summer plans

And another school-year is coming to the end =)  This year has been very difficult for us and now we are very happy because we have a lot of plans for this summer.
We are going to the beach with all our friends, we are going to enjoy ourselves a lot, not only in the beach but everywhere :)!!! Tanya has to pass the driving test :) beacuse she is going to be 18 years old :)! So we can go to the sea by car with her and not by bus like the others years, and we can stay all the day :). For Mary is time to relax, because she studied a lot xD. (P.S. But she is going to do a maths exercice every day!! ahahahhh she isn't normal!!!). Tanya is going to work in her father's restaurant during the summer. So she isn't going to go out with her friends every day. She is very unhappy for this but she wants help her father too!!! The restaurant is very far from the village so she wants to pass the driving test because if she do it her father will give his car to her and Tanya is going to go in Osini for her break time and go out with her friends. Mary  is going to search the love of her life this summer, Tanya thinks it is very funny and that she will find her true love =) Mary's ideal boy must be intelligent, handsome and simpathetic. She is going to go out with her cousin every day because she thinks that stay with her is fantasic. =)
We are going to do a lot of parties with our friends. The parties in Osini are very funny because we usually  go to Taccu where we eat and where we play with water and get wet. We sometimes sing famous songs and when we are tired we lie down on the grass. This summer we are going to the beach by bus every morning because we meet there our friends coming from others countries like Ulassai, Gairo etc.
We think that this summer will be fantastic because we are older than the last year and we can do something more. This school-year was very hard for us so we are going to relax us for three months without school =)

Positive and negative aspects of communication!

The communication is very important for everybody because in this way we can talk about everything to someone. We can communicate in different ways, with mobile-phone, Net, fax... or with a simple contact face to face. Through these technologies communication is faster and distances aren't anymore a problem to do it. The teenagers utilise all these technologies to talk to each other, but in this way the teenagers cut grammatical rules because they abbreviate words to save money with the text-messages. Moreover they abbreviate words on the Net chatting with people of different countries so that words can change considerably, among all the languages of the countries that there are on the Net. A positive aspect is that chatting with foreign people helps us to learn others languages and to learn about others cultures. Everybody thanks to the Net can learn everything about everything, can talk to people that live very far from them, it's a very good thing, that before there isn't. Today a lot of people know new people because of the Net, and it's a good thing... but sometimes it's dangerous too. You don't know the person that you are chatting with, and he could be a dangerous person. Everbody should be very careful about it.
One thing very important about communication it's that today, because of all these technologies a lot of people don't talk enough, or they don't usually listen careful to the person who is speaking, so a lot of misunderstanding born. This a good reason to start to listen carefully to people to make life a better situation to live happy. Everybody should be know the meaning of words that use, so anybody couldn't understand.

The Royal Wedding of the year :)

I'm going to speak about the most famous wedding of the year, or maybe of the century...
I don't use to watch tv, I usually watch only films, or news, so I didn't follow a lot the wedding, on the 29th of April. It will be immortal I think, because, it's an ancien tradition that continues to be alive in 2011. Those few parts that I watched of the wedding, I didn't like them so much... I like things that are true, that are spontaneous and I dind't see many smiles, or tears... Maybe I couldn't appreciate it because I don't follow the english tradition...

I liked one thing: the Queen! She was the sun among million of people.  Her clothes were beautiful :) She was so yellow! <3 :) She was... perfect :)
I hope that this wedding will be true and full of love, because this is would be just an illusion for million of people...

Nobel prize for peace 2007, Al Gore

Nobel prize fo peace (2007) is divided between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for they efforts to fight the climate change,
"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.




Al Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He wrote the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth and he is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary.


In so few years, this is the second Nobel Prize for Peace won by a man interested in climate change and environment, but it is the nineth time that an american politician man wins a Nobel Prize for Peace (1906 the president Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912 Elihu Root, in1919 Woodrow Wilson, nel 1925 the vice president Charles Gates Dawes, in1945 Cordell Hull, in1953 George Marshall, in1973Henry Kissinger and in 2002 Jimmy Carter.)

Our first school trip abroad :) to Madrid!

Hi,

(T) last week we went to Spain, exactly  to Madrid!!! It was very great because we went with our class! We went there from the 29th of March to the 2nd of April, we didn't stay there long but the time we spent there was very exiting!!! It was the first school trip with my class and we were very anxious but very happy too.

(M) So we want to speak about our school trip in Madrid... It was the first time abroad for me :)... I didn't like airplane, but I was wrong! =)Now I like it very much, I enjoyed myself both by airplane and in Madrid. (T) It wasn’t the first time that I went abroad but this time it was different because my parents weren’t with me and I had to look after myself.

