Wednesday 14 January 2009

My Christmas


I spent this christmas in Poland at my grandparents house. In Poland we open our presents on the christmas eve (the 24th). I got Play Station 3( with 2 games), a puzzle globe and I don't remember what else... In Poland on christmas eve you are supposed to have 12 dishes on the table and another plate if anybody from outside comes.


Then on the 1st of January 2009 my mum, my dad, my brother and I flew to Hurghada in Egipt. We stayed there for 1 week nd we had o much fun!!! WE went on a 1 day trip to Luxor, where we saw the graves of the Egyptian pharaos. We also went on a glass-floor boat, where we saw a lot of fish and coral reefs!
I
t was great!!!!!!!

Wednesday 17 December 2008

The Red Cross helping this Christmas


Irish Red Cross:
This Christmas the members and delegates in the Irish Red Cross will be looking after older people, sick people, children and prisoners of war at home and overseas.
Christmas cards are for just Euro 4.50 or Euro 6.00 for a pack of eight cards. The Euro 4.50 pack contains smaller cards that are ideal for personal use, while larger cards that are idea for business use, as well as personal use, are on sale for just Euro 6.00. Both packs contain a selection of traditional, modern and religious images.


Swedish Red Cross:
The "Hugs for the Lonely" drive, which will run December 1st to 21st, is going national this year after a local Red Cross chapter in Västerås, west of Stockholm, made around 300,000 kronor selling embraces last year. People pay the Red Cross, and the money goes towards helping people, and then for every hug sold, a child gets a hug. The Red Cross also has an E-Shop where they sell cards, presents, calendars and much more and the money goes towards helping people all over the world. You can also donate a certain amount of money to help people e.g. you can pay $10 to help give transport to people who need medical care, or $50 to provide water purification tablets, enough to make 250 liters of safe drinking water, etc.

Wednesday 10 December 2008

Madagascar Christmas Recepie

Akoho sy voanio Chicken with Coconut and Rice

Ingredients: (serves four)
· One chicken
· One coconut / or a can of unsweetened Coconut Milk
· Two tomatoes
· Two onions
· Two cloves of garlic
· 20 grams/0.75 oz of ginger
· some Oil, salt and pepper

Method:
Cut the chicken into small pieces and sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper to taste.Slice the tomatoes into small cubes.Slice the Onions.Chop the garlic and ginger very finely.Set all these aside to be used later.
Shred the coconut into a clean cloth. Fold the cloth around the shredded coconut. Wet the cloth using a glass of warm water. Squeeze the cloth and the shredded coconut to extract coconut milk. Discard the shredded coconut. (If you want, you can use a can of unsweetened coconut milk instead)
Add a small amount of oil to a fry pan. Sauté the chicken, over a medium heat, until done. Add the onions to the pan. Continue stirring over medium heat until the onions are brown. Add the ginger, tomatoes, and garlic to the pan. Sauté together briefly over medium heat.
Add coconut milk and mix well. Reduce the heat. Simmer over a low heat for thirty minutes.
Serve with rice and salad.

Christmas in Madagascar


Christmas in Madagascar means a time of festivities for the people of the island. The day of Christmas is celebrated by the Christian population of Madagascar. Christmas in Madagascar is during the summer months, so picnics and parties are arranged on this day. A common tradition of Christmas in Madagascar is that people visit their elders and other respectable people of the area.



The figure of Santa Claus is a big part of Christmas. There Santa Claus is called 'Dadabe Noely'. The name means Grandfather Christmas and signifies the spirit of the festival. On Christmas day everyone (as well as strangers) greets each other by saying 'Arahaba tratry ny Noely' which means 'Merry Christmas'. One of special Christmas foods in Madagascar are fresh lychees, which are bought from shops and street sellers, fresh from the trees. The streets get covered in lychee skin.

Wednesday 26 November 2008

My favorite book

Walk Two Moons was written by Sharon Creech. It is about a girl called Sal. She is movig with her dad to meet Margaret Cadaver (a woman she thinks her father wants to marry) . Her mum left earlier and it seems she will not come back... Sal doesn't like Margaret very much, and when her grandparents plan to take a road trip to visit her mother's last known location and she goes with them. As the trip progresses, Sal passes the time by telling her grandparents the tale of her friend Phoebe, who has a strong belief that Mrs. Cadaver killed her husband. The novel ends when Sal's grandmother has to go to the hospital from a lizard's bite. Sal's grandfather gives Sal the keys and she drives to her mum's last known location, where she gets stopped by the sheriff. Later the reader finds out that Sal's mother died in an accident when the bus she was on tumbled over a cliff. Everyone was killed, except Margaret, which is why Sal's father is spending so much time with her. Back at the hospital, Sal's grandmother also dies. At the end of the story Sal, Grandpa, and Sal's dad move back.

Wednesday 12 November 2008

swedish play :)

hi
tomorrow-12 th of november, some of my classmates and i
are doind a play in swedish. it's about three cats and one of
them gets kidnapped by a witch. the other two have to find
a purple frog, a golden pine cone and a spider's tongue...
when they found all three things they have to make a mixture
out of them. then the witch tells them to give the mixture
to the cat, that she kidnapped, but the cat giving the mixture
trips and the mixture falls over the witch and she vanishes...

Thursday 6 November 2008

my intrests

i like sports such as swimming, bandy/floor ball, athletics,

dancing, skiing and more.... in one word i'm a sporty girl!

i like drawing, singing and just being my self...

my motto is: after rain comes sun ;)