Calendar and Google groups

Hi, everybody!
Today I added a Google Calendar to our blog.
Check it. I hope this could be a useful tool to help you stay informed of all relevant events, tests, etc. you may think relevant to publish.
Please scroll down and click on the events. If you do that, a new window will open with detailed information about the event.
You can also use it to publish other events like .
I will try to keep it updated, but it is a lot of work so if any one wants to volunteer to be in charge of this, I really appreciate it.
I am also creating Google Groups so we can make a productive use of that feature.
In order to create these groups, I need your gmail address so, send me an email including the following information:

1. Your name (I have received emails in which the student never mentions his/her name and the email address is something like "imthegreatreggaettonmaster@hotmail.com". I am not Mary Poppins so please write your name somewhere inside the message)

2. Your gmail email address (the one you use to comment - I DO NOT need your password)

3. Another email to contact you. (Don't worry I will not add you to my msn :)!!!)

The ideal email would be something like:

Hi, miss!
This is Roberto Rojas.
My gmail is hola@gmail.com
I also have a hotmail account which is hola@hotmail.com
See you in class.
Bye.


Well, that's all for now.
See you soon!
Bye.

Check out my Slide Show!

Gymkhana

Hi!

The word is "gincana" in Spanish and "gymkhana" in English.
Congratulations to "Flamboyan girls".

Please keep the sheets of paper in which you have the corrections. If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me and we can appoint a meeting.

Here are the pictures that we took in class.
Enjoy!

Experiences

Today I remembered that the first day of class you asked me if I had ever travelled abroad. I told you I had only been to Tacna. Well, today I interviewed some teachers that have been to London and asked them to tell me a little bit about their experiences with the weatherthere.
Here is what they said:

Gerardo Ñancupán : “The climate of London was very similar to Santiago. It wasn’t that cold. "
“There was no mist. The mist is a myth.”

Jessica Contreras : “What caught my attention was that everything was gray: the trees, the buildings. It seemed that there was no natural sunlight.”
“I found the weather very predictable. If the morning was cloudy you knew that at some point during that day it was going to rain.”
“Another thing that caught my attention was that it was frosty everywhere, the trees, etc.”

Neha Jagwani: “When I went in May, it was springtime, but the weather was very unreliable. It was very hot for a few hours, then it suddenly changed to a gentle shower, then it became chilly and windy.”

PICTURES COMING SOON

Changing weather - A story about British weather

GREENWICH

Everyone knows that when two people meet in the street or on a train, the first thing they talk about is the weather. They say things like "It's turned out nice again, hasn't it?" or "Not too bad for the time of year, is it?"I never used to understand why they were so interested in such a boring subject until I'd been living here for a couple of months.It was a day in July last year - July is supposed to be the height of the British summer - I remember the day really well. I got up at the usual time to go to the university - it was a bright, sunny morning, actually quite warm for Britain - so I wore my T-shirt, my oldest jeans and a pair of open sandals. To be on the safe side, I also took a thin pullover just in case it turned chilly in the evening.On the way to the university the wind got up, then it suddenly clouded over, went really dark and began to rain. I wasn't just a gentle shower - it was a real downpour. Okay, so everyone knows it rains a lot in Britain, but that's not the end of the story.Ten minutes later, I looked out of the window again and I couldn't believe it - the rain had turned to snow. By two o'clock in the afternoon it felt like mid-December. People decided to leave their cars at work and walk home instead because they didn't want to have an accident or get stuck in the snow. I wondered how on earth I was going to manage in just my T-shirt and pullover. As it turned out, I needn’t have worried - almost as quickly the weather changed again. By 4 o'clock it was really warm and I had to take my pullover off.So that's the answer - everyone talks about British weather because it's so unpredictable. The funny thing is that even though it is completely unpredictable, most British people make sure they listen religiously to the weather forecast at least twice a day. Then if it's wrong, which it almost always is, they complain about how unreliable the weathermen are and then go on to discuss the current state of the weather.