JANUARY:

On the first and the second of January we celebrate New Year! On these two days we have school holidays. We celebrate New Year with my grandparents. On the twentieth of January my mother has her birthday. We normally watch some movies or we go to the swimming pool.

MAY:

In May we have school holidays. On the first of May we celebrate Labour day.

JULY:

In July we have one month school holidays! We often go swimming in Sistiana. On the twenty-nineth of July my father has his birthday and the day after it is my  birthday. We are always on vacation on these days because it’s fun to wake up in front of the sea.

DECEMBER:

In December there are a lot of festivals. My favourite one is Christmas. I always get some presents and then I play with them. In the beginning of the month we put up the decorations and decorate the Christmas tree. On the thirty-first of December we celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Filip, 6. r

I woke up at 7 o’clock, washed my face, ate breakfast and finished my homework from yesterday. Then l made tea for the snowy day. When my brothers finished their school work, we started to prepare clothes for the trip to Lokve. We loaded everything in the car and left the house. When we arrived to the slope, we wore warm clothes, put on our shoes and went to the hill. We sledged for full two hours. When we were hungry, we went to the car and ate sandwiches and apples. We drank all the tea with honey that l prepared at home. At that moment it started to rain, we decided to pack everything and go home. Right after we arrived home, we unloaded the car. I helped my mum to put everything in place. When my brothers finished their homework, we played XBOX. After my parents finished the dinner, we ate food, we went upstairs to the bathroom and brushed our teeth and went to bed. It was a nice day.

Rene, 7. r

I woke up at 9 o’clock yesterday. Me and my friends went to hill Škabrijel at 10 o’clock. I went with Matic, Svit and Aleks. First we went to Kekec that is a smaller hill and we continued from Kekec up to Škabrijel. We had fun and we met a few classmates on the way. At the top of Škabrijel there is a big tower with a viewpoint. It was really high up. There was a wooden bench and we sat down and ate some breadsticks and biscuits and drank some water. After that we ran down the hill like the police was right behind us. Matic filmed our running and edited a video with music. My knees were destroyed and when I came home, I was so tired. But luckily my dad started making my favorite lunch: pasta with meat sauce. I ate a lot of it, and it was really good. After lunch I rested a litle bit and then my friends rang on my door and I went outside to play with them. This day was really good for me especially because we didn’t have to do anything for school. Then I ate dinner and went to bed.

Tibor, 7. r

This is the life story of my great-grandmother. Her name was Emilija and she was born in 1925 in a village named Vipolže in Goriška Brda. She lived and grew up there. When she was six, she started school, but at the age of fifteen she left school, because she had to look after her parents who were old. She worked on a farm. All her brothers and sisters moved to Argentina. When she was twenty, she met my great-grandfather. They got married two years later. Their first son was born three years after their marriage and a daughter (my grandma) four years later. My great-grandmother never moved from Vipolže and she died there as an old woman. I knew her because she died this year at the age of 94.

Ema, 7. r

In the year of 2050 we will have highly advanced technology. It will become an unavoidable part of our lives. Robots will replace the majority of working positions, so a lot of people will lose their jobs. There will be new occupations mostly focused on engineering. I believe that we’ll discover a power greater than electricity, that will run ou devices. I think that traffic will be cleaner and faster. Nowadays cars run on gasoline and on electricity, but I think that in the future cars will run on some sort of a renewable energy source, that we are not yet aware of. There won’t be naval transportation anymore, so seas and oceans will be cleaner. We will focus mainly on the air transportation like flying cars and buses etc.

Scientists will develop cures for a sufficient amount of diseases such as cancer and ebola, that means people will live longer and healthier lives. This will cause larger and larger amounts of world’s population, so we’ll have to inhabit other planets.

Julija, 8. r

Nowadays the media has a huge impact on our lives. Especially in the teenage years, when we are the most insecure, celebrities influence our thoughts of our bodies and of our talents. I think, that there are too many stars that are giving a bad influence on teenagers all over the world, with their innapropriate behaviour and song lyrics. Kids are starting to think, that doing drugs or drinking lots of alchoholic beverages is okay and cool.

I think that parents lost the impact hat they used to have on their kid’s lives. Children rather listen to succesful youtubers or singers who dropped out of their schools, thinking, that they can do the same thing. But they’re not realising, that there are more people who failed to accomplish their dreams of being a big star with a worldwide fame.

The thing that the majority of teenagers probably doesn’t understand is that money or fame can’t buy happiness. In fact, saddly, in most cases, it’s quite the opposite. Actors, that we used to watch on TV as little kids are probably very unfortunate and sad. Living in the spotlight with paparazzi and other media constantly behind you, without the privacy you want isn’t always easy. I think that if you truly want to be happy, you don’t have to own a villa by the beach or a private plane, waiting for you in your garage.

Julija, 8. r

Buses

Buses in Slovenia are of many different colours and they usually have one floor. In England, buses are usually red and double-deckers, which means buses with two floors.

Trains

The biggest railway station in Slovenia is in Ljubljana. The Ljubljana train station is one of the most important railway crossroads in the country. It stands on the Liberation Front Square on the northern edge of the old town. It’s 1,500 m long. There are 25 train stations in London only. For example, Waterloo Station is the train station for trains to the South and the Eurostar is the train to France and Belgium. Eleven London train stations are also underground stations, which means that they are located under the city.

Airports

The biggest Slovenian airport is near Ljubljana and it’s called Letališče Jožeta Pučnika. People use this airport to travel to other countries. It’s used by about 1,700,000 tourists per year. In London, there are five big airports. The biggest and the busiest is called Heathrow. It is used by about 78 million tourists per year.

Jure, Elin, Maša, Robert, 7. a

Britain

In Britain, they drive on the left and the steering wheel is on the right. Most of the roads are free of charge and the distances are measured in miles. The train is the fastest way to travel and there are a lot of train stations. In London, you can also travel by taxi, by metro, by bus or you can rent a bike. There are five public airports in London and the biggest is called Heathrow.

Slovenia

We drive on the right and the steering wheel in our cars is on the left. You need to pay for motorways with a vignette. We have slower trains, which are very old, and we don’t have any underground. However, we use the rent-a-bike service (like Bicikelj) the most in Europe. We have only three public airports in the country – Ljubljana, Maribor and Portorož.

Žiga, Žan, Lara, Nika, 7. r

The Earth rotates on its axis, and this takes 24 hours. Because of this, different parts of the world have different time. Countries agreed on this system in 1884. Time zones start at the Prime Meridian at Greenwich in London and end with the International Date Line. If you cross it, you change days, so you can go from today to yesterday! Samoa decided to change from one side of the International Date Line to the other in 2011. They went from December 29 to December 31, so they skipped December 30!

(Sidenote: the pupils in the group then had to describe their worst possible day involving all the worst events that could happen to them. They had to cram all this into one day they could skip just like the Samoans in December 2011).

Our worst possible day would look like this: First, there is a storm that day and at school, I have five lessons of Maths. During the storm, a lightning hits our house so we have to move to the cousins’ place then. The floor on the way to the cousins’ is frozen, so I slip and I break my leg. The ambulance comes and crashes into a tree, so I have to walk to the hospital. I am robbed on the way and when I come to the hospital, it is closed. So I spend the night in front of the hospital because my leg is too painful to walk. We would be happy to skip this day just like the Samoans did.

Špela, Nejc, Raisa, Gloria,7. r