"Walt Disney Concert Hall"

The Walt Disney Concert Hall is situated on South Grand Avenue, in DownTown, Los Angeles. This building, designed by the famous architect Frank Gehry, was opened on October 23th, 2003. It is the fourth hall of Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchestra and has 2265 seating. The construction of this building was started in 1991, but was stopped from 1994 to 1996 for lack of money. At first should be in stone  bur for these problems, in the end, was in steel. In 2004 there were problems with the reflection, but in 2005 were resolved with a slight sanding. The widow of Walt Disney, Lilian Disney, had the idea of this hall.

 

                                      The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge connecting the city of San Francisco with Marin County to its north. It was the bridge with longest span in the world from the time it was completed in 1937, until the completion of another bridge in New York in 1964. The Golden Gate Bridge is 1.7 miles long and, about 41 million trips are made across the bridge each year. Before the only mode of transportation was ferry.

Federica Pellegrini Biography

Federica Pellegrini is an italian swimmer. A native of Mirano, in the province of Venice, she holds the women's 200m freestyle world record, and won a gold medal at the 2008 Bejiing Olympics. At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Pellegrini became the first woman ever to break 4 minute barrier in the 400m freestyle with a time of 3 minutes. Pellegrini is the only swimmer, male or female, to have won seven medals in a row in the same event at the World Championships. She is also the first female Olympic champion in the history of Italian swimming and the only Italian swimmer to have set world records in more that one event. She loves a lot her family and she has a boyfriend: Filippo Magnini, he also is an Italian swimmer.

 

 IRISH SCHOOL SYSTEM

Education is compulsory for children in Ireland from the ages of six to sixteen. The Irish education system is made up of: primary, secondary and tertiary school. The school is open for all the children, unless you choose to send your child to a private institution. Children don't have to attend school until the age of six. To the primary school are 8 years, where you learn: languages,maths,enviroment and scientific education, physical integration ecc..

Education in Ireland is free at all levels. Students wear uniform. The secondary school is made up of: junior cycle, of 3 years, transition year, of 4 years where you learn work activities and senior cycle, of 2 years. After you must choose if go to tertiary school or not. Tertiary school is made up of:  universities,institutes of technology, colleges of education and Private Colleges.
The different between italian school system and irish school system are little. We start with the nursery school at the age of six, directly with primary school. We don't have to wear uniform and we do, in all, 16 years at school and they do 17 years.

INVICTUS GAMES

The Invictus Games is an international Paralympic-style multi-sport event, created by advisor of Prince Harry where play people disabled without an arm or a leg, at sports like wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, and indoor rowing. The first Invictus Games took place in March 2014 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. The motto is: "I am". 14 countries were invited to the 2014 games, there were teams from all the invited countries, except Iraq, competing in the games. The 2017 games are being held in September in Toronto, Canada. Bebe Vio (Beatrice Vio) is an italian girl who plays at Invictus Games without arms and legs at fencing, sitting in a wheelchair. She is a champion.

        

                                 THE ORIGINS OF SURNAMES

The surname indicates the family of membership of a person. In Italy it is used to write the surname after the name of the person. The first surnames in Italy there were at the end of 900 century and to use it were only the noble. Then between the tenth and the eleventh century all people had a surname.

                      MY SURNAME PELLEGRINO
The surname Pellegrino was first found in 1129 with Papiro Pellegrino, from a noble family in Palermo. The meaning of Pellegrino (in English "pilgrim") is a person who makes a journey to a special place for religious reasons. This surname in my town Mondragone is enough known.

The animated history of Pixar

Pixar is an animation studio that has released many popular movies in the last twenty years, like: TOY STORY, CARS, UP AND THE INCREDIBLE. It started as a computer company that sold powerful computers. Then they decided to make animation videos to show off the power of their computers. In the 1990s, Disney asked Pixar to produce three animations films. One of these films was the movie TOY STORY. It was a huge success and made $316 million worldwide. From that point Pixar became an animation studio. Then, making TOY STORY 2 Pixar and Disney had some disagreements. To put an end to these quarrels was Disney's President because he decided  to buy the company.