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Welcome to JuroPal Events!
Get ready to click your way into what is on its way to becoming a small treasure of tales and pictures of events taking place across Europe. This is the place where the Juromail partner schools cover school events and national events and in a way, this creates an open window into the issues that concern them. Some events would be completely different from what takes place in other countries, but we may also find that we do indeed have a lot in common with our fellow European friends. The events are covered by news teams consisting of students who photograph and write about what happens in their everyday life.
This webpage is structured as a calendar in which the events will be saved according to chronology. We hope you will find this page an appetizer to what goes on in the everyday life of students in European countries.
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Danish contributions
Spanish contributions
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This is the first
news team from Denmark: Mie, Michelle, and Anna
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In Denmark every student at high school can help different kinds of young people in the developing countries by working and earning some money. We call it Operation Day’s Work because it takes place once a year and the income of that day’s work is donated to a charity. The money always goes to young people and their education in the developing countries. It’s a project all over Denmark and the project is mainly ruled and influenced by Danish high school students.
This year the money went to the
Guarani Indians in Bolivia. Other years, it was different
places. It’s always
developing countries and often it’s about helping young
people to get an education. This year it’s a whole
people we are helping. They can’t get an education and live
a normal life because they are slaves.
We call them debts-slaves, they aren’t really slaves but
they have a big debt. They can’t pay it back,
because they are paid very little, so they are actually
caught in this debt for the rest of their life.
They live in big farms for the richest people in Bolivia.
They work every day, ten hours is normal. Men,
women, children and old people. Every month they get paid,
but it’s not much. The farmers are
the ones who decide how much they get paid, but it’s never
enough to pay back the debt. Often the
debt is going from generation to generation, an evil circle
which is impossible to get out of.
People who want to be a part of this project have to find a job and work to get some money in. Maybe asking a kindergarten or something, or you can also search on the internet. The project has different kinds of homepages, but on one of them you can find help to get a job; they call it the job bank. If you don’t want to take any of these jobs, you can tell the operation day’s work group on your high school that they have to find a job for you. On every high school there are some students who take care of all the money and the practical things. A special Operation Day’s Work group. It’s only one day you have to work. It’s not hard work and you should maximum work five hours. If you don’t want to be a part of the project, you can take the day off. The teachers aren’t involved. You can do whatever you want to this day. The three of us did different things. Anna went to her old school and helped the teachers with whatever there was to do. Michelle went to the city and cleaned up some buildings. Mie was in our town clearing dirt from the streets. Actually Mie and one of her friends she was working with, Cecilie, got in the local newspaper because the town thought that the Operation Day’s Work project was such a good idea.
Denmark is the only country in the world that has this Operation Day’s Work project. But we think that it is a great initiative and maybe some other countries would like to try to do the same, because a lot people get something out of it. |
Cecilie and Mie getting ready to work
Mie's friend, Cecilie, is picking up trash |
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”Who’s Your Daddy?” - by Kongsholm High School At Kongsholm High School we have the chance to show the rest of school our hidden talent. Either as actors/actresses, singers, dancers or musicians.
Each year an amazing musical takes place in the school, and everyone can sign in. This year the musical is called ”Who’s Your Daddy?” It was a fun and amusing musical which contained nostalgic disco music from 80s. It's about a girl who grows up without a father and now it's time to get married. A few days before the ceremony, she discovers her mom’s old diary. She finds out that 3 different men could be her dad. In secret she invites all 3 men to her wedding, which shocks her mom totally. One of those men was still in love with mom, so he decides to stay there and get married with her mom and to be a father for the young girl even though she never found out who was really her dad. Everything ends happily after all.
All together it was a good experience to see such a professional musical done by our own school mates. The audience was over-joyed and the atmosphere was great. Nina
To be in the School Musical This year I was a dancer in our school musical. I heard that they needed actors/actresses, musicians and dancers because there was a meeting at the communal area (we call it ‘Torvet’, and you can say that its like a canteen where students eat and hang out in the break), and I signed up with my best friend, since we both looove dancing, and we were both very curios about how the musical would turn out. At first we didn’t know any of the other girls, who were going to be dancers too. Me and my best friend were both freshmen, and the other girls went in their 2nd year. It changed afterwards and we got to know them, which was a lot of fun. We practiced every weekend from 10-18 in the last month before show time. Of course, it is lots of hard work and practice to be in a project like the school musical, but I can only recommend it. You also get to know students from the other classes from the school, and in that way you’re a lot more social.
