SHARING

Chinese Spring Festival

2008-02-21T15:25:19+00:00

Today I have received an e-mail from Paiman.
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He wrote me :

"Hello Ana,
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I am Paiman from GE, I do remember my commitment to send you information regarding Chinese Spring Festival,
but I really can't find
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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"The most important Festival in China is the SPRING FESTIVAL. It is said that the Spring Festival envolved from an activity known as the winter sacrifice. It was a custom practiced by the people ofprimitive society. It is as important as Christmas Day in west...".more

"Spring Festival Catches your heart"

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"During Spring Festival, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened".

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"Spring Festival catches your stomach"

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"Since the Spring Festival marks the first day of a brand new year, the first meal is rather important. People from north and south have different sayings about the food they eat on this special day".

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"Spring Festival catches your eyes"

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"During Spring Festival time, you can see kids of decorations.you can go to temple fairs and enjoy superb performances of the dances, stilt-walking and amazing acrobatic shows."

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China in Brief: a nice page to read information about this country
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GE's Students met in Istambul...

2007-11-06T07:37:32+00:00

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!!

Happy new year bonne annee gutes neues jahr feliz ano

2007-11-06T07:30:41+00:00

I need your HELP!!

I put the greeting in the language that I know but...

I would like to put in others languages,

Can you help me, please

Send me the same message in your own language.

I will add it here. You only need to click in "comentarios" and you can write your message.

Thanks you !!

Diana

Christmas times Event

2007-11-06T07:29:43+00:00

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...

Knowing JESI, Italy

2007-11-06T07:26:28+00:00

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

Arnold share with us Pictures from Malasia and Australia

2007-11-06T07:26:28+00:00

I'm very happy because this evening I received nice pictures from Arnold.

Thanks for share with us because we can know you and at the same time we can envid a bit, because you had a great experience traveling to Australia.

In Malaysia

This photo is of my travel in Malaysia in 2004. It was taken in an Indian tourist spot in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Arnold with migrant students

These refugee students are mainly from some African countries because of wars happening back in their home countries. For humanitarian reasons, Australia is receiving such persons each year.These refugees are unlucky because of their terrible sufferings back home. In the meanwhile, they are lucky because they have already stepped on a land full of democracy and freedom.
This photo was taken in August this year when I visited Yeronga TAFE Institute in Brisbane, where these students were learning English.

In Brisbane. Australia, Sidney Harbour

In the background are world famous Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

With a massive guy at Darling Harbour, Sidney

Darling Harbour is the hottest spot among many Sydney's tourist attractions.No tourists will fail to pay a visit to this harbour. This photo is of a big guy and me. If you travel in the harbour, you will surely meet this kind guy, whose duty is to arrange tourists to board cruisers.

Hi, Diana,
Thanks to your painstaking efforts, now we students and faculty members of GE can use your blog as a forum to exchange ideas and get a better understanding of each other as well. In the meanwhile, I strongly believe that your blog also offers us a golden opportunity to practice our writing skills. Language learning is really rewarding and fun. In my opinion, when your are learning a language , you are going more or less into a different culture. Therefore, we should not noly learn the language well, but also the culture that dominates the language. Fortunately, we students meet a lot of qualified and experienced teachers here at GE. Personally, I think I have made some progress, especially in communication skills in English learning since I came here in March this year. However, I do know that I still need to spare no sfforts to push myself to do better in the long process of the language learning.But the vivacious learning experience at GE with the teachers is really memorable.Whatever the final result of my English learning is, I will surely cherish all of these deep in my heart and appreciate the teachers' help forever. I sincerely hope that I can meet some of them someday in the future in real life and express my hearty thanks to them face to face. Diana, thanks again for your nice blog and hope it can be better and better. With warmest regards

Arnold/China

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

2009-03-04T17:43:46+00:00

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

GE' Teachers Sugestions...

2007-11-06T07:13:28+00:00

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)

Talking about Argentinian movies

2007-11-06T07:11:50+00:00

We are talking about movies in our diferent countries and I'm not specialist then, I think it's a good idea to copy part of History of Argentina Cinema." It's an interesting article about it. This way will be easy to understand better how our movies industry has grown and who have been ones of the most important actors and actress.

"Soon after the Lumiere's invention acquired fame in France, cinema arrived in Argentina. The first national productions date from that time, and many other subjects (which the first steps of silent cinema were, how the movie industry was born in our country) are developed here, in the "The first filmic exhibition, with a picture of the "Lumiére's", took place on July, 18, 1896. In 1894 the kinetoscope had already made its arrival and, by early 1896, a kinetoscope concessionaire had tried public projections with a device of his own invention. In 1897, the import of French cameras started, and a Frenchman living in Argentina, Eugene Py, became the first filmmaker and cameraman with La bandera argentina (The Argentine Flag), a short movie. "

..."Among other attractions, there were world-class pioneers in scientific and animation movies.

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But the true industry started only in 1933, with the establishment of sound

The good times, when the Argentinian movies were watched all over Hispanic-America, lasted until the early 1950s.

Afterwards, the gradual closure of the big studios, the growth of television, the stagnation of popular cinema and the isolation of auteur cinema imposed other rules.

On the basis of these new rules, present-day Argentina cinema has been reduced as to quantity and market, but it retains a special quality, which has been acknowledged worldwide.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!

The GE students sugest interesting sites...

2008-02-20T22:50:44+00:00

Ellen wrote:

Here is a website of my favourite town WERNIGERODE. (It's in English)

"I live a few kms away in a small village".

Thanks! Ellen!!

Philippe from MONESTIER DE CLERMONT, France.

"Between the valley of Gresse and the valley of Drac,

Monestier de Clermont opens her doors of Trièves. her situation on the RN 75 made a city stage.
It is also a point of departure for numerous walks."
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"A tourist information office created, in 1907, marks the craze of the holiday-makers for the region. Monestier of Clermont owes its origin to the abbey based by 1100. The word "convent" was deformed in Monestier and Clair-Mont evokes the pure light which often illuminates the nearby summits."

"Near Trièves and in the balcony of Vercors, between roads, sometimes mountain, sometimes campaign, Monestier de Clermont welcomes you all year long: twelve small villages plunged in the heart of the nature offer you of multiple possibilities of evasion summer as winter."

"Both main places of Monestier have their history. They are separated by a set of buildings named " Grand Armiraï ". We ignore the sense of this expression but it is likely that was in this place the ancient hospital of the Knights of Malta."

The City hall: "Then thus enter and let delude by these magic places..."

We can know about your place and your culture.

Thanks Philippe!!