VOLLEYBALL (BCU GROUP)

On Wednesday morning we woke up at 8:15 am and we met at the meeting point to have breakfast, like every morning. Then, we had class until 13:00 where we did a lot of things: we played games on the board to learn more vocabulary, we talked about the recipes of different dishes and we worked in our scrapbook. After class, we ate from 13:00 to 14:00. We had pizza for lunch!

That day we had class at 14:00 to prepare the film, but we had two hours, one in the classes and the other in the accommodation because one of the groups started to record their film. At 17:00 we went to the sports hall of the accommodation to play volleyball with the sports teams. Blue team won but both teams played very well.

After volleyball we had a shower and we went to have dinner. The final activity was a special bingo with images of London instead of the normal numbers. We had a lot of fun.

Finally, at kitchen time the girls fried Mars with Joana (one of the teachers) and Raquel (the leader). It sounds weird but it tasted very good.

A lot of kisses to the families, we miss you!

Cristina and Noelia

Cream Tea Lichfield (Family group)

ATHLETICS DAY (BCU GROUP)

Today we woke up at half past seven and next we went to have breakfast. Later, we went to the class and we spoke about and learnt about the origin and history of chocolate, specially the Cadbury factory that we are going to visit this week. One of the groups made some posters to explain the process to make chocolate.

After lunch, we had time with our teachers to finish the movie and practise the dialogues. We started with all the atrezzo but unfortunatly, it was raining heavily so we had to wait until it stopped to go to Poundland to buy the props for the film.

Then, we went to dinner and we played a competition with the sports teams. There was a relay race, hula hoop, triple jump and a sack race to finnish. Once we finnished, we went to the kitchen to have some free time and then, we went to sleep.

Kisses to the families

Irene & Laia

SPORTS CENTRE (BCU GROUP)

Hello from Birmingham!

Yesterday we woke up at 7:30 AM, we had breakfast and we went to class. Later in the class we watch a video for the presentation on Saturday, and we also did the scrapbooks. Later we went to have lunch. In the evening we went to the sports centre and we played badminton and table tennis.

After that we went to have dinner and played football – and Raquel started doing the all-important
laundry!

We are very well!

Lots of kiss for all the families.

Marta & Carlota

LOT'S OF EMOTIONS TODAY (BCU GROUP)

SUNDAY 10TH JULY


Today we woke up at half past 8. Everyone had breakfast in the accommodation.  

We sent to Sunday Mass, and some of us helped.

Later, we had lunch in KFC (yummy chicken!), and we went to the Bullring and we bought a lot of things.
When we arrived at BCU we did a chess competition.


Then we had a very very very special surprise: The EURO Cup Final, France vs Portugal (0-1). Joana is very happy and we aren’t going to have class all of the week - maybe.

Nico & Joan

TRYP TO LONDON (BCU GROUP)

Today we woke up at half past six. We prepared our bags and went to the train station to get on the train to London.

In London we visited the Covent Garden, the House of Parliament, the British Museum, and the famous Roseta Stone. The Roseta Stone helped to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.

After lunch, we went to the Big Ben, we took phones on the telephone cabins, and we took a bus rise to Hamleys. Hamleys is a big toy store, and the oldest in the world!

Later we went to M&M world where we ate a lot of chocolates and sweets.

Finally, when we arrived to the accommodation we saw “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" beucause we were really tired.

We had a lot of fun. London is beautiful.

Love you families

Haritz & Dani

London day (Family group)

BOWLING (BCU GROUP)

Today, we woke up and had breakfast like everyday. We went to class where, we played some games, listened to music and we prepared the presentation of the week. Mai's class did a BBC news performance and Joana's class explained their experience during this week.

After lunch, we took the train to go to the bowling where we could play bowling and videogames. Around 5pm we went to a park to have some free time and some people played football.

Once in the campus we had dinner, Nico, Javi and Joan explained us our trip to London and we finish with some baseball.

Now we are going to bed a bit earlier because tomorrow we have to wake up around 6:15 am to go to London

A lot of kisses to all the families

Teresa & Javi

MASTERCHEF (BCU GROUP)

Yesterday, we met in the meeting point at 8:30 as usual.  After breakfast, in clases, we play some games like guess the animal and relate the food with its country of origin. We also start our own scrapbook to remember the time we past in BCU.

After lunch, we split in three groups to continue with the movie that we are making for the last festival. Then, we started Masterchef preparing a recipe of the night's snack. Once we had the recipe, we went all together to the supermarket to buy all the things that we needed to prepare our dish. After, we went to the accomodation to prepare our creations in the kitchens.

When we finished having dinner we decorated and presented our dishes. Afterwards, we could taste the other group's creations and even Father Sorribes tasted them.

A lot of kisses to all the families.


Maria and Sara

ARTS & CRAFTS (BCU GROUP)

Hello from Birmingham!

Yesterday we woke up at 7:30 AM, we had breakfast and we went to our classes. In class we read, we built some mock buildings - that we saw in Birmingham city centre - with paper and others materials, we played some games and we prepared the film that we are going to do for the festival.

Yesterday we spent all day at BCU, so in the evening we did some activities: we painted t-shirts and we learned how to do juggle. Then we had dinner, after dinner we played “Fish&Chips”, Pictionary, Tabu and we danced.

