Durban, a city in South Africa, is a good destination for tourism .

One of the most incredible cities for tourism on the Africa continent 

Suncoast beach is one of the most visited beaches in Durban . It is very beautiful and good for surfing.

We also have the water park and the Mitchell Park Zoo located in the morningside suburb of Durban 

I really enjoyed visiting Durban, especially the Mitchell Park Zoo and if one day you go to South Africa I advise you to visit Durban.

During the holidays, me and my family went to Luxembourg, and I got to say, even though the country is small, it has a beautiful landscape, it is very green and it has some houses that are really luxorious, at least compared to where I live

I really enjoyed going to Luxembourg and I think you will too, if you ever go there

    It is a stunning old looking city by the Douro river, I’ve only been there once, but it was enough to discover its wonders! It has lots of touristic attractions such as: Livraria Lello, Luís I bridge, Bolhão Market, etc… besides going to all these places you can also go on an incredible boat ride on the river, which I did.

    I definitely recommend visiting Porto not only for sightseeing, but also to try its delicious cuisine. There’s francesinha, bacalhau à Gomes de Sá, Broa de Avintes, etc…all of them  a chef’s kiss!

    These are some of the many things you can do and try in Porto. So remember, if you’re willing to travel, remember to visit Porto.

Malpica do Tejo is the village of my paternal grandparents which is close to Castelo Branco. I usually go there on vacation and I really like it because it's a beutiful village with a lot of meaning to me. In Malpica do Tejo we can see Spain, because Malpica is on a side of Tejo river and Herrera, Spain is on the other side. I really like going in there because it's very rich in olive groves, there are many traces of schist houses, it's a very calm village with a lot of nature and in the summer there are parties. If you are curious, I advise you to visit this village that belongs to the international Tejo park.

Hi, my name is Rafael I'm 16 years old and since I remember the best place I have ever been is Sevilla. Its ancient charm and modern allure create a unique harmony. From the Majestic Alcazar to the lively tapas bars, every corner reveal a beautiful story making Sevilla the best place I have ever been. Its warm-hearted habitants and their passion for the culture enrich every moment.That's why I loved to visit Sevilla and want to visit again.

Last summer I went on a trip with my parents, to visit Sevilla, Spain. When I got there, I was so excited to see their culture and taste their food. I spend a whole week there and stil it wasn't enough time to enjoy the place. It took a whole morning to get to the huge gray hotel, so the first day we only enjoy the night, visiting some stores across the streets. The rest of the week went busy. I also visited "Isla Mágica", an amusement park in Sevilla, were I got to ride a lot of attractions, like some roller coasters. That day, at night, we went to a fancy restaurant, and I got to eat "paella"! Thr next day after that, we went on a nice and calm morning walk, near the blue calm river. We even to speak some spanish eith strangers, it was fun!

That week passed by in a second, but we got to enjoy it very much! I hope some day I can go back there to see more of Sevilla! I really loved that place!

I am a beach and obviously you know me,

I am your favourite place to be in Summer,

But unfortunately you don't respect me,

You leave trash on the sand and that's a bummer.

This trash goes to my water and ocean,

Thanks to that my residents are slowly dying,

That only shows your poor notion,

And that you have been making a bed that soon you will be lying.

I am the principal element of all life in world

I am the I’m trees,I’m sky,I’m beach,

and all that round you

I am the melody and breath of life

Without me there not, life in world

I am the one who surffers more and more

because of human beings

Edna

Benedito Jorge

Tranquil river, mirror of the landscape. Along the banks, stories etched in stones, and waters whispering secrets at dusk. Nature in poetry, flowing gently in the eternal dance of the river.

Haruna jr

Oceans weep for the coral's plight, as humanity's impact diminishes their once vibrant light.

For in preserving my home, you protect your own, and ensure a world where beauty is sown.

I am the clown fish, asking you to see, the delicate balance of life in the sea.

