is why I love meeting there with my friends on the occasion of celebrating someone’s birthday or just having fun. There is a plenty of historical sights in a nearby surroundings, for example the Lednice chateau with its beautiful minaret and tropical greenhouse or the chateau in Valtice. Apart from that, there are numerous vineyards as well as wine cellars that are certainly worth seeing. This resort will with no doubts attract everyone keen on sports since it is an ideal place for cycling as well as walking tours; in the nearby Nové Mlýny lake you will have a wonderful opportunity of windsurfing or fishing. I strongly recommend visiting this town to anybody interested in sights, wine and beautiful landscape.

Kate

Why I love the sea

20story09 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:02:24 +0000

Why do I love the sea and why is the sea my favourite place?

1. Hallig Hooge is a tiny island. There is very much water around it.

2. Wind: there is a lot of wind at the sea.

3. Birds: I love to see them flying around.

4. Ships: They are interesting.

5. View: The view around or over the sea is breathtaking!!!

Juliane

Hanswarft

blauer8sack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:46 +0000

On the Hanswarft (warft mean: little hill on which are the houses, because they must be protect)

is the little shop, which called „Hallig-Kaufmann“ where you can buy some eat, drink and other things what you need everyday.

It’s the only place where you can buy something on this island.

There is a cinema about a storm flood, a tideland protection station, a souvenir shop, some restaurants, a telefon box, some cafès, a post box and (very important) a snack-bar

It’s called „THE CITY“

There are the only public toiletts.

A little play ground is there, too. One of six from the hole island. But not only for little children, also for teens.

Laura (Goblin) & Helen (blue sack with white points)

The sound of the Waves

20story09 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:05:50 +0000

My favourite place:

Because I live in cologne, which is not by the sea, it doesn’t happen very often that I get such a chance to walk along the beach. And that’s the reason that I love the sea! It´s something special for me.

I love the sound of the waves when they reach the beach and I love to sit by the sea and watch the birds flying in the air. And the wind in my hair. It is wonderful! And thats my favourite place: the sea!

Juliane

Wind and sea

20story09 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:00:24 +0000

I like the wind because my hair is flying and I like to ride a bike because here are only a few cars.

I like the horsebus because I come from cologne and there are only busses, cars and many bikes.

I like the sea because in the summer you can swim in it. When you look you can sometimes see seals.

Lena

Crabsferry

20story09 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:53:29 +0000

I like it to see the fishes, jelly fishes and crabs on the crabsferry! The boattour was beatiful because you could see a lot of different animals in the water or in the sky.

At the boatkitchen you could buy something to eat for exampel fresh hot woffels.

I like it to stand in the front of the boat and than to play „titanic“!

It was funny too to sit in the boatkitchen and play cards there. Sometimes the captain said something to us for exampel when we had to look to see some seals.

It was very interesting to see how to fish crabs!!!!

Laura

Banks

20story09 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:50:29 +0000

The place which is the nicest for me is the bank, cause i have walked a short time over this, bus it was very nice! Hallig hooge is only a little island so you have only one or two meters to the water. And one piece is circa ten meters long and goes into the water and is not only a three meter high wall between the land and the sea to save the island. So you can go into the water without to get wet!

Helen

Good journey…

20story09 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:43:01 +0000

We are going to Hallig Hooge by bus. Since 8 hours we are on the way. It is never boring! It`s very funny because we are playing games, singing songs and laughing a lot all the time.

After some hours we make some bus stops. Then we can go to the toilet or buy food, drinks and other things. When we were in Hamburg we drove under the river ELBE. That was very interesting. The countryside is fantastic. Soon we will be at the ferry. The ferry will bring us to the northsea island „Hallig Hooge“. There we will spend a funny time!

Christina