From "Polar lights" authors

Hello, our friends from Argentina!

We are Yulianna, Zhanna & Anastasia. We are authors of “Polar Lights” newsletter. Thank you very much for your letters and pictures. We are pleased to know that you liked our newsletter. We are on holidays now. So we are going to work on issue 2 in September. And we will send it to you, of course.
Hope to hear from you again!

Best wishes,

Yulianna, Zhanna & Anastasia.

Tatiana to Micaela Cavenatti

Hello, Micaela Cavenatti.

It's Tatiana again. It was interesting for me to read your letter.
I have a small family, only my parents and me. I don’t have sisters and brothers. 
My favorite  sport is gymnastics. Handball is not popular here.  My best friend is Elsa but she isn't my classmate.
Our summer vacation will begin tomorrow! Hurray!
Next time I am going to write more.

Best wishes,

Tatiana.

Our names are Florencia and Brenda. We are from Murphy (a small town near "La Chispa").We are in fourth year at secondary school.
Our favourite music is pop and reagge. Listening to music is our hobby!
We love going out with our friends.We usually go to the park on Sunday afternoon and we have "mate"there.
At school, classes are from 7 am to 1 pm.We have different subjects during the morning. We have subjects such as: Maths, Bilogy, History, Engli, Tics and so on...We like Geography because we work with maps and we  learn about different places in the world.

I have got a big fmily...Imagine... we are 9 sisters (Brenda).
My family is quite small,I live with my brother and my sister.

Best wishes,
 Flor and Bren.

My name is Micaela Cavenatti. I am seventeen years old and I'm from Argentina! I'm in 4th year at secondary school. I also have got a big family: six sisters!!!  How mony brothers or sisters have you got? We didn't know that Russian families weren't big. I like Cumbia Music (popular music in Argentina.)
I also like going out with my friends on Saturday night.My favourite sport is handball, and yours? We play hand ball at school in P.E.
My best friend is Micaela Rucci, one of classmates at school.

 Read you soon...
Micaela.

P.S.: When do you start your summer holidays? Will you continue working with the blog and with your newsletter? Let us know...
Love!

Hi friends!

My name is Juan Manuel Rucci and I  am 16 years old. My favorite music is pop and rock. My favorite sport is football and tennis. I love playing football with my friends.  And yours? Do boys like playing football in your country? Here in Argetina football is a popular sport and all children play it.My favorite football team is River Plate.  My bestfriend is Nicolas.
 My town is small. I live with my family in the countryside. So we commute to school every day. =)

Goodbye dear friends!

Hi everybody!!

We have been reading all your letters. They are so interesting and we have learnt a lot about your country and your culture.
We also read your newsletter...it seemed that you worked really hard in order to publish it!!! We enjoyed reading all the news because we consider it's away to know more about you and your school. Is the woman who appeared in the interview your school's headteacher? Why did you decide to make her the interview?

In the next post, Luciano ( a student from fifth year) is going to tell you something about our national film-maker and one of his famous film. This film won an Oscar award last year. We felt so proud about it.

Read you soon!!!!
Students from Argentina

Hi, dear friends from Argentina!
I`m writing you again – Zhanna. It was really interesting to read your last letters. I`ve got a lot of new about you. And I can say that I was quite surprised having read in the letters that you have so many sisters and brothers because usually there are only  2children or even 1  in Russian families. For example, I`m the only child but nevertheless I`m very glad and I need no one else. Just don`t think that I`m selfish and naughty.
Well, as for my last news I`m gonna visit Spain in July,  the resort town of Salou. I believe the trip will be something really great and unforgettable. By the way, I`ve been there (I mean Spain), when travelling around Europe. During the journey I also visited France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland and Check Republic. I was so impressed and, especially, I liked Spain. Foreign culture, traditions and art interest me very much. Most of all I like architecture. It really takes my breath away. I hope Spain will bring me the same happiness again and I`ll tell you about all my impressions in September.
Hope to here from you as soon as you can.
Best wishes,
Zhanna

P.S. In this picture you can see me (on the right) together with my best friend Kristina (on the left).

To Pilar, Melisa and Micaela from Kirill

Hi, Girls! Thanks a lot for your letters and pictures!

I was glad to hear your replies for my letter. I've found in the internet Mendoza’s photos and I was deeply impressed with beautiful sights and the landscape. I like mountains, especially when I can ride on a snowboard or ski. I'm going to tell you about my summer later, perhaps, in August.

Hope to hear from you again! 

Best wishes,

Kirill 

Yulia to Argentina

Hi, dear friends from Argentina!
My name is Julia. I’m from Nefteugansk, Russia.   I want to tell you about our place. We live in a small town. We have very bad climate here. Even in the summer it`s sometimes snowing. We have  very cold and snowy winters and sometimes there is nothing else to do besides sitting at home.
One day my friend and I watched a program about snowboarding and we were very interested in it. We read all sorts of articles in the Internet and bought snowboards. And now I have been doing this sport for 3 years.  As in other extreme sports there are injures sometimes and I had a bruised spine. But nothing serious happened. What sports do you prefer? Do you ski in resorts there?

