My important moment.

I'm going to write about an event that happened to me on January, two years ago. I was visiting my family in Nicaragua, I went with my mom and my brother to my grandmother's house for a few days because the next week I had to go to a camp. We spent like three days there with all my mom's side of the family and the final day I came back with my aunt Lilliam, uncle Erick, my cousin Fernando and my grandma. The trip was really long and I was feeling sick about something that I ate so my uncle took another way to get to their house, a very dangerous highway. Many people say that in that highway happen lots of accidents but that never cross our minds. Well, I was tired so I started to fall asleep on my grandma's shoulder and like twenty minutes later I hit my head in the car's door, I heard the car making a noise like if we were in a race and all I could see was dust everywhere, I had no idea of what was going on and then my cousin screamed like a girl, which really scared me. After that, we stopped. I asked what happened and my aunt said that a huge truck was out of his side and hit us and the car that was in front of us. I got off the car and the thing that really freaked me out was watch the car so close to a ravine, and all the right side of the car destroyed. When I saw those things I started to cry, I don't know why but I just did, I cried. And my grandma said that God was taking care of us because we could die there, it was pretty serious and nothing bad happened to us as the people of the car in front of us, that car was turn down and the people were really hurt with broken legs or broken arms, I'm not sure but I think that the driver was about to die; all my body was shaking, I was terrified and then my grandma, my cousin and I started to pray and give thanks to God because we were alive! After that, the friends of my aunt and uncle came to see what happened and if we were alright and they took us home.

The Goonies

I choose Mikey of The Goonies. He's a smart, ambitious and a great leader. In the movie he is the brother of Brand and with his friends found a map of a pirates treasure. He lead The Goonies to find the treasure but they had to escape of a band of criminals named The Fratellis. They had to find the treasure inside a house where the Fratellis were hid. At the end when everybody wanted to quit and just get out without any treasure, Mikey as a leader convince The Goonies to keep looking for the treasure until they find it. I really like the optimism and the perseverance of Mikey because I'm a very optimistic person and I fight for the things I want in my life just like Mikey.

Urban legend.

I'm going to talk about a legend in San Ramón, well in my high school. It's a legend about a nun. Many years ago the Colegio Patriarca San José was a high school of nuns, but one day one of them named Raimunda died in the building and the legend says that Raimunda is living in the high school, every night you can see her walking on the halls or just standing in the computer lab (the computer lab was the bedroom or the nuns). There are many stories about the nun, for example there are people who said that if you go at night, really late, and take a pic to the guitar room the flash wont come out, other stories say that if you see Raimunda's pic in the library at night you can see the pic moving and there are people who took a pic from the nun but with no face.

My First Performance

My first performance was when I was 9 years old, it was a piano performance. I've been in piano lessons since I have 8 years old and that performance was the most scariest thing I've ever done. I was prepared but I was frightened about the people who were looking at me, I'm not used to speak in public or things like that so that was a huge challenge for me. At the moment of play the song, I felt like I was going to throw up but my teacher told me "It's all right, no one know the song so if you make a mistake just keep going, don't stop" and that phrase is still useful for every performance that I have to do now. From that moment until today I feel a little scared but really happy to do any performance or even speak in public.!

Thanksgiving

A. What is thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in the month of November. It started on the USA and Canada. Thanksgiving was a holiday to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships.

B. Who were the pilgrims?     

The pilgrims were a small group of people who sailed to North America in order to start a new life. They sailed on the Mayflower ship and landed on Plymouth Rock. They wanted religious freedom.

C. What is the Mayflower?

The Mayflower was one of the ship that the pilgrims used to sail on their trip to America. 

D. Who were the Wampanoag?

  

The Wampanoag are one of many Nations of people all over North America who were there long before any Europeans arrived, and have survived until today. Many people use the word “Indian” to describe them, but they would prefer to be called Native People. Their name, Wampanoag , means People of the First Light. 

 E. What happened to the Pilgrims during the first winter?

 This was very bad timing as the Pilgrims did not have time to plant food for the winter. The first winter was very harsh for the new settlers. The cold temperatures and snow interfered as the Pilgrims tried to construct their settlement. Out of the original group of Pilgrims, only about half survived the first winter.