Then the big night came. Everybody were exited, some nervous too, including our director Christina. I had small butterflies in my stomach and yeah, I was exited. One of the other girls was just soo nervous, so I gave her a big hug and that helped both her and me. We heard the audience come in, and I couldn’t be more ready than I already was. I wasn’t really nervous, just happy and exited and ready to dance!! You can’t actually describe the feeling, but after the show we all felt like all our practice and work was worth it. By now I know that I’m going to sign up to the school musical next year too. It’s a great chance to meet other students, go beyond bounds, dance/act/sing songs and have a brilliant time of your life! Gülcan The Band There is always a band in the musical. Everybody can join it, if you can play an instrument. We always play cool rhythmical songs. I was in the band this year, and it was really fun and nice. You get to know a lot of people. You also learn to play together as a group, and you learn to listen carefully to the music, because we all have to be punctual, or else it will sound very disorderly. We did not have many different instruments this year. We had violins, a viola, drums, guitars, a bass, synthesizers, and a piano. Usually we have a lot of different instruments, for instance wind players. We played three weekends this year, 8 hours. Sometimes, if we were too slow, we had to play extra on weekdays. But that was all right, because it was very cozy! We always had sweets or other goodies, so we could survive the day. We presented the play three days, and it sounded good, almost every time! It was really funny to see how people ware singing along, and they could not sit still! After the third play, there was a party for all the actors, singers and players. Everybody was happy and proud, because the play was so nice! I am definitely going to join the musical next year! Sofie |
Sofie, Nina and Gülcan
The dancers in their first costume (click on the picture if you want to see a larger image (1MB) There are many more pictures in the school web-gallery
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Why do we celebrate Christmas?
In Denmark are there some people who are Christians. They believe we celebrate Christmas because Jesus was born on December 24th in Bethlehem. His mother was Maria and his biological father was the Holy Spirit. But Maria’s husband, Joseph, considered Jesus as his own child. The night Jesus was born a golden star showed wise men that a new Jewish king was born. They came to Jesus with presents. Jesus lived in Egypt the first years of his life, because he king of Bethlehem, Herod, feared that one day Jesus would become bigger than him and take his throne. Herod therefore ordered to kill all baby boys up to the age of 2 years old. But luckily Joseph was warned by an angel, so Maria, Jesus and himself escaped. After Herod’s dead, Jesus and his family came back to Nazareth and Jesus started an education to become a carpenter. Jesus is a very important person for Christians, because he rescued many people in that time. People thought he had divine power in his hands, and that was the reason that people started to believe the Christianity. It was more normal that they in old days celebrate Christmas, because of Jesus. Today do we celebrate Christmas because Danes probably have become less religious and consider Christmas to be about quality time with their family, eating Christmas food, Santa Claus, and presents
Traditions in Denmark
In Christmas time we have a lot of traditions, but it is different from family to family. Some of the biggest traditions are: Buy a Christmas tree, eat delicious food (for instance roast pork, potatoes, roast duck, brown potatoes, sauce and red cabbage), and go to church and Advent. In some families is it also important to decorate the house with Christmas elfs and make decorations with lights and other things from the nature. The Christmas tree is decorated with lights and the David star at the top of the tree. In our families we buy presents to those we care for. Before we open the Christmas present, we dance and sing around the Christmas tree. In Denmark the presents are opened on the evening of December 24th and not in the morning of December 25th as in some countries. First- and second Christmas day is known as Christmas parties, we eat good food and drink a lot. Some families play games with present.
The Christmas month
Here in Denmark many people love Christmas, but it is also a very stressful and busy time. Christmas is a comfortable time where you should be together with the people you love. Every evening from December 1st many children turn on the TV. Danish TV brings Christmas calendar for kids. The Christmas calendar is about a problem that has to be solved before Christmas. All around in the cities there are decorations. Santa is going around in super markets and wishes everyone a merry Christmas. Santa is a very important person to children, because the children believe in him like a real person. Santa comes with presents to the good kids. He comes down the chimney the night between the 23rd and 24th. In the morning, the children are very excited to open the presents. When Santa comes, he rides in a sleigh with 9 reindeers. Rudolph is at the front with his red nose, the red nose is showing Santa Claus the way.
