Magusto 2008

On Friday, November 7th, our school gathered up for the traditional roasted chestnuts, or Magusto, and it was a day of fun and celebration, although St. Peter wasn't exactly on our side. The English languge was, as usual present trhought the celebrations, hosted beautifully by Daniela and José Miguel from the Secretariate class and Susana and André from the Management class.
The day was divided into two parts. In the morning, there were games between teachers and students and sports and quizzes. The Female Teachers' Team was the obvious victor :) In the afternoon, after the chestnuts, each class had a performance, and a full audience indulged in the come back of DZR'T, Tony and Mickael Carreira, a Techtonic Crew and many singing and dancing numbers. We all had fun. To top of the evening, Mister and Miss Cidenai were chosen through a game of dancing chairs. It was really funny!

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!

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

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

This year, the activities of the English subject at Cidenai were very oriented to two of the most urgent topics of our society: the Environment and Health. Everything we did was around these two problems: shouldn’t school be the primary place for learning what to do to save the Earth and how to eat right?
With these two assumptions in mind we decided to participate in the Italian Project “Food4U”, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. In this project two of our classes created a video spot about healthy eating. Both spots, called “Snow White” and “Smart Choices” were done enthusiastically by the classes of 11º Gestão and 10º Comércio and even though they didn’t win the competition, they are proud of their work and so are we!
Then came the protection of the planet: a big number of activities involving the entire school have been carried out throughout the year. The class 11º Secretariado made a few pamphlets about topics that they considered important, like “Endangered Animal” and “The melting of the Ice Poles”. Then the class 11º Gestão created what was called “31 Ways to Save the World”, in which 31 ideas to help save the planet were spread out through the school walls. No one can say they don’t know what or how to help!
Then we also had poetry and advertising competitions: the class of 12º Secretariado created lively and social driven commercials which were exhibited during the first term in room B2 and the classes of 11º Gestão and 11º Secretariado wrote beautiful poems to the important people in their lives. They’re poets and they know it!
It was a great year for the English language and everyone worked really hard. If you want to know more, read some poems or see the videos, you can visit the English blog at English-at-Cidenai.blogspot.com. Let’s keep up the good work!