F. What did the Wampanoag do for the pilgrims? 

The Wampanoag taught the Pilgrims how to hunt, fish and grow corn, the Pilgrims had a very successful harvest in October and had plenty of food for the upcoming winter. The Pilgrim's Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of celebration and thanksgiving sometime in the middle of October. The Pilgrims invited Squanto and many other Indians to join in the celebration. The Thanksgiving feast lasted for three days.

G. Why did they celebrate the first Thanksgiving?

Because they had a good harvest so when they had enough food to survive the winter the Pilgrims invited the Wampanoag to celebrate and give thanks with them.

E. When is Thanksgiving Celebrated now? 

Thanksgiving is celebrated the fourth thursday in November.

Cold Case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugfzs5KR7pg

Cold case is a TV show that involves the legal system and the crime. It's about cops who try to find out who is the criminal of each case they investigate.

I like this kind of TV shows a lot because things like these actually happen and this is one of the shows that I really like to watch. I also recommend it, is a very good show, very interesting.

Halloween.

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It's based on the Celtic festival (where people marked the end of the light and the beginning of the dark season). People usually do different activities for this holiday like  trick-or-treat, use costumes, make costume parties, cave jack-o'-lantern, tell ghost stories or just watch horror films at some house. Halloween have changed a lot through the years by the influence of the Celtics, the Catholics and the Romans, the mix of those traditions changed Halloween to make the one that we celebrate these days.

Reflection

I have to say that I'm glad about these course because I learned a lot and I made new friends. About my goals I feel that I reach all of them, because some of my goals were to improve my english and learn more vocabulary and in this two months my english improved a lot and I can say that I have so much more vocabulary now.
Between the things I liked were the songs to complete, I didn't heard all of the songs but I like that kind of activities and the phrases that we learned last week were really useful and fun, there were so many things that I didn't know and are very interesting. Things that could have been done better I thing nothing, at least for me everything was excellent.
The group was funny, I met new people and they contribute with me to had a better learning process and thanks to my teacher because he teach me everything in the best way he could. :)

Top 10 current news!

1-After 65 days of being trapped inside a mine 700m underground, 33 Chilean miners can now see the light of hope for their freedom. If there were an earthquake, the miners could die there or never get out.


2- More than 200 passengers have been rescued from a Baltic Sea ferry after it caught fire near the German island of Fehmarn. If they were in the middle of the ocean maybe no one would find them.


3- Bombs kill three afghan civilians and seriously wounded a child.
If the bombs attacks had happened in a crowded place, more people could have died.

4- American forces threw a grenade trying to free a hostage.

If they had failed, they could have hurt the hostage.

5- Police seek clues in girl's disappearance.

If the parents had taken care of their child, she might have never disappear.

6- An 8 year old boy was repeatedly stabbed at a restaurant.

If there had been police officers around , that might haven't happened.

7- Yesterday a man was hurt in the head by a man with a broken bottle. If he had cut him in an important area, he could have died.

8- Swiss complete world's longest rail tunnel. If they were in an economic crisis, probably the tunnel wouldn't exist.


9- T.I. sentenced to 11 more months in prison for violating his probation. If he hadn't done it, he would be free now.


10- Most Americans Lack Basic Knowledge of Climate Issues. If they would show more interest maybe they would know more.

Atenas

The city of atenas is located in the occident of the Meseta Central between the river Grande de San Ramón and the river Virilla.

The name of this city represents the admiration of the State Chief Jose Rafael de Gallegos Alvarado who was a lover of the greek culture and as you know Athens is the capital of Greece.

About the transportation, Atenas has a good bus service that goes from the city to Grecia, Naranjo, Palmares and San Ramón. Also the city has taxis all over the city.

In Atenas the important dates are the same as the rest of the country like Independence Day and in the local events they have fairs and parties.

Atenas is a small city so the people live close to each other so that makes them very warm, friendly and solidary.

The city's mood is charming, is a happy town and most of the people say that Atenas has the best weather in the world, is perfect because there's not to hot but not to cold and that makes that peolple like to stay there.

