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The spare time in France and the spare time in The Netherlands by Inge (Sept 6, 2005) |
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In both countries we had a full programme with a lot of activities. In France the students even had to go to school. So there wasn’t a lot of spare time during the week in France and neither the week in The Netherlands. The first two days from when we arrived till Monday we were dependent on the French people, so we hadn’t spare time those days. On Monday we went to school in the morning, there we had some spare time, but we had to stay close to the school. In our spare time the Dutch people came together to talk and so did the French people. Tuesday we went to Tours and there we had spare time for about two hours. This was very nice, because you could do what you wanted with the people you liked. In tours you could do some shopping, eat something or just walk through the city. Wednesday we went to Paris. In Paris we had an hour spare time and we only were allowed to walk through the Louvre. I really didn’t like that, like a lot other people, because I would have loved to see Paris. |
Thursday we had a few hours spare time in the school, which was nice, but there wasn’t much to do. I guess we hadn’t much spare time in France and when we had an hour or two hours there wasn’t a lot to do. In The Netherlands there wasn’t much spare time either. Only in Amsterdam we had spare time, but it wasn’t that we couldn’t do nice things for ourselves. In The Netherlands the teachers let us more free and that was really nice. In The Netherlands we had no evening programme on most days, so we could do a lot of nice stuff together just as we wanted. In France the little bit of spare time we had was a lot more annoying than the little bit of spare time we had in The Netherlands. In The Netherlands most people live close to each other and then it’s easier to meet each other in a pub for example.
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