Thanksgiving

On Wednesday 24^th November, Farrah told us something about Thanksgiving.

This year, Thanksgiving was on 25^th of November. For me, it was very interesting, because I didn’t know anything about Thanksgiving.

Food:

Things what people in America eat on Thanksgiving are: a turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, fried onion and green beans, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, corn pudding, a pumpkin pie, pecan pie and some more things.

History:

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. In the first year, the Pilgrims were in America they didn’t know how to get food, to build houses and some more things. So Squanto helped the Pilgrims and he told them very useful things. Because of this, the Pilgrims organized a little party to thank Squanto.

The day after Thanksgiving:

The Americans call the day after Thanksgiving “Black Friday”. It is the traditional start of shopping Christmas-presents. Very popular presents are toys and electronics. The shops open very early in the morning to get all the people in.

Halloween October 31st

Halloween is a shortened form of All Hallow's Eve.

Halloween means holy - Eve is the day before a holy day.

Halloween was an ancient British Celtic festival.
At Halloween the souls of the dead returned. People lit bonfires to frighten evil spirits.

Now bonfires are only burnt on November 5th - Bonfire Night.

• masks
• costumes
• ghosts
• witches on broomsticks with black cats
• skeletons
• bats and spiders
• and Halloween lanterns

...have all become part of Halloween

Children play trick-or-treat. They ask for a treat hoping to get sweets.

I found a very funny video about Halloween on Youtube. I like it very much because the song is very nice. :)

To watch the video click here.

Farrah

Farrah is 22 years old and she lives in Maryland, which is about 30 minutes away from - the capital city of the US - Washington DC. She has no brothers and sisters and she likes it, because she gets everything she wants from her parents. Farrah's hobbies are reading, listening to music, watching TV, travelling and spending time with friends.
Farrah is going to stay in Austria till the end of May 2011. In Austria, she lives in Linz which she likes a lot. She also told us that she likes Austria a lot because of the old buildings, the beautiful cities and the mountains.

The development of advertising

First paragraph:

In the 19^th century, during the Industrial Revolution, advertising became popular for new and fringe products. Later, more and more factories produced the same products and so, brand-naming became necessary.

Second paragraph:

The economic depression was a turning point for the economy. Before the depression the production had permanently expanded, but after it there was a crisis because the factories produced too much and the customers did not buy enough and so the prices fell. And so the small firms combined with other small firms to raisetheir profits.

Third paragraph:

An example of the changes is a case in the soap industry. Small factories flooded the market with anonymous soap bars and so the competition grew very fast. The leading companies started more aggressive selling methods to . . ..

Fourth paragraph:

Lord Leverhulme was the first industrialist who realized that advertisement is an important part of selling methods. Nowadays, advertising is important and those firms who can’t pay for advertising are out.

My favourite spot

My favourite spot is the Zalando-Onlineshoeshop-Spot because I think it is very funny, I love shoes and I like the laughing of the man at the end of the video. :D

In the spot there is a man in a room with a lot of shoes and you can see that he is very nervous about all the shoes. Suddenly the doorbell rings and he hears a loud scream from his wife. Then you can see a man with new boxes of shoes.

If you want to see the full spot just click on the picture below.

Fifa Worldcup 2010 - South Africa

Groupe B

Argentina - Argentines, Spanish
farmer, slums, no infrastructure, a lot of wood and steppe, best beef, they dance the Tango

Nigeria - Nigerians, English
poor, are hungry, are ill, thin

Korea Republic - Koreans, Korean
war, have a dictator

Greece - Greek, Greek
no money – crises


We think Argentina and Korea Republic overcame the first round and we think Argentina will come into the semi final and maybe win the worldcup!!

GRADES GRADES GRADES !!!!

These are my grades of this year

Winter term: D
2nd test: C
presentation: B
course work (participation in class, home exercises, blogs, etc.): C

I think i deserve a C because my 2nd test was a C and my (our) presentation was very good.

Our little trip to Italy

From 17th May to 21st May we went to Italy on a Sports- and Cultureweek.

Monday, May 17th:
We left from Perg at 8 o'clock in the morning. In Italy we visited the city Udine. In Udine we had some time to take photographs and to relaxe a bit.
After visiting Udine we drove to Bibione where we got the key for our mobile-home. Before dinner, we went to the sea to take some nice photographs. After dinner we went to Bibione with the teachers and we were allowed to discover the little "city" on our own.

Tuesday, May 18th:
We ♥ Venezia! On Tuesday we had our trip to Venice. We drove about 1.5 hours with the bus. On the port in Venice we waited for our "taxi". On the "Markusplatz" in Venice, Mr. Huber told us a bit about the history of the city. We got a questionnaire about Venice. We got about 3 hours to answer all questions. We discovered Venice on our own and it was very funny :)

Wednesday, May 19th:
Sportsday! :D... In the morning we had a beginners' cours in archery. It was very funny. At midday we had time for ourselve. We went to the beach and relaxed. In the afternoon we did a bicycle-tour in Bibione. We made a break at a beach and it was very nice. Wednesday night there was a disco in our village. The disco was very boring. :D

Thursday, May 20th:In the morning we went to a small fishing village. We went into a fish-restaurant and for me, it was horrible, because I hate fish and the smell of it. At midday we had again some time for ourselve. We went swimming at the sea and we made a "Sand-Man" out of Werner :D ... In the afternoon we did some beach-sport. Evelyn, Kate, Magda, Aida and me chose "Boccia", a hardcore-sport +haha+ ...At night we went to Bibione and drank a good cocktail.


Friday, May 21st:
On friday in the morning we drove home.

Presentation "Let's go green!"

I've just heard a presentation about environment and pollution. I liked the presentation very much, because I think it is very important for all of us to safe our planet and to know, what we can do for saving our planet. Of course, I am already conserving energy at home. At night, I put out all the plugs from the socket and by day, when I'm not watching TV or something like that, I'm trying not to let them run on "Stand-By-Mode".
The girls, who did the presentation, told us about two organisations: Greenpeace and WWF.
I looked at the websites of the two organisations and I am very surprised of them. There is a LOT OF information on it. At the WWF-page I found a point called "What we do". I was very surprised that there are so many things WWF is doing and what they are trying to save our planet.
At the Greenpeace-page I also found the point "What we do". For example, Greenpeace is trying to stop the climate-change.
As for me, there is that much information on the websites that it would take me more than one day to read and remember all the information!

What I learned about the presentation is, that WWF and Greenpeace are very good organisations. In the nearer future, I am trying more and more not to go anywhere by car or by bus. Of course, I am going on with conserving energy at home.

Austrian hotels make European Top 10

I read an article the other day on www.austriantimes.at and it talks about Austrian hotels.
Basically what it says is that three Austrian hotels have been named in a Top 10 ranking in winter sport hotels in Europe.
Place five became the "Interalpen Hotel Tyrol" in Telfs, the "Theresia Gartenhotel" in Saalbach-Hinterglemm became sixth and the seventh place became the "Landhaus zu Appesbach lakeside resort" in Sankt Wolfgang.
Place one became the "Hotel Intercontinental" in Germany.
What surprised me most was the fact that more than 6000 hotel ratings were considered for the listing.


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