VISIT TO LONDON

Hi families,

Today was an excellent and wonderful day. we went to London and we had to take the train at 8.15 am. We spend two hours in the train.

When we arrived to Marylebone Station, the metro wasn't available. We had to wait for a bit, but finally we decided to start the walking tour.

The first monument we visited was "Marble Arch". We continued our route through Hyde Park, and we arrived to Buckingham Palace. After that, we walked directly to Big Ben and London Eye, where we had lunch there the packet lunch and some ice-creams and hot dogs we bought.

When we finished, we went to Trafalgar Square and we started our shopping time going to: M&M's Store, Cool Britannia and Hamleys, the oldest toy shop in the world. There we bought a lot of souvenirs like: toys, clothes, magnets, etc.

At the end of the tour, while we were going to the train Station to go back Birmingham, we passed next to Madame Tussaud Museum.

Now we have just had dinner and we are going to play Bingo.

Regards and kisses.

David Molar and Elia Sanchez.

A WORKSHOP DAY

Dear families:
Today we have woken up at eight o'clock in the morning as every day, we have had breakfast later and at 9:15 am we have started English lessons.
In class we've done some maps and then we've been playing some grammatical games. On Saturday we have the presentation of all what we are doing these week at English class, so we are preparing it too.

After having lunch, we have done some workshops divided in groups. These groups are the sports teams, and we've invented the name, the flag and the shout of each one. Also we have painted ours t-shirts' team (blue, green, brown or red) with the name of each team: Potatoes, KK's, Albatros or Stormers. We've played volleyball and dodgeball, and finally we have had dinner.

Now we are writing the blog, and we are going to finish to watch Shrek film.

Hugs and kisses.

Alejandra Rodriguez and Nicolas Gutierrez.

TRIP TO THE CITY CENTER

Dear families,

Today in the morning we've had breakfast and one English class the first hour. Because after that we've continued our activities outside in the center of Birmingham. We went by train to do a tourist tour there. We visited the most important places in Birmingham, for example: hall of memorial, art museum, symphony hall, mailbox, the secret garden of the Library, the cathedral, the BBC (where we've recorded a TV programme) etc.

After have the lunch in Mc'Donalds, we had some time to go to shopping in the bullring (a shopping center) but we could go also to watch  the film "Minions".
At 5:30 we met all together to come back to the residence. We had dinner and now we are writing this blog, and we'll watch "Shrek".
Bye bye families, hugs and kisses

María Saludes y Marí
a Rodrigo

SWIMMING POOL AND BADMINTON

Hi family,
Today was our first day in BCU and we started the day in the meeting point at 8:30. After breakfast we went to the first class and we met our teachers, Joana, Nailah and Lutfa. We had three ours in the morning and one hour more after lunch.

Once we finish the clases we went to the bus because we went to the sport centre. In the sport centre we had three sports to choose: table tennis, badminton and swimming. We could practice a lot and have fun. After that we played a really fun game outside to wait the bus.

When we arrive to the residence we had some free time to have a shower and relax a little bit before have dinner. Then, we could call the parents and now we are writing the blog. To finish the day we will watch the serie Zach & Cody. And after some free time in our kitchens we will go to sleep.

Hugs and kisses

Adriana Mingo and Jaime Martínez-Atienza

NOS VAMOS DE VIAJE

Depués de los pequeños retrasos que hemos sufrido en los vuelos de Madrid pero sobretodo de Barcelona y tras unas tres horas de autobús hemos llegado todos bien y animados a Birmingham. Una vez cenados hemos hecho el test para separar en niveles a los alumnos para las clases.

A partir de mañana por parejas escribirán el blog explicando lo que han hecho durante el día. Le animamos a seguir sus actividades y a comentar todo lo que quieran.

A la izquierda iremos subiendo las fotos del día (se mantienen las de días anteriores). Hoy ya están subidas las fotos del viaje.

Un saludo

Los monitores

Hola a tod@s

Un año más, y ya son 51, 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,

Cerramos un capítulo más, un año más, de nuestros Cursos de Idiomas Padre Manyanet y... ¡ya van 50!

Quiero agradecer desde aquí, la dedicación, la profesionalidad, el interés y el trabajo bien hecho de todos y cada uno de los Directores y Monitores de los Grupos en los diferentes países.

Así pues, con el deseo de que los objetivos propuestos se hayan cumplido, espero que se haga realidad en cada uno de vuestros hogares el ideal de San José Manyanet: que cada familia sea como la de Nazaret (“Un Nazaret en cada hogar”).

