Hello from Tiggiano. Our school is called “Don L.Milani”; it isn’t a big school, there are 90 students, and there are 6 classrooms and 7 laboratories: science, music, computer, art, gym, technology and a hall for shows. The building has two floors. The classrooms are on the first floor. Also the teachers have their own room. The lessons start at 8 o’clock a.m., and finish at 1 o’clock p.m. sometimes we have lessons also in the afternoon especially instrument lesson and gymnastics. In the morning we study: Italian, English, French, Technology, Art, Music, P.E., Religion, History, Geography, Science, Maths. We have two terms: end of January and end of June. Around the school there is a garden and one field for athletics . We play four types of instruments: violin, guitar, clarinet and keyboard. For Christmas we had a concert, it was great! In our school there is also a music band composed by the electric guitar, electric bass, drums, clarinet and keyboard. We like our school! And we are happy to have this etwinning project!
You can see photos of the school and of us!
(Written by Lorenzo Alessio, Silvia Alessio, class 2B, Tiggiano-Italy)

GRANADA

I am going to talk about Granada, my province.

-General: Granada is a city in Andalucía, Spain. It is in the South Spain. This province, it is situated the highest mountain in the country (3,481 m) and it summit's name is Mulhacen. It also has beaches in the Mediterranean Sea.

-Monuments:

.La Alhambra: It is the most visited monument in Spain and it is the top pait of Granada. It's very famous because it has arabic sites.


.Albayzín: The Albayzín is a neigborhood of Andalusi origin and it is below the Alhambra, the streets are narrow and well decorated.

-Natural sites:

.North province: Here there are many cave houses and it is a nice place because we have many species of animals and trees.
.Tropical coast: It is a area of hotels and good lands, the beaches are pebbles in some places. Also grown many tropicals fruits by the warm weather.
.Sierra Nevada: It there is also ski resort, it is very touristic and it is large, there were some ski international championships.

Granada celebrities:

.Federico García Lorca: It is the most international Spanish auther, and he is from Granada. He died in the war and his body hasn't been found because he was assassinated.
.María José Rienda: This granadine is the most international spanish skier, she won some awards. She is very professional.

YOU MUST VISIT ONCE IN YOUR LIFE GRANADA !!!!!

Alejandro Morenilla 4º A . I.E.S. ALQUIVIRA. Spain

NO MORE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN SPAIN

The crisis has left thousands of people unemployed in Spain. The government is creating new jobs for these people. Some of these jobs are totally new. We never heard of them before. Take a look at these job advertisements.

LADYBIRD PAINTER

We need people to paint ladybirds. These people can't have shakes because the ladybirds are very small and they many be killed easily.

CITRUS FRUIT COLOURED

We are looking for people that like colouring and want to earn some money.
You only have to know how to colour citrus fruit and have to be very patient, because there are a lot of fruits.
The job is to colour as many fruits (orange and lemons) as the company, NATURA, produces in a day. You have to work 8 hours per day (5h in te morning ' 3 in the afternoon) excluding weekend.
I f you like it, you have jus tfound the perfect job for you. Call us at 937534377 0r send your curriculum at NATURA-company@hotmail.com

COFFIN SLEEPER

Are you the best fan of Count Dracula?
If you want to live like your idol you were born to work in the company coffin '' last sigh''.
You must sleep in a coffin every night and if you have sweet dreams, it is a fantastic coffin!
Everybody will envy you and you will be the heroine of the fashion magazines.

ATTENTION

The company isn't responsible of accidental funeral.



SWEET TESTER

If you belong to the nono generation (no study, no work) and want to change the situation, this is your job. We are looking for a person to test our sweets. You have to try two hundred Kinds in one day.
You will travel to all our factories spread around the world.
We need you this week.

Call us at 555-621-428
address: Springfield 4296
email: sweets-springfield@yahoo.us

MAYB WE NEED U

Have you ever been a true lazy person?
This is your job!
Is the sofa your paradise? congratulations!
We need people bored and lazy since they were born! Find me! I want you!
We are a furniture company who needs to test their furniture. The job has good conditions. It consists of taking a sit and sleep. Take a sit alone and enjoy!
You must test all our store.



Emilio Pardo, Francisco López, Laura Morales, Enrique García, Alejandro Morenilla
IES Alquivira, Spain

The most important festivities

There are many parties in this area, but the most important ones are :
1) Christmas.In my town there are many activities at christmas.First on 25th of december in the morning two people read a funny proclamation.This marks the beginning of Chrismas and some people wear traditional clothes, and go to house of animals and these people drink "cuerva" ( the popular drink in my town ), sometimes in the evening, there are popular dancer and the people who wear traditional clotes dance with woman.Also, 31th of December it is New Year eve and this night we have dinner with the family and at twelve o´clock we eat twelve grapes to celebrate the new year, and 6th of January the "magic kings" bring us a lot of present.