Then we went to the residence to have showers and go to sleep.

Lots of kisses to all the families,

Carlota & Marta  

Family group (Bowling)

VISIT TO BIRMINGHAM (BCU GROUP)

Yesterday morning we woke up at 8.15 AM and we went to have breakfast before classes. Then, we had class until 11.15 preparing the presentation that we have to do on Friday in front of everyone. After class, we got the train to Birmingham city centre and visited a lot of places.

First, we visited the Mailbox, where the BBC news station is, and there we recorded ourselves like real reporters. Then, we went to the Birmingham Library, where the secret garden is, which wasn’t a secret anymore although it was still beautiful. Finally, we saw the outside of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

After the visits, we ate at McDonalds. Later, we did a scavenger hunt around all the places we had visited earlier. We were on our own and it was so much fun! We had to get to the Bullring and the first group could start shopping until 6.10 PM.

At night, we had dinner and played baseball before going to sleep. We loved it!

A lot of kisses to all of the families,

Noelia and Cristina

Coventry (Famílies group)

Hello everyone !

Today we have had two hours of classes and visited Coventry.

I attached photos of the old cathedral (it was bombed in the 2nd WW), a photo from the balcony of St. Mary's Guidhall and another in front of a Tudor House with  a black trim.

Today was Mariona's Birthday !!!!

Fwd: New Street Station y entrada Ring Bull Center

Fwd: Todo bien !

Buenas noches,

Birmingham nos acoge con un tiempo amable.

Alumnos bien con las familias y conociendo nuestro barrio de Kings Heath y las rutas para ir al colegio y al centro.

Hoy hemos tenido clase, hemos hecho el travel card y visitado B'ham centre.

La foto es de los canales.

Un cordial saludo.

SWIMMING POOL

Today we woke up around 8:00 and we went to have breakfast before meeting our new teachers. We introduce ourselves with some games and an act to lose embarrasment.

After the clases, the last student Nico finally arrived and we went to have lunch hamburguers. Then, we went to the train station in order to take the train to the swimming pool in University of Birmigham. There, we had fun and we could take a lot of photos even inside the pool thanks to a waterproof camera.

After that, we went back to the accomodation and had a shower. Finally, after having dinner our awesome leaders put us some songs to sing as a karaoke. We sang and dance a lot and had a lot of fun.

Hugs and kisses

Nicolás and Adrià

FIRST DAY IN BCU

Today it was our first day in the camp. We started having breakfast in the kitchen of our flat all together. After that, we went to a field next to the accommodation and we played some activities to eachother: we made questions tho the partners, we played football in pairs and relay race with a tennis raquet and tennis ball.

Then, we went to have lunch at Birmingham centre and afterwards we had some free time to discover the city centre and go shopping at the Bullring shopping centre.

Finally, we came back to BCU, had dinner and now we are watching a movie. We are very happy to be here.

Send you a lot of kisses families!!!

Joan & Juan

NOS VAMOS DE VIAJE

Tras un largo día de viaje, todos hemos llegado bien a la residencia. El grupo que salía de Barcelona ha llegado un poco antes y ha ayudado a preparar la cena para el grupo de Madrid que ha llegado alrededor de las 21:30 (hora local). Tras el primer contacto entre ambos grupos han empezado a hacerse amigos y muy ilusionados por el campamento se han ido a dormir. A partir de mañana serán los alumnos quienes, con ayuda de las profesoras, redactarán cada día el blog. También se irán colgando fotos de las distintas actividades en la sección de fotos.

Un saludo y feliz verano.

Los monitores.

Hola a tod@s

Un año más, y ya son 52, Idiomas Padre Manyanet, inicia su andadura en los diferentes Cursos de Inglés, con el deseo de que todos los objetivos marcados se hagan realidad para todos los estudiantes inscritos y tengan la plena satisfacción de haber profundizado y ampliado sus conocimientos y su facilidad de expresarse en dicho idioma. Con ello creemos se lleva a cabo nuestro lema: Conocer idiomas, una puerta al mundo. 

Deseamos que la estancia en cada uno de los diferentes lugares, sea muy satisfactoria y enriquecedora en todos los aspectos, y que estos blogs sean también un complemento y vehículo muy positivo de comunicación entre familias e Institución. 

¡Que pasemos un feliz verano! ¡Hasta pronto! 

 P. Antoni Sorribes - Director

Apreciadas familias,

Finalizado nuestro 51 Curso de Idiomas, deseo para todos lo mejor en estos días de verano y tiempo de un merecido descanso.

Tengo la seguridad de que todo el generoso esfuerzo realizado por cada uno de los Directores de Grupo, Monitores i estudiantes que habéis participado en nuestros Cursos de Idiomas Padre Manyanet, ha sido del todo muy satisfactorio y muy gratificante.

Cerramos pues, un año más, una etapa más de nuestros Cursos en el extranjero, con el deseo de seguir ofreciendo un servicio de calidad y efectivo como complemento a la formación e instrucción de nuestros estudiantes, vuestros hijos e hijas.  

"Saber Idiomas, una puerta que abre al mundo."

Hasta siempre,

Antonio Sorribes