¡Que paséis en familia un feliz verano!

¡Hasta siempre!

P. Antonio Sorribes

Director

AVISO DE ÚLTIMA HORA

CANCELACIÓN DEL VUELO A MADRID

Lamentamos comunicarles la cancelación, por parte de la compañía aérea, del vuelo BA464 previsto para hoy sábado día 26 de julio de 2014 London Heathrow - Madrid.

Los alumnos viajarán mañana domingo día 27 de julio en el vuelo BA462 con llegada prevista a la T4 de Madrid Barajas a las 18.35h.

BA0462 - London Heathrow a Madrid

Llegada domingo 27 julio

Última actualización: 16:32 GMT

 Salida

British AirwaysBoeing 767 jet

Salida desde	London Heathrow
Terminal de salida	5
Salida programada(Hora local)	15:10 domingo 27 julio

 Llegada

British AirwaysBoeing 767 jet

Llegada a	Madrid
Llegada a terminal	4S
Llegada programada(Hora local)	18:35 domingo 27 julio

LAST DAY

Dear Parents:

Today we have had three hours of English classes. The two first hours we have been practising our performances because after lunch it would be the premiere, and the third one we had a little party with our teacher. Then we had lunch, we ate the typical food  FISH AND CHIPS! It was a good way to end our last meal.

After lunch we did our performances. 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 David Sanz received an award for been the  best student and to complete the afternoon Mai (English teacher) made a speech to say thank you to everybody.

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

See you tomorrow.

The Leaders.

ALTON TOWERS!!

Dear families,

Today we woke up earlier and we had breakfast at the kitchen of our flats because at 7:45 we had to catch the coach to go to ALTON TOWERS!

We arrived there at ten o’clock and we entered into the park. After the explanations of the leaders, we started the adventure. We separate in groups to go to roller coasters like Rita, Nemesis, Thirteen, Oblivion or The Smiler, the newest of the park which has 14 loops. At 1:00, we met all in the entrance to see that we were all right, and then we had lunch. Later we could continue the exciting experience until 4:45, when we all met to leave the amusement park.

We arrived at BCU at 7:00 and we had dinner. We are all very tired, so today we are not going to see any film and we are going to go to the bed earlier.

See you soon

Hugs and kisses

Lisbeth Escobar, Alba Fuente and Daniel Esteban. 

LAST SPORTS DAY

Dear parents,

Today we have had the normally English classes. Then we had lunch, and it was delicious; we ate Hot Dogs! Later we continued the lessons. May and Jamie’s class did a scavenger hunt, and the other classes practiced and prepared the necessary material for the plays we are going to represent on Friday.

Later, we went to change our clothes, and we finished the activities that Antonio had prepared for us last week. We did length jumping, petanque, and relay races. When done, we had free time in the field, and most of the boys play football while the girls were sitting in the grass speaking and gossiping.

After having a shower, we went to the canteen, and now we are going to finish the film Despicable Me 2.

Hugs and kisses

Alba Corredera and Armando García-Valdés

TRAINING HARD!

Dear parents,

Today it was an extremely hard day, especially the afternoon, when we played some sports. But before that, we went to our morning lessons (as you know for three hours) and we had lunch. After, we went to the theatre to watch the videos of the dancing activity made last Thursday in the afternoon, and we decided who the best dance group of BCU’14 is. The winners were Penguins and Crocodiles.

Later we went to the field next to the sport centre, where three trainers came to teach us some sport activities: football, athletics and cricket. We finished very tired because we spend three hours running, kicking, throwing…

Now we are going to see the film Despicable Me 2!

Hugs and kisses

Nicola Masotti and Arnau Moreno

TOURNAMENTS

Dear parents,

Today was a normal day. In the morning we had three hours of classes and after lunch we have another hour of class where we practiced the theatre performance. Some of these performances are Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

In the afternoon we went to the sport center and we played a tournament of tennis, badminton, tennis-table and swimming pool.The winners were;  in tennis-table Pablo Garcia, in tennis was David Sanz, in badminton were Luis Iglesias and Jaime Martínez-Atienza and finally, in swimming pool, Maria Villacorta. After, we went to the canteen to have dinner and now we are going to play a Quiz.

That’s all for today

Hugs and Kisses

David Mollar and Ángel Mingo

VUELO DE VUELTA

Buenas tardes:

Les escribimos esta entrada para informarles de los vuelos de vuelta que realizaremos el próximo sábado día 26 de julio.

