Trip to CERN in Geneva

In addition to my week of music in February I also had a trip to CERN that I found out about at the last minute. On the Wednesday in our physics lesson we were told a place had opened up for one of us to go to CERN and by the end of the day I had found out I had a place. We then set of on the Friday in the early hours of the morning to Stansted airport to catch the 7:45 plane to Geneva. Once we got there we had a whole afternoon to explore Geneva and see what there was before having a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant. The next day we had a behind the scenes tour at CERN where we got to see examples of the three main parts of the accelerator, a look at the control room and have lunch in the cafeteria where all these great scientists eat, which brings a new meaning to the phrase international food because you pick up your food in France and sit down to eat in Switzerland. After having another few hours to look round Geneva and do some last minute shopping we went back late on Saturday evening with a thoroughly good experience and two days worth of school work to catch up on.