CHRISTMAS IN XINA

Lots of Chinese people are not Christian, the main winter festival in China is the Chinese New Year which takes place toward the end of January. Now officially called the "Spring Festival," it is a time when children receive new clothing, eat luxurious meals, receive new toys, and enjoy firecracker displays. An important aspect of the New Year celebration is the worship of ancestors. Portraits and paintings of ancestors are brought out and hung in the main room of the home.

CHRISTMAS IN BRAZIL

Brazilians are a mix of people from many parts of the world, and because it is from the Portuguese colony, they have many Christmas customs.

One tradition is to create Presépio, the word origins from the Hebrew word "presepium" which means the bed of straw upon which Jesus first slept in Bethlehem. The Presépio is common in northeastern Brazil (Bahia, Sergipe, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Maranhão, Ceará, Pernambuco, Piauí and Alagoas). The Presépio was introduced in the 17th century, in the city of Olinda in the state of Pernambuco by a person called Gaspar de Santo Agostinho. Prespios are in churches, homes, and stores.

CHRISTMAS IN GREECE

St. Nicholas is important in Greece as the patron saint of sailors. Greek tradition is that his clothes are drenched with brine, his beard drips with seawater, and his face is covered with perspiration because he has been working hard against the waves to reach ships and rescue them from the angry sea. Greek ships never leave port without some paint or else of St. Nicholas on board. The christmas are celebrated in Easter. On Christmas Eve, village children travel from house to house offering good wishes and singing kalanda,(like carols). Often the songs are accompanied by small metal triangles and little clay drums. The people who ear the children singing give them sweets and dried fruits.

credits: me & christmas around the world

Saint Valentine is celebrated the 14^th of February and is the day when the lovers expres their love, it’s the chance of it. They give eachothers a present and a card saying all the things that the other person makes feel the one has writed it, they put a poem, or the put both.
Some experts said that it was originated from St. Valentine, a Roman who where going to kill him because he was giving up Christianity. He died on February 14, 269 A.D., the same day of the love lotteries. Legend also says that St. Valentine left a note for the jailer's daughter, who had become his friend, and signed it "From Your Valentine".
February 14 became the date for exchanging love messages and St. Valentine became the patron saint of lovers.
I havent give any love letter to a boy, and i have didn’t recive any letter of a boy, i only have give some in English and French classes. But i think that when i recive one i feel ike the luckiest girl in World, LOL J. No?? Teen love it’s just crazy you’re maybe sad and a second after laughing... it’s just amazing... Your first love...LOL

Here a poem:

You always in thougth and mind
Why do i love you so much??
I’ll see you and my face got red
All because your new t-shirt
When you look at me
You make me feel diferent
Why ??
I just don’t know..
You maybe think
That it’s not like this
But in my dreams
I only see you and me

LoL xD by Sophie Kearney Orri

bOmb in baraJas...

ETA has broke the stop fire. This happen the 5th of January 2007, at nine o’clock in the terminal T-4 in the aparcament D in Barajas an airport in Madrid.
They put in a car a bomb. This bomb had 220 kilos of explosive arteffacts.

In that moment there where 20.000 people in this place, two of them where Diego Armando Estacio and Carlos Alonso Pelate, they were sleeping in their cars, after the explosion they where dissapeard, They found Carlos one day after and they founded Carlos three days after this terrorific bomb, they where DEAD.
My opinion is that you can’t do things with terrorism, if you wan’t something to change, you have to talk, No make everything with violence, but i think that ETA made it for a reason, i don’t know if this reason is good or bad but ETA has to stop making this kind of things because the people that had dead in an act of violence don’t have the fault some politics desagree the stop fire with ETA.
I want to this doesn't happen any more. The poliics have to do something with it!!

Dracul

We wathched this film with Maria in our class.
This film is old. It tells the love story of Dracula.
It’s a very interesting film.
My opinon is that is a true love story and it tells what you can do for love, like Dracul with her wife when she died or with Mina... It's a exciting and a very romantic film!! I like the costumes of Mina, the best one is the red one, it's beautiful!!
Is very nteresting this film but some escenes are very strange...
It’s not one of my favourite films i prefer other love films. The english accent is perfect of one of the actors, his name Anthony Hopkins. I think he is a very good actor.

Dracul is a very old man, (because he rejected the church because they didn't want to bury her dead wife) , but when he drink blood he becomes healthy like a 25 young man. I just like love it makes you fell nice and a better person.
I didn’t like some escenes but i think that the best escene is the one that Dracul met Mina, the beautiful woman, in the center street of London. They fall in love the first time they met

I put to this film six stars of ten

credits: me [ ! ]

Second life is a 3-D world built and owned by the players. His created by Lindel Lab. In this online digital world we can create, explore, build, socialize and participate in our own economy.
It's easy to find people with similar interests to you. Once you meet people you like, you find it's easy to communicate and stay in touch. Is like the Sims but virtual and you can meet people of other countries. 3,761,229 have an account in this game. I like a lot the Sims and it’s seems to be like this game. I’m a teenager and for this game you have to be older than 18, but I have read that there’s a Second life of teenagers so maybe I’m going to make an account, it would be fun!! LOL. Habbo is like Second life too, I only have played the Sims (it’s my favourite game for PC), but I think that second life will be much better because I can contact with people.

I put to this game 9 stars from ten, I love it!!

Credits: ME & http://secondlife.com/whatis/meet.php