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

WARWICK AND FAMILIES!

Today, 24, as friends of Madrid have already gone home, we, (catalan students) went to Warwick to visit it because they were parties.

We got up later than other days and stayed at 10 am Newbold Terrace. We took the bus and climbed 146 stairs to reach the top of St Mary's Church.

Also we saw some dancing there and we really liked.
We went to lunch at a tapas restaurant that is casually called "Catalan".

After lunch we went to Leamington and we spent the evening with our families.

DEAR DIARY:

We went to Birmingham and we saw the library, the Town Hall and the Birmingham Cathedral which is the new Parish Church in the "High Town" area of Birmingham.
It has amazing windows which portray four significant themes within the Christian faith.
The Cathedral immits the classical roman built.
The rest of the trip was all about the shopping because of the farewell party.

C.dM.

On 21th July Alison, our teacher, explained some stories about Stratford because the day before we went to Stratford and we visited William Shakespeare's house.
At 10.15 a.m we finished the first break and when we came back classes, we finished the unit and we started with another completly different.
At 12.30am, we had lunch together and at 2.00am we went to a park where we played football and girls danced because of the farewell.
At 4.00.pm we went to the swimming pool and we came back our houses at 5.30pm.

P.M.G.

STRATFORD!

Last Tuesday we went to Stratford after the classes.
When we arrived we went to Shakespeare childly house, where he lived with his parents, his two brothers and his three sisters.
We also saw his bed, the rooms, the bathroom, and Shakespeare's father shop where he sold gloves.
When the visit finished, two actors interpreted Romeo and Juliette only for us. It was amazing!
Then we went to other Shakespeare's house where he lived in the end of his life.
There was archaologist shearching things from Shakespeare's time.
That visit was very interesting.
At the end, we took the bus and we came back to Leamington.
C.T.V.

A DIFFERENT DAY!

On Monday morning we went to the classroom like every day.
It was a funny class because all of us saw a white cock with beautiful colours in his beak. His head has a red comb, and his tail feathers was pastel shades of purple, pink, blue and green.

In the afternoon we made a Royal Pump Rooms and Quiz.
There was three groups. My group was formed by Elena, Juan, Pablo2 and me. There was a group only formed by boys (Pablo3, Pablo1, Joan, Jose and Jorge) and the last group formed for Claudia, Julia, Cris, Ana and Carmen.
It was a great day and I think that my group and me won the quiz!

T.dJ.V

BIRTHDAY!

Today I'm going to explain a very especial day for me because it's my birthday and I've got many surprises on it.
I got up at 8.00am and I had a shower. After that I had breakfast and my family gave me a birthday present. It is a Rubik's 360. It is very difficult to solve.

Later, I played in the garden and we had lunch. After lunch, I went to a cars museum and I saw the most important British cars and many cars that have been used in famous movies, like James Bond movie.
Then we had on exiting 4x4 experience in a Land Rover and after that, we came back home.
Five minutes later we went to a restaurant called Frankie&Benny's, where I met Pablo.
I ate steak and then I had one of the best moments of the day. The lights turned off and a waiter came to me with a cake in his hands.
Everybody applauded and I was embarassed.
After that we came back home and I prepared the school bag for the next day.

J.C.E

TRIP TO ALTON TOWERS

On Saturday, we went to Alton Towers.

We woke up earlier than the other days and we met at Newbold Terrace at 8.15 am.

We went by bus and we arrived at 10.00am.

We also met with Aston and Solihull group.

All of us got into the oblivion, air, nemesis, spinball, rita, and other funny atractions.

We've passed a very exciting day!
Finally, we arrived at home at 8.00pm very tired.

C.C.R and A.S.de la N.

IN LEAMINGTON

On Friday morning we went to school where we did a funny test about trick questions.
Then we played interesting games, and we also made a competition with planes (made with paper).
When the classes finished, we went to Jephsons Garden to have lunch.
After that, we went to a park and there we played football and baseball.

When started raining, we went to the swimming pool and there we played, swam, and had fun.
Afterwards we finished swimming we went to our houses.
The day was so interesting, but all of us wanted that Saturday arrives to going to Alton Towers.

J.S.B and E.C.A

OXFORD'S DAY!

Yesterday we have gone at the school like every day, but only John has done the classes because Alison went to a funeral.
In the morning rained a lot. For this reason, we went to the train station, where there are a small place where we ate.
After the lunch, we went to Oxford.
We visited lots of important places like Magdalen College, Oxford University... When we was visiting Oxford University we saw some deers.
We had free time to go shopping and we bought different jumpers.
Finally, we came back by train.
P.F.F and J.D.G

CINEMA'S DAY

On wednesday we went to school.
The length of the classes is about three hours, so after that, we ate in Royal Priors because it was raining a lot.
When we finished, we went to the cinema which is next our school, Saint Peters.
When we arrived to the cinema, we bought lots of corns.

