Hello friends!

Come and discover Trankbar, a nice town that we visited with our class!

We went to Trankbar, a little town in Tamil Nadu, on the 31st of August. Trankbar was a Danish colony from 1620 to 1845, then it became a British colony till India got its independence.

Trankbar was a very important and busy port when it was a Danish colony. We entered by the Town Gate, built around the town. It was a very silent place. We didn't see so many people as in Pondicherry. First we entered in the New Jerusalem Church, a white building, surrounded by a garden. It was very calm inside. Then we walked on a road where we saw many Muslim houses, Tamil houses... And we went to the ancient port, Dansborg. It was an old fort with a museum inside. The museum contains precious objects of the Danes and information on the ships which arrived to the port. Dansborg is quite vast and empty. Near the fort, you have the beach, the Bay of Bengal. Our favourite place was the beach, we really enjoyed it as you can see in some photos!
The people in Trankbar are very generous. They let us enter all in their house for water.

Trankbar

So I am going to tell about Trankbar situated in karekal, I really really enjoyed my trip to trankbar with my friends and teachers.
So trankbar is a place where Danish people lived. When we reached Trankbar, we saw a super big town gate (called "Landporten" in Danish). We entered (the street called king's street) we walked ahead. First we went to a church called "New Jerusalem church" so there a man told us a long story about the church.
Then we were very tired, we reached the end of king's street and we drank some water in a heritage house. In front of the heritage house we saw a super big fort.
We went in, and all over the fort and then to the beach so we were eagerly waiting to go there and we went there so we didn't want to leave but we had to go.
We saw a beautiful bungalow but we didn't enter. Finally we left Trankbar and a big good-bye to Trankbar!!!

A Danish fort in India!

On August 31st, we (my class and I) went to Trankbar, Tharangabadi, with Mme Mathis, our English teacher and some other teachers. Trankar is a small fishing village which became a Danish town. It is situated in Tamilnadu (near Karaikal). There, we saw an old Danish castle which was built in the 16th century under the leadership of Governor Rolland Crappe when they came there for trading. Nearby the fort, there are two churches called: the New Jerusalem church and the Zion church. They also constructed a seaview bungalow, which is very beautiful, for their gouvernor.

If you have a chance to visit Tranquebar, don't miss it because it is one of a very few monuments left by Danish people in India!

Cricket

Even though Cricket is not the national sport of India, it is one of the most popular sports in the country.

Cricket is a bat and ball sport played between two teams of 11 players.

The team who wins the toss must decide whether they bowl or bat first.

A match consists of two innings.

In the first innings,while the team, who is batting, tries to score as many runs as possible, the other team bowls, fields and tries to dismiss the batsmen to restrict the score of the batting team.

In the second one, the side that was bowling takes its turn to bat and tries
to reach the score put on board by the previous batting team.

To score a run, the batsman must hit the ball with his bat, run to the opposite end of the pitch and touch the crease without getting run-out.

There are several ways to dismiss a batsman:

1. BOWLED:the bowler has hit the wicket with the ball

2.CAUGHT:the batsman has hit the ball with his bat and the ball has been caught before it has touched the ground by a member of the fielding side.

3.LBW: the ball must be going on to hit the stumps and must hit the pad of the batsman first.

4.Run-Out: a member of the fielding side has broken or "put down" the wicket with the ball while a batsman was out of his ground.

and many other ways.

There are many lenghts of matches who depends on the number of overs played in an innings: (an over = 6 balls)

The shortest one is the 20 overs match, and the longest one is the Test Match who is played for 5 days. The other format is the 50 overs match.

So far, the Indian Cricket team is doing very well, they are No.1 in Tests, No.3 in ODIs and No.5 in Twenty20s.

The team's captain is M.S.Dhoni , and here are a few majors members of the team:

Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, the legendary: Sachin Tendulkar, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Yuvraj singh and Harbhajan Singh...

We even played this sport at the lycée:
The 27th October 2010, We, the classes of 4eme and 3eme Section Euro, have played Cricket but not for long because it rained soon after.

And You, what sports do you play there in Hong Kong ?

Nehru Street (a commercial street)

You will find that Shopping in Pondicherry is a real fun, from bargaining, from the pavement, sellers to the shopping malls and plazas, Pondicherry Shopping Experience. Nehru street is the main commercial street in Pondicherry. All kinds of stores are available in the same street, you may find A to Z things in the same street if you walk along the street. In this street only the famous Indian coffee house is available, one of the oldest hotel in town.

Hello friends,
I'm going to talk about cricket which is the most popular sport in India and the Indian team. First of all, the 27th october we (the European section students) were assembled in our school to play cricket which was organised by our English teachers mme François and mme Mathis. The game is quite simple, it is played between two teams of 11 players, first the match is started with a toss and the captain who wins the toss will choose to bat or bowl. The teams which bats first will try to put a big total on the board and after that the other team will try to chase that score within the limited overs. The Indian team, led by M.S Dhoni, has been doing well in the international cricket in the last 3 years: they became the world n01 in test and the world n02 in ODI's and they won the 2007 t20 world cup. Sachin Tendulkar is India's legend player who is the first cricketer in the world to have played 20 years of cricket and he is the first man in the planet to have scored a double hundred in ODI, he has lots of unbreakable records. The other senior players remaining in the test squad are Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman who have some unbelievable records too. But now there are some brillant youngsters like Murali Vijay and Suresh Raina who are growing well.

Hope that they do well in the upcoming 2011 world cup and they become the world n01 in ODI's too.

Boy

It is a very very funny book. It is written by Roald Dahl (it's not the story of Roald Dahl himself but it is similar).

A boy called Roald is a very funny character in this book, he hates studying and he is not so intelligent.

He discovered many strange thimgs in his life. During his childhood, he changed his schools many times. And he wasn't so intelligent. Finally, will he get a job? Will he suceed in his life?

I suggest you people to read this book because it's very funny and interresting. I have enjoyed it reading thoroughly. I would read it again and again. It's an exciting story for children!