Chinese Spring Festival

Today I have received an e-mail from Paiman.
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"Hello Ana,
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I am Paiman from GE, I do remember my commitment to send you information regarding Chinese Spring Festival,
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any English website for introduction. I am so sorry..."
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He add two links and surprise !!
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After I reviewed 4 or 5 pages in Chineses, of course, I didn't understand any character, at last, I found the English version about the Spring Festival...
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Sometime it's a good idea to be a bit stubborn...
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Thanks Paiman!
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We can know more about your culture and this is great !
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GE's Students met in Istambul...

Today I had a wonderful surprise:)

I received an e-mail from Sahime:

"Hello, Ana,

"How are you?

"I hope everything is good with you and you will spend a very special time with your friend from GE."

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"I am really good in here. I am having busy days.

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"I have choose the picture which is with Özlem (who wear orange t-shirt) and I (wear white t-shirt) and Agustin from Spain with his family that we were in Hagia Sophia.

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"Agustin's family and my son and I in front of Maiden's Tower"

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"See you soon, best regards!"

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Sahime Albayrak

I think, it's amazing that some GE's students could meet in the real life.

This is very nice news!
Thanks Sahime :)

But...I really would like to know more about your meeting:

How did you feel when you met each other?
How did you do?
I think, we are waiting for your comments:)
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Thanks!!

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Christmas times Event

Last night, I went with friends to “Parque Central”

This is a new Park built by Mendoza's County and they organized a great Concert played by the "Mendoza Philharmonic Orchestra”. We was listening an amazing music.

They played Classic music: "Ruslán and Ludmila" (Glinka), Mussorgsky, Tchaicovsky, Brahms and Rossini.

It was enjoyable music that generated in the people a very good feeling. I love these kinds of events...
I'm not sure if I can put it here but I did a little video there and I would like to share with all of you. The music is really great!
I only can say that yesterday, the night was very pleasant. It was warm with a great moon in the sky. At the same time, when we were listening to the music, we could watch the orchestra playing and at the same time we could see nice and funny Egyptian ducks swimming on the lake because the scenery was beside the lake. It was a wonderful time!

I went with a few friends. We share the feeling that we have at the end of the year.
We are starting our summer vacation and in front of us we have a new year, a time to relax, to plan new possibilities.

Why not? The next year will come full of new opportunities to us…
We really enjoyed the evening and our relationship. After the concert we went at small familiar place and we ate pizza and cheered for our frelationship and for my birthday...
We passed a great time together...

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Knowing JESI, Italy

Teacher Karl Lives in Jesi with his family.

Jesi is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche, Italy.

Now a quiet agricultural and commercial center in the floodplain on the left (north) bank of the Esino river 17 km before its mouth on the Adriatic, it was for several centuries the capital of a small independent city-state, and it retains a striking circuit of medieval walls, as well as a castle restored and extended by Baccio Pontelli in 1488

Torreone

Via Rocabella
Winter in Jesi

If you want to know more about Jesi you can click here

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About Spreedwald (Germany) and Tohoku (Japan)- Ge's Students sugestions

Juergen from germany told us that he was a nice vacation in a wonderful place in his country.

The name of the place is Spreewald" there are nice landscape and it's perfect for kajaking and canouing.

He went there with his family, he has a doughter and she is 9 years old.

You can read more here
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Toshi from Japan sent me a great site about his area. It's a so complete site.
You can find information aboutTohoku "The economy, trade and industry"
At the other hand you can enjoy with beautiful pictures

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GE' Teachers Sugestions...

First of all, I want to say, Thanks Karen!!! because you send a nice sugestions.

I visited the sites and I could enjoy with amazing pictures and at the same time I could learn more about your place and your culture.

