AFKAAB: ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS ANTON BEAN

Anton Bean's selfie with Vincent van Gogh

Anton Bean. Artist. Luxembourg.

I'm Anton Bean. I'm an artist. I was born in Ettelbréck and moved to Amsterdam to study in the Universiteit van Amsterdam. I return to my country and after some years of working in the Luxembourg Central Bank I decided to start new studies in something that I really love: Art. Netherlands, the hometown of Vincent Van Gogh, was my inspiration and guide. This Dutch experience was very important to study Arts and I'm an artist, a person who creates art... but what is art? This is one of the most interesting questions without a common answer.

-Good morning, Anton Bean and thanks to attend us.

-Good morning.

-Why AFKAAB?

-It's an homage to Prince. 

-What is art for you?

-Art is something that affects your feelings and your senses. That's all. Then, it depends of every person. The same art work can create different emotions in different people.

-How is your art?

-It depends. Art is something that you can't control because it comes from the deepest soul and creating art isn't a mechanical action. It's a mix of soul and inspiration.

-How is your best work?

-The best work is always arriving because the most interesting about art is the process of creation and every work is better than the previous one because you really enjoy meanwhile you are working in it.

-Which is your favourite artist?

-It's impossible to choose only one but I love Vincent van Gogh. I studied in Netherlands and Van Gogh has been an incredible influence for me but I also love the Flemish art. It's mysterious and dark and I like this.

-Well, then... which is your favourite Van Gogh's work?

-The Starry Night. Vincent van Gogh painted it in Saint Rémy in June 1889. It's very important the season because, as you know, light changes and light is very important for a painter, especially for an impressionist one.

-It is a masterpiece, isn't it?

-Of course, it is. Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: this morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big... We know that Van Gogh was in an asylum victim of a mental breakdown in the winter of 1888 and he added that through the iron-barred window. I can see an enclosed square of wheat ... above which, in the morning, I watch the sun rise in all its glory. He must left out the iron bars to paint this picture.

-Van Gogh has a mental illness, like Salvador Dalí...

-Yes, and like the 35% of the world population... Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night is talking about mortality. The dark spires in the foreground are cypress trees, plants most often associated with cemeteries and death. This connection gives a special significance to this Van Gogh quote; Looking at the stars always makes me dream. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star.

-People say that it's difficult to live with an artist. Is it true?

-I don't think so. Living in pair is difficult because it's a question of offering and receiving but it doesn't depend of your work. 

-How's life with an artist, then?

-A normal life. There are many people who are artists but they work in other jobs and they don't explore and explode their art but it doesn't mean that they weren't artists. Remember: Art is something that changes your feelings and your senses and there are a lot of ways to reach it.

-Which is your advice for a newcomer artist?

-Believe in yourself. You should know that you must believe in yourself because this is a complicated world and you sometimes can feel yourself alone. If this moment arrives, you must think that you have got yourself.

-How do you feel being a member of The Beans?

-The Beans are very good people. We're a great family and they respect me and love my art. They accept that I'm an artist and I sometimes need to express myself because I feel an unstoppable desire of creating something.

-How is a normal day with The Beans?

-What's normal? If normal means something that the most part of people do, and then we aren't a normal family because we do whatever we desire, whenever we want and wherever we stay.

-How long have you been studying English?

-I studied English since the High School. In Luxembourg, we have three official languages: German, French and Luxembourgish. I speak all of them and Dutch because I learnt it during the university in Amsterdam.

-What can you explain about your life with The Beans?

-The Bonds offer me the possibility of being myself and this is something very important for an artist. You can express your opinions and everybody is going to accept your point of view although they don't share it with you.

-Which is your best memory with the family?

-I have lots of memories although I remember strongly when I could talk to them about one of my secret passions: search hidden treasures. I talked about Cocos Islands and its three hidden treasures and Benito Bonito, a curious person.

-Imagine that I want to buy one of your works. Recommend me one...