(M)We saw a lot of museums, Thyssen Bornemisza, Prado and Reina Sofia too. I liked very much Guernica, a painting of Picasso, a very famous spanish artist, in Reina Sofia, but the Museum that I liked most is the Prado, also I was too tired to appreciate it because we visited it only the last day of school trip. (T) Picasso did this painting in 1937 during the bombings and the civil spanish war in the city of Guernica. With this painting Picasso expresses violence, cruelty and injustice of war, in fact the painting is a symbol against war. In reality I didn’t like Picasso’s works but I didn’t expect it to be so big. This one was very involving because you could feel the pain of each character of the painting.

(M) The worst thing that I saw in a museum is a painting by Goya, a spanish artist, "Saturno divora suo figlio"-"Saturn eats his son". (T)the theme of the painting is mythological because the God Saturn discovered that one of his sons would supplant him, so he decided to eat every son at his birth. This painting was very horrible and worrying!!! I think that a father who eats his son isn't normal!

In the Thyssen - Borenemisza my art teacher found a painting “Girl at Sewing Machine” that looked like me!! IT was really funny XD. I  like Madrid because I think that it is a city that never sleeps !!! I liked the Thyssen Museum because there were a lot of splendid paintings..... but the Prado Museum was too big and I was tired to follow my art teacher to watch it. I believe it was an important experience because in this way students can learn foreign languages, in fact talking with Spanish people helped me to memorize some words that before I didn't remember.

(M) This is the most beautiful school trip that I will remember, everything have been wonderful and I couldn't aspect something better. Everyday we went out from our Hotel about at 9:00 and we came back just for dinner in a little but very nice restaurant near to our Hotel about at 20:30. I don't like sampling, tasting food, but in the school trip I tried ever type of food, Turkish food, Spanish food... and I liked a lot kebab :) <3... Just one thing I didn't like: paella. There was a big crab into my paella and I was so scared that I couldn't eat it! But I filled the empty space in my stomach with a chocolate ice cream very good :), we ate it everyday after dinner, and the last day after lunch, because the last day we left from Madrid at 16:00, so we had just lunch, not dinner. I miss food :(

(T) I ate everything that the restaurant give to us, the paella too =) The typical spanish dish was very good but I'm sad because I didn't eat "churros con chocolate" (a spanish sweet), they seemed to be very good! And I admit I'm very greedy!!! =) What I loved most of all was the breakfast because every morning we ate a doughnut and we could choose if to drink coffee, milk, chocolate or orange juice. 
(M)Another thing that I miss a lot is to go out every night in the big squares that there are in Madrid. During the morning, untill the evening everthing was beautiful, monuments, fountains, but during the night everthing changed... There was colored lights on the big buildings, squares were full, while in the morning, also there was somone, in the night there were a lot of people more.

I liked it a lot, maybe. because I live in a little, little town... so I don't usually meet so many peolpe, most of all in the night! A very funny thing was that we could do everything because nobody knew us, so also we did something stupid or strange, peolpe enjoyed watching us and we didn't mind :). So we did a lot of funny thing, like dancing in the middle of squares, singing in a Mall :), we stopped people to ask them some questions, also we didn't know them :). It was funny, and finally we stopped thinking homeworks or school, we were happy and tired too, but we enjoyed the same. (T) I didn't sleep a lot x'D ! I prefered speaking  with my friends about everything (about boys too ;) ) and we usually went to sleep at 3 or 4 o'clock. During the night I went in my classmates' room with one of my friends and we usually went back to my room very late. Infact the next morning I were ever very tired, but it's was funny! =) I bought a lot of presents for my family and my friends but my case was very little and I didn't know where to put everything!!! x'D it was really a big problem but when I saw that the case of my classmates was bigger than mine I felt me really better because I understood that I didn't was the only stupid girl who spent too much money x'D (M)We stayed there just three days and a half, from Tuesday untill Sunday morning at 1:00 a.m. We had so few days to do a lot of thing that a normal person can do in one month xD! Moreover museums, squares we saw The Royal Palace. (M) I really liked it, most of all a big room where everything was yellow, my favourite colour, each room was created for an action xD, one for sleeping, one for eating with the family, one for eating with guests, one for changing clothes... It was funny :D! And every room had a different colour, and also It samed that there were rooms painted with the same colour it was wrong because there were the same colours in different tonality xD, very nice! I think I'll paint in the same way my house! Just one last thing :) (T) The Royal Palace (the official residence of Spanish kings) was really wonderful!!! I admit that the best room was the room where the king changed his clothes, I didn’t believed it was only a changing clothes room -.-‘’.

