Thankgiving

Pilgrims were the first European settlers in North America. They were religious England people who tried to separate the church from England. They protested about Church of England, so they suffered persecutions and decided to go to Holland.
For this travel they use a ship called Mayflower, it was the first ship used by Pilgrims. They traveled through the ocean were the Mayflower cloud easily suffer a lot of damages.
Many people were seasick on this ship, but just one person died. Also, one person was born during the journey as well.
After two months at sea English people arrived at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620.
Wampanoag is a nation of people who are still alive, they are described as Indians and helped pilgrims during the first winter.

After Pilgrims landed on Massachusetts, they did not have time to plant food for the winter, for that reason the first winter was very hard for the new settlers. The weather destroyed their settlement and only about half survived the first winter.

One Indian named Samoset tried to help pilgrims during this hard time, they had difficulties with communication, so Samoset returned with an English speaking Indian called Squanto.
Because of Squanto's help, the Pilgrims had a very successful harvest in October and had plenty of food for the upcoming winter. The Pilgrim's Governor William Bradford proclaimed the celebration one day in the middle of november.

After everything has passed, in 1863 the President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the fourth thursday in November the official day to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Now this event is celebrating one day per year in USA and Canada.

Exit U2

It is about a crime I couldn’t understand if the crime would happen or it had been passed.
Everytime the song shows him and that girl it is a flashback also when it shows him at the grave its a flashback.
Also you can see a man in a dark room, looking his environment, looking at the stars and thinking about a decision. This person thinks that is doing something bad and at the same tame knows that he can take a better decision with love. He is standing with a gun in his pocket that means that a crime should pass.
This person might kill someone or probably he is planning to commit suicide, but at the same time he thinks that with love, he would find a better way.
I like this song; most of time crimes are committed because love doesn’t exists for someone, and at the same time love is the way to solve many problems without use violence.

U2 EXIT *** Music Video *** JOSHUA TREE

Halloween in Costa Rica

There’re many ads in internet about places that celebrate Halloween, those ads are guides that show you information about them.
I read an article about Costa Rican Halloween parties, it shows places in San Jose where you can go and celebrate Halloween, it also has information the from most expensive bar through the cheapest one.
When October 31st gets closer Costa Rican people find their costume and prepare to celebrate this foreign custom. People go out with a costume, dance and go party… But basically that’s all what we do in Halloween. In this country there’s no children asking for candies or doing “trick or treats”, people don’t decorate their houses, they just use this day to have fun.

Goals

This bimestrial has passed so fast. I liked it a lot.
I think that the blogg is the best way to do homework, I’d never seen a practical way to be in contact with classmates and the teacher, through this blog you can read your classmates opinion and so the teacher, the most interesting part is that you don’t have to use papers.
Taking about the class my favourite part was warm-up activities they always include contests, songs or games. I liked role-play activities in which we acted, they were so funny.
My favourite topic was food, talk about it and when we created our restaurant poster, is very nice observe people’s creativity and thoughts.
I liked less when we talked about places and its story this topic was boring.
I think that my class work was good because I paid attention every moment; also I participate during the activities done.
I think I did a good job; I tried to do my best when we worked in groups and individually. I learned a lot but I wanted to improve my knowledge about phrasal verbs I really have problems with that so I think that a little bit more of this topic would help me more.

Unreal Sentences

1. Last Saturday I was sick. If I had been in class last Saturday, I would have fewer difficulties doing the homework.

2. There’re a lot of floods around the world. If people had taken care about planet, the weather wouldn’t be doing that kind of damages.

3. San Jose-Caldera Street is still closed. If they had done a strong street, they wouldn't be in trouble now.

4. In Alajuela more than 1.404 cars had been stolen. If people were more cautious, they wouldn’t lose their cars.

5. Chile’s rescue tunnel is already done. If this tunnel wasn’t done, miners would be trapped more time or they would die.

6. Miners trapped in Chile will have an ipod, money, one trip to Grecia and to Real Madrid as a gift after their nightmare. If miners weren’t trapped in the cave, they wouldn’t have any gift.

7. Last month San Juan de San Ramón was affected by a flood. If people had constructed theirs houses far away of a river, they would safe their home.

8. Rain has stop during this week. If rain had been falling, more people would be affected.

9. People from Zaragoza-Palmares are happy because the celebrations there already stared. If there were no celebrations, people wouldn’t be as happy as now.