Beatriz Almeida

Stronger than an elephant,

Bluer than the sky,

More beautiful than a flower,

I am a river,

I flow like the wind

I sing like birds

A melody of nature

I am a River

Leonor Oliveira

You need me to protect you,

You need me to stay alive.

I am the one keeping you from the UV rays.

I am the one having your back.

I only exist to keep you alive,

And you don’t even empathize.

Beatriz Pires

Among dancing leaves, my being expands

In the echoes of streams,I whisper “I am”

Mountains witness my eternal blooming

In the shadow of trees ,the tranquil whisper

I am the essence of earth, sky and sea

On the wings of the wind, my being scatters

Nature and I, intertwined, embracing existence

Rodrigo carregal e Martim

I am too small to be significant to you

But you kill me with no hesitation

Even that you can`t live without me.

I am a bee

I give you food and much more

But you continue to not give me importance

I pollen the flowers and plants that enchant your garden

I am a bee

You can eat you sweets because of me

But you still hate me when I´m in your room

Is that a big ask to have a good night sleep after what I do for you?

Rúben e Ana Mar

At first, it’s hard to communicate, we don’t know their words and they don’t know ours, but slowly, we learn watching how they speak, picking up a few words here and there. We use gestures, pointing and acting things out. Over time, they begin to trust us, though something always feels off.

One evening as the sun sets, the air becomes colder and we notice the villagers locking their doors and closing their windows in a rush. We ask what’s happening, but they only whisper, “They are coming.”

Suddenly the ground shakes, and from the dark woods, we hear slow heavy footsteps. Shadows move toward us. Fear grips us, and we run, fleeing back to the present, before the things in the dark can reach us.

Rafael Belchior n°15

Rodrigo Correia n°17

People always say that my house is haunted, but even so, it's not just that, I live with my parents, but no one knows that behind a normal family my parents make magic. My parents hide a secret inside the basement and they never told me, l'm very curious to know what they are hiding.

Today October 30th around 11:00 pm, I'm finally going to find out what's inside my basement. I start by waiting for my whole family to fall asleep, crawl into my parents' room, without making a sound, take the key to the lock on the basement door, go downstairs from my house and finally the time has come! I opened the door and saw a huge thing, it looked like a blue portal, I didn t know what it was, but l still decided to take a risk and enter and unfortunately I don't know where | ended up. I saw a lady, I went straight to her and asked her where we was. She answered me, but I didn't understand very well. I looked to the side and saw a newspaper of the time, where it was written October 31, 1350 (AD). I tried not to panic, but it was terrifying. The lady I spoke to took my hand and took me against my will, when | arrived there was a circle of people who tied me to a pole, I couldn't understand what they wanted to do but it seemed that they were offering me, as if I were an offering. I tried to free myself from the pole, but eventually my parents managed to get me out of the portal somehow.

I walked out of the doorway into my basement and realized that was being lectured by my parents and told them that I was very interested in finding out what they were hiding from me. I explained to them everything that had happened and especially the fact that it was not easy to communicate with the people of that time. They understood my side and told me not to do it again. And so ends my Halloween/time travel story.

Guilherme n9, Serena n19

 31st October 2024. (21st century)

   The press was going crazy as NASA created the first 100% AI controlled spaceship to celebrate their first mission to Pluto, and to show the ship’s self-sufficiency there was only one astronaut on board. That astronaut was me..Hi! I’m Beatrine and you’re not prepared for what’s coming. 

   After activating the spaceship, I got into the cryogenic chamber, programmed for 12 years…

31st October 1327 (14th century)

  As the chamber opened I realized that something was wrong. The control table wasn’t working, everything was beeping, the gravity system was crashing. Obviously I wasn’t in space anymore. I got out of the spaceship scared of what I could find out there and to my surprise it looked like I was in the past. There was a crowd around me, all of them dressed in dirty medieval looking clothes with a tired but intrigued expression on their faces. At that moment I didn’t know where I was, what had happened or who those people were. Suddenly, a path opened between the crowd and a well dressed man surrounded by guards emerged. And that’s when it hit me, that was King Edward III, which meant somehow I had time-traveled to the 14th century.

