The Llaüt Journal

11NOV
Friday 11th November 2011
The Llaüt Journal
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty." Winston Churchill
Nº 3
HALLOWEEN
AT LLAÜT
Students from 3rd of ESO at CaixaForum Museum in Palma.
LEARNING MORE ABOUT
NUMBERS
Halloween invaded Llaüt with tons of
skeletons, pumpkins, monsters and witches
made by our primary students.
Everyone worked really hard to decorate the
corridors of the school.
As you know Halloween is an annual holiday
which is very popular in the United Kingdom
and North America. It's celebrated on
October 31 and includes activities such as
trick-or-treating, attending costume parties,
telling scary stories and watching horror
films.
Happy Halloween everyone!
IT’S ELECTRIFYING!
Students from 3rd of ESO
visited the CaixaForum
Museum last Friday. They
had
the
chance
to
experiment with different kinds of electricity.
See the rest of the
photos
on
our
school web site. Don
Emilio made their
hair stand up on
end!
Students in year two have been working with
abacus to learn more about units, tens and
hundreds. They are finding out how to
compose and decompose large numbers
and
will
soon
become “human
calculators”.
Each student made
his own abacus.
They had great
fun.
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MONSTER TRUCK IN PALMA
By Marc Amenos
Two years ago. I went to watch a Monster truck
show. It was great because there were Monster
trucks and normal cars. The Monster Trucks
crashed small cars. This wasn’t the most
exciting thing that happed. There was a micro
show where some cars collided and exploded. I
would like to go again because it was simply
amazing.
The moon is the only way out
By Lorenzo Jaume
In France there is an impressive castle. My
family and I went there two years ago. It’s on
“Mont Sant Michel”.
It’s a very big castle, and there is no way out
except through the sea. There is a quicksand
around the castle. There is only one entrance
and one exit. There is a small village inside the
Why not buy another a book if
you are already late?
By Javier Peñarrubia Flores
In this section I’m going to tell you about
something quite funny that happened to me in a
trip to London I did with my family.
I was with my dad, who is a fanatic about
Romans and all their empire, and my brother
too. My mother was doing some shopping. After
that we were supposed to go to the theatre to see
the “Lion King”. We went to a bookshop to buy
some books about romans. The bookshop was
quite big and there were a lot of people. There
was a bunch of weirdoes there wearing strange
piercings like a straw or with a pen in their ears
or a paper clip. Then we went to have a look at
the books. There were thousands of books there
but we couldn’t find any that my dad liked. We
asked the assistant and she got us some books to
look at. We looked at them while I kept telling
my father that we had to go to the theatre. At
last he realized that we were nearly late. We ran
out of the bookshop and then he realized he
didn’t know the way. Then we saw a woman
and we asked her which the way was. She was
very friendly and went with us to show us the
way. At last we reached the theatre and thanked
the woman. My mother was waiting for us at the
entrance. Then we went inside to see the show.
It was fantastic. It was like the film lion king but
with people. They did acrobatics, jumps and the
decoration was great. When we finished we told
our mum what had happened and she laughed a
lot.
Lost in the snow
by Gabi Borda
When I went skiing with my family in the Alps
my brother and I crashed into a gipsy and later
his son insulted and shouted at us.
castle. There is a wall around the castle to
protect the village and the castle.
High tide or low tide makes it possible to access
the castle and to leave it. It is impressive.
My dad, mum and sister were not there. I
couldn’t find any Spanish people. When I
finally found this family I asked if I could
please call my dad. When my dad answered the
phone we were very afraid because the ski
station was very big.
The
family
met
with
my
dad
at
the
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CARREFOUR fifteen minutes later. My dad
appeared and we went for lunch with him. We
went to a “pisto restaurant” which was just
beside the slope.
By Álvaro Borda
bed until the next day. In a day with the school I
do all at the same hours but not the same things.
When we return form skiing with the school we
watch a movie, have dinner and go to bed.
I like skiing a lot .It’s a very fast sport and it is
amazing. I also like going to ski because it is a
fantastic time to be with my family doing sports
and travelling to discover different countries.
I have gone skiing a lot of times with my family.
My first time was when I was only six years old.
A limousine in Palma
My experience in the snow
by Carlos Collado
One
day
a
limousine stopped
beside my car. The
limousine
was
black and long, the
glass was tinted and the chauffeur hanged his
arm out the window. I would have loved to have
a camera but I didn’t.
