INTRODUCTION
This section focuses on entertainment in its many different ways. You willbe able to read about a popular TV series starring a philosophy teacher, an interview with a cheerleader and two articles about sports. You will also find a recipe for one of the most popular Polish dishes – pieroggi.
MERLÍ - A Successful Series
Merlí is a Catalan dramatic comedy series starring a philosophy teacher, who will choose a group of students to teach them to think, to question all the aspects of life and he teaches them to set objectives, using methods that sometimes are not very orthodox.
Merlí becomes a philosophy teacher, because of his unemployment. He loses the apartment where he lived and he has to move to his mother’s house. Also, from then on, he will have to take care of
his son, who had been living with his mother (Merlí’s ex-wife), and learn to live together. The Àngel Guimerà High School hires Merlí, and there, he will try to make their students think over and
reflect. However, the teenagers will pass through different and difficult situations that they will have to overcome. The series tries to introduce philosophy in the everyday environment of young
people, in order to encourage them to enrich themselves. It has about 40 episodes divided into three seasons, which bear the name of a philosopher. This series can be seen on TV3, La Sexta
(Spanish TV channels) and also on digital media such as Netflix, who bought it for the great success that it had had.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y3lAJPwhOo
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Zoe Luque (Barcelona)
Cheerleading
You've all heard of cheerleading. Usually we know it as a break program in basketball games or in the American football. Its origin is in the USA. But cheerleading is more than that – it is a sport by its own in which the athletes (usual girls and women) train intensely. Cheerleading consists of elements of gymnastics, acrobatics and dance.
Here you can read an interview with the cheerleader Franka, Berlin.
The Interview
Today I will interview Franka, a cheerleader of the Berlin Scorpions.
Reporter: "Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions!"
Franka: "You're welcome!"
Reporter: "Ok, since when are you going to cheerleading?"
Franka: "Since January 2012."
Reporter: "And how did you come up with the cheerleading?"
Franka: "A friend of mine once had golden pompoms, she was a cheerleader with the Scorpions, of which I was so excited that I also wanted to the Scorpions."
Reporter: "Have you ever competed in any competitions, if so, which was the biggest one?"
Franka: "We have already participated in many competitions, the biggest so far was the European Championship, where we finished second.
Reporter: "Oh, great! And thanks
Leilani Sunaruk (Berlin)
Pieroggi – Polish dumplings
Pieroggi is a stuffed dough bag made of yeast, leaf or pasta dough, which is widely used in East Central and Eastern European and Finnish cuisine.
Dough:
• three eggs
• two pounds of flour (900 g)
• a glass of water
• 1 teaspoon of salt
Stuffing:
• three pounds of potatoes (1300 g)
• two pounds of cottage cheese (900 g)
• two large onions
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon of pepper
Directions:
Stuffing: Cook the potatoes until they are soft. Drain the potatoes and leave them until cool. Mince the potatoes and cheese. Mix them together in a bowl. Chop the onions and add them to the
bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Dough: Put the flour, a glass of boiling water and eggs to a bowl. Put the dough on a countertop (must be covered with flour), and knead it for 7-8 minutes. Cover it with foil for 30 minutes. Cut
to 4 pieces and roll flat each. Cut the dough into small circles, you can use a glass. The filling is placed in the middle and the dough folded over to form a half circle or rectangle or triangle
if the dough is cut squarely. The seams are pressed together to seal the pierogi so that the filling will remain inside when it is cooked.
Boil pierogi for several minutes (4-5min) in salted water, and then covered with butter or cooking oil. Serve immediately.
Milosz Lis, Patryk Chmielowski, Adrian Wojcik
What about Athletics?
During last summer, the 24th European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. This stadium is a piece of history, especially for athletics. In fact, exactly there,
Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler. Moreover, in 2009 Usain Bolt set two world records (100 and 200 mt).
During the week between the 6th and the 12th August, around 1.500 athletes from 27 different countries, to which ANA (Authorised Neutral Athletes) has to be added, competed to pursue their dream.
On the top of the medal table there is Great Britain, followed by Poland and Germany.
But, who were the main characters?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen: a Norwegian middle-distance runner. He is less than 18 years old and he have already won two gold medals (1 500 mt. and 5 000 mt.) at the European Championships ! That doesn't
happen everyday. In fact he is the youngest person who ever won two continental gold medal in this sport.
Armand Duplantis (alias Mondo): from Sweden, another athletic novelty. He is almost 20, and he is already a high level pole vaulter. He is the reigning European champion, beating the king of pole
vault, R. Lavillanie. The symbolic picture of this last hugging Duplantis, tells the history of a handover. Moreover, with a 6.05 high jump, he set a new U23 world record.
Ramil Guliyev: from Turkey, he is the new 200 m. European champion. The final time, 19.76, is not that far from the European record, set by Pietro Mennea. Maybe if he hadn't raised his arms on
the finish line, he would have done it.
Sandra Perkovic: a discus thrower, representing Croatia, this is her 5th consecutive European gold. Since 2010 nobody has been able to beat her, except at the World Championship of Pechin, where
she got “only” a second place.
Petra Camilli (Rome)
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Sport and Kiiking
Sport plays a really important role in Estonian culture. First time Estonia competed as a nation was at the 1920 Summer Olympics, but the National Olympic Committee was only established in 1923. Estonian athletes took part in every competition in the Olympic Games until the Soviet Union occupation in 1940. The 1980 Summer sailing event was held in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Most of the medals won by Estonians are in wrestling, weightlifting, cross-country skiing and athletics. Despite the fact that Estonia’s football is not really in the top, we still love a good Sunday League match where friends come together and play a little bit of football.
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Kiiking is an Estonian sport game which was invented by Estonian man Ado Kosk in 1993. “Kiik” means swing in Estonian. The main goal of kiiking is to pass over the spindle with the longest shafts possible. In a kiiking swing, the swing arms are made of steel to make it possible to swing over 360 degrees and to go over the fulcrum of the swing. The swing can be fastened up only by feet. It can only go faster if the person on the swing starts squatting and standing up on the swing. If the person is skillful enough then it will take him over the fulcrum.
Mattias Kauk, Janar Korjus (Tallinn)