Okschoolzine The okschool magazine Okschoolzine is the magazine created by teachers and students. This is the work we have done during the last month, and in here you can read about our hobbies, interests and occupations. We hope you enjoy the reading as much and we enjoyed the writing. And if you dare, try solving our puzzles, riddles, crosswords and games. PA Touring Roma Roma, the capital of Italy, is one of the most touristic places in Europe. Loads of families travel every year to this city to have a nice time while they are learning a lot about the Italian culture and their Romanesque subtraction. Besides, there are a lot of districts where you can walk having a good time looking the views. My favourites places: The Roman coliseum: A very interesting place, just in the heart of the city. It is a coliseum where in the Roman age, Julius Caesar was the main character there. He decided if the slaves had to fight versus the Roman gladiators or versus beasts. Obviously they eventually died while the audience enjoyed watching this. You can go by bus or underground but it is easier to go on foot. The Roman forum: This monument is next to the coliseum and an interesting fact is that the ticket is the same for both monuments. So you can visit both the same day, but it can be very hard. Up there, there are endless of subtractions from the 27th BC to the 476th AD. Amazing! The Fontana di Trevi: It is mandatory to visit it. It is an awesome fountain near the Square Spain. The myth says that if you throw a single coin to the fountain you will return to Roma. If you throw a pair of coins you will find your love with a very attractive Italian. And if you throw three coins you will get marry with the Italian you met. Will it be true? The Roman pantheon: PA There is not a lot to do there but it is interesting to visit. Furthermore, it is at 200 meters from Piazza Navona where you can buy an ice-cream while you enjoying the place. “La Giolitti”: I could not miss this famous ice-cream parlor. It is one of the most older ice-cream parlors. Personally, it is my favourite ice-cream shop around the world. The “gelati” are totally handmade at the typical Italian style. You can choose two flavors among infinite types. And to top it all you can ask for “panna” (cream). Absolutely amazing! The Vatican: Right this is not Roma neither Italy but it is besides the Tiber River and near to Trastevere, an interesting district of the city. Within the Vatican country there is Cathedral of Saint Peter where the Pope resides. Besides, there are the Vatican Museums that are awesome and endless. A curiosity about this museum is that there are more than 80,000 art treasures from all the historical periods. If you allocate 2 min per artwork it will last 111 days, without stopping. Just to finish it is the Sistine Chapel, very recommended to visit. These are my favourite places of Roma and I recommend them to every type of travellers from singles to families. Enjoy traveling around the world and learning about every little thing. Angela Lanza PA Escape rooms In few words, an escape room is an experience that consists in solving some enigmas to discover a mystery and manage to get out of the scenario before the time limit. This is only a poor dictionary definition, it is necessary to try one of them to understand the real meaning of room escaping. In fact, getting out of somewhere is the least of your priorities when you are enjoying the experience. It is a total immersion adventure, the game master wants to tell a story and it is in your hands to make it real. The goals and environments are totally different in each one: you can look for an ancient treasure in a tomb or find out a serial killer, you may rescue a disappeared scientist in a biological laboratory, being part of a SWAT team or whatever you can imagine during one hour. Some escape rooms are based on films or other media: Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, SAW, Batman, Sherlock Holmes… Moreover, if you are a brave person, you should try the thematic horror ones, some of them count with real actors! Making escape rooms is not only having fun, it is proven that it helps to increase the team working, the ability to solve problems and making quickest decisions. It also improves the relationships between participants and is useful for team building. To get out of the escape room and manage to accomplish all the goals it is indispensible to cooperate, share information and ideas among the participants. PA If you want to give an opportunity to this amusement, there are really good escape rooms in Manresa and surroundings. Here there are some examples, which one suits you the most? ● La Caixa de Pandora (la Clau): Montaner brothers are the new keepers of the Pandora’s box, a very dangerous and wanted treasure. The older brother is putting the entire world in danger unless you can avoid it. ● Until Dawn (la Clau): Would you dare to spend a whole night in the Freeman mansion to prove that it is not a haunted house? Or maybe it is? ● Cindy box: This is not exactly an escape room but is equally recommended. All the experience is focused in some enigmatic and cursed toy boxes which were property of a little girl called Cindy. ● Codik: Erwin, a scientist, is asking you for some help to finish his project. Her daughter Evelyn has a genetic disease that can be healed with your cooperation. ● El misteri de la llum: this escape room is specially recommended for those interested in knowing the story of Manresa and its legends. Marta Mas. Software developer in Escola Joviat. She likes reading, watching series, trekking and playing board games. She writes monthly in the digital magazine l'Escriba about literature and culture. PA Moments and mountains Sometimes or some days all of us need an inert friend, a friend who can't breathe, who is not able to disturb you, who hasn't any option to embarrass you but who listens to your feelings, your soul, your shout and your desires. The nature, the environment, little villages, coloured fields, green forests and specially the mountains, can be your places of peace and reflections. They will never disappoint you because they are original and incorruptibles. They listen and analyse you patiently and without prejudices. Then, they stay beside you without any opinion and offering their legacy to you. In order to help you, the mountains often invite you to reach their summits. Nice! This is a present. Take it! You can feel the climb like a funny challenge or, if you want, you can approach the top like a placid walk. And then, of course, every time without exception, when you are the upper thing in an important radius, you must be able to feel happy and it is important and almost necessary to have your moment. I'm alluding to obtain your sensitive, sensational and emotional reward: everything is nice and friendly, everything is part of you and you are a little entity among the nature. It is then when you realize that you're sharing the vital PA things and the environmental factors with a little Parus (great tit, as it is commonly known), with a nice squirrel or with the amazing song from the wind. If you allow me, I can talk about some of these kind of mountains. Some of them are near, like Montserrat, with its impossible figures. Montserrat has got an infinite number of ways, routes and climbing places. It's a precious and a rambling place where you can be lost and you can meet yourself. The secret is walk up until to be far away from the people. Here, in our little and splendid country, we also can visit The Pyrenees. There are some technical or demanding routes there. I love “La Porta del Cel”. In this one, you must climb La Pica d'Estats, the higher summit in Catalonia, with 3.143 m. The ascent from the french gradient is really enjoyable. Another high-leveled route is “Carros de foc”. This is the prestigious route around our National Park: Aigüestortes. “Carros de foc” has some hard journey, especially the section that reach the “Coll de Contraix”. It requires your complete mindfulness because is easy to fall down. But the important questions here is the same at the beginning: when you've finished this stretch and you've reached the top of the windy Contraix, the reward that you obtain hasn't any opponent. Everything you contemplate is so beautiful and so yours... Marta Heredia PA Being on top of the world It is about 7 months ago that I went to Senja, Norway. Senja is in the latitude 69 North, in the Polar Arctic Circle. It is a familiar resort located up in a hill, 10 minutes away by car from the fishing village of Finnsnes. This short visit to the Observatory of Senja changed my daily life. The small Aurora Borealis that came to me was so fascinating that twisted my heart and all my soul. It was a low level one, but it was so special that made that moment unforgettable. The Aurora was so fascinating that I can still see it dancing in my dreams and I can still feel its magic! Everyday I think a bit of all of the Island with its fiords and its white-sand- beaches, I think also of Reno (the reindeer of the house) and of all of the people I met up there.