Exchange with Carcassonne

The exchange:

For Five years ago aur school is doing an exchange with the french school Grazailles.

In this exchange participate girls and boys of 2nd of ESO.This is a cultural and academic exchange, with that the kids enjoy a lot.

Our Exchange:

Hi! I'm going to tell you about our(of my class) exchange with our french friends.

I had a french girl called Camille in my house for one week.

Her class arrived by Bus Thursday 8th of March and we gave them the welcome with an aperitif made by our families.

Next Day we went to school and we went to Oceanografic of Valencia. We returned to home and at the afternoon we met with our friends (spanish and french) and we pass the evening in La Canyada.

At the weekend we met a lot with friends and we went to the beach, to Valencia and to La Eliana with friends.

Monday we went to the natural park of La albufera, but we didn't enjoy it a lot because it starts raining and we can't ride in boat to visit the lake.

Tuesday we went to school and we pass the day there, we made workshops and we play games.

Wednesday we went to valencia to watch the "mascletà" and for visit the old part of valencia.

Thursday french class returned to Carcassonne and we said "au revoir"(goodbye).

Credits:

http://www.escuela2.es/QUE%20HACEMOS/marco%20que%20hacemos.htm

And my own experience

Second Life

Second Life is like a virtual 3d world created by Linden Lab, a downloadable client program enables its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars.

Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and more other things that you can do at the real life.Actually Second life has more than 4.500.000 of "Residents".

History of Second life:

Second Life was founded by former RealNetworks CTO Philip Rosedale through Linden Lab. The initial alpha test version, named LindenWorld, was made available in 2002 to Residents with content creation experience, and the beta version was made publicly available in 2003.

Number of "Residents":

October 18, 2006 — 1 million registered accounts.
December 14, 2006 — 2 million registered accounts.
December 29, 2006 — First occurrence of 20,000 concurrent Residents.
January 28, 2007 — 3 million registered accounts.
February 1, 2007 — First occurrence of 30,000 concurrent Residents.
February 24, 2007 — 4 million registered accounts.

Cost:

In second life you can create a free account, but if you want to buy a house you must create a pay account.

Credits:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_life

http://prblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/secondlife_1.jpg

Las Fallas

Las Fallas is a typical valencian festival.In honour of San Jose pattern of carpenters.
The origins of Fallas are very simply,a simply burning of remains of carpenters workshop.But Valencian People has turn it in a popular festival around the world. Since 15th of March Until 19th, Valencia is a continuos party.

Elements of the Festival
- Fallas
There are monuments of 25 or 30 metres that contain actuality themes.There are 386 Fallas at the moment. The Falla is set at 15th of March at the street, and there are burnt at 19th.

- Mascletaes
There are a noisy and rhytmical composition of Potents Bangers

Fallas Week
-15th of March: "The Plantà" this is when the fallas are placed.

-16th and 17th of March: In this two days in valencia there are a

"ofrenda", this is when the falleros give flowers to the virgin of

Valencia.

-18th of March: The night of fire or " Nit del Foc" In this day a

lot of people visitors and valencians go to the old bed of the
river turia to watch a majestic firework display.

-19th of March: "La Cremà" is when the fallas are burned.

Credits:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallas
http://www.hojadigital.com/images2006/fallas2006/falla-nou-remate-conjunto1w.jpg