Teenagers

Here we go again!

2010-11-06T02:37:00.000-07:00

"Teenagers" magazine is back! With more interesting articles and information. The new issue will come out in December 2010, but until then we will be expecting your articles, poems, essays & stuff. Send them by email, at diana1977munteanu@yahoo.com and you could read them in the magazine next month!

The editorial team

Results of the school competitions

2010-05-06T05:20:00.000-07:00

-COUNTY PHASE-

Stefanescu Mihaela Gretuta(Romanian)

Deaconeasa Andreea (IX C III), Patrascu Simina, Moalfa Mihaela, Maresi Alice, Armasoiu Ana (IX C, MENTION ), Haimana Delia (XI G, I), Maruntu Madalina (XI G, MENTION )

Ciontescu Florica(Romanian )

Mitran Marta, Vladu Dorina Aureliana (X C, III), Vulpe Bianca (X C, MENTION ), Solnita Andreea (IX E, MENTION )

Gavan Elena Diana (Romanian )

Mladin Raluca (IX A, III), Stoichitoiu Alexandra, Semen Maria (IX A, MENTION )

Velican Eugeniu (Romanian )

Efrim Andreea Eliza ( XII A, I)

Paun Buzoianu Luiza (Latin )

Olteanu Georgiana (X A, I )

Munteanu Diana (English )

Butariu Adina, Petre Raluca (X C, III)

Dutulasa Ecaterina (English )

Dutuleasa C-tina Madalina( XII-H, I)

Roman Laura (English )

Capraru Manuela ( IX-G, I )

Tudorache Ionescu Adela (English )

Bozdogescu Laura Madalina ( XC, I), Brincusi Laura ( X C, II )

Radutoiu Dolores ( French )

Mazilu Raul (XII I, H)

Mititelu Maria ( History )

Haimana Delia ( XI-G, I )

Ciobanu Cristian ( History )

Lupulet Andreea, Marcu Gabriel ( XII A, I )

Cosmulescu Carmen ( History )

Sipanu Ionut ( X C, II )

Mihut Adina ( Chemistry )

Baloi Marius ( IX-G, Mention )

Miruta Ana ( Chemistry )

Scafes Loredana, Stelea Bogdan ( XII E, Mention )

Nichilciuc Sorina (PHYSICS )

Haimana Delia, Vasilica Delia ( XI G, MENTION)

Pupazan Vasile ( Computer Science )

Mazilu Raul ( XII H, Mention )

Berbec Viorica (PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS )

Diaconescu Alina ( IX E, I), Leuca Robert ( X H, Mention )

Capraru Gabriela(PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS )

Boys’ volleyball team ( I), Boy’s handball team ( III ), Boys’ basket ball team ( II ), Cross ( I )

Cerneff Cristian (PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS )

Bobei Alexandru (VI B, I ), Enache Andrei ( VIII-A, II) , Girls’ volleyball team ( III )

Popescu Laurentiu ( Music Education )

Choral AD-ASTRA “Spiru- Haret” ( II )

Gavan Elena (Logic and Argumentation)

Butariu Adina, Ciudin Vanessa ( X C, II )

Stefanescu Constantin (Geography )

Serban Marian (X C, Mention)

