IB Experiences - The trip to Brno

Our school trip to the Czech Republic 

from the 15 february to the 21 February

By Alexis & Eléa

We went to the Czech Republic for the project We RESIST that we are doing with Czech students in Brno. We went there to meet with them and share the work that we had done and to do some together. 

We went by bus from Paris. We left on Saturday 15th February at 9:30 p.m to arrive in Prague at 10 am the next day. In the bus we didn’t sleep well, only a few hours. 

Prague is really nice, we enjoyed walking in the streets, the buildings were really beautiful! We ate breakfast and went out in little groups to visit the city. We were really tired and we ate dinner at 6:30 pm to be in bed early.

Prague

The next day, we went to Brno to meet with the Czech high school students. It took us two hours, between 8am and 10am, to get there. We didn’t have time to rest at the apartments that we rented for the days at Brno. We went to the school directly. We had brunch with the Czech student and there were delicious brownies. Then, they took us to visit the school. We summarized what we did for the past few months about the project and we went back to our apartment.

We had some workshops during the week. Such as the embroidery workshop, when we had to upcycle some clothes or plushies by giving them another function.All the students were assigned a specific workshop, like social media, research... We were part of the social media group, so we learned how to make the project website and then created it. 

Embroidery workshop

Script workshop

Organization workshop

Script workshop Organization workshop

The social media workshop

Shafay and Alexis playing pool

During the break, at school, we played pool. We really enjoyed this game! In the evening we ate at different restaurants, pizza, vietnamese, buffet…. Each time it was really nice. After dinner, we liked to go buying Trdelnik, a pastry from Eastern Europe. It was really good, we used to take cinnamon and Biscoff with Nutella in it. It was hot, which was even better in the cold evenings.

We also visited the city. On Wednesday, we got lost in the suburb of Brno but thanks to the perfect education of our teachers, we found the way to the apartments. On Thursday, we visited old water tanks that were used to provide water for the city of Brno, but they are no longer used.

On the evening, Friday 21st February, we took the bus to go back to Paris. It was really long !

To conclude, we really liked the trip, it was really fun and we came back with a lot of good memories!

Italian restaurant

Indian restaurant

Dinner in italian and indian restaurants