  I was taken to what I think was the King’s castle, where I was locked in a cell waiting to talk to the king. After waiting for hours, a guard took me to a big luxurious throne room with flags that I couldn’t recognize. As I got closer the King shouted:

- Who art thou? Where art thou fro? What is that gret thing that hath crashed into mine land?

-What 's this place? I don’t understand what you’re saying! - I said, confused.

-What dialect speakest thou? Art thou a witch!?- he asked.

I yelled scared:

-Witch? Where!?

-Garde! Geder her! - the King ordered.

The guards surrounded me and while they grabbed me I yelled:

-I don’t know what happened! I was on my ship and the last thing I know is that I crashed here. But I'm not a witch!

-Arreste hire! She is castyng spelles! 

Somehow I managed to escape the guards and run away from the castle as fast as I could. I was looking for a place to hide and everywhere I passed everyone kept staring at me (probably because my astronaut suit was very different from their clothes). As I passed through a corner something grabbed me into a house. There were three women and in the room there was a cauldron, bottles with plants and potions, and witchcraft books. Then they turned to me and introduced themselves:

-Ich am Winnie, and these be mine sisters Sarah and Mary, or ye may call us the Sanderson sisters. We have heard that thou art one of us, but thou art a very special witch.

Even though I didn’t understand everything they said, I understood that they thought that I was a special witch. Maybe I couldn’t communicate myself properly but at least I could understand loose information. 

-I’m not a witch! I need you to understand me. Where am I?

Somehow we managed to understand each other and they explained that I was in a land called Middle Inglis ruled by King Edward III. And that's when it hit me that maybe I had fallen into a time hole, which  meant I had to repair my ship to try to go back home. 

-I need to go home! Can you help  me?- I asked.

-We can usen magik to helpen thee.- they said.

-Yes, please!

The Sanderson sisters casted a spell to revert what happened on that day and suddenly I blacked out. I was finally going back home. Everything was going to be fine.

31st October 1327 (14th century)

   I woke up dizzy and as I looked around I noticed I was tied up to a tree and so were the Sanderson sisters. The whole population was there, and watching from his balcony was King Edward III with a proud smile on his face. That’s when I realized we were about to be burned alive for being witches. But the problem is that I’m not a witch! 

   Maybe this was only a dream caused by the cryogenic freezing or maybe I discovered a new reality but the spell didn't work. Unfortunately I’m not gonna live enough to understand what really happened. Everything ended with smoke and applauses. 

Beatriz Pires

Catarina Inácio

Once upon a time, two brilliant but crazy scientists had been obsessed with one thing: time travel. In their secret underground lab, they worked day and night with the help of their advanced robot, Z3-R0, also known as "Zero." And after 20 years of effort, they finally did it. The first-ever time machine was almost complete, the only thing left to do was to put in the fuel that was going to make the machine work.

As Dr. Anna was ready to put the fuel capsule inside the machine, Dr. Giovanna screamed, "WAIT, LET'S TAKE A PIC!" That frightened the robot, causing it to start running like crazy and bump into Anna. She got so scared that she dropped the capsule, breaking it into many pieces with liquid all over the floor. Suddenly, a bright white fog appeared out of nowhere and made them disappear.

Giovanna, Anna, and Zero found themselves in a muddy and remote village. The smell of death was everywhere. What had happened to this village? The villagers looked pale, weak, and afraid. Anna watched in horror as bodies were discarded carelessly. “This is awful,” she whispered.

That’s when Zero had an idea. “What if we help them? We could cure the plague with our knowledge!” Ignoring the risks, they concocted a "cure," mixing their advanced technology with the natural medicines of the time. They distributed it to the desperate villagers, hoping to be known as heroes.

