food poems

Michaela Ulrichova

When I am cooking
Everything is fine
Please, call the fire station
when you see the fire shine

My apron – so bright
My knife – so sharp
Great for my kitchen fight

Eggs are like grenades – dangerous
In a second I will be without fingers
Tomatoes are bombs
Forks are kitchen guns

Only one plus has my mortal snack
I won´t die with an empty stomach


Tom Marecek

I would like to eat – How about something sweet?
I would like a snack – What about having an egg?
Stop rhyming and feed me
Rhymes don´t satisfy me.


Henry Pevny

One day I was very hungry
I wanted to eat and I was angry
In my country there was too much smog
I went to China and I ordered a dog
I picked my fork and knife
But then I saw the dog was still alive
I called the waitress
She told me to have no stress
But I don´t like the China PES


Tomas Kusy

I love cottage pie
For it I could die
But I have made a deal
So I will better eat some other meal.
What about pizza, said Rick,
I am going to be sick
Aspirin? Oh, thanks, that´s good
Now I hate all the food.


Veronika Martusinova

I go to work
Holding my fork
What is that thing?
It is a sink.
Why is it pink?
I don´t know everything.
Take out the plug!
Oh, here is the mug.
The mug is full
The poem is cool.


Marie Skvarilova

I am holding a spoon
And looking at the moon
It is midnight right now
And I am asking how?
How come I am so hungry every night?
And search the fridge – shining white
There are rotten apples, sour milk and cheese
Not much to please.
I guess I will be starving again …

Klara Rubinova

I am tired I am sad
For my breakfast I have bread
In the school when we have a break
I eat what I packed for snack
Lunch at school?
Very poor.
Then after my dinner I eat
I go to bed and fall asleep.


Pavlina Dvorakova

I have fish
With lemon
On my dish
Like John Lennon.


Ester Kleparnikova

I found my brain in a cup of tea
On the floor in my kitchen
I looked in the mirror
But it wasn´t me
I couldn´t believe it
So I went to sleep



Nicolas Nedd

Nicolas Nedd
He lost his head
And put a turnip on instead
But then: Oh me,
He couldn´t see
So he gave up and
went to bed

Smetana Litomysl Festival

After the Prague Spring, Smetana‘s Litomysl International Opera Festival is the oldest music festival and the largest open-air classical music festival in the Czech Republic.
Bedrich Smetana

Bedrich Smetana was born in 1824 in Litomyšl. He studied in Jihlava, Havlickuv Brod and in Plzen. When he was four years old he started to play the piano. Bedrich Smetana loved music and he became one of the best Czech composers. Among his most famous works are: opera Prodaná nevesta (Bartered Bride), symphonic poem Ma vlast (My Country) or opera Branibori v Cechach. His health however was very bad and in his later years he lost his hearing. He died in 1884 in a Prague asylum.



About Bedrich Smetana’s festival in Litomysl
This year there will be held the 50th year of the Festival in Litomysl organized in honour of Bedrich Smetana. Like every year it will be wonderful. There will be many interesting and talented people who love classic music. Festival will take place in the atrium of the Litomysl Castle.

English Camp

In 2008 it was the fifth year of the English Camp in Policka. In fact it is an American Camp as it is organized by a group of Americans from Oklahoma.
The theme of this year was “door”- opening, closing… we talked about how we feel when we come to a foreign country, what makes us feel welcome and what makes it difficult to overcome the cultural differences.

Every day started with an opening ceremony in the church. We danced to the energizing music played by Ann Salmons – the music lady and watched sketches prepared by the camp volunteers with stories about Moses and other biblical characters. Then we had program in small groups, we went to five different stations where the Americans prepared some program for us, like: Recreation, Craft, Drama or Door Experience.

This year came to Polička 24 Americans. And we had some special guests at the Door Experience, e.g. a blind man or a social worker talking about their lives.
The camp was every day from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and after that we went on some trips to special places in our region to show the Americans a bit of our country. On Friday we had a barbecue party.

The English Camp is a great way how to practice our English and make new friends.