We went to La Pinilla and then I went to Sierra
Nevada, Formigal, Flims near Zurich
(Switzerland) Flaine and Avoriaz near Geneva
(Switzerland) and to la Molina twice with the
school in year 5 and also in year 6. I like skiing
with my family and with my school mates. In a
MY FRIEND TONI PRATS
BY GUILLLE AMORÓS
He plays for Mallorca. He left Betis in 2005 and
he has been in Mallorca since 2008. He works
in the “scouting Mallorca” now.
Bumping into Nadal
By Pedro Chouciño
normal day with my family I get up at 8:00 and
I have breakfast. I get dressed with my ski
clothes and at the 9:00 we go to the ski class. At
12:00 I finish ski class and I ski to the restaurant
to have lunch. When I finish I go to skiing for
about 3 hours. I return to the hotel at about 5:00.
At the hotel there are a lot of facilities like
swimming pool, spa and activities for kids.
After that we have
dinner and go to
Two years ago when I was going on a trip with
Alfabia to Barcelona I met Rafa Nadal. I saw
him at Palma's airport. He was with his coach,
his uncle Tony Nadal. We quickly ran towards
him. We were very nervous and really excited.
We said hello to him and to his uncle and talked
a little with them. We asked them for an
autograph and a picture, and he accepted. Our
mothers took the photograph and we got the
autograph. We didn’t get much time because he
had to catch a plane to a tournament. That
surprise was one of the best things of the trip.
We were so lucky! He is one of the most famous
people I had seen in my life and I think surely
there won’t be another time, but anything can
happen.
I am asking myself about why people get
nervous when they meet famous people, and I
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think it is because you want to be friendly to
famous people and in these occasions we do not
know what we want to say. That is what, I think
happens to us in these so called “important
moments”. Also because you will see these
people at most once in your lifetime and you
only have one opportunity.
NEED FOR SPEED
by Jaime Avilés
The first time that I
drove a car, I went
to the carts with my
brother and my
uncle. I thought that
I went very fast but
I drove very slowly.
My experience when I drove the carts was
incredible. I went to the carts in Asturias. I went
when I was little. I came last, because it was my
first time that I drove a cart.
sledge. We ate a typical food from Finland, and
we rode on a sledge, and we went back with the
snow motorbike.
Day number 2: We woke up and we had
breakfast, and we took a taxi to go to a village
where people say, that Santa Claus lives. That
village was breathtaking, and there were ice
slides. We slided down them all day.
Day number 3: We went to a husky farm, and
they gave us a walk of two hours. The dogs
brought us though the forest and everything was
white.
The other days I went to see the city, and the last
day, I went to have dinner in an igloo. We had
tomato soap, and meat. Everything was very
nice, but I was very sad, because it was my last
day in Finland.
Next day we woke up very early. We went to
the airport, and we said goodbye to the country.
BORN TO BE A BEACH BOY
By Mario Darder
SNOW, SNOW, AND SOME
MORE SNOW
By Miguel Martín-Calpena
Six years ago, when I was 7, I went to Finland.
First, I went to Barcelona, and there we waited
for a long time for the flight to Helsinki. We
decided to watch the Christmas lottery. The
flight was boring. It was about three hours long,
and it was at night so I was especially tired.
When we arrived to Helsinki, the airport was
completely white, but we had to take another
plane of one hour to Rovaniemi. We arrived
very well, but when we got out of the airport
everything was covered in snow. I had never
seen so much snow before. It was awesome, and
I don't think that I'll see so much snow ever
again. Then we took the bus to the hotel, we
had dinner and went to sleep.
The next day we had a hard day. First we went
to a place to change our clothes. Then we took
a snow motorbike, and we went to a reindeer
farm. The farm was awesome. We gave food to
the reindeers, and they gave us a walk with a
All started when I listened to my favorite song
“Surfing USA” of “ Beach Boys” by my
favorite group. This song encouraged me to take
on surfing at all beaches on Mallorca. I loved
this sport since I was little. My first board was
very little. It was maid for my.
My first wave was great. It measured 1'90
meters. It had a lot of scum. My favorite wave
measured 2'01 meters and it was very funny
because was the perfect wave of the waves. I
was surfing this wave with my second board.
This photo is in Mallorca in Son serra de Mrina
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Waking up after wakeboarding
By Toni García
At first I didn't know what had happened but
later my brother told me.
This is a true story. Last summer I wanted to
try a sport called wakeboard or “wake”, so I
asked my father and he said “ok”. My first class
was really exciting and I learnt to go inside
the wave of the boat. I was very happy with
what I did.
