Torring JVV exchange

The students of 1B BAT spent some days with their partners of Torring Gymnasium in Denmark. They participated in different activities and visited some interesting places. Here you can read about their experience. 

AARHUS

During our stay in Denmark, we visited a city called Åarhus, the second biggest city in Denmark. First we went to Den Gamle by (The Old Town), a national open-air museum of urban history and culture in Denmark through three centuries. The museum consists of more than 75 historic houses relocated from all over Denmark. 

Afterwards, we visited the AROS the museum of modern art. It is famous for its rainbow panorama which is placed at the top of the building where you can see the whole city in different colors. We liked all the exhibitions because it was very different from the art we have here in Catalunya and we enjoyed the views from the panorama a lot. Once we finished our visit to the museum we had free time to discover the city by ourselves.

TAG FESTIVAL

The day after we arrived in Torring we went to a school festival called TAG Festival which is celebrated once a year so we were lucky to be able to attend. There were concerts from local and school groups and different games we could play. There were also chilling areas and food trucks, for those who didn’t feel like playing or dancing.

The festival started around 11 am and ended at 2 am but most of us went there around 4 pm because before that we went to a pre-party with our exchange students.

In conclusion we had so much fun and we think that was a great opportunity to get to know their culture.

FOOD IN DENMARK

In Denmark we ate earlier than in Girona. We had lunch at 12 and dinner at 18h. We ate a lot of bread with differents things on top and a lot of sandwiches, especially in school. They also gave us a lot of different snacks, like liquorice and a typical Danish dessert called Flødeboller, which is a chocolate covered meringue.

Self Compassion

Last Friday we, baccalaureate students, were lucky to participate in a talk dealing with self-compassion. Goldie Nanwani, author of the book "Thoughts translated" , explained to us a bit about self-compassion while making us think: why do we treat ourselves differently? 

Don't we deserve to be forgiven when making errors? She made us reflect on quotidian acts we do without even thinking, as for example giving up a seat in the bus, and we ended up realizing the importance of being kind to and understanding oneself... The final goal of the talk also was giving us some tips to understand and use self-compassion in our lives.

Our Travel Agency! (Part two)

Our 2nd ESO students decided to give a turn to their lives as students and became travel agents … for some weeks. They did really well. Here you have some of their proposals. Please have a look at them and take your pick!

Our Travel Agency! (Part one)

Our 2nd ESO students decided to give a turn to their lives as students and became travel agents … for some weeks. They did really well. Here you have some of their proposals. Please have a look at them and take your pick!

Captain James Cook

Childhood

Captain James Cook was born on October 27th, 1728 in Yorkshire, England. He was the second of James Cook’s eight children, a Scottish farmer. When he was young, he used to climb a hill in his free time. the name of the hill is Roseberry Topping in North Yorkshire.

The Royal Navy

When he was seventeen, he left his farm house, and went to work as an apprentice for a merchant sailing company. 

After nine years of hard work, when he was close to becoming a captain, he quit and joined the royal navy as a common seaman. he was promoted to ship master in only two years, and later, took command of his own vessel.

His firts voyage

His first adventure began in August 1768, when he left England on the Endeavour. They went to Tahiti, to witness the passing of Venus in front of the sun.

But he wasn’t just sent to see that, he was also sent with a military purpose, to find the Great Southern continent.

One of his great inventions

In the 18th century, scurvy was a disease that killed many sailors, and it was caused by a lack of vitamin C.

But captain Cook kept all three of his expeditions scurvy-free, and this was thanks to his obsession of only feeding his crew fruit and sauerkraut, and at every stop he made his crew pick fresh fruits.

Arrival in Hawaii

During his third voyage, he became the first European to set foot in Hawaii, which he called ‘the Sandwich islands’, after his patron, Earl of Sandwich. The natives, celebrated his arrival with joyous celebrations. And it wasn’t for no reason, his arrival coincided with an annual festival, in honor of the Hawaiian fertility god ‘Lono’. They had never seen a ship as big and magnificent as Cook’s, so they thought he was a god, and treated him like one.

A grisly death

When he and his ships landed at Hawaii, thay docked for repairs, Cook became enraged when a group of natives, stole one of his cutter boats. When he found out, he was so mad, that he took their king hostage. The natives, fearing for the life of their king, killed Cook by bashing him with rocks and clubs, and to finish him off, one of the Hawaiian warriors, plunged a knife, (a gift from Cook) into his back.

Text: Jacob Tyson Harris-Inman

Happy Thanksgiving!

Origins of Thanksgiving

History of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day first started in New England. It was celebrated to thank God for the abundant harvest of crops. This is usually celebrated in late fall, on the third thursday of november, after all the crops have been harvested.

Real Origins

The Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England, to the New World in 1620. These were the firsts settlers and also the ones who celebrated the first official Thanksgiving together with the natives.

Thanksgiving in Girona

Here in Spain, people don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. But us, americans, still do. We celebrate Thanksgiving with our family and friends with a big meal. 

The most typical food is : Turkey with stuffing and cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and some delicious bread rolls and pumpkin pie ...

Jake’s experience

Hey I’m Jake. I like thanksgiving, even though it isn’t a big thing here.

I always attend a Thanksgiving party in Barcelona with my family every year, meet a lot of new people, reconnect with old friends and have a great time!

Cultura Anglesa

Gràcies a l’Editorial Burlington els alumnes de 1r ESO han assistit a una xerrada sobre la Cultura Anglesa. 

La Cristina, vinguda directament de New York ens ha explicat en anglès molts aspectes de la cultura anglesa. Per tal de fer-ho més divertit ens ha fet una sèrie de preguntes per a veure si sabiem algunes coses sobre la Cultura Anglesa. 

Merci per tot Cristina!

Halloween

It’s a very fun celebration, let me tell you that.

Halloween is celebrated on the last day of October, meaning the 31st, where kids looove this day, well, because usually candies are involved, or the older kids like it because they prank other people, or they trash people’s houses by throwing toilet paper and raw eggs.

But it’s not always like that.

You want to have a good time, so you plan with your friends you dress up however you like and you go trick or treating. It consists on knocking on people’s house door and saying/singing-’Trick or treat!’- if they respond ‘trick’ you get tricked on, like they pull a joke on you. If they say treat, they start covering you in candy. Remember to have a basket in hand!

Wherever you are, and you want do celebrate it, don’t worry! Try to organize it and have fun! That’s all you need.

And most of all… try to be scary! (or not).

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Text: Kaleb W. Grove, 2n ESO