MASTER CHEF & NÚRIA´S BIRTHDAY

On Friday 14th it was Nuria´s birthday. So, when woke up at 8:00 and we went to the kitchen quickly to give her presents.  We hope she enjoyed them.

After, we went to have the last class with our teacher Jerry because she´s going on holidays. Then we did our expositions about different countries such as Japan, Mexico, USA, Italia. To continue we did posters to show two things we have learnt during these two weeks.

Then, we had lunch (salad, hot dogs and chips, cookies, fruit) When we finished our lunch, we returned to class and we watched videos about Master Chef Australia. Jerry gave us some fantastic books and that´s one of the reasons we are going to remember her forever (Thank you Jerry!!!)

During the afternoon, the leaders divided us into two teams because we are going to create our own dish. We had to make something typical about England. Firstly, we wrote the recipe. Secondly, we went to the shopping center and we bought the ingredients. Our challenge was to spend less than ten pounds. Then, we had 90 minutes for cooking our dish. When we finished, we presented to the leaders (mango´s team made “The Hogwarts Express” - train. And pink ladies was a bullring and library) We took a picture and ate them.

Later, we had dinner (salad, fish and chips, yoghurt, fruit). When we finished, it was time for a quizz. We were divided into three groups and we answered different topics (students, leaders, BCU, English food, UK´s history and our timetable)

At the end of the day, we went to the accommodation to take a shower. We put the pyjama on and we did the prayer. Finally, we prepared our breakfast for tomorrow and we ate a cake from Nuria´s birthday and we went to sleep.

Happy Birthday Núria!!!

 

María & Noemí

TRIP TO OXFORD

Today we woke up at 7:30 because we went to... Oxford!!! We dressed up and we went to the train station to go to Birmingham City Center. While we were eating for the train, we had breakfast. In the train they gave us our mobile phones.

Approximately, we arrived at 10:15 and we went to Oxford´s center to visit the Christ Church College, Radcliffe Square, St. Mary the Virgin, Sheldon Theatre, Bodleian library (we saw a lot of books)

When we finished the visit, we went to KFC for having lunch (mmmm, it was delicious!!!). Then, we visited the Covered Market (there were a lot of small shops and we bought a handmade cookie, yummy!!!

Then, we had some free time in Cornmarket Street to go shopping. We bought a lot of things like the typical Oxford jumper and other souvenirs. We caught the train at 17:00 to go back to Birmingham.

At 19:00 we had dinner (curry chicken, salad, rice, fruit and brownie with strawberry ice cream) After dinner, we played bingo and we obtained sweet regards.

Finally, we arrived to the accomodation, we took a shower, had the prayer with Father Sorribes and we talked for a while in the kitchen all together before going to sleep.

David & Sofía

CINEMA & NOEMÍ´S BIRTHDAY

Today we woke up at eight o´clock in the morning, we dressed up and had breakfast like every day that we spent here. Today, it was Noemí´s Birthday so we did something special: we sang "Happy Birthday" and we gave her some presents to her.

We walked to class and learnt adjectives and verbs related to food that can be used for cooking.

After, we had lunch (pasta, salad, fruit and cake) Then, we returned to the class and we played a game or a murderer.

During the afternoon, we took the train to go to the cinema in Birmingham City Center to watch Spider-man. While we were walking to the cinema, we saw a group of three young people dancing break dance in the street.

Before starting the movie, we bought pop corns and fizzy drinks (yummy!!!) The sound of the film was very loud and some of us were surprised about this.

When the film finished, we came back to have dinner. We ate chicken hamburger, potatoes, salad and fruit. To continue we did a wide range of activities such as takeover the witness, jogging, triple jump rope jump and sack races.

Later, we took a shower and we talk about the trip of tomorrow, Oxford. The leaders prepared a chocolate birthday cake to Noemí with candles for blowing out.

We are so excited about buying our Oxford jumpers.

It was such as beautiful day!!!

Nuria & Pere

ICE SKATING

Today, like everyday, we woke up at 8:00 o´clock and we had breakfast. Then, as always, we went to the University to have classes.

We finished our city presentations at 10 o´clock and then we played till 12:30 pm.

Later, we had lunch, it was totally different and delicious. We ate Subway´s sandwiches.

We dropped on a minibus to go to Ice-skating and we enjoyed a lot. Some of us fell down sometimes, but we were very happy and everyone is ok. Later, we went back to the accomodation because it was raining. Instead of doing athletics, we did a parchisse competition, it was great!!!

