Camping experiences

The campsite

This year we went to Sarmiento´s park in Carcaraña. It's 50 km. from Rosario. We slept in a shelter with bunkbeds.
The weather was very cold but sunny.
We had breakfast and dinner in a diningroom but we had lunch out of the shelter.
We had cookies and cocoa for breakfast.We had hamburgers, sausages, chicken or barbacue for lunch and dinner.
In the evenin we sat near the fireplace and we read "the gossiper". It was a box with pieces of papers. Classmates wrote "gossip" about everybody.
I liked free time but I didn't like the climate.

Estefania Mosca, Belen.M Liste y Martina Verasio.
8º EGB Integral
8°B

CULTURAL REFERENCES

If you miss the meaning of words, you will understand less of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Students from 3º Polimodal-Stella Maris looked up some of the strange words that appear in the song: (source Enciclopedia Brittanica)

Scaramouch: Stock character of the Italian theatrical form known as the commedia dellárte. Unreliable servant. His affinity for intrigue often landed him in difficult situations, yet he always managed to extricate him self, usually leaving an inocent by stander as his victim. Was originally a viration of the commedia character Capitano, a braggart soldier. The role was closely associated with the Italian actor Tiberio Fiorillo, who played without a mask. He transformed the military role to that of a comic servant, usually an indigent gentleman´s valet. His costume was black breeches, jacket, cloak, and beret.
Contribution by Sol Berli

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

The greatest song ever written?

Stories behind Bohemian Rhapsody

"John was a boy who was always in trouble. Sometimes it wasn't his fault but his addiction to drugs made him do many things he would later regret.

One day he was going back home from school when he met his girlfriend's ex, Mark. Mark started to shout at him and insult his family. John took a gun from his pocket just to scare him, but accidentaly shot and killed Mark.

Unfortunately for him, there was a policeman nearby who saw everything and arrested him.

John's case went to trial and was sentenced with capital punishment in the electric chair.

Contribution by Agustina Gimbatti and Andrea Benvenuto. 3ºPol. Stella Maris Rosario

A poor boy is judged by Society for what he has done. Actually, he has killed a man, and even though he is sorry and says he did not mean to do that, part of Society, which is against him, is not prepared to let him go. In fact, they want him to be punished. Also, other people think he deserves forgiveness as we all do.

Finally, he realises that ,as a matter of fact, no one really cares about the problems of others, and criticizes this carlessness concerning both the good and tha bad ones.

At the very end, he gives up just because it seems impossible to change Society´s mind
Contribution by Victoria Nannini. 3º Pol. Stella Maris

Once there was a boy who killed a man. At that moment he wasn`t conscious of what he did. Then he felt sad and miserable because all his life he was a clever and responsible guy and then all he knew he had become a criminal and he felt he had dissapointed his mother who had taken care of him since he was born. And when she noticed that her only child would be judged to be capital punished she wouldn´t afford it. He couldn´t do anything to avoid his mother's sadness. However he iwas mentally prepared to pay for his mistake. He didn´t want to die, and sometimes he wished he'd never been born at all.

Later on he became so frightened to his near end that he tried to defend himself explaining to society his terrible situation, but some of them were so cruel that they didn`t forgive him. He was desperate and became very angry, because society was divided and sometimes people love him and then they stone him and spit in his eyes.

Finally he accepted his sentence, because from then on nothig really mattered to him.

Contribution by María Eugenia Amerizo. 3º Pol. Stella Maris

The Story of a poor boy.
There was a miserable boy who lived in a vey poor area.
He was considered a criminal by the majority of the society because he had
recently killed a man. The other part of the society supported him because
they thought he was very young to be killed.
He was sentenced to die. He felt absolutely guilty of what
he had done. He was really sad because he didn´t have any way to escape. His
future was death. He also felt he was the worst son in the world because
he had betrayed his mother.
Religious fans were against him and they were majority so the boy had to be
killed. And here ended the life of this poor boy, who felt really furious
and angry but couldn´t be saved.

Contribution by Clara Infante.3º Pol. Stella Maris

Cities of the world

Amsterdam.

Amsterdam is the capital of Netherlands, country we all know as Holland. It has a population of about four million people and it’s important for the business and economy of one of the richest countries in the world.