-I love all of my works but I want to recommend you four because I have painted them meanwhile I have been with The Beans. First, Blood. I painted a tribute to a Romanian hero, one of the most terrible fighters who have existed. He used fear against his enemies and terrible punishments. It's a painting with a predominance of red tones. Second, I created The Prospectors, a tribute to those men who searched gold in the American rivers. Finally, I made Cocos Island, a picture about the colonization. On August 3rd 1492 Columbus sailed from Spain and arrived to an island which he named San Salvador. History changed forever.

-You're an artist. Can you create a slogan for The Beans?

-Not now. I need time to create my works but it will be a coloured motto. We are like a colour palette. Everyone is different, like a different colour but together we can create incredible things, like a picture.

-Thank you very much, Anton Bean.

-You're welcome.

 

 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. 

Vincent Van Gogh

KATRINA AND THE BEANS: BEING THE BEST CANDIDATES

The Beans receiving their prize in Lisbon

The Beans are still enjoying their victory in the last Eurovision Song Contest. The family did a great interpretation demonstrating a great teamwork and coordination, skills that you need if you want to success in the labour world.

Their amazing interpretation was TT immediately and fans around the world expressed their admiration about The Beans and their wonderful song. One of them was Katrina Leskanich, winner of this contest in 1997 representing the UK.

Katrina has offered The Beans the possibility of joining her in her next tour in Hong Kong. The family is astonished with the news and after some hours of deliberation, they have accepted. Then, it's official that The Beans are going to leave their lifestyle, their travels and their parties and they're going to join Katrina in this new adventure.

More information: ABA English

The Grandma is very happy with this decision because she has always trusted in her family and she knew they were the best candidates to do whatever they wanted because, yes, they can do it! She isn't going to stay with them in Asia because she prefers to return to Barcelona and start new business with new partners. She thinks that she has already done all her work with the family and now she's going to be in contact with them thanks to the 2.0 technology.

The secret of The Beans's success is easy to explain: sacrifice, effort, happiness, teamwork, partnership and commitment. 

All of them have got this common success thanks to their individual efforts which applicated to a common goal have been the best way to reach their objectives. If you want to be a good candidate, you must have an elaborated CV, a good resume and especial communicative skills that allow you to get an interview over. These are the most important clues in labour insertion and these are the keys that have helped The Beans to reach the victory in this contest.

More information: Citizens Information

Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich (born April 10, 1960) is an American musician, author and former lead singer of British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves whose song Walking on Sunshine was an international hit in 1985 and in 1997 won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the song Shine a Light.

Katrina Leskanich

Leskanich was born in Topeka, Kansas. She is of Irish, German and Czech ancestry. Her father was a colonel in the United States Air Force, and Katrina and her five siblings (four sisters and one brother) moved frequently as children. After she was born, they moved from Kansas to New Mexico, and then California, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Stuttgart, in (then) West Germany, and the Netherlands before arriving in the United Kingdom in 1976.

The band's earliest incarnation was as The Waves, a group that played in and around Cambridge, England, from 1975 to 1977 and featured guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Alex Cooper. For the first Capitol album, the band re-recorded, remixed, or overdubbed 10 songs from their earlier Canadian releases to create their self-titled international debut album in 1985.

More information: Quizlet (I)

The Katrina and the Waves album was a substantial critical and commercial success, and the group had a worldwide hit with the song Walking on Sunshine. A Grammy award nomination for Best New Artist followed, as did constant touring, both of which helped to spur sales of new releases.

The Beans during their winner performance

In 1997, after having somewhat faded into obscurity, the band won the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the United Kingdom with Shine a Light, the same song that Katrina has chosen, this time, to sing with The Beans. 

The first video of this song is now avalaible and we can offer the exclusive of its premiere. Under the direction of Antonio Bean and The Grandma's production, Katrina sings with Paqui, Elisabet and Cristina Bean with a chorus formed by Ana, Nereyda and Natalia Bean, a choreography created by Carol Bean and a fantastic melody performanced by Tania Bean with the drums, Anton Bean with the keyboards, Óscar, Edgar and Estefanía Bean with the guitars and Manuel Bean with the bells. The result is a beautiful and unforgettable version of the 1997's hit Shine a light.

