Monday, July 16, 2007

Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix

Hello everyone!!!!!
Now I’ll tell about the new Harry Potter movie. It’s directed by David Yates. It lasts 138 minutes. But it really goes fast. It doesn’t have many things that the book told. But however it was good.

It starts when Harry and Dudley are attacked by dementors. So Harry makes the patronous charm. For this reason, the ministry of magic may expel Harry from Hogwarts. He manages from not getting expelled with the help of Prof. Dumbledore. He also goes to number thirteen Grimmuald Place (Headquarters of the order of phoenix) where he sees many of his old friends and also meet new friends. Some time later they go to school. They see Luna Lovegood. There they find out that their new Defense against Dark Arts teacher is Dolores Umbridge. She works for the Ministry of Magic. As a fact she doesn’t teach them anything. So Hermione tell Harry to teach them defense against dark arts in secret. So they decide that, and many students also go. Harry teaches them many things. Some time later Harry dreams on an attack on Ron’s father. So he goes with Dumbledore to save him. Later Ron’s father gets better. In Hogwarts Harry have occulemency classes with Snape. After some time Snape refuses to give Harry those classes. Umbridge was now the high inquisitor of Hogwarts. She goes to see how teachers teach their class. She fires professor Trelawney and tells her to get out. But Dumbledore says Umbridge that she can’t get teachers out of Hogwarts. So Trelawney stays there. She also finds about Harry teaching. Then she goes with Dumbledore to complain about that. He says he told them to do that. So she is made as principal of Hogwarts and she says that Dumbledore should go to Azkaban. But Dumbledore escaped. Later the Weasley twins also went away and bid farewell with beautiful fireworks. I liked this part very much. Then Harry also dreams about Sirius asking for help. He sees as if he was in the department of mysteries in the ministry of magic. He goes to check if it’s real by calling Sirius by fire in Umbridge office. But she catches him. She thought Harry was going to talk with Dumbledore. Harry was telling that he wasn’t doing that when Hermione told yes. She said they had a weapon in the forest. She and Harry took Umbridge to the forest. They took Umbridge with Grawp. It is Hagrid’s half brother and also a giant. There some centaurs attack them but Grawp saves Harry and Hermione. Centaurs take away Professor Dolores Umbridge with them. Now Harry tells he has to go to the ministry of magic to save Sirius. But Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny and Luna say they’ll also go. So they all go there. When they reach the department of mysteries they see some type of balls. Soon they see one with Harry’s name on it and at this time they also see death eaters. One of them Lucius Malfoy tells Harry to give the ball to him. He also says it’s a prophecy. But Harry refuses to give it to Malfoy. After running for some time they get to a type of arch. Suddenly it goes black and then the death eaters have Harry’s friends. So Lucius tells Harry to give him the prophecy. Harry gives it to him. Suddenly wizards of the order of phoenix come. Lucius drops the prophecy and break it. The wizards fight against the death eaters. On this a death eater called Bellatrix Lestrange kills Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black. Then the death eaters go. Dumbledore comes and Voldemort is there. They fight each other. At that time the minister of magic and other people come. Cornelius Fudge, minister of magic is surprised about the return of the dark lord. Soon Voldemort disappears. They all return to Hogwarts and again Dumbledore takes his place as director of Hogwarts. They finish another year at Hogwarts.
I saw this movie on premiere show. It was on Thursday 12th of July at 12.00 at night. Many people were there too. I liked it very much. Hope you all also will enjoy the movie.

Friday, July 06, 2007

My Summer Holidays

Hi guys!!
In this blog, I am writing about my activities during this summer holidays.
I’m going to a basketball course in ESBAL, Escuela de Basketball Algodoneros de la Laguna (Cotton growers Basketball School of Laguna & basketball team of Torreon). We go from Monday to Friday. We start classes at 9.00 in the morning and finish at 1:30 pm. But we have a recess at 11:30 for 30 min. But from 16th to 27th July, our class is from 4 to 6 pm.
There are nearly 100 kids (5 to 16 years) in this course. One of my classmates from school is also in the course. Few of my school team mates, Karla, Paty, Andrea and Luisa are also in this summer camp. We are divided into different categories. I’m in the category of 11 and 12 years old boys and girls. Our coach is Tony. He is also my coach at the school.
We are practicing many things. We practice defense, shots and dribbling. They gave us 2 T-shirts and told us that they give us a free pass to go to all the matches that Algodoneros play. I’ve made new friends here. It is fun. I like it. Today some basketball players from the Algodoneros team came. We played a friendly match with them. Our group played just for 5 minutes as there are many groups. But we couldn’t reach them as they were very tall. However it was fun. It was very good.
From the 3rd week of July, I will attend another course in the Arocena Museum. I have already told you all that I go to the Arocena Museum on all Saturdays. I help them and I’m getting ready to be a guide in the museum.
During the evenings I just read something, draw fairies (I like to draw these very much) or watch football matches (Copa Oro, Copa America & FIFA under 20 World cup) and cartoons.
See you all soon in my next blog!!!

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Maratón 2007

Hi everyone!!!!
On Friday we had our public class. That was also the last day of school. We first sang an English song, “breaking free”. It is from the movie “High School Musical”. After that we had the maratón. It’s a competition like Quiz, questions on all subjects. We were divided into different teams. Christian Torres and Naina were in my team. There were five teams. Our team answered all questions. After that we sang the Spanish song called “no me voy” of OV7. It was good.
Finally Miss Kate and Miss Alice gave the mark sheets. After that Miss Kate announced the winner of our class House. The names of the houses are same that of Harry Potter, as Miss Kate too likes Harry Potter books and movies very much. I was in Huffelpuff. But the winner was Griffindor. Huffelpuff came in 2nd place, Slytherin in 3rd and Rawenclaw in last place. The difference between Huffelpuff and Griffindor was less than one hundred points.
Then Miss Argentina, Director of our school gave the certificates for hard work and good marks. I got the certificates of first place for good marks for all subjects both in English and Spanish. Miss Argentina also spoke of me in front of all the parents. She told that I am a very good and disciplined girl. She also told that I easily got adopted in this school. She informed others that I knew to speak many languages.
In the evening it was the 6th standard graduation. They gave the certificates and other things to the persons who finished 6th grade. In Mexico we finish primary school on 6th grade. On this occasion, there was the escolta change (escort change). My friends are in the new escort team. So I went to see that. After that we came home and I started my holidays. We celebrated my first prize in the school by seeing SIVAJI, the Boss. I liked it very much. Next day appa gave me a treat by taking us for a lunch in a big hotel. It was buffet system and I enjoyed lot of tasty food varieties.

US-Mexico TIES

Salut!!!
As the last month was special for fathers, I’m going to tell about appa’s recent project. It was an award given under United States of America-Mexico TIES program through USAID-HED. The award was given for a project appa applied with his friends. Of many projects received, just 5 projects were chosen for the award. This was announced officially in a conference at Queretaro, Mexico held between 13th and 15th June, 2007. US ambassador to Mexico announced this. There were also many people from the US and Mexico government including former US ambassador and at present, the consul of USA to the United Nations. In this project 8 of appa’s students will go to the Georgia University, US and will be work there 6 months to compete their Tesis. There are two complete fellowships for Masters Degree program at Georgia University in this project for students. Achi, thatha and everyone are happy as appa’s project was approved. I’m proud for appa’s award. Details about this project can be seen in the following link;
http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/070622UGA_Mexican_partnership_biofuel.shtml
I am writing this late, because I was busy with my school examinations during last month.