¡Feliz verano en familia!

Finalizada ya la estancia de todos los grupos, deseo que se hayan cumplido todos los objetivos que nos marcamos año tras año, no olvidando que el esfuerzo y la constancia son irrenunciables para que sea haga realidad el que "saber idiomas es abrir fronteras".

Agradezco, una vez más, la confianza que todos han puesto en Idiomas Padre Manyanet y les deseo que pasen un ¡Feliz verano en familia!

Hasta siempre,

P. Antonio Sorribes s.f.

Monday 16th of July

Hi everyone!!! A fantastic day in Southampton again!!

 Yesterday we were attending the lessons. As always we had a very intensive day and we wrote everything in the diary. Finally the weather is getting better and it is not so cold as before.

The teachers divided us in two groups: bears and rabbits. The competition started with the quiz and the rabbits won. Each group chose a participant and they were representing each a group. Russell was the presenter and he was very funny.

After that, we went to the bowling. We had a great time there!! We played with our French and Italian friends. Eventually, we took the bus to come back to the residence and went to sleep.

See you!!

First days in Southampton

Hi everyone!!
First of all we would like to apologize for the delay but we couldn't post anything on the blog. We wi
We have already adapted ourselves to Southampton. The citiy is very beautiful, it has got a lot of parks and a big port. The weather is not very good but it doesn't matter because the facilites are very good. Here we  do a lot of things we can never be relaxed!!! We have met other children from different countries and we are having fun with them. We started the lessons on Thursday. Our teachers are from different countries of the UK. They are very nice and helpful.  Everyday we write a diary with our experiences in Southamtpon with their help.

We have made a lot of things all these days: we have visited Southampton, Winchester and we had time to go shopping...but the best of all was the disco and London!!!!!! In London we visited the city (the London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square...) and we had free time to go for a walk.

Today we resumed the lessons and in the evening we are going to the bowling. We hope the weather gets better but as we said before all will be carried out indoor.

Saber idiomas es abrir fronteras...

Un cordial saludo desde los diferentes “blogs” de nuestros Cursos de Idiomas, cuya finalidad es la de ser puentes de relación y comunicación con todos los padres, madres, familiares y amigos de cada uno de nuestros estudiantes.

Deseamos, que mediante los mismos, todos nos sintamos suficientemente informados de las diferentes actividades y de la marcha general de cada uno de los grupos. Ello contribuirá a la tranquilidad y confianza de saber que vuestros hijos e hijas aprovechan y cumplen los objetivos que nuestra Organización se ha propuesto realizar: divertirnos aprendiendo y madurar como personas. De esta manera contribuimos a hacer realidad que el “saber idiomas es abrir fronteras”.

P. Antonio Sorribes

Director

UN IDIOMA, UN PAÍS, UNA ILUSIÓN... ¡HASTA SIEMPRE!

Un año más cerramos nuestros cursos de Idiomas, con la confianza que todos nuestros estudiantes hayan alcanzado los objectivos que nos habíamos marcado.

Quiero pues, agradecer desde aquí, en primer lugar, todo el trabajo llevado a cabo por los directores de grupo y los monitores responsables de cada uno de ellos. Asimismo, agradezo a los padres la confianza que habéis tenido con Idiomas Padre Manyanet.

Con el deseo de que todos terminemos de pasar un feliz verano en familia, que San Jose Manyanet bendiga cada uno de vuestros hogares y hasta siempre.

P. Antonio Sorribes S. F.
Director de Idiomas Padre Manyanet

Sports + Titanic contest!

Today we have had breakfast at 7:45 and then we did the first and the second lesson . 

After, we had lunch at 12:30 and when we finished we played basketball, it was very fun and difficult too because the opponent was very good, but we enjoyed it a lot. We had lunch at 6:00 and after we had  a Titanic contest. It was very exciting because we did it in groups; the bears and the rabbits. Bears won!!

When we finished we went to the residence to play poker have fun with the girls and finish our diary. Finally we went to bed.

Sergi L, Jordi & Sergi V.

Beaulieu + Roller disco!

We got up a little early because we had classes. Then, we met with the teachers and the other people of different countries.
We had breakfast at the canteen, and we walked to the University to take classes.
When we finished the classes we went back to the canteen to had lunch. When we finished we caught the bus to Beaulieu.

In Beaulieu we saw some old cars and motorbikes. We also rode in the monorail. When we finished we went to the canteen again. 

We had dinner and we went to the residence to dress up for the roller disco. We rolled a lot on our skates, but we didn't dance much because we didn't want to fall!! Once we were tired, we went to the residence and we went to bed.

It was a wonderful day!

Marta & Marta

Film evening!

We got up at 6:45 am and we had breakfast as usual.