More information: Quizlet (II)

The new version is stronger than the older because every Bean offers his/her colour to it and as a result, you can enjoy a powerful song with deep lyrics full of commitment, energy, happiness, effort, teamwork and coordination, an amazing song mixed of gospel, folk and pop rythms which is going to steal your heart and you mind. 

C'mon, the version is also now avalaible in ITunes and Amazon Music. Download it now and enjoy with us!

Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; 

people who work as a team have to put the collective 

needs of the group ahead of their individual interests. 

Patrick Lencioni

ANTON BEAN & BENITO BONITO IN THE COCOS ISLAND

Anton Bean and his Cocos Island's map

Hi! I'm Anton Bean and I want to talk about the Cocos Island.

The Cocos Island or Coco Island was discovered in 1526 by Juan Cabezas de Grado. It is a little isle that has about twenty four kilometres square and was a free land to the year 1869 when was claimed by Costa Rica to establish a penal colony because the distance from the coast and all kind of sharks there were some very hard obstacles to escape it. 

The Cocos Island was very popular between the pirates and corsairs at the 17th and 18th centuries because has a lot of fountains of sweet water to resupply their ships and it is near the Humbolt stream and winds that propel the sail ships to the West, get away their pursuers.

The legend sits tree treasures, never found, in the Cocos Island: The Edward Davies treasure, The Benneth ‘Bloody Sword’ (Benito Bonito) treasure and the fabulous Lima’s treasure, but the true treasure of the Cocos Island is its biodiversity in plants and animals, the most of them endemics, and a richer sea bottom with coral and fish. Nowadays, the isle is a marine and a Land National Park.

More information: UNESCO

We are at the year of 1820 in Lima, now Peru, and viceroyalty of Peru then.

The situation of the viceroy and his lacked royal troops is desperate:  In land, the troops of General San Martín circled his positions in Lima and El Callao (the port of Lima). In sea, the English corsairs blocked the gate and didn't allow to leave the port any Spanish ship.

Anton Bean and Benito Bonito aka Bloody Sword

Despite this engaged situation, Don Jose Fernando Abascal de Sousa, the viceroy, decided to save the most part of the treasure, a lot of religious pieces in gold, silver and gems, somethings in natural size. His solution appears in form of schooner. The ‘Mary Dear’ arrives to the El Callao commanded by William Thompson and carrying a payload of wool and clothes. 

Because the flag of the ‘Mary Dear’ is British and its captain Thomson is Scottish, the corsairs don't block this sail ship.

The viceroy charters the sail ship immediately and the captain Thompson gets the order to carry the new payload to Panama together with a bishop and half dozen troops as escort. Neither the captain nor the crew know exactly the matter of the hundred fifty chest, trunks and boxes of the payload but they suspect that they are very valuable. So, once the ‘Mary Dear’ evades the block of corsairs, the crew kills the little escort and the bishop and changes the course quickly to the Cocos Island. Captain Thompson’s plan is very simple:  Hide the loot, resupply the schooner in Panama and come back to share the loot.

But, the ‘Peruvian’, a corsair battleship chartered by the Spanish Crown to break the British block, finds the dead bodies of escorts floating in the sea, and sets bow to Panama to intercept the ‘Mary Dear’... and they get it. Near Panama the ‘Peruvian’ captures the ‘Mary Dear’, all its crew and Captain Thomson but the payload is missing.

After a lot of intense and ‘loving’  interrogations and hung the half of the crew, the rest admits the loot is hidden near the Waffer Bay in the Cocos Island and the ‘Peruvian’ prepares itself to find it, but a scurvy epidemic bursts in the ship and more of the half of the crew is lost. Also, all the prisoners but two reach to escape... But this is another story!

In the last two hundred years a lot of expeditions have searched, officially without success, treasures in the island, included a young Frankin D. Roosvelt, who more years later was the president of USA.

More information: National Geographic

There is more treasure in books than in 

all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. 

Walt Disney

THE BEANS: EVERYBODY, EVERYWHERE, EVERTYTHING...

Nereyda Bean and occupational hazards

Today, The Beans have continued with their English classes. They have revised som aspects of grammar like Future Continuous (Be going to), Question Tags, Demonstratives, All-Both-Neither and Some & Any Compounds.

