Welcome Aino!

Yesterday we were told that a girl from Finland is coming in August, her name is Aino and she has sent and e-mail asking for information about the school, the uniform, the class,and the timetables. She has sent a photo and she is eager to come.

New Year resolutions 2008

I have decided to share this blog with one of my classes this year. I ´m going to invite my students in 4º at Integral Fisherton to contribute by posting their own productions, reflections, ideas, opinions... Let´s see what comes out of this experience

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