FIFTH DAY

20.00 - Arrival at the Clarendon Hotel Blackheath where a German delegation is welcoming us around a german barbecue.

17.30 - Departure to the German party.

14.30 - The 4 new countries are presenting their new olympic sport to the others who are having the chance to try it.

13.00 - Lunch at the university.

11.30 - Activity per country created at the beginning of the project: Participants aree now creating a new sport ffor the Olympic Games.

10.00 - Orienteering competition around the park.

9.00 - Breakfast

FOURTH Day - Discover a sport, Olympic Badminton

18.30 - 23.00 - Olympic Games: Badminton at Wembley Arena.

15.50 - The group arrived for the arrival of the cycling woman race.

15.00 - Travel to St James Parkto observe the arrival of the Women's road race.

14.00 - Lunch Time

12.00 - Visit of the Trent park mention, with actors.

10.20 - It is now the turn of the English group, with a cricket session.

9.20 - The German group is now presenting a sport from their country.


8.30 - Breakfast Time

THIRD Day - Arrival in London

21.00 - Asian restaurant.

19.00 - Participants are now playing volley ball,

while some other are playing football

18.30 - The campsite is now ready and it is looking pretty good!


16.00 - The group is setting up the campsite.

15.10 - Participants just arrived at the Southgate Hockey Club, welcomed around a barbecue.

9.50 - The group just left the hotel direction London

SECOND DAY - Water Sport, Intercultural evening, opening ceremonie

21.00 - Dinner at the Asian restaurant, watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony.


20.40 - German participants are offering to the UK ones, a TShirt that they designed.

 19.00 - Intercultural Evening.

16.00 - Presentation of the 4 countries created by participants. Did you already heard about Engmany Gerland

 13.20  -  Groups are now switching activities: Kanoying & Create your own country.

12.30 - Fish and Chips Time

10.40 - One groupe is doing kayaking activities (kayaking football, Walk on kayak, jump...)

...while the others are creating their own country.

10.30 - Arrival at the Water Sport Center. One group (with 8 Britishs and 8 German) is getting ready for kayaking.

8.40 - Departure from the hotel to the Water Sport Centre in Manchester

FIRST Day - Arrival

21.00 - Dinner in the best italian restaurant of Bradford.

18.20 - Arrival at the hotel.

17.40 - Visit of the Bradford Art 1 Gallery

16.35 - Visit of the Media Museum.

16.00 - Movie about the Olympic Games and UK at the National Media Museum of Bradford.

14.45 - The group is invited by the Lord Mayor of Bradford for a private visit of the Town Hall and his own office. A journalist from the Telegraph was also there to realise an article about the event.

14.30 - Participants are now leaving the park.

13.30 - Lunch in a park (under the sun!!!!!!!)

13.15 - The group iss now leaving the sport center.

12.45 - activity: participants are invited to put together pictures and description of participants that they don't know.

11.20 - 2 activities:
- First participants are doing a pictures with the Olympic torch. Then they are writing a short presentation about themselves.

- Secondly, participants are drawing a big map of Europe with the flag of each countries.

10.50 - Clair is know presenting the welcoming folder and the Timetable of the week.

 10.30 - All participants are now presenting themselves to the others. Saira, London 2012 torch bearer who brought her Olympic Torch, is beginning and then pass the torch to Martyn to present himself...

10.10 - All participants are now having a welcoming breakfast.

10.02 - the German participants just arrived.

9.30- all participants from Bradford are arriving. The Germany participants are on their way.

PREPARATION - German participants

"Now it’s no long time to the Olympic Games. The youngsters from Cottbus and the federal state Brandenburg had the final team meeting end of June. Nearly all German participants of the youth exchange organized by Everything is possible, Cottbuser Sportjugend/Brandenburgische Sportjugend were part of this meeting.

All youngsters looking forward to the exchange and are excited to meet the youngsters from Leeds/Bradford and the games. In our meeting the youngsters presented a short power point with their own profile and with their own sport. We have a great mix of all kinds of sports (Cycling, athletics, table tennis, boxing, soccer …).

We practiced some kind of sports for example boxing and cycling (on a role which use the professionals when the warm up).

 

Our social background is mixed too. In the group, there are pupils, students, employees, migrants (polish and Turkish) and volunteers for gap year. One guy of us is disabled. He is a sportsman (athletics) and his intention is to start by the Paralympics of Rio de Janeiro 2016.

During the meeting we talked about the history of the Olympic and Paralympic games. Of course we checked the English knowledge of the participants … with some songs (karaoke) on the PlayStation. The result is that all can speak English but not singing ;-)

Our big task was to find some funders for the Olympic-tickets. It was not easy. But the entire group “fought” for the destination, live to see the Olympic games in London. So we were successful. 

In the pictures you can see some of the participants (group photo, team meeting and cycling).

We invite you to come in our Facebook group “London jump through the rings 2012”. Administrator of the group is (Guido Cools, Jule Hartstock and Kay Havenstein). Look for these names and they add you to the group."



Kay Havenstein, german leader of the Youth Exchange.

Facebook group

Participants can join the official Facebook page of the project through this link:
http://on.fb.me/OBcK6X