It has been an intensive morning and the family has been talking about the present problems of some great cities: the increasing price of homes and the way to regulate the massive tourism.

More information: Demonstratives & Some-Any Compounds

The Beans have written some messages of hope, love and friendship in their Venice banners and have congratulated Nereyda Bean who has passed another level of her favourite mobile app: How to survive at work without being damaged.

After the breakfast, the family has listened an interesting Anton Bean's story about The Coco Island and The Grandma has been talking about chemistry and how satellites are helping to find human remains witnesses of wars and genocides.

Finally, they have decided to buy The Coco Island and built a little resort for all the members of the family because Anton Bean is sure that the island still keeps three hidden treasures and The Beans want to find them.

This afternoon, The Beans have visited the Golden Gate Bridge, perhaps the most popular symbol of San Francisco.

More information: Universitat de Barcelona I & II

 

The Beans on the top of the Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide 1.6 km strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the American city of San Francisco, California, the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. 

The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States.  

It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The Frommer's travel guide describes the Golden Gate Bridge as possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world. At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 1,280 m and a total height of 227 m. 

Today, the Golden Gate Bridge is neither the longest nor the tallest in the world, but remains the tallest bridge in the United States.

More information: Golden Gate

San Francisco has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate characteristic of California's coast, with moist mild winters and dry summers. San Francisco's weather is strongly influenced by the cool currents of the Pacific Ocean on the west side of the city, and the water of San Francisco Bay to the north and east. This moderates temperature swings and produces a remarkably mild year-round climate with little seasonal temperature variation.

Grandma's memories in the 30's

Among major U.S. cities, San Francisco has the coolest daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures for June, July, and August. 

During the summer, rising hot air in California's interior valleys creates a low pressure area that draws winds from the North Pacific High through the Golden Gate, which creates the city's characteristic cool winds and fog. 

The fog is less pronounced in eastern neighborhoods and during the late summer and early fall. As a result, the year's warmest month, on average, is September, and on average, October is warmer than July, especially in daytime.

More information: History.com

Because of its sharp topography and maritime influences, San Francisco exhibits a multitude of distinct microclimates. The high hills in the geographic center of the city are responsible for a 20% variance in annual rainfall between different parts of the city. 

They also protect neighborhoods directly to their east from the foggy and sometimes very cold and windy conditions experienced in the Sunset District; for those who live on the eastern side of the city, San Francisco is sunnier, with an average of 260 clear days, and only 105 cloudy days per year.

It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears 

is said to be seen in San Francisco.
 

Oscar Wilde

PUERTO PLATA IS 72: "LO STUPORE, 'A MARAVIGLIA!"

The Beans buying some food

This morning, The Beans continue visiting Dominican Republic. It's the last day in the country because tomorrow they are going to travel to Mexico. The family has reviewed the Relative Pronouns and Countable and Uncountable nouns before going to buy some local products to prepare a great lunch because they want to say goodbye to this wonderful country with all the honours. They have been tasting different kinds of beans, the typical Dominican food whose name is the same that the family.

More informatioin: Relative Pronouns

The Grandma and Anton Bean have explained some things about the Indians, the Catalans who travelled to the Caribbean Islands to find fortune, did it, and returned to their hometowns where they invested in new business and factories, especially food and textile ones. The Indians never forgot the Caribbean Islands and tried to recreate the American landscapes in the European ones, importing Caribbean plants and seeds and building Caribbean-style houses closer the sea.

More information: Countable and Uncountable

The family has been talking about the importance of Salvador de Samà i Torrents, Marquis of Samà who was a great investor and closer friend of Eusebi Güell, who was Antoni Gaudí's patron. Samà was one of these indians who made fortune in the Caribbean Islands and returned to Vilanova i la Geltrú in El Garraf and bought lots and lots of lands in Barcelona, where years after, will be built the most important monuments of the city like Park Güell, Palau Güell and the Sagrada Família.

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Edgar, Oscar and Nereyda Bean in Puerto Plata

The family has also talked about the influence of the Jewish community and the kabbalah in Barcelona and the interpretations of our dreams in a Neapolitan-style with the Smorfia.

