Today we practised our dances and we worked on our powerpoint presentations. We also presented our presentations, they were all great. Then we wrote a rap about the recipe. 

Selina & Annalena

Brazil was once a Portuguese colony. Plenty of slaves from Angola were brought to the south American state. They didn’t want to be prisoners of the Europeans, so they escaped in the woods and developed a martial art: the Capoeira. Today we learned four basic steps:

1.Ginga

To put your feet in a parallel position, protecting organs and head with your arms.

2.Negativa

To crouch to the side and protect your head, used for dodging frontal attacks.

3.Rasteira

To “chop” your opponents’ legs using your leg, that remains low. After the attack, do a quick spin and return to the defending position.

4.Martelo

To “hammer” your opponent with your leg.

Jakopo

In the morning we learned a dance with martial arts elements. The “dance” is called capoeira. This dance was normally preformed with music. The slaves (that were brought from Angola to Brazil from the Portuguese) learned this “dance” to defend themselves from the Portuguese. With capoeira they could also attack the colonialists.

In the afternoon we learned about Japan. We had a zoom meeting with Momoyo who told us everything we wanted to know about Japan. It was very interesting and she is very nice.

Nadir

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Today we learned a traditional dance from the Philippines and some ftraditional festivals from the whole world. We also acted them out.

In the afternoon we made different kinds of pancakes. For example the American flapjacks, the Japanese souffle pancakes and the naan bread from India everything tasted very good.

Today we learned the Tinkiling dance from the Philippines and also found out about the festivals from different cultures. In the afternoon we all got into pairs and everybody took a recipe of different types of pancakes to bake/cook. Me and Lisa decided to make the Japanese souffle pancakes. We got all different varieties of pancakes. I loved the cong you bing (savoruy scallion pancakes from China) and the naan (savoury pancakes from India). In the evening we played a big round of Werwolf and almost everyone participated. This day was really interesting for me, because I learned about different festivals and how to bake good, fluffy pancakes. -Lena

Hello everyone today we played games. We played a game were we had to say our names an find an adjetive that starts with the first letter of our names. The adjectives were: joyful, joyous, loyal, magical, enthusiastic, I was nimble. Then we played a game from Brazil called luta de gallo. In this game we had a handkerchief in our pockets and we had to try to take it from someone.

From Nadir

Today we read a book about being global. Everybody read a part. Now we know exactly what being global means. We also played two different games: the first one was called "luta de gallo" and the second "dragon". It was great and we had a lot of fun :) 

-Ambra

Have you ever played the game “luta de galo”? Have you ever made “cong you bing”?

Have you ever performed a “ginga”?

Together we will discover festivals, stories, food and dances from around the world.

We are looking forward to sharing different cultural experiences with you.

See you soon,

Yvonne and Elfi