At 19:00 pm, we went back to the university to have dinner (fish and chips... delicious!!!! and the dessert was cheesecake - the best one that we have ever tasted)

After dinner, we called our parents and we prepared dirty clothes. We went to the laundry and washed everything.

Finally, we had a shower and we went to sleep.

What a super day!!!

Berta & Vega

SPORTS DAY

Today we woke up at 8:00 and we had breakfast, like always. Then, we went to class.

This week we are going to learn about food around the world and we are doing projects in pairs about one country and its typical things like monuments, food and more.

We had lunch (quiche lorraine, salad, potatoes, peas, watermelon) After lunch, we came back to class to continue working our projects. Finally, we wrote a postcard to our parents explaining what are we doing this week.

We walked to the train station to take the train to go to the swimming pool. We spent an hour. When we finished, we came back to the university to have dinner (we ate roasted chicken with salad and french fries, the fruit was peach, pear or apple)

At the end of the day, we returned to the accomodation and we played football (Orange team vs Green team) The Green Team won but we all enjoyed the game so much!

Then, we took a shower, put the pijamas on and we were in the kitchen playing games while the leaders gave us a snack.

It was an awesome day!!!

María & Paula

MASS & SHOPPING DAY

Today we woke up at 9:00 because yesterday we were very tired. We dressed up and had breakfast.

We went to the train station. Meanwhile we were waiting to the train, we played games and explained riddles.

We went to the Church (St. Chad´s  Cathedral) The mass was interesting and we were very impressed that they sang a lot.

Later, we went to Burger King to have lunch (nuggets, hamburgers with crisps and fizzy drinks).

After lunch, we had free time in the Bullring center for shopping. There were incredible shops that aren´t in the typical shopping centres in Spain like: Top Shop, Pink, River Island... Then, we returned to the university to have dinner (meatballs with rice, salad, fruit and fresh fruit platter).
Finally, we came back to the accommodation, where we took a shower. We put the pyjamas on, did the prayer and watched Netflix on the computer.

Good night families!!!

Noemi and Sofia

TRIP TO LONDON!

Today we woke up at 6 o'clock to take a train to London. In the train we called our families and we had breakfast (sandwich with Nutella, napolitana and juice). We also played table games.

When we arrived to London we visited Covent Garden, it was amazing!! There were a lot of shops and restaurants. The father Jesus explained us the history of each monument; for example, he told us that Covent Garden had been a jumble sale, the people went there to sell their raw materials, vegetables or farm butchers.

After the Covent Garden we went to the British Museum. There we watched Egypt samples like mummies or their ancient scripture.

Then, we took the underground to go to the Tower of London and we had lunch. We ate the wraps and the rice we prepared yesterday and an apple. Before, the Tower of London was a prison, but now is just an old monument. Inside the tower there are crowns without wings, so they won't be able to scape. The legend says that if the crowns disappear, all the population will die.

When we finished our lunch we went to the Tower Bridge. We crossed the river Thames and we saw a lot of boats.

To continue our visit we saw the Big Ben and the Parlament of London. After that, we walked to Picadilly Circus. There we saw a big festival and we could entered to a big M&Ms store. The leaders gave us time to visit the store.

Then, we went to a big shop were we could buy souvenirs and to a 7-floor toy-store called Hamleys. When we finished buying, we returned to the main London train station by underground. Then, we took a train to Birmingham.

When we arrived we went to our University to have dinner (salad, lamb with vegetables and fruit or ice-cream) . After dinner we came back to the accommodation and we took a shower, we put our pyjamas and watch a serie.

It was a fantastic day!!! But now we are all so tired! Good night

Lucia and David

NEWS´ DAY

Today we woke up at 8:00 as usual. Then, we had breakfast, we dressed up, prepared our bags because another day in BCU was waiting for us.

This morning, in the class, we learnt a wide range of vocabulary such as idioms and similes. Later, we finished our oral projects talking about news (weather, history, Harry Potter and Royal family).We finished our bullring buildings as well.

After classes, we had lunch (lasagne, salad, garlic bread and fruit) And then, we started the afternoon classes.

At 3:00 p.m. we went to the supermarket and bought everything necessary for our trip to London. We cooked chicken wraps with tomato, cheese and corn. Also we cooked rice.

When we finished, we went to a shopping center where the leaders gave us one hour for buying whatever we wanted.

During the afternoon, we had dinner (chicken, chips, salad, fruit and carrot cake) Finally we went to the accomodation. We had a shower and we played all together.

Kisses to our families,

Núria and Vega.

BOWLEX BOWLING

Hello parents,

Today we woke up at eight o´clock like every morning and then we had breakfast.