More information: Smorfia

This afternoon, The Beans have visited Puerto Plata in the north of Dominican Republic. The family has enjoyed the landscapes and they have travelled by cable car to the top of the mountains to have a great view of the north of the island. It has been enjoyable, a beautiful trip before saying goodbye to this unforgettable country.

Tonight, The Beans are flying to Mexico. During the travel, they are listening some classic books thanks to Natalia Bean and Burlington. Enjoy them!

Burlington Books Online (MP3's)

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning 

the lottery are identical whether you play or not. 

Fran Lebowitz

THE BEANS VISIT THE JEFFERSONIAN: TEMPUS FUGIT

Memories of Paqui Bean in the CRAM

This morning, The Beans have reviewed some English grammar. It has been a day to improve grammar and consolidate knowledge. 

They have talked about the Future Simple, Adverbs of Manner, Superlative and Comparative and Social English. 

They have also read a bit more about Christmas Carol of Charles Dickens. 

More information: Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

 

Taking care of the nature is a very important thing and the family has been talking about animals and their protection. Paqui Bean has talked about two important centres: the CRAM in El Prat de Llobregat and the CRARC in Masquefa. Both of them are near Barcelona, and  both of them work strongly to save animals. She has also talked about the Zeehondencentrum in Pieterburen.

Then, the family has listened carefully Ana Bean's speech about Maria Callas, her lovely friend. They have discovered a lot of secrets about her and her difficult and successful life and about the connection between Ana and Maria. It has been a very important moment for The Grandma who has appreciated a lot Ana's effort and work.

Óscar Bean and Temperance Brenan's Team

After talking about Asperger Syndrome, The Beans have visited Temperance Brennan and her scientific team in the Jeffersonian Institution and they have asked her some questions about the skeleton that was found by Óscar Bean in the Georgetown University Campus yesterday.

Dr Brennan has answered all the questions of the family and has been very interested in answering Anton Bean's questions about the Piltdown Man while The Grandma, fascinated by the laboratory and imitating Salvador Dalí, has lost her head and her idea of time and has started to live in a parallel universe until The Beans have waken her up.

More information: Live Science

This afternoon, the family has visited the Natural History Museum founded in 1846 as part of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a natural-history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. 

Tempus Fugit for The Grandma

Opened in 1910, the museum on the National Mall was one of the first Smithsonian buildings constructed exclusively to hold the national collections and research facilities. 

The main building has an overall area of 140,000 m2 with 30,200 m2 of exhibition and houses over 1,000 employees. The museum's collections contain over 126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artefacts. In 2016 it was the second most visited of all of the Smithsonian museums. It is also home to about 185 professional natural-history scientists, the largest group of scientists dedicated to the study of natural and cultural history in the world.

More information: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

The time is always right to do what is right. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

THE BEANS: WITNESSES OF THE AMISH COMMUNITY

Raquel Lapp waiting The Beans arrival

Anton Bean is a great fan of History. He loves reading books and reports about culture, traditions and anthropology. He stores lots and lots of information in his tablet and he likes knowing new things every day and checking them with old ones. 

Anton is excited today because The Beans have decided to visit Rachel Lapp and her family, members of the Amish Community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It’s near Philadelphia and in the way to Washington, DC and it is a good chance to visit them and discover how their life-style closer to 19 century full of old traditions and an ancient religion afect the new Amish generations.

More information: New York Times

The Amish are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss Anabaptist origins. They are closely related to, but distinct from, Mennonite churches. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann. Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish.

Rachel Lapp and John Book in 1985

In the early 18th century, many Amish and Mennonites immigrated to Pennsylvania for a variety of reasons. Today, the most traditional descendants of the Amish continue to speak Pennsylvania German, also known as Pennsylvania Dutch, although a dialect of Swiss German is used by Old Order Amish in the Adams County, Indiana area.

Amish church membership begins with baptism, usually between the ages of 16 and 25. It is a requirement for marriage within the Amish church. Once a person is baptized with the church, he or she may marry only within the faith. Church districts average between 20 and 40 families, and worship services are held every other Sunday in a member's home. The district is led by a bishop and several ministers and deacons. 

