Mark your calendar

2011 THE YEAR OF WISDOM 2011

• The month of July has five Fridays five Saturdays and five Sundays.

• Also there are some very unusual dates this year ...1/1/11 11/1/11 1/11/11 11/11/11.

• Apparently these are good omens and will bring prosperity but wasn't that the same on the 8/8/8?

The dates we want to highlight are....

• 2/6/11 8pm Casa de la Juventud/ Café

• 10/6/11 7pm Prizegiving Day for the Story Competition

The Paperback Book Exchange

Here is a picture Ana sent us. Thank you Ana and our thanks to everyone at the library. You were fantastic.

We are very happy with the outcome. We exchanged lots of books. There is plenty of good reading and for any of you who would like to keep in contact, maybe we will see you on Thursday 2nd June at 8p.m. in the café of La Casa de la Juventud for our Thursday get together.

WRITE A STORY AND WIN A PRIZE - II EDITION

¡YA TENEMOS LOS GANADORES!

Estos son los resultados del jurado irlandés

Resultado Junior
Fue difícil llegar a una decisión ya que nos gustaban todos los cuentos porque eran imaginativos y emocionantes. Al final tuvimos que elegir un cuento y decidimos que Ainoa Quirce - con sólo diez años - debería ser la ganadora porque contó su cuento muy claramente y terminó muy felizmente. También destacamos la historia de Maria López Dominguez, porque describe tan bien a su príncipe y princesa que casi podíamos dibujarles.

Resultado Grupo
También era difícil elegir un ganador porque se notaba que los grupos se habían esforzado en crear su cuento. Decidimos elegir el cuento de Miguel, Marta y Cristina porque estaba lleno de aventuras en distintos países. Haría una gran película.

Resultado Senior
Todos acordamos que el premio tendría que ser para Eva Rodriguez Bartolomé por su cuento de The Happy Prince porque era original a la vez que gracioso.

Nuestra enhorabuena a todos los participantes. Nos impresionó mucho su inglés y la originalidad de los cuentos.

Nuestras felicitaciones también para Asociación Educativa Oscar Wilde por animar lazos culturales entre Irlanda y España.


Dra E.F. King en nombre del jurado irlandés


WE HAVE THE WINNERS!

Here are the results from the Irish jury

Result for Juniors
This was a difficult category to judge because we liked all the stories and thought they were very imaginative and exciting. In the end we had to choose one story and agreed that Ainoa Quirce - aged just ten - should be the winner because she told a story very clearly and it ended very happily. We also highly commend the story by Maria Lopez Dominguez because she describes her prince and princess so well that we could almost draw a picture of them.

Result for the Group Effort
Again it was difficult to choose a winner because it was clear that the groups had put a lot of effort into their stories. We decided to pick the story by Miguel, Marta and Cristina because it was full of adventures in different countries. It would make a very exciting movie.

Result for Seniors
We are all agreed that the award should go to Eva Rodriguez Bartolome for her story The Happy Prince which is both original and funny.

Our congratulations go to all who entered the competition. We were very impressed by the standard of English and the originality of the stories.

Well done also the Asociacion Educativa Oscar Wilde for encouraging the cultural and literary links between Ireland and Spain.


Dr E. F. King on behalf of the Irish jury