The film started at 2.50 pm more or less, and the name of the movie was "Get him to the greek".
It was a funny film!
After the cinema we return to the centre and then we went to our houses.
P.M.A

VISITING WARWICK

Today we have had a very interesting classes.
We ate quickly and then we take the bus for going to Warwick.
There we visited Warwick's Castle.
We think that it is an interesting place because everyting is in a very good state.
We have seen an espectacular Catapult and an exiting birds show.
The catapult launched a fire ball. It was incredible.
In warwick we had free time and we could visit the town too. It was raining all the day, but the rain couldn't prevented we had a perfect day.

J.S.dS and JM.V

On Moday 12th we went to class at nine o'clock as ussual. Then we learned about prepositions, and we think they are little difficult.
In the afternoon we went bowling. We love bowling so it was very funny.
After that, we came back to Leamington centre and we went shopping.
It was really interesting because we watched all the shops that we like in Royal Priors.

Later, at six o'clock we went to our houses by different busses.
It was a great day!
T.dJ.V and B.V.L

ONE SUNDAY WITH MY FAMILY

I woke up late. My family didn't go to the church, so after have breakfast my family and me went for a walk.
When we arrived home, Dean and me played computer games and then we went to a restaurant, where my "uncle" works, because he's the restaurant's cook.
After that, we came back home and we watched the final World Cup.
Spain won! We celebrated and we finally went to bed.
J.M.V.

TRIP TO LONDON

Firstly, we met in Newbold Terrace at 8.15 am and we took the train to set off to London.
When we arrived, we started to visit the city. Our first stop was in British Museum.

Fr Jesus explained us the secrets of Egyptian cultures and mummies too.
After that, we visited Greece and temples.
Then we went out and we sat in the shade for lunch.

After lunch, we took the underground and we visited Tower of London and the famous Tower Bridge.

There, explained us that Tower of London was a prison when Henry VIII reigned.

Afterwards we took a tourist bus and went to London centre for visiting Big Ben and the spectacular Parliament.

Then, we went to Westminister Abbey.
At the end, we went to Oxford Circus, a street with lots of shops.
Finally, we took the train and we arrived in Leamington at 8.00 pm.
A.S. de la N and C.T.V

A SPECIAL DAY

On Friday we went to school at 9.00 am like every day.
It was a special day because one person of our group was 16; Claudia!
When she arrived at the school all of us, sing a song for congratulated her.
After that, we started classes, where we practise the prepositions of time and place with Alison and John.
Then, we have our break time and while boys played football, girls talked about interesting things.
On the second part of the classes, after the break, we played some games for work prepositions another time.
When the classes finished, we went to Jephson Gardens to have lunch together.
Later, we went to a park, in Leamington. Thetre, we played fo9otball and baseball. At 3.00 pm we went to the swimming pool, where there was a big slide, and we stayed in the pool unitl 5.00pm.
After that, we wet home.
J.B.S and E.C.A

A FUNNY DAY IN COVENTRY

In 8th July we went to school and started classes at 9.00 am very punctual.
Alison and John, our teachers, sat us one boy and one girl respective, and we played funny games, spoke about real questions (war, pollution...) and we also did adjectives exercises.
At half past 10, more or less, we stopped the classes because of the breakfast but at eleven we returned with our teachers.
When we finished the classes we ate togehter in Newbold Terrace Park, and later we took the train from Leamington to Coventry.

There, we went to Ice-Skating and we skating a lot, and when we were tired, we left to visit the New Coventry's Cathedral; while Fr Jesus was explained some interesting historic anecdotes about Coventry.
At 17.15 we took the train and we came back Leamington.

P.M.G. and C.C.R.

BOWLING IN LEAMINGTON SPA

Every day we met in the school and started classeswith differtent games and exercises.

The classes are funny!

More over, at half past twelve we had lunch with our "delicious" meal.

In the afternoon we went to the bowling and we had done two matches. In the first match, we make groups, but then, we stand over levels.

When we finished with the bowling, everybody went to their houses because we were tired and we want to be on time for watching semi-final Spain-Germany.
It was a great day!

J.S.O and P.M.A

VISITING BIRMINGHAM

Today we met our teachers, Alison and John. To encourage us to learn English they asked us to build bridges as languages are between people.

In the afternoon we went to Birmingham by train. When we arrived Fr Jesús told us about the long jewellery tradition in Birmingham. In this quarter we visited The Pen Room, a museum and learning centre of writing and pen trade memorabilia for more than a century. We have learnt about the different manufacturing processes and we tried to write with a quill. To finish this beautiful (and I must say sunny) day we went to the Bullring shopping but we had only 30 min to do that because of the time to return to our houses and we got back later than we thought.

Carmen DM.

ARRIVING IN LEAMINGTON

Students from Madrid arrived in Leamington today by midday and the ones from Barcelona a short time late, because they slept in Birmingham at BCU's residence, and early in the morning they took a coach and came to Leamington.

Today we have visited a little bit of Leamington and we have done our bus-passes. As the teachers will be there tomorrow, we sat a test so they may have an idea of our level in English.

By 5:45 our host families came. We met them and we went to our new home for the next three weeks. They are very nice. (Monday 5th)

Joan S. & Pablo MA.