It was the start of our second excursion day and we were looking foward to it, having had a few hard days coaching, we needed relaxing time.
We left the hotel for around half 10, it was our first lie-in for days. We took the tram to the angel station and then we had to get on another tram to get us to the cooking school. We arrived at the school for around half 12, looking forward to making some food.
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| Gemma paella |
We had an introduction on what we were making and telling us who was our head chef; his name was Pepe. We were making two paellas and the head chefs were Ste and Gemma. We all had a really good time making the paella, it turned into a competition, with Pepe being our jugde at the end of it all!! While making the paella there was another thing we had to making for example: homemade lemon jucie and a dessert which was like a cremebrulee that was really nice aswell. At around half one/2 o'clock everything was ready and we all tidied up and took our seats for our meal. We were all nervous to hear what Pepe's verdict was on which team had made the best paella..... Gemma's team won as they made the tastiest paella but Ste's was good aswell. We left the school at three o'clock and we headed to the Estadio Mestalla, which is Valencia CF's football stadium. We arrived at the ground and we all wanted to buy socks and hats becuase it was going be cold inside the ground.
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| dessert |
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| dessert cooking |
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| group photo |
When it finally came time to enter the stadium for the match, we went through the barriers and had any drink bottles bigger than 1 litre taken off us! We then climbed the monstourous seemingly, never ending stair case. When we eventually reached the top we took to our seats on the second or third tier of the stadium, which was a good view of the pitch. We were sat in the wonderfully warm sun for the first five minutes of being there, however, we soon came to the conclusion that it was time to wrap up warm to watch the almighty valencians. 89 minutes into the match, Valencia were steaming ahead looking at a 2-0 victory. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a third goal was scored and less than 1 minute more into extra time, a fourth goal was scored. The atmosphere in the mestalla was intense; horns were blasting and people were going mental for the 4-0 victory that had just been witnessed. The final whistle blew and the people began streaming out of the exits heading out back to there lives. However, we were having to wait for the girls to go to the toilet, when we recieved a phone call telling us that doors were about to be locked. We quickly walked down the endless staircase to walk out into complete darkness.
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| 1st goal celebrations |
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| final score |
After the match, we wandered down to the tube where we missed the previous train by a mere matter of minutes. We then waited for the next train where we crowded on having nearly everyone stood up because the train was packed. We also had to change over because there was no train straight to the destination. We got off the train and went straight to dinner where we were greeted by some greasy chicken and some super thick rice. In my opinion (Cory) it TASTED GREAT!! NOT! However, other members of the group thoroughly enjoyed it. We all then slowly dordled down the road to return to our converted convent where we all sat in the meeting room ready to sleep.
The end
DAN and CORY
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