But their cure had a terrible side effect. Instead of healing, the villagers began to convulse violently. Their skin turned gray, their eyes blank and dead. It turns out they were in the, at the time, "New England" and there was an epidemic going on. Within hours, the dead ones rose, hungry for human flesh. They had created the first zombies ever and they started spreading rapidly. There were so many zombies that the still alive people had to run away, but how? They couldn't. This was the end.

The mad scientists, with Zero, started trying to go back to the present again, hiding from the mad alive villagers and the dead creatures that they had just created. Until they realized that the only way to go back was to take the "heart" of Zero and break it just like the time machine one; all robots from the known present were fueled by this. And so they did it. Zero was left behind with the zombies, and they broke the capsule and went back to the present again.

"What...?" Giovanna asked. They were both stunned to see the whole supposedly "city" being a forest full of strange species – the ones we know, but zombified? They didn't know the right definition for the world right at that time. Chaos? Disaster? We really had no idea. We just knew that we had ruined the whole past and future and probably were the only people left on earth, having killed our creation and friend for this.

English project_Travel back to the Middle English era

Beatriz Almeida

Giovanna Lobo

Anna

12°A

Yap, that´s me, you are probably wondering how we end up in this situation.

Well, everything started when Ana and I had the idea to visit an abandonaded factory, supposedly cursed.

Badly we set a foot on teh factory, we heard someone laughing, we don´t know where it was, but it was close. We tried to ignore it, and continued our exploration.

When we arrived to the midle of the factory (at least we though) Ana stepped on a rock, so Ana wanted to show me the rock because it was a pretty unusual rock.

Badly we put both hands to leafted it, BOOM! now we are trapped in a very ild village.

So we had the brilliant idea to ask to a villager what year was it.

"We ben at 1500" (We are at 1500) said the villager.

"What!?" we said

"Witch!!! Catt hem!!!" - Villager

And that´s how we end up in this situation, now, we must run.

Now that´s we are hidden, let´s talk about this.

- "What the hell happened here" - Rúben (It´s me)

- "I don´t know, why he called us a witcher" - Ana

- "Maybe because the way we are dressed in this way and I had my smartphone on my hand" - Rúben

- "What the hell, it just doesn´t make sense" - Ana

- "Ana, we are somehow in 1500, what do you mean?" - Rúben

- "True" - Ana

- "I think, we should leave here our´s smartphones and other things like that and change our clothes for others of this period, at least until we figure out how to come back to 2024"

And with that, we lived in a new era for the rest of our lives.

Rúben e Ana

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Made by: Bruna, João e Murilo

On every corner, in every land

Making their mark, bold and true

Against all odds, they push through

Never silenced, they break through

Optimist

Magnificent

Amazing

Natural

Guilherme Pires

Open heart that always love.

Moving forward, brave and true,

Always shining, always new.

Never stops, she sees it through.

Rúben Martins, N°18

Overcoming trials in countless ways

Magic that heals the heart

Always Shining full of hope

Noble and free, She crafts her fate

Overcoming the world

Making things right

Always shinning bright

Never giving up the fight

Ana Mar Ferreirinho

Overcoming trials with strengh and love

Mind so sharp a heart so true

Always fearless, always new

Never afraid to stand tall

Serena, n°19, 12A

Of women across the world

Maintain within

Aspirations, goals and

Neverending hopes.

Catarina Inácio, nº6, 12ºA

Open heart that shows the way

Moving with grace, a soul that is giving

Always so soft, she makes life worth living

Naturally, her spirit glows

João Delgado n⁰11

Mind so sharp, heart so kind,
A strength unshaken, love defined.

Never silent, “care” is her talent.

Bruna Labaredas Nogueira, n°5, 12°A

O vercoming darkness with endless might;

M agnifcant soul, bold and free;

A lways embracing her destiny;

N ever afraid to rise and shine.

Ones might only see us as family providers.

Man...we are way more than that.

Always standing, no matter the drama.

Never giving up, even with the trauma.

Beatriz Lopes de Almeida, n°3, 12°A