Experiencing the future at Florida Polytech

Today after class, we had lunch at Cici's Pizza, a place where you can have all the salads, pasta and, of course, pizza that you want!! 

Then, we went to Polk Outpost 27, which is an information center for tourist. When we entered, a man gave us a bag with some information inside and then he started a short visit around the center showing us the things and activities you can do when visiting Polk County.

Afterwards, we visited Florida's brand new university, Florida Polytech University, which will open next month. It's the only state university exclusively dedicated to science, technology and engineering. It's an amazing building designed by an Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava. This uni has more than 30 classrooms and research labs. It has received donations by Apple, Microsoft and even a huge hard drive that has around 700 terabytes!!! Our guide told us that this would probably cost like 40 million dollars!!!!

Every classroom can hold between 15 and 20 students and we found it really cool and modern. Some of us even sat down in some of the classroom to see the uni through students eyes. 

The building itself is different to what we've seen around and it looks like a futuristic place, as you can see in the pics.

Let's say it was a very interesting day!!

Carla

Pool Day Pics!

Pool Day!

Today it started our first week in Florida. Since we are here, we only had been with our host families doing lots of things and only had been to class one day, which was basically to check our level of English and to make a tour around Polk State College.

We met with our leaders (Father Nick and Edu) at 8:15 at the Lakeland's Polk State College and we took our super awesome van to go to Winter Haven's campus (where we actually have our lessons). There we have a teacher that helps us with our speaking and another that focuses more on our grammar. They're both really funny and the lessons are really interesting.

After 3 hours in the campus, we went to have lunch at McDonald's (we're turning into real american people!!!!). We went there because it was pretty close to the pool where we would go later. 

In the pool we could swim, play and jump from really high springboards. After some time around, we decided to change our clothes and have a drink at a Starbucks.

Finally we went back to the meeting point and each of our families came to pick us up and take us home. It was a great day, so I hope tomorrow we'll have more fun together!!

Natalia.

Some of our host families!!

We'll have a break in our blog in order to introduce to you some of our host families.

They are very happy having the students at home and the students are really pleased to be with them living in their homes and doing a lot of things!!

Happy 4th of July!!!

This Friday was a big day here in the States, the 4th of July, the day in which americans celebrate the moment they became independent from the UK.

There is a lot going on and we did some special things with our families, like going on a trip for the whole weekend, going to the beach or to a theme park or simply having a great BBQ and enjoying the typical fireworks.

It's a day where everywhere you go is full of american flags and everything is red, white and blue (the colors of America) and a lot of people in the streets wears T-shirts with the american flag.

It was a very beautiful day and we enjoyed a lot.

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Fwd: Living the American Life

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From: Edu Azanza <eduazanza@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-07-04 16:03 GMT+02:00
Subject: Living the American Life
To: idiomasnyanet.florida2014@blogger.com

Hello families!!!

First post of the blog after two days in Florida. Let us start by saying that the flights went really well!! It took us 10 hours to go from Barcelona to Atlanta but we killed time watching movies, sleeping, listening to music or chatting with our friends. When we arrived to Atlanta we crossed the US Border and then we had to run in order not to miss our flight to Orlando… We felt like the guy in "Solo en casa" running across the airport, but we finally took the flight and arrived safely to our final destination.

In Orlando our families were waiting for us. They seemed really nice and lovely and some of them even had banners with our names. So after meeting them, they took us to our new homes and as soon as we arrived we went to sleep because we were exhausted.

Yesterday we had the day off to be with our families and to get to know them better. Some of us went to the mall and to the movies, others went to the beach and others just met the rest of their host families and did a lot of speaking!!!!

We're really looking forward to see new places, meet more new and friendly people, do a lot of things and, of course, live the American Life!!! We'll keep you updated!!​

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“Estudiar idiomas, una puerta al mundo”

Apreciadas familias,

Un año más, y ya son 50, que Idiomas Padre Manyanet hace su andadura. Desde esta ventana de los diferentes blogs, quisiera que mi saludo personal de bienvenida llegara a cada uno de vuestros hogares y a cada uno de los estudiantes que en este 50 Aniversario de nuestra Organización, participan en nuestros Cursos de Idiomas. 

Deseo que el aprovechamiento de este tiempo sea el máximo posible y que la información que, para vosotros los padres, os damos desde cada uno de los blogs, sirva para que tengáis con detalle las actividades que realizan vuestros hijos e hijas, y que también sean un vehículo directo de comunicación.

¡Feliz y provechosa estancia!

¡Hasta la vuelta!

P. Antonio Sorribes

Director

¡Feliz verano en familia!

Finalizada ya la estancia de todos los grupos, deseo que se hayan cumplido los objetivos que nos marcamos año tras año, no olvidando que el esfuerzo y la constancia son irrenunciables para que se haga realidad el que "saber idiomas es la puerta que te abre al mundo".

Agradezco, una vez más, la confianza que han puesto en Idiomas Padre Manyanet y les deseo que pasen un ¡Feliz verano en familia!

Hasta siempre,

P. Antonio Sorribes s.f.

GOODBYE, GOODBYE

Everything gets to an end and so it did our trip to Florida. I let you some of the pictures we took our last day. On the other hand, I would like to thank you all for this great experience. I wish you the best.

 

2nd DAY IN NYC

Today, we lived the New York experience in its deepest side. Some of us began the morning with lots of energy, so we met in the morning at the hotel's loby at 6.30 in the morning and went jogging to Manhattan bridge. At 9 o'clock in the morning our tour guide, Gustavo, picked us up at the hotel and he made us a complete trip around the city until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. It's been amazing!! We visited places such as: Central Park , The Empire State Building, The 5th Avenue, Times Square. But the best was to come. At night, we went to have dinner in a restaurant, then we went to the hotel and when we  went out a limo was waiting for us!!! It's been a really exciting experience to get to Times Square in a limo!

Ready to go jogging

Central Park

Empire State Building

Times Square

Wall Street