Hi Ana,

I thought I'd add a few links to your site, so that you and other students at GE can see some of the beautiful places that you can visit here in England.
First of all, there are some wonderful photos of the Peak District National Park
by local photographer, Ian Mateer

I live just twenty minutes from this park, and my family and I often go here for long walks. The Peak District is actually in the north of England, but I'm originally from the Midlands, and grew up living near one of the most beautiful medieval castles in Europe called Warwick Castle

Warwick is just a few miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born

As you will be able to see from the pictures, there are a lot of thatched cottages. In fact, I lived in one as a child!

Good luck with your site!

Karen (one of your GE teachers)

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Getting to know each other

When we participate on GE's chat we create images about the others students and teachers since the voice and what each person say in the group.

I was thinking that it would be nice to know ours faces. I told this at some of you and I'll begin to receive some pictures and I want to share with you and remember that I waiting for your picture and any comments that you want to do...

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Ulrike from Germany

She has a so complete page, you can visit her site

Cecilia from México
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Winner from China Shenzhen with his family

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"The younger is me".

"Best Regards,"

Allen Liu

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Irene from Germany. She takes amazing pictures. I would like to invit you to visit her page you could see amazing photos.

Teacher Donna from Texas,US.
Visiting an Herb Shop in Bahrain

I invit to visit her blog and you can know more about her

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"These are my kids this past spring looking at the sculpture of a tornado in front of the local arts center in my town in Iowa".
"Hope you have lots of responses to your blog invite!"
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TeacherToni wrote:

"Bravo, Ana",

"This is a great web page. I've seen several of my students and that is always nice".

"I live in Alameda, California which is an island across the bay from the city of San Francisco. I love my home; it's peaceful and lovely".
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"I have one son, Marty, who is 29 years old. We get together often. I miss him when I don't see him for a while."

"I have taught ESL for about 25 years, first, in a government boarding school in Mali, NW Africa. I taught English to immigrants in a public high school in Oakland for 18 years. This was challenging and a little stressful but it was wonderful to have students speaking English in just a short period of time."

"I look forward to seeing you in the GE chatroom. And thanks, Ana, for your hard work on this site."

Teacher Lona from Canada send me two nice pictures and

a picturewith her collegues

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Teacher George from San Rafael de Alajuela, Costa Rica. He lives there but he is originally from New York and lived long time in San Francisco, California.
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Ozlem from Istambul, Turkey
One day she described Istambul in the class and she gave me a nice link about it
You can see it...

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Arnold from China

You can see more pictures and his opinion in Arnold share with us...

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I visited your blog and I saw pictures of other students and teachers too !

That's a great initiative and to encourage it, you'll find a picture from me with my son.
see ya'

Pierre-Alex from France (Compiègne)
01/24/07

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I'm very happy,
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today Teacher Karlgave me these pictures to share with all of you.

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He lives in Jesi, town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche, Italy and ...
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nobody can doubt that he has a great family !!
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Sophie and Ellie
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Nikolas
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Today, february 20th I received an e'mail from Sahime.
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She sent me her picture with Ozlem
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Agustín with his family, they are from Aramaio,
Vasque Country (Spain)

If you want to know more about it, see "GE's Students met in Istambul"

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More News!
March 3th

We can know Teacher Laura and her family.

I received from her the following e-mail:
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Argentina, my country...!

Argentina is located at the south of South America.

It's a large territory with climate's diversity; different kind of soils and geographical accidents:
steppes, plateaus, jungles, mountains range, ice fields, snow, valleys, lakes and high tablelands.

It bordering the Atlantic Ocean(4,989 sq km), Uruguay(579 sq km), Brazil(1,224 sq km), Paraguay(1880 sq km), Bolivia(832 sq km) and Chile (5,150 sq km).

Extension: 3.761.274 sq kms
Population: 37.000.000
Capital: Buenos Aires
Official language: Spanish
Monetary unit: peso

We can divide in 5 zone according at the characteristic of each one:

1 - North West
2 - North East
3 - Central East
4 - Central West
5 - South

NORTH WEST AREA

This area include the following provinces: Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

It's a desert area with high mountains, volcanoes, blue sky and strong sun.

