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Monday, June 22, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monuments in Saxony - Anhalt/Germany
This collage shows the crypt of the castle Neuenburg with the picture of Uta von Naumburg and squared columns.
Collage made by Maria Dimke
Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt/Germany
The collage consists of four buildings:
the church of the monastery in Jerichow,
the castle Giebichenstein in Halle,
the monastery Magdeburg and
the village church in Engersen.
Collage made by Julia RischeMonuments in Saxony - Anhalt/Germany
This is the church of the monastery „Unsere lieben Frauen“ in Magdeburg, Saxony Anhalt.
Collage made by Melanie Barth
Monuments in Saxony - Anhalt/Germany
This is a statue named „ Uta von Naumburg “It’s a stoneligure from Naumburg’s Cathedral.Built in 13 th century.
Collage made by Elisabeth Sunzow
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Spring in Poland - Ewelina Borowska, class 2i
The spring is very beautiful in Poland.Buds bloom, birds sing and grass turns green.I like spring very much, because everything comes back to life.
Spring in Poland - Aneta Szewczyk, class 1i
Spring in Poland starts on 21 March. Snow is melting and there are flowers. Arrival of birds. It's the time of sunny days and breeze.
Spring in Poland - Ola Matysiak, class 1i
Spring in Poland
Everything becomes green, the world wakes up to life , thriving flowers , strorks arrive , insects and animals awaken from hibernation , birds build their nests.
Differences between Finland and Spain by Mari Mäkelä and Jenna Petman, Jakomäen yläaste 9B
Differences between Finland and Spain
When we arrived in Spain, the first thing we noticed that was different were kisses to cheek to cheek. In Finland we never do that, we just shake hands if we want to be formal, otherwise we just say hi.Second thing was food. We all like Spanish food even if that was very different from Finnish food. In Finland we eat more potatoes and meat, not so much sea food.
The houses in Spain were much colder than in Finland. Or maybe we just think so because the weather outside was hotter than we have here.
Here in school we have free lunch every day, but there we didn’t have it. If you wanted to eat during the school day, you had to buy something or go home to get some food.
The countries are very different, but the people are still same kind (:
These observations were made by Mari Mäkelä and Jenna Petman, Jakomäen yläaste 9B
Spring in Finland by Ella Meriläinen ja Enni Rantala 9C Jakomäen yläaste
Spring in Finland
Finnish spring is beautiful,
You can notice it after winter.
When you eat the egg called Kinder,
You can feel the spring air.
All the flowers start to blossom,
And then you feel awesome.
School ends and you’re free,
Suddenly you notice there are leaves in the tree.
Ella Meriläinen ja Enni Rantala 9C Jakomäen yläaste
Finnish spring is beautiful,
You can notice it after winter.
When you eat the egg called Kinder,
You can feel the spring air.
All the flowers start to blossom,
And then you feel awesome.
School ends and you’re free,
Suddenly you notice there are leaves in the tree.
Ella Meriläinen ja Enni Rantala 9C Jakomäen yläaste
Spring in Finland by Lotta Hietala & Niina Mäki, Jakomäen yläaste 9c
Spring in Finland
After Christmas it is very grey. When spring begins, everything turns green. All kinds of flowers start to blossom. In the evening it is not dark. Plants start growing.
Springtime in Finland is very beautiful. It’s a happy time.
By: Lotta Hietala & Niina Mäki, Jakomäen yläaste 9c
Diversity connects - Poland by Olivia Piekutowski, class 2g
What Lublin owes other countries?
Look at the map of Poland, move your finger at her east.What did you see?
Among numerous uplands stretch this one exceptional and there Lublin. My city from childhood. My lovely city.
Bloom of the city in XV-XVI
In centuries XV-XVI city experienced bloom thanks commercial rout from the Black Sea to the west of Europe.
In 1569 in Lublin included Lublin union, effect was strengthening not only Lublin but all the Poland.
Introduced the same coin, equal division of power , and many many other things.
Unfortunately in later years Lublin surrendered in many wars , huge damages caused II World War.
Lublin today
Lublin has very good development transport. By us city travel important national tour number 17 which connect Warsaw and Kijów. Thanks that tour we can exchange culture and comodities with other countries for example: Ukraina give us gas in lieu of meat. Besides tours we have got many environmental buses which Lublin gain from Germany.
City of diffrent cultures
Many years ago in Lublin lived Jews ,Armenians and Tatars. Of course some of them live here until today. That makes me happy when I hear that new people from all the world arrive in Lublin. For this reason Lublin is called the city of many types of cultures. Lublin is opened for all.
- Any borders.
- Graffiti festival;)
- Connected people in Lublin.
The most in Lublin invested by Germany, in commerce and sanitary technology.
Americans in provisions, commerce and new technologies.
