Roger Schank

"Tell me and I’ll forget
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I’ll understand "

(Chinese proverb?)


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A narrative (by Aina Mir)

Summer in la Colonia de San Jordi

When I was little I used to go to la Colonia de San Jordi for the summer vacation with my parents. It was the best holiday ever. The last time that we went was when I was fourteen. I had lots of friends there because we used to go there every year. We used to go to the beach and sit by a big fire, eating, talking and listening to music. We had the time of our lives.
But the last night that we stayed there, I had a really good time. It was my fourteen birthday and we were celbrating a huge party at the beach. All my friends were there and my family too, but Pau, my boyfriend wasn’t there, so I was a bit sad and couldn’t celebrate and just be happy. So the night was ok, we laughed, sang and ate good food.
At 12 o’clock everybody started singing and my parentes brought a huge cake, it was about a meter high, and full of chocolate. But suddenly the cake exploded and Pau jumped out of the cake! I was speechless but freaking out. I was so happy that I started crying. Then he gave me a big kiss and hugged me. It was the best moment ever.

Brittle bone disease ( Narrative by Sergi Costa)

To have brittle bones is an unusual illness that makes your bones very fragile and they can easily break .
When I think about this deasease, it comes to my mind the image of my friend.

My friend is a person who likes to have all the people's attention. For this reason he always tries to stand out.

For example when something happens to him he always exaggerates...
Every time he falls down ha says that he has broken a bone.

At first people were worried about my friend: " Are you okay?.. " Did you get hurt?... " Are you injured?"...

But he did it so many times that people have started to know him and finally they don't have to worry about him: " he is a liar"... " I'm sure that he has nothing"

Last week we were skating on the street when he fell down.
He said that his shoulder was broken.

The first thing I thought was " it's a lie".

I didn't believe him...
What about you? Would you believe him? Do you think that my friend is a liar or that he has the brittle bone illness???

This question was never resolved and my friend keeps on saying every time he falls that he has broken some bone.

It's your decision to think about him as a liar or as a sick person ...

Description of a place (Lina Quiroga)

Here we have a very nice picture. It was taken in Guatavita (Colombia) and I think it's very beautiful because it shows a natural and peaceful place.

I have chosen this picture because it reminds me when I was little and my family and me used to go on holidays to the village of my sister's godfather. I used to play with my cousins and sister running back and forth across the field.

I also played with the animals they had there.

I remember that cows scared me because I saw them too big so I thought that they could hurt me, but that feeling disappeared gradually as I was growing, although now I have a feeling of respect for them.

I think the field is one of the most beautiful and perfect places to be, because you have a direct contact with nature and you can feel comfortable and relaxed as long as you are there. It's like having a break away from city and all the responsabilities that it represents.

The picture shows us a green area with montains and trees. You also can see a precious blue sky and a house in the middle of the field.

I also can say that right now it would be the perfect place to be for the students because with all this pressure of the end of the year I think it is necesary to keep an open mind and forget about stress.

Descrition of a place (Aina Mir)

SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco it is an important city for me because it reminds me lots of special moments. I went there two years ago with my parents and friends. In that trip we were eight people and we had lot of fun. First we went to LA and then we went to San Francisco, and I think all of us, if we have to choose one or the other we would choose San Francisco. It is a very nice place and I love it.

I think it is similar to Mallorca, maybe not that much similar but it has sea and a lot of coast. It is also important for people who have lived always on an island.

San Francisco has a lot of beautiful things. The city looks exactly as on the TV. The golden gate, the street cars, the slopes...
Golden Gate it the most known building and it is incredible. When you are walking on it you have the sea under you, about 220 meters. And you can see people doing exercise there. The only bad thing is there are "toll barriers” on each sides to keep away from people who want to hurl themselves of the bridge.

The street cars are like in the films. People seat inside or people who are tighted outside.The street cars' drivers most of times have to help the tourist people because you have to go on a special way. I think that street cars are a very good idea for the problem of the very steep slopes.

I also like San Francisco because there is a lot of variety and different neighborhoods and I think this type of contrasts are fun.


