Reading turist

After we went to McDonalds and we ate. When we went to Reading, we visited a very beautiful park, in which there were a lot of things. We also played a football game in the park, played on the swings and slides, and swang between the trees on a zip-line. It was alot of fun!

Guille Miralta

Luis David Salmeron

Ignasi Friguls

Treasure hunt fotografica

Yesterday we went to reading, we did a treasure hunt in the Oracle Center (a shopping center). The center had very importants shops: Hollister, Disney World, Apple Store etc. We spilt into groups, and David Arboix gave us a sheet with photos that we had to complete. The winner won a very exciting and important gift (a lot of sweets) :P After the treasure hunt we went to a park and we played a football match - my team won.

Marc Sanchez

Borja Pujol

Nacho Pellejero

Orienting in Reading

Yesterday we went to Reading and we did a treasure hunt and we saw all the city. We had a good time with the all people. The treasure hunt consisted in making a race-circuit counterclockwise around Reading. The circuit began in the park of Reading and finished at the Oracle (the Shopping Hall of Reading). At the end we won the treasure hunt "Orienting Reading".

Oriol Rodriguez
Sergi Canalda

Juan Pages

Accommodation of the English Course in Oxford in 2011:

The accommodation of this english course can be for 1, 2, 3 or 4 people.

The rooms are small but very comfortable. They have a bed, a window, a door, a ceiling, a lavatory, a wardrobe, a floor, a table, a chair, an armchair, a cupboard, etc.

They are numbered from 1 to 225 (We have rooms numbered 203, 204 and 205).

These rooms are much more preferable than the rooms in the other conveniences of the clubs.

There is an unique aggravation in some rooms, that is, that they stink a little.

God save the Queen.

Edu C, Xavi G, Marti R.

Squash Championship

This week in the Oratory School are being played two squash championships: the international, against the Italians, Polish and other Spanish groups; and the national one, which consists of an induvidual Spanish ranking of only our group. To be the first in the ranking you have to win as many matches as you can against the rivals of the best level.
In the international one, we are doing very well, Mateu Borrell and Jaume Ventura qualified for the semifinals, and Ton Puig, David España, Pablo López and Domènec Melé were eliminated in the quarter finals.
Actually Ton Puig is number one in our ranking, followed by Borja Pujol and Mateu Borrell, but everything can change in the next week, most days the ranking is updated and the championship is still undecided.

Mateu Borrell, Domènec Melé and Miguel Herrera

One Day In The Oratory School

Every day we wake up at 7:30, then we have breakfast, where we can choose between a lot of kinds of food, for example: eggs, bacon, sausages, fruit, cereal and more things. When we finish breakfast, we have a conversation about human formation. It tries to make us better persons. After that, with a lot of laziness, we go to class... :S

Classes start at 9:30 and we don't stop until 11:00, when we have a little brake of 15 minutes, and then we continue learning until 11:45. When the classes are finished, we go to the Holy Mass. By the time we have finished it, we finally go to the desired lunch. After lunch, we talk in the hall about what we're going to do in the afternoon. Then we have the last class of the day. During the afternoon, we play different kinds of sports like football, tennis, squash, golf or also we can go to the swimming pool! When we finish sport we have a shower and at 18:00 we have dinner. After that we do some English Activities and then we pray the Holy Rosary. Finally, we play a Night Game and when the game is finished it's the supper time and FINALLY we go to bed.

Do you think that it is a hard day? We live it every day and that is what makes us stronger.

Dani Andres and Carlos Lazaro.

The National Gallery

Yesterday, in the National Gallery we saw a lot of famous paintings, painted by Van Gogh, Velazquez, Manet, Monet, Murillo, Boticelli and Da Vinci.

The most famous painting is "The Sunflowers" and "The Night in Saint Remy", the two masterpieces painted by Vincent Van Gogh.

The National Gallery is in front of the Trafalgar Square, in that square we saw the clock of the countdown of the Olympic Games of 2012 in London.

If you go to that museum you must be carefull with one thing.