French are present in industry of food and tourism.
British are interested in commerce.
Dutch invest in Lublin pharmaceutical industry , while Czech inchemical.
Italy incest in Lublin tours.
Olivia Piekutowski, class 2g
Diversity connects - Russia
A memorial inscription saying there was the first bridge over the Neva by Betancourt
A Maiden with a broken jar” in Ekaterininsky Park near Petersburg
H. Karrnio, the portrait by P.I. PotemkinSpanish Saint-Petersburg
The beginning of mutual acquaintance of Spanish and Russian people has begun in the XV century. By this time in Moscow there had been already known about Spanish territory and in Spain there had begun the awakening of interest to far Moscow. During the XVI century our states regularly exchanged their embassies.
People in Russia knew about Spain from merchants and diplomats which came back from boundary. The interesting monument of that epoch which has remained up to now is the report by one of the first Russian diplomats in Spain Peter Ivanovich Potemkin (died near 1700), about the trip to Spain which was performed in 1667-1668. The arrival of Russian embassy made so strong impression to Spanish royal court that to court artist H. Karrenio was ordered a full-dress portrait of P. I. Potemkin which is situated in the collection of National museum of Prado now.
The whole transformations epoch by Peter the Great (1682-1725) was marked with mutual opening by Russia and Spain.
Simultaneously with development of trading and diplomatic communications amplified cultural exchange. In 1720 in Russia came ŤDon-Quixote ť by Miguel de Cervantes, primary in the short retelling which was translated from French. In Madrid in 1736 was published ŤThe history of Moscowť which was written by the secretary of King Phillip V Manuel de Villegas Pinyatelly.
In the second half of XVIII century in the epoch of the absolutism of Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1761) and Ekaterina II (1762-1796) in Russia were published other translations of the products by Spanish writers. In 1742 in the printing house of Imperial Academy of sciences was published the first Russian edition ŤPocket oracleť by Baltasar Grasian, in 1779- ŤGeneral history of Spainť by Jesuit Juan Marian. In 1769 was published the first full translation of ŤDon-Quixoteť by Cervantes after more than 150 years after the appearance of novel in Spain.
At this time many Spaniards came to service to Russian throne. Among them it is enough to recollect the admiral José de Ribasa (1749-1800) who was a hero of several Russian-Turkish wars or the native of Valencia Vicente Martin and Soler (1754-1806) who was the court composer ofEkaterina II and Pavel I.
Since the middle of XVIII century in Russian collections of painting (at first in the imperial collections) appeared the pictures of Spanish artists D.Velazcues, F.Surbarran, B.E.Murillo and others. Now these pictures can be seen in The Saint-Petersburg State Hermitage and in The State A.S.Pushkin Fine Arts museum in Moscow.
Interest of Russian public to Spain has especially increased in the beginning of XIX century. It was promoted by problems of the struggle with the general enemy-Napoleonic France. The court of Saint-Petersburg resolutely supported the struggle of the Spanish patriots with aggressors and signed the Contract about friendship, union and cooperation with representatives of Cadiz Cortes (city Great Lukas, On July, 20th 1812). After the victory over Napoleon the interest of Russian society to Spain didn't weaken.
The generation of Russian intelligence of noble families from which came out Decembrists welcomed with delight the struggle of Spanish liberals with the Ferdinand's mode of absolutism. During this period the Spanish motives appear in the creativity of A.S.Pushkin, M.J.Lermontov and other authors of "Golden Age" of Russian poetry. In 1823 in Saint-Petersburg were published ŤMemoirs about Spainť by F.B.Bulgarin (1789-1859), the first notes of the author about this country.
The appreciable trace in the architecture of Saint-Petersburg of the beginning of XIX century, left a Spanish engineer and architect Agustín de Betancourt y Molina. (1758-1824).
He designed the first bridge over the Neva and a lot of others across The Moika and the Fontanka rivers. He took part in erection of the famous Isaak’s Cathedral and designed an engineer project of a famous monument “A maiden with a broken jar . But his major value lies in
foundation of Railway Engineers’ University, which is one of the leading educative centers up to now.
By the middle of XIX century in Russian society noted a kind of “fashion for Spain”, an exotic country, surrounded by a romantic halo. In these years the famous Russian writer and philosopher J. Kireevsky (1806-1856) translates into Russian dramas of P. Calderon, and the composer Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), the ancestor of Russian classical music fruitfully works in Spain. "Spanish Overtures" written in this period are among the works which laid the foundation to Russian simfonizm.
