The Collins Family has finished its 220 hours English course. It has
been a great effort and 29 December seems too far away. They’ve worked a lot
and every one of its members has reached a personal objective. We want to
homage all the whole family for their effort, their constancy and their sense
of responsibility.Last days,
they worked occupational hazards with MJ
and prepared and updated their CV’s. Thanks to MJ, The Collins Family
could learn the last innovation in the job’s searching.
Although the
course has been a collectivist success, we must pay attention to the special
cases of Adriana, Eva and M. Carmen who have reached new employments.
The Collins Family will continue its adventures in the 2.0 world because
they have another objective to pass: The Cambridge Exams. The Grandma will continue supporting them in this difficult work
and won’t forget her family.
Come on
Collins! We have already entered in the History like the great athletes. Now, we must keep us there.
The Grandma’s friends continue trying to recodify an Elementary’s
CD. They don’t forget this mission, difficult but not impossible.
Give me one moment in time
When I'm racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternity.
We are a big family, but the really important are
ourselves and our family. The Grandma is a friendly, lovely and wealthy woman,
who decided to adopt a big family for living a lot of adventures. During this
travel, we have worked a lot to improve our English and to search the answers
for some questions which are round us. I want to explain you them and the way
started here, two months ago.
One day, we received an Eva’s note, his grandfather was missed and we wanted to help her
to find him. We travelled to Venice, and during the Corto’s quest, Eva was
trapped in the Turkish part of Cyprus. We decided to travel to Nicosia for
helping her.
When we’re in Cyprus, during the rescue, Gemma felt down to the sea and we
lost her trail. We’re worried but we didn’t know any news about her then we
decided to travel to Rhodes it was the last place that someone saw Corto, he
has been there. We flew to Adriana’s
home in this island and we could visit the island and enjoying Mediterranean
lifestyle, culture, hospitality and good food!!!!
Meanwhile, our Grandma was searching a big and
incredible home in England for us. We must learn English!!!!!!!!!!!
The Rose of the Winds
Travelling by train we knew The Hobo’s. They were popular people from the U.S; and The Lullaby, popular songs for sleeping
babies “In the crib of hunger, my dild was. With blood onion is nursed" - Onion’s
Lullaby, Miguel Hernández.
Good Luck, Eva!!!!!!!! She’s in an interview.
Karen
was preparing Eurovision, Vienna 2015, and we’re helping her with a song “Hou,
hou, hou“.
Gemma was located by a seaman, and we could evacuate
both to Greece.
That day we received a grandma’s letter, she was
waiting us with Belén in Paris. We
visited The Louvre Museum and Disneyland Paris.
“In every job that must be done, there is an element
of fun. You find the fun and the jobs a game”. Mary Poppins
The grandma explained us about different stories: Majorca’s legend, which was localized
in Serra Tramuntana El Salt de la bella dona,The Ancestral Haitian Culture
, an unknown trip about beliefs, suggestions, fears and necromancy, The Navajo’s Nation and howits language helped the UK during the Second
World War !! The most important story, because it’s in our city, was about The non-recognized jobs , also named El banc de proves de Gaudí.
The weather was worst in U.K.Those days, Vanesa explained it to us: What’s the weather like????
Suitcase
In other hand, Mozart, Grandma and M. Ángeles were
waiting us Salzburg.M. Ángeles made us a perfect visit in the
city, visiting the most interesting buildings and places, as well as The
Mozart’s Museum House.
During this travel, we received an Eva’s letter from
Sant Boi, she fought her destiny and her dream. The Collins family were very
proud of Eva. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
That night Karen
participated in Eurovision Festival and she won! During this week, the war in
Ukraine was increasing and seemed that the help didn’t arrive......” One sees
clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupèry - Le Petit Prince.
While we were playing in the world of imagination and
dreams (Salvador DalÍ), Eva was
working in a very real job, she was building the facilities for our pets in Downton Abbey.
When the work was ended, we took a fly to
Venice.............It’s Carnival!!!!!!!!!!! Eva and Corto came with us for some
days and the Grandma was in Piazza San Marcos waiting for us.We’re really happy, newly we were together.
“E’ lontano il Ponte dei Sospir ma io continuo a
sospirar, aspetto il miracolo di poter tornar. Ciao Venezia, ciao!”
An important event happened in Adriana’s life, she
must come back home quickly; you must know that you aren’t alone!!!
During this week Grandma talked us about the
relationship between Winston Churchill, Barcelona’s population and London Tube. In all this cities, the
people built tunnels to shelter from enemy fire; they were called “The Resistance”.
“KEEP CALM AND CARRY A
WARD “.
Ohhh My God!!! The Grandma had a scare!! An owl was crossed on her
road!!!!!!!!!!
Andorran Passport
The next day she wanted to talk about pragmatic and
utopian adjectives.
In the following days, The Grandma explained us about
amazing stories in the near and far time........What has in common Whitechapel, in London and
Carrer Raval, in Barcelona. Perhaps....................the organs and the
blood?????????? Why is a Salamander in Park Güell? Because the salamander
symbolizes the August’s victory on Cleopatra’s Empire. Why church, factory and
school form an equilateral triangle?? The same happens between Park Güell and
The Forum. Is limited only the construction or is there more behind this?? Masonry, she taught us about
it!!!!!!!!
