Still on Holidays???????

Hello Everybody!

Happy New Year!

 

This is the first blog of the year.

The tittle of the blog is ‘Are you still on holiday?’ but that’s a rhetorical question because I know the answer. Yes, 7^th January, 2015 was our first day of English class but I know that you didn’t have lessons at school because it still was a holiday for you, not for me! And I also understand how difficult is going back to class! Trust me! (Believe me!)

Thank you to Almudena and Laura for coming to class. So, what did we do? Only girls! , what means that we talked and talked…until the cows came home! (This English saying means, to talk for a long time) We talked about clothes, concerts, going out, last holidays… We also commented the terrible news that had happened in Paris; we didn’t know how it was to finish back then.

…and, we went on a trip!

We played a board game called “Around the world in 100 days!” no, not this one!

The game consisted in throwing the dice and following the instructions we had on the square we had landed. Sometimes we had to make decisions, sometimes we didn’t. For example, you land in Berlin: “You’ve forgotten your traveller’s cheques! Go back to London and get them! So, you had to go back until the ‘London square’. Delhi: “you’ve started to feel ill, what do you do? a) Go straight to the doctor. b) Stay in your hotel room and wait. c) Push on with your journey.

One of the answers made you lose no time, another one meant to add four days to your journey time and another one made you add seven days.

Did you make the right choice? Did you consider the advantages and disadvantages of going to a doctor in India, keeping travelling despite your illness, going to an Indian hospital…?

The winner was the person who got to the end of the journey, that is, who got to the finish square making the journey in the fewer days. None of you were able to finish in 100 days! Almudena won, but she made the journey in 111 days!

Who can blame her? She went to Paris twice because it was so beautiful! She had to spend one whole day buying souvenirs for the family! She stayed longer because she wanted to visit the giant turtles! …It was worth it!

Well, I wonder how many of you I’m going to see in the next class now that Christmas is over! I hope to see all of you!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Bye!