Some pictures in Florida

Today we had no school because they celebrated the Independence Day Anniversary. It's a day to spend with our host families. At night we saw fireworks after watching America’s Cup Football match. I went for barbecue to Rafa’s house and when I returned home I spend the rest of the day playing games and watching films. I had a great time and a full activities day.

By Carmen.

Desde Florida un cordial saludo a todas las familias. Estamos empezando a vivir una fantástica experiencia en casa de unas familias maravillosas que nos han acogido con los brazos abiertos.

Todos estamos muy bien y ya hemos empezado a disfrutar de este maravilloso país y de su agradable gente.

Vamos a ir escribiendo las vivencias del grupo y mostrando algunas fotos de actividades.

Teresa, nuestra coordinadora, Padre Nicolás y Sr. Miquel.

UN IDIOMA, UN PAÍS, UNA ILUSIÓN...

Un saludo desde los diferentes “blogs” de nuestra página Web, con el deseo que se haga realidad el lema escogido para este Verano 2011: “Un idioma, un país, una ilusión…”

Así pues, que todos y todas sepamos aprovechar esta oportunidad de aprender, mejorar y profundizar nuestros conocimientos del inglés y que verdaderamente nuestro aprendizaje sea del todo exitoso. Que los nuevos amigos/as nos ayuden a conseguir los objetivos que nos proponemos realizar: divertirnos aprendiendo y madurar en nuestro ser personas.

Feliz estancia a todos en cada uno de los lugares escogidos, dentro de nuestra Organización de Idiomas Padre Manyanet.

P. Antonio Sorribes

Director

HASTA SIEMPRE

Un año más cerramos nuestros cursos de Idiomas, con la confianza que todos nuestros estudiantes hayan alcanzado los objectivos que nos habíamos marcado. Quiero pues, agradecer desde aquí, en primer lugar, todo el trabajo llevado a cabo por los directores de grupo y los monitores responsables de cada uno de ellos.
Asimismo, agradezo a los padres la confianza que habéis tenido con Idiomas Padre Manyanet. Que todos terminemos de pasar un feliz verano en familia y hasta siempre.

P. Antonio Sorribes S. F.
Director de Idiomas Padre Manyanet

HASTA SIEMPRE

Un año más cerramos nuestros cursos de Idiomas, con la confianza que todos nuestros estudiantes hayan alcanzado los objectivos que nos habíamos marcado. Quiero pues, agradecer desde aquí, en primer lugar, todo el trabajo llevado a cabo por los directores de grupo y los monitores responsables de cada uno de ellos.
Asimismo, agradezo a los padres la confianza que habéis tenido con Idiomas Padre Manyanet. Que todos terminemos de pasar un feliz verano en familia y hasta siempre.

P. Antonio Sorribes S. F.
Director de Idiomas Padre Manyanet

Pool's Party (Saturday 24th)

In our last weekend, the students of USA went to Alex's host family house for being all together and having a great time. We did lots of activities, like: swimming, play freesbie, fly in a plane...

At lunch, we ate american food and spanish food. The host families did american food (meat balls, cookies, brownies, spaguettis...) and Manu cooked Paella for everybody.

I was so excited because when I went to the plane, I rode about few minutes. Finally, we spent the time in the swimming pool because it was a very hot day.

 

Santiago

Island of adventures (Friday 23th)

Today was a great day!!!!

 

We went to Universal Studios (Island of adventures), we enjoyed a lot because we rode in different rides, roller coasters and more things.

Firstly, we went to fall ride (it was very funny), but I prefer saying the water falls, that was awesome!!!

Secondly, we went to Jurassic Park and we saw dinosaurs and the jungle.

Later, we went to Harry Potter's World, it's amazing. You are in the movie, it's great. There are two rides very well done and funny. We repeated every times.

In the afternoon we were very tired but we enjoyed a lot.

 

It was one of the best days!!!!

 

Mario

Thursday 22th

Today, today...

Today wasn't a amazing day...

I got up, went to school, you know all that everyday.

But... WAIT!!! We went to a restaurant (Applebee's) for having lunch. Yes, it was good!!! Everybody enjoyed their food.

Later, we went to swimming pool and were there about 3 hours. It was the best thing of the day (in my opinion) We met two boys (12 years old) and they explained us some good things about their live. It was funny!!! We enjoyed it.

 

Start the time over for going back home.

 

Maria

Wednesday 21th

Good morning!!!!

 

At the start of our day, we went to class in Polk State College. There, we did grammar and played a game called "Quiz". After that, we went to student's center for eating lunch.