Here you can find beautiful landscapes and also there are many hotels where you can go if you want to visit the city like Capreverde so come and visit us in the best city in the world :)

I'm going to talk about my mom's cooking. She had a bakery for 15 years and now she added a Café called Cafetería & Repostería Karen wich started a month ago. There you can find desserts like lemon pie and cheesecake or if you want to go for a real meal you can eat "crepas, burritos o empanadas de pollo". The place is really nice, is small but homely, is cheap and is located in San Ramón downtown so is easy to find. The personal is very efficient, fast and friendly. I always go there so I can recommend you to visit Cafetería and Repostería Karen.

Karen's Profile

I made an interview to a partner for knowing some details of her life and this is what she said...

First I asked her about animals and she said '' yeah I like the animals in fact I have two'' she have two french poddle dogs are a nice kind of dog very friendly and soft, then we were speaking about hobbies she said that she likes to stay in the computer also going out with friends, but she said something interesting, she likes to play the piano it was interesting because that's pretty difficult. Also she likes karate, volleyball she said '' I love it'' she to watch football but playing no so much, she likes every kind of music but hates regaetoon she said '' miranda and belanova sucks'' she goes to Nicaragua every year, and she wants to go to Spain, she says she will visit Hawaii soon, she likes a lot shrimp, still doesn't know what she wants to be as a professional, I asked about children and she said ''I want to have a couple boy and girl but in a far away future I'm still to young for that'' an interesting thing she has no boyfriend, she went to Monteverde once and traveled between the trails she said that was a nice experience, her favorite colors are white, lemon green, purple and turquoise, she likes every kind of ice cream in fact she said '' I always try a different flavor'', about the cinema she said '' I like all the kind of movies but I got a problem with the horror ones because I always start them but never ends I get so scared a then I quit''

Well this is the end of an interview from a girl called Karen she is sixteen years old and lives in San Ramon, is very talkative and friendly. generally speaking a very good person.... bye.

David's Profile.

I interview a partner to know about him, likes, dislikes and some interesting things of his personality.

His name is David. He lives in Esparza and he is 21. He likes to ride his bike, play billiards, play chess and go swimming. Part of his motivations in life are his own goals like study international relationships. He likes animals like dogs because he has one, an American Stanford. Among the people that he admires is his mom :).

He has been in Panama and Nicaragua but he said he wants to go to Germany and Switzerland. He never had problems with the law, "just normal issues with people like every one else". He can eat practically every kind of food but the only thing he just don't like at all is noni. He works painting cars. He likes to do skateboarding and roller skating. He hates soccer (watch it and practice it), his sport is to ride his bike all day but he also really like golf. His favorite place to visit here in Costa Rica is Malpais, "is beautiful". He said he likes outgoing people and hates hypocrites. He doesn't have vices, like drinking or smoke; his dad has a bar so that's one of the reasons he doesn't like those things. He likes every kind of music but he prefer Metal Opera, his favorite groups are Power Symphony and Haggard, he also hates Ozzy Osbourne and groups like Belanova.
His favorite colors are white and black but he almost never wear them. He loves strawberries and chocolate! He is like an adict! " I LOVE chocolate". He said that he was really good drawing when he was in high school and now he's good with words, that's why he's studying languages. His favorite movie is Eurotrip, is a comedy movie, "but I also like science-fiction movies".


Well this is the end of David's interview, He seems very confident, he's an honest person, outgoing, fun, he knows to listen and it was really nice talking to him. :D

About Alejandro's Planet.

I like that planet, I think that they are very good people who take care of their planet and try not to contaminate. I also like the idea of keeping the life on the planet, it shows that they are very responsible and serius when they say "save the planet". This have to be a nice place to live and an excelent gift for the next generations. :)

Naningo planet :)

In this planet, all the people have almost the same caracteristics, for example they enjoy to go swimming at 6pm every friday, they are kind and respectfull for each other, they don't like to fight, they prefer to do everything by themself, they like to read magazines and drama books but most of them are lazy. The people from this planet is a mix of the people from venus and the people from mars and is a mix of my characteristics to :)