In the following years the image of Spain constantly is presented in Russian cultural life. In 1896 in Saint-Petersburg was a successful debut of the ballet by L.F. Minkus "Don Quixote". Spanish motifs are constantly present in the works of composers A. Dargomyzhsky, M.A. Balakirev and N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as in music for ballet by P.I.Chaykovsky. A collection of travelling impressions of Russians about Spain supplemented "Sketches of Spain" in 1888 of V.I.Danchenko, the brother of the famous theater director. Famous Russian painters V.A. Serov (1865-1911), K.A. Korovin (1861-1939), P.P. Konchalovsky (1876-1956) depicted in their paintings the images of the Iberian Peninsula. At the same time in Spain increases influence of Russian literature. Works of L.N. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoyevsky and I.S. Turgenev were translated into Spanish.. At the beginning of XX century Dostoevsky was one of the most read authors in the country. His work served as creative stimulus for many Spanish writers, including Miguel de Unamuno, Pio Baroja, a philosopher Jose Ortega-y-Gasset.
In the first half of XX century an increasing presence of Russian artists and musicians on the Spanish scene was obvious. In Madrid performs composers A.K.Glazunov and S.S. Prokofiev, tours "Russian ballet" of S.P. Diaghilev and the great Russian ballet-dancer - Anna Pavlova. In 1930 the soviet writer L.V. Nikulin (1891-1967) published interesting “Letters on Spain”.
However the true Spanish -Russian , and Russian - Spainish opening belongs rather to the time of active Soviet-Spanish cooperation in the years of the Civil War (1936-1939).
During this period prominent figures of Soviet culture visited Spain: writer Ilya Erenburg, journalist Mikhail Koltsov, documentary cinema director Roman Karmen. The spanish spectators knew and loved classics of the Soviet cinema: films- "October", "Battleship Potemkin", "We are from Kronstadt." In particular, a lot of warm words on Spain and Spanish
people can be found in the works of poet Michael Svetlov.
A lot of Spanish children were sent from Spain to Russia during this period. Many of them joined their life with Russia forever, making a great contribution to Russian science, art and engineering.
That was the time when the scientific “hispanistiks” was established and planned work on the translation of Spanish classical and modern literature began. Spanish motifs are widely represented in the works of composers A.I. Khachaturian, K.V. Molchanov, R. Shchedrin. The first two parts of the Symphony number 14 by D.D. Shostakovich were inspired by
the verses of F. Garcia Lorca.
Since the early 90's in the Spanish capital operates the Russian-German Foundation "Alexander Pushkin", the main center of Russian language spread and the promotion of Russian culture. In April 2002, during the visit to Russia Prince Felipe of Asturias was opened the Moscow branch of Cervantes Institute.
People in Russia knew about Spain from merchants and diplomats which came back from boundary. The interesting monument of that epoch which has remained up to now is the report by one of the first Russian diplomats in Spain Peter Ivanovich Potemkin (died near 1700), about the trip to Spain which was performed in 1667-1668. The arrival of Russian embassy made so strong impression to Spanish royal court that to court artist H. Karrenio was ordered a full-dress portrait of P. I. Potemkin which is situated in the collection of National museum of Prado now.
The whole transformations epoch by Peter the Great (1682-1725) was marked with mutual opening by Russia and Spain.
Simultaneously with development of trading and diplomatic communications amplified cultural exchange. In 1720 in Russia came ŤDon-Quixote ť by Miguel de Cervantes, primary in the short retelling which was translated from French. In Madrid in 1736 was published ŤThe history of Moscowť which was written by the secretary of King Phillip V Manuel de Villegas Pinyatelly.
In the second half of XVIII century in the epoch of the absolutism of Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1761) and Ekaterina II (1762-1796) in Russia were published other translations of the products by Spanish writers. In 1742 in the printing house of Imperial Academy of sciences was published the first Russian edition ŤPocket oracleť by Baltasar Grasian, in 1779- ŤGeneral history of Spainť by Jesuit Juan Marian. In 1769 was published the first full translation of ŤDon-Quixoteť by Cervantes after more than 150 years after the appearance of novel in Spain.
At this time many Spaniards came to service to Russian throne. Among them it is enough to recollect the admiral José de Ribasa (1749-1800) who was a hero of several Russian-Turkish wars or the native of Valencia Vicente Martin and Soler (1754-1806) who was the court composer ofEkaterina II and Pavel I.
Since the middle of XVIII century in Russian collections of painting (at first in the imperial collections) appeared the pictures of Spanish artists D.Velazcues, F.Surbarran, B.E.Murillo and others. Now these pictures can be seen in The Saint-Petersburg State Hermitage and in The State A.S.Pushkin Fine Arts museum in Moscow.
Interest of Russian public to Spain has especially increased in the beginning of XIX century. It was promoted by problems of the struggle with the general enemy-Napoleonic France. The court of Saint-Petersburg resolutely supported the struggle of the Spanish patriots with aggressors and signed the Contract about friendship, union and cooperation with representatives of Cadiz Cortes (city Great Lukas, On July, 20th 1812). After the victory over Napoleon the interest of Russian society to Spain didn't weaken.