2)San Anton.In this party some people join their friends and they take firewood and the day of San Anton people burn the firewood and they have dinner with their friends, family......

3)Carnivals.In the carnivals we disguise ourselves and we go to the disco and later there are competitions for the clotes more original, more funny, more work.....

4)Santas.These are two saints Alodia and Nunilón.This party is very beautiful,there are two parties along in the year on May and June.This devotion cause a fight between two towns. In this party there are concerts, sport activites and finally there is a procesion.

5)August. This party last all month of August. In the afternoon there are races, film.... and in the night there are concerts.

These are the most important parties in my town,although these are more parties like, the fair, Faster... and when we arrive to this parties there are many people from differents parts of Spain in my town.
Are there any special festivities that you like in your country? Make a comment to this entry telling about the celebrations that you enjoy most.
Carmen Arias, IES Alquivira, Spain

LOS CHAVOS

Geographic: Los Chavos is situated in the east of Andalucia in the province of Granada. Los Chavos is one village is between 990 and 1012m altitude. Many years ago this area was covered by water.

Traditions and customs: Our parties are in honor of San Antonio de Padua in the months in june. We always eat our rice in the party and make games for all.
We also celebrate the party in our river where you eat and drink all day for free.
In Los Chavos the most popular food is crumbs and rice, and to drink good wine.

Monuments: We have a great monument (Church of San Antonio de Padua) and it's very nice for their sculptures.

History: In reality the name of the village is Almontaras because this village is very near a small hill called Almonte.
Although all the people who live here we say Chavos because the first man who lived here was called "The Tio Chavo".
What do you know about the history of your place of birth? Can you tell us in a comment to this post?


I.E.S Alquivira, Raúl Pérez López

COMPUTERS

Computers are machines that a lot of people use to look for information, keep things, write, etc. Computers are rectangular,some were thick or fine.The computer can be found in school, house, offices, hospitals and a lot of many more places. Computers can be of different models, laptop and it can have more or lees memory.A computer is conpuond by very necessary things like the disk drive, the monitor, the keyboard, the mouse and other not so necessary things, like the scanner, web cam, printer, speakers, etc...

We can use a computer to keep photos, music, videos, documents, and many other things. It can also be used to look for information in internet, play video games, and more...

Nowadays there are many gadgets that we use, and sometimes we abuse! Can you think of any other objects around us that make our life easier? Tell about it in a comment to this blog entry.

Adrián Sánchez López, IES Alquivira, Spain

Cave Houses

My name is Carola, I'm seventeen years old and I'm from the Netherlands. I came to Spain four years ago and since then I live in a cave. The first time I came here, the cave that my dad had bought looked very old and unsafe. My dad stayed here to work on the cave and to make it like a normal house. Six months later me and my mon went back and we were really surprised about the work that my dad had done.
The part of the cave where I live now, the first time wasn't even there but the second time I went he had it already finished! But I still wasn't convinced to live in that place, not because it was a cave house, but because in that area live a lot of gipsy's and I wasn't used to that.
When I started going to school things went better because then I understood that the gyupsy's had always lived there and that they weren't that bad. After four years my dad is still working on the house but I'm happy with it. My schooll is fun and I've got some friends and even a boyfriend. At the beginning I didn't thought that I could become happy here but now I am. Although lots of my friends or family who haven't been here don't understand it. They think that living in a cave is from the prehistorie but it isn't.
I really like living in a cave house because in the summer when it gets up to 40 degrees outside, inside you're at 17 degrees and in the winter the same. It's also really quiet, you don't hear almost nothing from outside. The only bad thing is that there's only daylight at the front part of the cave. My partens have also got a Bed and Brakfast but many people can't sleep in a cave because they aren't used to it or they become scared because there aren't any windows. Another bad thing that I see of living in a cave house is that inside the cave your mobile phone hasn't got any signal so you've always have to go outside. I think that to understand how it is to live in a cave you just have to come around someday and try it!
And how about you? Where do you live? What is your home like? Do you share with many people? Is it fun living in your house?

Carola Patrizia Cornelissen 4 ESO, IES Alquivira

THE SOUTH REGION OF SPAIN IS ANDALUCIA

The gastronomy in Andalucia is very varied and famous part of the mediterranean diet.In Andalucia the food is very varied because it contains meat ,fish , leguns, vegetables and all the harvest in Andalucia.On way to eat our food is fried,like the famous "pescaito frito" that is fried fish.
The best way to taste our food is with the "tapas" in my town we have the hest tapas bar in Spain.In Andalucia there is one drink that has to do with grienery that in summer is very refresing its name is "gazpacho".
other tipical things in Andalucia is the sweets of a floury consistence that it is the "polvoron".
Finally my favourite food in Andalucia is the "migas" that is fried flour and you can odd elmost any thing to it.
What food is typical from your region? What do you like most to eat?
Post your comments on food here.