Breadwinner

This story about a girl that has to pretend he is a boy to feed her family in Afganistan has made me remembered that it is not so difficult to lose privilegies. Who would ever imagine now that there was a time when wome had equal oportunities in this country? Who would imagine now that the people could live in peace once over there?
This makes me think that realities are divided by such a thin thread that you don't realize when you went across and then you come to a non-return point.
When I think that after these elections the future of my daughters could be worse than mine, I get the chills! i just wanted to share this and request you to vote, to do anything you can and vote, we cannot let this happen in our country. We cannot leave this legacy to our children. We need to evolve, we need to recreate ourselves, and improve the lives of every man and woman.
I don't wish to tell anybody who they must vote, however I would demand you to choose the option that makes ourselves better as people, as society and as dwellers of this place known as Earth. VOTE, DON'T FORGET. A LITTLE GESTURE CAN MEAN SO MUCH!!

Don Quixote's Carnival

This is how we have celebrated my beloved Spanish Carnival this year at Redwood Middle School. We have put these two big ideas together Don Quijote and El Carnaval.
I believe the children will always remember how big this story is and how powerful the figure of Don Quixote is in our present day society.
The seed has been put, now the hope is that it grows!!!

PICTURE GALLERY

* Don Quijote soy, y mi profesión la de andante caballería. Son mis leyes, el deshacer entuertos, prodigar el bien y evitar el mal. Huyo de la vida regalada, de la ambición y la hipocresía, y busco para mi propia gloria la senda más angosta y difícil. ¿Es eso, de tonto y mentecato?

“I AM DON QUIXOTE, MY JOB IS TO BE AN ERRANT KNIGHT. MY LAW IS TO MEND THINGS, SPREAD THE GOOD, AND AVOID THE EVIL. I RUN AWAY FROM EASY LIFE, FROM AMBITION OR HYPOCRISY, AND I LOOK FOR MY OWN GLORY THE MOST DIFFICULT AND NARROW PATH.CAN I BE CONSIDERED AS A FOOL OR A MORON FOR THIS?

Celebration

This thursday our meeting has three objectives:

To improve our pronunciation in Spanish and English, support Paco in further developing his already excellent English ready for his meeting in Croatia and celebrate the success of Adan, Sarah and Maria J in their exams. This week is the last week with Adam here so we need to decide who will be organizate the meetings to.

Preparing our exams

This week will be focus in Maria Jose and Sara B2 exams so this thursday our meeting will be in two parts. The first part will have exercises in English 'figures of speech' expressions that say one thing but mean another. The second part will be the last practice of their topics for Maria J and Sarah focussing on pronunciation and answering questions about the topics.


See you all Thursday!

Topics

Last week was a combination of fun, a little bit of stress and very good learning. The English members of the group learned a lot more Spanish in a not too painful and rapid way. 

Thank you Francisco and Carmen for being our teachers. This week we will concentrate of the topics Sarah, Maria J and Adan have to do for there exams as well as undertaking another interesting exercise designed to improve English people's Spanish. So if you are English out there think about joining us and developing your Spanish which might in the future become a necessity if you want to stay living in Spain'

This week, spanish tongue-twisters!

Last week we had a really funny meeting with  the english tongue-twisters, this week it´s the time for english people to show us their skills

                                                                      Our winners

So this week, start by having some spanish tongue-twisters to help the English and to give some amusement to Spanish friends. Then we will help Adan, Maria J and Sara learn and rehearse their topics.

Then spend some time working on the spontaneous conversations that they have to conduct as part of their exams. So be prepared, the themes for the conversations will be relevant , challenging and funny. Come along, join in the fun and of course be prepared to learn!

COMEBACK THIS THURSDAY 12

First of all, thanks to all for coming to our Christmas Party and happy new year to. It was very nice and fun, i will let some pics here.

Great food

 Great people

An old family recipe

 And ours "Pass the parcel" winners  

                             

Thanks for this fantastic party!