At the shopping centres in Copenhagen there are Christmas displays, which are very beautiful. One of Denmark’s most attractive amusement parks is called Tivoli, which is very popular in the Christmas season.
Some companies have Christmas parties for their employees’ families. Here, people dance around the Christmas tree and Santa Claus is coming with presents to children at all ages (0-18). The companies are also holding Christmas office parties with a lot of food and alcohol. Therefore the police are busy on the street trying to prevent drunk driving. Unfortunately are there many drunk drivers.
Christmas songs
When we dance around the Christmas tree, we sing a lot of songs. The most popular song is “Last Christmas”, but we don’t sing it around the tree. We sing songs like: “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”, “Et barn er født i Betlehem”, “Dejlig er den himmel blå”, “Højt fra træets grønne top”.
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The 5th of December is celebrated in Spain as the Constitution day.
HISTORY (From Wikipedia) After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, a general election in 1977 convened the Constituent Cortes (the Spanish Parliament, in its capacity as a constitutional assembly) for the purpose of drafting and approving the constitution. |
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The constitution was approved by the Cortes Generales on October 31, 1978, and by the Spanish people in a referendum on December 6, 1978, before being promulgated by King Juan Carlos on December 27. It came into effect on December 29, the day it was published in the Official Gazette. Constitution Day on December 6 has since been a national holiday in Spain.
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A group of pupils and teachers meet every Friday to organize extra curricular activities, and one of them was celebrated on the 5th of December to celebrate the Constitution day. In this day, the last three hours were free to do any cultural activity. These were some of the activities.
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I took part was in most of them and I had a very good time . In my opinion, with these kind of activities you have the opportunity of meeting many people. For example, I had the opportunity of meeting many Moroccan girls who didn’t know that my sister and I are Moroccan and they were surprised when we talked to them in Arabic. Insaf Benbouras 2º Bach A
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In the activity day I bought a lot of cake - the profits went to charity – and I saw the concert of “Virulencia”. The concert was really good. There were a lot of people. I saw my friend Alfonso from 4ºE playing table tennis. He won the tournament. Marcos Mendoza 4ºB |
I played football and we reached the semi-final but we lost the final match, then I went to see the concert, the best group was “Virulencia·”. In my class there are two members of “Virulencia” Bryan Vanderberge 4ºB
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On the 5th of December there were activities at school; me and my friends have a music group called “Virulencia”. We performed in a concert at school. During the concert the light went out and only the drums could be heard, nevertheless people liked our concert. I didn’t participate in any other activity but I took a look around and they all seemed good fun. Before our group played, there were other boys playing, they also have a group called “Mierda en la bota” – shit on your boot-! Tomás Alarcón 4ºB |
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Shrovetide is a very old tradition in Denmark. It comes from the reformation. In catholic times, Shrovetide was a 40 days long fast. Old people could eat all food they want to eat, however. The fast period was a physic and intellectual preparation to Easter. You should cleanse your body to the big Easter feast in the same way as Jesus has done when he stayed in wilderness for 40 days. That is why you couldn’t eat meat in forty weekdays before Easter day. But you didn’t need to fast on the Sunday.
Shrovetide was originally a pagan spring party of fertility which later got converted and admitted to the church ceremony. Back to the Middle Ages fun and games were harsher than today and could sometimes include drink, adultery, revolt and enormous feast. Therefore the clergy tried to eliminate all the wild festivity of Shrovetide at the reformation in 1536 but it did not succeed.
The custom corresponds to the big carnivals in Southern Europe which arose in Italy more than 800 years ago. Then it spread out to Europe and through Germany it also came to Denmark at the end of 1300s, when German grocers and workmen brought their Shrovetide customs to the Danish towns.
Shrovetide Monday was important for the farming population. The fields and roads were decorated town, to that gather money to the fast. It was a festive custom, but not for those who did not participate. On this day people would dress up and play games.
People would place a black cat (a symbol of evil) in a barrel. They would then take turns hitting the barrel with sticks to the end, and then the cat would run away with people chasing after it with sticks.
