Sunday 28 February 2010
After one drink (or maybe two)
Just kidding :)
Our visit to the cellars. It was really nice. We had fun but we missed our teacher.
The three musketeers in the photo :)
Hope you like it
Daniela
Back from Lisbon
My stay in Lisbon was very tiring, but rewarding. I was learning how to assess my students in a more accurate and fair way. They went to the Port Wine Cellars in Gaia and had a lot of fun. We'll talk about that in class tomorrow and in April we'll be together in the capital to visit the Parliament and enjoy ourselves.
See you tomorrow
xx
Lets sing aloud - What A Wonderful World
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue, and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces, of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, sayin' "how do you do?"
They're really sayin' "I love you"
I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more, than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Oh yeah
In fact, our world is beautiful. We should treat it much better.
Dance
(Orange Dress) Hello! My name is Joana Marques! I'm a ballroom dancer since 2001 ! You can watch me and my brotrher in this video, this competition was in Bombarral in 2008! Many people question if we are lovers, but we aren't! In fact, we are brother and sister as the condition to dance is that we form a pair.
Being a dancer Land is a big responsibility! I have traveled a lot. I also won a first place in Spain. It's with great pleasure that I practice this sport that is little appreciated here in Portugal.
In my opinion, generally speaking, I think most teenagers have a very wrong idea about dancing, especially boys, so I invite you to attend a dance class, because I'm sure that will change your mind .
My pretty Cat Swarovsky
Sunday 21 February 2010
This is my cat. I remember so well the first time I saw him. He was only one week old, was a small, little ball of fur and very dear. With much effort I convinced my parents to take him home but it wasn' t easy. Nevertheless, I managed to do it. The first night I had to sleep with him because he was sick, almost dying. He didn't eat anything, but with love and affection he was better. Now there are specific times, and at midnight and noon, when he runs around the house without stopping and destroys everything! We like to play with him because he is very playful! Last year my dearest cat broke a leg while playing, and he had an operatation, it was very sad and he was very sensitive, but now he is strong again. The veterinary loved Swarovsky immediately because he's very powerful and at last I leave you with his beautiful name “Farisca Minguinhos Swarovsky"
Scotland Yard by Hugo
Did you know?
Scotland Yard (also known as New Scotland Yard, or Yard) is the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police (Metropolitan Police Service). The name derives from its former location on Great Scotland Yard, a street located in Whitehall. The exact origin of the name is unknown, but according to one hypothesis, the site was the diplomatic mission of the kings of Scotland before the Union of 1707 between England and Scotland. Another possibility is that during the Middle Ages, the site belonged to a man named Scott,or maybe stagecoaches departed to Scotland from this street.
As it is most often heard in the movies and series it is good to know a little bit about it!
" House of night" series by Vânia
Thursday 18 February 2010
Do you like vampire stories?
"House of night" is a series of vampire-based novel written by the american author P.C.Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast.
It follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been marked and has been requested to attend the House of Night boarding school in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The series consists of eight books with titles that give us a kind of suspense: -Marked-Betrayed-Chosen-Untamed-Hunted-Tempted
-Burned ( not yet published in America)
-stolen ( not yet published in America)
Currently, only 3 books were published in Portugal (Marked;Betrayed;Chosen) but soon more will be published!
In this series we have the presence of Nyx, the goddess of Night.
If you want to know more about the series "House of night" read the books or visit the site: http://www.houseofnightseries.com/
Hope you enjoy it! (:
Carnival by HUGO
Monday 15 February 2010
Did you know?
Carnival is a festive period governed by the lunar year in the Christian Middle Ages. The carnival period was marked by the "farewell to meat" or "meat second" giving rise to the term "Carnival". During the carnival period there was a large concentration of traditional festivals. Each city played in his own way, according to their customs. Carnival modern, made of parades and costumes, is a product of Victorian society of the nineteenth century. The city of Paris was the main export model of the Carnival celebration in the world. Cities such as Nice, New Orleans, Toronto and Rio de Janeiro during Carnival to inspire Paris to deploy its new Carnival celebrations.
There are some pictures of Carnival in Venice and in Brazil. Hope you enjoy!!!...
Carpe Diem
Have a nice little break.
I'm going to dive. See you soon and enjoy yourselves. Carpe Diem!
Meanwhile I leave you a reading suggestion: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
Just a Poem
Monday 8 February 2010
Never give all the heart W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
Talk to me
Creativity and good will that's what we need to share pieces of our lives with those we love. That's why this project was created for the students. It's been great fun.