On the other hand we comeback this thursday with a new quest, this month is important for Sara, Maria J and Adan because all three have their B1 and B2 examinations on the 2nd and 3rd of February. Therefore the next three meetings are dedicated to helping them pass their exams and of course helping everyone who wants to improve their English both written and spoken or talk about their exam topics.

This Thursday the focus is on two aspects of spoken English, pronunciation and how to say the same thing using different vocabularies. Don't worry it will not be boring, there will be fun exercises and a grand team competition with of course a big prize for the winning team.


So if you want to really improve your English come along and be amazed at how much you can learn in a short time. See you this thursday!

CHRISTMAS PARTY: THURSDAY 29

This week we will have our Christmas Party, finally will be this Thursday 29 at 20 hours o´clock. All of us should bring something to eat, we will prepare some games to have a nice meeting.

 Please, come on time. I hope see you all and wish you all Merry Christmas!

Date Christmas Party

In our las meeting we talked about our Christmas Party, like the last year we decided to bring some food and prepare some games. 

We talked about games like "Pass the gift" (One big gift, with a lot of wrappings is past to ther person and this person quit one wrapping, who wuit the last wrapping win the gift), "Mimic", "Guess the character" (All put a paper on his head with a famous name and need to guess who is him only with yes or not questions), "Continue the History" (Someone start a history and the others continious his history, englishs in spanish and spanishs in english) or "Papers" (3 Bottles with the tittles "Phrases", "Vowels" "How?" In the first bottle we put some sentences, in the second vowels and in the last how? Jumping, smiling... Then we separate the group in two teams and one by one we take a one paper for evert bottle and we must to say the sentence only with that vowel and how the last paper says and the other team must to guess the sentence.) We can chose some of these games or propose others.

We need to decide a date so please write me saying what is your free dates between 26 December and 6 January to chose the best date. Friday or saturday are not good days because there are many people in "La Tequería".

This week we have a normal meeting and we will decide the date, i hope to see you all!

Some Things

Hi people, last week we weren´t many because it was festive but we had a entertaining conversation. For this, this week we repeat the formule, we will have a free topic but we have some things about to talk. At first i think we can search in internet some game, activitie or costume to do it in our Christmas Party and explain it to the rest, second if Sara and/or Dani come they could tell us about his last week travel (New York).

And finally i think we should to do something similar to a calendary with our future activities, topics, perhaps propose a excursion, house party or anything. I hope see you all this thursday!!


Best Wishes!

This Week Free Topic

Last meeting was a nice time speaking about both cultures, specially Christmas but finally we treated other topics so this week we will talk about the topic who we will chose at the beginning. We asked to Carmen about the Christmas Party and we get his permission , now we need to think about that party.

As now we have decided that everybody should bring some food and to prepare some games, specially  Christmas Games. See you tomorrow!

Spanish Customs Versus English Customs

Last week we talked abou refugees and we had an interesting chat so to this week we decided talk about customes, our group is a exhange group so we think would be interesting know more about the other nationality and compare them. 

In adittion we can talk again about The Christmas Party (Date, how do it, invisible friend, who could come...). Please come to organizate it!

Refugees and Christmas Party

Hi family, in our last meeting we decided to alternate topics with activities every meeting to do different things. Our topic for this week will be refugees, is a delicate topic but just now very important so you can get some information before come to speak about this.

On the other hand the next month is december and i think we can prepare a christmas party like the last year, we will talk about that this thursday so... All of you are welcome!

PD. Welcome to Francisco and Carmen to our group.

This week we have a break

Last week we had a nice meeting with the Goya´s Night.

 ¡Here our winners!

Congratulations John and Jackie for your performance with 4 characters. Jackie be strong in your operation and recovery, see you when you comeback.

This week we will have a little break so see you all the next thursday 17 of  November.

This week... ¡The GOYA!

Last thursday we had a nice night with the OSCAR NIGHT.

 Here our winners!

¡Congratulations Dany & Sara!

ALL OF US , LOOK´S FUNNY OR NOT?