The Grandma suffered a great lost
.....................We will always be with you!! “Someone told me along ago,
there’s calm before the storm. Here you ever seen the rain coming down on a
sunny day?”
A few days ago, Montse
talked about Synesthesia, the
fantastic world of the sounds, colours and numbers!!!!!!!!!!
After that, the Grandma proposed to travel along the
Rose Line Road: London-París-Barcelona; she also told us Why is important the
Phi Number (1,618) for the world community, What is the truth about Mona Lisa,
Venus of Boticelli, the Keops Pyramid, the Eiffel Tower, Gaudí
buildings...................their creation, their perfect measures and
distances. All of them are based in the Phi Number.
We decorated Downton Abbey. Montse, Montse Pottery, Miriam and Dámaris prepared a nice story about kings, queens, princes and princesses and Laura spoke about the
Oscars. We stayed in Barcelona again: the Sagrada Família was waiiiiiiiiiiitinggggggggg
for us!!!!!
You've got the whole world in your pocket
But you just don't know
Everybody's smilin' at you everywhere you go
It's like you've got that secret
That everybody else wants to know.
The Collins Family is working very hard in the preparation of their Cambridge Exams. They’re exhausted and
their brains almost explode but they are very persistent people and they don’t
surrender.
Meanwhile, The Grandma is trying to help them in
the last details. Today, she has been looking some information about Cambridge Exams Listening for helping
her family in this hard adventure. The Grandma is going to recommend them reading
The
last Sherlock Holmes story and listening the audio story at the same
time.
For other
hand, we have been talking about people who admire and we have been analysing
some examples of non-verbal communication taking a relaxing cup of Café con leche in Plaza Mayor. We have
also received news from Eva and Corto. We miss you a lot and we hope to
see you very soon.
Finally, MJ has visited us with good news about our trip to Barcelona for visiting The Sagrada Família.
The surname Collins has a
variety of likely origins in Britain and Ireland:
Anglo-Saxon: A patronymic surname
based on the name Colin, an English diminutive form of Nicholas. In England,
Collins usually signified son of Colin.
Welsh: Collen = hazel, hazel
grove.
Irish: cuilein =
darling, a term of endearment applied to a whelp or young animal. The medieval
surname was Ua Cuiléin, which has usually become Ó Coileáin today.
The Collins Family are 17 members: Adriana, Belén, Dámaris, David, Eva Cyprus, Eva Maltese, Gemma, Karen, Laura, M.Carmen, M.Ángeles, Miriam, Montse Paris, Montse Pottery, Montse The Second, Vanesa and The Grandma. Every member of the family comes from a different country and English is the common language. The Collins Family works together for reaching its objectives and, even seeing the world from a seventeen different points of view, they always arrive to find a point in common: The greater good.
So close, no matter how far Couldn't be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are
I never opened myself this way Life is ours, we do it our way All these words I just don't say
Trust I seek but I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
The
Grandma has had some introspective days. While she was spending some days in
the hotel, her family was in Rhodes traveling around the island.She has been
thinking about the possibility of getting married because she felts alone,
although she has adopted a large family. After talking to every member of the
family, finally, she decided to continue without a new husband.
Next
week, The Grandma is going to meet her family in Santorini, where she will be
waiting the Love Boat’s arrival with all her family on board.
Now,
The Grandma is happy. She’s preparing her suitcases for traveling around Europe
during some months. From Santorini, the family is going to travel to Paris for
celebrating Belén’s birthday, and from Paris, they’re going to fly to London
near where The Grandma has bought a new house for all of them: Downton Abbey.
Next
week, the timetable of The Collins Family is plenty of activities: they’re
going to create lullabies and songs; buy some furniture for the new English
house; write a tale and plan how to rebuild Downton Abbey for giving enough
space and facilities to their pets.
From
Wednesday to Friday, The Collins Family has continued its English classes, which
are now more important than never because of its moving to Downton Abbey. They
reviewed the Past Continuous and sentences with when and while. They played
with the Story Cubes and described a neighbourhood. They also walked around
Rhodes guided by Adriana and they talked about the origin of some lullabies in
different cultures: the Hobo in the USA, the satiric ones in England and the
pain songs for a child’s death in Catalonia and in the Gipsy culture.
Eva
Maltese has continued searching some information about Corto but nobody knows
anything about him. Nowadays, she’s following a new clue: a man called Salvador
explained last news about him. In fact, Salvador was the last person who saw
Corto in the Greek Island. We don’t know but, perhaps, in the next hours there
will be an interesting cliff-hanger.In these moments, The Collins Family must be leaving Kos.
Yesterday, we reviewed countable and uncountable; there is and there are
and the undefined some and any. We wrote our own shopping list for
celebrating an enormous banquet and we started to prepare a Password game
for the next week.
The family is still resting in Rhodes. We are here two or
three more days and then we’ll start our cruise around the Greek Islands. EvaMaltese
is searching some clues about Corto with a little help from the family. We
haven’t found anything but we don’t lose our faith. We trust on us. We are a
great family and we can do whatever we propose. Also, we have regularized our surname:
We are The Collins!
With my shopping cart I move
through the heart
Of a sea of fools so blissfully unaware
That they're in the presence of something wonderful and rare
As I lift my groceries in to my
car
I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
That blows this whole fucking place apart
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