In the afternoon, we did our rutine activity (swimming pool) There we had a lot of fun playing a volleyball match (my team won!!!)

We finished returning to their respectives families. I went with Manuel at my house for swimming in my pool. Later, we went to play bowling with Rocio's family. It was very fun!!!!

We only have 9 days left in Florida.

 

Bye, bye

 

Eduard

 

Tuesday 20th

Hello everybody:
 
Today we had classes of English like every day. We played a game (Jeopardy) and after we went to the computers for finishing our Spanish power points.
After that, we had the luch in Student's center. Then, we went to play with the table-tennis, pool and video games.
Teresa Martinez, the coordinator in USA, came to visit us and she recorded us playing and interviewed us.
Finally, we went to art class and we painted a mural about Andres Iniesta. Teresa recorded us too.
 
It was a soft day.
 
Mar

Tuesday 20th

Hello everybody:

 

Today we had classes of English like every day. We played a game (Jeopardy) and after we went to the computers for finishing our Spanish power points.

After that, we had the luch in Student's center. Then, we went to play with the table-tennis, pool and video games.

Teresa Martinez, the coordinator in USA, came to visit us and she recorded us playing and interviewed us.

Finally, we went to art class and we painted a mural about Andres Iniesta. Teresa recorded us too.

 

It was a soft day.

 

Mar

Shopping (Monday 19th)

Today was a different day. Four of us weren't here because they were doing different things with their host families.

We didn't do class at all. We did a scavenger hunt in the college and then we finished our powerpoints about Spain.

For some of us, today was a very important day because we were going to know if we were accepted at the university in Spain.

After having lunch, we went to Orlando to go shopping. It was very hot, I think we reached 100 degrees Farenheit, so it was very hard to walk without air conditioning but after all it was a great day.

 

Pau

 

 

Beach's day (Sunday 18th)

On Sunday, we were in the Polk State College's parking at 8 am. We went to Daytona Beach and we spent the time the morning swimming and playing with the water.

About 12:30 pm, we went to eat lunch to "Wendy's" (is very similar to Mc Donald's, but is better than this one). After lunch, we went a Carnival and Manu went on the "Sling shot attraction".

Finally, we spent three more hours in the beach and we ate dinner in Pizza's Hut.

 

It was a perfect day!!!

 

Gerard/ Oriol

 

 

Universal Studios (Friday 16th)

On Friday 16th of July, the students of USA went to a theme park called Universal Studios. The day was hot and there wasn't clouds in the sky when the group got in the park. At the beginning, they saw a high ramp of a roller coaster called "Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit", but the ride wasn't ready yet so they went to a Jimmy Neutron's simulator. When the atraction was over, the group went to another simulator about Shrek, that one was better than the first one.

In all the rides, the queve time was being from 20 to 35 minutes.

Later, they went to twister, a simulator about tornados based on the movie with the same name. After that, they rode in the "Mummy's ride", and finally, they could ride the big roller coaster.

In the afternoon, they spent the time in "Terminator 2" in 3D and they rode in "Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit" again before they left the park.

 

It was a great day!!!

 

Miquel

Thursday 15th

On thursday in the morning we had english classes till 12:30 pm. At 12:30 pm we went to Kentucky Fried Chicken to have lunch; after that, we went to the ice skating rink and we spent two hours there, we had a very good time.

At five o'clock we arrived to the university  and our host families came to pick us up.

 

Rocio

Enrique's memories

We've been here for ten days and I can't believe that we've only two weeks left. It must be said that classes are... well, that's it, classes; but every afternoon we do some activity. Some of them are more entertaining than others, but nobody can say that he/ she is not enjoying it (swimming, cinema, theme parks... are some of the places we go to)

 

Among the families, we found all the variety that could be expected, and we all feel comfortable with life at home. Of course, there are luckiers one, who spend days of class going to the beach or to theme parks.

 

All the spanish mates are knowing each others and we get on very well.

 

Enrique

Fwd: Our first week in Florida

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Queridas familias y amigos:

 

Somos Padre Nicolas y Manuel (los coordinadores de Florida) os escribimos para comunicaros que estamos todos muy bien y deciros que la primera semana ha sido genial y de adaptacion.

Los chicos y chicas nos han comentado que estan muy bien con sus familias americanas y todos estan asisitiendo a las clases en Polk State College con interes.

 

Os comentamos tambien que hemos realiado diversas actividades (bolera, piscina, cine, arte, deporte) y sobre todo, hemos visitado uno de los parques de Disney (Epcot Center), un parque educativo sobre la historia del mundo y de los dinosaurios.