More information: Lancaster, Pennsylvania

The rules of the church, the Ordnung, must be observed by every member and cover most aspects of day-to-day living, including prohibitions or limitations on the use of power-line electricity, telephones, and automobiles, as well as regulations on clothing. 

Anton Bean travelling in an Amish transport

Most Amish do not buy commercial insurance or participate in Social Security. As present-day Anabaptists, Amish church members practice nonresistance and will not perform any type of military service. The Amish value rural life, manual labor and humility, all under the auspices of living what they interpret to be God's word.

Members who do not conform to these community expectations and who cannot be convinced to repent are excommunicated. In addition to excommunication, members may be shunned, a practice that limits social contacts to shame the wayward member into returning to the church. Almost 90 percent of Amish teenagers choose to be baptized and join the church. 

More information: Discover Lancaster

During an adolescent period of rumspringa or running around in some communities, nonconforming behavior that would result in the shunning of an adult who had made the permanent commitment of baptism, may meet with a degree of forbearance. Amish church groups seek to maintain a degree of separation from the non-Amish world. Non-Amish people are generally referred to as 'English'. 

The Beans entering in an Amish shop

There is generally a heavy emphasis on church and family relationships. They typically operate their own one-room schools and discontinue formal education after grade eight, at age 13/14. Until the children turn 16, they have vocational training under the tutelage of their parents, community, and the school teacher. Higher education is generally discouraged as it can lead to social segregation and the unraveling of the community.

Amish lifestyle is regulated by the Ordnung  or order, which differs slightly from community to community, and, within a community, from district to district. What is acceptable in one community may not be acceptable in another. 

More information: Exploring Amish Country

It is agreed upon within the community by the elders prior to the annual Communion. These include matters such as dress, permissible uses of technology, religious duties, and rules regarding interaction with outsiders. These elders are generally men.

The Beans arriving to an Amish farm

Bearing children, raising them, and socializing with neighbors and relatives are the greatest functions of the Amish family. Amish typically believe large families are a blessing from God. Community is central to the Amish way of life.

Working hard is considered godly, and some technological advancements have been considered undesirable because they reduce the need for hard work. Machines such as automatic floor cleaners in barns have historically been rejected as this provides young farmhands with too much free time.

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The Beans are very interested in knowing how this community can work together building great structures without any kind of occupational hazards rules.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
 

Warren E. Burger

THE ANTICHRIST ARRIVAL: MANAGING AND ARGUMENT

Memories of Sant Antoni in Alcúdia, Mallorca

Today, The Beans have received the best news they could receive: Nereyda Bean has been found by the FBI. She's fine without any injuries but she has lost her memory and she doesn't remember anything about her life. The family is helping her to recover it.

The family is very happy with the last events but they're expressing their feelings now and they have discussed about some problems that affect the big cities to try to expulse their demons and fears. When you have some pain inside you, you need to talk and if it's very difficult to talk about bad experiences is better to talk about general problems that affect the population to try to blow them off and feel better with themselves.

More information: Present Continuous

The Grandma has expressed how worry she is with the arrival of the AntiChrist to Barcelona which was announced by the Sibyl last December, 24, and about her effects over the population and over the day-by-day of the citizens. There are too many problems to solve and no solutions to be heard. It has been a great experience to talk with the family about these problems because it has been a good chance to reply and express personal opinions and the most important, to try to talk in English.

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The Beans's present in Liberty Island

The family has continued with the Present Continuous and they have written some plans for their pets because today is Saint Anthony, patron of the animals, a wonderful day in Majorca and a very special day for Anton Bean. They have worked in group to offer a brainstorming to think in a closer future. They have also written some crosswords and have done some games about vocabulary.

Finally, Natalia Bean has explained how the Statue of Liberty vanished thanks to David Copperfield. After this, The Beans have decided to buy this emblematic monument. They are planning to carry her with them but meanwhile they have left a little present: a memory of their visit to not be forgotten by the New Yorkers.

I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being 

passed between generations and the slow 

transmission of cultural values through tradition. 

Graham Moore