The generation of Russian intelligence of noble families from which came out Decembrists welcomed with delight the struggle of Spanish liberals with the Ferdinand's mode of absolutism. During this period the Spanish motives appear in the creativity of A.S.Pushkin, M.J.Lermontov and other authors of "Golden Age" of Russian poetry. In 1823 in Saint-Petersburg were published ŤMemoirs about Spainť by F.B.Bulgarin (1789-1859), the first notes of the author about this country.
The appreciable trace in the architecture of Saint-Petersburg of the beginning of XIX century, left a Spanish engineer and architect Agustín de Betancourt y Molina. (1758-1824).
He designed the first bridge over the Neva and a lot of others across The Moika and the Fontanka rivers. He took part in erection of the famous Isaak’s Cathedral and designed an engineer project of a famous monument “A maiden with a broken jar . But his major value lies in
foundation of Railway Engineers’ University, which is one of the leading educative centers up to now.
By the middle of XIX century in Russian society noted a kind of “fashion for Spain”, an exotic country, surrounded by a romantic halo. In these years the famous Russian writer and philosopher J. Kireevsky (1806-1856) translates into Russian dramas of P. Calderon, and the composer Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), the ancestor of Russian classical music fruitfully works in Spain. "Spanish Overtures" written in this period are among the works which laid the foundation to Russian simfonizm.
In the following years the image of Spain constantly is presented in Russian cultural life. In 1896 in Saint-Petersburg was a successful debut of the ballet by L.F. Minkus "Don Quixote". Spanish motifs are constantly present in the works of composers A. Dargomyzhsky, M.A. Balakirev and N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as in music for ballet by P.I.Chaykovsky. A collection of travelling impressions of Russians about Spain supplemented "Sketches of Spain" in 1888 of V.I.Danchenko, the brother of the famous theater director. Famous Russian painters V.A. Serov (1865-1911), K.A. Korovin (1861-1939), P.P. Konchalovsky (1876-1956) depicted in their paintings the images of the Iberian Peninsula. At the same time in Spain increases influence of Russian literature. Works of L.N. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoyevsky and I.S. Turgenev were translated into Spanish.. At the beginning of XX century Dostoevsky was one of the most read authors in the country. His work served as creative stimulus for many Spanish writers, including Miguel de Unamuno, Pio Baroja, a philosopher Jose Ortega-y-Gasset.
In the first half of XX century an increasing presence of Russian artists and musicians on the Spanish scene was obvious. In Madrid performs composers A.K.Glazunov and S.S. Prokofiev, tours "Russian ballet" of S.P. Diaghilev and the great Russian ballet-dancer - Anna Pavlova. In 1930 the soviet writer L.V. Nikulin (1891-1967) published interesting “Letters on Spain”.
However the true Spanish -Russian , and Russian - Spainish opening belongs rather to the time of active Soviet-Spanish cooperation in the years of the Civil War (1936-1939).
During this period prominent figures of Soviet culture visited Spain: writer Ilya Erenburg, journalist Mikhail Koltsov, documentary cinema director Roman Karmen. The spanish spectators knew and loved classics of the Soviet cinema: films- "October", "Battleship Potemkin", "We are from Kronstadt." In particular, a lot of warm words on Spain and Spanish
people can be found in the works of poet Michael Svetlov.
A lot of Spanish children were sent from Spain to Russia during this period. Many of them joined their life with Russia forever, making a great contribution to Russian science, art and engineering.
That was the time when the scientific “hispanistiks” was established and planned work on the translation of Spanish classical and modern literature began. Spanish motifs are widely represented in the works of composers A.I. Khachaturian, K.V. Molchanov, R. Shchedrin. The first two parts of the Symphony number 14 by D.D. Shostakovich were inspired by
the verses of F. Garcia Lorca.
Since the early 90's in the Spanish capital operates the Russian-German Foundation "Alexander Pushkin", the main center of Russian language spread and the promotion of Russian culture. In April 2002, during the visit to Russia Prince Felipe of Asturias was opened the Moscow branch of Cervantes Institute.
Anastasia Petrova
Festivals - Children Protection Day in Russia
On June,1 we celebrate Children Protection Day. Here are some pictures of our kids for this date.
Diversity connects - Poland
Lublin is situated in the eat of Poland. The location is very inportant because the city is between to great European Cultures and religious: Latin culture and Byzatine culture.
1.The host number of different cultures' sings from the past you can find in Lublin architecture and monuments for example: Holy Trinity Chapel of Lublin Castle And Grodzka Gate.
2.Nowadays Lublin is fomous for its many universities and that is why a lot of foreign students come to over city every year. You can meet people from different countries and hear many foreing languages.
