Graduation Speech!

Hello everyone, i would like to thank my parents for letting me go to this great school next year and for letting me have all of these unforgettable memories here at IST. This is a very sad moment and a very happy one too, sad because some of us are moving to different school and happy because we are all growing up together. Thank you friends, family and teachers for these amazing years!!

Buongiorno a tutti! Io vorrei ringraziare i miei genitori per avermi lasciato andare a questa scuola prossimo anno e anche per avremi lasciato avere tutti questi ricordi indimenticabili qui ad IST. Questo è un momento molto triste e anche molto felice. Triste perchè tanti di noi vanno ad una scuola diversa prossimo anno e felice perchè siamo cresciuti assieme. Ringrazio miei amici, la mia famiglia e i miei insegnanti per questi anni stupendi!!!

Personal Entry on Trieste

Hey okay well if you are coming or would like to come to Italy i would tell you to come to Trieste. Why well because it has a beautiful sea shore that is on the Mediterranean Sea! the water in the summer there is warn and gorgeous and it has so many beaches! There is a castle on the shore, it is called the Castello di Miramare it had a very famous Prince Maximilian and his wife Charlotte. He died in Mexico and never saw the castle get finished. You can take a tour of the castle, it shows you everything it is very pretty inside. In the summer time the bar is open in its gardens and the lights are on at night. It has the most beautiful gardens so many flowers and now they put a green house there and it is filled with butterflies. The sea underneath the castle is protected and the fish that swim there cannot be fished and no boats are allowed to pass. So no swimmers either there was only once a scuba team that could go and i went! It is really beautiful and there are even caves! it has such a variety of fish that is amazing. Then in Trieste there is the Risiera di San Sabba that is the only concentration camp in Italy. t is a very sad place but it shows you how the Germans tried to cover everything up. There people were cremated or burned to death and they were kept in little camber as big as your shower or smaller. It is a very sad place and we went there with the school if you come here you should go. Now that you know some stuff about Trieste come!

Editorial Commentary, Buddhism

Buddhism is originally from Tibet and is still practiced there, it is the native culture. The main thing that you have to understand about Buddhism is that they think that you should think more about others than about yourself and that you should do anything to help others, especially the poor. Don't get to attached to material goods instead you should get attached to feeling and how people are on the inside. Since people are a material you shouldn't even get attached to them but to their emotions. The body is just a material thing in which you learn your lesson through weather it may be compassion, anger management, or to love. Buddhism is a very simple religion, you aren't forced to do anything but you can help someone by meditation, meditation is when you relax your whole body get rid of everything around you and try to send your positive energy to someone. If someone in your family is sick you can send your energy to them. The most valued people of all in this religion are called Buddhas they are people that have woken up from the sleep of ignorance -they have understood the nature of reality- and are ready to pass their knowledge on. From what we know the Buddha used to teach people there the is one thing on the earth: suffering that is cause by desire and to stay on the straight path, you have to try to follow the four Nobel truths which are:

• Suffering: all the things that you want but can't get is suffering, birth, money, aging, illness etc.


• The cause of suffering: the desire that then lets you be reborn.


• The cessation of suffering: when you make the desire stop.


• The way leading to the cessation of suffering: the Nobel Eightfold Path.

When you die they think that you wait for you family, switch places -mom becomes daughter, father becomes mother etc.-then you get assigned a lesson and then you are reborn but this time you have a whole new lesson to learn and you don't remember any of your past lives. So you are always together, if you grandfather dies then he is waiting for all of you up there. 365

Synopsis 10,Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 3, Ann Brashares

The last and most interesting novel of the sisterhood of the traveling pants is this one: Forever in Blue. This time Lena is living in an apartment on campus and is taking an art class. In the art class she sees this guy called Leo... he is very cute but she doesn't want to ask him out she wants him to ask her, one day after Leo asks her to his house for dinner and that is were they met. Then they decide to paint a picture of themselves (her of him and him of her) then one day Kostos comes back and is expecting Lena to come rushing into his arms but she slams the door in his face. Tibby leaves Brian so Effie wants to get with Brian and she does... Tibby is so jelous that then she understands how much she loves Brian and gets him back. Bridget goes to Turkey so she is going to be away from Eric the whole summer, while she is there she meets this guy called Peter and he had fallen for her as much as she had fallen for him but then she rememberd that he had a family: a wife and 2 kids! At the end of the summer she goes back and there she remembers how much she loved Eric. CArmen decides to go to Acting school and there she finds a good friend called Julia but Julia doesn't get the part she tries out for. Carmen as a joke tries out and then gets the part! its the lead. When Julia finds out she stops speaking to Carmen and that is when CArmen realizes that she misses her friends and she is really lucky to have friends like Bee, Lena and Tibby. Effie gets so mad that Brian left her that she goes to Greece to see her grandparents and she steals the pants. The she looses them! So the besties go to Greece to find them, they don't but they know that the pants were the ones that kept them toghether at the beginning but now they can be far apart or close and near but their friendship will never dissapear!

