This morning, The Beans have continued their English classes practising with Countable and Uncountable.
It's not an easy thing and they must work very hard to have success.
They have also reviewed some aspects of Present Simple and Social English before leaving Dominican Republic and arrive to Mexico where Natalia Bean has offered an incredible surprise to them.
During the flight, the family has discussed apassionately about education and the educational system. It's a deep and hard theme with different points of view that join in one: the school is a place to take knowledge and home is the place to be educated.
Past picture of The Grandma in Majorca's Cathedral
Next, The Grandma has talked about February, 2, the an important day for Azteca culture but also for Mediterranean one.
Today, in some buildings of the Mediterranean countries you can watch the effect of eight thanks to the position of the sun and the special characteristics of the buildings.
Meanwhile, in Punxsutawney, Phil has predicted six more weeks before the end of winter, The Grandma has continued her story talking about one of the greatest genius of the last century, Antoni Gaudí, who influenced by nature built the most spectacular and mysterious buildings that you can imagine like the Colònia Güell or The Sagrada Família.
The architect started to work in his creations in Sant Boi de Llobregat and from there he imagined incredible fantasy worlds which he built some years later.
Finally, The Grandma has fallen asleep and has been dreaming about The Beans visiting The Sagrada Família...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Today, The Beans have visited NewOrleans in Lousiana. They are excited with this trip because they love blues and jazz and they want to know more things about the Creole culture which has great roots in this city.
The family has revised the future of probabilities with May and has started to talk about Countable and Uncountable and some kinds of containers.
Paqui Bean is a little sad because his last Amish friend has decided to begin a new path far away the family and The Beans have dedicated some wonderful wishes and hopes to him in a local way.
Finally, the family has finished a new chapter of Christmas Carol and they have reviewed numbers with two intensive bingos and letters with the IATA codes, in an attempt to choose their last destination.
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Before Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish was the most populous parish in Louisiana. As of 2015, it ranked third, trailing neighboring Jefferson Parish and East Baton Rouge Parish.
The city is known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is famous for its cuisine, music -particularly as the birthplace of jazz- and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is often referred to as the most unique in the United States.
Manuel Bean playing Bingo
New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, and occupies both sides of the Mississippi River. The heart of the city and its French Quarter is on the river's north side. The city and Orleans Parish, in French paroisse d'Orléans, are coterminous. The city and parish are bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany to the north, St. Bernard to the east, Plaquemines to the south, and Jefferson to the south and west. Lake Pontchartrain, part of lies within the city limits, lies to the north and Lake Borgne lies to the east.
As a port New Orleans played a major role during the antebellum era in the Atlantic slave trade. The port handled commodities for export from the interior and imported goods from other countries, which were warehoused and transferred in New Orleans to smaller vessels and distributed along the Mississippi River watershed. The river was filled with steamboats, flatboats and sailing ships. Despite its role in the slave trade, New Orleans at the time had the largest and most prosperous community of free persons of color in the nation, who were often educated, middle-class property owners.
The Civil Rights Movement's success in gaining federal passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 renewed constitutional rights, including voting for blacks. Together, these resulted in the most far-reaching changes in New Orleans' 20th century history.
The Beans visiting Southern Charm in New Orleans
Though legal and civil equality were re-established by the end of the 1960s, a large gap in income levels and educational attainment persisted between the city's White and African-American communities.
New Orleans was catastrophically affected when the Federal levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As the hurricane passed through the Gulf Coast region, the city's federal flood protection system failed, resulting in the worst civil engineering disaster in American history. Floodwalls and levees constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers failed below design specifications and 80% of the city flooded.
More than 1,500 people were recorded as having died in Louisiana, most in New Orleans, while others remain unaccounted for. Before Hurricane Katrina, the city called for the first mandatory evacuation in its history, to be followed by another mandatory evacuation three years later with Hurricane Gustav.
