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Carnival

Carnival

What is carnival?

It is an annual celebration of life found in many countries of the world. And in fact, by learning more about carnival we can learn more about ourselves and a lot about accepting and understanding other cultures.


Where did the word “carnival” come from?

Hundred and hundreds of years ago, the followers of the Catholic religion in Italy started the tradition of holding a wild costume festival right before the first day of Lent. Because Catholics are not supposed to eat meat during Lent, they called their festival, carnevale — which means “to put away the meat.” As time passed, carnivals in Italy became quite famous; and in fact the practice spread to France, Spain, and all the Catholic countries in Europe. Then as the French, Spanish, and Portuguese began to take control of the Americas and other parts of the world, they brought with them their tradition of celebrating carnival.

In modern times Carnival has evolved into grand spectaculars arround the world including Rio de Janeiro, Jamaica, Russia, Japan and the Chinese New Year.

Personal opinion:

I enjoy Carnival, because I like dressing up and having fun with everyone.

   
My costum: 
  
My costume was of elvis presley. I had a white jacket with colored sequins and white pants bell. I also wore a sequined belt. In hair, I had a toupee, fake sideburns and I dye my hair black. I also had sunglasses.

Carnival in my school:

In Escuela 2, Carnival is very funny. The tradition is that a teacher disguised as carnival king
and gives sweets to the students to be dressed. Students who are not dressed, the carnival king throw they flour. Also we do a costume contest, and the winners will get a prize.

What's good about original language TV?

Original version TV is good becouse you can see the facial expresions, hear the pronunciation as they speak and you can learn new languages.
Also the jokes make better sense, the customs of the country of origin are not changed to meet the audience's and, with the subtitles, you have help to understand.
Other times, when you see a film in spanish, the voices are very different than in original version, so I think is better hear their real voices.

Christmas Holidays 2012

I like very much this holidays. I was doing many things, for exemple: Meet with my family, Go out with my friends, play guitar, make presents, etc. The night before Christmas day, I celebrate my dad's birthday with my family, we had a great time together. The Christmast day, my parents gave me a longboard. It was very fun. Then, I went with my family to my grandparent's house. we dinner there. After dinner, my parents, uncles and grandparents, give me and my cousins money.

The folowing days, I go out with my friends and I have been relaxed. In hogmanay, I went to Denia with friends and some family. The kings day my parents gave me a lot of presents, for exemple: Clothes, a videogame, shoes, money, a tuner for guitar, elbow and knee pads, etc. Then, my family came to my house to dinner. It was a very funny Christmas and I had a lot of great times.

The Prisoner of Zenda

This Christmas I red The Prisoner of Zenda. The author of this book is Anthony Hope. The book it's about a young English man, he visits the Ruitania's kingdom. He is going to see the coronation of the Prince Rudolf Elphberg. But the day of the coronation, the prince disappears. The people don't know where is him, so the English man starts to investigate.

ANTHONY HOPE: He was born the nine of February eighteen sixtythree in London. He died the eight of July nineteen thirtythree. He was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau.

The Christmas card project.

The project was about sending christmas cards to classmates. I sent my card to my friend Joan. I'm waiting for a replay. I hope he likes it. Elena send me a card. I like her card very much because she wrote wonderful things. In my family it's not usuall to send Christmas cards. I would like this year to be diferent and I will tell my family and friends to send me cards. I realy enjoyed the project and I hope I get more cards from my family and other friends.