Tate Modern

Text by Camille and Athénaïs


Tate Modern

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/

The Tate Modern is the first British gallery for modern art, and one of the most famous and touristic one of London. Located in an old power station, the gallery contains international modern art from 1900 to date, including writings of some famous artists of the 20th century like Picasso, Warhol or Dali. The ancient engine rooms have been redeployed into a huge hall that can receive amazing expositions!

The collection is organised around a series of themes rather than chronologically. The different topics are : History/Memory/Society/Nude/Action/BodyLandscape/Matter/Environment/Life/Object/Real Life.

Thanks to the success of the Tate Modern, the town hall of London has decided to create an extension which will be like a cubist "Babel tower" ( a sort of glass Pyramid ) and will be dedicated for photography and video. It should open in 2012.

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar quare is a very famous place in Westminster in London. On this square Horatio Nelson is standing on his column guarded by 4 lion statues. This column was built after the battle of Trafalgar (1805) ,the British won this battle against the French. Horatio Nelson’s statue is standing at the top of the column because he died during the battle. A legend says that the lion statues were made with the hull of the French ships. Today people come there to eat sandwiches or to feed the pigeons, it’s a social place!

Text by Athénaïs Risch

The Angry Emu

The koala and the emu


A long time ago during the Dreamtime, the koala was the fastest animal of Australia. He was the fastest animal of all the tropical forest. One day, a new animal came: an emu. He came from the desert. Very early the koala wanted to run with the emu because he ran very fast.
One day, the koala met the emu to invite him to run with him and the emu accepted. The next day, lots of animals from the forest were present to see that. The race began and the koala and the emu started very fast. During the race, they crossed lots of mountains, rivers, hot desert and one tropical forest. Near the end of the race, the koala took a secret passage, but the emu saw him... At the finishing line, the emu hit the koala with his beak and paralized the koala for all his life.
This is why today ….guess !!!

By Thibaut and Rodrigue.

Voyage linguistique en Australie avril 2009

N'oubliez pas de visiter le super site web sur l'échange à : http://echange.australie.free.fr/
	Programme Echange - Strasbourg Sud / Gold Coast du 8 au 30 avril 2009
Mer 8 avril	Rendez-vous collège Erstein à 16h Bus pour aéroport de Francfort départ 16h30 Vol Qantas QF6 23h55
Jeu 9 avril	Arrivée Singapore 18h 00. Départ 21h 25 Vol Qantas QF52
Ven 10 avril	Arrivée Brisbane à 06h 50 Transfert en bus à Surfer's Paradise (arr vers 9h00)
Sam 11 avril	En famille
Dim 12 avril	En famille
Lun 13 avril	En famille
Mar 14 avril	En famille
Mer 15 avril	Sortie Byron Bay et Currumbin Wild Life Sanctuary
Jeu 16 avril	En famille
Ven 17 avril	En famille
Sam 18 avril	En famille
Dim 19 avril	Excursion facultative avec les familles en forêt tropicale
Lun 20 avril	Sortie Wet and Wild avec les correspondants
Mar 21 avril	Ecole avec les correspondants
Mer 22 avril	Ecole avec les correspondants. Cross country Benowa.
Jeu 23 avril	Excursion à Brisbane
Ven 24 avril	Ecole avec les correspondants. Anzac. Soirée d'adieu.
Sam 25 avril	En famille
Dim 26 avril	En famille
Lun 27 avril	Ecole avec les correspondants
Mar 28 avril	Vol JQ403 Jet Star. Départ Coolangata 8h20. Arrivée Sydney 9h40. Visites Sydney
Mer 29 avril	Visite Australian Museum Sydney. Départ 15h50 vol Qantas QF5 pour Francfort
Jeu 30 avril	Arrivée Francfort à 06h 00 Transfert en bus à Erstein (arr prévue vers 9h30- 10h00)

A film we saw, by Athénaîs and Margot.

No Man's Land

SYNOPSIS : In 1993, during the war of Bosnia, two ennemies, a Bosnian and a Serbian soldier, Ciki and Nino, both fall in a No Man's Land. Before that, Nino and another Serbian soldier had put down a Bosnian body on a mine. But the trapped soldier is not dead. Ciki and Nino try to find a solution.
At the same time, a member of the Blue Helmets try to help them, even if his superiors forbids it to him. Some international journalists go on place and try to transform this news item into a media show.The hatred between the two soldiers doesn't cease augmenting.
The superiors of the FORPRONU decide finally to send a mine clearence expert. But he can't do anything.
Ciki and Nino go out of the trench and, using inattention of the Blue Helmets, kill each other. The journalists and the FORPRONU left the place, and let the trapped soldier alone on his mine...


THE FILM : realised by Danis Tanovic in 2001, "No Man's Land" has accepted the "palme d'or" of the best scenario the same year. One of the feature of the film is the languages spoken : the serbocroate, the french, the english, and a little bit of german. It's a hard film, but it's especially very true !

Altough it was a sad film, we both enjoyed it ! =)
Athénaïs & Margot.

Films we saw.

The grave of the fireflies


This story takes place in Japan in 1945, near Kôbe. A teenager, Seita, dies in a station. His spirit meets again his little sister, called Setsuko, who died during the war in the pacific.
The two spirits travel in the past, and go back just before the 2nd World War when bombs destroyed their house and their city, and when their mother died. As their mother was dead, they had to go to their aunt to eat and sleep, but she wasn’t very nice with them, so they didn’t like her.
Finally, they decided to live alone and to go to a deserted shelter, near a river. But one day, as they didn’t have food enough, Setsuko fell seriously sick. That’s the reason why Seita went to the bank and asked for his mother’s savings in order to buy healthy food for his sister. But he didn’t manage to care for her, and she died.


C’est l’histoire de Seita et Setsuko, deux esprits revenant dans le passé au moment de la guerre qu’ils ont vécu...


• Opinions :

>Frédéric :
I think that the film was sad, but boring because there’s no action, I didn’t like the film very much.

>Marion :
For me, this film was interesting because it talked about the war in the Pacific. But it was also sad, when Seita’s mother and his sister died.

Happy new year from Sylvain

Hello everybody !!!

During my holiday I was not at home but in “Tenerife” a beautiful Island next to Spain. It was very hot and sunny. There I went to Los Gigantes which is a big town with it famous cliff. It was very beautiful. During Christmas day, I went to the see “black beach “(it is called like that because the sand is black, it is volcanic sand). At midday I had lots of things like fish, chips, and lots of vegetables, cheese, gully and fruits.
And you what did you do during the holiday?
Finally I wish you a Happy New Year!!!

Sylvain