Flora's experiences

I have heard an interview from Flora.
Flora talked about her experiences when she was working as a language assistant in Austria.
She said that she learned so much more during her stay in Austria as she had learned from many other books.
Flora said that she had met many interesting people and that her opinion of Austria had changed.
She also said that she started to correct the clichés about the Austrians and the Irish people.

E-cars-project

I have just read an article in today’s online version „Austriantimes.at“ and it talks about an electric car project.
I thought you might be interested because I think this topic is very important for our future. Basically what this article says is that there will be a project to put 100,000 electric cars on the road by 2020. They also said that the cars will cost between 25.000 and 30.000 euros. Mario Summer from Magna Steyr pointed out that so-called e-cars would be in mass production by 2017. It is also mentioned that the batteries of the cars would take about 20 minutes to charge. E-cars would have to be used for longer trips. Mr. Summer also said that the production will take him two or three years. In my opinion it’s a good investment in our future and the cars will be better for the environment.

investment (Investition): when you pay money for a thing you make an investment.

enviroment (Umwelt): e-cars will be good for our environment.

link to the original site
http://www.austriantimes.at/news/Business/2009-09-18/16516/Austrian_Mobile_Power_in_electric_car_project

I have just read an article in the today’s online version of “austriantimes.at” and it talks about a new route of British Airways.I thought you might be interested because nearly everybody goes to holiday by plane.Basically what it says is that British Airways are going to run a new route to Austria. The route will serve London (Gatwick) and Innsbruck.What surprised me the most is the fact that the BA sees the Austrian market positive.It is also mentioned that they want to open the route despite running an expected loss of 255 million Euros last year.In my opinion it is a big risk because, as we see an example at AUA, the numbers of Austrian passengers are falling.

PREVIEW

I have read an article in Katharina Astleithner’s blog “myblogAstleithner.blogspot.com”.
And it talks about Dress codes and school uniforms.

I thought you might be interested because I think it’s a very important and interesting issue for students. They should be able to give there own opinion about this issue and they should know the advantages and disadvantages.
What this article says is that school uniforms aren’t so good because they are a reduction of freedom and they are unnecessary at school because most of the people follow such standards.
It also says that people should be able to wear whatever they want to wear at school.

I rather disagree with the author because in my opinion school uniforms are very necessary and convenient because they protect poorer students from discrimination and you don’t have to spend so much time on looking for the right shirt or the right jean.
Certainly school uniforms don’t have only advantages but I think they have more advantages than disadvantages.

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick was the first religious missionary in Ireland. He was born in the year 386 in England his name was Maewyn.

The Irish people had kidnapped him when he was 16 years old and had put him on a green island, after six years he saw an angel who persuaded him to escape.

He went to France where he became a priest. From that time on he was called Saint Patrick.

He helped people, created schools and did a lot of other good things.

When he died on March the 17th in the year 461, all Irish people changed into religious people and on that day all people celebrated Saint Patrick.

Today his day is celebrated in lots of town and countries.

The biggest and greatest parades take place in Dublin, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Manchester and Savannah.

Especially on this day people celebrate with a lot of beer and green things, stuff and costumes.

school uniforms and dress codes

My opinion on school uniforms

In our school we can wear whatever we like, but in many other schools there are dress codes at school.
I think that dress codes have advantages and disadvantages.
School uniforms are very convenient; you don’t have to spend so much time on looking in the mirror and looking for the right jean or the right t-shirt.
Many students don’t have much money to buy the latest fashion, and often the other students laugh at their outward appearance. So the dress codes protect poorer students from discrimination. Some students believe that when they have the newest clothes they are better than the other people.
A disadvantage of school uniforms is that you can't wear whatever you like to wear.
Dress codes make the students look like the same, there is no different between you and another girl or boy at school.
I am of the opinion that school uniforms are good for the students and I wish we would have dress codes at school.