My last Easter

sábado 25 de abril de 2009

My last Easter

My last Easter

I lived my last Easter in Salamanca.

The Easter in Salamanca has its origins in the Baroque period. During Easter there, there are a lot of religious processions, an average of six or seven per day. In the processions, the different brotherhoods (Cofradías) carry over their shoulders different figures related to the Church. The oldest figures are the ones of Virgen de las Angustias, La Dolorosa de la Vera Cruz, and La Dolorosa de Montagut.

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 University of Salamanca.

As Salamanca is a cosmopolitan city, there are a lot of cultures represented in the different processions. Some people who go to the processions ask something to the Christ, Virgins and Saints and make a promise to make it come true.

Also, during Easter, there are some typical foods in Salamanca:

• 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 Salamanca.

Angela Rivero Romero 2º ESO D

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

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