Our experience at Mendoza

Hello!

In this post we wanted to write about our trip to San Rafael.

We enjoyed very much this camping, because we shared a lot of things, emotions and feelings with our friends and we got to know more people from other courses.

The trip was fantastic in spite of sleeping on tents, but we had great fun!

The first night, as the bus broke in the middle of the journey, we had to sleep in the place where we ate due to we arrived too late, at eleven o'clock. The last night we had to do this again because the next morning we had to wake up early, that's to say, at four o'clock.

We liked most of the food except all the breakfasts because we drank mate cocido, and the last night's dinner that was polenta.

One day, we had the opportunity to do rafting in the Atuel River! It was an unforgetable experinece! We really enjoy this activity so the next day, we could repeait this amazing sport! It was a sourprise for us. Unfortunately, while doing rafting, Manuela got a bruise on her knee so one morning she went to the doctor, but thanks god she get cured easily.

One of the afternoons, we had a meal with a group of twelve mates, where we had to cook lunch ourselves. We prepared a special food that had tomato, potato, carrots, onion, garlic and meat.

Another important experience that we had with the same group, was that one night we went to sleep in other caming in the middle of a hill, where we slept in a kind of tent that we had to put up alone. It was a big one, just imagine twelve childs sleeping there! In addition, we cooked ourselves too.

We think that the campings are a great idea to get to know each other better, and is a way of relaxing from school and all days life, it is like a kind of holiday!!!

We both hope you had a great time as we did.

Kisses

Saru and Manu !

We are going to write about Bora Bora:

Bora Bora is the kind of tropical island most often found in dreams... a Polynesian jewwel green forests. Once home to Paul Gauguin, inspiration to countless other artist and writers, it retains all its legendary beauty and charm, exerting an irresistible magnetism on those seeking to escape the cares of the everyday world.
In the middle of Bora Bora´s espectacular lagoon lies Motu Toopua, a fragment of an ancient volcano that has become the ultimate tropical hideaway, a sweet-scented enclave of lush plants and flowers, tall palms and white sand beaches.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American alternative rock bandformed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. For most of its career, the group has consisted of vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith. The band's varied musical style has fused traditional rock with various elements of funk, punk rock, hip hop, heavy metal, anda psychedelic rock.

In addition to Kiedis and Flea, the group originally featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons. However, Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988, resulting in Irons resigning.

Irons was replaced briefly by D. H. Peligro, the formerDead Kennedys drummer, before the band found a permanent replacement in Chad Smith, while Slovak was replaced by upcoming guitarist Frusciante. This lineup recorded the band's fourth and fifth albums, 1989's Mother´s Milk.

Frusciante grew increasingly uncomfortable with the band's success and left the band abruptly in 1992. Kiedis, Flea, and Smith employed Dave Navarro of Jane`s Addiction for their subsequent album, 1995's One Hot Minute. It failed, however, to match the critical acclaim of Blood Sugar Sex Magik and sold less than half the copies of its predecessor. Shortly afterwards, Navarro was fired from the band due to creative differences.

Frusciante, while absent from the band, developed a severe drug addiction and nearly died. In 1998, he completed rehabilitation and, at Flea's request, rejoined the band. The reunited foursome returned to the studio to record 1999's Californication, which went on to sell fifteen million units worldwide, becoming their most successful album to date. It was followed three years later with By the Way, which continued their success. In 2006, the group released the double album Stadium Arcadium. Stadium Arcadium was voted the second best album of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine and nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy in 2007.

I really like this band because of their career.

Hope you like this article as much as I enjoyed while writing it.

Kisses

Cecilia Rodriguez.

The Gualeguaychú Carnival

I have decied to tell you about one of the most important carnivas in the world, whick takes place in Gualeguaychú.

During the months of January and February, Gualeguaychú prepares to offer one of the most expectes shows in the area.

Every year the comparsas have a mazimum of 2 hundred and 60 members, 4 floats and 4 dresses.

The members of the comparsa wear harnesses on thair shoulders and back to carry a sort of backpack. A headdress covers their head. The harnesses and headdresses symbolize the chosen theme. Each comparsa has its own workshop with specialists, because all the costume must be comfortable while dancing.

