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

Monday, July 21st

Hi I'm Nadine and I'm going to explain what we have done today:
 
Today, after morning classes, we went to a park called Kelly Park, Rock Springs. The park is very big and it is in the middle of a forest. There are two different areas in the park: in the first one there is a big lake where you can swim. The water comes from a spring so it is very cold. In the other section of the park there is a river that you can follow either by walking on one of the trails or by swimming from the top of the river to the lake. Some poeple like riding down the stream in an inner tube or on a float.

 

Nadine

Weekend

Hi I'm Elena.
Today we did different things everyone with their family. Some of them went to Alex and Guille's party.
 
I went with Claudia and Danel to Sarasota beach with Danel's family. We have slept at a motel because we went out on Saturday morning to different beaches.The water at the first two beaches was very hot but in the last one it was a bit colder.
Today we went to the beach more or less at ten o'clock it was very hot, the water was clean and was very comfortable to be there.
Then, when we were coming back to Casselberry, we stopped in a bridge to see many different kinds of boats. We had a great time this weekend!
 
Congratulations to my sister because it was her saint :)

 

Elena

Weekend activities

During the weekend the students have done different activities with their American host families. We include a couple of pictures from Seaworld in Orlando, depicting the famous Shamu and Dolphins Shows.

Friday, July 18th

Hi!! Today we had to be at 9 o'clock in the church because we have gone to Wet'n Wild, a water park with big slides and pool with waves.
We arrived and there weren't a lot of people so we went to a pool, then we went to differents slides, there was one called disco H2O that it had music and lights inside. There were slides for one person but also slides for 3 or more persons. It was so great!!
But about 3 it started to rain and everybody had to go out of the water, we had to go under umbrellas. while it was raining we were talking and laughing. When the rain stopped we went to walk arround the park to see the differents places and slides to go.
After that we went to a pool with floats because there were big waves! It was so funny!!
At 6 o'clock we left the Park and we returned to the church, the families were waiting for us.

Today has been a day to remmember!

Carla Hernandez

Police Station

Hi, today we had class as everyday. Then at 10:15 we have visited the police station. We enjoyed it a lot, because the policewoman was very nice with us. She showed us the jails, how they get the fingerprints and the photos of the criminals and she has explained to us too, what we have to do in case of being attacked...
 
Later at 12:30, we have gone to Milenium mall, where we had lunch.
It's a Big and beautiful mall, in Orlando. We like it, because it has a lot of shops, the brands that we used to wear in Spain. We enjoyed too the Apple store because we could use the internet there.
 
Then at 4:15 we left from milenium's mall. In the van, we were taking funny photos, with Diego, Alvaro, Danel, Gabi, Carla, Elena y Laura.
 
Today we had a great time as everyday.
See you tomorrow.
 
 
Anna Homs Quijo.