Saturday 4 September 2010

Hi Guys!

According to me everyone has a passion, something in which they are really good. Some of us havn't found out his hobby yet. I have been looking for it for a very long time. Now I'm sure that the greatest hobby of mine is windsurfing. When I was young and beautiful my hobby was sailing. I really enjoyed this sport but the responsibility for other people was too big for me. I decided to find something else. Then I hit on an Idea! Windsurfing was a fantastic solution! On a board you are independent, you can rely only on your own. I'm aware of that, that I'll never be a professional windsurfer (I started too late) but it gives me a lot of fun and makes me full of energy! I recomend this sport a lot. If you like water and you aren't scared of challenges you must try it! In the photo: Me in Chalupy - a town of polish windsurfing.

Tuesday 22 June 2010

Our restaurant by Joel, Sonia, Karen and Sergio

A few words from Poland...

Since our work on the blog this year is over we would love to thank you all for the time and involvement you devoted to this undertaking.

We're extremely satisfied with the relationships we've created throuhout this time and we hope that in the future we'll be able to develop them.

We wish you wonderful and unforgettable holidays and let's all keep our fingers crossed for our meeting next year;)

Friday 11 June 2010

Goodbye Bloggers

Summer time is coming and with it our holidays !!! One more time we want to say goodbye to you. This year we went to London and we met English people althought we also know more people in the blog, people from London, people from Poland, people from Norway and people of Turkey We love you all.
Sara: I have had a nice time in this blog, I hope that next year I can repeat that.
Laura Vera: It’s a great experience to participate in this blog with you.
Sergio: My heart says goodbye and see you next year.
Aida: Next year I want to repeat this experience, goodbye I’ll miss you bloggers, good summer.
Razel: Thank you I have had a nice time and I hope to see you again next year.
Ainoa: I like this oportunity with the blog because I learnt a lot and I hope I can repeat the exchange next year.
Sonia: I’m really grateful for this opportunity to learn English and meet other people from different cultures. I hope that next year I can repeat this again and thank you everybody.
Marc: Have a nice holidays and enjoy the summer.
Coral: Goodbye everybody I like participating in the blog kisses.
Helena: Goodbye people of the blog. We see you next year.
Laura: I like participating in this blog very much, I learnt a lot of English and thanks to the blog this year I went to London, one of my dreams. I hope that next year I can repeat.
Mònica: It’s been a rewarding experience to work with this group of students using a blog. We all (including me) have learnt a lot about I.C.T. Moreover, being in touch with students from other countries has broaden our horitzons. I hope we can manage to make it livelier and more interesting next year.
Iman: I like participating in this blog very much. We see you next year. Kisses.
Mireia: I like working on the projects and uploading them on this blog. Have a good summer people and we see you in september. Kisses.
Joel: I liked this blog and I hope to see you next year goodbye. Have a nice summer.
Paula: This blog is a great experience for me ! I hope to participate in it next year good summer and good luck. Kisses.
Ricard: I like this blog and all the projects. We see you next year. Goodbye.

Our impressions on London

Wednesday 2 June 2010

The first day in London

During this course we have been practising English while working on this research project.

Each year we travel abroad and this year we went to London and we've been lucky enough to do it.

On Tuesday May 11 at 8 am, in the morning we were all gathered at the airport anxious to get to this beautiful country.

Because of the volcanic ash cloud we were delayed and the aircraft which had to leave at 10 ended up leaving in the afternoon, at 13h.

For some of us flying was a new experience, others had travelled once, but we were all very excited for this trip.

When we arrived the teachers tested as making us ask the best rate of the underground.

After that, we settled in the hotel which was the largest in all of London, where we were stayed during those days.

Monday 31 May 2010

Child's Day

June 1st is the international Child's Day. On this day every child gets a small gift and feels very, very good. It is a special time for parents too. They enjoy giving their kids what they want and spending time with whole family, when everybody is laughing and having a good time. Off course kids want to get presents everyday but it is impossible. During whole year children get many presents but this day is really special. It's like second Christmas for us. For parents the most important thing is to see smile on their children's faces and this day enables that. Do you have something like this in Spain? Please write, I'm curious.