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The tradition of hitting the barrel came to Denmark with the Dutchmen who Christian IV brought to the country about 1520. These Dutchmen settled on the island Amager just outside of Copenhagen, where they introduced hitting the barrel by riding on horse. This tradition still takes place nowadays, where it still accomplish in small town Store Magleby.
Shrovetide doesn’t fall on a certain date but always 7 weeks before Easter. Therefore it can only be Shrovetide between the 1st of February and the 7th of March. This year shrovetide is February 3rd.
Written by Sascha, Fadime M, Zeliha, Azka, and Dellal |
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The song of Shrovetide:
Shrovetide is my name I want to have rolls if I get no rolls then I will make trouble. |
Shrovetide is my name rolls in my stomach
if I get no rolls
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Outlandish is a hip-hop european group, it is formed in Denmark. Its components are: Isam Bachiri ( Danish of Moroccan origin), Waqas Ali Qadri ( Danish of Pakistani origin) and Lenny Martínez (Honduran). They are very religious being Isam and Waqas a Muslim and Lenny a Catholic. They spent their childhood in a slum near Copenhagen. They met in the youth clubs, and they decided to create this group in 1997. Outlandish means strange, foreign, immigrant...; that is to say, everything related to what is different.
I and my sister love this group because it is a fusion of cultures and beliefs. They demonstrate to the world that so different cultures can coexist together, with no war or racism or impositions of a culture on another one. Outlandish reflects tolerance. We should learn from them. Their type of music is R&B, Hip-hop, Rap and Soul; it is influenced by their different origins. They sing in Arabic, English, Urdu and Spanish. In my opinion, they stand out because of this mixing of languages, cultures and musical styles. They have published four albums: Outland’s Official (2000), Bread and Barrels of Water (2003), Beats, Rhymes & Life (2004) and Closer Than Veins (2005). I will tell you about two songs I like very much:
I believe that they
composed this song
for
I agree with Outlandish’ opinion because I think that everybody should be free to choose who to marry. Most of the people believe that Islamic religion defends the "arranged marriages" and they are wrong. There is nothing in the Koran about the parents deciding with whom their daughters have to marry. |
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Culture Week at I.E.S. Jaroso, Cuevas del Almanzora, Andalucia |
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Techno concert workshop Last February all the students in 4th ESO and those in the Cycles were taken to our local cinema theatre. El Echegaray – a dignified XIX century theatre recently reformed - to participate in a concert-workshop on electronic music. The leader of the group Sergei Sapricheff and other members of his group: http://www.sapricheff.com explained about Samplers, Triggers, Mixers, Loopers, and their own inventions: Midi Lashes and Sound Plasma Balls and all the technology involved in techno music. Students tried using those. It was quite unearthly and very magical. This event was brought to El Jaroso by “El Grupo de desarrollo rural del Levante Almeriense”, an institution that cooperates every year in bringing on cultural events for schools and other institutions.
*A comment on the pics : Zumbadov refers to
“zumbado” a slang word for “loony” |
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Cultural Week
A good point about Cultural week has been the involvement of some teachers and students, another good point was the three days sharing activities among friends. The bad things in these three days has been the lack of attendance of most students and the lack of information about some of the activities and the lack of other activities such as sports. My suggestions are to add main sports like football, and advertise more about all the activities.
My experience has been very good and very
amusing. The activity I liked most was Karaoke. The demonstration on
teachers and stu-dents doing short films was very entertaining too.
(helped with English by Jack Knight)
Karaoke was organized by Javier, a music teacher.