The Fancy Costumes are the most spectacular elementes in the comparsa. They are so haevy that they don't let the person who wears it dance. They usually have wheels and ligths.

Special costumes take part in competition where the paraders must dance with the harness. They usually wiegh 80 kilos , have 2.500 feathers, and several kilos of stones , pears and others elements.

The music is playes by the Orchestras and it is trasmitted by radio, except to the las section , in whick the Batucada is . The Batucada is a group of people who also play music while they are dancing.

Before the show the Queen of Carnival is chosen for her beauty and then she parades carrying a crown.

In the last years the Gualeguaychú Carnival has attracted more and more people. It is an argentinian tradition and people form all over the world came to participate.

I would really like to go ..!!! And what about you ??

Guadalupe Aguer

Our camp at Mendoza

Hi, as you all know we came back from camping at Mendoza a few days ago and I would like to tell you what are the things I most enjoyed .

I loved the camping site, the "Club of Pescadores", it was an amazing place, the view was awesome. We also did many interesting things such as rafting in the Atuel river, the water was freezing but it was really fun. I enjoyed the vivac, it was so much fun, having to build our own shelter and cook our own food, the view there was also great, the only bad thing about it were the "bathrooms". We also visited "La Vieja Bodega" where we could see how wine is made. I got to spend a lot of time with my friends and know new people I didn't know very much.

In my conclusion Mendoza is a really nice part of our country and all the affort made by everyone was really worth it.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my opinion of this camp.

Best wishes .

Florencia Stonski.

Ferrari cars

Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello and Modena, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari. Ferrari's cars are among the most desirable of vehicles to own and drive, and are one of the ultimate status symbols of wealth in the world. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in F1, where it has enjoyed a lot of success, especially during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, late 1990s, and 2000s.
Finally, after years of financial struggles, Enzo Ferrari sold the company's sports car division to the Fiat group in 1969. Enzo Ferrari himself retained control of the racing division until his death in 1988 at the age of 90.
Ferrari also has an internally managed merchandising line that licenses a wide range of products bearing the Ferrari brand, including eyewear, pens, pencils, perfume, clothing, high-tech bicycles, cell phones, and even laptop computers. Financial Times named Ferrari number one on its 2007 list of the 100 Best Workplaces in Europe.

Some of the best cars are

1962- 250 GTO
1984- 288 GTO
1987–1992 F40
1995–1997 F50
1996 - F50 GT
2003–2005 Enzo Ferrari
2006 FXX

Matt Groening

Well I supose you all know The Simpsons no? But... you know sth about their creator? In fact every time I ask about nobody knows. For everyone, Matt Groening is the creator of The Simpsons.
In this post I'm telling you about his life.

Groening was born the 15 of February in 1954, in Portland Oregon. He went to Evergrenn high school where he started drowing funny drowings of his director. In 1977 he graduated and he went to Los Angeles to look for a job. He wanted to be a journalist but he ended being a conductor of a bus.
His life changed radically when he create a comic call Life in Hell, based on his first experiences in LA. This comic was a great succes and made him very famous.
The 8th of September in 1986 he received a phone call made by James Brooks in which he was invited to Tracey Ullman show. He was suposed to take new material so Matt drow a family called The Simpsons. That was the begining of this well-known family. In that show The Simpsons appeared for the first time in a 2-minutes-lenght sketch.
That family was claimed for everyone so the Fox managers decided to contract Matt for doing a program in 1990. This program was a great succes and became rapidly the most viewed cartoon in Fox.
Today, after 17 years they are still on air, and so far they have won a lot of prizes and appeared in a movie.

This are some links where you can see some videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEq55UgMCF0 (is the one of the Gay Melter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejKkFX7Vc1w (Of course... Homero Thompson!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUkL4y6cnJU (the 3 questions to the chief of the quick e' marts)

This is an oficial page of Homer with some videos and 300 frases of Homer

http://www.homerosimpson.com.ar/

Well I hope you like it!