Wednesday 26 May 2010

My pet :)

Hello everyone, as you see in the picture i have a yorshire female dog called yasmin and it has 5 years old it's very loving and very pretty! a year ago it got very sick and they had to take care of it in a dog hospital, because it had the kidney swollen all my family were really afected, because of the vet told us that there were very little chanses that it survive. now it is recuperated and very happy.

The fair of April

In Barcelona, in April the Fair of April is celebrated. Last Saturday, it was celebrated in our neighbourhood “Prosperitat”. We met our friends and we spent the afternoon and evening in the square "Angel Pestaña” where we had the celebration. In the afternoon women and men danced “sevillanas” and there were many tents around the place. In the evening there was dancing and drinking for the elderly, a lot of music, groups acting... Next week it will be celebrated at the Forum district where we will go and there will be attractions, dances, shops, restaurants ... and I will tell you more!

Tuesday 25 May 2010

It is more than racism

I’m going to write about one of the most important, negative things in a society: racism. Many people think that moving to another country is very easy, but they don’t know how difficult it can be. They don’t know that it means leaving your country of origin, your family, your friends, your boyfriend/ girlfriend, your city or your costumes. They don’t know the pain of the nostalgia. But I have to say that not everybody thinks the same way, some people are very empathic and understanding. They don’t make differences among people: It doesn’t matter whether I’m from Africa or I’m from a South- American country.

Unfortunately, many people have other wrong or stereotyped ideas or thoughts such as the majority of South-American people are part of gangs, the foreigners can’t have the same rights as the Spanish citizens, the immigrants can’t have an education or health security, foreigners have to earn lower salaries in compararison to a Spanish person, etc. I think that these thoughts are the result of pure ignorance, because immigrants don’t want to leave their coutries, their celebrations, their language, their essence…; they have to do it out of necessity. I know that these people want to find a better future, better oportunities, a better education or professional training, they hope to archieve it. But I don’t understand why some people have to reject them.

Each person in the world is different and this is fantastic, because we can learn from eachother. We must have unique and indvidual ideas, because we aren’t living in a dictatorship. We are free!

I just have one wish, one dream: I hope that, some day, all the people in the world can look at each others faces and smile… smile with sincerity, respect and affection. I know that it is difficult, because we’re completely different, but we must listen to the person that we have inside, because everybody is important and valuable in their own way and you have to know that

We’re part of this society.

Saturday 22 May 2010

Help!

Hi! I’m doing my Treball de Recerca ( Treball de Recerca is a project work that we have to do when we are in first and second of Batxillerat), and I need help! I’m doing my project work about the culture and leisure of young people in Great Britain. If you are from London, or you know somebody who have lived there, please, tell me! Thank you so much!

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Shopping Dialogues by Coral,Mireia and Laura

Poetry in our school

In our school we celebrate Saint George’s day, which has been explained in a post down here.
The students prepare differents projects for this day, such as a Literary poetry contest in Catalan, English, Spanish or French, a phylosophy essay competition, a photography competition etc.
The teachers in our school act as judges and see the images and read the texts and then choose the best to be the winners.
These are the three English poems that won.
TIME
You cannot stop it
Or make it back
As time goes by,
It will not last
If you have work
Then make it fast
‘Coz it won’t wait
For someone late
Time is pure gold
But making you old
Don’t waste your time
To enjoy your life.
Razel Beloso (15 years old)
MY SUNLIGHT
I just can’t live without you
Because you are my sunlight
And I know I never told you,
But, thanks to you, I’m not afraid of the light.
Before, everything was dark
But, one day you came with the light
Before, I was like a lone shark
Until you brought the life light.
I never confess these feelings
But I won`t be weak this time
Within me, keep my true feelings
And try one more time.
I just can’t live without you
because you are my sunlight
And I’ll never be tired to say to you,
I love you my dear light.
Irene Negre (15 years old)
OUR RELATION
I love my boyfriend
We meet every weekend
I like the afternoons with him
But prefer him going to the gym
I only think about his eyes
He has a great sight
I like his mouth too
Above all when it's got plenty of food
His kisses are the best
Yesterday I did a test
that told that our relation is incest
He is my brother,
The police can arrest!
Ainoa Sánchez (14 years old)

