Como viene siendo habitual, el Día del Fundador se hizo, en el laboratorio de Física y Química (que, no es que no lo sepáis, pero está en la planta más baja), el taller de Física y Química.  Como cada año, ¡se han vuelto a superar! Click here to read more »

Como ya es sabido, el día 26 es el día del fundador del Colegio Brains. Sin embargo este año se tuvo que celebrar el día 25, dado que el 26 era sábado. Y como todos los años, durante este día se prepararon diversas actividades desde el departamento de Actividades Culturales. Click here to read more »

Constanza Giacomelli. De Canadá a un pueblo de Córdoba…

They say that everything in life happens for a reason, although we cannot seem to understand why until much much later.

The day I turned 14, my world collapsed on me and I could not do anything about it.  My parents went through a devastating crisis, my mother got sick with a horrible big depression, and all led to a very painful divorce for all of us.

Mum and I went to live with my aunt and uncle, leaving everything behind us… and this happened more than once, when we moved back and forth the endless times my parents tried to make things work.  But at the end, despite all efforts, it was impossible.

Each one of those times I moved leaving something dear to me behind, such as my drums, my basketball practices, and more importantly my dear cat, Snow.  In one of the trips I lost my beautiful and shy cat, breaking my heart in pieces.  But I still had Smokey, my other adored grey, lazy furball, Smokey.

And after living a very easy and comfortable life, having almost everything I wanted, all I could do to ease my pain then was to sing.  I was singing in the shower, in the car on my way to school, in the basement of the house or simply in the backyard, where I would look for refuge to avoid listening to fights and problems.  And it always seemed to work.  As soon as I started singing, I could feel relief and my pain would go away mitigating my sadness and my fears.

Life went on and so did our problems and pain.  The situation seemed to get worse by the day, and I was terribly lonely and scared, but during all this time I could not bear to trouble my family and make them more worried or burden them with my feelings and problems.  The most logical thing would have been to socialize with my friends.  But during all those difficult times, they all avoided me, and never once invited me or included me in their plans the way they used to up until the crisis hit my family, afraid I would bring my problems to them. Nothing was further from the truth.  All I wanted desperately was to have a blast with them and forget everything for a few hours in their company.

And I kept singing.

Things only became more difficult when my mother decided to live in Spain, where she would publish her books and find peace for the two of us.  The idea seemed awful to me. The small town where mum wanted to live, without a mall or a movie theatre but with plenty of churches and processions almost every week, was very boring and old fashion to me.  We headed back to Montreal giving up the project and the dreams of my mum.   But once I was back to my friend’s indifference with temperatures dropping to minus 40 degrees and all the problems arising again, my memories of what I had just seen, in that peaceful little town in Cordoba became a mirage in my desert.  As soon as summer arrived and I finished my school year, we left Montreal, my piano, my friends and my gorgeous Smokey behind.  That’s how we started a life in Spain, in a small rented house in the idyllic heart of la Villa, the artistic, historical and most traditional barrio in town, where everybody seemed to love us instantly.  Strange as it may seem, I never needed my playstation, t.v., or any electronic device, which I replaced very soon with unforgettable moments in the company of all those wonderful friends we made and for the first time in my sixteen years I learned the true values of life.

And I kept singing.

I admit it hasn’t been easy to go to public school in a small town in a language I had never studied before, change my eating habits replacing my cereals with ‘tomate y aceite’ on my toast, and hardest of all spending winter without heating in a house, although very soon I found the pleasure to spend my evenings studying incredibly warm with a brasero under the dining table.

Nevertheless, I decided to make it.  I studied really hard, never cried or complain much, just got up every day and made it work.   I decided to use adversity in the best way I can, and that’s what I keep doing every day.   I’m certain dreams can come true for everyone, no matter how many obstacles we find along the way.

We only have to believe in them.  And work hard.

And I kept singing…

Como todos los años, por Halloween, los alumnos de 1º de la ESO escriben su propia historia de terror para posteriormente leerla en clase ante sus compañeros con las luces apagadas para crear un ambiente más apropiado. Click here to read more »

Esta evaluación en Ciencias Naturales hemos tenido la oportunidad de realizar un proyecto cooperativo en equipos de cuatro. Click here to read more »

El año pasado un alumno se quejaba porque debido a la “manía” de algunos profesores del Centro a participar en carreras no podía adherirse al grupo de facebook “Yo tampoco vi correr nunca a mi profesor de Educación Física”. Click here to read more »

Cinco de la tarde. Pasillo de la planta baja del Colegio Brains. Puerta de la sala de ballet. Ante ella, Jack Skellington, Sally y demás seres “burtonianos” cobran vida para ser personificados por una oleada de alumnos-actores que aspiran al espíritu arcadiano.

El casting de Interpretación tuvo una acogida mayoritaria, y todos esperaron su turno para ofrecerles sus talentos y saber hacer a los directores de Arcadia: Raquel Hermosilla, Laura Estrela, Miguel Ángel Burillo y June Chafe, via audiovisual desde Australia. Además, contamos con la presencia de Gorka Culebras, colaborador del grupo de teatro, que puso todo su empeño en descubrir quién es quién en este milagro teatral.

Atención, tras el casting de Canto y Coreografías, el espíritu de Burton cobrará vida en los arcadianos. Estad preparados.

Grupo de Teatro Arcadia

A continuación os mostramos una guía de lectura que nuestra bibliotecaria de Secundaria, Anabel Chaves, ha preparado para todos vosotros. Click here to read more »

Este curso 2010-2011 hemos asistido a una nueva promoción de nuestros alumnos de Bachillerato, la XI Promoción, por ello el sábado 14 de mayo tuvimos una emotiva celebración, en la que todos fuimos testigos de esta etapa que se cierra y dimos la bienvenida a nuestros futuros universitarios. Click here to read more »

Mucho más que un crucero. Un viaje de fin de estudios es mucho más. Es visitar ciudades como Venecia, Rávena, Atenas… es viajar en barco con compañeros y amigos y convivir con ellos las 24 horas del día durante una semana.

Hemos visitado ocho ciudades distintas, y las hemos conocido a través de excursiones bien diferentes, desde visitar la Acrópolis de Atenas, hasta coronar un volcán en Santorini y tirarnos al mar desde un barco. Hemos pateado las calles medievales de Dubrovnik en Croacia y nos hemos perdido entre los canales de Venecia.

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