Just to introduce myself

Hi everybody out there! I’m very proud and happy to join this fabulous blog. My name is ukefranz… Yes, I know, it is a very strange name indeed, but there are at least two reasons for this: I play the ukulele (a post on the matter will follow soon) All the other nicks I tried … Continue reading →

Birthday party

The celebrations for this blog’s first birthday will start today. Each blogger has prepared a surprise “gift”, each of which will be opened on a different day, so the party will go on and on and on until all the gifts have been opened! 😉 Needless to say, you’re all invited! Continue reading →

Latest news

This blog will celebrate its first birthday soon, and the bloggers and I are all working hard for a special “Happy 1st Birthday” edition… Stay tuned! 🙂 teacher b. Continue reading →

Traditions from the world: Thanksgiving

Hi everybody! Ready for a journey to the USA and its traditions? As many of you will remember, this week is very important according to American tradition, as the celebration of Thanksgiving takes place on the 4th Thursday in November! I have asked our American friend Sidney to introduce to us Thanksgiving and its meaning … Continue reading →

Features of English

Hi everybody! It’s been some time since we last had some posts on features of the English language that could help you widen your vocabulary. We have already covered topics like the differences between British and American English, false friends and common idiomatic expressions, which I hope have been useful. Do you still remember any … Continue reading →

The beauty of numbers

Start counting, guys! 😉 Main topic of the week is in fact “numbers”, and their beauty, mystery and usefulness. Could we do without them? Poleyn, Maryssa and Turkeysbay have really done their best and have submitted very interesting posts on this topic, I am very proud of them!!! 🙂 You will also find two poems … Continue reading →

Happy Halloween!!!

Knock knock Who’s that? Boo. Boo who? Booohuuu 😦 I miss youuuu Hi there, how are you all? Getting ready for a Halloween party, I suppose… I still remember two incredible Halloween parties which we organized many years ago at another school I was teaching at, with an enormous pumpkin at the school entrance, a … Continue reading →

Introducing…

Hi there!!! Great news this week! Anita and BenJogan have joined our group of bloggers!!! There are two very interesting contributions for all of us to enjoy… Anita’s description of her fantastic summer holiday in New York is presented in such a way as to make everybody feel involved in every single moment of it! … Continue reading →

We’re back!

Hi students, old and new 🙂 And welcome back to our meeting place online. The first term of a new school year has started, and I really hope this can be the year of a “turning point” which will see all of you involved in giving this site the shape it needs to make it … Continue reading →

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The end of summer is near, and so is a new school year… I feel it’s time for some considerations and for an overall reorganization of this blog. Learning to Fly will be back by the end of September. Till then, have nice days teacher b. 🙂 Continue reading →

Wishing upon a star

Raise your hand if you have been looking at the night sky these days, while enjoying the evening relief from the heat of the day, sitting in the open air with your family, with your friends or simply on your own, looking up above your head and hoping for a falling star to wish upon… … Continue reading →

…melting away

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen Hi there! How are you all doing? There are days when even thinking proves to be an enormous task. And though “normal” for this time of year, in the sense that we “should” have got used to it, … Continue reading →

Amur leopards news

Hi everybody, here’s the latest news I got from the Tallin zoo website about othe two lovely Amur leopard cubs we have been watching since a few weeks after their birth. Remember the name contest? The names chosen for them are Khasan for the male cub and Khanka for the female. Both names have been … Continue reading →

Wishing you…

… a happy summer, relaxing and interesting holidays, whether at the sea or in the mountains or in the countryside or somewhere abroad… we hope you’ll find the time to drop by every now and then, leaving a comment or two just to let us know that you haven’t forgotten us 😉 have fun!!! Continue reading →

Ready for the weekend?

Hi everybody! The following are a few more posts on this week’s topic of divination. I hope you liked the previous posts and that you’ll enjoy the new ones. I’m very curious… which of these divination methods, if any, do you believe in most? 😉 Continue reading →

Amur leopards: what’s new

An update to my first article on the Amur leopard cubs. As not all of you may have followed the looooooong flow of comments on that article, here are the most important information on our lovely friends 🙂 The Amur Leopard cubs are now two months old and they leave the nest box (where the … Continue reading →

The “royal road to the unconscious”: dreaming

Dreaming is probably the most  fascinating experience we have. It is fascinating because it borders another dimension, seemingly in another time, far away from us, yet still so close. If you want to imagine a parallel universe, just  think of a dream you had. Isn’t it an appropriate example? Surely what makes dreams such an … Continue reading →

Roads

I’ve been thinking about roads recently. Roads have always fascinated me. They have such an incredible metaphorical potential in themselves. Thought of in this perspective, a road is then not only the way to get from one point to another, let’s say, from A to B. A road always means something more, and usually something … Continue reading →

I feel there is still…

… a lot to say about the environment. So please bear with me for these few more posts on the theme. You will notice there is a new category as far as the links are concerned. The best name I could think of for it was “GREEN LINKS”. Make sure you have a look at … Continue reading →

Introducing… (2)

Hi there, you lucky students!!! You’re really lucky this week… because after welcoming Lewis from Bournemouth and his “British news” I am tremendously proud to introduce to you another incredible guest to our blog… I’m talking about… S A L L Y !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (again sound of hands clapping from all over Salento) Isn’t it great? … Continue reading →