El vuelo a Madrid (llegada a la T4-Barajas):

Hora de salida: 16:50 (hora inglesa)

Hora de llegada: 20:10 (hora española)

Número de vuelo: BA464

El vuelo a Barcelona (llegada a la T1-El Prat):

Hora de salida: 16:30 (hora inglesa)

Hora de llegada: 19:40 (hora española)

Número de vuelo: BA486

Un saludo

Los monitores

OXFORD!!!

Dear parents,

Today we have visited Oxford. We went by coach. Once in the city, we went to a mass that the priest did specially for us. Later we went to see the Christ Church, where the first film of Harry Potter was recorded. After that, we have seen also the Radcliffe Camera, the Bridge of the Sighs, and the library.

Then we went to have lunch in Mc Donald’s, or in the Burger King. When we finished we had time to go shopping. Most of us bought the Oxford University jumper, and lots of souvenirs for the family and friends. Finally we went to the campus, and we had dinner. Now we are writing the blog, and we are going to finish the film Frozen.

Hugs and Kisses

Adriana Mingo and Llorenç Mollar

MASTER CHEF

Dear parents,

Today we had a different class because we did a Master Chef of cakes and sandwiches. We divided the group and we went to buy the ingredients on the supermarket with our teachers. After that, we prepared the original cake and sandwich in the canteen. Then we decide a name for both plates, and we made the recipe, which with the ingredients and the points you must follow for make them. The leaders decided the winners. The winner of the most original cake was Maria’s group, and the most original sandwich was Chema’s group.

After lunch we ate the cakes and sandwiches as a dessert, and later we did the presentations of our works during the week. Then we changed our clothes, and we went to the theatre to represent our actuations in the MTV awards. When finished, Gonzalo did a Magic Show. Then we went dinner and now we are going to watch the film Frozen.

Hugs and Kisses

Nacho Garcia and Alejandro Marceñido

2nd SKATING DAY

Dear parents,

Today we had breakfast and after that we went to the first 3 hours of classes, where we practice the presentation that we are going to do on Saturday in order to explain the exercises of this week. Then we went lunch, and after we went to the ice rink. A lot of people fell down, but in general today we have done it better than the first day. Later on, we went to a park where we played football, we jumped the rope, and some of us also met new people from here.

Then we return to the campus and we had dinner; beef, bread, fries and cake. Then we phoned our parents and now we are going to finish the film X-men.

Hugs and kisses

María Ferreiro and Carlos Cuevas

CARBURY WORLD

Hi families!

Today we haven’t had classes because we have visited Cadbury, a very important chocolate factory here near the campus. There we could see how chocolate is made, they told us the history and the importance of the cocoa during the years. We also went to the biggest Cadbury shop in the whole world, so we bought a lot of chocolate.

After we returned to BCU and we ate the lunch in the canteen. Later we did dance classes, when three different teachers show us how to dance contemporary dance, street dance and performance dance.

After having a shower we had dinner and now we are going to start the movie X-men. Today we will see the first part, and tomorrow we are going to finish it.

Hugs and kisses

Arturo Moltó and Curro Fuente

SPORT GAMES

Dear families,

Today we had the same timetable to the other days, but Mai’s class changed their usually routine because they made cupcakes.

After that we had lunch. Later on, we did a little competition practicing different sport games like sit-ups, military push-ups, the game of the handkerchief, hula-hoop… and we also made a little path with evidences. We finished very tired because we made a lot of effort. After that it started to rain and we went directly to the bedroom to prepare for having dinner.

Later we went to the canteen and now we are going to play BINGO.

Hugs and kisses

Ana Vélez and Cristobal Corredera

LESSONS, MUSIC AND SPORTS

Dear families,

After having breakfast we went to classes for three hours, and afterwards, we had lunch. Then, we had, again, classes.

Later on, we went to the theater to prepare the MTV Awards that is like a talent show of music where we have to sing and imitate a real group. Some of the songs that people will represent are Y.M.C.A, Babie Girl, Wannabe, Counting stars…

At 5:00 we went to the sport centre to play basketball and baseball. After playing with our respective teams (elephants, lions, penguins, eagles. crocodiles or bears) we had a shower.

Then we went to the canteen for dinner, but many of us, we did not like the food: fish with broccoli. Now we are witting the blog while our friends are watching Disney shorts.

Hugs and Kisses J J

 Jaime Martínez-Atienza and Nacho Íñiguez