We have a busy couple
of weeks since I last blogged! All our mock exams are now over, we are slowly
getting our results back, so far we have both been pleased. We’ve still got
plenty of homework as ever but are finding more time to do fun things… I read
my first book for month last weekend, I’ve found time to write a blog and
Ruth’s been looking at uni stuff for next year (she’s got 3 offers now!). We
also have been doing more fun things at school. My project on solar energy in
Chad will be handed in next week (if you fancy practicing your French, you can
visit our website at http://heliostchad.e-monsite.com/).
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| Our two solar cookers |
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| Helios Tchad! |
Last Saturday, our school organised an open day for “la semaine de la science” (Science week). Groups of pupils from the 3 highest years presented different experiments to teachers, parents and year 11 classes from other Chadian schools. Today, they are doing a quiz at the cultural centre on what they learnt. Unfortunately, today we couldn’t go but I took part in the experiments, presenting solar cookers from the chado-swiss organisation PROMOSOL and one we made ourselves from a tyre. My friends presented a solar dryer, an experiment with a photovoltaic cell and games still on the theme of solar.
We did this as you might guess for our project on solar energy; a big part of it is about getting people interested and teaching them about solar energy. We had great fun, especially me standing in the sun for 2 hours talking non-stop! It was tiring but good, people seemed very interested and the whole day was a success.
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| The photovoltaic cell experiment |
We did this as you might guess for our project on solar energy; a big part of it is about getting people interested and teaching them about solar energy. We had great fun, especially me standing in the sun for 2 hours talking non-stop! It was tiring but good, people seemed very interested and the whole day was a success.
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| Heading out |
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The money raised will go to the hospital, we wanted to do something concrete so will buy
some sort of equipment the size of which depends on the amount of money raised.
Last Saturday afternoon we all went out into Guinebor with plastic gloves and
bags. We ended up being helped by a large crowd of enthusiastic children and
collected more than 40 bags! We could have stayed for hours (or perhaps days)
but actually ran out of bin bags! Afterwards we burnt it all in the hospital
incinerator. It was a fun afternoon, we all really enjoyed it and the villagers
all seemed pleased if a little surprised to see us bothering to pick up
rubbish. We even came up with a name for a group: Guinebor II NADIF. Nadif
means clean in Chadian Arabic and is the name of the group of street sweepers
of N’djamena. As it went so well, we hope to do it again someday!
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| Burning the rubbish |
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Chad? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Chad in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez