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This is my last post in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, thanks every body to take a minuts in your life for reading and comment my blog.

I really enjoy the time I passed writing, in this month I learnd new fewq words and expressions, I'm going to continiue in my classes and reading and visit this wonderful web page.

I hope one day I can known more about of all the people who write here.

I send all my best wishes, see you soon.

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Hello Mitzi,

Wow! Talk about making us feel jealous! I'll second all the comments that other people have left on your last post about your glorious photos. The beaches look really incredible - the sand and sea look so inviting, I wish I was there right now!

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Hi Nuala:

I heard onece about the Red Head Society, It's amaizing!!. I didn't know if exist in Mexico but I have to investigate.

I'll never eat a cold soup. Maybe I have to look for a recipie. Thank's for the Food Vocabulary. When I wrote about that It was really hard. Sometimes I didn't know how can I explain some ingredients or preparation.

I think I had a lot of mistakes when I wrote. Specialy in the verbs time. I'm going to studie more grammar :)...

Thanks for you're help.

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Even though I've just had lunch here in London, your posting about Mexican food has set my stomach rumbling uncontrollably! I think I'll have to go for a very early dinner at this rate.

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Today at home, sitting in front my computer I remembered a trip I made few years ago, and I think why not share some pictures and experiences I lived in this trip.

I went on December and it was fun, but I dind't feel it, becouse in Mexico City December is cold, there was my first December holiday on the beach.

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Hi everybody, I received many comments asking about Mexican Food, I have a lot of things to say about it, but it's not only talk about how are the typical dishes, is also talk about how important is sharing the food with family and friends.

I say that because it's one of the most important social activities, we call the lunch time as the "la hora de la comida" (between 2:00 to 4:00 pm, but it depends.) We value the lunch time as familiar, in this hour we can talk with our parents, brothers or friends, today in Mexico City it's difficult to be together in the lunch time at week with family, but it's very common to meet us in the weekend.

Either breakfast, lunch or dinner, food is one of the factors to join the society, in this meetings we can establish friendships, couples known, close big business and the union familiar becomes stronger, or just for enjoy a good moment.

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Hi Mitzi,

First off, I'd like to say a huge thanks to Callum for being the teacher blogger for the last two weeks while I was away on holiday. I hope you enjoyed working with him as much as he enjoyed working with you.

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Hi everyone,

Thank you to Elisabeth and Cristina for setting me my first elephant challenge. This morning was a beautiful sunny morning, so I set off in search of my 2 elephants. Although they were numbers 48 and 100, they were actually very close to each other. I found them sitting on the banks of the river Thames, almost opposite the Tower of London and close to Tower Bridge. This is elephant 48:

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Today we celebrate the Teacher's day!!... We celebrate to thank his teachings and the time we spend to train us better... Thanks again!!

I send you a big hug.

Now my second homework...

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I want to share, another attractive place, "Xochimilco".

It's locate in the South of Mexico City, it's very attractive for tourist, here you can find beautiful scenic sites, like market of flowers, trajineras, typical food, museums and churches.

Xochiilco has 9 lakes for enjoy and navigate in his famous trajineras. Trajinera it's like a small boat. In the past the use was to transport the crops farmers, and rich people who started visit the lake.

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Hi Mitzi

Thanks for your blog about Mother's Day. It's interesting that it's held on different days around the world. In Britain Mother's Day is always on a Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent. This year it was 14th March.

In Britain it's also known as Mothering Sunday and typically children give their mums a card, flowers or chocolate or at least a phone call! I heartily agree with all that you said about mums.

What is a 'mariachi'? Is it some kind of musician? Do tell us more.

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Hi Guys!!

Thanks again for you're comments :)

I'm going to show you more pictures to Tepoztlan, enjoy It!!

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Today is an special day in Mexico like in others cities. We celebrate Mother's day

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Hi Callum

Thanks for you're comments. It would be nice that one day you can come, there's a lot of places to visit.

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Hi everyone,

Do you know what a heffalump is? If you've ever read any of the Winnie the Pooh stories by A A Milne you'll know that a heffalump is an elephant. It's A A Milne's idea of the word a child would use if they couldn't quite say elephant! (According to my mother, my first word was elephant!) If you've never read the Winnie the Pooh children's books, I can highly recommend them. They are easy, funny and sometimes you can discover much deeper, hidden messages. They are about a bear called Pooh and his friends Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Christopher Robin and Owl and their adventures in One Hundred Acre Wood. Anyway, back to heffalumps: the heffalumps appear in the books when Pooh is trying to get to sleep and counts imaginary heffalumps jumping gates: you can see an illustration.

So, why am I writing about elephants? Well, it's because I saw two in London this morning! Honestly. One was in the window of a bank and one was outside India House. And I don't mean a toy elephant. These baby elephants are life-sized and are raising money for a good cause.

Do you like them? This is the elephant is outside India House:

And this is the elephant standing in the bank - it's covered in crystals and sparkles in the sunshine!

They are all part of the Elephant Parade. It's a very clever way to raise money for charity. In this case the money raised by these elephants is going to help save the endangered Asian elephant. There are over 250 elephants around London - they've been decorated by artists and celebrities and they form a sort of giant outdoor art exhibition. They are on display until June and at the beginning of July there will be a grand auction where anyone can bid to buy one of the elephants. Perhaps you would like one in your back garden? London has had similar "parades" before. In 2002 there was a CowParade which raised over £350,000 for the children's charity Childline.

You can find out more about the elephant parade . I also thought you might like to challenge me to go and find and photograph some of the elephants? I can't promise to find all 257 (after all, I have to be in the office sometime!) - but I'll try and find at least some of them. The elephants pictured above are nos.: 33 and 226. So which other elephants would you like me to find?

Take care

Carrie

first word : the first word a small child learns to say
a good cause: an organisation that provides help or benefit to people who need it e.g. a charity
auction: a public sale where goods are sold to the person who offers the highest price
bid : to offer to pay a particular amount of money to buy something
to challenge someone to do something:to set someone a task
Nos: abbreviation of the word "numbers"

Hello Mitzi

Thank you for introducing yourself on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English student blog.

Nuala is finally away on her holiday in the U.S. She had been delayed by the volcanic ash cloud which stopped all flights in the UK but now the air is clear she was able to rebook her flights and head off. So, I am standing in for a couple of weeks as the teacher blogger.

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Sometimes it's necessary take a break, relax and forget the routine, so I know of an excellent place to do it outside the city.It's a beautiful place and I really enjoy going there.

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Thanks for all the comments; everything you wrote was amazing. In these days I'm going to tell you more about me and my City, and I want to show you some places that you can visit if some day you come.

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Hi everyone, i was thinking and thinking how I could start to writing for the first time in this blog, after a long time, I do, so I decided to star with the story as I am now blogger from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ LEARNING.

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