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Short films demonstration Esperanza is a philosophy teacher; Manuel, her husband and partner is a technology teacher. They both were at "El Jaroso" some years ago. Now they are both teaching in Huercal Overa, a nearby town. They demonstrated their work with students making short films. |
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Mediation
Have you ever had a problem with someone in school and wished there was a way of sorting it out without running to a teacher? Well, now there might be. After a successful meeting between staff and pupils from I.E.S Jaroso and a secondary school in Tíjola, it is possible that a student mediation scheme will be set up in I.E.S. Jaroso. The scheme has been running in Tíjola for a few years with great results. The students, counsellor and director of studies from Tíjola explained that in their school there are a number of students and teachers who volunteer as mediators. They gave us the guidelines to start up our own scheme
- Everything discussed during mediation must remain confidential. We were given a practical demonstration on how a proper mediation session was to take place. It was very enlightening to see how it was done and what the proper procedure was, it was also extremely funny. It was also very interesting to find out what kind of problems they came across and it seems that more than half the problems are just big misunderstandings We have been given the tools to start this great idea. Now it is up to the students and teachers of I.E.S. Jaroso to make it a reality. Finally we would like to give a big thanks to our friends in Tíjola for giving up their spare time to come to our school and to La Mari, La Juani, La Luisa and El Gitano for participating in the demonstrations that were given. By Daniel Carr Reyes |
In the first row Lidia "La Juani", "La Luisa", and "La Mari". On the second row Daniel is first on the left, near him with the funny gesture Johnny " El Gitano" (the Gipsy). Next to him Antonio, one of our Directors of Studies. The rest is a mixture of students from Cuevas and Tíjola.
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Newroz is celebrated by people in the Middle East as a new year- and a spring party on March 21st. People celebrate Newroz by visiting each other to wish each other a happy new year and a great spring party. This is the way Newroz is being celebrated by Afghani people, Iranians, and other populations in the Middle East.
Another population who celebrates Newroz is the Kurds. For the Kurds, Newroz has a much more important meaning than just a spring party. The myth says that approximately 2700 years ago there was a Kurdish freedom fighter named Kawa, who fought against the evil Assyrian king called Dahak who tyrannized the Kurds. Dahak had got infected by a disease which resulted in two poisonous snakes growing out from his shoulders. To prevent the snakes from biting him, Dahak had to eat two human brains a day. This meant that two people needed to get killed every day. This malice caused the Kurds to start riots against the king with the blacksmith Kawa in the front. The population started sending their younger kids and children up to the mountains to prevent them from getting killed and not to join the riots. As a symbol for the episode, fires were lighted in the mountains. The fight ended when Dahak was defeated by Kawa and people could now live in freedom.
Newroz has been an important day for the Kurds since this day, as a symbol and reminder of freedom. But the present powers in the Middle East such as Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, which all overlap Kurdish territory, have for many years tried to make the meaning of Newroz disappear from the Kurdish population. The Turkish government has several times tried to forbid Newroz, but none of their interventions could prevent the Kurds from gathering to celebrate the day and use it as an opportunity to stand up and call for freedom from what they consider an unjust and discriminating government. When the Turkish government saw that is was no good to forbid Newroz, the Turkish people started to arrange their own “Nevruz” as a spring party. The Kurds found that reaction meaningless, first of all because they had changed the name from “Newroz” to “Nevruz”, and second of all because the Turkish government started claiming that Newroz was a Turkish tradition and part of their culture, even though most of the Turkish people didn’t know anything about it. This has made the Kurds feel that the Turkish government is trying to take freedom away from them. The discussions and problems are still taking place in Turkey and so far they have cost hundreds of deaths since 1990.
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Ramadan is a festival that starts 10 days before the last Ramadan because it depends on the month’s moon. Our month has got 29 or 30 days and it is difficult to know when Ramadan starts, so Ramadan can be celebrated any month in the year because it goes back in the year. The Ramadan lasts for 30 days. In these days the people stop eating, that is to say, they are fasting. From dusk to dawn people are allowed to eat. Normally people eat at midnight or one hour before the dawn; and that is called “s7or”. We have “harira” that is the typical soup of Ramadan and we eat many sweet things. When 26 days pass we celebrate that the archangel Gabriel came down to our world from heaven reciting the Koran so that Mahoma memorized it, the archangel came down ever two months to recite the Koran. So that Mahoma learned it and would be able to teach the Koran to Moslems. Typically people go to pray to the mosque, the rest of the year they usually pray at home; although they can go to the mosque too. In Ramadan the people can go to the Mecca and they are there for one month. Every Ramadan day we celebrate festivals and concerts. The people go out late in the evening and some people go back to their homes at 4:00, they eat, pray, and then go to sleep.
The reason why Ramadan is celebrated is so that Moslem people know how poor people feel so that they can lend their help.