 

No puede faltar que destaquemos que hemos conseguido ver nuestra seleccion de futbol todos juntos, tanto la semifinal contra Alemania y, por supuesto, la final contra Holanda. Estuvimos todos contentos aunque sufrimos hasta el ultimo minuto. Para celebrarlo, algunos chicos fueron a patinar sobre hielo.

 

A continuacion, podeis ver algunas fotos de los primeros dias y en adelante los chicos y chicas os iran escribiendo sus impresiones y vivencias en el blog.

 

Sin nada mas que comentar, disfrutaremos del resto de nuestra estancia en Florida.

 

Un cordial saludo.

 

Los coordinadores (Padre Nicolas y Manuel)

 

 

Un cordial saludo desde Florida.

Hola, queremos compartir con vosotros apasionantes experiencias que estamos viviendo en los Estados Unidos.

HASTA SIEMPRE

La Direccion y todos los responsables y colaboradores agradecen la confianza que habeis tenido en Idiomas Padre Manyanet, deseando que acabeis de pasar un feliz verano con toda la familia.

Que San Jose Manyanet bendiga cada uno de vuestros hogares.

Hasta siempre.

P. Antonio Sorribes, S.F.

NY, Wall Street & Yankee Stadium

New York Visit

New York Photos

Final Party Photos

Last Day in Florida

Our summer program has come to the end very fast. It is the time to say our goodbyes to our families and friends in Casselberry. We will never forget the friendship of the American families, the patience of the Teachers and the support of Saint Augustine's Parish Staff. In this month we have experienced the American way of life (language, food, cultural and recreational activities) and the spiritual values of this country. On our way back to Spain we take with us plenty of memories to share and enjoy.

Wait a second! We still have New York, the Big Apple, the City unique. Tomorrow, Sunday, we fly to New York where we hope to discover plenty of surprises that will make this trip very special.

We close this blog. We really hope it has been a window for all of you, families and friends, to keep track with our everyday activities. If we can, we'll include some pictures from New York!

Have a wonderful summer!!!

Islands of Adventure

Today Friday 25th, we had to be at 8 30 at the church to go to Islands of Adventure, a theme park based on universal studios films. We have had a great time there because the park is very good. There are a lot of good rides such as the Hulk or the Dueling Dragons. We have been in the Park from 9am to 6pm. The good thing about today is that it didn't rain as all the other days, so we were able to ride the different rides all day long. It started to rain when we driving back to our houses. At half past seven the American families were waiting for us and we went home.

 

Gabriel

Thursday, July 24th

We are Diego and Alvaro and we're going to explain what we've done today:
In the morning we have been to class but with some differences: First of all, we have worked with some idioms, then, Father Neumann has made a speech in the break time. And finally we have taken a lot of pictures with all the students, but we had to make a lot of pictures of Anna and Carla because they didn't like any of the pictures that we have made.
Later we have visited the 911 information center, where the people call when they need help, but the visit has been very short.
In the afternoon, we have been to some outlet stores. There were some stores like adidas, nike, levi's, ecko,… When we arrived there, the people were hungry, so we all went to have lunch. After lunch we went to buy clothes, but we didn't spend too much money because the prices were so low.
At 5:30 we came back to the church because the families were waiting for us there to go home.
DIEGO "Aupa athletic" and ALVARO "viva er beti"

More ice skating pictures

Ice Skating at The Ice Den in Orlando

Hello!!  I'm Danel and I going to explain what we have done today.
We've had class in the morning as usual. We were in class untill 12:30. Then we went to eat to Cici's Pizza, so logically we ate pizza and some pasta.
When we finished eating, we went to the ice skating and we had a great time there taking photos, skating and speaking a lot. But some people are all thumbs so they were falling all the time. When we getting were ready to return it stared to rain quite a lot and what it is worse: it started lightning and thundering so we had to wait for a while. But finally we returned and all of us went to our house to be with the familles.
With all these, the day finished.
DANEL"EL MENDA" RIANO

Tuesday, July 22nd

Hellow , my name is Ricard and today I'm going to write a few words .
  
Today classes began at 9:00 . We worked with "Idioms" and later the word of the day .
After the snack , we worked on a commercial that we are preparing for this Saturday because all the groups are going to present their own advertisement to the rest of the people.
 
When the lessons finished , we went to Oviedo Mall , it was pretty good. 
Finally all the group returned to the parking lot at 5:30 where the families were waiting for us.
  
And this is one day in this month in America.
BYE!

Oral presentations in class