After that, we went to the have some classes. When we finished we went to have lunch at the canteen. 

Then we went to see Titanic (the film) we had already seen it, but it was good anyway! When the film finished, we went for dinner.

Once we got to the residence, we played a bit of football in the residence’s car park. After having a shower and a few games of poker, we went to bed!

Eduard & Marc

OXFORD!

The day started with good news… WE ARE GOING TO OXFORD!!! But with a problem, it was raining, oooooohh!!! L We got up at 8:30 a.m and we had breakfast. Then we went by bus to the wonderful city of Oxford. When we arrived it was raining a lot.

First we went to the Museum of Natural History of Oxford and we liked it so much, we learned a lot and we took some photos.

Later we walked a bit to the centre of Oxford. The group leaders gave us four hours to buy presents and to eat. Obviously, we bought an Oxford University sweatshirt!  We went to some shops and we had lunch at “Prêt à manger” and we saw the fantastic buildings and some cemeteries that were very strange.

Then we came back to Southampton and we went for dinner. When we finished, we went to the residence to take a shower and to talk with our friends and to write this brilliant diaryJ.

Finally we went to bed to dream with our fantastic experience in Oxford.

Anna, Carla & Cris

Titanic Museum + short film

Today was a different day, I felt better, I wasn’t as tired as other days, and WHY? Because we slept  1 hour and 20 minutes more than a normal day.

We ate breakfast as usual and then we went to the Titanic Memorials and the group leaders gave a questionnaire. It was my second time at the museum so I knew some of the questions. We expected to go to the Oceans Village but the rain stopped us.

We went to the canteen  to have lunch but we were too early. After having lunch, we prepared the Talents Contest act. The boys “who have more imagination than girls” dance LA MACARENA and the girls do a Lipdub. We practiced a lot before having dinner.

The evening activity was film quiz and then we watched a short film “Wallace & Gromit” it was a cartoon movie. It was quite funny because it was totally unreal.

Albert Arcos

Party day!

­­Yesterday we got up early like every day and we went to breakfast. Then we went to have lessons and after we had lunch, about twelve o’clock.

Later we went to the swimming pool to swim. The Southampton’s swimming pool it’s the best swimming pool I’ve ever been. There are four water slides and there’s a Jacuzzi.

After we went to the residence and I had a shower and I wrote the diary. Later we went to have dinner and after we return to the residence. We dressed up and we went to the disco. We dance a lot and we had a good time. Then we went to sleep.

Alejandro

Sports day + Art class

Today in the morning, we got up at 6:45. Elvira wakes the girls up every day. Then, we had breakfast and I ate cereals with milk and a toast with butter and sugar. It was delicious. The classes began at 8:45. I had a hard class today because I was very tired, so I have to go earlier to bed.

The two classes finished at 11:50 and after we stayed at the door of the university to go and have lunch.

In the afternoon we played sports. Merchi, Laura, Alex and Me played Badmington and Volleyball. After that we were very tired. Then, we stayed in the park waiting for the boys and some Italian and French students.

And finally we had dinner. I ate a hamburger again! After, we had an Art class. We made cards of Southampton with paints. We won the quiz!

Finally, we went to the bed. Tomorrow will be another wonderful day!

Natalia Garrido.

Welcome to the Isle of Wight!

As always, we got up early and we had breakfast.

In class, we revised all the things that we have been doing.

We ate very fast the lunch because we had to take the ferry to go to the Isle of Wight. When we arrived there we visited a very nice beach. There we took some photos to remember our experience and then we went shopping. We bought some presents for our family and friends.

We came back to the residence and we wrote our diary. Suddenly, the fire alarm started ringing and we all had to go downstairs very fast and stay out of the residence. We were very scared because we didn’t know what was happening!

Later we had dinner and we played some games with the other students.

We returned to the residence and we went to bed.

Merchi & Paula

Southampton tour + Bowling night!

Today, we got up at half past six in the morning and then we went to have breakfast. Around eight o´clock we started the classes with the Italians and French. Our first class has been with Chris and the second with Russell. It has been great! We´ve done a debate to talk about what is more important: money or sense of humor.

When we finished the lessons we went to have lunch. After that we headed to the Southampton museum and we saw a lot of modern pictures.

Afterwards, everybody went shopping in the centre of Southampton. It’s been fantastic! We bought a lot of beautiful clothes!

The boys went to play football while the girls finished shopping.

Later, we went bowling. By the night, we started to listen to music with the jukebox while we were playing. It has been really fun!

Laura y Andrea.

Welcome to Southampton 2011!!!

Hello everybody!! and sorry for the delay in getting started with this Blog! We arrived very late the first night and we couldn’t access the Internet until today. The students will write every day or every two days in groups of two, the Group Leaders will start today!