Two months and 10 days after the Ramadan we celebrate “3id kabir”, it is known like “lamb’s festival”. In this festival we get up early to go to the mosque to pray. After that, one member of the family, normally the head of the household, sacrifices the lamb. In the afternoon they wear the typical clothes and they visit their family and they sing and dance the typical dance.
Two months later we celebrate “3eshura”, it would be like a mix of Christmas and End of Year. On this day the families go shopping, they buy presents for the children and they go to the fair. In the evening they have dinner of “3eshura” (in this dinner the people make: “couscous”, chicken or turkey).
Other important festival is “3id-el Maulid”; in this festival we celebrate Mahoma’s birth. It is normal that the families gather, eat and spend the day together. The youngest go out with their friends or their relatives in order to have a good time. The streets are full of people.
It is pronunced: brewatt. It can be sweet (almonds and peanuts) or savoury (chopped meat and potatoes).
Written by the Benbouras sisters |
We will show
you some typical foods from Morocco: Harira is a typical soup that it is usually eaten in Ramadan.
Most of you know
this dish, Tajine. We like it a lot, and in Morroco it is typical to eat it
on a Friday.
Another well-know dish: Cous Cous
Chebakiya is typical
sweet. It was brought by us at highschool for the Constitution Day (5th
December)
Baghrir is very
good. It is had in Ramadan and in the other festivals.
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In the Cultural Week there were lots of activities for the students to choose and to have a good time, to take our minds off the course and studying. Lots of the activities were very interesting such as Paintball, skill games, Karaoke, theatre workshop and other activities. The good point of Cultural week was that students learned about different things from the ones we usually get in classes, nevertheless the majority of students escaped from school because “If I don’t have class, what’s the use of being at school?”. This is the way many people think, but this is not my opinion. My opinion is that the only bad point about Cultural Week is that everything happened at the same time and I had to choose an activity; I would have liked to attend all of them!!!. Another bad point is that the Cultural Week was too short. I would have enjoyed two complete weeks!!!
My experience: I know now how to make soap! …and
I let out a lot of steam at Paintball and I have learnt how to
shoot.
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Cultural Week Activity: A trip to an Oceanic Centre and for fun: A Bowling Hall |
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What a great day!!! I got to meet new people, who have been in the same situation and know how hard it is to move to another country, start in a new school and leave friends and family and it’s trips like this one that help people to integrate and make new friends, which is amazing.
The day was so well thought out, I especially enjoyed watching the piranhas having their breakfast at the aquarium, they were going mad for it and being allowed to stroke the stingray was something I’ve never done before, it was scary but amazing how they all popped their heads out of the water for us to stroke them. Also, the bowling was so fun; I was amazed how everybody got so into it. The thing that really made me smile was seeing the Moroccan girls having such a good time, they got so excited and really looked like they were enjoying themselves. I really couldn’t have asked for a better day and I’d really like to thank everyone who was involved in organising the trip, especially Luisa, Angela and Bea on behalf of all of us that went. Written by Kelly |
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All first graders have nervously practiced the traditional dance of le Lanciers. They were waiting anxiously to march in. Then the music started and none of them could remember how to start or which foot to start with. An embarrassing experience for the students, but still it was to become an amusing night.
The welcome was worthy of royals. The red carpet was rolled out and a photographer was shooting like it was the paparazzi stalking Victoria Beckham. Third graders had obviously done a lot more out of themselves than the rest of the students. Some of them even arrived in a long and white limousine. Some of the couples had themes, like the pirate couple or the tourist couple, which got a lot of attention!
When all the people had arrived into the huge and beautiful ballroom, which on a normal day only is a study room, the Lanciers started. All the first graders, second graders and third graders came through the dancing, with or without grace. And all those who were waiting for it to be their turn to dance, they could go down and get a professional photographer to take their picture. A lot of students took advantage of this, and the line was so long it went out of the room!
A band called Rubber Band played all the famous and infamous Beatles songs, and the students sang along the entire evening. And when Rubber Band didn’t play, the students were dancing Lanciers. Often the dance floor was so crowded that people bumped into each other without knowing who they had bumped into.
At the end of the evening prizes were awarded. One for Couple of the Year, one for Most Beautiful Dress and the last was for the Hottest Guy.