Historical Entry, Castello Di Miramare

The most beautiflu caste in Trieste in my opinion is the Catello di Miramare. As you can see in photo on top it is surruonded by water. In the castle there lived Maximilian and his wife Charlotte. He discoverd the bay of Grignano while sailing, he looking for some refuge from a great storm. He started constructing it in 1856 it got iits name from awsome sea views. He was living in the castle while the workers were constucting it and he never got to see his gougeous castle. He went to Mexico and there he died... his wife Charlotte died shortly afterwards. Now the castle is a museum for the public. You can go and see exacly were he lived. The castle has beautiful botanic gardens were there are bars in the summer and there is the natural sea water reserve in its surrondings. There are no swimmers or boats -nothing- swimming or passing by it. The fish there are not kept but they can come in or out whenver the want. If you want to know some more about Maximilian here it is: His full name is Maximilian of Hanseburg, he bacame the emperor of Mexico were he died. His garden is 22 achers long and was designed by Archdue Maximilian. On the cliff were the Castle was built on there was no agriculture but now there are various tropical plants. The furniture in the castle is definitly one of a kind and of the time period. The castle is very attractive all time of year.

Trieste, Comune

In Trieste the most famous Piazza is the "Piazza dell' Unità d'Italia" and in it there is the town hall. My dad works there and I think it is one of the most beautiful buildings in all Trieste. The mayor works there and his name is Roberto Dipiazza and he has been the mayor since 2001 and was elected mayor twice. He is born on February 1, 1953 and he first became the mayor of Muggia and then the mayor of Trieste. The town has many old buildings that have been preserved very well. The town hall looks down on all the piazza and the Mediterranean Sea it is one of the most beautiful views of the city. As you can see in this picture it has a gourgeous structure and a beautiful shape the picture was taken in the winter at Christmas time. It is situated on the gorgeous "Piaza dell'Unità d'Italia" which has some of the most important building of the city. Like the town hall and one of the most important hotels of the city of Trieste, it is called "The Duchi da Osta" and it serves amazing food and has great services. In the piazza there is also at least 2 bars one of them is also a restaurant which in the summer has set lots of tables out outside. From what i have told you about the piazza and about the town hall which in itlaian you say: comune, you could make out that Trieste is one town to see! If you ever come by Venice it is worth the trip to stop here!269

Synopsis 9, Feud, Lady Grace

Lady Grace notices that one of the Ladies in waiting is sick and she was about to get married. Lady Sarah needs to try on some of the Queen's clothes to see if they fit and pose for a painting. While she is there Grace finds out that she has a passion for painting and that one of the paints is deadly and that is the yellow one. It has a poison called orpiment. One of the other girl's father got severely injured by Carmina's parents she is called Lady Horsely. Carmina wasn't getting any better and she actually might die and Grace is trying to give her some coal because she thinks that someone might have poisoned her with the orpiment. Lady Horsely was very sad about her father and might have wanted revenge and that was getting back at Carmina because that would hurt the father even more. So she sprinkled more orpiment over some sugared apricots and tried to feed them to Carmina for the last time when the queen came in and stopped the whole thing and sent Lady Horsely to jail.

Synopsis 8, Betrayal, Lady Grace

Lady Grace strikes again and this time Lady Sarah has run away with a man and his name is Captain Drake one of the 2 men that were fighting over her when they went to another one of the Queen's castle's the other man's name was Captain Derby. But there was one thing wrong with the letter written by Lady Sarah to the Queen saying that she ran away and those were the G's she always writes them with a big curl and these were normal. So Lady Grace decides to follow her onto the boat on which she is about to get married. So her best friend Masou comes with her and they cut her hair off. they can't seem to find lady Sarah any were and they think that Captain Drake has stolen her and kept her captive until the wedding. But as soon as they notice that she is not on this ship they go to Captain Drake and he tells them that Captain Derby must have stolen her so they go over to his ship and they save Lady Sarah and bring her home to the queen without a scratch.

Italian Entry, Narrativa

This year in Italian, Narrativa we are reading a book called Stranieri Come Noi by Vittorio Zucconi. It means strangers like us it has lots of little stories in it my favorite is: about a boy that his friends call Testone in which all the kids around him take drugs but he doesn't and he uses another way to let out his anger which is soccer. He play in a local little team and he wishes to go to one of the famous teams and the most famous one of Brazil is called Botafogo. One day a representative of that team come and goes to see him play since he is one of the best if not the best player in his town he does a great game until the end were he want to make is finishing move and the goaly grabs his feet and he falls the next thing he knows he has a cast but from that day on he was so happy and Vittorio asks him why, and Testone shows him a piece of paper that was in his cast that said: you are really good kid as soon as you gt better call me on this number and well make you try out for the team.

Drama Entry, A Mid Summer Night's Dream

This year in drama we are doing the play a Mid Summer Night's Dream. In this play there are to many boys so some girls have to play boy parts, or more than one part. I am one of the people that have to be a boy, my part is Bottom he is one of the lead parts, Hermia, Helena, Puck, Bottom, Lysander, and Demetrious are all lead parts. Bottom is a VERY dramatic person that wants to become and actror, in the end he gets to play infront of the duke and he plays the part of Pyramuos in the play Pyramous and Thisbie. In the play Thisbie is a boy (so the parts are reversed).The other main parts are in another story, Helena loves Demetious but Demetrious loves Hermia and Hermia loves Lysander and Lysander love Hermia. Then Puck puts a magical flowers on the boys' eye and both of them fall in love with Helena but she thinks it's a joke! In the end Puck puts the flowers on the right people's eye and it is a happy ending.183