Thursday afternoon (04/30/2015)

After the visit of Monsaraz, we had a trip on a boat on the lake formed by Alqueva's dam. We formed 3 groups, with one "DD" in each in order to look after the students in case they want to jump in the water! The lake has an area of 250 km², deep of 45m in the middle and is the largest lake of Europe!!!!!! This artificial lake is created by the dam. This is an agricole project in order to produce energy and create tourism in the region.

        

                    


During this trip on the water, our drivers and their competition boats sped up for us! They are never afraid this Portuguese, they even let us drive! Mrs Faille had the honnor of a love declaration from Damien : "you are the wife of my life". The teacher Teresa, in the noise of the boat, thought this sentance was for her and was very happy.

Our drivers asked to take a picture of the group for their website, we are really stars here!

On the pontoon, we made a video to thank the ROTARY CLUB which enabled the project to be real. 

« Hi Rotary club! We are in Portugal and we think of you!
This is a live from the barage of Alqueva and we just leave the boat. We work a lot our English. We learn a lot of things about horses, culture, gastronomy. 
It was possible only thanks to your help!

Salut le Rotary club. Nous sommes au Portugal et nous pensons à vous!
C'est un direct du barage d'Alqueva et nous venons de quitter les bateaux. Nous travaillons beaucoup notre anglais. Nous apprenons beaucoup de choses sur les chevaux, la culture et la gastronomie. 
Cela n'a été possible que grâce a votre aide. »

Then, 3 braves students jumped on the water. They said that the water was a little cold (20°C), but it didn't stop them to jump again!! 

Teresa, as she saw us so beautiful on the Rotary video, asked another video to thank the mayor of Alter Do Chao and the school EPDRAC. We thought that it was an excellent idea!

« Hi mister mayor, the members of EPDRAC school and all the inhabitants of Alter Do Chao. This is a live from Alqueva's dam. 
We would like to thank the mayor for the visit of the castle, the visit of Alamo's house, and for the bus. Also we thank you all for the wonderful welcome. We really like the travel and we don't want to go back in France! 

Bonjour monsieur le maire, les membres de l'école EPDRAC et tous les habitants d'Alter Do Chao. 
Nous aimerions remercier monsieur le maire pour la visite du château, la visite de la maison Alamo et pour le bus. Aussi nous aimerions tous vous remercier pour le magnifique accueil. On aime vraiment le voyage et nous ne voulons pas retourner en France! »

Our driver kindly offers us a sauna in the bus beacause the air conditionning was broken...
We came back with red skin after this wet and hot day, but we're alive and very happy!
On the return, we had free time in the center of Evora, this was a reward of our "DD" for the success of the game "You have to speak English for X minutes"
Just before we arrived at Alter Do Chao, we almost crashed on a fireman truck!
Once at the hotel, as usually, we start to work for the articles of the blog, to sell you some dreams!

Signed: a great duo, Iona and Joanna

Little riddle: Where are the students? Find how much students we can see on this picture!

This was our last day here because tomorrow it's the return travel to France, so we wanted to say that we were very happy at the hotel and we recomand this place for everubody coming in Alter Do Chao! 

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