Hockeyball in Policka

HOCKEYBALL IN POLICKA
Hockeyball is a quite favourite sport in Polička. There are 6 groups from the youngest to adults, just like in hockey or football. In Polička there is only one girl playing and other players are boys. Our team´s name is “Kometa Polička”
In May there is the end of the hockeyball season and we play in the Republic Cup.
Results in 2008 Republic Cup:
Young children (to 8 years) were second out of three teams.
Children (8-10 years) were third out of thirteen teams.
Children (10-14 years) were fourth out of thirty teams.
Teeneagers (14- 16 years) were fift out of fourty teams.
Teenegers (18-20 years) were third out of thirty teams.
Mens (over 20 years) were second out of thirty teams.

and again - we love it

Majales Parade
Every year in May students and teachers from our Grammar school wear funny masks and go through our city-Polička until they come to Palacky square. Every class with their class teacher have different masks that the class have agreed to .This year there were groups of ballet-dancers, bumbleblees, mafia men, hip hoppers and many other exciting masks.
After the Parade, students prepare games for young children in the park. Children from elementary schools come and take part in the competitions and games and win sweets.
Every year students have fun and no one has to go to school. That is why we like Majales so much.

Majales again

Majales is a festival of fun. This year it was 16th May. Every year it is in May. The Majales day started in front of Gymnazium Policka. There were all the students and teachers of Gymnazium
in funny masks. At 8.30 started a parade and we walked from Gymnazium to the Palacky square and there was some programme on the stage. There were lots of music groups, dance groups and funny people there. First there was a competition for the nicest mask of the parade. This year the winners were the bumblebees. Then the music programme started: there were aerobic dancers, hip hop crew Los Hegeros or disco dancers. The weather was very nice and we enjoyed the whole event very much.

Martinu Festival of Classical Music

Martinu fest is a classical music festival held every year under the Czech Cultural Celebration cycle organized by the Ministry of Culture. The concerts in Policka take place in the Tyl House which is a newly reconstructed community centre in Policka, and in the St. James Church where Bohuslav Martinu was born in the tower of the church.

The festival features extracts from Martinu´s repertoire including violin and violoncello compositions as well as concerts of chamber and symphonic music.


This year the programme was very interesting. There was for example a concert of the brass quintet of the National Theatre, Bennewitz quartet, Russian pianist Vitali Berzon, Camerata Bohemica, a presentation about Charlotte Quennehen – Martinů or a performance of the dancing groups from a local music school.

Our school was at one of the concerts at the Tyl House. The concert was very exciting and all the students liked it.

Rockoupani

Rockoupani is a multigenre music festival in Policka at the end of May (29.5-1.6.). Festival takes place in the open air pool efore i tis filled with water for the summer. This was the eleventh year of the festival. Every year there are many people from different places of the Czech Republic. They come to listen to exciting old and new music bands like Vypsana fixa, Plexis, Extinction, Prague ska conspiracy...
In the open air pool area there are three stages. The first – the big stage is on one side of the empty pool and there are the old and famous bands playing. The second stage is smaller and located on the meadow behind the first stage. At this two stages there are usualy played genres like punk, metal, rock, ska and reggae. This year there was also an alternative stage Babylon for first time. There was jungle music and some films played at this stage.
You can buy food, drinks and things like t-shirts, scarfs, wristlets and others here. You can sleep in your own tent on a meadow near the area. This year we were lucky with the weather, the music was perfekt and we liked it very much.

Official website : www.rockoupani.cz

Tennis Club

Tennis Club in Policka

This tennis club was built in 2000.There are 6 clay tennis courts and a tennis wall for practice.There is a building where you can buy some drinks and food, and you rent a court here.In the second floor you can play pool, billiard, darts,chess and ping pong.In our club there are 3 trainers, you can have a tennis training with them and you pay them some money.The main trainer is Zdenek Jilek and the president of the club is Lada Scheib. One of the trainers only trains kids. Every Saturday there is a tournament and everyone can play here, but you pay an entrance fee.We have a lot of tennis teams which represent Policka in a lot of competitions. Policka has got very good background for this sport. There are two people who maintain the courts. Now you can see some photos of those tennis courts in Policka.