In this area its common to find group of "llamas". They are a beautiful animals, the same family than "guanacos" and "alpacas".
All of them have a great wool and the original inhabitants of this regions used to make "ponchos", "mantas" and sweters and all kind of textils products with nice colors and design. This is an old activity and this people developed very good. Still now they continue with this tradition.

Ones of the most beautiful places are Calchaquíes Valleys; Salta city;"La Quebrada de Humauaca".
It's amazing to travel on the "railway to the cloud" ("El tren a las nubes")

It's one of the highest trains in the world.

This region has a typical desert areas climate: dry, hot during day and cold during the night.

CENTRAL AREA

is divided in "PAMPAS Valleys" (the East area) and CUYO the West Area).

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THE CENTRAL WEST AREA

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"CUYO":includes "Mendoza"; "San Juan";"La Rioja";"San Luis" and part of "Córdoba" province.

"Aconcagua" , the American highest mountain,(6959 meters over sea level).

"Potrerillo Dump" is created over Mendoza River.
This is a semi-desert area then, the water is a valuable product.

The dumps provide water and electric energy.

At the other hand the dumps create a good place for entertainments and relax times.

"Villavicencio"

is in the northwest of Mendoza City. It's
an amazing place in the middle of the mountains at 1700 meters over sea level. The Hotel was build one hundred years ago and was famous not only because the place is amazing, also because you can enjoy the thermal waters. The spring have many minerals so useful in some kind of health problems.

"Ischigualasto Provincial Park" is a protected area crossing the border between the two provinces and lying between 29°55’S-68°06’W;

The rocks have strange shapes and some of them have strong colors.
Look like a "moon valley", for this reason the people call this way.

"Talampaya National Park"
lies entirely in the Province of La Rioja and its coordinates are 30°02’S-67°48’W."

The fauna is the typical's arid region's fauna of western Argentina, with no less than 20 species of mammals, 36 differents kind of birds, and 20 reptiles and amphibians.

The weather is dry, with cold winters and hot summers.

"Ischigualasto-Talampaya" is the only place on earth revealing the complete sequence of fossiliferous continental sediments representing the entire Triassic Period of geological time. The fossil-bearing strata here contain some of the oldest known dinosaur remains and document the transition from Early Triassic mammalian ancestors to the age of dinosaur dominance in the Late Triassic (Sill, 2000, Zago, 1995"

"THE PAMPAS"

is an extensive plain of green grass that covers almost the 25% of 700,000 sq KM of the Argentine territory.

Its including mainly "Buenos Aires" and "La Pampa". It also includes the southern part of "Córdoba", southern part of "Santa Fe", western part of "San Luis" and southern part of "Entre Ríos". Extensive fields of grass, sorghum, wheat,soybeans, corn and sunflower grow under an endless blue sky.
It's also here, where the most flavorful meat of the world is produced, and also where the Argentine folk music has its main artists. There are hundreds colonial's ranch and residences with British or French or Spaniard style that covers the Pampa.
The fields are only interrupted by amazing hills and rivers in "Córdoba".

Buenos Aires, the Capitol city, is located in "Río de la Plata"'s coast.

It's the most cosmopolitan city in Latin America. It's tango's land and enormous quantities attractions. It's an elegant capitol with a European-flavored sophisticated, and a passionate culture.

"Teatro Colon" is an example of this.

"The Pink House" is the Government House

The "National Congress"

"Mar del Plata" is the most important beach city in the Atlantic Argentinean Coast.

Every year during the summer season,it receives thousands of people from all the country and still foreign people who come to enjoy with the beach and all kind of entertainment. Theatre, casinos, discos, restaurants,etc.

The weather is very pleasant, with mild winters and warm summers.

Rosario, Córdoba are others important cities in this region.

NORTH EAST AREA:

Incluides the following provinces:

"Misiones", "Corrientes", "Entre Ríos", "Formosa", "Chaco" and "Santa Fe" .

The weather is humid and hot, it's warm still in winter.

