Halloween

Do you remember a movie"A prefect world"?

Clint Eastwood plays a escapee who escapes from prison and be friend with a boy that he takes hostage.That boy's mother was very strick,she said they were Jews and prohibited the boy played with other children to trick or treat.But the child's nature is playing, the boy was eager for the Halloween costums .So when he was roved with Eastwood, he stool a ghost dress from the store.In Halloween night,he had a unforgettable memories.

In that movie,I know the most importan festival of Britian----Halloween.In that day ,people will dresses up like vampire or witch,the children always dresses up like black cat or ghost.They carving a grimace on pumpkin and put a candle in it to expulsion of ghosts.Children will knock neighbours' door to ask for candies,if them unable to gain the candies they will make some troubles,call 'Trick or Treat'.













This Sunday is my first Halloween in the UK,I need make a good plan of it!Yearning!

The UN's member states

This blue background and yellow stars flag is the European Union's flag.The EU was established on 1 November 1993.Before that it had another name:European Economic Community.In 1957, only six countries created the European Economic Community,there are France,Germany,Italy,Belguim,Neatherl and Luxembourg.

Now the European Union is composed of 27 soverign member states:Austria,Belgium,Bulgaria,Cyprus, the Czech Republic,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungray,Ireland,Italy,Latvia,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Malta,the Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Slovakia,Slovenia,Spain,Sweden,and the United Kingdom.
Yeah,the UK is a member of the UN.At first,the UK wanted to join the UN,for some reasons,it was refuse.The UK joined in 1973,but it still use their own money----the Great Britian Pound,not Euro.

In the above countries,Romania and Bulgaria were the newest members in the EU,they joined on 1 January 2007.

The four nations of Britain

This picture shows the evolution of the Union Flag .The Union Flag is a flag containing three other flag,St George’s Cross of England,St Andrew’s Cross of Scotland,St Patrick’s Cross of Ireland.

From the above we can see the flags of three nations. England flag has a red cross with a white background.The flag of Scotland has blue background and white cross.The flag of Ireland has white background and red cross. The Dragon of Cadwallader is not in the Union Flag,for the reason Wales had been a part of England when the flag was designed.









White and green background and a red dragon in the middle is the flag of Wales.


The plant of four nations are not the same.

Rose is the England’s emblem . Because the civil wars (1455-1485) between the royal house of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose) and the royal house of York (whose emblem was a white rose).After the war the rose bacame the symbol of England.

The national vegetable of Wales is the leek,flower is the golden daffodil.In China,we use leek fried with egge,it is delicious.

Thistle is not a beautiful plant. It has shape needles all around it. Few people like it. But the people of Scotsland liked it so much that they made it their national flower.

Shamrock is the national flower of Northern Ireland.

There is a legend about the shamrock.Usually shamrock have three-leaf,the four-leaf is uncommon,if you find the four-leaf shamrock,the leaves will bring good luck to you.

According to this superstition,we all can find our luck in my life.

Recommended reading:

http://www.wardsbookofdays.com/12april.htm

www.hollandtugofwar.co.uk/History.html

http://www.emerald-isle-gifts.com/irish-road-signs---plates/irish-fun-car---home-stickers/shamrock---ireland-map-irish-car.asp

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~macfie/scots_index.html

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/l_d.htm

[07.10.2009] The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages,the castles were built to protect against attacks in the war.The kings and his relations were lived in the castles to control the country.Today,we can see the castles survival were almost built at that period,after the Middle Ages,the castles were less useful.

The churches and cathedrals were the symbol of that period.They were built by Christians.I am interested in castles and churchs,because they were full of mysteries.They were built in many years ago,and only availabled to the royalty or Christians.But today ,we can visit them every time if we want to.

In the class,teacher told us,there is a castle called Caerphilly Castles in the Wales,we can take train to visit it .I think I will go to that old castle to visit!