Swimming Pool in Policka

Swimming pool
In Polička
In Polička we have a very nice swimming pool.
It was built in 1977. There are four swimming
lines and the pool is 25 metres long ,10 metres
wide and about 3 metres deep.
There is a jumping board.
You can go to sauna ,
gym, fitness centre, hairdressers and
mother with small babies can go to a special pool.

Every year the Czech Swimming Association organizes a swimming competition of Czech cities. The town where most citizens come to swim 100 m in one day and reach the best times, wins. Our teachers always encourage us to take part in the competion. This year there were 6 people from our class.

We are happy to have this nice and modern swimming pool in our city.

Tomas KUSY and Tom MARECEK

555 Policka Festival

The multi genre festival - 17th year

555 is a festival of various brands of music and art forms. You can hear folk, pop-music, hard rock and jazz but also see parformances of interesting theatre groups of the Czech alternative stream.
This festival takes place on the square in Polička in mid August every year. There are always music groups and some theatre shows (as an additional programme). On the square there are stalls with traditional food, drinks and some small souvenirs, balloons etc.

Programme of 2008 year of the festival:
Music groups:
Friday: Opening concert (Irina Kondratenko, Ludmila Peterkova), Schovanky (country), Petr Spaleny, ABBA Chiquita revival, Ladovi hosi
Saturday: Jana Chladkova and Viktor Sodoma (country, rock´n´roll), 05 & Radecek, A. Gondolan, Prazsky vyber 2, Krajdablues
Sunday: Closing concert (in St. Jakub church)
Aditional programme:
Theatre shows, the Old Czech market products, fire show...

Festival of Fantasy

Festival of Fantasy
Festival of Fantasy is the biggest meeting in Central and East Europe for fans of science fiction and fantasy. It is specialized on everything around these two topics in literature, movies and games. Festival takes place in July for 10 days as a main festival and in October for 5 days as a Special festival. Program runs in various program lines simultaneously, so you can choose every time from many possibilities. It includes projection of films, documents and serials, playing games of all kind, chat with writers, actors and artists, lectures, discussion, tournaments and competitions, concerts and a lot of other things.
The first Festival of Fantasy was in 2004 and since then the visitor’s rate has been still higher.
I really like this event and I can just recommend it to everyone.

Bohuslav Martinu

Bohuslav Martinu was born on 8th August in 1890 in Polička as the son of cobbler Ferdinand Martinů. He studied the violin for about 6 years, and when he was 15 he began to perform as a soloist at local festivals. His teacher was Adolf Vaníček. Martinů entered the Prague Conservatory on 15thApril 1906. Influenced by Dvořák, Strauss, and Debussy he wrote over 90 pieces by 1912. In 1914 Martinů was appointed the second violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He spent the First World War in his hometown working as a violin teacher; in 1919 he returned to Prague. Later he became a teacher in the master school of Josef Suk. In early 1920ies Bohuslav Martinů travelled to Paris, where he studied new music techniques and wrote 140 pieces of music. Then he moved to New York because he wanted to avoid the Nazis. In the USA he wrote his famous symphony “From the New World” but also some works that reflected his Czech origin, like “Opening of the Wells” where he used the Czech folk motives. After 1953 he lived in Europe but never returned to his homeland. Martinů died in Liestal, Switzerland on 28thAugust in 1959. His remains were laid to rest in the cemetery in Polička.

Fishing In Policka
Like many other cities Policka also has a place where local people or tourists can relax or spend their free time. Because fishing is really popular in this region we have a complex of three dams. During the past few years the complex has gone through a big modernization. So now it is almost a paradise for fishermen. Almost every week from spring to late summer, fishing competitions take place there and people who participate can win interesting prizes. If you want to go fishing, you have to buy a day permit which costs 300 crowns or you can buy a year permit for 1400 crowns. You can go fishing any time you want, so I suggest to go fishing at night which can be really unforgettable experience for you. I am glad we have such a great opportunity for spending our free time. I would recommend every visitor of Policka to spend a few relaxing moments there.

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.