It's a region with large rivers, red earth, virgin forest, full of huge trees and amazing flora and fauna.

“IGUAZÚ” in Guaraní's language – overflowing into one of the world’s wonders: Iguazú Falls (four times bigger than Niagara’s).
"Iguazú Fall" are located in the border among Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

"Without a doubt the Missionary Jungle in the Iguazú National Park, together with the Iberá ponds, is a paradise for
bird watchers.

The biodiversity evident in this eco-region is really incredible. The popularly held notion of jungle fowl is that of multicolored, metallic or iridescent plumage, which is true in some cases. But despite this notable characteristic, many maintain static poses for long periods and so pass unnoticed by the unskilled observer. Their sounds and fluctuating vocalizations are very characteristic of the jungle. So too are the greater rhea (rhea americana), the "tataupá" (crypturellus tataupa), the chimango caracara (milvago chimango), and the common falcon (falco). These latter are birds of prey."

Another beautiful place is "El Palmar National Park"

There are preserve the last examples of Yatay palm trees, its are 800 years old.

"San Ignacio", Jesuit's ruin is a testimony that remain us that 500 years ago the Jesuit were in that place evangelizing the aborigine people

All these places are part of Humanity's Heritage declared by UNESCO.

"Patagonia"

The South Zone of Argentina is a place of the most amazing glaciers in the world.

snowed cities

Skiing resorts.

The hill and the mountains have a huge forests and lakes among the mountains.

The Patagonian provinces are Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego.

Millennial silent forests with native vegetable species are extended along the shores of glistening waters.

On top of the mountains, nature overflows with granite peaks and ice fields spreading their glacier tongues into unsurpassable beauty lakes.

Imposing mammals and sea bird, spend certain seasons on the rough coasts Patagonia where they complete part of their life cycle.

Seals colonies play on the islets and sandbanks.

The most important southern elephant seal's continental colony is located in Peninsula Valdes.

This life cycle repeated since time immemorial, unfolds itself in front of the astonished visitors’ eyes.

In the south, "Tierra del Fuego" and the most southern city, "Ushuaia", are the gateway towards the vast and mysterious Antartida.

The weather is humid or dried depending the place. And It's cold or warm depending also the place.

Argentina is my country. I have born here and I have enjoyed living here.
I enjoy traveling, knowing and discovering another countries, their people and their culture but I feel Argentina is my place.
I would like to tell you why I feel that my country is great.
Yes, I know, my country is so complex. Now, we are living a difficult time, a lot of conflicts, problems and different kind of crisis. Every day you can read about new difficulties. I could put here a long list of problems...

At the other hand, I can tell you that: Argentina is a large country with an amazing natural resource, nice people, so creative, friendly and smart. We really need to decide to organized our country, our democratic way of lives.

We have a great challenge in ours hands, we need to work hard, responsible and seriously to develop our country.

I'm sure this will not be easily. Our society have serious problems right now but...

We need to created better possibilities to build a great country. We need to believe that a better future is able.

Following this deal it's so important to consider like a first priority "the education" and we need to develop more and more our technology.

Another priority is to fight against the corruption. We need to create balance between the rich and the poor people. Right now, the contrast is tremendous and this generate a lot of people are upset, sad and the violence is increassing everyday.

We need to stop the violence. It's in the street, in the office, at home... Many time it's very difficult to live.
We need to award that is necessary to change many things. We can not stay all the time reviewing the pass, searching the guelties and searching an excuses to continue the same way.

I want to believe that little by little more people will think that is necessary to change, we need to project our future, a different future.

We need to review our values. Think seriously that the only way to grow it's working hard, responsible, it's taking a risk and putting all our energies in our country.

We need to stop to think that we can transform our country easily, and funny. This is good for a TV show but the reality ask for other kind of attitude. The important is how we can be, not how we can appear... We need more and best educated people, we need to improve our educational system... This is in the basement.
We have a lot of things to do in our present in relation with our future.

The main idea: we need to believe that we can build another future.

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