Burning Man Festival

Hi everybody!

Since we were talking about festivals, especially about the Holi festival and about the Burning Man festival, in our last English lesson, I decided to inform you now about the Burning Man festival.

I thought you might be interested because Burning Man is one of the biggest festivals in the world.

Every year the art event takes place in the Black Rock Desert. The week-long event attracts about 50,000 people who live in temporary tent cities. At the festival the people are encouraged to perform and to organise activities.

The highlight of the festival is the burning of a 40-foot-tall wooden man.

What interested me most was that there are a lot of "own rules" for the event. For example the use of money is forbidden, everyone has to bring his own food and automobiles are forbidden. (except they have been transformed into "art cars".

What do you think about the festival? Let me know!

Regards, Julian

Trip to France!

Hi everybody!

My classmates and I made a language trip to France in June. Let me tell you something about it.

We started our trip in Linz where we unfortunately got to know that our teacher and guide for this week became ill. Nevertheless we went to Vienna by train to get our flight to Paris. But our goal was to get to St. Malo. So we went by bus for about 7 hours. We arrived completely exhausted in St. Malo where our host families collected us. Gregor and I got a very nice family. They were very friendly, our rooms were big and the eating was delicious. In the first two days we did some sightseeing with our excellent guide Serge. We went by ship to Dinard, investigated St. Malo, Cancale and "Le Mont Saint Michel". We also went to a tidal power station and to an aquarium. Stefan, Jakob Gregor and I rented a bicycle. So we were very fast and could also visit some other sights. In the evenings we went to bars to watch the matches of the European championship. We had a lot of fun there.

After five days in St. Malo we went back to Paris but not only to visit the city. On Wednesday we watched the football match Austria against Iceland in Saint-Denis. It was an amazing event but unfortunately Austria lost the match. The next two days we did some sightseeing with our guide Jacque. We went to Louvre, Notre-Dame, l'Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysée and so on.

It was a wonderful trip which I will never forget.

Regards,

Julian