Lithuania's exchange. By Amalia Marchena Ruda.

From 22^nd April to 27^th April, Aurelio, Daniel, Beatriz and Alba were in exchange in Lithuania.
They told us that it was an amazing experience but not everything was as good as we thought. The day that they arrived to Lithuania, when they were waiting for their suitcases to go to the village where their partners were waiting for them, they realized that Alba’s and Alejandro’s suitcases weren’t there. Their company lost them! The company gave them a bag with some things necessary to live such us a XL t-shirt and a pair of comfortable socks (that part is pure ironic). Aurelio and Beatriz had very interesting neighbors on the bath: spiders. Also, a drunk Lithuanian man wanted to hit Aurelio and nobody knows the reason why he wanted to do it. But…the best experience (and also the funniest) was the last day. The plane let them in Malaga´s airport and they took a bus to go from Malaga to Brenes. They’ve just started the travel when they smelt something weird.-What’s that, guys?-It’s garlic [they were eating bread of garlic]-No, it smells like smoke.They didn’t have time to call the teacher when the smoke was all around them in the bus. YES, THE BUS WAS ON FIRE!! They run out the bus trying to be safe. They found a gas-station so they were waiting there for another bus.These are the worst experiences. They’ve learnt how to survive if the bus is on fire and how to live if you don’t have your clothes, make-up …In the other hand we have the good experiences. They have been in a beautiful country where everything is green and that it’s very, very, very different to Spain. In Spain everyone in the street is happy, smiling but there it seems like anyone is happy, they don’t smile and it looks like they are angry. They have known another people and make new friends. They’ve danced and had fun all the time. And, also, they learnt things from another culture.Well…you’d call this travel “trouble’s exchange” but, they said that it was a really good experience and that they want repeat (they hope that if they repeat the exchange they’d preferred not having as bad experiences as they had).

-Amalia Marchena Ruda. 4ºA-C Bilingüe.