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

VIDEOS

Aquí os dejamos algunos de los buenos momentos que vivimos esas tres semanas en Birminham. La mayoría los vimos el último día pero hay alguno que no. Aquí los tenéis:

Los viajes (London, Stratford Upon-Avon and Alton Towers):

http://youtu.be/jxljqj78FBc

Un resumen de todos los deportes:

http://youtu.be/knDurJ7G5aI

El de los Mtv Awards que vimos por partes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv5125g6VUQ

Las performances de cada semana que hicimos con las profes (este no lo vimos):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFTdhoqMmc

No sé si os acordaréis de esa tarde de challenges:

http://youtu.be/mKyXCTqalY8

Por último recordamos a aquellos magníficos presentadores de la BBC:

http://youtu.be/LazVEKgkHVU

Y al final de todo las fotos de tooodo el campamento.

AGRADECIMIENTOS

Hola familias,

Durante estas tres semanas hemos descubierto a vuestros hijos poco a poco y cada día nos sorprendian con nuevas historias y facetas.

Os escribimos los leaders mientras vuestros hijos disfrutan de la gran fiesta hawaiiana que les hemos preparado con mucho cariño y os podemos asegurar que estan disfrutando de cada canción y cada momento que les queda con sus nuevos amigos.

Ha sido un grupo espectacular, lleno de entusiasmo y energia para hacer y crear un ambiente especial y que a su vez les ha hecho crecer como personas y darse cuenta de la suerte que tienen de teneros a vosotros como padres que quereis lo mejor para ellos. Lo saben y os están muy agradecidos.

Muchas gracias a vosotros por confiarnos a vuestros hijos durante tres semanas y a miles de kilómetros. Los hemos disfrutado durante muchas horas y de corazón os decimos que ha sido increible.

Un fuerte abrazo y nos vemos pronto!

Teresa, Maria, Gonzalo, Chema y Raquel

VUELOS DE VUELTA

Los vuelos de mañana Sábado 25 de julio son los siguientes:
Madrid: BA462
Salida- 14:55 (hora local)
Legada- 18:20 (hora local) a la Terminal 4
Barcelona: BA480
Salida- 14:30 (hora local)
Llegada- 17:35 (hora local) a la Terminal 1

LAST DAY

Dear Parents:

Today we have had three hours of English classes. The two first hours we have been practising our performances, and the third one we had a little party with our teachers. Then we had lunch.

After lunch we did our performances. First Nailah's class wit the "Lion king musical" and second Joana's class with an interpretation of the World War II. Then we received our grates and presents for have finished the English class, but that was not all, each one received a present of the leaders and afterwards Jaime Martin received an award for been the  best student and Olivia too because she was the last student to have a medal. Well done Olivia.

Finally, we went to the accommodation buildings to put on our best clothes. because tonight (the last night) we will have a Hawaiian disco.

See you tomorrow.

The Leaders.

ALTON TOWERS

Hi families,

Today we woke up at 7:15 because we had to take the bus at 8:00 to go to Alton Towers. When we arrived there we had breakfast and we split up in groups. Each group went to their favourite roller coaster for example: Rita, Nemesis, Oblivion, Th13teen, Air, Sonic spinball, The Flume and more funny roller coaster. We could buy some pictures of us riding.

We played too in the stands and some of us won prizes like an enormous fluffy toy of a monkey. We spent all the day there and we could ride all the roller coaster that we wanted. At 5:15 we met at the entrance of Alton Towers to take the bus back to Birmingham after take a group picture. We were very tired so we slept all the trip.

Now, after dinner, we are going to watch the film "Frozen" and have our last kitchen.

Almudena Cobo and Olivia Núñez.

CAKES COMPETITION

Today in class we practiced again our performances of friday's show. Later, in Lutfa's class we did tatoos with henna. It is an indian tradition and Lutfa knew how to do it. We enjoyed a lot and now we have wonderful tatoos.

At 3:00 pm we went to the lecture theatre and our wonderful, brilliant and terrific leaders explain us the afternoon activity: The cake Competition. We split in five groups and we went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for the cakes but we only had ten pounds. We had to cook a cake as most original and with the best flavour as posible.

Here we have the best flavour cake:

And here the most original cake:

Afterwards, we went to the acomodation to take a shower and relax. Now, after dinner, we are writing the blog and we are going to watch a film. Tonight we are going to sleep early because tomorrow we have to wake up earlier to go to Alton Towers.


Magda Solé and Mar Calviño

SPORTY DAY

Today, after breakfast we prepare our performances with our teachers. We are finishing the story and tomorrow we will make the costumes and the props. Joana's group is doing a play based in the World War II and Nailah's class is doing the "Lion King musical".

At 3:00 we went to the accomodation because we had an activity from "Sport4all". We split in three groups and we had three different activities: football, multisport and and street dance. We enjoyed a lot and we had a really good time. We finish very tired but we were really happy with this activity.

After take a shower and have dinner we went to the lecture theatre to finish the film "Despicable me" and see more experiments.

Maria García and Júlia Guix. 

BU SPORT CENTRE

Today, as usual, we woke up at 8:00. After having breakfast, we had our English class as everyday. We worked in some plays that we are going to prepare during this week. Nilah's class is going to do the "Lion King Musical" and Joana's class is going to do a performance create by ourselves. It was so funny!

At 15:00, we finished the class and went to the BU Sport Centre. We could choose between squash or swimming pool, although some of us did both things. There, we spent a very good time together.  Ehwn we finish,  we left the BU Sport Centre and we went to the accomodation to have a shower or just relax in our kitchens.

After dinner we had some time to phone you and tell you about how the day was going. Now, we will watch the movie "Despicable Me" and then we'll go to our kitchens to have free time again until we have to go to sleep. It has been a wonderful day!

Hugs and kisses,

Jaime Martín