Australian Christmas Carols

Hi everyone!

As most of you know, in Australia we celebrate Christmas in Summer, also we have unique animals which means that we have some of our own Christmas traditions and Carols.
Check out this television add about Surfing Santas-
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFr76btbnE

We also have some fun Christmas carols-
Six White Boomers (Boomer is another word for kangaroo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FdVXca9hys
Aussie Jingle Bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPdvh0HRhc

Inspirational Females

Today's blog is about an inspiring friend of mine, Bella Keynes. She has had adventures all around the world, her hobbies include surfing, snowboarding and learning Spanish. At university Bella studied film making and she has made some very interesting documentaries. Here is the link to a three minute documentary that she filmed in Papua New Guinea, it discusses the importance of the yam (a vegetable) to the indigenous people from the Trobriand Islands. 

http://vimeo.com/14173667

Currently Belle and a friend of hers are in New Zealand where they will be walking for over 3000 kilometres, it will take them a few months to finish! They have a website where you can see photos and read their blog.

http://www.soultrekkers.com.au/

A visit to the English Cemetery

Last Thursday, some students from 2º Bachillerato B and C had the opportunity to visit Málaga's English Cemetery. Thanks to Rosella, our guide, we learnt a lot about its history and the people buried there, like Robert Boyd, Gerald Brenan or Jorge Guillén. It is a place worth to visit.

You can see us in front of St George's Anglican Church.

2013 HALLOWEEN

It's Halloween again, and students at Martiricos are eager to try their creepy recipes in class.

I couldn't make up my mind to choose just some of them because they were all awesome, so I ended up bringing them all here for you to enjoy.

Happy Halloween from 3º ESO C and 1º ESO B students!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Australian Childrens Literature

Snugglepot & Cuddlepie

All Australian children know about the adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, it is a book by author May Gibbs, that is uniquely Australian.

It incorporates Australian trees, flowers and plants as part of the story and was written in 1918. The story is about two characters named Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and tells of their problems with the big bad Banksia men, see the picture in black-

The famous childrens book!

The scary Banksia Men

The story of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie are so well known that Australia Post 

(our version of Correos) released a stamp in their honour! 

 

The drawings in the book show many Australian bush scenes-