A Summerday in February

A beautiful day. The weather is getting better.

A Saturday in Flores

View back to Corvo

Today we went on a spontaneous trip to the neighbouring Island. Susana had an appointment with the dentist and asked me to accompany her. So we got on the boat Saturday morning. We were lucky that the boat "Ariel" could travel. Lately many trips had been cancelled due to bad weather. However, the ride on the boat was very rocky. But I managed to keep my breakfast inside. We had a beautiful morning and the water was splashing over the sides of the boat. One more time I was amazed by the view on "the Rock" (Corvo). When the boat leaves the port of Corvo and you can see the Island to its full extent, the hight of the vulcano is very impressive.

We were not the only people travelling today. Most of them were also seeing the dentist ;o) 

The first thing on Flores was to find some breakfast. We got lucky near the supermarket and had some coffee and sandwiches. 

Lawn-mawers? We have goats!

While I was waiting for Susana at the dentists I worked on my Portuguese by reading a few children's stories and taking a peak into the local newspaper. I was very surprised to find some pictures of our Corvenian christmas party in that paper. After that interesting visit to the dentist we spend our day walking the unknown streets of St. Cruz das Flores. We saw goats in front yards, different stores and people and took a look at the church in the city center.When we finally managed to find and decide on a restaurant for lunch, we enjoyed a delicious meal of fresh fish and vegetables with some salad. Oh sweet sweet life. We had salad. 

Well fed we started our shopping tour in the supermarket. We got some nice fruit and vegetables that we just can't get over here most of the time, especially in winter. Moreover, groceries are less expensive here. To my big excitement I found some German products such as "Capri Sonne". They didn't even translate the products name. Since my grandmother always used to buy these for us, I couldn't resist getting some of those comforting goods. I also got some Nutella. What a success!!!              

After that exciting experience we grabbed a coffee outside a nice café watching the the town and time go by. 

Before getting back on the boat we got wild on the playground. And I was able to swing with a view on the ocean again.

It was a perfect day :)
Back to Corvo!

Deutsch am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013

Vorgestern - Gestern - Heute - Morgen - Übermorgen

Last week we talked about days and time and what we are going to do. We also watched a German weather forecast. Doing this we saw what the weather was like that day in Germany. We heard and read some of the city names and regions of Germany and took a look on the map. We could also see and listen to the words "Heute", "Freitag", "Samstag" und "Sonntag".

Here is the link to the German weather forecast: Wetterbericht

Corvo 50 Years Ago

Our 8th grade students are working on a project about their home town. They got the task to present their city how it was 50 years ago and point out the differences.

To gather information we had a meeting with the mayor today. Fortunately, his English skills are excellent and he was able to give the presentation in English. Our students prepared questions regarding the social and work life 50 years ago. With lots of interesting stories and pictures the mayor managed to convey a vivid image of the ancient town.

We are looking forward to reading your essays.

Online Conference

The fifth year successfully participated in an online conference with a sixth grade from Italy. Even for me this was an exciting event. This was my very first online conference with a class. Our students talked about their names and age, favorite colors, favorite food, pets, sports and football teams. Our three children had the pleasure of talking all the time while the Italian class, which contains more than 20 students, had to share their time in front of the computer. The Italian students were very excited and asking us questions, while we had prepared short presentations. In the end our students performed a song they sang for the 'three kings day'. The Italian kids sang an english song for us which they had performed on their christmas party.

It was a very nice hour and a great opportunity for the students to practice their English.

Thank you Deolinda Estevão for your support and for establishing the contact.

We hope to be having another online conference soon.

Dia das Amiga(o)s

This Year I got to experience a really nice Portuguese or rather Azorean cultural event.
This month (just before carneval) there were two special days dedicated to friendship. Those days are called "Dia dos Amigos" (for boys) and "Dia das Amigas" (for girls).
The first ones who get to celebrate are the boys. It is an all boys night. The guys from Corvo met and had dinner together, playing guitar, singing and having fun.
One week later (both days are set on Thursdays - maybe to keep things from getting to wild ;o) us girls had a girls night out. I got to spend the evening with four very beautiful sweet and fun ladies, Susana, Ashley, Patricia and Joana. We started of with some homemade Sangria (best made by Joana) and fun games. Afterwards we had a nice dinner at Ocean's, our local bar. The dinner was special because we grilled our meat ourselves at the table. It was like having a raclette with only the top part. We weren't the only group enjoying ourselves at Ocean's... so the night became a real blast with lots of dancing and fun ;o)

Thanks for sharing that amazing evening with me!

A wonderful tradition that we should absolutely adopt to our culture...

Corvo in Berlin

A Wave from Berlin City!

Today I got an e-mail from my father... obviously the christmas presents have been appreciated. Here you can see "Corvenean" culture travelling to Germany. I know that some hats already made it to Belgium ;o) Wherelse did the beautiful, typical, very warm hat find a home.

Let us know!!