CHRISTMAS IN JAPAN
Most Japanese are fairly ignorant about Christmas, just as most North Americans are fairly ignorant about the Japanese New Year holiday. (Our first Christmas we bought a small evergreen arrangement for a tiny "Christmas tree" only to find out later it was a traditional Japanese religious decoration for the New Year!)
But there is a certain kind of Christmas here in Japan. Let me describe it a little.
At the end of November merchandising heralds the onset (onslaught?) of the season. Santa's show up in some advertising and Christmas carols can be heard in stores. (In English!) Also advertisements appear for special Christmas eve and Christmas day hotel & restaurant dinners and shows, generally with a strong romance theme. More and more Christmas lights are going up each year (probably a thousand per cent increase in the seven years we've been here) on stores and at malls, though I've seen few if any on private homes.
Christmas trees (artificial --- there is no live Christmas tree market) however, have begun to appear in the occasional home, and can be bought in big department stores. Santa does not yet appear in person, only as an advertising foil. And the airwaves are not clogged with TV specials.
There are two special Japanese Christmas customs:
First, the Daiku, or Great Nine, which refers to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This is traditionally performed in many places at Christmas time (though probably as much in conjuction with the New Year), sometimes with huge massed choruses for the famous part with what American Christians sing as a hymn --- Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.
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CHRISTMAS IN SPAIN
In Spain it is to very festive Time AT Christmas. On Christmas Eve, ace the stars eats out, tiny oil lamps plows lit in every house, and to after Midnight Mass and Christmas Dinner, streets fill with dancers and onlookers. There is to special Christmas dances called the Jota and the words and music have been handed down for hundreds of years. They dances to the sound of guitars and castanets. Children think of the Three Wise Man ace the gift bearers. Tradition there are it that they arrive on January 6th, the dates the Wise Men gave gifts to Jesus. Shoes plows filled with straw or for barley the tired camels that must carry to their riders through the busy night. By morning the camel food is gone and in pleases of the straw or barley plows presents. Shoes also may be you please on balconies on the night of the 6th January in the hope that the Wise Men will fill them with gifts. Most homes have to manger, like cathedrals and churches. These plows completes with carved you appear
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DRACULA

Due to some novels and film versions of Drácula, much people think that Stoker based its personage on an historical figure: Vlad Draculea, known like the Empalador (Sods), and in legend of vampires that circulated in Eastern Europe. Sods lived in century XV and were prince of Valaquia, that formed with Moldavia the kingdom of Rumania. He is a hero in his earth, by the ferocious resistance that opposed the advance of the Ottomans. Nevertheless, he was extremely cruel with his enemies, to whom it condemned the capital punishment of empalamiento. There is no indication, however, that it drank blood, like the vampires, nor never some with the vampirismo was associated to him of form. The Drácula name comes from Dracul (of the Latin "draco", dragoon), with which was known its father, who integrated the Order of the Dragoon, founded by Sacred Roman Emperor Segismundo of Luxembourg. The suffix "- to" it means "son of".

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BUSH VITS ESTONIA

Riga, 27 nov (Xinhua) -- the American president, George W. Bush, arrived the night from Monday at the airport Ulemiste de Tallin for his visit at Estonia. Bush is the first president in functions that the Baltic Sea visits this country. The brief stay in Estonia is considered as a sample of the gratefulness of the United States by the firm support of this country in the fight against the terrorism. Bush will entrevistará Tuesday with the president estonio, Toomas Ilves, and with prime minister, Andrus Ansip. The American president will in the evening go Tuesday to Riga, after finishing the visit to Estonia, and he will be entrevistará with the president of Latvia, Vaira Vike Freiberga. Bush will at night participate Tuesday in the summit of NATO, where it will maintain conversations with leaders of other countries of the military alliance composed of 26 members.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
High Musical School is the phenomenon of the year between teens of the United States. A positive plot, sticky songs, youthful energy and a tremendous trade have done of this film of the Disney Channel exitazo. It films broke all the records from his original transmission the 20 of January. With its repetitions already they have seen it more than 26 million viewers, while the sound track arrived at the first places of the Top 10 Hits, for weeks and weeks the subject "Breaking Free" ' between the simple ones more was sold according to Billboard, a 45% of its sales has been by Internet in iTunes and to top it all, another cybernetic profit: the film became the first largometraje that is sold in the store of iTunes. The DVD on sale left the 23 May. It films is sending to the estrellato to his protagonists, the young actors relatively unknown Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hutchinson

HALLOWEEN

It does some thousands of years, the Celtas was in which now we know like the Great Britain and France, and celebrated the New Year the 1 of November, that is that began at night with the subject from the 31 of October. But, incomprehensible thing, is not emborrachaban! as it is now custom (that occasion waste...), but that took it with much seriousness, and their priests dedicated the night to Samhain, the horseman of the death. Great bonfires ignited; horses and, some times, until humans were sacrificed to drive away to the witches and the malignant spirits; then it is that in the Celta custom the deads returned, at night from Samhain, to request foods to the provincial scared ones to those who victims cursed and did of their spells if they did not accede to his requests (or it give me or I do a prank to you, that is the translation of "Trick or Treat").

