ITALY

This year the students of 4eso went to Italy for the end of year trip. From March 29th to April 3th and it was amazing!.

For starts the first day, we had to wake up at 4 am to be at school at 5 am, because we had to took a bus to go to Barcelona . In Barcelona we catch a plane to Pisa.

When we arribed to Pisa we took a bus and go to the Tower of Pisa. And there, teachers gave us free time for lunch. Me and my friends went to a restaurant. After lunch we went to Lucca and we did the tour around the town and visited a place that had been a famous amphitheater in the past. After we went to Montecattini Hotel and I shared room with Esther, Joana and Brugues. We dinner in the hotel.

The 2nd day we took a bus and went to Florence. In Florence we queued like almost three hours to visit Cupula Brunelleschi after visit the cupula, which by the way was very cool and it was very beautiful, we went to a restaurant and ate pizza. In the aternoon me and my friends also went to the tower of brunelleschi and we had to make a gymkhana and find the most iconic monuments of the city, and we had to make us all friends selfie with the monument. Also all studens went to a restaurant to dinner and after went to the hotel Montecattini.

The 3rd day we pack up and leave the hotel Montecattini. We took a bus to go to Rome and it was about 4 hours to get there, but we stopped to spend the day in Siena and lunch there.there, we visited a church and then went to eat a pizza and also ate ice cream and me and my friends  sit in theplace of the big town, that was beautiful. In the afternoon we took the bus again and went to Roma. The hotel this time was amazing and the rooms were giants. i shared room with Joana. Afterthat we dinner and all went to Fontana Di Trevi that I loved it. 

The 4th day all took the metro and went to Vatican and there we did a tour. Afterthat we went to a restaurant and we ate pasta because we were tired of pizza. After we visit some parts of Roma and a small church.

The 5th day we went to the Colliseum of Roma and we took a lots of fotos with my friends. We were in the Colliseum like 2 hours because the teachers let us free. When we go out, we go round the sides of colliseum. After we went to lunch to a restaurant and we ate pizza and after we go .We went for a walk around the shops that were there. Afterthat we went to the hotel and took our bags and went to the port. we went to the ferry and that night was very long, because me and monica get dizzy a lot and  we went to bed at five because we were feeling sick.

The 6th day, we spent all day on the boat, but we woke up at 2 pm and the day happened very fast. At 4h we did a few games of cards it was cool. at 9 we had to be in the living room because the ferry arrived at the port of Barcelona and then, we went down of the ferry and afterthat we took a bus and arrived at Castello d'Empuries at 1.30 pm.
It was an incredible and unforgettable trip and I remembered forever.

 

SHAKESPEARE 400

#Shakespeare400
 This is a key word to conmmemorate the death of William Shakespeare 400 years ago. Different organitations joined to celebrate his aniversary in 2016. There will be various events and performances.

#stratford-upon-avon 
Stratford-upon-Avon is internationally renowned for being home to the world famous Royal Shakespeare Company and the Shakespeare houses: five beautifully preserved Tudor homes and gardens which are all directly linked with William Shakespeare and his family.

#annehathaway
 Anne Hathaway (1555/56 – 6 August 1623) was the wife of William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when he was 18 and she was 26 years old. She outlived her husband by eight years. Very little is known about her beyond a few references in legal documents, but her personality and relationship to Shakespeare have been the subject of much speculation by historians and creative writers.

#theglobe
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed and demolished in 1642. The modern Globe Theatre reconstruction is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings.

#plays
William shakespeare was written a lot of plays.
The plays of tragedies are Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Sir Thomas More, Timon Of Athens, Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida.
The plays of comedies are All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It , The Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre ,The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter's Tale, Cardenio, Love's Labour's Won.
The top ten famous plays are Hamlet, Macbeth, JuliusCaesar, The tempest, Henry IV, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, King John, Much Ado About Nothing and The winter's tale.

#plague
William Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era when the bubonic plague, sometimes referred to as the Black Death, was virulent. He was known to have a terrible fear of the deadly disease and its consequences and this is hardly surprising as it touched so many areas of his life including his life as an actor at the Globe Theater.

#1595
A busy year for Shakespeare as he is thought to have composed Richard II performed that very same year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, thought to be composed for a wedding and the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.
 
#queenelisabeth
The poet was throughout his life greatly indebted to the patronage and support of royal and noble personages; his royal patrons were Queen Elizabeth and King James I, both of whom greatly loved the drama. The virgin queen dedicated to the study of the ancient classical period; she also delighted in our own theatrical entertainments, and used her influence in the progress of the English drama, and fostered the inimitable genius of Shakespeare. Shakespeare was ardently attracted to Elizabeth and her Court, and proved a faithful servant to his royal mistress.

#thearmada
New English identity was not just promoted by religious independence but also by the reigning Tudory dynasty (1485-1603). After the victory over the Spanish armada in 1588 Shakespeare's history plays were deeply influenced by the new sense of English national identity.