Mendoza

Today we decided to talk about this city because, as everybody knows, on October 12th we are going camping there for seven days.
Mendoza is a city in the west of Argentina. It is on a major road between Argentina and Chile. It is a frequent stopover for climbers heading up Aconcagua (the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere) or for other mountaineering, hiking, horseback riding, rafting (we hope we are going to do it!), and more outdoor activities. In the winter, skiers come to the city for its easy access to the Andes .
One of the main industries of the Mendoza area is wine making.
Mendoza was founded in 1561 by Pedro del Castillo. Here, José de San Martín organized the army with which he won the independence of Chile and Peru.
In 1861 a severe earthquake destroyed the city and killed at least 5,000 people.

It has very dry summers with wetter winters.
Now that we know a little bit more about this city, we are ready to go! We hope that you find this post useful! We both think that we will have fun!
Kisses
Sara Palacios and Manuela Obarrio.

McFly

McFly are a British pop rock band who were successfully launched into the music scene in early 2004 with their number one single, "5 Colours in Her Hair". The band was founded by Tom Fletcher (born 17 July 1985) and also consists of Danny Jones (born 12 March 1986), Dougie Poynter (born 30 November 1987) and Harry Judd (born 23 December 1985). They are signed to the Island Records label and are managed by Prestige Management.
As of May 2007, McFly have an impressive chart record of twelve top ten singles, seven of which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and two number one albums, their debut being Room on the 3rd Floor followed by Wonderland. Their third album, Motion in the Ocean, was released on 6 November 2006 and charted at number six. An announcement was made on their My pace page in April 2007 that the band will be releasing a Greatest Hits so Far compilation on November 5th 2007, and a fourth studio album in March 2008.
The name "McFly" was chosen by Tom Fletcher, the band's founding member, based on his love for the American science-fiction comedy Back to the Future series and Michael J. Fox's character Marty McFly. In 2004, the band found out that there was an American band also called McFly. The American McFly subsequently received a pay-off to change their name, which they did - renaming themselves Biff Tannen, after Marty McFly's enemy from the Back to the Future movie.
Fletcher had originally auditioned for Busted, but was rejected. He then started writing songs with Busted member James Bourne and was asked to come along to film auditions for a new band, V. Jones came along to the audition mistaking it for an audition for a Busted-like band. Fletcher spoke to Jones afterwards and Jones and Fletcher moved into the Intercontinental Hotel in London for 2 months, and the two began writing songs along with Bourne. To complete the band, they held auditions at London's Convent Garden for a drummer and a bass player. Coincidentally, Poynter and Judd both auditioned on the same day.

the horses

The Horses
The horse is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal , one of ten modern species of the genus Equus.Horses have long been among the most economically important domesticated animals; however their importance has declined with the introduction of mechanization. The horse is a prominent figure in the ideals of religion, mythology, and art and plays an important role in transportation, agriculture, and warfare. Horses also serve as a source of fuel and clothing.Most breeds of horses are able to perform work such as carryng humans on their backs or be harnessed to pull objects such as carts or plows However, horse breeds were developed to allow horses to be specialized for certain tasks; lighter horses for racing or riding, heavier horses for farming and other tasks requiring pulling power. Some horses, such as the miniature horse, can be kept as pets. In some societies, horses are a source of food, both meat and milk; in others it is taboo to consume them. In industrialized country, horses are predominantly kept for leisure and sporting pursuits, while in other parts of the world they are used as working animals.Because horses and humans have lived and worked together for thousands of years, an extensive specialized vocabulary has arisen to describe virtually every horse behavioral and anatomical characteristic with a high degree of precision.

Vocabulary

Domesticated:to bring animals under human control in order to provide food, power or companionship

Mechanization:to use a machine to do something that used to be done by hand

Industrialized Countries:a company whose main business is producing goods, or a share in such a company when it is traded on the

Farming:the activity of working on a farm or organizing the work there

Taboo:avoided for religious or social reasons

Warfare:the activity of fighting a war, often including the weapons and methods that are used

Harnessed: piece of equipment, with straps and fastenings, used to control or hold in place a animal

Mythology:connected with myths