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Falklands’ students spend time in Punta Arenas as part of an exchange program
The students lived with host families, visited Torres del Paine park and enjoyed an “amazing time” Students from the Falkland Islands Community School (FICS) have returned from a two week exchange visit to Punta Arenas in Chile, reports the latest edition from the Penguin News.
“The visit gave the students the opportunity to see some of the friends they had made when a number of Chilean students visited the school back in October of last year,” FICS Headmaster David Tongue told Penguin News.
Eleven students from the school made the trip accompanied by their teacher Michael Barton and former teacher Veronica Fowler.
The group comprised: Axel Rodriguez- Reid, Byron Stewart-Reid, Clodagh Stewart-Reid, Kate Stenning, Jake Buckett, Kirsty McLoed, Michaela Clifford, Pilar Castro, Laoisa Bishop-Newman, Shannon Alazia and India Clarke.
The students stayed with host families and attended school during the first week of the visit. In the second week, the students stayed in a hostel in Puerto Natales for two nights, ate out together, went to Torres del Paine National Park and saw Milodon Cave.
Student Kate Stenning said: “It was interesting to see the difference between school here and the school in Chile. It was great to meet so many new friends and it helped me to improve my Spanish”.
Michaela Clifford added: “It was amazing! A great experience! Before I went I knew very little Spanish and now I have learned quite a bit”.
Jake Buckett also enjoyed the experience: “It was wonderful to see some of the friends I had made when the students came here”.
Mr Tongue said it was great to see how the students had valued the experience: “The opportunity to spend time and make friends in a different country, and immerse themselves in that country’s culture, is an excellent part of their extra-curricula education. We have made some important links which we hope to explore further in the future.”
In 2010 and 2011, Chilean students from Punta Arenas received scholarships to spend time in the Stanley school to improve their English and get a feeling of the Falklands’ culture. (PN)
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Read all commentsExcellent initiative. It should be extended to every SA country bar Argentina who are not trustworthy and would probably hold the students captive.
May 11th, 2012 - 11:54 pm 0Now thats what happens when people are friendly with each other. You reading this KFC!!!!!
May 11th, 2012 - 11:54 pm 0I bet Cretina and her La Campora mates are biting their pillows tonight when they learn of how wonderful the UK's relationship with chile seems to be at the minute.
May 12th, 2012 - 12:10 am 0We really are making great strides now in south america what with royalty going to Brazil just last month, new embassies opening in the continent.
all in all the whole continent - bar Rg Land - seems to be getting on very well with the UK.
Must say I've always liked the chileans and the Uruguayans, but not the Argentines who are very bad people and cannot be trusted.
Goodness knows what the south american continent makes of the police no longer being in charge of the streets having been usurped by La campora.
hope tobias and Marcos are ok tonight patrolling the streets of BA.
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