Skating

Today, 13th we've had class, like every day and after them we went ice-skating to Lakeland Center , wich was great! I've had lots of fun because, at first Iwas almost falling down but I haven't, also, about 15 minutes after I saw Miquel with some problems for skating, so I decided to help him and it was really funny! He was really scared at first, but some minutes later he started to get more self-confident so finally he skated alone and finally we had a lot of fun, so it was great. I loved this day.

by Fernando

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Playing basketball

Yesterday we had English classes as usually in which we played different sorts of games. Besides, we went to the computer lab. Later we went to the Cici's pizza and had lunch. We stayed there for a while until 2:30 p.m when we went back to the college.

When we got to college, we went to the gym. It's a very nice gym. After everybody had changed clothes, we started a basketball match. We were playing around a couple of hours. The basketball court is great and we enjoyed it. When we finished we did some stretching exercises. A time out was raining hard, so that we were leaving home with our host families.

by Ander

Starting a new week

It is more than a week since we arrived. Yesterday Monday we started the English lesson at 9 o'clock, like every day. Our teachers are Martha and Abby. At half past twelve, after classes had finished, we had lunch at Polk State College and then we drove to the outlets in Orlando where we bought some clothes. At 5 o'clock we returned to the college in Winter Haven. We really enjoyed the day.

by Josep

Thursday 7th and Friday 8th.

Friday 8th

Today we took our first trip. We went to Disney World where we´ve visited two parks: Epcot and Magic Kingdom. It was quite good but there weren't any fast rides.

by Rafael

Thursday 7th

Today we had a very rainy day. In class we saw a movie. We ate in a mexican restaurant after that we were suposed to go swimming, but beacuse after rain we had to spend the afternoon at Polk State College playing billiard, playing ping pong and playing videogames bacause it was raining.

by Rafael

Mr Poppers and Penguins

Yesterday on wednesday we went to the cinema to see Mr Poppers and Penguins. It wasn't a very nice film but it was funny. The film was a comedy but it had a good ending because the plot of the film talked about the importance of love in a family. Sometimes, strange things like to have penguins in a New York's appartment, could make your dreams come true.

by Laura

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