Then, the next day they taught me how to go
outside the wave of the boat and I started to
jump, so I tried to do it. The first time was a
success but when I tried to do it again I lost
control of the board and I fell. I crashed
against the water. A few minutes later I got
inside the boat and I started to lose my
memory. I felt confused and I didn't know
what was happening around me. My mum
took me to the hospital and I got inside a
scanner. Then the doctor said that I needed
to stay in the hospital for three days.
Driving a Carver 1
One day I was in Seville, at my grandparents’
house, when my mother arrived with an old
friend called Diego, but he didn’t come with
a car or a motorbike, he had a strange
vehicle. I saw it and later I supposed that it
was a carver!
Diego asked me to get in, and I jumped into
it. I was a bite nervous but it was really
comfortable. It had another amazing thing:
when you turn, the carver tilts to this side!
When Diego stopped, a lot of tourists took
photos because it is very strange. It was a
really interesting experience, and I want to
repeat it.
SPACE MOUNTAIN
By Javier Orta
by Juan Mas
The Carver is a strange vehicle, a hybrid
between a car and a motorbike. It's a very
expensive vehicle and there are only three in
Spain because it is very exclusive. It has three
wheels, two at the back and one in the front.
This vehicle is very fast, it can go at about 210
km/h.
There are two space mountains in the world:
one in Orlando and one in Paris. I rode on the
one in Paris. The mountain is very big and
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long. When you go into it, it’s as if you were in
space. It’s incredible. Minim four people can
go in every wagon. It takes about five
minutes. They take a photo of you during the
ride. I recommended to ride on the
mountain.
Amazing travel to Warner Bros
By Miguel Martín-Calpena
This summer, I went to Madrid. There, I went
to the theme park called Warner Bros.
It was great fun. The park has the biggest
children zone in the world. The park has
many roller coasters. It has an amazing free
fall, and many more attractions.
I first went to the children zone, and it is very
boring. Afterwards, I went to the other zone,
and I liked it very much.
My favorite attractions are the roller coasters.
I think that the best one is the “Superman
roller coaster”. The other roller coasters are:
The yellow one called Batman, the blue one,
and a wooden one.
There are many more attractions like the
horror chamber, Lex Lutor's attraction and
“Splash”.
I think that the only thing that I didn't like at
the park were the restaurants. The food was
bad, slow, and expensive. If anybody goes, I
don't recommend any of the restaurants at
the park.
PORT AVENTURA
During Halloween time there are a lot of
monsters walking around the streets
frightening people.
If you like Port Aventura you can also stay
there because there are hotels there.
Port Aventura is a good place for children
and for adults
Meeting Villa
By Salvador Beltrán Martorell
In 2009 I went to Park Astur with my friends
to see David Villa. He was there because it
was the Park’s anniversary. When I arrived at
the Park at 5:00, there were many people.
These people had been there sense 8:00 in
the morning. When I arrived, I got in line to
see Villa and then he signed my t-shirt. I
managed to get my Picture taken with him.
Villa is not a tall person.
There were a lot of Police at the park. It was
quite an experience because we sneaked in. I
don’t think I will ever meet David Villa
again, so it was very exciting.
By Mundo Fortuny
Portaventura is a theme park. There are a lot
of attractions for example: The “Dragon
Khan”, Furios Bacus and many more. Port
Aventura is divided in different places: China,
Mediterranean, Far west, Polynesia and
Mexico. Port Aventura is in Tarragona. Near
Port Aventura there is a water park.
It’s Halloween at Port Aventura this month. I
went there this year. My favorite attraction
was the terror tunnel.
EDITING MOVIES FOR FILM
FESTIVAL
By Agustín Sans
After Christmas, Llaüt starts preparing the
Red Carpet Film Festival. First, second and
third of ESO will film about ten movies. First
of ESO are preparing an intriguing movie,. It’s
Agata Christie style.
Some of the students are the actors, but I´m
editing movies for the film festival.
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Movies are filmed in front of a green curtain
and my work is to put an image on it, or even
an image that can move.
The actors are wearing customs and they
give life to the script. When it is filmed, I add
the special effects and credits.
Last Friday twenty first of October, all grades
of ESO and baccalaureate, made a casting to
choose who the actors were going to be for a
movie filmed by Eduardo and Mark.
Everyone had to act according to Eduadro
and Marc’s instructions.
I hope you will come to see it!