Amsterdam has been one of the most problematic cities of the world because of political protest, which has been made since 1970 till now. Currently, the anarchy of the previous decades has given rise to a hard pragmatism, which is tempered by the traditional Dutch humanism. Nowadays, Holland has a Socialist system, which is working really fine, at least in the economical and humanistic fields.

In Amsterdam you can visit a lot of historical museums (“Histoyisch museums”, in Dutch) and you can also visit a lot of canals, or you can simply walk all over the city and enjoy the architecture of the houses and buildings. And you can visit Ana Frank´s house, too!

But it is not recommended to do all this visits in winter, because the temperature is about –10°, and it becomes night at about 5 in the evening. However, in summer it is a great moment to go sightseeing because the temperature is about 25°, and then you can enjoy riding one of the million bycicles there are in the city (Dutch people love bycicles!)

So, if you want to enjoy a very cultural and interesting trip, you should go to Amsterdam, the capital of Netherlands.

Lucía Barbará, Agostina Graciano, Mercedes Vila Ortiz.1ºPol. IFEI

Accidents by 8º

Last year my friend Macarena was in my house. I had a bunk bed and we sat there to talk.

She was on the top of the bed and I was bellow her. She saw me and fell off sliding down.

She rolled and hit her foot on the chair. Fortunatly she was ok.
Contribution by Macarena Febre and Mariana Callegari 8ºIFEI

Last year, Belen Estefania and me were in Belen´s house riding our bikes in the street. Martina saw a car. We moved but crashed at the corner, and then fell off the bikes. Belen´s mother helped us. And then we were ok!

Martina Verasio, Estefania Mosca and Belen Liste 8° IFEI

Yesterday was Friday Mateo and I were slept on the bunk beds. When I was
sleeping, I fell off the bunkbeds .Mateo phoned the ambulance and his
parents. We all arrived at the hospital in five minutes. The nurses gave me
some medicine. I saw Mateo in the morning . I was very weel.
By Estanislao Garmendia and Mateo Gago

Last week I went to the cinema with my family in the car. We saw a girl in
a motobike, she had a heavy bag and then she fell off her motorbike. Nobody helped her!

Maximiliano Monza-8ºIFEI

Information Rosario web page

Rosario is in Sta. Fe province, by the Paraná river. It is an important financial, industrial and cultural centre. It has a population of more than 1 million.

Famous sights include the Flag Memorial. You can also visit a lot of famous sights. In Rosario domain you can see beautiful landscapes. There are a lot of parks too.

A lot of famous people were born in this city, for example: Fito Paez, Messi, Olmedo, Aimar...

People say that Rosario has the most beautiful women in the country. It also has some handsome men.

About the weather, Rosario used to be mild but now it is becoming tropical.

SOFÍA TORREGIANI-JULIA SCAGLIA-MARTINA MOLINA 1º Pol. Integral Fisherton

Rosario is not the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires is. But Rosario is one of the largest cities with a population of over one million people. It is located in the middle-east of Argentina, in the province of Santa Fe. It is an important centre for business and industry. Famous sights include the Flag Memorial. Also, in the city there is a beautiful port which is famous for the Paraná river (one of widest) and for its bridge, the Rosario-Victoria bridge. The average temperature in Rosario is from 10ºC to 23ºC.

Facundo Uviedo. Manuel Fabri. Juan Manuel Balonchard. 1ºPol IFEI

Rosario is not the capital of Argentina. Capital Federal is, but it is the third most important city. It has a population of more than one million people. It has the most beautiful women in the world. It also has the highest Flag Memorial of the country. It is located in the province of Santa Fe. It is an important centre for industry and for the fields and cattle because it has industries like GM, and it has the best cows and produces lots of cereal crops. Famous sights include the Flag Memorial and the Rosario-Victoria bridge. Rosario is very wet in summer as well as very cold in winter.

