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WHO AM I? / WHERE AM I GOING? Luis Miguel Martinez
Category: 1.- In a town/city Date 2012-11-12 14:05:11 
Classmate,
I am going to a place. Would you like to guess who live there? I'll show you the way from my house to that place.
From here, La Puebla de Alfinden, I take the A-Road towards Zaragoza. I arrive at the Z-40 roundabout, there I take the motorway towards Madrid. I cross over the Gallego bridge, over the Ebro and the 232 A-road, too. Later, I take the 120 A-road (the airport road). I leave a car scrapping on the right and continue straight ahead along the road until the airport.
I travel from Zaragoza airport to London Stansted airport. There, I travel by bus to London for 38 miles. I arrive at Stansted-Stratford. I can choose another station but this is cheaper. I go by underground from Stansted-Stratford to Victoria station. Then, I take Victoria avenue towards Kensington Garden. There, I turn on the first street on the right, I take Buckingham Gate Avenue. When I arrive to a crossroad, I turn on the left. I arrive at " that place".
In front of there, it is a monument called "Victoria Memorial", behind it´s the Mall avenue and on the right there is a green park.
Who I am?
Can you guess it?
Would you like to be part of my family?
South Africa (by Vicent and Begoña)
Category: 4.- Travelling Date 2012-11-10 23:27:31
Food in Southern Africa
The cuisine of South Africa is sometimes called "rainbow cuisine", as it has had a variety of multicultural sources and stages. The cuisine can be generalized as:
- Cookery practiced by indigenous people of Africa such as the Sotho and Nquni-speaking people.
- Cookery that emerged from several waves of colonialism and immigration introduced during the colonial period by people of Dutch, German, French and Indonesian descent (since 1652) Afrikaner, British descent (since 1805 and 1820 Settlers) and their slaves or servants - this includes the cuisine of the so-called Cape Malay people, which has many characteristics of Indonesia and cooking styles from neighboring colonial cultures such as Portuguese Mozambique.
In the pre-colonial period, indigenous cuisine was characterized by the use of a very wide range of foods including fruits, nuts, bulbs, leaves and other products gathered from wild plants and by the hunting of wild game. The introduction of domestic cattle and grain crops by Bantu speakers who arrived in the southern regions from central Africa since 10,000 BC and the spread of cattle keeping to Khoi and San groups enabled products and the availability of fresh meat on demand. The pre-colonial diet consisted primarily of cooked grains, especially sorghum, fermented milk (somewhat like yogurt) and roasted or stewed meat.
A typical meal in a Black South African family household that is Bantu-speaking is a stiff, fluffy porridge of maize meal (called "pap," and very similar to American grits) with a flavorful stewed meat gravy.
Rice and beans are also very popular even though they are not indigenous.
For many Black South Africans, the center of any meal is the meat.
On weekends, many Black South African families, like white South Africans, have a "braai," and the meal usually consists of "pap and veils," which is maize porridge and grilled meat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_cuisine
Traditional foods of South Africa
There is a wide variety of African wildlife such: ostrich, buffalo, kudu, impala and crocodile.
Potjiekos (small pot food)
Biltong (jerky)
Bobotie (baked meatloaf topped with eggs)
Bunny Chow (bread filled with curry and different types of meats) India
Koeksisters (fried pastry with syrup)
Boerewors (sausage for braai)
Umqombothi (light beer made with maize malt and sorghum malt, rich in vitamin B and contains little alcohol)
Maqeu (drink made from fermented mealy pap)
Wine in South Africa
The first vines were planted in South Africa around 1655 and it has been established as a wine growing country since the late 17th century. Most of the vineyards are located around the Cape area, the South-western tip of the country, and a very much has rained on them since their history started; the wine in South Africa story deserves to be told in a page apart, beginning with the South Africa's wine regions.
There have been changes since the end of Apartheid in 1994.
There is a talk about the wonderful diversity of terroir in South Africa and the consequent ability to produce wines that were more a reflection of that terroir. "Variety is in our nature" is the current theme of South African wine.
http://world-food-and-wine.com/wine-in-africa
Would you dare to eat some ostrich, buffalo or cocodrile?
What is the most strange food you have ever eaten?
Do you eat some food using your fingers?