3.People who come to our city want to share thair cultue and tradition. In Lublin there are many restaurants and cafes whith serve foreing food. If you want, you can try Italian, Turkish, Chinse, Japanese, French cuisine.
4.In Lublin many cultural festivals take pleace araund the year. People can see performances of foreign theatres or listen to music from other countries. You can even watch some really rare and exciting shows like dancing groups from South America.
Krztsztof Banasiewicz, class 2i
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Diversity connects - Finland
When you travel in Helsinki by train or a metro train, it is easy to notice that all names for places are not only in Finnish, but also in Swedish. Most of them are translations and some are adaptations to another language.
For example:
Jakomäki – Jakobacka
Puistola – Parkstad
Mellunmäki – Mellungsbacka
Helsinki – Helsingfors
Kaisaniemi – Kajsaniemi
By Maria Efimova, Jakomäen yläasteen koulu, 9 C
Diversity connects - Finland
In the first two pictures the Finnish name is on the top and in the third picture the Swedish name is on the top
Swedish words that are in used in Finland as street names or names of places
In Helsinki all street names are both in Finnish and Swedish. That is because Swedish is another official language of Finland. In Helsinki the street names are put on the signs so that the Finnish name is on the top and the Swedish name is under it. But in some cities in Finland the names are put differently: Swedish on the top and Finnish under it. The signs are like that if the city is more Swedish than Finnish.
By: Rune Pönni, Jarmo Hirvonen and Niko Fast Jakomäen yläasteen koulu 9C
Diversity connects - Finland
“DIVERSITY CONNECTS”
In the following text we give some examples of how different languages have influenced the Finnish language in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Historically, Finland has been both under Swedish (1150/1249 -1809) and Russian rule (1809-1917). However, as for the languages, the influence of the Swedish language has been a lot stronger and longer-lasting, as Swedish had been used for years as the language of administration and civilization. To begin with, the Swedish language kept its position as the sole language of administration even when Finland became part of the Russian Empire in 1809. However, during the 1860s, Czar Alexander II ordered that legal equality between Finnish and Swedish as languages of administration was to be gradually introduced, and with time, Finnish also gained its position as the national language of Finland.
Nowadays Finland has got two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. About 5, 6 % of the inhabitants of Finland have Swedish as their mother tongue. Most of the Swedish speaking Finns live in the southern and western parts of Finland, quite often in the coastal area. Nowadays about 6, 2 % of the inhabitants of Helsinki have Swedish as their mother tongue.
Helsinki slang or slangi is a local variation of the Finnish language mainly used in the capital Helsinki. It dates back to the late nineteenth century when Helsinki was about 50% Swedish-speaking. Helsinki slang is based on spoken Finnish and it is characterized by a large amount of words borrowed from originally Swedish, German and Russian. The slang was widely used especially in working class areas but it only became really popular in the 1950s among young men who wanted to rebel against their parents and impress young women.
Helsinki slang or “stadin slangi”, as the Helsinki people themselves prefer to call it, is still very much alive. Since the 1990s, because of globalisation and the role of the Internet, new slang words have usually come from English. As there are nowadays many immigrants from Russia, Estonia and Somalia in the Helsinki area, it is expected that new slang words come from their languages, too.
Here are some examples of “stadin slangi”. You can first see the Finnish word or phrase, then the same in “stadin slangi, and finally, in English:
asua budjaa (to dwell), mennä rikki brakaa (to break), tyhmä dorka (dork), työ duuni (work),
tyttö gimma (girl), nukkua goisaa (to sleep)
koti hima (home), linja-auto dösä (a bus)
raitiovaunu spora (a trolley car, a tram)
“Mieti vähän, pikku apulainen, miten helppoa tällä olisi siivota”
Kelaa, snadi jeesaaja, kui iisii täl ois stedaa"
(meaning "Think, little helper, how easy it would be to clean with this")
9 C Jakomäen yläasteen peruskoulu
In the following text we give some examples of how different languages have influenced the Finnish language in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Historically, Finland has been both under Swedish (1150/1249 -1809) and Russian rule (1809-1917). However, as for the languages, the influence of the Swedish language has been a lot stronger and longer-lasting, as Swedish had been used for years as the language of administration and civilization. To begin with, the Swedish language kept its position as the sole language of administration even when Finland became part of the Russian Empire in 1809. However, during the 1860s, Czar Alexander II ordered that legal equality between Finnish and Swedish as languages of administration was to be gradually introduced, and with time, Finnish also gained its position as the national language of Finland.
Nowadays Finland has got two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. About 5, 6 % of the inhabitants of Finland have Swedish as their mother tongue. Most of the Swedish speaking Finns live in the southern and western parts of Finland, quite often in the coastal area. Nowadays about 6, 2 % of the inhabitants of Helsinki have Swedish as their mother tongue.