I look forward to your response and hope that someday I will visit your country.
Best wishes,
Julia.
P. S. You can see me in this picture, I'm in a coloured jacket just in the centre.

Hi, my dear friends! It's Seva again. I'd like to know if you have watched my video. If not yet I'm going to add it here now. Perhaps you would like to watch it though it's in Russian.
Best wishes,
Seva

To our friends from Tatiana

Dear friends from Argentina!
My name is Tatiana. I live in a small town and I wanna to leave it because I was in  Berlin, Germany and I liked it there. It is a very beautiful and modern city; there is a lot of modern architecture because many historic buildings were destroyed during the World War II. I love this country. I like its culture, language and art. In this picture you can see me in Germany. I was very surprised because there was no snow in winter. In my city the temperature can drop to -30 degrees Celcius below zero in winter! It is considered a normal temperature for our climate.
I'm interested in your country but I know little about it. And your language is very beautiful. I only know a few words in Spanish. I want to get to know about your culture. I would like you to advise me your national writers, poets, interesting film-makers and musicians. I would be very grateful if you do that.
I`m looking forward to a letter from you as soon as possible.
Best wishes,
Tatiana.

From Diana to everybody

Hello dear  friends from Argentina!
My name is Diana and I’m from Russia. I am a student of  teacher Valentina. I realy enjoy reading the letters in the blog. I think we also can write to each other and it can be interesting. In one of the letters your teacher Melina wrote about the teachers’ strike. We’d like to know what was the result! Teachers here have never been on a strike.
I want to tell you about our city of Nefteugansk, though, it’s really not a city but a town. Its population  is  one hundred and twenty thousand people. The climatic  conditions in Nefteugansk  are rather extreme. It is the area with sharp-continental climate and is characterized  by long severe winters and short summers.
Eagerly waiting for  your  reply,
Diana

Hi friends!

We are very happy to join you in the blog. We are students from fourth year and we are new in the blog. We read all your older letters and we are very interested to continue this project. Here we will post new pics and letters.

 My name is Micaela and my surname is Rucci. I am eighteen years old. I have got 2 brothers, their names are Juan Manuel and Ignacio. And I have one sister, her name is Valentina (as your teacher's name).
Juan Manuel (my older brother) is my classmete at school. We are together in the classroom but we are not twins.
My birtday is on July 9th.
I like going out whit my friends, specially on Saturday night.
I live in the country, I have got 2 cats and and a dog.(It's a kind of farm). My favourite subjects at school are English and Biology. My hobby is listening to music. I love having ice-creams in summer...My best friend is Micaela, one of my classmates.

Best wishes,

Micaela

Hello dear friends!

My name is Melisa Lucero. I'm in 4th year at 552 school.

The town where I live is very small!! That's why I was really surprised when I saw pics of your town. The photos are wonderful!

I like listening to music. Here in Argentina we listen to "cuarteto" music (kind of popular music played in groups of four people).

I live with my family in a house near my school.

I've got three sisters and two brothers!

I look forward to your new letters.

Cheers!

Meli...

Hello... It's me again:  Pilar Galvan. I am 19, I´m in fifth year at school.
 I like listening to pop music, what about you? Could you tell us a famous pop group from your country?Do you like dancing?
I like playing sports, my favorite is Handball... I love animals, specially my dogs: "HOMERO and DOMINGO"  My family is quite big, I have got 4 brothers: Gonzalo, Macarena, Romina, and Joaquin and I have 6 nephews... This year, I finish secondary school. So my classmates and I are organising a kind of project in order to help and colaborate with people from the twon.We are working hard to achieve it!
Love from Argentina,

Pilar.

To our friends in Argentina from Yana

Hi  Pilar, and all our friends from Argentina!

This is Yana again. Pilar, it was interesting to read your letter and I'd like to ask you  some questions.

Is Mendoza a resort town? I have never gone skiing, I think that it is very interesting and we can get a lot of adrenaline. In our city there is a ski resort "Stone Point" where you can also go skiing and  do other various winter sports. When I was younger, my parents brought me there and we spent our time very well there!

Dear friends! I and all my classmates look forward to your answers!

Best wishes,

Yana!

Hi, dear Argentinean friends!

My name is Ann. I’m a student of teacher Valentina. I like reading your letters in the blog.

I’ve heard that your teachers had a strike. Were you glad about it? Did you support them? What was the result?

I like cinema very much, but I don’t know Argentinean cinematograph. Can you tell me about it? Can you advice me something to watch? What movies are popular in your country? What should I watch to learn more about your country? Recently I watched the film about your compatriot Ernesto Che Guevara. I was very impressed with the life in Latin America at the time. Tell me about famous Argentinean actors and directors.

