Sección Europea: 05/01/2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

SELF-PORTRAITS

Here are some of the self-portraits you drew in your Art class.

Bárbara Lorenzo

Carmen Valverde

Cynthia Clemente

María Ángeles García

María Chocano

Paula Molina

Sara Pérez

Thursday, May 21, 2009

TO OUR NEW FRIENDS IN BLY, OREGON

A group of students from Bly, Oregon,wrote to us a few days ago. They would like to be our friends. In their letters they told us about themselves, their school and their town. We are very exited about having some friends in the United States, so we wrote them back yesterday morning. This is our letter:

Dear new friends,

Thank you for your letters. We liked them a lot!. We would like to know you better and continue writing letters back and forth.

We are a group of 12-13 year old students in 1º ESO (this is the 7th grade in the USA). There are 31 students in our group, 19 girls and 12 boys. The name of our school is “IES Francisco de Quevedo”. IES means “High School” so you know. There are 600 students and around 60 teachers. We are in a special class called “The European Section” , which means that we study 3 subjects in English: Physical Education, Art and Geography & History.

Our school is in Villanueva de los Infantes, which is a small rural town in the province of Ciudad Real, in the middle of Spain. There are 5,000 people in this town. Not everybody lives in the same town. Some of us come from nearby towns by bus. This year we have an American teacher, Connor. He helped us with this letter.

We can´t wait to hear from you!.

Talk to you soon!

Your Spanish friends.

P.S. - Alfonso, our English teacher, took these pictures while we were writing this letter:

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

UP

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened yesterday, May 13th, with UP, a 3D Pixar movie. It is the first time that an animation movie opens this prestigious film festival in the French city of Cannes.

UP tells us the story of Carl Fredricksen, a 78 year-old widower, who fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of ballons to his house and flies away to South America.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

ANTONIO VEGA

Antonio Vega, one of the most important Spanish singers and composers, died this morning of lung disease at the age of 51. In 1978 he founded "Nacha Pop" with his cousin Nacho García Vega. This legendary band was one of the most influential bands in Spanish Pop Music.

Nacha Pop released seven albums before they broke up in 1988. In 1991, Antonio Vega launched his solo career. He released nine albums and was nominated for one Grammy in 2000. As a composer he wrote La chica de ayer, which is considered to be one of the most important Spanish Pop songs.

May he rest in peace

Gigolo Aunts, a band from Boston, USA, heard the song in Spain in 1999. They liked it and decided to translate it and sing it in English.

"THE GIRL FROM YESTERDAY"
(Antonio Vega)

One day you don't even know what time it is
You lay by my side but still you don't know why
The empty streets have seen you grow and change
But I know in your heart you might be crying again

I look out of the window for the girl I knew yesterday
Smiling in the flowers of my favorite garden
Too hard to understand too late to comprehend
While you and I can never be together again

The early morning light that slowly fills the room
Makes your golden hair shine like the sun
And late up in Penta I'm still listening to
Every song that ever made me fall for you..fell for you

I look out of the window for the girl I knew yesterday
So hard to understand there's nothing I can do
Now I'm going out of my mind following you
Going out of my mind following you...

Other important songs by Antonio Vega are:

El sitio de mi recreo