National Parks
In this part of our presentation we are going to speak about South Africa National Parks, but there are nineteen National Parks, therefore I'm just going to explain about Kruger National Park.
First of all it we have to arrive at the country, we can find flights from 710€ per person from Madrid to Johanesburg, or from 935€ from Madrid to Cabe town.
Once we are in Johanesburg, we can choose how to arrive at Kruger National Park, we have two options: by car, driving for five hours, or by plane.
When visiting the park, we can choose different types of accommodation and activities, prices fluctuate between for example three days for 645€ and four days for 1154€, always with tourist guide in Spanish language.
You can find more information in www.rhythmafricatours.com
The Kruguer park has nearly two million hectares and has the wildest fauna protected area in Afrique. We can see among others, the five biggest species (lyons, elephants, rhinoceroses, buffalos and leopards).
Would you like to know this park?
Do you think it is expensive traveling to South Africa?
Why do you think most people visit mainly Kenya?
I´m a fortune teller, by ROSI.
Category: 2.- Future plans Date 2012-11-10 15:59:54
I would like to be a fortune teller. Everyday some people would come to my place and I would guess about their future.
I think I would often give good news, hardly ever I would give bad news, but imagine a day a woman comes. Imagine she had always been very happy and she had never trusted in a fortune teller, then her friends tell her that even if she doesn't believe, she should go.
Imagine she decides to come to my office and when I am seeing her, I am feeling a shiver all around my body. I would look at my crystal ball and imagine I was seeing a lot bad things, something wrong happening to her family ( husband and children ) for example dying in a traffic accident. I really know she will go insane and her parents will send her to a mental hospital because of the hard situation. And she will possible lose all her money, her house and her life...
A day she would get up in a mental hospital and her friends would go there, then they would tell her , that everything has been a bad joke...
Describing myself
Category: Elementary Tasks Date 2012-11-08 22:10:09
Hello Loly. I'm Ana Ruesca, do you remember me?
I was born and I lived in Zaragoza , but I was living in Valle de Aran in Lerida 6 years of my life, and now we are here forever.......
I live in Santa Isabel neighbourhood with my husband and my kids.
I'm a reliable , friendly and sensitive person
I have got brown eyes and my hair is straight and with highlights.
Speaking about My physical appearance I am tall and slim
I like go to the cinema with my family , read books and listen to the music.
See you in class
Bye.
Hello, I'm Estefanía
Category: Elementary Tasks Date 2012-11-08 10:19:54
Hello everybody,
My name is Estefanía Migliaccio. I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 5th January 1979, I am thirty-three years old. We are 4 siblings, 2 boys and 2 girls, I am the third one. My parents are Uruguayan, also my older brother; he is a Physical Education teacher, my sister is a hairdresser and my little brother is a policeman.
Now I live in La Puebla de Alfindén, I moved just twelve months ago. My husband is Angel, he is thirty-six, he is a computer specialist and is very active, generous and nice. We have got two children, a boy, Nicolas and a girl, Malena. They are four and two and a half years old.
Nicolas is very sociable, he loves speaking all the time! His hair is blond; his eyes are big and brown. He is very sensible, imaginative and energetic. My daughter is stubborn but also is loving. Her hair is dark and she is quite tall.
I am a interpreter of sing language but now I don't work, I’m unemployed, at present I´m a housewife.
On Monday and Wednesday morning I go to English class. I really enjoy learning. There are a lot of us and we learn from each other.
Well, I don´t write more!
See you tomorrow,
Estefanía.
ANGELS INTRODUCTION!
Category: Elementary Tasks Date 2012-11-07 10:45:25
Hello Partners!
My name is Angel. Excuse me, but I don't speak English very well.
I’m forty-eight years old, and I’m from Zaragoza. I have got a wife and two teenagers: Jorge and Patricia. They’re students and good persons, and I have got a pet, Enya. It´s a dog, it is white as snow and it is the most spoilt one in my family.
The name of my wife is Vicent and she is the most important person on my life.
I'm a football coach, but at present my job is being a football managing director in the Venecia Stadium .
I have got green eyes , my hair is dark and short. I like reading historical novels. I also like football and the cinema.
I´m funny, happy, loyal and sometimes quite serious . My dream would be living on the beach.
Goodbye and good luck!.