In addition to the cinema I like to read books. What would you like to do in your spare time?

I look forward to your reply.

Best wishes,

Ann

P.S. It’s the photo of myself. You know, one of my hobbies is to take pictures using a film camera not a digital one. This picture is an example of it. I would be glad to watch your photos too!

HELLO DEAR FRIENDS!!

We were reading your last letters and watching your pictures...
They are so nice and interesing. For us, it is also very surprising that your summer holidays are in June. KIRILL: How interesing your plans for your holidays!
Here, the students usually go on holidays to the mountains or to the beach.. We have beautiful lanscapes in the south as well as in the north of our country.
Here we post a photo of Pilar, one of the students, during her holidays in a famous Argentinian city: Mendoza. People usually go to Mendoza in winter because you have wonderful places for skiing.

We hope you like our landscapes!!!
Love,
Pilar and the students.

Dear friend!
    My name is Seva. I am 16. I would like to tell you a little about me. I live in the city of Nefteyugansk. Today I want to tell you about one beautiful day. This is the day when I decided to shoot a video about my mother. I don't know why I decided to make a video on this very day, but I knew exactly what I must do this. My younger brother helped me to make the video.
    Shooting does not take a lot of time. When I finished my video, I decided that it should be seen not only by my friends and relatives, but also by other people. Now with the help of the YouTube site, you too can appreciate my creation. Here is the address of the site     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhCQmv0H8kQ
   I heard so many nice words. Everybody liked my idea. But still more important for me was to hear the opinion of my mother. Since it was she who inspired me to this video. To my surprise, I saw my mother's tears. They were tears of happiness. For me it was the best of all praise. And the words weren't needed to understand what she was proud of me. Then, having calmed down, she told me a lot of warm and pleasant words.
     And what are your hobbies? Perhaps you too are fond of the same things as I dd. I would like to read a letter from you very much . I wait for your stories with impatience.
     Your friend from Russia,
      Seva

   Hi, my dear pen friends!

   My name is Kirill and I’m writing you from a little town inWwest Siberia – Nefteugansk. In my letter I want to tell you about my plans for this summer.
   Every person waits for summer holidays, which in Russia last from June till the end of August. And the first part of June I will spend in Nefteugansk, because some of my friends study in 11 class and  pass exams, after that they will disperse to different cities of our country to study in universities.
   In the second part of June I will visit the capital of my country – Moscow. I love this city for its historical sights, big trade centers, skyscrapers and a great amount of people. And from this city I will fly in  the United Kingdom. I will live in host family in Eastbourne for a month. This sweat time I will spend in interesting chatting with different people and developing my communicative skills.
    In the end of July I want to get to summer camp on the shore of the  Black sea. I was in this camp last summer and with my team made a lot of economics and social projects. And in this summer we want to have a rest! No work in summer time!!)
   I wish that this summer would give me a mass of good impressions and energy, which will help me to pass exams next year and enter the university.
   I want to ask you some questions. How do you usually spend your summer/winter holidays? Would you visit us in the nearest future? May we meet some of your in July this summer in London?  
    Hope to hear from you soon,
    Best wishes,
    Kirill.

Hi, Melina and the students!
Today we are going to add some letters to the blog. And, of course, we are looking forward to having your letters and pictures!
Valentina and the students

Hi, dear friends!

My name is Yana, I`m 16 years old. I study at a secondary school in the 10th form. I want to tell you about one day of my life, it`s my friend’s birthday.
On Sunday, the 29^th of April, my friends and I celebrated the birthday of our dear friend Katy. Specially for her, I and my friends had a party in Hawaiian style. I liked it very much , because it was unforgettable. It was very interesting to prepare decorations, food and different contests, costumes, regarding that she knew nothing. On her birthday she wanted to get the car and we baked a cake like a car in which our present was hidden. She was very surprised.

I want you to tell me about your unusual birthday. How and where did you celebrate it? Which of the holidays are very popular in your country? What unusual gift was presented to you?

Look forward to your answer,
Yana!

Hello,
My name is Masha, I’m 16 years old. As you know I live in Nefteugansk, Russia.   It’s a very small town,  but it’s nice. We have some places to go out. What about your town?
For me it was awesome to know that your summer holidays are in December, January and February, because in our country they are winter month .
May you tell me about your country and some unusual traditions?
Do you like reading? What kind of books do you like? As for me, it’s my favorite hobby, but I have so little time for it. My last book which I've read is “War and Pease ” by Leo Tolstoy, Russian famous writer. It’s really good, but it is so hard page-turner.
And also I like art. I think that Salvador Dali is the best artist all over  the world! What about you? Which artists do you like?
So, my lesson is over, I should go. Look forward to your letter!
Best wishes,
Masha