1000 Journals - animated title sequence from Andrea Kreuzhage on Vimeo.
Rising Up
Unfortunately Llasa de Sella is not with us anymore (died at 37) but her voice will live forever. I hope you like it. Let's sing together.
Rising up by Lhasa de Sela
I got caught in a storm
And carried away
I got turned, turned around
I got caught in a storm
That's what happened to me
So I didn't call
And you didn't see me for a while
I was rising up
Hitting the ground
And breaking and breaking
I was caught in a storm
Things were flying around
And doors were slamming
And windows were breaking
And I couldn't hear what you were saying
I couldn't hear what you were saying
I couldn't hear what you were saying
I was rising up
Hitting the ground
And breaking and breaking
Rising up
Rising up
Our Visit to the Cellars
Friday 5 February 2010
The Story Begins
In 1790 George Sandeman, an ambitious young Scotsman from Perth, founded a wine business in London. With a £300 loan he bought his first wine cellar and started trading in Porto and Sherry from Tom’s Coffee House.
By 1795, he had established an agency in Cadiz, Spain and in 1811 he purchased an ageing cellar in V.N. Gaia in Portugal. In the early 1800s Sandeman wines were shipped to countries within Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and even as far as New Zealand.
Sandeman was the first company to brand a cask. In 1805, Sandeman started fire branding their trademark GSC (George Sandeman & Co.) in a crow’s foot design on all pipes they sold, thus giving the wine a name that assured quality. At the end of the nineteenth century “brand” names were largely unheard of but Sandeman wanted to give their customers a guarantee of quality, so in 1880 they became the first Porto House to export bottled and labelled wines. The Sandeman brand was registered as a trademark in 1877 (First Trademark Registrations Act) making it one of the oldest in the world.
Dubai one of the most beautiful cities in the world by Hugo
Dubai...
Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, pronounced doo-BEI) is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Dubai is also home to the tallest structure and building in the world, the Burj Khalifa. Established in 2004, the Dubai International Finance Centre was intended as a landmark project to turn Dubai into a major international hub for banks and finance, rivalling New York, London, and Hong Kong.
Dubai is the city of luxury and extravagance, as shown in these images.!
Which country is this?
Thursday 4 February 2010
The capital is Thimphu. It is a landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China
Curiosity - The window tax
William III was in a financial crisis in 1696 due to the wars with Ireland and on the continent. One new idea that was brought in to help pay for the debt was the unpopular window tax. The tax was payable on houses of more than six windows, so the clever tax-dodgers simply got hold of a builder to brick up the other windows. Houses with nine windows would pay 2/- (10p) and ten to nineteen windows the cost was 4/- (20p). In 1851 the window tax was scraped and a new tax called house duty a forerunner to community charge became payable.
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Valentine's day is coming soon. Don't forget to make a friend happy.
Slovo - Killing me
On a rainy day, Winter or Autumn, drops falling down my window...and I... reading a book.This is bliss! This is my music and this is me.
Did you know that....?
It is a miracle that CURIOSITY survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955, German-born American Physicist )
- John Logie Baird: The inventor of the television transmitted the first long distance images from a room at the Central Hotel in Glasgow.
- The Edinburgh castle was built on an extinct volcano.
- Ireland has won the Nobel prize for literature on four occasions with George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.
- The famous Titanic ship was built in Belfast.
- John Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the U.S.A.was born in Massachusetts in 1917. The Kennedy family were descendants of Irish emigrants to the U.S.A. in the nineteenth century.
- Ethnic Groups of Canada - British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
- What's acrophobia? fear of heights or high places
- And moodle? Did you know that it means to pass time in doing nothing?
That's all for now! Bye.
The four Irish Literature Nobel Prizes
Would you like to watch this movie?
Synopsis -
Fresh-faced, idealistic twenty-three-year-old Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) is ready to take on the world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day of teaching. Her class, a diverse group of racially charged teenagers from different walks of life - African Americans, Latinos, Asians, juvenile delinquents, gang members, and underprivileged students from poor neighborhoods - hope for nothing more than to make it through the day. On the surface, the only thing they share is their hatred for each other and the understanding that they are simply being warehoused in the educational system until they are old enough to disappear. Despite her students' obstinate refusal to participate during class, Erin tries various means to engage them on a daily basis.
IT'S REALLY GOOD. DON'T MISS IT! On the 5th March