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31.10.2009, HRP - Refugi D'Ulldeter to Refuge de Marialles

English breakfast. Good bread and lots of sweet stuff to. Basically, very delicious :-). This great coffee, really nice black and beautiful delicious - you can start the day. The cottage has night so also saves food and the bed was too soft.


morning at nine I left the Refuge and it went past the ski area "Valter 2000. Like all ski areas do not exactly pretty to look at if there is no snow.

Initially via a tarmac road, past the central point of the ski area, a small collection of buildings and shops / restaurants. Of course, all closed. A larger group makes getting ready to climb in the mountains. I'll get the Group and climb up. Last views of the ski resort of anything above.

Continue up into a big, overgrown with withered grass level. From there, continue east on a large plateau before the Roc Colom, the Pla de Coma Amada.

short time later, the Roc Colom is reached, with the last 2508m of the 2500m mountain over directly to the English / is French border. Interestingly, the rock of this hill is almost white.

The Roc Colom is on the far right, unfortunately, not completely in the picture. The path follows directly from the slope. The path is narrow and steep, but now is getting used to the altitude and the walking security given. The weather is dry and the stones are loose - so not really a problem:).

little further back on the trail Said virtually pure white stone. At first glance, one might consider it for snow / ice.

Fortunately, but no snow * g *. The path leads on forever on that long ridge along. In the distance appears a small dirt road, with the occasional off-road vehicles. Until then, it's still a long felsenübersähte plateau.

The path is endless and always follows the English / French border. At some point I overcome a comb and finally got a glimpse of the goal of tomorrow: Pic du Canigou:

The Pic du Canigou here shrouded in clouds. In all, more now on air. To reach the destination, the Refuge de Marialles still are a good two hours. I hope for good weather for tomorrow to take the alternate route on this mountain would be very annoying.

Further down the valley, but still high enough to qualify as a "difficult access" for car-drenched found funny as graffiti the Catalan independence movement:

A few miles further and I'm at the Refuge de Marialles. Sorry not as cozy as D'Ulldeter but also good. For convenience, I decide to return for half board. The food is great again, difficult to communicate something. With hands and feet but then it works.

The night I spend in a dorm with about 25 others. Some snore extreme. Fortunately, I'm tired enough to sleep.


begins at 06:30 the next day ...

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Trip to the Agro Expo

Yesterday we have with our kids rather spontaneously made a trip to Agra fair around here. The children were of course all super happy that we have a "journey" made. Fortunately, we had T-shirts of the Hogar, so that we (almost) all could go in uniform look.
The 30 mile drive was then quite an experience because we had only one (large) mini-bus. And for the 21 children with 6 supervisors. But in the end we arrived safely. The show was really great and then by subject to the middle of the campo (no, not in the boonies;)).

It was at the show really all types of exhibitors. Thus, for example all major car companies, a lot of banks, mobile operators, travel agents, and of course, some agricultural enterprises developed services. What was really great for our kids, were all the gifts. Was able at all three hats a lot of yerba (tea for the material) and take a straw hat. Since the friends of course, was huge. And since we had enough to drink here and there were plenty of toilets, the trip was a success and organizational.


As far as a short report on yesterday's outing.

Greetings

Lukas

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The school system

Here is a brief summary of the Argentine school system, which I wrote for my interim report. So you have just a few more background information: There are six years

Primaria (primary school) and six years Secundaria (secondary school). There are also various types of Secundarias, very similar to ours. The course content does not differ fundamentally that different from Germans, are just some really exotic subjects. Then for example, a subject "Visual perception" which is a mixture of biology and design. And of course there are also common in poorer countries quality difference between private and public schools.

As far as that sounds quite normal, but that is exceptional "are promoted to the next class that. It is here at the end of each school year exams in each subject. This one is a 7 (the scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is best). It is to pass a severe in comparison to Germany. To qualify for a transfer to a maximum of two subjects are not taking this as far as I know, is truly all subjects. But for every subject that exists, you get a second chance at the end of the holiday. And if there is all but two will be added. But the subjects have failed during the year be made up. This is blatant, that one can repeat last year all subjects as often. But as long as you have not passed all, you can enroll at any state university. There are so many that even after a couple of years have not completed their schooling in their pockets even though they have long done with school. This can only study at private universities, which makes the whole thing into a very unfair system.

The problem we have is quite specifically that the children be moved even though they did not bring the power to do so. So it all depends not rare fourth and 5 Graders can not read or write. The reason is that the teacher (s) have tired of the pupils or students simply be too old. A twelve-year-old adjusts to hold it in a second class. But accordingly they are there, then overwhelmed and very quickly lose the desire to learn. And as these "bad" students usually come from poor backgrounds anyway, it unfortunately happens often that they drop out of school completely obstruct the Sun way out of poverty.