At nine o´clock we went to classes and we continued our news, presentations and our bullring´s projects.

At one o´clock we had lunch and we ate typical english food (fish and chips)

We continued one hour more and at four we went to Bowlex Bowling. We stayed there two hours and we arrived. We went directly to university to have dinner.

We went back to the accomodation and we played baseball with our new T-shirts. Then, we had a shower and we ate creps because it is Raquel´s last night.

A lot of kisses, miss you.

Berta & María

POWTOON FINISHED!!!

Finally, we finished our Powtoon activity.

PowToon is the world’s leading, most user-friendly and most intuitive animation software. With PowToon, anyone - even if you don’t know a pixel from a proxy server - can create engaging, animated videos with a professional look and feel.

You can find our Powtoon in the left side of our blog, below the photos link. 

Enjoy it!!! 

ART AND CRAFTS´ DAY

We woke up at 8.00 o´clock as normally, we dressed up and had breakfast. We went to university to have class.

First, we played a game called "Taboo". Then, our teacher explained us things about Oxford and York and also about our next project.

We had lunch and we ate turkey with sausage, peas, carrots, salad and baked potatoes. After lunch, we returned to class to do art & crafts (we are making famous buildings). Later, we came back to accomodation and painted our T-shirts.

Our group was divided by two and we made a flag, song and a dance. After that, we created a ball with rice and balloons for juggling.

We went to university for having dinner and we ate the typical english beans, mashed potatoes with cheese and tomato and salad.

At night, we played games like pictionary, pass the word... When we went back to accomodation, we had a shower, put the pyjama on and played games in the kitchen.

We went to sleep at 11.00 p.m.


Sofía Morán and Paula Lozano

VISITING BIRMINGHAM

On Tuesday we woke up at 8 o’clock, after we had breakfast and we get ready to go to university.

In the classes , our teacher Jerry, taught us the history of the UK .In our opinion ,the most incredible thing was that on the night of 5^th  November Guy Fawkes  tried to kill the King of the UK. So now in the UK every 5^th November the British people celebrate with fireworks this night.

When we had finish our classes, we went to have lunch (salad, mashed potato and sausages). On it the teachers explained us what we were going to do.

After lunch we went to the train station to get a train to Birmingham. In the travel we played the famous game of the story telling.

In Birmingham we did a tour. First we visited the Birmingham Cathedral, then we went to the Council House and took some photos. After we went to the secret garden in the terrace and the memory of Shakespeare. It was amazing!

Finally we visited the BBC studios and we made some funny videos like a reporters. (Watch the BBC videos below) After that the monitors gave us a map and 12 pictures of buildings. This scavenger Hunt it is perfect for tourist because we can know more things about Birmingham. 

At 6 o’clock we came back by bus and we had dinner at university (hamburger and sweetcorn). After that we phoned our families to explain the day and how we were. Then we played Karaoke and we danced.

At night we had a shower and we put on the pyjama, then we went to the stairs because the Padre Sorribes wanted to give us the blessing.

THE DAY WAS INCREDIBLE!!!

Lucia & Noemi 

FIRST DAY: CLASSES & SWIMMING POOL

We woke up at 8:00, then we did our breakfast. That was very delicious!!! Then we made our bedrooms. We prepared the bag and we went to the university.

In the university, we met our teacher and did a game to know the names. Later we wrote descriptions abour ourselves using a powtoon.

We had lunch in the university (pasta, salad and ice-cream)

Then, we went to take the train station to pick a train for going to the swimming pool.

In the swimming pool we played all time with our friends. After the swimming pool we picked the train to return to accomodation.
We returned to university to have dinner (chicken, french fries, salad and fruit)
We walked to the accomodation and we played baseball. Then we had a shower and after that we talked about what are going to do tomorrow.

We enjoyed!!!

Hugs & kisses family!

David & Pere

(El link de fotos no está actualizado todavía, en los siguientes posts os comunicaremos cuando estará disponible, mientras os dejamos algunas fotos aquí)

Welcome BCU

Good afternoon everybody,

We are here!!! Your coordinators arrived very well and we are preparing everything that you need (rooms, materials, classes...)

We are very excited and we are waiting for you. 

We wish you a wonderful trip.

See you on Sunday!!!!

Raquel & Manu

Hola a tod@s

Un año más, y ya son 53, 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 y Organización.

¡Que pasemos un feliz verano! ¡Hasta pronto!

P. Antonio Sorribes

Apreciados todos,

Son ya 52 años de la andadura de Idiomas Padre Manyanet con la finalidad de ser un complemento que creemos importante para vosotros, los padres, y como no para todos los estudiantes inscritos en nuestro Programa de Idiomas de 2016.

