Amsterdam

Amsterdam!! <3

Friday (5 April) we went to Amsterdam with our class and the 2e class of Denekamp. We went to Amsterdam because we had lessons about: 'the golden age'. At 7:15 AM we had to be at school. Very early!! I had to wake up at 6 o'clock!! :0. In the bus it was very fun, but we had a big candy fight too!! :)

We went to the V.O.C ship, the Rembrandthuis and to the Amsterdam museum. It was educative, but we walked too much! At the V.O.C. Ship it was very, very cold!!!

We waited a long time by the ship, but on the ship, it was interesting. On the ship we saw how the people on the boat lived. At a trip with the boat it was very dirty and many were sick. Later we walked a long time to the Rembrandthuis.

Of course, we could see how and where Rembrandt van Rijn lived. (He was a very famous painter in the Golden Age). We walked through his living room, bedroom, atelier, kitchen and a very weird room with the things he collected, such as crocodiles, drawings, shells and sculptures. After that, we've made an etching. (this is my etch :) The theme was crazy faces, so this is my little sister :p)

 An etch is a sort of painting: first you scratch a person or a thing in a copper plate, you ink it in, then you wipe some ink of so you get a dark-light effect and as last you press it to another paper. The print that you get is an etch. After etching we had a break, so we could eat at the Mc Donald’s (jummiieeee :p)

and there was a kermis!! Janneke and Nathalie went to a big carrousel!! After a burger, French fries and a mc flurry, we went to the Amsterdam’s Museum.

There were a lot of paintings and items about the golden age. At the museum we classified in a lot of groups. Every group had another job: some had questions about medical things, some about the V.O.C. and some about trading etc. We were a little bit too late, so the kids of Denekamp were waiting in the bus... More than a half an hour!! :0 At the bus it was again very fun... With loud music and tasty things. We were at half past 7 at school. It was an interesting day, but also hard (we had to walk a lot) and some things were boring... But... it was nice!

XXX Evie <3