A friend has just sent this to me and I thought you would enjoy it. Thanks LOR!

 

(**Cell Phone American English for British mobile phone)

 

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 when...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list

AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

Go on, forward this to your friends. You know you want to !

 

 

New campus, new students. I hope you all find this site entertaining and useful. I also hope the students of the previous years continue visiting me here.

 

I've just added a link to the official website of Alisson Krauss, the woman who's singing "When You Say Nothing At All".

 

I intend to change the song soon, and find new things for you to practice, but the beginning of the academic year is being a little harder than I expected. So please be patient and have a look at other entries in this blog.

 

See you in class,

 

Isabel xx

The marks are already on the board. There will be an 'exam revision' on Wednesday, 13th from 10.30 to 12.30 in the morning. You can email me if you can't make it for wednesday.

 

 

Here I am, back to "normal" life.

 

I've seen great plays, I've visited beautiful places, I've met wonderful people and I have enjoyed much more than I expected, but enough is enough. I am exhausted and I need to rest.

 

I can't tell everything I've done or seen, but I would highlight a couple of events. The first one is Alastair Artingstall's gig.  I had a wonderful time with him and all the people who came to that show. The second would be Romeo and Juliet, played by young actors in the middle of the Botanic Gardens.

 

I have to thank Gina for her hospitality and her company. I would also like to thank my lovely flatmates (Marta, María, Mariona, Alexandra and Melitta) and neighbour (Maya) because these days would have been really boring without them. I also had lovely classmates and I am really glad I met them all.

 

And now back to the exams and meetings...Oh well.

So this place is full of people coming and going trying to make the best of their time here.

 

There is, as you know, an international festival. The most important event (and therefore the most expensive..and by now impossible to attend if you didn't buy the tickets a century ago) is the Tattoo, which is a kind of exhibition of military marches (The truth is that I am not the best person to explain it, since I have never seen it.)

 

There is also a ... let's call it secondary festival that surrounds the official one. It's called the Fringe Festival. There are theatre plays, music, films and all kinds of art expressions from new or unknown artists. Apart from what I've seen in the streets (street performers and short bits of what you can see in theatres) I've seen a couple of plays: Lady Chatterley's Lover and Have a Nice Life. The fisrt one is an adaptation of one of D.H. Lawrence's novel, set in the 80s (the play, not the novel). The second is a musical comedy. I enjoyed both and, as I discovered the half price ticket office and that you can get free tickets if you are patient, I think I'll see many more.

 

You can't imagine what a great time I'm having here!!!!

Hello!!!!!!

 

Here I am in foggy Edinburgh. This city is so beautiful! And with all the festival celebrations, street performances and the entertainment offers everywhere it's imposible to get bored.

 

For next year your homework will be: Come to Edinburgh (If the teacher says, you have to do it)

 

By the way, the weather has been quite nice until today...But even when it's foggy or rainy I don't miss Spain's weather much, really. It only makes the city look more charming.

 

 

As I told you, by mid August I am travelling to Edinburgh and I had the intention to use this as a real blog, telling you about the things I see, the people I meet there, etc. OK the adventure has begun and I haven't even taken off.

 

Last Thursday when I heard about London airports being in a mess I thought 'oh well, never mind, by Sunday everything will be allright'. And I was right, because all flights from Spain to London are already working. But...

 

MY FLIGHT FROM LONDON TO EDINBURGH HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Right now I don't know what to do: Look for accomodation in London and try to go there by other means; try to find the other means right now (buses take ages and trains are just as expensive as flights).

 

So, now is time to panic: AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

UPDATE:

 It seems that my flight hasn't been cancelled. The Spanish website wasn't updated and they said there wouldn't be flights. But the British one says that they will be back to normal tomorrow...Hurrray!!!!!

 

However, the panic was controlled as a friend from London offered accomodation and another from Edinburgh helped me with the info about other means of transport. Haven't I got lovely friends out there!?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Words like violence
Break the silence
they come crashing in
Into my little world


Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can't you understand
Oh my little girl


All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable


All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm


Enjoy the silence

tFor lazy students:

 

Thought it was time to change the song. So I've decided to upload this beautiful song by Alastair Artingstall. I think it is easy for you all, with its slow rythm and simple vocabulary (but deep meaning). I'm not going to post the lyrics (yet). Make an effort and try to understand.

Alastair is not a famous singer, so it's not strange that you have never heard about him. But you can listen to more songs and learn about him in the links I've left.

Hope you like it.

I've been on holiday for a week but here I am again. Soon I'll change the song and try to add new links and interesting stuff.

Hope you're enjoying/have enjoyed your holidays.