England
- inhabitants: a Britain/Brit
- language: English
- clichés: white people; tea time; can't cook; breakfast is too unhealthy
USA
- inhabitants: Americans
- language: English
- clichés: school system is easier as in Austria; people are fat; cars are "pimped"; everything is bigger
Algeria
- inhabitants: Algerians
- language: Arabic, Berber, French, English
- clichés: poverty; violence
Slovenia
- inhabitants: a Slovene/Slovenian
- language: Slovene/Slovenian
- clichés: careful and punctual
As we have already seen Slovenia plays very good football at the moment as well the USA and England. I hope England will win the group phase.
Mittwoch, 23. Juni 2010
Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2010
Our Trip To Italy
From May 17th till May 21st we went to Italy on a Sports- and Culture week. I really liked our short journey because we had a lot of sun and fun. :)
Monday, May 17th:
We started our travel at 8 o'clock. After an 8-hours-travel we arrived in Udine, there we made a little tour and of course we ate some ice cream. We also tried to chase away the doves. Later we went to our “new home” called “Villagio Touristico”.
Later we visited the beach and some girls jumped into the big blue sea. It was really refreshing. ;)
In the evening we went with our teachers into town.
Tuesday, May 18th:
On Tuesday we went to see Venice. Venice is a nice city centre and consists of 118 little islands. These islands are connected with over 400 bridges.
We got a little questionnaire from our teachers and so we ran through Venice. After 2,5 hours we met again and we gave the teachers our results. Our teachers analysed our results and then they told us the winner. My group, Magdalena, Bianca, Katrin und Angelika won the questionnaire.
On Wednesday we were split into two groups and we had an archery course as well as a little bicycle tour. At our destination we made a little picnic and we enjoyed the nice view.
On Thursday we went to an old fishing village. The village was very small so we weren’t able to take a lot of pictures or anything else. In the afternoon we could chose between beach soccer, beach volleyball and boccia. We also had some time to relax in the sun and swim in the sea or in the pool.
On Friday we went back home. It was a very long but funny bus trip. :D
the winner team ;)
Monday, May 17th:
We started our travel at 8 o'clock. After an 8-hours-travel we arrived in Udine, there we made a little tour and of course we ate some ice cream. We also tried to chase away the doves. Later we went to our “new home” called “Villagio Touristico”.
Later we visited the beach and some girls jumped into the big blue sea. It was really refreshing. ;)
In the evening we went with our teachers into town.
Tuesday, May 18th:
On Tuesday we went to see Venice. Venice is a nice city centre and consists of 118 little islands. These islands are connected with over 400 bridges.
We got a little questionnaire from our teachers and so we ran through Venice. After 2,5 hours we met again and we gave the teachers our results. Our teachers analysed our results and then they told us the winner. My group, Magdalena, Bianca, Katrin und Angelika won the questionnaire.
On Wednesday we were split into two groups and we had an archery course as well as a little bicycle tour. At our destination we made a little picnic and we enjoyed the nice view.
On Thursday we went to an old fishing village. The village was very small so we weren’t able to take a lot of pictures or anything else. In the afternoon we could chose between beach soccer, beach volleyball and boccia. We also had some time to relax in the sun and swim in the sea or in the pool.
On Friday we went back home. It was a very long but funny bus trip. :D
the winner team ;)
Dienstag, 2. Februar 2010
Family’s voodoo terror
I read an article the other day in the online edition of “austriantimes.at” and it talks about voodoo terror in Austria.
I thought you might be interested because it is a very bad joke!
Basically what it talks about is that a Styrian family has spoken of their terror after being subjected to a two-week hate campaign when they were sent blood-smeared pictures of themselves. They also found bloody-wooden stakes and slaughtered animals in their garden.
The family told the police that they had had photos of family members covered in blood and pierced by needles put into their mail box. They don’t have any ideas who may be behind the sick campaign. What the family shocked most was the bloody wooden stake driven into the ground surrounded with candles with a photo of the 52-years-old father with a needle through his heart!
What surprised me most was the fact that there are such silly people out there who think that is funny!
Mittwoch, 23. Dezember 2009
Christmas traditions all over the world
I recently read an article on the online version of "whychristmas.com" and it talks about different traditions in other countries.
I thought you might be interested because it's christmas time ...
First of all I am telling you something about the canadian traditions.
They send their biggest fir or pine to Boston because the Boston people helped them some time ago. A very common tradition is the "Mummering", people dress up and knock on somebody's door and ask if they are allowed to come in. Then they eat the christmas cake and celebrate together.
In Spain most people go to the "Midnight Mass" and after the meal people go through the streets playing guitars, beating on tambourines and drums. The children get their presents not on Christmas Day, but on Epiphany.
The Italian children get their presents from La Befana, she is a old witch who visits every household in the night of Janurary 5th. Cannons are fired from Castel St. Angelo in Rome to announce the beginning of Christmas time.
Merry Christmas to everyone!!
Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2009
FlyNiki to offer Bulgaria link
I read an article the other day in the online edition of “austriantimes.at” and it talks about the new Austrian budget airline of FlyNiki.
I thought you might be interested because FlyNiki is an Austrian airline.
Basically what it talks about is that FlyNiki run a flight from Vienna to Bulgaria, because there isn’t a link at the moment. It is also said that there was a competition with four other European low-cost airlines who already offered a connection to Sofia.
Sofia will not be the only addiction to FlyNiki’s destinations.
What surprised me most was the fact that they are starting new routes although we are in the financial crises.
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Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009
Flora Reported Speech
I have recently heard an interview about Flora's stay in Austria.
Flora said that she had met a lot of interesting people. She also told us that she had learned a lot of her own traditions in Ireland when she was in Austria.
Flora said that take smoking in public places is unbelievable in Ireland. So she mentioned that the smoking law in Austria isn't strict.
She mentioned that she had known some cliches of Austria but not all of them are true.
Flora said that she had met a lot of interesting people. She also told us that she had learned a lot of her own traditions in Ireland when she was in Austria.
Flora said that take smoking in public places is unbelievable in Ireland. So she mentioned that the smoking law in Austria isn't strict.
She mentioned that she had known some cliches of Austria but not all of them are true.
Montag, 21. September 2009
Borealis helps in Italy
I've just read an article on "austriantimes.at" and it talks about the earthquake in Italy.
I thought you might be interested because the austrian plastic producer company Borealis is the capital of our federal state Upper Austria.
Basically what it says is that the austrian company Borealis helps building shelters for people, who got homeless by the L'Aquila earthquake this year. Borealis, a subsidiary of the Austrian oil and gas producer OMV, is to supply the polyethylene for the water pipes made by the italian firm Centraltubi.
The Austrian foreign-trade office in Padua will supply stuff for 1.3 kilometres of waterpipes in a 13-building appartment for about 1,200 persons.
According to Veronica Ettinger are the polyethylene pipes for water and gas are very resistant to earthquakes. So they try to give a lot of polyetlyene pipes to these people in L'Aquila.
There are still about 11,000 homeless people in the L'Aquila region and about 299 people died cause of this earthquake.
On my opinion, I really like the idea of the company Borealis because I think everybody should help other persons.
http://www.austriantimes.at/news/Business/2009-09-18/16515/Borealis_to_help_Italian_earthquake_victims
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