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Here you will find our e-pals. They are from Lebannon, Connecticut.

Edith’s visit

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Edith has visited us!!!

Edith, our e-pals’ teacher has come from Connecticut to pay us a visit!! We all had a very good time with her. She’s sent us this comment:

“This is a wonderful site. Congratulations!

How are you progressing with Romeo and Juliet? You must have your Cast by now. I enjoyed your skits very much, especially the scene from The Witches.

Thanks again for a great visit to your school. The foods you brought looked so nice on the table, and everything was delicious. We were happy to share the CDs. You’ll receive messages from your pen pals on May 1-2, but remember our time is about six hours behind yours.

Hasta luego – Edie”

Dear Edith,

The SES Teià’s students really had a good time with you and are really looking forward to see you again! Here you are some of the comments they’ve written about your visit:

“Me pareció muy bien que viniera Edith a visitarnos. Tuvimos la suerte de poder hablar con la profesora de español de “Lebannon Middle School”. Me cayó muy bien y también la ví muy interesada por el español. Nos explicó como eran los alumnos de su escuela.

Le hicimos un pica-pica. cada persona trajo algo de comida o bebida. Lo preparamos en el comedor. Había tortilla de patatas, patatas chips, palomitas, palomitas de chocolate, arroz con leche, frutos secos, creps, jamón serrano, pan con tomate, dos pasteles entre otras cosas. La verdad es que fue una fiesta muy bonita y divertida. Creo que Edith también se lo pasó bien con nosotrs, o eso espero!

Ahora me gustaría ir a Estados Unidos a vistar la escuela y poder hablar con todos los alumnos y que ellos vinieran. Me lo pasé muy bien.” (Alba)

“El dia 16 d’abril de 2008 va venir una professora que es deia Edith. Aquesta professora és la professora dels nostres “pen-friends” que vivien a Amèrica. L’Edith va arribar de Girona cap a les deu. A l’hora del pati vam fer un “banquet” amb tot de mejar que havíem portat. En el banquet hi havia patates, crispetes, dos pastissos, coca-cola, sis fuets, crispetes ab xocolata, galetes, avellanes, nous, slami, pernil salat, arròs amb llet, entre d’altres coses.

També va anar a veure les classes de teatre en anglès i la classe d’anglès del grup alt on vam representar “The withces” i “uncle Bill’s Will”. També ens va regalar uns forros i unes xocolatines.

En resum, ens ho vam passar molt bé.” (Gerard)

“El día que vino Edith nos lo pasamos muy bien con ella. Espero que se pueda repetir o que podamos ir a visitarla y conocer a nuestros e-pals en persona porque se ven muy simpáticos” (Cristina B.)

“Yo traje el fuet para el pica-pica. Creo que su visita estuvo muy bien ya que la profesora era simpática y cada uno de nosotros podíamos hacerle preguntas. El pica-pica, buenísimo. Habían unas cosas buenísimas (cocas, embutido…) y la profesora disfrutó que es de lo que interesaba. Pero comí tanto que acabé con dolor de barriga.” (Jordi S.)

“Edith vino al pica-pica en el que todos colaboramos trayendo un alimento, bueno después nos lo comimos tosos, ella incuida, pero la comida duró poquísimo.

Después vino a la clase de teatro y ensayamos Romeo and Juliet y ella nos ayudó a vocalizar. Ella era muy simpática.” (Miquel R)

“Va ser una visita molt divertida perquè l’Edith és molt enrollada i molt divertida. A l’hora de teatre vam fer Romeo i Julieta i ella ens va ajudar a traduir, a fer expressions molt bé i a més a més feia gràcia perquè de vegades feia unes cares molt gracioses. Vam riure molt” (Nico)

“El día que vino Edith estuvo muy bien. Era simpática. Nosotros le regalamos una cartulina pequeña con una foto de nuestra clase y detrás todas nuestras firmas. Y ella nos trajo los pósters que ellos utilizan para forrar los libros. Creo que todo fui muy bien y que tanto ella como nosotros nos lo pasamos bien.” (Selva)

“Por la mañana hicimos clase normal y a la hora del patio fue cuando conocimos a Edith. Le hicimos preguntas y ella nos las contestó. También a la hora del patio le hicimos preguntas y nos las contestó.”(Rubén)

Here you are some of the photos we took during her visit.

First, she visited 2nd A and our students asked her some questions and talked to her about their e-pals and the American educational system.

Here we can see Selva, Sandra, Laura, Sira and Sonia.

Then, we had a typical Catalan breakfast.

Anna, Sonia R, Laia M and Paula.

Mireia, Pablo, Alex, Selva, Carla R., Guillem L.

Musa, Alba, Anna, Sonia and Laia M.

Laura, Selva, Carla R, Cristina and Sandra.

Ferran, Ebou and Gerard.

Roger, Musa, Laia D, Martí, Daniel, Joaquim, Joanna, Maria D, Elena, Marina and Sira.

After our breakfast, all students wanted to meet Edith and talk to her. She, very nicely, answer all their questions and explain things about each e-pal.

Edith talking about our e-pals with Musa, Roger, Carla V, Alex, Mireia and Eric F.

