Say it in metaphors. Life is a flight. Have a nice flight.

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Bits and pieces from Annex1. 

TASK. Report on my learning experience in our Language school.

1. Starting feelings2. troublesome bitsfour skills: 3 + 4 + 5 + 6.

             Have a nice flight!!!! (full version)

In the first week of October, I was given a boarding card whose flight number was C1-r2.4/16 to 18.30. While I was waiting that morning on the departure lounge I felt a kind of nervousness and excitement. My feeling that morning were .....

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As we were asked to get into the plane I was thinking to myself “I hope to get a nice seat”. While the engines were roaring outside, I was wondering who among the passengers was going to get the seat next to me. Oddly, the chairs were placed in groups of 4. Once we managed to get a free seat by the aisle, the captain introduced himself. "I am Miquel Àngel, we'll be Flying together till our BNW. Enjoy the ride"

Taking off is the most difficult, and dangerous part, in a flight. Thank heavens everything went fine. But often we were ordered to unfasten our seatbelts and move around the aircraft.

When you fly long-distance, you know where the stop-overs are made, but this time everybody was at a loss, or perhaps being troubled in the C1 muddle. As examples I can figure out these: 

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Time went by, and most of us seemed to get used to our facilities, except three of us who took their parachutes. Our captain didn’t allow us to get bored so we were engrossed into different activities throughout the trip. I’ll mention briefly some outstanding features of the four life skills we practised daily in flight. 

1- Firstly, writing which comes as my favourite skill. What was a neglected skill turned up to be ever present (may I say more than in Catalan!). From taking notes, ...........

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and on top of that to write questions on SEOUL (of all places!). 

2- Secondly, I quite enjoyed the reading tasks to be read aloud, For instance: ......

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and although I didn’t like them all but was fond of the last of them (“Who is crazy?”).

3- Thirdly, some other times we had the chance to listen to some of the audio-programs the captain enjoyed –I confess that most audio tasks were hard to follow indeed. The good thing is that most of the times we could use the radio-channels on our own headphones .....

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and  I hated the ones I had to provide the timing!

4- Last, but galaxies away not least, the art of conversation. Speaking was what we enjoyed the most because, without being aware of it, we were getting to know who the other passengers were, improving our communicative skills.

..................................  and I may admit ... sometimes we drifted away from our initial topic of discussion and we moved smoothly towards small talk. We knew that talking was what really counted.

 

So here I am, trying to do my best -like anyone else-, and put into words, as honest as I can, my flying experience. I can sincerely state that turbulence moments we had a few, as we all are afraid of flying. Sometimes we heard the aircraft cracking, other times thought we were going to crash. Even though I knew where the parachutes were, and I was tempted twice to take the same flight next year, I may assure you that our airplane was landing safe and sound on EOI airfield the last week of May.

I’d rather enjoyed when I heard "Time flies!". The lucky ones will probably meet on next year’s flight C2-r1.6/19 to 11/ which I will book as early as possible. See you there.