Today, Thursday, was the last morning in France. This morning we went to the ‘In Flanders fields’ museum and we had lunch there.
First we had to go to the desk and get poppy bands that got us into the museum and watch and listen to the audios. We got to wander around ourselves but most people went round in groups. We saw all of the old stuff found from WWI. There was a big pile of used bullets that they found on the beach and there was some weapons, clothing and some stuff out of the trenches like wine and water bottles and spoons.
On the walls were a set of German, French and British uniforms. They were really all the same but the British had kilts instead of trousers.
There was pictures showing us all of the skeletons that they found. On all of them there was lots of missing bones and body parts from all of the bombs. After we looked around the museum we went outside of the museum and had lunch. We got to play tig for about 10 minutes. The teachers took us to the gift shop and we got to buy gifts.
Then we went to the Belgian chocolate shop and the shop keeper was standing there with a sign saying welcome Carmondean primary school. When we went in he had a mike and was telling us about a offer – it was a box of Belgian chocolate, milk, white or dark chocolate for €9.99 plus they gave us a free bag of marshmallows. We all got 10% of everything in the store.
We went to the Menin gate and looked at most of the names of the soldiers. Then we went to Tyne Cott and looked at graves.
We went to go get on the ferry and got dinner. It was a buffet – it had soup for starters or you could get fruits, for main meal you could get meats and roast potatoes, Chinese food or chicken. For desert we got to pick a little cake and a little tub of ice cream. At the end of the day we had a disco that more schools were at.
Written by James, Emma & Leah