Helsinki slang or slangi is a local variation of the Finnish language mainly used in the capital Helsinki. It dates back to the late nineteenth century when Helsinki was about 50% Swedish-speaking. Helsinki slang is based on spoken Finnish and it is characterized by a large amount of words borrowed from originally Swedish, German and Russian. The slang was widely used especially in working class areas but it only became really popular in the 1950s among young men who wanted to rebel against their parents and impress young women.
Helsinki slang or “stadin slangi”, as the Helsinki people themselves prefer to call it, is still very much alive. Since the 1990s, because of globalisation and the role of the Internet, new slang words have usually come from English. As there are nowadays many immigrants from Russia, Estonia and Somalia in the Helsinki area, it is expected that new slang words come from their languages, too.
Here are some examples of “stadin slangi”. You can first see the Finnish word or phrase, then the same in “stadin slangi, and finally, in English:
asua budjaa (to dwell), mennä rikki brakaa (to break), tyhmä dorka (dork), työ duuni (work),
tyttö gimma (girl), nukkua goisaa (to sleep)
koti hima (home), linja-auto dösä (a bus)
raitiovaunu spora (a trolley car, a tram)
“Mieti vähän, pikku apulainen, miten helppoa tällä olisi siivota”
Kelaa, snadi jeesaaja, kui iisii täl ois stedaa"
(meaning "Think, little helper, how easy it would be to clean with this")
9 C Jakomäen yläasteen peruskoulu
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Three German students on a school exchange to Vigo
Monday:20.04.09
At 6.43 we went by train to Leipzig. Than we flew to Palma de Mallorca. and from P. de Mallorca we flew to Porto (Portugal). Then we drove by bus to Vigo. In Vigo waited the Spanish families, and we went home with the families. Later we ate a littlebit and drank and then we went to bed.
Tuesday: 21.04.09
We met at school and we had a tour on the beaches in Vigo. Fantastic. Next we had lunch at school. In the afternoon Veronika and Vivien went with Alba and Monica to the beach (Kasssandra was shopping).
Wednesday:22.04.09
On this day we had English lessons at school and then a schoolvisit. A little bit later we went to Castrelos Park, there were Orange -and Lemon trees. We were really surprised that they had blossoms and fruits at the same time. In the afternoon Kassandra was inline - skating and Vivien, Monica, Veronika and Alba had a bowling game and they were again on the beach.
We learned that Spanish children learn inline-skating at school! It would be a nice idea for us, too.
Thursday 23.04.09.
We went with the bus to Santiago de Compostela. There we had a tour in the town and visited the Cathedral from Santiago. After this Vivien was swimming and Kassandra and Veronika ware shopping. In the evening we had a big dinner with all the children from our partner schools in Finland, Poland and the Netherlands. It was nice because the owner of the restaurant spoke German because he had lived for 20 years in Germany.
After the dinner we went in the city and it was time to say Good Bye, because our friends from Helsinki and Lublin had to leave very early on the next morning.
Friday:24.04.09
At 09.00 o´clock we met with Mrs. Schaper (our teacher) in the Hotel Galicia. Then we were in the city and then we went by taxi to the busstation. Then we drove with the bus to the airport in Porto and then we flew via Mallorca to Leipzig. We were sad that we couldn’t stay there a bit longer, but our school waited for us. About midnight we came home.
That was a wonderful week.
Veronika, Kassandra and Vivien
Saturday, April 25, 2009
sábado 25 de abril de 2009
My last Easter
My last Easter
I lived my last Easter in
The Easter in
The processions begin on Viernes de Dolores (the Friday before Holy Friday) in the late evening and finish on Domingo de Pascua. Some of these processions happen during the night and, before beginning, some of them make a silence agreement and other release doves as symbols of peace.
The most important services are developed in the Cathedral and the
As
Also, during Easter, there are some typical foods in
- Hornazo: it is a pie made of ham, loin, boiled egg and chorizo.
- Hot chocolate with churros.
- Comer los limones: it is a typical salad for Holy Thursday and Friday made of vegetables, boiled egg, lemon, orange, vinager and chorizo.
- The children eat wafers and lollipops while they are waiting for the processions.
It is really beautiful to live the Easter in
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Spring in Poland - Magda Lewkowicz, class 2i
Spring in Poland is really beautiful!
Sunny, warm and never awful!
Trees and grass are so green,
the sky is blue. Have you ever seen
like plants are wake up,
like birds are coming,
like sun is shining?
You don't want to singing about disgusting!
You want to dancing
You want to walking
You want to tell everybody: stop smoking!
Magda Lewkowicz 2i
Sunny, warm and never awful!
Trees and grass are so green,
the sky is blue. Have you ever seen
like plants are wake up,
like birds are coming,
like sun is shining?