1. Maybe you will be lost, because it is very big.

Xavi Salvia and Nil Bono.

Shopping in LillyWhite's

Hi, we're Albert Trilla, Pablo Lopez and Tony Gallemi.

Yesterday, on Wednesday July 20 we had a great time in LillyWhite's.
A store with many football jerseys, basketballs, sneakers...all at a good price.
People bought a lot of T-shirts of many football teams.

It's a store with big discounts of up to 70%.

This store has T-shirts of many sports: football, golf...

Outside LillyWhite's there were a lot of people who made magic tricks.

visit to London

Last Wednesday we went to London and we visited Covent Garden. It is a warehouse where there are a lot of things like: sweters, watches, wrist-bands... We bought a lot of things: necklace (for our sisters), sweters, t-shirts..., and after it we went to Lillywhites we visited the British museum too, and we saw many thinks, for example the most famous thing we saw was "La Piedra Roseta". It was very nice. We went to Buckhingham Palace, and it was very interesting and great. After the day we were very tired, especially Nil Bono who felt sick.

Stonehenge

One group went to Stonehenge, called Piedras Colgantes in Spanish. In Stonehenge one member of staff give spoke with us in Spanish and explained for us the history of Stonehenge. In the middle of the plain it was very windy. The stones were taken from Ireland, and the Paleolitic men transported them on the rivers and the sea. The legend explained how Lucifer moved the rocks to the place of Stonehenge.

Windsor Castle

Yesterday we went to Windsor Castle (The Queen's castle of England). It is the most beautiful castle in England. When we entered the castle we saw the security. In the castle there are very big rooms with only pictures and weapons. Queen Mary have a very big doll house .
The Queen still lives in the castle in the weekens .
After the visit to Windsor Castle we went to the beautiful garden and relaxed in the grass
After relaxing we went to McDonalds and ate a very good burger and drank one Coke.
After that we returned to the school (the Oratory school).

Visit to Salisbury

Yesterday Sunday we went to Salisbury, a very high and old Anglican cathedral. It has the tallest tower in the UK. Salisbury cathedral is a gothic building from the 12th century.We went by car and the weather was cloudy.We traveled for 1 hour by car. We arrived at approximately 3:00pm. We saw the interior cathedral, its gardens and its rooms. After that we took a walk around shops. Somebody went to a supermarket and bought many things (twits, polo, mentos, kit-kat etc.) for 1 pound everything. After that we ate the dinner from Oratory School "fantastic food", and then we went to Stonehenge.

One day in the Oratory School

In Oxford we are very learning English. In the morning we wake up at 7:30. After having a shower we go to breakfast. Then, we have a talk and the classes. Before lunch, we go to Holy Mass (Old Chapel). In the afternoon we have another class, the sport and the meditation. Then we go to the cantine for having the dinner, and after the dinner, we have the English activities, which are differrent each day. Then we have a night game, the supper and we go to sleep.

This is an ordinary day here, in the Oratory School.

Imperial war museum

On our first visit to London we saw several things, but we would most like to explain is the Imperial war museum.

In the museum we saw a lot of weapons, warplanes, war tanks and a lot of thinks very striking.

One thing which surprised us were the videos of the war in Vietnam.

The trench looked so real.

The tower of London

Last Wednesday we went to London to visit the tower of London, it is very big, and in this tower the head of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher was cut off because they didn't recognise the King of England Henry VIII, the leader of the Church of England.

Visit to London

On wednesday we visited London and went a lot of places.
First we crossed the London Bridge and some of us enjoyed visiting a warship of the World War II, and also the "War Museum".
There we could see a fragment of the Berlin Wall. We went to the parliament, and saw the Big Ben, and the London Eye too. Near the Big Ben was a lot of armed police, because first minister's house was close.
We went to so many other places, such as Baker Street, the Sherlock Holmes street, or Harry Potter's train station. In the image we can see our frustration when we discovered that the Platform 9 3/4 was reserved to VIP members only.
We enjoyed it very much.

Interview to Daniel's

What's your name?

People tend to call me Daniel's Kohout.

How old are you?