Rodrigo and Martín. 1ºPol IFEI

XTSPORTS-vocabulary2ºPol

XTSPORT	EQUIPMENT	PLACE	OTHER
snowboarding	snowboard	snow- covered	developed in USA in 60's 70's
	boots	slopes	became an olympic winter sport 1998
	bindings
	helmet
	pants
	jacket
bungee jumping	a cord or elastic rope	a bridge or a crane	possible injuries
	safety harness	a hot-air balloon
ice diving	snow shovel	frozen lake	stand by rescue
	chain saw to cut a hole in the ice	under ice	diver on the surface
	a dry suit
	a hood
	gloves
	full-face mask
	rope signals
snowrafting	a small outsider raft	a slope and valleys
	snow movile to pull the rafts up the slope
	winter clothes:
	* impermeable walking shoes
	* hand gloves
	* caps
mountain biking	helmet	7 trails: mountain cross-country
	trail map	free ride
	special bike	single track
	tubes and patches	double track
	sunglasses	dirt roads
	first-aid kit	logging roads
	sun cream
	a pump
	a bike tool kit
skysurfing	a removable board attached to the feet	in the sky
	a parachute
	a plane Contribution by Virginia Moro 2º Pol Integral-Rosario

TheRockZone: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1975

Bohemian Rhapsody

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I’m just a poor boy I need no sympathy
Because I’m easy come and easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead
Mama, ooo
Didn’t mean to make you cry
If I’m not back tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body’s aching all the time
Goodbye everybody - I’ve got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows)
I don’t want to die
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all

I see a little silhouette of a man
Scaramouch, Scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro magnifico

But I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstruosity
Easy com easy go - will you let me go

Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go
Never let you go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Oh mama mía, mama mía, mam a mía let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me
So you think you can stone me
And spit in my eye
So you think you can love me
And leave me to die
Just gotta get aut
Just gotta get outta here
Oh baby - can’t do thos to me
Baby.

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters - nothing really matters to me

Anyway the wind blows…

Comentary by N.B.G.W.: I think that this song is really one of the few songs
that take you to think of someone who you don't know, but somehow makes you
recognise that anonimous person and make you identify the meaning of the
lyrics to how you meditate about your thinking, acting, living with others.
It's something simply wonderful and human, after all.
Nicolás Garcia Wallis 3ºPol . IFEI

3ºPol Resumen"Inspirational people"

Material de la página http://www.inspirationalspeakers.co.uk/

Ben Saunders holds the British record for de longest solo artic treck. Ben Saunders was born in Plymouth, in 1987. He attended the Chaucer school in Canterbury and later the Royal Military Academy. At 19 years of age he spent four months walking and climbing in the Napalese Himalayas.
On his latest expedition, Ben set out from Cape Articheusky in Northern Siberia.
Four separate and solo expeditions set out in competition, one sadly fatal. Out of the four, Ben was the only one to reach the North Pole.
Ben's experience of those weather conditions was described by Nasa as 'the worst on record'.
Ben became the youngest person ever to atempt an unsupported 'all the way' North Pole expedition, along with fellow Briton Pen Hadow.
8 weeks of skiing nearly 400 miles through icy headwinds and temperatures below - 40 ºC.
At just 26 years of age Ben is considered to be one of the leading new adventurers.
Emilio López Marull- Luciano Pascuali
Colegio Stella Maris-Rosario


Bear Grylls, the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest at 23.
Everest took ninety days enduring extreme weather, two month of limited sleep and running out of oxygen.
Bear joined only thirty British climbers and returned alive.On the way down, Bear cheated death ice cracked and he fell into a crevasse that was 1.000 feet deep, was knocked unconscious and had it not been for the tenacity of his teammates he would not be alive today.
Bears book, "Facing up", is published under the title, "The Kid Who Climbed Everest".
To cross the Atlantic via the Artic Circle is the subject of his latest book, "Facing The Frozen Ocean".
Two years before he climbed Everest he had suffered a near fatal parachuting accident in Africa.He broke his back, worked hard to regain full mobility and began training for the daunting challenge.
In September 1997, he became the Youngest Briton to climb Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas.
He led the first team testing a pioneering new fuel made from rubbish and owns a nature reserve on an island. Bear lives on a houseboat in London with his wife Shara, baby Jesse and Nima the Labrador.
His natural talent for communicating and entertaining on all levels with everyone has made him a popular personality.

Sol Berli- Stella Maris-Rosario