The flight went well and a member of Summers Abroad’s staff was waiting for us to take us to the bus. We had a little snack and then we started sorting the rooms out (boys on the first floor and girls on the second floor).

The first morning, we got up at 6:45 am and walked to the dining place (about 15 minutes from our residence). We met Mr. Russell and he gave us some instructions of how to queue up to get the food (there were different cereals, croissants, sausages, bacon, eggs, orange juice, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, etc).

After that, we walked across the park, up to Southampton Solent University and after a short Welcome speech, the students started a level test (including writing, listening, grammar and conversation) in order to put them into different classes according to their knowledge.

Once everyone finished their oral tests, we had lunch and headed for the first classes in the new groups. After 3 hours of class (with a 20 minutes break) we had dinner and then went to watch a movie: GREASE!!! Some of us had already seen it, but it was fun anyway!

Finally, we went back to the Students Residence, took a shower and had a little snack for supper.

The students had some free time before they went to sleep to talk about the day, play cards, read, etc.

At 11 it was time to go to bed…the day after was going to be a looooooooooooooong day!

Duncan & Elvira
Group Leaders.

AVISO IMPORTANTE PARA LOS PADRES: los m'oviles se quedan en las habitaciones de la residencia. En cuanto llegan, 11 - 12 hora espan'ola (esta hora puede variar en funci'on de la actividad realizada ese d'ia) estaran localizables en sus tel'efonos. Gracias.

UN IDIOMA, UN PAÍS, UNA ILUSIÓN...

Un saludo desde los diferentes “blogs” de nuestra página Web, con el deseo que se haga realidad el lema escogido para este Verano 2011: “Un idioma, un país, una ilusión…”

Así pues, que todos y todas sepamos aprovechar esta oportunidad de aprender, mejorar y profundizar nuestros conocimientos del inglés y que verdaderamente nuestro aprendizaje sea del todo exitoso. Que los nuevos amigos/as nos ayuden a conseguir los objetivos que nos proponemos realizar: divertirnos aprendiendo y madurar en nuestro ser personas.

Feliz estancia a todos en cada uno de los lugares escogidos, dentro de nuestra Organización de Idiomas Padre Manyanet.

P. Antonio Sorribes
Director

HASTA SIEMPRE

Un año más cerramos nuestros cursos de Idiomas, con la confianza que todos nuestros estudiantes hayan alcanzado los objectivos que nos habíamos marcado. Quiero pues, agradecer desde aquí, en primer lugar, todo el trabajo llevado a cabo por los directores de grupo y los monitores responsables de cada uno de ellos.
Asimismo, agradezo a los padres la confianza que habéis tenido con Idiomas Padre Manyanet. Que todos terminemos de pasar un feliz verano en familia y hasta siempre.

P. Antonio Sorribes S. F.
Director de Idiomas Padre Manyanet

Sports & Movie day

Yesterday we woke up early to get a shower. When all the people was ready we went to have breakfast, and later we went to the classes. At 10:15 we had a 20 minutes break so we can boy food in the machine. Then another time classes with another professor.

At lunch time we ate some pizza and we drunk some water, we went to the park and there we started the sports activities: dance mats & badminton or football.
We were very tired because we did a lot of sport , and we went to get a shower and then to have dinner .The professors gave us a surprise, they took one film and we saw it. The film was AVATAR, it was great and interesting but a little bit looong.

PD: it was raining all day and we didn’t take the umbrella so we had to run to the residence!!

Alexey Perdomo & Maria Albert

Isle of Wight

On Wednesday we had classes like the other days, all the classes of the morning very tiring. We had lunch at 12:30; we chose to eat pizza with potatoes, or hamburgers, like always (the group leaders are always telling us to eat healthy, but we prefer to eat that). At 13:30 we went to the isle of Wight, there we could go shopping or relax. It was a beautiful place!

We came back at 17:15 and we went to have a shower. After dinner we did a language quiz: rabbits vs badgers, Alexey was playing for the rabbits and Albert for the badgers. They did it very well!! Then we watched some music videos.

Laura Liguerre & Maria Mestre

Titanic night

Hiii Bloog!! Yesterday 13th of July we did classes during all the morning. In the afternoon we did sports, volley and basket. After a shower, writing the diaries and having dinner, we did the Titanic's project. In the Titanic project we wrote an article and, after that, we had to perform a scene of the film. The three best performances were when a they kissed with the music of "My heart will go on" in the background, a "mini-streptease" of the scene when Jack paints Rose and the teachers singing the song!!

PD: When we arrived home the group leaders obligate us to go to bed...

Ana Oliver & Laura Biarnau