press review - "fat-free an happy"

Hey everyone!

I have just been reading an article at school the other day. The article "FAT - FREE and HAPPY" was published in Time Magazine on May 22^nd, 2015. The article talks about culture and cliché. I thought you might be interested in this article because, I think it is an important issue in today’s young generation. Let me give you some information about this article.

Basically what the article says is that a French journalist made a trip in the USA some time age, because she. She found that the Europeans have a few clichés against the Americans, but also the Americans against the Europeans. In the Article she tells us what she has found and whether all the clichés are true or false.

The most of you know New England and when you hear New England, most of you think of people who still wear striped tennis sweaters and they sit on the porches of wooden houses and of an unspoilt countryside. But when you see Boston in real life it might be different as you have though. This is one of the cliché that occur in the text.

The author also mentions that many European think that they are better than American’s and they think too that the American’s have no culture, but these are also just clichés. And that brings me to the next topic of the article.

It is also said that everything is bigger in the states and that people there are sometimes really crazy, for example they wear weird helmets when they are riding their bicycles and the businesswomen wear sneakers with elegant dresses. But America has also some exciting and interesting sides, they have famous universities and interesting museums.

What me surprised was that the American’s make sure that they eat fat-free, but they order very big meals. The American’s have the same level of education as us Europeans, because America also has famous and popular universities, for example the world's most famous university, Havard.

In my mind we should learn from that text to be more careful with clichés.

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.

 See you soon,

     Sabrina

St. Patrick's Day

Hey everybody!


Have you ever heard about St. Patrick's Day? I think you have. Today a lot of people celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Let me give you some Information about this day.

I think it is a really cool day and it is celebrated in Ireland and all over the world by people of Irish heritage. It has become a celebration of Irish culture.

St. Patricks Day is celebrated 17th of March, but why it is even celebrated on the same day each year? Lets have a look at the history of this day.




St. Patrick

This day is the feast day of Ireland's patron saint Patrick. But who was St. Patrick? Patrick was born is Britain in 387. His parents, who were christian, named him Padráig. When Padráig was 16 years old, he was kidnapped by raiders from Ireland. The raiders took him to Ireland as a slave and there he had to tend sheep. He found out that his new home Ireland, were no Christian, the people there practiced a different religion. So Patrick was lonely and that was the reason that he start to pray. When he was 20 years old he escaped form the Irisch people and he was able to get back to Britain with a ship. Back in Britain, he found his family and decides that he wanted to be a priest, so he began to study and some years later he became a bishop. Patrick returned back to Ireland to tell the people there about what he believe. It lasted 40 years to tell all the Irish people about god, and some say that he converted all the people there to
Christianity.



shamrock

Everybody of you knows that one of the important symbols of this day is the shamrock, or three-leaf clover. This symbol is so impotent for this day, because Patrick used it to help the people to understand and to visually the concept of the Trinity = the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.


Patrick died on March 17, 461 in the same place he had built his first church.







the found of the White House

So where ever the party is on March 17, everything is green: for example in Chicago the dye the Chicago River green, the found on the lawn of the White House gets dyed green too. Some People dye also their hairs or foods green. Everywhere are great parades, people wear green clothes or little plastic shamrocks or stickers saying "Kiss me, I'm Irish". Although this day is an Irish tradition the first parade that ever took place was in New York City in 1762. People drink Irish beer and eat Irish food, like a meal of corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and soda bread and most of the people go to church in the morning. It is a time when children can eat a lot of sweets and adults can enjoy a beer at a local pub.



St. Patrick's day parade

I really like this day and that is why I would like to celebrate St. Patrick's day once in Ireland or in New York.








I hope you know now more about this day and maybe you also celebrate it once.


See you soon,

   Sabrina




This video is helpful to understand the reasons about that day.

Selena Gomez, a former teen celebrity

Hey everyone!

 

Everybody of you knows Selena Gomez, a former Disney star. Selena has become famous as a solo artist and actress and therefor she is for some of you a role model. Selena was also my favourite teen celebrity and for this reason I decided to inform you about my idol.

Selena Gomez was born on 22^nd July 1992 in Texas. Her career has begun with “Barney and friends”, there she played for two years. She got her first film role in “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over”, although she was only 10 years old. After that she played some small minor parts in other films. A few years later she was discovered from the Disney's channel and there she got roles in few series which have never appeared. Then she got roles in the films “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody“ and “Hannah Montana”, but she had her breakthrough in 2007 with the movie “Wizards of Waverly Place” and in 2009 she released her first pop album Kiss & Tell. Gomez entered into an on and off relationship with pop star Justin Bieber in 2009, but their relationship ended in 2013. Other projects over the years include the film Spring Breakers and the album Revival, with the single "Good for You.".

