We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Merry Christmas:)

Christmas memories

I like very much Christmas. All the atmosphere of this season it`s a kind of magic.
The Christmas symbols are very beautiful and help to increase the Christmas spirit. The people dream with better days and imagine good things. At Christmas I meet some relatives that I don’t see the rest of the year. I spend Christmas with my parents, uncles, aunts and cousins. I play with my cousins and at midnight we are all very anxious to open the presents. We are very happy because we usually received the presents that we wanted. It’s very emotional, of course, but I don’t believe in Santa. when I was little I used to believe in Santa and awaited anxious his arrival. In Christmas I usually went to the circus. I remember especially a Christmas when I went to my cousins`s house and it was snowing. I played in the snow with my cousins and we made a snowman. It was the most beautiful of the street. At night, after Christmas dinner we waited for our presents and then we screamed of joy and played with all of them. At my childhood I believe in Santa Claus,but only when I was very young, and I was very gratefull to him. At eigth years I suspected that were my parents who brought the presents and after that I was certain.

Christmas

Because Christmas is coming ...

8th Challenge

My creator used to be a teacher in Porto. What's her name?

Christmas memories

I'd love to go back to my childhood. Christmas could be lived differently, we could live its real magic.
I spent all day anxious to open the presents.
I loved having dinner with my cousins, my parents and my uncles and aunts.
I believed in Santa Claus, and every year I wrote a letter with the list of things I wanted to receive, and those presents appeared by magic. I was amazed. And after opening all the presents, I shared them with my cousins, and they shared theirs with me.
Now that I'm older, I no longer believe in Santa Claus, but I believe in the magic of Christmas.

Christmas memories

Despite the crowded shopping centres and all the stress to buy the presents on time, I love Christmas!

I have wonderful memories of past Christmas and I hope you have some too. Tell us one of your best Christmas memories. Here is mine.

I was 8 or 9 and I had decided that Santa Claus wasn't real. My older cousins were always making fun of me because I wanted to keep believing, so I decided "I'm too old to believe in Santa Claus. It will be different this year..." I used to write a letter with a wish, but I didn't do it that year. However, I told my parents I wanted a bike. Unfortunately, they told me they couldn't afford it (a bicycle was something very expensive 20 years ago). On Christmas eve, I arrived home from my aunt's house, where we had dinner, and I looked for a bike all over the house, but there was no bike... The house wasn't very big, it was impossible to hide it... I remember that I was very sad, but only for some seconds, because a shiny white bicycle appeared in my bedroom as if by magic. I had been there a few seconds before and it wasn't there, how was it possible? At that moment I was sure that Santa was real... He made a bike appear in my room! Later I found out that my dad pulled it out from under the bed in just seconds while I was searching the other rooms. I couldn't see it because there were some boxes hiding it. I was very happy: I had my bike and Santa Claus was real, at least for one year more...
I can hardly wait to read about your memories...

Isn't Christmas fun? Watch the video and see how fun it can be...

India

Map of India

Scotland

Edinburgh Castle

England

Map of England

England - London

Houses of Parliament city of London_ England

Australia

Australia is a country in the southern hemisphere and it belongs to the Commonwealth.. The official language is English and the capital is Canberra. Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians.

The koala and the eucaliptus form an iconic Australian pair, but also the kangaroo and the crocodile.

the USA

On the left: The flag of The United States of America.

On the right: New York city - one of the biggest cities in the world.

The USA is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight states and Washington D.C., the capital district, are between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.

How famous people mistreat the English language

When I drive to school in the morning, I usually listen to a radio programme on Antena 3 called Serginho na Farmville. Some time ago, the subject was how famous Portuguese personalities mistreat the English language: Mourinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sócrates... It's very funny, specially their pronunciation!

Have fun!

http://mp3.rtp.pt/mp3/wavrss/at3/827197_66025-1005131928.mp3

7th Challenge

She lived in 10 Downing Street for 11 years. She was so tough that iron was part of her nickname. Who was she?

Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and her tough-talking rhetoric gained her the nickname the "Iron Lady".