At 11:30, Edith accompanied us to class. The drama class students performed the fist scene of Romeo and Juliet for her. Then, she helped me introducing the next scene. She taught students how to perform better by using our voice, our hands and our whole body. while students were rehearsing that new scene she went around giving some advice to the actors. We really enjoyed it!

At 12:30, all students of first ESO who belong to the high level flexible group joined Edith and could talk a little more with her.

From the front on the left: Judit T, Judit C, Marna C, Marina F, Laia D and Lara.

From the front on the left: Daniel, Joaquim, irene, Maria, Laia M, Olga and Guillem T.

From the front on the left: Mireia, Joanna, Roger, Guillem T, Alex, Ferran, Miquel S and Guillem L

Finally, some students very kindly leraned their lines and performed a piece of our plays.

Guillem L and Lara performed the starting scene of Uncle Bill’s Will.

Gerard, Miquel S, Judit T and Marina F performed the beginning of The Witches.

Mireia and Irene performed the speech of the Grand High Witch from the play The Witches.

We really liked Edith’s visit, her presents (sweets, chocolates, posters, letters from our e-pals and cd wtih songs) and we are looking forward to your next visit.

Thanks again Edith.

Our e-pals

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Here you are some new letters we’ve received from our e-pals in Connecticut.

Dear Eric,

            Thank you for the last letter you sent to me. Easter is coming up and I’m very excited. Do you celebrate Easter? My family does. On Easter I wake up and go down stairs to see Easter baskets filled with little gifts. Some of the gifts are like jump ropes, chalk, clothes, and candy. Usually the Easter Bunny or Peter Cottontail will leave little chocolate eggs around the house for my siblings and I to find. Then later on that day we go to my grandmothers and have a big Easter egg hunt around her house outside. There are plastic eggs and inside of them are candy and money. In some of the eggs are little slips of paper that say prize on them. Then at the end, my grandmother will ask if anybody has a prize written on the paper and she will give us like toys for the girls and candy for the boys. 

Our school is having a field trip to Washington DC. We are staying over night in a hotel for four days. When we come back from Washington DC we have April Vacation. April Vacation is a whole week long. (I think). Anyway, my friends are very excited so are my sister and I.

Here are some questions you can answer in the next letter you send. Do you celebrate Easter? Does your school go on any exciting field trips, if so where? Do you get a vacation how long?

                                                                                  Hugs, Erin

Hey Miquel,

        How are you? I’m doing pretty good considering the weather. It stills snows once in a while but now that spring is coming the weather is getting warmer so the snow is melting away! And because spring is coming that means that our school’s annual field trip is coming too! Every year the eight grade class goes to Washington D.C. I’m very excited about this field trip because we will be gone for four days! Does your school go on cool field trips like mine?? If so, what kind?

        Another cool thing about spring is Easter! Since we have Easter our school gets Good Friday off! Every Easter my family and I go to my Aunt’s house to eat our Easter dinner and find our colorful eggs. When we get home we boil tons of eggs and color them with all sorts of colors. Do you and your family celebrate Easter? If so what do you do over the vacation?

        Things have been going good for me… some interesting things have happened to. Like now that our regular basketball season is over we have All-Star Basketball! Our team is great we have everything that you need… height, speed and good shots. Our practices have been fun so far, but you never know they could turn bad. What type of activities are you doing right now?

 

Your friend,

                                                                            Emily J

Letter from Brian

Hey Pau!

 I hope I get a letter from you soon.  Do you get a Winter Break?  You’re very lucky that you don’t get any snow, here it’s nice sometimes, but everybody is ready for spring!!  Easter is the next holiday here, well if you celebrate it.  Do you celebrate Holy Week?  For Easter we only get Good Friday off, but in April we get a whole week.  Most people go down to Florida for that week.  

 

Hope you write back soon,

Bridget

Letters from our e-pals

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Here you are some of the letters we’ve received from our e-pals in Connecticut.

Hi! What’s up?

My name is Kylie. I live in Connecticut. My favorite sport is soccer. Do you have a favorite sport? I have many pets in my home. I have two cats, two dogs, a fish, and a bird. I used to have more pets. I live in a family of four (including me). I have a sister, mom, and dad. We all like to go swimming.

On the weekends, we eat together and listen to music at night. It is a lot of fun. I celebrated Christmas with my family this year. What do you celebrate? I got a guitar, clothes, and an I pod with some other things.

What do you do during your free time or for fun? I really like swimming and playing soccer. We will be sending you our pictures soon! This spring I am going to a concert. My favorite band is on tour, and I am very excited. Going to concerts is my favorite hobby. I like going to concerts even more than I like playing soccer and swimming.

Sincerely,

Kylie

1/10/08

Hi,

How was your Holiday? I enjoyed mine very much. It was nice having some time on my own away from school for a little while. I hope you enjoyed your holiday as well. For the last few days here in Connecticut, it has been almost 50° Fahrenheit, which is an unusually high temperature for this time of year. What is the weather like where you live? I would be interested to know. Now, for me it is back to school until February vacation, which I am already looking forward to. After February vacation, there are only a few random days off here and there until summer vacation. I am about halfway through 8th grade now, and next year I will be going up to the High School. I am a little nervous about this, since the High School is a lot larger than the Middle School, where I am now. Talk to you again soon!

William