AIMSterdam15-20 March 2015

Arina Mihailescu and Isabella Pavel

Oh my God! The big day arrived...we are finally in the airport . Waiting for the plane Bucharest-AMSTERDAM. We can’t believe it! Is it real life or a fantasy... well, a little of both . We couldn’t wait to meet our hosts for the first time although we were a bit nervous. The gates opened, that means we are leaving. Yeeeeeeey!

We even had fun on the plane: we played cards, listened to music, took selfies and ate lots of food .

First day- Sunday

ARINAYEEEEY! I am in Amsterdam. I met

Zorana a very nice, cute girl. We went to a shop full of video games, animes (Japanese cartoons) and pokemons. This shop was for me like a little piece of heaven..

Thanks Zorana for

bringing me in this

awesome place!

ISABELLAFinally arrived in Amsterdam. Can’t

believe I met Asli, the most fabulous girl in the world. We took Francesca, a cute girl from Italy and we went to have a drink and enjoy ourselves at a bar.

The Turkish tea was more than wonderful.

Thanks Asli!

Sunday

First we had the welcome activities. Erik, the math teacher from Netherlands, made some nice videos with music from each country, which we enjoyed watching. After that, we decoded sentences about kids from other countries, for us to know each other better.

They even prepared some treats for us to celebrate the Pi day. Then we got to the city center and started the treasure hunt. We tried hard, but

unfortunately we couldn’t finish it . However we enjoyed it.

Second day- Monday

So we got to school at 8:30 a.m. Erik, Bob and the Dutch students prepared 19 funny logical games for us which we had to solve in 6 minutes each.

After that, we went to the Nemo Science Center and had fun trying all the experiments and games. It is a wonderful place that must be visited.

Omg, our faces !

Third day-Tuesday

At the Nemo Museum we also did an experiment about brown and green ink that become blue in the contact with water.

CANAL TOUR After the visit at Nemo we had a great experience at the canal tour. It was

relaxing and pretty. We had the opportunity to see the most beautiful views.

Tuesday

BowlingWe finished and after that we decided to go bowling with almost everyone. We

aren’t good at this. Although we tried hard, we kind of failed, but we made new friends .

We also had a strike .

Our great shoes .

Tuesday

On the fourth day we visited the Boerhaave Museum, where we had another treasure hunt, but actually this one we finished and to our astonishment, we won it. It was about working with a special kit full of old mathematical objects. We really enjoyed it, the same for Escher Museum. There were plenty of optical illusions and tessellations.

We had lunch in Leiden

Fourth day- Wednesday

ARINAMe and Zorana decided

to make an apple pie. Everything seemed to be easy but it wasn’t ! We tried our best but we couldn’t figure it out. Anyway it was really fun to make it !

ISABELLAMe, Asli, Francesca,

Bruna and Feyza went to eat something and then to a beautiful lake. We relaxed by walking there and talking. After this we met with the other students and had fun there .

Wednesday

Omg! Contest day ! No, I’m not ready, please! We started the day on the wrong foot with the Kangoeroe test. But the rest was good: we did some math challenges with some other kids that were in our team.

-ARINA was with Juno (Netherlands), Aga (Poland) and Emina (Netherlands)

-ISABELLA was with Karel (Netherlands), Yani (France) and Joshua (Netherlands)

-MARIA was with Vibuthi (Netherlands), Francesca (Italy) and Carlos (Spain)

Fifth day- Thursday

Shopping! Souvenir time! All girls love this including us! We are ready! We’ve got our list for this and we bought more than enough, just because we love NETHERLANDS sooooo much!

Thursday

Last day…NO!!! I don’t want to leave!After we went to the hotel to meet with Emina and Zorana, we said

Goodbye to Asli . Then we went to Van Gogh Museum, where we saw lots of great paintings, but unfortunately we weren’t aloud to take pictures of them.

Last day- Friday

GOODBYE!

Thank you for the best week ever!