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Beyond the boundaries.....!

We have guest university students from China, India and Indonesia. Let them introduce themselves and tell us what they are doing here...

Hi, my name is Sandy. My Chinese name is Ding Saidi. You can just call me Sandy, which is much easier. I am from China, a mysterious and fantastic country in Asia. As a freshman in University of Hong Kong, I chose economics and finance as my major. Through AIESEC program, I have been in Turkey for three weeks. I work in Korfez Ataturk Anatolian High School in Korfez and we running a workshop there to give students opportunities to speak English. It is exciting to introduce my country and myself to high school students. I love to talk to them. They are so energetic and friedly. I really enjoy my life here and I love Turkey, the amazing country.

Hi, my name is Anggi Rahmat Adriawan. I'm 20 years old and I'm Indonesian. I'm student and I study in faculty of communication, President University in Jakarta, Indonesia. My depeatment is Public Relations, I choose PR because I'd like to communicate with other people. I'd love to share my experiences because it really precious. I work in Korfez Ataturk Anatolian High School because I want to help the students to communicate in English. The students are very funny and friendly, I got so many friends in here. I work in here just for 2 months and I live with host family, hy family is very kind to me. I'm so glad to live in here. This is unforgettable moment for my live and this is u precious experience for me.

My name is Parminder Singh. I'm 18. I'm in the first year of my University and I'm in electronics engineering department.My hobbies are reading books,shopping,playing cricket,Table Tennis.I'm here through AIESEC for my project Break up the Barries.To help the students in English speaking and the place is very good.People are very friendly and kind.I'm reallyenjoying here.

I'm Deeksha Maggo. I'm 18 years old.I'm a university student and my major is computer engineering. My hobbies are talking and meeting with new people, making new friends, eating travel, playing computer games, chatting, listening to music and I'm very passionate about dance. I have been in Turkey for four weeks and going to stay for 3 more weeks. I'm working in Korfez Ataturk Anatolian High School on a project Break up the Barriess organised by have been organising workshops for students improuning their English speaking in which are talk to then in groups skills and their understanding level and also tell them about Turkey culture from them. It's been a great experience working here with such an esteem school. The teachers and students are very cooperative and frindly. Students respect me a lot. All in all it has been wonderful experience to be in Turkey and with the people here.

Hi Bloggers We Are Back Again!

Our school trip to İstanbul was really wonderful. Our friends and teachers were all together. We had a great time. We visited Dolmabahçe Palace. The Palace at Dolmabahçe was completed in 1856 It is the third largest Ottoman Palace in İstanbul. Dolmabahçe is located near Bosphorus. Here is the room where ATATÜRK died. In the palace there was a chandelier weighting 6 tons. That was magnificent and remarkable.
After we visited Dolmabahçe Palace, we went to Turkuazo. Turkuazoo is in the Forum İstanbul Shopping Center. Turkuazoo is built an area of 8000 square meters. It opened 22nd of October. 80 meters underwater acrylic tunnel was interesting. It's called "Dream Tunnel". There are 2000 species and 10 000 kinds of fish.
Magic Ice museum is the first Ice museum in Turkey. Original one is Lotofen in Norway. The works belong "the Vikings" were impressive . we sip and drink from glasses madae of ice. The exhibition,bar,glasses,table are all made of crystal clear ice. There are 34 ice skulps which are produced for 70 ton ice.