(M) I met a lot of artist-men in the streets, but most of all I liked a very nice mime, and I loved going out and meeting people that tried to make you happy. And they could ;).

I hope I'll go to Madrid again, and very soon, but I hope I'll go abroad to other places, that I think could be as beautiful (or more) as Madrid. :) Ahhh... I forgot... My class was very funny and nice all the days, but some little trubles caused by tiredness and nervous :)... I couldn't enjoy more without them. I love them <3 :)

Nobel Peace Prize 2008: Martti Ahtisaari

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award The Nobel Peace Prize 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts". So he has contributed to a more paeceful World.
The finnish Ahtisaari has worked for peace and reconciliation.

For the past twenty years, he has tried to resolve several serious and long-lasting conflicts:

• In 1989-90 he played a significant part in the establishment of Namibia's independence.
• In 2005 he and his organization Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) were central to the solution of the complicated Aceh question in Indonesia.
• In 1999 and again in 2005-07, he tried to find under especially difficult circumstances a solution to the conflict in Kosovo.
• In 2008, through the CMI and in cooperation with other institutions, Ahtisaari has tried to help find a peaceful conclusion to the problems in Iraq. He has also made constructive contributions to the resolution of conflicts in Northern Ireland, in Central Asia, and on the Horn of Africa.

Today Ahtisaari is an outstanding international mediator.

How can we save the world?

We can save the world, we can help the world to be a better place.
We have to do something. The World is the most wonderful place that someone has given to us and it is our house, our home. We have to work to do that and we have to help each other, this is the most important thing that we can do, but everyone has to do that. Two weeks ago we watched this video Home, and we spoke about what we can do to help the world, how can we help it?
We can help the environment in many ways. But we can help men to be better too.
I watched a film some years ago, I liked it a lot, and I suggest to watch it Pay it forward- change lives.
We watched Vegan&Vegan too.
I think that everyone can change the world, everyone with his choises make life different. We have so many resources that we can think that they will never finish. They will finish soon, if we don't try to save our resources.
We must not buy a lot of things that we will throw away because we don't really need them. It's stupid but everyone of us do that. We don't walk, we usually go by car everwhere! We let turned on the light in our houses, we let computer tourned on all the day, everyday... and someone everynight. It's not the best for us. Energy costs, energy must be paid, and we pay it, it isn't infinite. Our resources cost and we have to learn to use them in the best way we can.
I hope it will happen soon, because everyone needs a happy place where can live happy, and if we destroy the world nothing will be as wonderful as it is now.

We need it. We have to respect it. We have to learn going out on foot, we have to learn not spending many hours on the net or watching tv. We haven't to spend energy uselessly, we need energy.

Beatles

I love listening to music because it makes me happy! =) I listen to all types of music but I like especially "old music" like the beatles. I know that for many people the Beatles' songs are boring but I think that they were fantastic!
The Beatles were an english rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. The group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). The group worked in many genres and  the nature of their enormous popularity were their original songs.

Their first single was "Love Me Do" but I like a lot "Let it be"!

What do you think about them?

Eminem

I listen to his music from when I was young... because my mother likes him.
I loved it and I still love his music. I like a lot "like toy soldiers" and I listen to it when I'm sad or I feel alone. His music gives me energy, it gives me strength to go on.

And he is very handsome :).... I like "8 mile" and all his songs.
Do you know him? And do you like him?

You should listen to his music, you could like it... :)

About speak

I watched, two months ago, the film "Speak". It speaks about a young girl, a rape victim. She was raped by her bofriend, in a party. Everything, at the beginnig, seemed like perfect, but it wasn't so... She called the police but she couldn't speak; from that day she decided to be mute. Police came to the party and all her friends got angry with her. They didn't know about anything. Only in the end she could speak with her old bestfriend and she could fight with her prison, with her trauma and with Andy Evans, the rapper. She became free, she wasn't anymore mute ans she could live again.
I love this film, because it shows a very important theme: rape. Kristen Stwart is very good to comunicate without speaking, it seemed a film, but it seemed real.
It speaks about relationship between teachers and students, you can see the difference with italian school. it's completly different!!! I think there everthing is well organized compared to italian school, there the students are often happ to go to school, here we are not happy. We see the school like an obbligation, like a thing that we have to do. Many italian student don't use the school to learn or to grow. A lot of these see the school like a bad thing, an useless thing. And it's not.