You don't want to singing about disgusting!
You want to dancing
You want to walking
You want to tell everybody: stop smoking!
Magda Lewkowicz 2i
Spring in Poland - Agnieszka Knieć, class 1i
Spring in Poland is very beautiful. Flowers are flourish. Flowers are wearing many of amazing creations. People like spring, because in this time everything are wake up to life.
Spring in Poland - Paulina Kusal, class 1i
Spring is in Poland is beautiful. Plants awake for life. Leaves spread out and everything green becomes and nice smelling .
Paulina Kusal, class 1i
Spring in Poland - Paulina Buchajczyk, class 1b
Spring in Poland is so beautiful. Flowers start to grow and nature wakes up. Days are waarmer and longer than nights. I like listening to birds singing and looking a the blue sky.This is my favourite time in the year. I wake up smiling every mornig and I am happy in all time of the day.I think that most people like spring because everything around us is colourful.Everybody can not wait for holidays.Spring is the best time in the year. It is a special time for me. I think that it's start of something new.Everything is better in this time:)
Spring in Poland - Asia Badurowicz and Monika Przybysz, class 2g
Spring in Poland ;)
Spring in our country is time of changes.
In flora everything become green and fresh. Plants grow up again after long winter time. They are very thirsty for sunlight and high temperatures.
Forests starts to live. Rainfalls let them grow and became ready for people comming there to have campings.
Lots of animals wake up and change their fur. They build nests, burrows and different kinds of places they live.
Birds come back from sunny countries distant thousands kilometers from Poland. They visit their homes which they missed when they were out of the country.
In the people's life it's time of changes too.
People change their clothes, their image and themselves. They are trying to be better, nicer, stronger, thiner or smarter. Some people are -like plants-growing up again after time of cold and gray winter. They want to start a new life, make plans. A part of these group wants to have family. A part wants to have a good job. Some wants to fall in love. Their inspiration and dreams are very various. So, for them spring it's the lucky time to start something new.
We can also call our spring "time of birthing". Everything seems new, better and fresher.
Asia Badurowicz & Monika Przybysz
class 2 "g"
Spring in Poland - Agnieszka Wdowiak, class 1b
Spring in Poland
In spring all of the organisms wake up to life. Every plant starts growing, every flower starts blooming and every animal wakes up after winter sleep. Spring in Poland is beautiful. I love going for a walk and watching wonderful shrubs of forsythia. Forsythia is my favourite spring plant. One of forsythia's shrubs there is on one of my photos. I made this photo when I was walking and I was entranced with fresh spring air and nature's beauty. In addition I made this photo near my school.
On the next photo there is a little tree, which starts growing. We can see that it has just started to bud small leavs. This photo was taken when I was roller-skating. This sport I like doing in spring, but the most when the weather is nice, it is warm and sun is shining, for instance like in this year.
Agnieszka Wdowiak, class 1b
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Monuments - Lublin, Poland. Presentation by Asia Szydłowska, class 2i
Joanna Szydlowska
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Christmas in Russia
Every year our English teachers organize a music festival before Catholic Christmas ( we have our Orthodox Christmas two weeks later). It is called “Rising Star”. At the festival we sing popular songs in English. The jury awards prizes for the best singers. This event is rather cool, as next morning you can wake up a school star. It also makes the spirit bright before the New Year.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Festivals in Spain: Carnival
Carnival / Entroido is over now. What did you do? Tell your partners and load your photos or send any good links.
In Spain Carnival is a very peculiar festival. The most typical Galician food in these dates is "orellas" (=ears; a very thin fried mass served as a dessert or sweet supper). The streets are covered of lights, it is very nice. People wear fancy dresses in many different types and get fun.
In Spain Carnival is a very peculiar festival. The most typical Galician food in these dates is "orellas" (=ears; a very thin fried mass served as a dessert or sweet supper). The streets are covered of lights, it is very nice. People wear fancy dresses in many different types and get fun.
Rocío Maura F. - ESO 2D
Monday, March 9, 2009
Finnish winter by Rune Pönni, class 9C
Finnish winter starts at different times in different parts of Finland. But you could roughly say that in Southern Finland it starts in December and in Northern Finland already in October. The "beginning" of winter is counted from the day the first snow arrives. The temperature also differs between south and north. In the southern parts the temperature is about from 0– -17°C and in north it's about -20– -25°C. It's pretty cold anyway so we Finns must have a warm change of clothes.
Winter is very important to the Finns. The winter is quite long in Finland so the Finns have lots of time to do all kinds of winter sports like skiing, skating and slalom. In the past the skiing has been a quite important travelling form in winter in Finland. Nowadays people don't move that way to travel but skiing is very popular sport in Finland and Finns have won some remarkable competitions like Olympic skiing.
