Music: All Saints "Pure shores"

I've crossed the deserts for miles
Swam water for time
Searching places to find
A piece of something to call mine
(I'm coming)
A piece of something to call mine
(I'm coming)
(I'm coming)
Coming closer to you

Went along many moors
Walked through many doors
The place where I wanna be
Is the place I can call mine
(I'm coming)
Is the place I can call mine
(I'm coming)
(I'm coming)
Coming closer to you

I'm moving
I'm coming
Can you hear, what I hear
It's calling you my dear
Out of reach
(Take me to my beach)
I can hear it, calling you
I'm coming not drowning
Swimming closer to you

Never been here before
I'm intrigued, I'm unsure
I'm searching for more
I've got something thats all mine
I've got something thats all mine

Take me somewhere I can breathe
I've got so much to see
This is where I want to be
In a place I can call mine
In a place I can call mine

I'm moving
I'm coming
Can you hear, what I hear
It's calling you my dear
Out of reach
(Take me to my beach)
I can hear it, calling you
I'm coming not drowning
Swimming closer to you

Moving, coming
Can you hear what I hear?
(Hear it out of reach)
I hear it calling you
Swimming closer to you

Many faces I have seen
Many places I have been
Walked the deserts, swam the shores
(Coming closer to you)
Many faces I have know
Many way in which I've grown
Moving closer on my own
(Coming closer to you)

I move it
I feel it
I'm coming
Not drowning

I move it
I feel it
I'm coming
Not drowning

I'm moving
I'm coming
Can you hear, what I hear
It's calling you my dear
Out of reach
(Take me to my beach)
I can hear it, calling you
I'm coming not drowning
Swimming closer to you
(Take me to my beach)

I'm moving
I'm coming
Can you hear, what I hear
It's calling you my dear
Out of reach
(Take me to my beach)
I can hear it, calling you
I'm coming not drowning
Swimming closer to you
(Take me to my beach)

Miscellaneous : Nursery games

Who hasn't played hide and seek or I Spy in our childhood? Here are some games we've all played for sure :

I Spy with my little eye, something that begins with ... (a letter )  ==> VEO, VEO

Eenie, Meenie, Miny, Moe ===> PITO, PITO, GORGORITO
Catch the tiger by the toe
if it hollers let him go
Eenie Meenie Miny Moe
You are it!

To play hide and seek = jugar al escondite

To play blindman's buff = jugar a la gallinita ciega

History: Queen Elizabeth I

We're about to date back to the 16th century, when Elizabeth I succeeded to the throne after her stepsister's death. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's daughter had always had differences with Queen Mary I as for religious issues. The English Church experienced a thorough change during her reign although her cousin's shadow, Mary Queen of Scots, floated around her (something she could not take).
Here's an excerpt taken from Wikipedia about Queen Elizabeth I:

The reign of Elizabeth restored a sort of order to the realm following the turbulence of the reigns of Edward and Mary when she came to the throne following the death of Mary in 1558. The religious issue which had divided the country since Henry VIII was in a way put to rest by the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which re-established the Church of England. Much of Elizabeth's success was in balancing the interests of the Puritans and Catholics. She managed to offend neither to a large extent, although she clamped down on Catholics towards the end of her reign as war with Catholic Spain loomed. The war lasted from 1585 - 1603. In 1588, the Spanish Armada was decisively defeated, marking the beginning of England's rise as a naval power. Indecisive skirmishing continued throughout the 1590's, with English privateers pillaging Spanish commerce from America.

The queen ran afoul of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, who was a devote Catholic and had been forced to abdicate her throne as a consequence ( Scotland had recently become Protestant ). She fled to England, where Elizabeth immediately had her arrested. She was eventually tried for treason and sentenced to death, being beheaded in February 1587.

Elizabeth died in 1603. Her closest male Protestant relative was the King of Scots, James VI, of the House of Stuart, who became King James I of England in a Union of the Crowns.

to date back = remontarse ( a un tiempo pasado)
stepsister = hermanastra
thorough = completo
realm = reino
to clamp down on = tomar medidas drásticas contra
to loom = telar, avecinarse (en este caso)
skirmish = escaramuza
to flee = huir
treason = traición
to behead = decapitar
relative = pariente

Quiz Game: Christmas songs

Try to figure out which of these titles are popular Christmas songs.

1. Happy Christmas
2. Merry people
3. Silent Night
4. Love is love is love
5. Jingle bells
6. Santa Claus is coming to town
7. Snow angels
8. What child is this?


ANSWERS
1. Happy Christmas 3. Silent night 5. Jingle bells 6. Santa Claus is coming to town 8. What child is this?

Music: Owl City "Peppermint Winter" (Christmas song)

ENGLISH
There's the snow
Look out below
And bundle up
Cause here it comes
Run outside
So starry eyed
A snowball fight breaks out
And winter has finally begun

I twirl through the driveway with angelic grace
Till I slip on the sidewalk and fall on my face
This peppermint winter is so sugar sweet
I don't need to taste to believe
What's December without Christmas Eve

Hop in the sleigh
And we'll glide away
Into the night
And we'll sip on moonlight
Runny nose
My frosty toes
Are getting cold but I feel alive
So I smile wide

The snowflakes start falling and I start to float
Till my mean older brother stuffs snow down my coat
This peppermint winter is so sugar sweet
I don't need to taste to believe
What's December without Christmas Eve

All this holiday cheer
Heaven knows where it goes
But it returns every year
And though this winter does nothing but storm
The joy in my heart is ablaze and it's keeping me warm
It's keeping me warm
It's keeping me warm

I rip off the wrapping and tear through the box
Till I end up with 45 new pairs of socks
This peppermint winter is so sugar sweet
I don't need to taste to believe
What's December without Christmas Eve

TRANSLATION
Ahí llega la nieve
Cuidado, mira hacia abajo
y abrígate
porque aquí llega
Corre hacia afuera
Los ojos tan estrellados
Una pelea de bolas de nieve estalla
y el invierno finalmente ha llegado

Me contoneo por el caminito a casa con una gracia angelical
hasta que me resbalo en la acera y me caigo de cabeza
Este invierno de caramelo de menta es tan dulce como el azúcar
No necesito probarlo para creer!
qué es Diciembre sin su Noche Buena!

Súbete en el trineo y nos deslizaremos
hasta bien entrada la noche
Nos beberemos a sorbo la luz de la luna
Narices que moquean
Mis dedos de los pies helados
se están enfriando más pero yo me siento vivo
y sonrío ampliamente

Los copos de nieve empiezan a caer y yo me pongo a flotar
hasta que el mezquino de mi hermano mayor rellena de nieve mi abrigo
Este invierno de caramelo de menta es tan dulce como el azúcar
No necesito probarlo para creer!
qué es Diciembre sin su Noche Buena!

Toda esta alegría navideña
Dios sabe donde va a parar
pero vuelve cada año
y aunque en este invierno nada más que hace tormentas
La alegría de mi corazón está en llamas y me mantiene calentito

Desgarro los envoltorios y rompo las cajas
hasta que me encuentro con 45 nuevos pares de calcetines
Este invierno de caramelo de menta es tan dulce como el azúcar
No necesito probarlo para creer!
qué es Diciembre sin su Noche Buena!


;) Merry Christmas everyone!