The World is Changing - Liceo Sesto Properzio

y Iris FUNKE (1996), BORG Krems/AustriaJanuary 30th 2013 at 10:23 pmIch bin ganz deiner Meinung, dass heutzutage der Fernseher immer mehr in den Vordergrund unsererFreizeitgestaltung rückt und deswegen viele auf das Lesen vergessen . Lesen ist nicht nur im Kindesalter sondernauch später für die Entwicklung wichtig, außerdem kann es auch Schülern und Schülerinnen mit einerRechtschreibschwäche weiterhelfen. Außerdem merkt man auch im Vergleich, dass das Buch immer besser alsder dazugehörige Film ist!Ich selbst lese lieber und verbringe wenig Zeit vor dem Fernseher. Wenn ich mich doch für einen Filminteressiere bevorzuge ich jedenfalls diesen auf DVD zu sehen da die ständigen Werbeunterbrechungen fastsoviel Zeit in Anspruch nehmen wie die Hälfte des Films.Jedenfalls finde ich es gu, dass schon mehrere wieder auf den Geschmack von Büchern kommen und mal aufden Fernseher verzichten.by Gabrielė MACIJAUSKAITĖ (1996), SPG Šilutė/LithuaniaMarch 7th 2013 at 7:59 pmI agree with your opinion, Zivile. I think that it’s much more better to read, watch documentary or historical filmthan choose to play computer games. If you watch this kind of movies you can learn a lot and use thatknowledges in your life. Of course if you watch films in foreign language you can also learn a new foreignlanguage. I watched films “Human Planet” and “Planet Earth” and I think it’s very good. I am also going to readthat two books which you mentioned in your article.From the U.S. to Spain – how travelling has helped mebroaden my mindby Justyna KOŚCIÓŁEK (1995), 8LO Kraków/PolandMe and my Indian friend!Nowadays, we don’t have any problems with moving around. We can freely travel between cities and evencountries. Journeys give us an opportunity not only for recreation but it also has a high educational value.That’s why I, when I was a child, I had an opportunity to go to the US. At that time my grandparents lived thereso I visited them. I spent more than two months (whole vacation) in Chicago. Being abroad, we get to knowother cultures and habits. During my stay there, I had to adopt to a diffrent lifestyle.An average day in a U.S. city is completely different than one in my country. As a small girl, I tried tounderstand every new thing I met and found out about. I was meetingvarious children. One day, by the lake, I got to know Indian children, and Ispent a great time with them what helped me learn that in the world therearen’t only “white” people. And now I don’t agree with negative opinionsabout these people because I had contact with them.I can’t deny that travelling also teaches how to cope in an unknownenvironment. The biggest advantage, for me, is absolutely the fact that ithelped me to become independent even though I was just a child.My second trip I remember best, is my last journey to Spain, Mallorca.Because of the fact that I was older than during the trip to U.S., I couldbetter understand new things around me. The people I was meeting wereso courteous and explained to me a lot of things I didn’t understand –starting from when we should say “Buenos dias” and when “Buenas tardes”ending in habits or traditions of the Spanish. I’d say that the stay in Paguera(South Mallorca) taught me some patience. Why? Maybe I’ll give anexample: when you wait for a bus, you must be patient because a busdriver,even if there are seats in the bus, doesn’t always stop, so you haveto wait for the next bus (and also it’s not sure that the next one will stop).After visiting Spain, I felt in love with this country and I plan to go thereagain next summer holidays to spend more time there. That’s why I startedto learn Spanish (myself at home, of course in my free time).To sum up, travelling and visiting new, before unknown places, is definitely a good way to develop ourselves. Itcan help us look at life from different perspective and understand things which we weren’t able to understand.n° 9/2013, page 190