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Saturday

Cidenai@Universidade do Minho

Last Friday the European Day of Languages was celebrated and guess who joined the celebrations? That’s right, we did! With all of our 12th grades we travelled to Braga to join the celebrations at Universidade do Minho and we all had a ball! Our students tried Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish and Greek and many have decided to enter a competition in which they have to write the ending of a short story… let your pens fly! It was a great day and on the bus ride home all we could ear was wunderbar, konichiwa, among all the other new words that we learned. It was a meeting of sounds and cultures that everyone will surely benefit from. A big thanks to all the teachers from Minho University for being so kind and patient with our mistakes! See you again next year!

Thursday

WELCOME BACK!!!!

A new school year has started and we are all excited to see all the new faces and at the same time sad to see many familiar faces leave. But most of all we are happy to start a new year and a new chapter in our lives. We hope it's a good one!
This year I hope that I will see more compositions, poems and anything you want to say on our Blog... don't be shy! You can do it!
And finally, I want to congratulate our Maria Cunha, for being the best student and for all the cash she's getting! Work hard and you'll be next!
Happy new year, everybody!!

Michael Jackson's "EarthSong" video - a Review

I think that the video for “EarthSong”, by Michael Jackson, is old but shows something very current; unfortunately pollution is a “very old” problem. The video is very realistic, and shows us what we are doing to the world, we are destroying it. In the end of the video Nature turns itself against us and is reborn, but in real life that won’t happen. The environment is very sick and degraded, nowadays we see the consequences of the planet’s “diseases”: global warming, endangered species, etc. Many ways to preserve the environment are recycling, stop tress cut-down, turn off the water when we brush our teeth, and the most important is to preserve what is left of the world. Saving the earth is in our hands, we just have to do simple things and change our habits, one minute for person makes a lot of difference in the world. Stop and think about what are we doing to our planet … It won’t last forever!!

Liliana Costa 11º Gestão