Currently there is the rumor that Selena Gomez is together with The Weekend, because the two were often seen together lately. However, she also published new songs in 2017 which are a catchy music. In my opinion, we will hear some more news from Selena in the near future.

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.

 

See you soon,

 

   Sabrina

Selena Gomez, 2017

shopping preferences

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Shopping is one of my favourite Hobbies and it makes me every time a great pleasure to go shopping and to look at the end of the day at my purchase. I go shopping many times with my family, but I prefer to go with my friends to hunt the bargains. I would like to inform you about my hobby.

I think everybody of you knows online Shopping, but why it is becoming more and more popular? Online shopping is the most convenient way to do the shopping. Another advantage is, that you can shop at any time of the day, for example, after work or if you can't sleep. A lot of people prefer online shopping, because they can make their selection in quietly and alone. Some online shops have a much larger selection of products and offer price comparisons.

In my opinion are the opening hours of shops in Austria completely in satisfactory. In my view, some shops are opened too long. The people should learn to schedule their time, that means they shouldn't go shopping in the evening or on holidays.

At last I would like to tell you about my personal shopping habits.  I like online shopping, because I can do it at any time of the day and I can do it at home. Going shopping in a mall is also very cool, because there are so many different shops at one place and you can go there in every season of the year. When I go shopping in the pedestrian zone, I love the nicely designed shop windows and that I am in the fresh air. So as you can see, I like every three types of shopping.

I hope you enjoyed my blog posting and you are going to read my next.


See you soon,

   Sabrina

Thanksgiving

Hey everybody!

 

In our last English lesson we talked about Thanksgiving. When, where, why and how is Thanksgiving celebrated? Let me answer These questions.

This day is celebrated in Canada on the second Monday of October and in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November. Thanksgiving Day is a national Holiday in Canada and the United States.

The reason for the celebration is really easy to explain. Families and friends get together and thank God for the harvest.

The story of thanksgiving has begun as the british settlers came to America. They built a settlement, but in the hard and deep winter they had nothing to eat, except some fish. So they needed somebody to show them, how to grow things. In the spring of the following year some native Indians showed them how to do some farming. And a year later for the first time they managed to be successful in agriculture. In the end of the season they made a big event and thanked god for the good harvest. That was the beginning of the tradition.

 

Today families and friends come together and eat together a big stuffed turkey, with potatoes and vegetables. At the same time all over America, families come together on thanksgiving and that leads to traffic jams, but on the same day the people start moving, because on the next day the shops want to motivate people to start with the Christmas Shopping, they offer big discounts. That day is called black Friday.

 

I hope you know now more about this tradition and you enjoyed my entry and read my next again!

 

See you soon,

 

Sabrina

 

 

 

US presidential election

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Today I am going to to tell you some things about the presidency in the USA. I think everybody of you has heard that the US voted last night their new president. I want to give you some information about the result, the reason and I am going to give you my personal opinion.

At the beginning of my posting, I want to tell you the result of the election. Each of the candidates needed 270 electoral votes to win the election. Trump got 289 electoral votes, Clinton got only 218 electoral votes, but Trump got 59,389,590 overall votes that means 47,5 % and Clinton got 59,600,328 so that are 47,7 %. You see that Clinton has more overall votes than Trump, but he has won the election, but why? The US election system is not the same as in for example Austria.
In total, the USA has 538 electoral votes and every State has a certain Nummer of electors. The number of electors or electoral votes depends on the population of a State.
"The winner takes it all", that is the system, means that the candidate who wins the election in a state get all the votes from that state, also the votes of the opponent.

I want to remind you of my second entry of my blog. At that time I was sure that Hillary Clinton will win the election, but today the US president has become Mr. Colbert Donald Trump. So I was really shocked about the result, because I think he hasn't enough political experience and in the future it will be difficult for the EU to negotiate with the USA.

I hope you know now more about the US presidential election, and you enjoyed my entry and you will read my next one as well!
See you soon,

   Sabrina

new president of the US




 

the election result
 



 

 

 

 

 

 

English in Action

Hello everybody!


Today I am going to tell you more about an English project called “English in Action”. I want to give you information about the project, about what the week was like and I am going to tell you my personal opinion.

At first want to give you some information about the project. As you already know now, the project is called “English in Action”. You speak only English for a whole week and native speakers teach you in small groups in your own school.

During this week we were taught by three teachers, called Rory, Suzanne and Sue. We discussed with them and learned a new business topic every lesson. We learned for example, something about business models, management structure and job advertisements. We spoke a lot of different topics and sometimes played little games. In the last two lessons of every day, we had time to prepare a presentation about a business plan. We introduced this business plan to the other groups on the last day of our course.

This course was a very cool, exciting and useful experience for me. I had an awesome time, because it was such a great week and I think it has improved my English. I'll never forget it.

I hope you enjoyed reading my blog posting and you are also going to read my next.

See you soon,

Sabrina