And of course the eventful evening ended with a bang with an afterparty at a local venue called Forbrændingen! Written by: Bircan, Line and Neslihan - 1.d
By all means visit the Kongsholm-Gallery pages with all the pictures |
Full Dress Party
The Full Dress party started with all the 3rd year students arriving in black and white limos. Bodil was ready with her camera when the limos arrived with all the couples, the girls wearing beautiful long dresses and the boys of course wearing tuxedoes, started walking into the school on the red carpet.
Their parents were at the school to watch their children arrive. Most of them had visited the “parent café”, where they had been eating and drinking before their children arrived in the limos. The dance hall had been prepared for the party and was decorated with beautiful balloons and nice festoon. The plan for the
party was that it would start with Lanciers dancing. First, the 1st
year students should march into the dance hall and dance the first
dance. However, none of 1st year students wanted to lead
the in-march. But after a while some of the couples took the lead
and walked into the dance floor.
Although very few had tried it before and we were a little bit clumsy, everybody was very excited. However, one quadrille was really good. Hjalte and Jakob had tried to dance Lanciers before, so they took the lead and showed all the other quadrilles how it should be done correctly. They were courteous and charming as nobody else. During the dance the best quadrilles were asked if they would join a competition in Brøndby-hallen and as Jakob and Hjalte were natural talents, they of course were asked and everyone else was surprised and disappointed when their quadrille was not asked to participate. When the 1st year students had finished dancing, the 2nd year students started. They were a little bit better, but they had of course also tried it before. Bodil was very active. She took many nice pictures of all the different activities going on. The school had also hired a professional photographer. He had prepared a professional studio with white background to ensure top quality pictures. Soon after he had opened the doors into his studio, there was a long line with students who wanted to have pictures taken of them and their partners.
And after the pictures were shot, another Lanciers dance was organized, but this time, it voluntary to participate. But still there were a lot of people on the dance floor. Those who didn’t dance were either looking at the dancers or outside and smoke. The second dance passed and, and everyone was happy and smiling that day, the boys and girls were flirting with each other. Now people was waiting on the third Lanciers and the election of ”the couple of the year 2008” , “the prettiest gown of the year 2008” and “the most strange dress of the year 2008”. For the third and the last dance Lanciers was people very active and almost everybody was dancing. And then the election came, and everyone was disappointed that Jakob and Hjalte were not “the couple of the year 2008”.
The official full dress party was now over. And people were beginning to feel tired, but some of the students had arranged an after party at the local party place called “Forbrændingen”. And that was the end of the full dress party.
Hjalte and Jakob 1.d |
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Each term we read one play by Shakespeare. We like this author because his plays talk about human feelings: hatred, pain, jealousies, love... Shakespeare was a great Anglo-Saxon poet but he stood out especially like a playwright. With regard to his personal life we cannot mention anything because there is not much information about it. Our attention was attracted by the way plays finish, which is to say, by the death of most of the characters. We can observe it in some of his plays like:
· Romeo and Juliet: everything turns around love and the main characters kill themselves because they cannot be together in life and they decided to be so in death. · Othello reflects the cruelty of the jealousy that also leads in the end to death. · Macbeth and King Lear show us how ambition for power drives the characters to death. · Hamlet : with this play we can learn that revenge leads nowhere, or in other words, revenge leads to death. We can observe this topic in the last film of Tim Burton: Sweeny Todd.
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Some of
our favourite plays are his comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
, there he mixed fantasy with real life. That reminded us of
Descartes’ theory: The confusion between dream and wakefulness. We
can associate this play with a play by Calderon de la Barca too:
La vida es sueño (Life’s a dream) which talks about the same
topic.