Skating is also popular and ice hockey. Many young people like to play ice hockey and it's a common hobby among Finnish youngsters. Finland has also many good ice hockey players and Finland has also won many world championships in ice hockey. But ice hockey isn't the only way to skate. In Finland you can also go skating to a frozen lake! You can travel much longer distances than on a normal ice rink. It's really great.
There is also a quite special "sport" that some Finns like to do in winter. First they make a hole in ice called avanto. Then they warm their sauna and go swimming in the cold water. This is called "avanto swimming". After the cold swim Finns go quickly to sauna to warm their cold limbs. It's really refreshing though it sounds quite grazy (not that I had tried myself). Obviously this can only be done if you have a sauna beside a lake because you would freeze after the cold swim if you didn't.
In the Southern Finland where I live we don't always have much snow so skiing isn't always possible here. But the norther you go the colder it gets and there is more snow. In winter vacation many Finns go to Lappi, the northest part in Finland, to do all kinds of winter sports. In Lappi you can also see reindeer and even Santa Claus because his office is located there.
Well I hope you got some kind of figure of what Finnish winter is like and maybe even learned something. But I think I should stop now so that I won't steal more space from here. Thank you for reading this.
The Magic of Winter in Finland by Maria Efimova, class 9 C
Many Finns, especially small children, love winter. It’s not only beautiful but it also gives the opportunity to do things you would be unable to do in the summer. Some people may say they hate the winter because of the cold but most of the Finns have loved it at some point. I myself am one of those people who like it. To me there are only few things that are more beautiful than land covered with snow.
In Finland the snow falls usually in the end of November but lately we have had to wait for it until second half of December. First snow can fall as early as middle October but it usually melts away in few days. Snow falls, of course, earlier in Northern Finland than in south. As a matter of fact the winter is actually longer and colder in north.
In the past few years the winter has become a lot warmer. Ten years ago the temperature could drop down to -20 degrees in Helsinki, nowadays it usually stays between 0 and -10 degrees. There have been a few times when it was as cold as -17 degrees in Helsinki and most of those times were Saturdays… In the Northern Finland it has been as cold as -30 degrees or less.
During winter it’s possible to do many things that are impossible in summer. You can often see little kids building a snowman or playing in the snow. Ice skating on natures own ice on top of rivers and lakes, ice swimming, skiing in the forests, and playing ice hockey outside are a good example of the kind of activities that are only possible during winter. At least I can’t imagine myself doing any of them during summer…
International Women's Day in Germany by Marie Antoinette Manger, class 9a
8th March
The women’s day was established in the time of the first World War in the fight for the equal rights and the right to vole for women. The International Women’s Day is in the 8.March. In Germany the women make themselves a nice day.=)
The women get a bunch of flowers. Sometimes become the women decline the hard work (household) on this day.
Marie Antoinette Manger, Klasse 9a
Winter in Poland by Kasia Bujak, class 2h
Winter in Poland is beautiful. All is covered by snow . Houses , trees and bushes have white caps . On frosty days snow is sparkling in sunshine.
Winter in Holland by Robert
The Big Change
The Dutch winter takes as long as in any other European country, though it feels like it takes twice as long.
Dutch nature isn’t very overwhelming in wintertime. Nevertheless, we were able to skate on the ice for some days past winter. In winter our fields are frozen, as are the trees, as are the ditches and dikes. That’s why it’s far more interesting to tell something about the Dutch people’s behaviour caused by the change in weather. (Winter is no excuse though, for the funny behaviour among our people since there’s something to tell about us every very season)
The final cold months appear this funny, because human behaviour doesn’t synchronize to nature. Or maybe, that’s exactly what it does in an extreme way. In February, March and April temperature often stays below 10 degrees, but people love to dress like it’s summer already. If you’re a lucky tourist, you might see people in armless t-shirts and short pants wearing winter caps, scarves and gloves. A rather funny view, but somehow, we know how to keep it fashionable. Probably the freezing temperatures makes us stay indoors the whole winter thinking of what to wear when the first sunbeams will flow over Holland again.
There are some Dutch traditions in this time of the year as well. Such as selling tulips, the famous flowers being sold on every single corner of each Amsterdam street in a thousand different colours, flower bulbs in Nijntje covers, bought by adults as well and when the weather allows again we travel everywhere with our extreme number of bicycles, which are stolen, given, taken and dumped in a vicious circle! We all massively visit the so called ‘ giant garden centres’ to buy tens of plants, statues and hundreds of flowers. Even in a credit crunch these things are the most important things in our minds. Which to me, is a very beautiful, but rather funny tradition. We all love it! The thing is that we feel winter in our heads and feel spring in our hearts.
The attached pictures are taken in Amsterdam and represent some of these traditions.
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