MY EXPERIENCE ON A CRUISE
by Alvaro de España
Last summer, I went on a cruise in the Baltic
Sea. The company was “Costa Cruceros” and I
went on the “Costa Atlantica”. All the staff
were Italian or from the Philippines. The
personal had prepared a show for every day.
There were also shows at night.
The fact is that there was a disco where you
could make a lot of new friends and that is
what I did.
We visited many places and the cruise lasted
8 days.
A day before boarding the cruise, we flew to
Barcelona and then again to Copenhagen. In
Copenhagen we boarded the cruise ship and
I was very excited the first day.
The first day we went to Stockholm. It’s a
fantastic city; this city is joined by bridges to
fourteen islands. One of these islands has a
theme park!
MY FIRST YEAR AT LLAÜT
By Luis Fenollar
My name is Luis Fenollar , I was born on
December 1st 1999. I am in 1st of ESO. This is
my 1st year in Llaüt .Before I was in San
Francisco and I left a lot of friends there. But
the good part is that I made a lot of new
friends here too.
In this school everything is new for me. In
Llaüt there are lots of things to do like in
Communication Studies we are editing a
newspaper called the Llaüt Journal. We will
also film shorts movies for a competition. All
students in ESO are going to compete. In
''Lengua Castellana'' we are also editing a
newspaper with a lot of news.
In this school the best things are the sports
facilities, because there are 5 football fields, 2
tennis courts and lots of other things.
My class since year 3 up to 1st
of ESO
By Santiago Chouciño
It was my first day at Llaüt. When I arrived to
the class I saw 5 boys. They wereAlejo Morell,
Alvaro Borda, Carlos Llompart, Diego and
Nicolas Lowy. Our tutor was Don
Enrique ,(he´s in another school now). The
playground of the school was very small and
it was full of mud. The weather was terrible. .
It was my first day at Llaüt .
This is a list of my class, people who came
and people who left.
1st year :Diego left. Biel Marques
comes ,Andres Gutemberguer and Xavier
Alvarenga came.
2nd year :Andrés Gutemberger left the class.
Fernando Caldentey ,Gonzalo Abadía ,Manu
Sabater and Luís Villalonga came.
3rd year: Javier Ballester came but left the
class 2 months later. Juan Ramis came
together with Alejandro Ignacio, Alejandro
Colom ,Pablo Garcia de la Rosa and Guillem
Quirós.
4th year: Juan Ramis left the class together
with Fernando Caldentey. Jaime Docampo,
Luís Fenollar comes and Gonzalo Peñarubia
came to our class.
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MY FIRST TIME AT A FOOTBALL
MATCH
By Carlos Llompart
My first time at a football match was in the
Real Madrid's stadium called Santiago
Bernabeu.
I really liked the stadium and I enjoyed it,
especially
when
I
could
see the
football players. The pitch was nice and very
big. When I went there the Real Madrid
players were playing against Almeria. I liked
it very much because the Real Madrid won 31 with goals by Higuain in minute 10,
Cristiano Ronaldo in the minute 42, Piatti in
the minute 56 and Xabi Alonoso in minute
82. I was excited because Real Madrid is my
favorite team. Going to see Real Madrid play
is impressive and seeing the players in the
pitch was amazing because the players are
very famous. It was an unforgettable.
I think the Santiago Bernabeu is one of the
best pitches in the world and that Real
Madrid is the best team in the world. I liked
going to see the Real Madrid and I want to
go back again to see the players.
Shark sightings in Barcelona
Bay
By Jaime Docampo Cardell
When I went to Barcelona with my other
school I visited Barcelona Aquarium.
The Aquarium is enormous and it has a lot of
aquatic creatures. There was a mouth of a
real white shark at the entrance and people
could take photos. First I saw giant clams and
moray eels. The moray eels were enormous
and very dangerous. Then I walked in glass
tunnels and it was very interesting because
the stars of the Aquarium, the ray fishes and
the moon fishes were very near. The stars of
the Aquarium were the sharks. You can swim
with sharks if you pay money. There was
starfish and seahorses too. Visitors could go
to a cave with many kinds of jellyfishes. There
was a fish tank with ray fishes. The ray fish
tank has got a bridge and you could touch it,
but it is very dangerous because ray fishes
have a poisoned harpoon. In the end of the
Aquarium there were two tanks: Penguins
and seals. It is a very interesting Aquarium.
THE FIRST TIME MY DAD TOOK
ME INTO THE FOREST
By Gonzalo Peñarrubia
Before, when I was little, I wasn’t very
interested in birds.
