Halloween

Tonight is the night
When dead leaves fly
Like witches on switches
Across the sky,
When elf and sprite
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen.

Tonight is the night
When leaves make a sound
Like a gnome in his home
Under the ground,
When spooks and trolls
Creep out of holes
Mossy and green.

Tonight is the night
When pumpkins stare
Through sheaves and leaves
Everywhere,
When ghouls and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen.
It’s Halloween.

Last wednesday, Farrah, a exchange student of america, took part at our english-lesson. She is 22 years old, from Maryland and a only-child. Maryland is near Washington DC. Her hobbies are listening to music and watching movies. One of her favourite singer is Johnny Cash and one of her favourite movie is Fight Club.

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In the 19th century, companies started advertising for novelties and fringe products. Later, brand-naming became necessary because more and more companies were launched.

From 1873 to 1894, there was an economic depression. Many companies connected with other small companies to increase advertising, because they had to present there new range of products.

At the end of the 19th century, there was a man who is called Lord Leverhulme. He branded his soap because there were so many rivals.

Lord Leverhulme was also the first one who realised that advertisement needs more than a presentation of a product. Advertisement should be eye-catching and should contain logical and considered arguments. The companies who are not able to advertise are the victims of the big companies.

Our trip to italy

1. day:

On monday, the 17th of Mai, we started travelling by bus to italy. On the way, we stopped two times for going to toilets, eating something or buying something to drink. After 6 hours travelling by bus, we stopped in Udine for sight seeing. Then we continiued the trip to Bibione. After arriving in Bibione, we marched in our mobil-homes, changed our clothes and ran to the beach. Dinner was at 19:00 o'clock. After dinner, we went in the citiy bibione for eating and drinking something.

2. day:

At 7 o'clock, we had to grow up because breakfast was at 7:30. After the breakfast, we went to Venice. In Venice, we had to do a little quiz about the town. Answering the question was very difficult and in addition, it was very very hot. After trip we relaxed on the beach and after the dinner, we relaxed on our terace.

3. day:

Wednesday was the first official sport-day of our trip. In the morning, we did archery and in the evening, we rided our bike and had a picnic. The rest of the day, we spent time on the beach and played beachsoccer. It was very funny. At night, we spent most of the time in the disco near our mobile-homes.

4. day:

The fourth day was the last full day in Bibione. For lunch, we went to a village near bibione. After that, there were three tournaments on the beach, on which we took part. Most of the girls played beach-volleyball, most of the boys played beachsoccer and some people played "Botcha". Then we relaxed on the beach, like every day. After dinner, we went in the town for drinking something.

5. day:

The last day of our trip. After breakfast, we started travelling home. I think everybody was a little bit sad because we left this beautiful place.

All in all, it was a very nice week.

Environment and Pollution

Today, Yvonne Stitz, Magdalena Kiesenhofer and Bianca Danninger did a presentation about Environment and Pollution. The title of the presentation was "Let's go green".

Now i would like to tell you something concerning the topic.

One of the most important parts of the presentation was climate change because it effects all of us. To my mind, we can't stop the climate change anymore, only reduce it. The three girls also told us something about the global warming. Many scientists all over the worlds study the global warming and why climate is changing. One reason is pollution and another reason is the destruction of the rainforest, but as I wrote before, we are unable to stop the global warming and so the climate change.

If all nations on the whole world work together, we will be able to do something against the climate change. All in all, environment is an interesting topic which concerncs each living organism on the planet.

I recently read an article on the online version of share-christmas.com and it talks about the different traditions at chrismas in every country of the world.Basically what the text says is that christmas trees aren't everywhere.

Now i would like to tell you something about three countries and their christmas tree traditions.In Europe, most people take a tree to symbolize the rebirth of Jesus. The fir tree is being decorated on december the 24th for the holy evening.In Agypt, most people take palm trees to show the life triumphs against the death.The Americans have the same tradition like in Europe, they take also a fir tree and decorate them but sometimes they exaggerate.

To my mind, fir trees will be beautyful if you don't exaggerate with the decoration. Finally, I couldn't imagine to have a palm tree in the house.

Werner and Christian

number 17(cat.nr. Christian)
What decoration is usually put on the top of Christmas trees in America?
The Americans put an angel onto the top of the fir tree!

Press Review

I read an article the other day on Austrian Times and it talks about Sat 1 Austria.

I thought you might be interested because you may watch the TV-channel Sat1.

Basically what it says is that the television-channel has the top market share since the football-night on september the 17th of 2009. It is said that 406.000 people had watched the second half of the Europa League between Rapid Vienna and Hamburger SV (3-0). The match was broadcasted live by Sat 1 Austria.
Before Sat 1 Austria cut the record, the television-channel RTL held the world record with 634.000 viewers, who watched "Wer wird Millionär".

What surprised me most is the fact that the match of two not so famous teams had the biggest number of viewers and for example not the champions league final 2008 between Manchester United and Barcelona (0-2).

To my mind, Sat 1 Austria is going to increase there market share because of the replay between this two teams.

I've chosen this topic because today is the replay in Hamburg.


Article on austriantimes.com


Words:

to broadcast (übertragen) - The TV-channel broadcasted the football-match.
to cut a record (den Rekord brechen) - Usain Bolt cut the world-record.