The picture that we can see is a San Francisco street and it’s the street with the most amount of curves in the USA. It is Lombard Street and it is a piece of the street. In a short stretch there are eight curves, and they are very pronunciated, and because of it, before you try to go down with the car, there is a sign which warm the drivers that they can't go down with vans or bigs cars because the vehicle couldn't turn.
It is a beautiful street because they have it very well cared for and clean. And it is a very colorful street.

I chose San Francisco because for me is the most beautiful place.

Description of a picture (Javier González))

If you want to see something beautiful in the world go to Argentina.
In the picture you can see the "Obelisk" which is a National Historial Monument in Buenos Aires, the capital. This monument is located in "Plaza de la República".
It´s 67,5 m high, it has a single entrance door (on the west side), there are four windows and there is a steep staircase of 206 steps with 7 landings every 6m or 8 m.




In the photo you can see the city of Buenos Aires at night and the beauty of the city. We can see also see many buildings that look quite futuristic. You can see also many trees that look alike and are quite large, and lots of lights: this is due to traffic in that area in Buenos Aires.




I have chosen this photo because it´s a place that I would like to visit in the future. I hope to go this summer because I have some relatives in Argentina that I don´t know yet. The weather in Argentina is very similar to the weather in Majorca. But while we are in spring here, they are in the opposite season there: Now it's autumn in Argentina (south hemisphere)

This picture is one of the most beautiful pictures I found of the place I want to go soon.

Description of a picture (Carol Pérez)

Do you like this picture? Personally, I love it, it makes me feel really little looking at this huge roller coaster, like an ant in our world.

This photo was taken in "El Ram", a fair that is being held every year here, in Palma. In the picture we can see the most important part of the wheel with some cabins. We can also see the cloudy sky. This is my favourite part of the photo, because I really like the texture of these clouds. It was not a sunny day, but we can see in a yellow cabin the reflection of the sunlight. Although it wasn't a sunny day, the sun was shining at times, and I had the opportunity to take the photo.

We can't see it brightly in the picture, but every cabin has a different colour. They're arranged according to different shades of color, which are yellow, orange, purple, blue and green. A thing that we can see in the photo is the way how is wheel is painted , with green and white stripes. I found it really original.

Every year I go to the fair with my cousin and her children, because they enjoy riding all the fairground attractions.

Well, as you say... BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!

Describing a picture (by William Wu He)

Here we can see a beautiful view of what I think is the closest image of paradise. There are some stone stairs that drive us to a beautiful beach. The beach has got a pure deep blue sea and the sand is white like the snow.

There aren't any people, it’s not a crowded beach like Magalluf, here you can smell the freedom, feel the calm, it’s a virgin beach, a place where you can relax and forget all your problems for a short period of time.

Around the stone stairs it’s full of green nature. There’s a dense green foliage with purple flowers, and then, if we look up, we can see some amazing palm trees that grow above the plants and give this picture a shade of paradise.

It looks like a prolongation of the terrain of a big mansion, because a private beach like this one must be linked to a huge mansion.

FORMENTERA (by Ana Carcaño)

I've been told to describe a picture and I have chosen a beach that is located in Formentera.
On this picture we can see mainly three colours: blue in the sky and the sea, beige on the sand and the rocks and green on the tree and the bushes.

The water of this beach is very clear and clean and we can see a lot of white boats that are tied up. There are small dark blue spots in the middle of the sea and that's because of the algae.
The sky is light blue and it has some small white clouds. It's a sunny summer day and it doesn't seem like it is going to rain.
By the sea there's a green big tree that makes a small shadow and on the left hand side of the picture we can see some small bushes and rocks.
The sand is very clean and clear, without any litter on it (all the beaches should be like this one).
We can see some people swimming in the sea but there's nobody lying on the sand and sunbathing so we could think that this part of the beach is virgin.

Also we could say that this beach is not polluted and this is something very good and very important for our environment because nowadays there are loads of places that have been polluted because of the tourism and the invasion of humans. I don't like places like that because they make me feel nervous and angry because I dont like the idea that our environment it's being destroyed.
The landscape of Formentera is beautiful and it transmits serenity and peace.