To this week we are going to repit the recipe but this time we need to prepare a script in spanish, so ¡this time is the moment for The Goya! To value interpretations this week we have another new machine ¡GOYA-METRE!. So if you want to have a nice time with us and show your skills as actor/actress you should to prepare a script in Spanish from a good film and ¡Lights, camera, action!

RUTE´S FIRST OSCAR NIGHT TOMORROW

Tomorrow is the On Route Oscar night an evening dedicated to finding new talent for the film industry, perhaps a new Javier Bardem or Penelope Cruz.

Come at 7.30 to see people rehearsing their parts in the ceremony and then at 8.15 the ceremony begins culminating in the presentation of the Oscars for best male and female actors. If you are interested in the film business, want to improve your English or Spanish come along and who knows you might have a life changing experience.

Everybody should bring a script of a scena of a his favorite film and read it.

¡Next Meeting on 20 Thursday! Come and be the best actor or actrees!

Hi On Routers! The last thursday we had a very funny meeting with our Joke Competition.

¡Here you can see The Joke-Metre!

 We was nine, a lot of laughts, jokes and incredibles prizes.

 ¡Congratulations for the Winners!

This week the meeting will be anulate because a lot of people will can´t come, then we will postpone the meeting to the next week

 ( Thursday 20 ). To that thursday we will have a new event, "Oscar Night" in that night we are going to talk about cinema and actors and we will have a little game to be the best actor or actrees and win a good prize.  

See all of you on 20 Thursday again!

¡JOKE COMPETITION!

The last day was a very nice meeting, a lot of laughts, people and knowledges. 

The Quiz was very funny, ¡Thanks to John and Jackie for prepare it! 

¡Congratulations to our Champion Paco and the second team "Coca Cola" (Maria José and Vero)!

To this week we have other special competition, "The Joke Competition". All of us should to prepare two jokes, one in spanish and another in english, every joke will be evalued for a new special machine called Joke-Metre, ¡The only machine in all the country! 

To the best joke, we will have a incredible prize and others to the seconds jokes in english or spanish. ¡If you want to laugh, know new things and have a nice time all of you are welcome! 

The meeting start at 7.30 but The Joke Competition start at 8.15, see you!!

Last meeting and ¡Grand Autumn Quiz the next Thursday!

In the last Thursday we was eight and we saw Jhon & Jackie again after summer, was a nice meeting. We talked about the time of our meetings and we decided to keep as usual (Thursday at 7.30), but if we do something special we will start that event after 8 to the people that can´t come at 7.30. After Paco explained about environment and we had a good chat about that.

¡Thanks for the Beef Jerky from Dubai!

To this thursday we have a special event, Jhon and Jackie have prepared a quiz called Grand Autumn Quiz. 

"Test your knowledge and gain more in the On Route Grand autumn quiz. Teams of two will answer general knowledge questions and then specific questions about Spain its history and culture. There will be fabulous prizes for those teams placed First, Second and Third. So do not miss an opportunity to know more, show more and be a winner!"

Thursday 29 September – The Grand Autumn Quiz –Starts 8.15

Prueba tus conocimientos y gana en el Gran Concurso de Otoño de On Route. Equipos de dos responderán a preguntas de conocimiento general y luego preguntas sobre España, su historia y cultura. Habrá fabulosos premios para los equipos que queden en primer, segundo y tercer lugar. ¡Así que no te pierdas la oportunidad de saber más, enseñar más y ser un ganador!

El jueves 29 de septiembre – el Gran Concurso de Otoño – Comienzo a las 8.15

First meeting after summer

This thursday was the first meeting after summer. On Route return with force, we was eight and could see Paco and Vero again. New season, new people... We have a new On Router  ¡WELCOME Muriel!

We decide have a meeting every thursday at 7:30 as usual. Also to help to Maria José and Sara with their B2 we are going to try to speak about some topics on our meetings.

¡The first topic will be environment!

See you the next thursday On Routers!