Aprovecho pues, desde cada uno de nuestros BLOGS, para daros las gracias por vuestra confianza y colaboración para que cada uno de los Grupos haya llegado al final cumpliendo los objetivos que nos habíamos propuesto: mejorar el idioma y pasarlo bien.

Os deseo que paséis un FELIZ VERANO EN FAMILIA y un ¡HASTA SIEMPRE!

Muy cordialmente,

P. Antonio Sorribes

MUCHAS GRACIAS

Y un año más hemos llegado al final del camino que iniciamos juntos ahora hace 21 días. Un camino lleno de incertidumbre y por que no decirlo, miedo a lo desconocido: un sitio nuevo, gente nueva por conocer, algunos repetidores... y sin saber qué nos iban a deparar estas tres semanas.

Pasó la primera semana y vuestros hijos (y nosotros) nos íbamos adaptando. Pero llegó Londres, el que todo lo cura, y a partir de aquí el tiempo empezó a volar.  Y hoy recogemos los frutos que sembramos entonces para llevarnos una mochila llena de amigos, llena de experiencias con ellos y una mochila cargada con mucha felicidad y madurez, ya que estar lejos de vosotros durante este tiempo les ha hecho madurar y crecer.

Ya veréis,  ¡los encontraréis mayores seguro! Mientras escribimos ésto, ellos bailan y disfrutan de las últimas horas con sus nuevos amigos y nosotros con ellos, tal y como lo hemos estado haciendo desde el primer día.

Con este disfrute hemos conocido todas las facetas de vuestros hijos: el esfuerzo de hablar inglés, de recoger sus habitaciones, de comer brócoli y otras verduras, de cuidar de los pequeños y de escuchar a los mayores con devoción.

Tenéis unos hijos adorables y los hemos querido mucho intentando ser un referente para ellos durante estos días. Os damos las gracias pues, por confiarnos a vuestros hijos aun sin conocernos personalmente ya que sabemos que no es fácil dejarlos ir a 1500 km de casa.

Así pues, mañana los tendréis de vuelta. Ya debéis tener ganas de verlos y que os cuenten todo lo que han aprendido a todos los niveles. Ahora toca disfrutarlos mucho que el tiempo apremia.  Y si no preguntádselo a ellos, que se les han pasado estos 21 días volando.

Hasta el año que viene.

Muchos besos desde el fondo del mar.

Raquel y Gonzalo.

LAST DAY

Today is our last day in BCU. We woke up as usual at 8:00 and had breakfast. Then we went to class where we practice our presentations for the afternoon. Each group has prepared one presentation talking about what did they do and what liked the most during this week and 5 minutes scene of Charlie and the chocolate factory film.

After lunch, we went to Mai's class to present our work of the week, but we had also the last ceremony. We received a diploma from the university and we got the prizes of different activities that we have done during the camp. We watched also the movies that we recorded last Saturday and and a final video reminder of all the camp. Once we finished we went to the accommodation and we had some time to take a shower and wear our bests clothes.

After dinner we had the last party. When we were entering there were some poster asking where was she. Finally she was Dory and we could find her in the dining room. We party until 23:00 when we went to sleep because tomorrow some of us have to wake up very early.

The leaders

VUELOS DE VUELTA

Ya se acerca el final y con ello los vuelos de vuelta a España.

Los vuelos programados para mañana sábado 23 de julio son:

Barcelona: VY8755
Salida (BHX): 12:45 (hora local)
Llegada (BCN): 17:35 (hora local) a la terminal 1

Madrid: BA520
Salida (LHR): 17:15 (hora local)
Llegada (MAD): 20:45 (hora local) a la terminal 4

Un saludo y nos vemos en el aeropuerto.

ALTON TOWERS

Hello to all the families.

Yesterday, we woke up at 6:00 because we went to Alton Towers (the biggest theme park in England). We had breakfast and we took the train to go to the center wehre we met the families group. There, we had to wait a lot of time because the bus was late, but at 9:30 we could go to Alton Towers.

Once we arrived at Alton Towers some of us went to buy the fast pass ticket because the queues were very long. Then we split into groups and we went to the roller coasters like Smiler, Rita, Nemesis or oblivion. It was a warm day so some of us decided to ride in water roller coasters to refresh a little bit.

At 17:45 we met in the entrance of the park to take the bus and come back to Birmingham where we had dinner, we watched Frozen and then we went to sleep. It was a very long day and we were very tired.

Hugs and kisses.

Nico and Adrià.