10. Zaragoza’s parties stared last Friday. If it had rained an hour ago, Zaragoza’s tope would be ruined.

Liberia

Liberia-Guanacaste-Costa Rica.

Liberia is located in Guanacaste, it is called “The capital of Guanacaste”.
Once considered little more than a dusty cattle town, Liberia is now a hub for the many travelers that are coming to the beautiful Guanacaste area. Liberia was founded in 1769 and is known as the “white city” for its whitewashed adobe houses with the terra cotta tiled roofs. Many charming colonial-era homes can still be found in the city- many with the charming architectural details unique to the area, including the puertas del sol-which are the double doors- one on each side of a corner- designed to catch the sun in the morning and afternoon.
Previously, the sunny capital of Guana¬caste served as a transportation hub connecting the capital with both borders, as well as the standard bearer of Costa Rica’s sabanero culture. Even today, a large part of the greater Liberia area is involved in ranching operations, and still much enamored of Clint Eastwood movies, cowboy hats and machetes. However, as more and more gringos are stumbling off their international flights and seeking out the nearest cerveza in broken Spanish, Guanacastecos are starting to realize how lucrative the tourism industry can be.
These days, the public schools in Liberia have expanded the number of English courses on offer, private clinics catering to moneyed foreigners are popping up all over, and some folks are even looking into renovating the 150-year-old downtown with a full facelift and expanded pedestrian mall. But, like most tourism projects in Costa Rica, development is a double-edged sword, and the nearby Papagayo Project is no exception.
Liberia has long been a base for visiting the nearby volcanoes, national parks and beaches, though the multinational corporations who’ve already invested heavily in the project have other ideas.
Liberia has grown considerably since the Daniel Oduber Quiros International Airport opened in December of 2002. The airport saves many visitors almost half a day of travel and has saved many travelers many hours driving from San Jose.
Finally, Liberia is finding a balance between its past as the capital of Costa Rica’s “Old West” and its future- as the jumping off point for many visitors to the area.

If you want to visit Liberia you can do it by bus or by car.

Bus
Buses arrive and depart Terminal Liberia (Av 7 btwn Calles 12 & 14) and Terminal Pullmitan (Av 5 btwn Calles 10 & 12). Routes, fares, journey times and departures are as follows:
Cañas US$1, 1½ hours, departs Terminal Liberia 5:45am, 1:30pm, 4:30pm and 5:10pm. It’s quicker to jump off the San José–bound bus in Cañas.
La Cruz/Peñas Blancas US$1.25, 1½ to two hours, departs Pullmitan 5:30am, 8:30am, 9am, 11am, noon, 2pm, 4:45pm and 8pm.
Managua, Nicaragua US$10, five hours, departs Pullmitan 8:30am, 9:30am and 1pm (buy tickets one day in advance).
Nicoya, via Filadelfia & Santa Cruz (Alfaro Buses) US$1.25, two hours, hourly from 4am to 8pm.
Playa del Coco US$0.75, one hour, departs Pullmitan 5:30am, 8am, 9am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm.
Playa Hermosa, Playa Panamá (Tralapa) US$0.75, 1¼ hours, departs Terminal Liberia 7:30am, 11:30am, 3:30pm, 5:30pm and 7pm.
Playa Tamarindo US$1.25, two hours, departs Terminal Liberia 5:15am, 7am, 10:15am, 12:15pm, 2:30pm and 6pm.
Puntarenas US$1.40, 3 hours, seven services from 5am to 3:30pm. It’s quicker to jump off the San José–bound bus in Puntarenas.
San José US$5, four hours, departs Pullmitan hourly 6am to 7pm.

http://www.liberiacostaricainfo.com/BusScheduleLiberiaCostaRica.html

Car
Liberia lies on the Interamericana, 234km north of San José and 77km south of the Nicaraguan border post of Peñas Blancas. Hwy 21, the main artery of the Península de Nicoya, begins in Liberia and heads southwest. A dirt road, passable to all cars in dry season (4WD is preferable), leads 25km from Barrio la Victoria to the Santa María entrance of Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja; the gravel road to the Las Pailas entrance begins from the Interamericana 5km north of Liberia (passable to regular cars, but 4WD is recommended).