I have livd through twenty-one long and hard winters.

Where are you from?

I'm from the very heart of Europe, the town of Trebic, Czech Republic.

Where do you live?

I spend most of my time leisurely scanning through books in the gloriest city of Cambridge but my true homeland always rests safely in the depths of my soul.

What sports do you like?

Squash

Which novels do you like?

There is a great multitude of texts that satisfy my literary tastes. Chiefly, To kill a macking bird, The lord of the rings...

Who is your favourite composer?

Kenji Kawai, because his music is sublime.

Do you play any instrument?

The recorder

Interview of Robert McNamara

What's your name?
My name is Robert McNamara.
Where are you from?
I'm from Galway, Ireland.
Why do you come here?
To teach boys to learn english, especially to speak.
How many brothers do you have?

I have two brothers and one sister.

When did you come here?

Saturday 9th.

How many years have you been living in Ireland?

All my life, thirthy-three years.
What's your favourite drink?

Orange juice and red wine.

And your favourite food?

Potatoes.

Are you married?

No, I'm not, I'm a seminarian.

What's your favourite sport?

Gaelic football.

What's your favourite football team?

Galway F.C.

Rally Woodcote

Saturday some of us went to an old-vehicles exposition in Woodcote, near our school.

Years ago, there taked place a rally race that was very famous in this region.

In our visit we saw every kind of vehicles, from old vapour cars to most modern motorbikes.

We enjoyed our visit because it is interesting to saw how people moved years ago, and also learnt better how cars work.
There were two stands where we tasted some food, as local cheese and a local curry dish. Also we saw a strange animals expositions, for example a Lama.
It was a great experience that I recommend to everybody.

When we went to visit Oxford Castle

The castle was built in 1071.
There we saw how the castle was in the Middle Ages; the prisons, the crypt...
The castle has one thousand steps, and they are very steep.
Also the castle has a prison from the times of the English Civil War, with the punishment cells and very uncomfortable bedrooms.

Javier Almajano & Nil Bono.

Christchurch visit

This is the dinning hall of Christchurch where we visited yesterday (Sunday). The Harry Potter films were filmed there. In the films it looks more big, but it is actually smaller. It is very beautiful and there are lots of pictures.

Final Pictures

Michael's MOVIE

DAUMAR ON OXFORD ENGLISH COURSE

Pilgrimage to Willesden

Pictures

Football

London

Visit to Windsor

Photographic abstract from London

by Albert Gomez

Interview to Simeon Johnson

by
Quico Montuenga, Pablo Crespo and Álvaro de los Mozos

Photographic ginkana in Reading

Celtic Games Part 2

Some people were asking him why the games were called "Celtics Games".
In Celtics Games there are many different games, each with a a unique set of rules.It is neccessary to have some skill, strength, speed and agility. So it is advantageous to have both sporty and intelligent people within the team.
The Celtic Games are dependant upon the weather.
Often when the Celtics Games are celebrated there's rainning so you can slip and fall down making the games more fun and exciting but also very dangerous. The rain causes the grouund to change into a mud-bath and you stain yourself.There are many potentially dangerous games because there are some where you can be choked by other people and get hurt.

Toni Pont

Harrods, luxury corner

Fortune, money, richness, fame. These are some adjectives to Harrods: the most luxury shop of London. I advert that this text is no apt for the people wich loves the low price because in Harrods you can buy a pen for 15 pounds and the price of a statue made of glass rises to 30.000 pounds.

I know this because I have been there in a visit that I did recently to the Britain capital. I decided to pass to the shop and only walking in the sorroundings I was astonshed when I saw the big quantity of luxury cars. And its very difficult to enter alone or in groups because they don't want that the people only enter to see the things of Harrods. The 70% of the people that buys in Harrods are of Morroco or Indian nacionality. There is a list of products of Harrods:

• T-shirt: 1000 pounds.
• Sofa: 7000 pounds.
• Football gold boots:n 300000 pounds.
• Gold burner: 100000 pounds.

Martí Rodríguez - Jaume Ventura - Óscar Toledo.