LASS UNS GEHEN: PREPARING THE TRAVEL TO BERLIN

The Grandma in The Capuchin' Convent, Sant Boi

Today, The Bonds have continued their English classes. They've revised the articles, the imperative, some prepositions of time and the creation of nouns from a verb to a gerund form. 

More information: Gerunds

It has been an interesting day. Irene has returned of her secret mission and David is working in a new film. After talking about the importance of the order of Capuchin in Sant Boi and its influence in the saga of Star Wars, The Grandma has explained a personal experience that joins her with Princess Leia Organa, the fictional character of this saga whose real actress, Carrie Fisher died recently.

Next, The Bonds have created a little post following the sacred rules of writing: cohesion, adequation & coherence.

More information: Imperatives I & II

Everybody has a personal and funny story to share and this is very important for our training because we want to start to prepare our final goal. This is the reason because of The Grandma has asked to her family to think about it.

Finally, The Bonds have started to prepare their next travel to Berlin. They've created some interesting plannings. The Grandma is going to read them and create the last planning with the contributions of all the family. Eli Bond is going to be our guide and Mariona Bond is going to be our translator.

Dear family, we're ready to leave the city. Prepare your suitcases and be punctual tomorrow. Our private plane is waiting for us. Let's go to enjoy Berlin! 

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; 

and suddenly you are doing the impossible.  

Francis of Assisi

IRIS APFEL & EUROVISION: ART & TRADITION

Yesterday, The Holmes reviewed Past Simple & Past Continuous, Articles, Present Continuous and the connectors While & When.

They also created a song for participating in the next Eurovision Contest Song. After some moments of emotion and nerves, the winners were Geni and Núria with the beautiful song “Idiot”. Both of them represented Belgium.

While the most part of The Holmes were creating their songs, Rosa was in Milano with The Grandma and Iris, an old friend of her, taking information about some new fashion business to invest.

For other hand, Geni must leave the family during some days because she must attend some personal business.

The family continues its Italian tour. After visiting Pisa, Siena and Verona they arrived to Venice where they are prepared to spend some beautiful moments enjoying the Carnival.

When you don't dress like everyone else, 

you don't have to think like everyone else.

 Iris Apfel

LULLABIES: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910 – 28 March 1942) was a 20th-century Spanish language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 movement and the Generation of '36 movement.

Shaped by both Golden Age writers and, like many Spanish poets of his era, by European vanguard movements, notably by surrealism, he joined a generation of socially conscious Spanish authors concerned with workers’ rights. Though Hernández employed novel images and concepts in his verses, he never abandoned classical, popular rhythms and rhymes.

During the Civil War, on the ninth of March in 1937, he married Josefina Manresa, whom he had met in 1933 in Orihuela. His wife inspired him to write most of his romantic work. Their first son, Manuel Ramon, was born on 19 December 1937 but died in infancy on 19 October 1938.

Perhaps Hernández's best known poem is "Nanas de cebolla" ("Onion Lullabies"), a reply in verse to a letter from his wife in which she informed him that she was surviving on bread and onions. In the poem, the poet envisions his son breastfeeding on his mother's onion blood (sangre de cebolla), and uses the child's laughter as a counterpoint to the mother's desperation. In this as in other poems, the poet turns his wife's body into a mythic symbol of desperation and hope, of regenerative power desperately needed in a broken Spain.

More Information: Miguel Hernández Poetry Foundation

Today, The Holmes have worked Present Continuous and Articles 

They’ve talked about using of this continuous form to express future ideas and have created a Lullaby based on Anglo-Saxon model.

Finally, they’ve predicted a “real” future and have invented a short tale joining big and small cards.

By the way, they are still visiting Sicily. Today, they’ve climbed Mount Etna up. As everybody knows, The Grandma is a great fan of volcanoes and they’ve skied in the Etna’s Ski Station. Everyone is fine. There are no broken bones.

More information: Present Continuous

On the cradle of hunger
my baby boy laid.
With onion blood
he was breast-fed.
But it was was your blood,
frosted with sugar,
onion and hunger.

 Miguel Hernández