Javier’s English Corner

Yesterday was Alison’s last day at our school and we decided to give her a proper send-off by throwing a little party in her honour. It gave us the opportunity to thank her for being so nice and helpful all through this academic year that is coming to an end now.

We all wish her the best of luck in everything she decides to do in the future and hope she keeps in touch every now and then.

Click on the picture below to see a slideshow of our little party.

If you have trouble playing the slideshow above, try here.

This academic year has been really special for all of us English teachers and students alike at EOI Luarca because we have been blessed with the presence of a very special language assistant, our very own Alison Brick. She has made our lessons come alive with her dynamic participation and we are all going to miss her so badly. If it is any consolation, Alison has decided to stay in Asturias one more year, and I am sure she will keep in touch from her new school. By the way, if you would like to keep track of her whereabouts and life in general, you can vis¡t her blog called Donde fueres, haz lo que vieres.

Alison has emailed me the following text, which is dedicated to our 5th year class:

Dear 5th year class,

Thank you all so much for the lovely Azabache earrings and Asturias magnet. It was very nice of you to think of me, and you can be assured that I will think of you every time I wear the earrings or see the magnet on my fridge. I really enjoyed coming to your class throughout the year; I suppose it’s safe to say now that it was my favorite class! I’m so glad that I got to know you and I will miss you a lot next year!

I’d also like to say thank you to those of you who were so extremely patient and kind to let me practice my Spanish with you. I really appreciated it! I hope that if any of you ever come to New York when I’m there, you’ll let me know!

Congratulations on graduating! If you get a chance from time to time, stop by my blog and leave me a message. I’d love to hear from you!!

Un besín,
Alison

Ernesto Redruello Fernández, a former student of mine and a cool guy altogether, has been so kind as to participate in this blog with interesting information about the music he likes and of which he is a downright expert. I am talking about rap and hip-hop. He has chosen a specific song he would like me to post here, and this is what he has written about it:

Nassir Jones, born in QB(Queensbridge) hood in New York, aka Nas, started his career in 1994, when his first album “illmatic”, which is considered the best rap album ever made, was published. I consider that his best album is “it was written”, from where I’ve dropped this cool track.
I love everything that surrounds “If I ruled the world”: the lyrics, the rhythm, Nas’ flows and, of course, Lauryn Hill’s beautiful voice, a perfect complement to complete the binomial.
That’s because I’ve chosen such a beautiful rap song, and also because Nas and Lauryn Hill are two of my favourite rap artists (adding rnb and soul with lauryn hill).

Nevertheless, Nas’ last album, called “Hip hop is dead” (an idea that is enormously wrong, I absolutely disagree with him and the music inside this album), has been a complete disaster, but I hope that he will return with his best tracks soon.

Here is my space: www.myspace.com/ritmoypoesiaerf
You can listen to my own rap tracks, and also download my rap radio show, called “RITMO Y POESIA”
And you also can listen to my rap radio show throughout www.radiosedna.net, on Thursdays, at 8 o clock p.m. live