My Summer Holiday

Hi, guys, and Welcome to my Oral Presentation, my name is Ivet and today I'm going to present you my summer 2012. My summer had been preety complete, so I'll divide it in three parts, the first one I called: USA, the second one is Family Holidays, and finally Hang Out With Friends.

My summer started on the 28th of June when I started packing all the clothes and all the staff that I needed for my trip to United States. On the 29th I took a plane with my best friend Cristina and 24 persons from Barcelona. We went to Seattle, where we stayed in a family about 4 days. We spent that time visiting Seattle, and having a lot of fun. In the house we were nine persons from Barcelona, and then Jennifer and her family. We visited the most important things of Seattle like the EMB Musueum, the first Starbucks of the world... and a lot of interesting things that we loved. On the 3rd of July,  we went to Camp Orkila, a camp of YMCA, on San Juan Island. We had to arrive to the camp so we took a ferry, and we arrived to Orca's Island, where the concealers, and the camp Orkila were waiting for us. When we arrived we thought that all was SOO CRAZY, everybody, ws screaming and singing the YMCA song. That was shocking, I laughed so bad! Just arrived, me and Cristina, went to the wrong group, so we had to walk all the Camp twice, to change to the right group. It was a little bit embarrassing, but funny. Then we met the Shaggy Belugas, that would be our group for 15 days. Our concealers, were Maddie and Andy, and the rest of the group was a girl from NY, Paulina, and a boy from Seattle, Koy, that he was originally from Nicaragua, and at the beggining he helped us a lot with the American Accent. We spent 10 days expedition with that group. It was fun and refreshing. I have to say too, that when they told us about the Kayak expedition, we were about to die. But I really enjoy it and I've created a family with that group, it was absolutely awesome. On the second day of Camp, we packed food, some clothes, and we grap all our staff, and we went to Point Doughty about 20 minutes paddling from the Camp, we spent the 4th of July, the Idependence Day there. We ate strawberry, with cream, it was so fun and typical from America. In our expedition we paddle around Orca's Island and we spent 10 days in 8 different island. First Point Doughty, then Suicia, Matia, Clark, Doe, Obstruction, Blind, Jones and finally we could touch the sand of the Camp beach. The best experience ever. During the expedition, we learn how to cook, and how to be a better person, and we did 9 Value's Session, that was like a reunion every night, the were like a reflection, of you, and there I think we learn a lot and we grow as a persons.

Then we met our second group the Lualas, that group was bigger, we were 11 persons. The two concealers, matt and Kristen, and then Eli, Nick, Dallas, Emily, Tessa, Mathea and Fiona. All the people of the group were from Seattle, exept, Fiona, from China and Cristina and Me. With that group we did the LDI program, taht was Leadership, in the leadership they theach you how to be a good leader, you spent time with the little kids, playing with them, it's like a preparation, for if you want to be a concealer. We spent one week in the camp doing "Challenge By Choice" activitties, and now I'm sure you're wondering What is that about? Well Challenge by Choice, means that if you want and you feel comfortable with that you can do it, but if you don't, just don't do it, you don't have to... And we did activitties wich helped us to knew better the people of the group. And then we get more confidence with the rest of the Lualas. The second day with the group, we made a hiking expedition to the TWIN LAKE, there we spent a night, where we made a fire, and we ate a lot of smores. But the surprise was that we woke up at 4a.m in the morning and we did a hike till the higher point of Orca's Island, to see the sunrise. It  was beautiful, on of the greatest things ever. AFter spending a week on the Camp, we left the Camp Orkila again and we made another Kayak expedition, which we visited the same Islands as with the first group, but we discoverd a new one called Torn, where we found raccons, you don't know what are they? Well they are like cats, but a little thief too, and they tried to get our food. It was fun, but scary too. We made a fortress, but they stole us a piece of bread. Then w went to Jones and we mad a Goodbye Party, with smores. Then we came back to the camp and we spent the best last night ever. We went about 10 minutes to the "Dork dance", and then we slept on the dock. Then we said goodbye to the group and so to Camp Orkila. It was pretty sad, but deffenetely, the best summer of my life, and the best experience ever. I recomend you to go to Orkila, if you want to grow as a person, if you want to meet new people and if you want to have the most amazing experience of your hole life.

When I came back I stayed in Banyoles, doing homework and staff like that and then I took a plane and I went to Copenaghe with my family and Moncayola's family. There we went shopping and visited the city, a little bit, and the next day we did the check in to the Cruise, NOWREAGEN SUN. W spent 10 days visiting the Baltic Capitals, and visiting amazing cities. We visited Berlin where I loved the history of the city, it was really interesting the part of the Berlin's wall, the Nazi's and Hitler. Then we went to Tallin, that was really beautiful city, the houses were old but so amazing. Then we went to St.Petesburg in Russia, where we stayed two days, the thing that I liked the most was the Hermitage Museum and the Catalina's house with the Ambar's room. THen we sailed till Helsinki, and I have to say that I didn't really like it. And our next stop was in Estocolm, that we've been there before, but it was fine because it's one of the most beautiful cities for me. I really enjoy to see the changing guard. And then we came back to Copenaghe where we took a plane and we came back to Catalonia. But this is what happended if we talk about the visit, but in the ship we really had a great time. Every night we were in the disco.. and we met people of all around the world, from Mexico, from United States, and a lot of people from Spain, I really enjoyed that holidays.

And the last part was Hanging out with friends.. Well that part started when we came back to the cruise and the next day, we went to see the Barça and Real Madrid match. it was awesome but the next day I didn't have voice. Then I started meeting my friends and hanging out with them.

The conclusion of this Oral Presentation, it's that, this last summer was the best of my life, and I'm preparing all the staff for next year, I can't wait to go to Camp Orkila again...

Thank you, that's all I hope you like it.