BARÇA 2-0 MANCHESTER UNITED

Last night, Barça won the Champions League versus Manchester United.
The result was 2-0. Eto'o and Messi scored the goals.
Barça is a Catalan team. This year it has won the league, the Royal Cup and the Champions League.
Three years ago, Barça won the League and the Champions League with Frank Rijkard as the coach, but one year later Barça didn't win anything.
Now the trainer is Pep Guardiola, a formen Catalan Barça player and he's a good trainer.
Barça is a team that all people carry in the heart. It's the best team in the world.
Wednesday, 27th May is a date that everybody will remember because Barça won the third Campions League.

Laia Gràcia
Claudia Argemí
Georgina Capdevila
Xènia Cortés
Roger Parareda.

FCB WON THE "TRIPLET"

Barça won the Royal cup in the 13/ 5 /09. The national league cup in 16/ 5 /09 and de champions in the 27/5/09.

The barça is the only spanish team that has got the "triplete", 3 cups.

Yesterday, the team played the final of the Champins , Manchester VS Barça.

Some people went to see the Barça in Rome some other stayed in their town or city.

We and our friends went to Vic in the square celebrate the victory of the Champions.

There was a giant screen to watch the football match.

A lot of people celebrated the team throwing banger and fireworks and drinking.

It was one unforgettable night.

Marc Rovira,Ian,Roger Barnils

BARÇA CAMPIÓ!

FCBarcelona is the best in the world. The coach is Pep Guardiola, a former football player of the team.
It has won three cups: The Royal Cup, the National League and Champions League. Moreover, it beat its eternal rival (Real Madrid) winning the match 2 - 6 in the Bernabeu Stadium.
We celebrated the victory in the town square, everybody was wearing Barça's T-shirts and scarves and Catalan flags.

FORÇA BARÇA! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Gerard, Oriol, Aida, Sandra, Montse, Alejandro, Damià, Yousra, Xevi.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!

Yesterday, the best football team, the Barcelona Football Club, won the Champions. This is a big comptetition where the best teams of Europe participate.
Barcelona played against Manchester United. Manchester won the Champions last year.
It was a really exciting match, in the first ten minutes we thought we were going to lose, but then, Barça started playing better and we finally won. The result was 2 -0.
During the celebration there weren't any Spanish flags, there were only Catalan flags.
Everybody went out to celebrate the victory, it wasn't a usual celebration because BFC has won the three cups: The National league, the Royal Cup and the Champions.
We ARE THE BEST AND THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD!!!!

Ariadna, Núria, Júlia, Bruna, Marçal, Ferrran, Nil, Guillem, Ariadna. 3er B.

St. Georges Day

St. George's Day - April 23rd

St. George's day is celebrated in and around Catalonia. It has been celebrated since 1436. St. George is the patron Saint of Catalonia.

In Catalonia St. George's day coincides with the Fair of the Book and of the Rose. On this day every man offers a rose to his loved one (wife or fiancée), and in return she gives him a book. The book is in memory of Cervantes. This custom was started in 1926, to commemorate Cervantes death (author of "Don Quixote").

In almost every Catalan town main streets are lined with stalls selling books of all shapes and sizes. Some other stalls sell roses.

In the city of Barcelona there is also an exhibition of roses in the patio of the Palace of the Autonomous Government as a symbol of the arrival of Spring.

The Legend. The 23rd April is a date that has always been linked, either directly or indirectly, to literature and popular traditions. The Catalan knights that set off towards the Orient could never have guessed the repercussions that their tales would have with relation to a local saint: St. George. Later the tale would be changed to fit in with the medieval traditional Knight in shining armor fighting evil. The legend that was born is infamous: St. George fighting the wicked dragon that held the princess captive. Finally St. George kills the dragon and on the spot where the dragons blood was spilled a rose grew as a symbol of love and friendship. But what has really given importance to this date is that it is now considered to be the "World Book Day" . Thanks to the insistence of Antoni de Bofarull among others, the literary competitions were revived in Catalonia in 1859. It was from then on that there began to appear new authors and ideologists and there was an important increase in the number of newspapers published as well as political and ideological works. After the interruption of the "Jocs Florals" because of the Civil War they began to become very popular again from 1978 on. The idea of these annual literary competitions was basically to stimulate young people to cultivate and take a delight in the Catalan literature and language. Ever since then this tradition has been celebrated and is actually one of the most important in Catalonia, it has gradually spread to the Spanish language and also to the English language. In 1996 this Catalan tradition became an International one, taking one step more towards the unification of peoples all over the world, even the mythical rose was given in the United States, Japan and France as well as other countries when a book was bought.

Why this date? April 23rd was not only famous because of the legend of St. George, but also because it is the anniversary of the death of two great writers:: CERVANTES and SHAKESPEARE. These grand writers have passed into history for their great works, becoming an important symbol in their respective countries. One way of acknowledging the work of these genii was to name this date as being the Book Day, and so it happened like that. On 23rd April books are sold in the streets on long stalls prepared specially for the grand occasion. Many people take advantage of this day, even though they may not normally be regular readers, to buy and enjoy a book. It is one way of encouraging people to read. This is also a popular date to launch new novels onto the market and many authors take advantage of the fact in order to promote their latest book. Last, but not least, there is nothing nicer than lovers exchanging a book and a rose.

EASTER HOLIDAYS

Tomorrow is the last school day of this second term; we start our Easter holidays and we won't be back until Tuesday 14th April.

One of the most popular Easter traditions in Catalonia is that on Easter Sunday; the Godfather gives his Godchild "La Mona", an Easter Egg or cake.

Easter usually falls at the end of March, beginning of April, but since Christmas the bakers and confectioners have been planning how they can outdo their last year efforts. Chocolate sculptures representing Disney characters, football idols, etc. adorn the shop windows as each shopkeeper tries to make his display the biggest and the best in order to attract the children's attention as they go past.
Most of the cakes and sculptures are decorated with coloured feathers, chocolate eggs, fluffy chicks, etc. and each year about 500,000 "monas"are eaten in Catalonia.

Have a good time and take care!!

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