Presentation about Tibet in our school

Last week a woman from charity organization M.O.S.T. came to our school and gave a presentation about Tibet. It was connected to the Word-wide commemoration week of the sad events in Tibet fifty years ago. She told us about the main problems of China and Tibet. We saw a film too. It was about families in Tibet who have to sell everything what they had to send their children to India where they can go to school and learn the Tibet traditions and history. Their parents pretend that their child is ill or they may have big problems with the Chinese police. In villages and towns of Tibet are people – guids - who take Tibetian children to India. But to go to India children (many times very young – 4! - 16 years old) must go many days trough Himalayas – the biggest mountains in the world. It was terrible to see so young children who must leave their home and families to go to school and do things which are normal for us. The story was so powerful that many of us were moved and we talked about it after the presentation.
Michaela Ulrichova

Majales

Majales is a traditional celebration enjoyed by mainly secondary school students which contains a parade, preparing games for school children and a big music party in the evening. In Policka Majales happened on 9th May 2008. It started with mask parade from our Grammar School. Everyone from our class was dressed as hip hoppers. Other classes were dressed as Snow White and the dwarfs, bees, nuns and bunches of grapes. After the mask parade we had a lot of games for small children in the park. In our town square there was an entertainment program which began at 9 o´clock. On the square were various performances for example the dancing groups, games, music groups. Two boys from our class had a show with their musis group. Everyone enjoyed this day and we are looking forward to the next Majales.
Klara

Christmas food in Czech Republic

Our typical Christmas food is fish with potato salad. Most of people eat carp (because in Czech Republic, there are many ponds), but some people dont like it so they eat some other meat. We have a simmilar food to Christmas puding in UK called Vánocka. We all like this food, it is really delicous.


Tomas from Kvinta

Rockoupani Vojta a Adam

It is 2 day festival in Policka´s empty swimming pool before it is filled up for the summer. It´s every year in the end of May. There plays lot of bands from all over the Czech republic on 3 stages. There is the biggest stage where play the most famous bands, the second smaller stage where play underground bands and drum and bass stage. Lot of people from Czech republic and neighbour states come here to listen music...Come and you will see atmosphere on the great rock festival...

Vojta & Adam

Tour de Ski

Tour de ski is a typical Czech competition in crosscountry skiing. Every year this competition takes place in Nove Mesto na Morave. There is Lukas Bauer for Czech Republic. He is the best Czech crosscountry runner. This year he was second in this competition.

Petr and Tom from Kvinta

Easter

This feast is celebrated in April all over the world, but there are different customs in each country. It commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Kriste so it is a religious holiday but there are some earthly customs to that too. For example, boys knit the whips and then go to visit their girlfriends and pretend to beat them and girls give them painted eggs that they had prepared before Easter. Of course, we fast too.
Marie

Policka Skrivan (lark)

The Policka Skrivan is music talent competition,where local groups compete for a place i the summer festival called Rockoupani(our friends have already written about it).The competition takes place in our theatre club, it attracts a lot of people. There is a jury of experts that has main vote and also other people from the club can vote for their favourites and send them to the festival. We all enjoyed the event.

Davis Cup

This year Davis Cup taked place in Ostrava. Czech Republic played againts France. For Czech Republic there were players like Tomáš Berdych, Radek Štěpánek, Hernych, Lukáš Dlouhý etc. France had a better team. There were players like Monfils, Simon, Gasguet and Tsonga. Those players were playing four singles and one double. I didnt expect it but Czech Republic won 4:1 to matches. It was really exciting to be in Ostrava and see those tennis stars.

Theatro pantomissimo

Three weeks ago we saw a pantomime play called "The death of Marquis de Sade - On the dark road". From Marquis de Sade came the notion "sadism". It was played in our Theatre club( it´s a place, where happen lots of our cultural events- theatre plays, concerts,lectures...). It was a magic, cruel and dark play, but it was fantastic. One of the actors was a boy, who studied in our grammar school some time ago. The actors were realy amazing. They danced great. It was one of the best plays I have ever seen.

Ester

A night with H.Ch.Andersen

This is a national event. It happens every year and it is conected to the birthday of H.Ch.A. One night (this year it will be 28.-29.3.) children stay and sleep at schools or libraries in order to learn more about literature, to discover the joy of reading and enjoy the time together. In our school there are two classes participating in this programme. Usually the older class prepars some games and readings from the books for the younger class. The theme of the night is always one of the well-known authors. We always have a lot of fun and we learn some new information through the games and readings. Last year we had a lot of fun so we are really excited about this year.

Pavlina

Visiting theatre

On monday the 9th we were in the theatre to see a play by famous Czech artists Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich, music was composed by another famous Czech man - Jaroslav Ježek. It was played by amateur actors from Policka and it is called Kat a Blazen (the translation of this is Hangman and Madman). The story was about revolution in Mexico. It was written in 30s of 20th century and there are many hidden allusions to nazi Germany. Inspite of that Kat a Blazen is a comedy. We all liked it, it was funny and interesting.

Jindra

Some info about us

Hello everyone. Let us introduce ourselves. We are a group of 15 students from Kvinta Class of the Grammar School in Policka. We would like to present our school, hobbies and events happenning in Policka here on this blog. We will post some texts here soon. We have seen a lot of blogs doing this project and they are really exciting. We hope that you will like this blog and you will add some comments too.