When I grew up, until 9 or 10, something
special was growing in my little head.
Something that I had to discover by my own.
Each time I went to the forest, I started
realizing that hidden and quiet but fantastic
world of the birds. My dad bought me lots of
bird books and DVDs. I started studying them
and taking photos of the most intelligent
birds, the most exotic birds, and the smallest
birds... I knew all type of songs and all types
of birds... IT WAS A FANTASTY WORLD.... If my
dad hadn’t taken me that normal day like
the others, if my dad hadn’t shown that
feelings and hadn’t made the effort to make
me happy............ I would never have been so
interested in the wonderful world of the
birds.......
THANKS DAD..........
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MY FIRST FOOTBALL MATCH IN
CAMP NOU
By Gonzalo Abadía
It was in the 2007. I went to the Camp Nou
with my dad. The match was: Barça vs
Español. It was awesome because Barça
played really well but Español played a good
match.
Barça won the match 3-2. Barçca’s gouals
were scored by: Eto'o, Messi and Messi
another time and the goals of Español were
scored by: Ivan de la peña and Ivan de la
peña another time.
This year Ivan de la Peña is retired but in
2007 he played football in the match in
minute 87. The Español suportes sang this
song: “De la peña nunca se peina un día se
peino y al barça le metio dos” the people
sang this song because Ivan de la Peña is
bold. But in minute 92 Messi scored. The
Camp Nou sang this other song:
"messi,messi,messi".
The
match
was
awesome.
SWEET ROSARIES MADE IN
YEAR 5 AND 6
TOP 7 MUSIC
By Ignacio Caubet
JUAN MAGAN : ELLA NO SIGUE MODAS
2011
*****
It’s a very good song. The singer is Juan Magan. He’s
a very good singer who has recorded very good
songs like “Bailando por ahi”. It makes me feel good
and happy.
COMANDO TIBURON:
2011
PASADO PISADO
*****
It’s a very nice song. I like it because it has got a lot
of rhythm and it reminds me off the good moments
that I had in the swimming pool with my friends.
FLO – RIDA:
2011
GOOD FEELING
***
In my opinion it isn’t a very good song. I like the
other songs that flo – rida has recorded but I don’t
like this one very much. It’s very new. It makes me
feel good.
JUAN MAGAN:
2011
BAILANDO POR AHI
*****
It’s a very good song by Juan Magan the same
singer who recorded “Ella no sigue modas”. It
reminds me off the good time I had in the Pyrenees.
DADDY JANKEE:
LA DESPEDIDA
2011
****
I like this song very much because I heard it in
summer for the first time and it reminds me off the
time that I spent playing golf in the summer
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DON OMAR:
2010
DANZA KUDURO
****
It’s a very nice song. I heard it on TV for the first
time. I liked it very much when I heard it. I have
heard it many times.
ITALO BROTHERS:
2011
STAMP ON THE GROUND
****
I love this song. I heard it in autumn for the first
time and I have heard it lots of times since then.
The latest Edition of the” Jornada de Empresarios”
was held at Llaüt last Friday evening. As always, it
was a great success.
Halloween with Mr Henry.
By Alex Ignacio
SOME COOL IMAGES TAKEN
AROUND LLAÜT
What is Halloween?
It is a very popular celebration held in
English speaking countries.
Do you have a costume for Halloween? Yes, I
have a zombie costume.
What did you do in your classroom with your
students? Cutouts, pumpkins and skeletons
to hang in a hallway.
Do you like Halloween? I love Halloween.
Should we be afraid of Halloween? No, it’s
only a traditional celebration.
What is all Saints Day? It is a Christian
celebration. That is the real purpose of these
holidays.
When is Halloween? In the 31st of October.
Have you ever seen a real monster? No, I
haven’t.
Have you ever done trick or treat when you
were younger?
No, because Halloween has become popular
only recently in Spain.
Which is your favorite monster? Vampires are
my favorite.
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GENTLEMEN OF THE WEEK
Our smartest students
Who cares about rain when you
have a BBQ?
All students in ESO went to Lluc from
Monday to Wednesday. We had a great time.
It rained on Monday but we had loads of
activities prepared including a barbeque on
Wednesday. Don Nacho Barcia insists on
having barbeques every time we visit Lluc in
the future. According to Barcia: “BBQs have
been the best way to prepare food since the
very beginning of mankind. We don’t need
restaurants, just give me a sack of coal and a
lighter and off we go”!
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PICTURES TAKEN BY OUR
STUDENTS