THE INTERNET

The internet is a highway of information that affects the world and our daily lives.You will find all the information you can imagine on the internet.In 1964 Paul Baran an idea for a computer communications network with no central authority and with information that was easily accessible to everbody.

E-TWINNING

We are making vidiocomferencias we spoke with estones we sent letters to him we spoke of valence of its celebrations of its we spoke abaut games him to him of like us to gone the summer.
E-twinning is an aid of all Europe to speak with others niñaos/as of others paises to learn others idiomas.Me it affluent step.

ESTONIA

Located in the northeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, Estonia limits with the Gulf of Finland by the north, with the Russian Federation by the east and with Latvia by the south. The estoniano landscape is of origin glacier, with numerous lakes and rivers. It has more than 1,500 lakes, greater of which they are the Peipsi (the quarter of Europe by its size) and the Vorts. The forests constitute 38% of the territory; the greater elevation is the mountain Suur Muna Magi (317 M.s on the level of the sea). The climate is tempered, with average temperatures of 28º C in summer and around -5º C in winter. The coast on the Baltic Sea counts on 1,240 km of extension and several fiords. Around one tenth part of the territory of Estonia it is constituted by 1,500 islands near the coast of the Baltic Sea. The Gulf of Finland has numerous free ice bays, of which Tallinn is the greater one. The main resources of the subsoil are the bituminous schists (that supply most of the power necessities of Estonia) and the phosphates. From the farming activity meat is obtained, vegetables, Popes, and cereals. Estonia has in addition an important fishing industry, although it has had to leave out to sea, due to the originating contamination of the spill of industrial toxic remainders on the part of diverse border countries whose coasts are bathed by the Baltic Sea. It does not exist in Tallinn, nor in other smaller cities, a suitable system of treatment of served waters.

Town: estonios, 64.2%; Russians, 28.7%; ucranianos, 2.65%; bielorrusos, 1.5%; others (letones, etc.), 3.3% (1998). Religion: luterana (majority), orthodox, baptist. Languages: estonio (official) and Russian, majority. Political parties: Party of the Center of Estonia; Union Pro Mother country, conservative; Reform party; Popular Moderate party, social democrat; Party of the Coalition of Estonia, liberal; Popular party of Estonia (of agrarian base); United Popular party of Estonia-in pro of the interests of the Russian minority. Social organizations: Confederation of Unions of Estonia (EAKL).

Official name: Eesti Vabariik. Administrative division: 15 counties. Capital: Tallinn 397,000 hab. (1999). Other cities: Tartu 98,400 hab. ; Narva 72.100; Kohtla-Jarve 45.200; Pärnu 42,800 (2000). Government: Parliamentary republic. Arnold Ruutel, president and Chief of State, from October of 2001. Juhan Parts, prime minister and Chief of State from August of 2003. Legislative unicameral: Advice of the State (Riigikogu), 101 elect members every 4 years. National celebration: 24 of February, Independence (1918). Armed Forces: 3.510 (1997). Others: 2.000 (Coastal Guard).

GLICIA IS BURNING

During this summer a lot of old trees have burning in Galicia.All the summer happens the same thing.There is people who likes very much to burn the forest.They are people with illness that they nedd to burn anything.There are people who burns forest because they want money.

THE ATOMIC BOMB

In year 1945,in August,during the second wordl war,the usa army threw two atomic bombs over Japan.Thousand and thousand of japaneses died.Actally more people suffer illness and deformation of his body.All the years,in Japan,they remember the terrible month.And they make a ceremony for praying that never it happens the same things.

THE ACCIDENT ON VALENCIA´S SUBWAY

A heavy accident has happened in the subway. The subway on line 1 has derailment and it crashed into the subway station. Fourty three persons has died and there was a lot of injured.
The subway went at high speed. The problem is that the subway is too old and there is no money for repair it.

THE VISIT OF THE POPE IN VALENCIA

The pope visited Valencia on 8,9,10th. of July. He is the boss of catholic religion. The Valencia´s council spent a lot of money for make this visit. I´m not agree because more people aren´t catholic practitioner, and the millions of euros are necessary for poor people and for solve a lot of city´s problems.