By Ilham and Insaf |
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The Indalo is the symbol of Almería, but the majority of the Almerienses don’t know its meaning or its origin. For many centuries the Indalo was considered a symbol of good luck in the north and in the south-east of Almería, especially in Mojácar where they painted it in the front of the houses to protect them from the storms and the evil eye. For many a long time it was called “muñequillo mojaquero”. In 1968 “la Cueva de los Letreros” was discovered, there were cave paintings and there The Indalo was found drawn in the wall of the cave. The archaeologies discovered that the Indalo was the representation of a man supporting the rainbow in his arms, this man was the agreement of the humans with the gods and he protected the people from deluges and tempests. Indalo means in Iberian language, "Indal eccius" (the messenger of the gods). Although the symbol was named Indalo in honour of Saint Indalecio who was a precursor of the Catholic religion in the south of the peninsula. We can see the importance of the Indalo in Almería for example in an intellectual movement in the XXth century whose members called it the “Indaliano movement”, another example of the importance of the Indalo is that it appears in the Almería football team coat of arms. Written by Luis Flores |
Almerienses:
inhabitants/ people of Almería
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Letter TWO. Cuevas del Almanzoras
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Thanks Folks!
1p, classroom 88, send their thanks for the postcards and the Indalo Key-rings to their exchange class and El Jaroso High School! |
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Letter Three. The Future of Young Europeans
My future is very unclear. All I know is that I really want to make a difference. I want to help people with their problems and help them create a healthy life for themselves. I have been considering working at a home for mothers and their children, who has lived with a violent man. I think I could be very good at it, because I have had it in my own life, and it has made me who I am. But I am not sure yet. Young students are facing the hardest problem: What are you going to do with the rest of your life? We get that question a million times a day, and we never know what to say. There are so many different things we can do and be, but the problem is to choose. It is really hard to decide that at this age. We are still kids, and every day, we dream about being little again. We do not want to choose already. We have the rest of our lives to worry about that. But we still have to make a decision. Either we go to school, get an education and lives a long and happy life, or we just gives up, quit school and gets a job. We are being pushed in the right direction by our friends, family and last but not least, our teachers. They have, without a doubt, the greatest impact on us. We listen to them, even if we won’t admit it. The worst thing is that our teachers can’t hold our hands for the rest of our life. We have to learn how to be responsible, and we have to be an adult, even if we don’t want to. Denmark is a great country. You can be whatever you want, and almost all educations are free. We are truly lucky, and our education system works. All children are in school. All children have the possibility to become something. They just have to work for it.
There are great schools and teachers in Denmark, but the nightlife
is not so good. Young people are getting killed, just because they
are out late in a nightclub. Young boys are walking around with
knifes, bats and guns, and it is making the street a very unsafe
place to be. We have to do something about it. We can’t just let it
happened. But no one knows how to resolve this, but I think we have
to do something about it immediately, before it gets any worse. |
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would like to end this last letter by telling you that I have really
enjoyed getting to know you. It has been a great experience, and I
hope you will get everything you have ever dreamed of. I wish you all good luck in the future.
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As a new teacher at Kongsholm, this was my first spring concert at the school. This year the song contest had a 1980s twist, and as a child of the 1980s, I was curious if our students could nail the style. I grew up wearing neon colours and a lot of outfits I have been trying to forget ever since, but our students are mostly born in around 1990, so I was not sure if they could even remember what the 1980s were like.
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Luckily, I was proved wrong. Not only was this a true Eurovision Song Contest Kongsholm-style, which included various talented cover versions of popular songs from the 1980s, but our students certainly also nailed the 1980s fashion and dance moves into details I had forgotten about a long time ago. It was truly amazing to see so many neon colours, ponytails in the side, legwarmers, knitted shirts and Footloose and Wham-inspired moves.
The songs ranged from a Danish 1980s hit which can still fill a dance floor to Wham, Michael Jackson and many other international hit songs of the 1980s. The bands did not only spend time rehearsing the songs, but they had also put an effort into costumes and choreography, so it was difficult to pick a favourite.This is the last Danish article for the year, it has been a pleasure creating this and I hope you have enjoying writing and reading articles.
Enjoy the summer. All the best, Gry, teacher of class 1.d |
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Shrovetide roll comes from
Germany in the 16th century. These warm and round rolls
were made best by the bakers, so people bought many of these. In the
end of the month the roll would now be filled with crème. Therefore
the children love them and will do everything to get the rolls so
they want to win all the games. 
Later, the cat was taken out
and the barrel would be filled with sweets for the kids. So the
children love Shrovetide, because that is very fun to play the game,
and every child will play it again and again. The cat is a symbol
of, to hunt the bad animals in the old time.
Lidia
Written by Muhammed, 1.d
