Apreciadas familias,

Cerramos un capítulo más, un año más, de nuestros Cursos de Idiomas Padre Manyanet y... ¡ya van 50!

Quiero agradecer desde aquí, la dedicación, la profesionalidad, el interés y el trabajo bien hecho de todos y cada uno de los Directores y Monitores de los Grupos en los diferentes países.

Así pues, con el deseo de que los objetivos propuestos se hayan cumplido, espero que se haga realidad en cada uno de vuestros hogares el ideal de San José Manyanet: que cada familia sea como la de Nazaret (“Un Nazaret en cada hogar”).

¡Que paséis en familia un feliz verano!

¡Hasta siempre!

P. Antonio Sorribes

Director

Happy summer

Recordamos los vuelos de vuelta:

Llegada al aeropuerto de  "Barcelona-El Prat" Terminal T1, a las 9:20 h de la mañana del sábado 26 de Julio, en el vuelo  AF1148.

Llegada a la estación de Madrid "AVE-Atocha" a las 17:45 h del sábado 26 de Julio

Last day shopping in Montgomery Mall

Los responsables del grupo deseamos que pasen un feliz verano en familia y descansen  mucho.

José Antonio y Miquel

Thank you Father Picazo

Last day class

Ayer se entregaron los diplomas de asistencia a los alumnos.

El segundo informe ha sido enviado ya a su domicilio por correo, a nombre del alumno.

Annapolis

Today we had some sandwiches for lunch in the vans road to Annapolis, the capital of the state of Maryland. The weather has been very hot and we sweated  a lot.

There, we had two free hours. Some of us we decided to visit the Navy and the harbour, others prefered to visit a comics shop and the rest of the group walked around the streets.

An anecdote, in 1860 president A.Lincoln only had one vote from the city of Annapolis. Funny, isn't it?

Definitely, it has been a good day visiting a nice place.

Happy Birthday Andrés!

Today we had celebrated Andrés' birthday. In the morning he brought us some cupcakes and for lunch we had a delicious birthday cake!

Then, we went to Washington  DC to visit the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. In that museum we could see all kinds of airplanes from the first Wold War and the Second World War. The other part of the museum is about the spacecrafts, planets and Space Center. In that part of the museum we could see a part of Appolo XI.

Today, it was a really good.

Nicolás Oropesa

Información viaje de vuelta

Queridas familias,

A continuación les facilitamos los datos de nuestro viaje de vuelta a España:

Llegada al aeropuerto de  "Barcelona-El Prat" Terminal T1, a las 9:20 h de la mañana del sábado 26 de Julio, en el vuelo  AF1148.

Llegada a la estación de Madrid "AVE-Atocha" a las 17:45 h del sábado 26 de Julio.


Un cordial saludo.

José Antonio y Miquel

Great Falls (Virginia)

Today we started our last week in the USA.

We had classes like every day; nevertheless one of the groups started later because 

their teacher couldn't go and they had to change the teacher again. 

After the classes, we had lunch and we had a special dessert, doughnuts. 

Then we took the van to go to the Great Falls Park in Virginia. First we went to the visitor center 

in the park to learn more information about this place and we watched a film about 

the history of the falls. 

Afterwards we went to see the falls. We had a nice walk around the forest and 

we could see wonderful views of the falls and the river. We saw the rapids which 

the river has made and all the vegetation there, so we could take beautiful photos of us 

(really different than the photos we took in New York). 

We saw a lot of insects too, some of them we had never seen before. 

We had a nice walk and we enjoyed ourselves a lot; but, finally, we have come back to

the homes of our host families or to the seminary to finish our last Monday here. 

María

Our weekend in the big apple

This weekend we went to New York city. On Friday, we arrived at 5 pm after a long coach ride in traffic and headed to our hotel (named Eurostar). As we made our way there, we walked through Wall Street gazing at all the skyscraper around us and the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange).
After unpacking our bags we went to the ferry station and took a ferry to see the Statue of Liberty. We stopped for about 20 minutes in Staten Island admiring the city and its sunset.

Then, we went to have dinner in a really small crowded street. After waiting a long while, we were able to enjoy five delicious pizzas in Adrianne's. As soon as we were all full, we returned to our hotel for a good night sleep.


On Saturday, we got up early to seize the day to the fullest. We first saw the Brooklyn bridge, visited Chinatown and little Italy. Then we went to Soho and we went to buy on Broadway which had the store all the girls dreamed about, Brandy & Melville!

Afterwards, we went to see St. Paul's chapel and the 9/11 Memorial. There we learned a lot about how all was distribuded formerly. The guides were two survivors who told us their own experinece.


When it was time for lunch, we took the metro and went to Times Square to eat and shop around as this was our free time.
Then we went to the Empire State Building where we spent some time in queues for the elevators. There, we were able to see the best sightseeing we had yet encountered. After that, we traveled up 5th Avenue shopping at Nike, New Balance and NBA store) to visit the Rockefeller center.

For dinner, we ate at a place called Stardust where we ate huge hamburguers and were entertained by the waiters singing.When we all finished, we returned to Times Square to experience it at night. We finished the day by roaming through the city in a limousine. This was a great surprise.

On Sunday, we got up early too and packed all our stuff to leave. We took the metro and visited a small part on Central Park.Then we bought our lunch and got into the bus.

I can say, that this was the most exciting and wonderful weekend ever!

Patricia Ruiloba

Thank you for your weekend summary!

Last day in NY and back to Washington

Second day in New York