Our class... from Portugal...

Our class…
We are a group of eighteen students, twelve girls and six boys, aged between sixteen and twenty-eight, and we attend the 2nd year of a vocational course – Travel Agents.
Our course involves everything what has to do with tourism and it has very practical areas which are always complemented with field trips, like the ones we did to BTL (Tourism Fair) and Alimentaria (Food Fair).
This course also includes training periods in travel agencies: six weeks in the first year, three months and a half in the second year and six months in the last year. Our functions are varied, dealing with clients, taking telephone calls, making photocopies, sending e-mails, booking travels, flights and holidays, sending faxes, among others. But all of this is done under the supervision of a tutor, especially in the first two years. Usually we become autonomous in the last year and then we do all the things that a true travel agent makes daily.
Besides this we have the privilege of being our school that arranges us the training places and paid us a scholarship in the value of 54€ per month.
We have many subjects that we think are necessary to our course, we have eight hours of daily lessons what sometimes is very tiring and we only stop for vacations in August.