13 diciembre 2010

A VISIT TO THE AIRPORT-GETTING TO KNOW THE WORLD

By Elvina Chamoun
We went on a trip to the airport.  As we arrived, we were all very happy and excited.  We entered and a nice lady in green was nicely waiting for us.  She started to show us around and we stopped next to the "check-in desks".  We got a boarding pass and the guide started to talk about how to check-in your luggage, etc.  Then we had to go through the "Security Control". Many didn't like that part because we had to take off our shoes, watches, jackets, etc.  After that, the guide told us a lot of important and fun information.  One thing was about the birds, the small birds often causes damages in the engines of the planes. So to provide for those types of problems they have got two falcon trainers, and assistant, twelve birds of prey and a dog specially trained to locate birds.  Later, we went to the baggage reclaim area.  From there we went outside and the guide started to talk about how to get to the airport or leave.  You can go by train, bus or you could hire a car.  That was all about the airport, but we weren't done yet.  After saying goodbye and thanking the guide we did a game.  We had to find and English city and then write the flight number, the gate and the time limit.  All that information we could find on the "monitors".  Then we had to interview someone from England, it was very hard to interview someone because everyone was stressed up and couldn't talk.  That was all about our airport experience, we enjoyed it very much and it was fun to learn something new and interesting at the same time.