Guran Dana & Bărbulescu Maria

What you should know about the Cambridge examinations

2010-04-29T13:27:00.000-07:00

First Certificate in English ( FCE) FCE is at Level B2. Passing a Cambridge examination means considerably increasing your chances of turning your ambitions into reality in terms of: work, study ( scholarships abroad) or living abroad. The certificate is recognized almost by all the European countries and a part of America. Contrary to what you may have heard, a Cambridge exam is valid for life. The exam consists of five papers: Paper 1, Reading (1 hour): It contains three parts including multiple choice, gapped text and multiple matching. Paper 2, Writing ( 1 hour 20 minutes): Two parts, each requiring you to produce a piece of writing – a letter, an email, an article, an essay, a report, a review or a story. Paper 3, Use of English – ( 45 minutes): Four parts containing cloze tests, word formation, and key-word transformations focusing on vocabulary and grammar. Paper 4, Listening ( 40 minutes): Four parts with recorded texts and comprehension questions which include multiple choice, sentence completion, multiple matching. Paper 5, Speaking ( 14 minutes approximately): Four parts, generally involving two candidates and two examiners. Certificates are given to candidates who pass the examination with grade A ( 80-100 marks), B( 75-79 marks), C( 60-74 marks). The exam is held in two days, not necessarily one after another. The Speaking exam is as a rule, taken at The British Council, if you choose The Bucharest centre of examination. The written exam consists of Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, Paper 4.Use the pencil in order to write on the answer sheet and the pen for Paper 2. You should use capitals when writing your answers on the answer sheet. Did you know that … • We are in the Top 10 of the nations of the world when considering the results being on the first place at Use of English, on the second place at Writing but occupying just a humble fifth place at Speaking? • The most misspelled words in the written exam have been the following: `believe`, `environment,` because`,` accommodation`, `advertisement`, successful`, `beginning`, `which`, `colleague`? ( to be continued)
Diana Munteanu

Drugs, a purgatory between ecstasy and death

2010-04-29T13:18:00.000-07:00

A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that when absorbed into our body, alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine and colloquial usage.

Regardless of their nature, of the chemical substances they contain or of the effect induced, drugs are a doorstep...a door to another world. .a coloured heaven where truth hasn’t essences and where there is no rule to follow. In other words drugs create dependence.. and make people forget about reality.

The big, ’’fat’’ problem is that those who want to take part in that heaven would have to pay with their health or worse with their lives...All depends on a second, the second of the answer, the moment when your ‘’friends’’(if we can name them like this)invite you to play with them an exciting, dangerous game.

Curiosity can make you say: ’’Yes, I do! ’’,but can curiosity make you go back in time…in order to change your answer? The answer is: No! Once you tried it, it would’ t be enough for you to see in your head the effects of those pills, you would have the desire of knowing the accolades of the drugs, to feel the first pin in your veins or the killer fume

in your lungs...

This purgatory lives in us. However, the difference is made by education, character, mentality, etc., but what you’re looking at in the second of the decision must be exactly

the door and the key for a right decision...

You’ll have to know and understand the risks, to understand that the effects can be dramatic and that your decision can affect a lot of people, this obviously after you would have realised that your decision affects you directly..

To put it in a nutshell, drugs are a purgatory between ecstasy and death, drugs are for those who can’t accept reality, those who live in a movie, in a total disaster, in an anxious lie..

Drugs are not for you or me or for anybody else...

We’ll have to think a lot before passing this ‘’doorstep’’ because once we are in it is more difficult to choose the right door in order to get out..

Finally, ecstasy is fantastic but life is gorgeous! After all we must fight for life not against it.

All in all, I feel that you should take the following advice ‘’If you want a drug. .then fall in love with someone!’’

Roxana Beuran, X C

Interview - Portrait of a principal

2010-04-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

A school’s principal may be perceived as not a very open person. Still, a nice, relaxed discussion with him reveals a normal, but strict man, who likes discipline, hardworking and serious people. In an interview that he was very kind to give us, we found out how much “Spiru Haret” means to him, but also, how difficult it is to to manage an institution of such importance.

Butariu Adina & Petre Raluca

1. What does The National College “Spiru Haret” mean to you?

That is a very interesting question … Well, it means a lot to me and most of my time is dedicated to the college. I must take care of everything that happens here. One thousand three hundred and seven students, ninety teachers and other forty persons, auxiliary teaching staff and non-teaching staff, are under my care and that is why I spend here more than twelve hours per day. Very few people know what being a principal really means. Well … he has a lot of things to do, from making all the decisions and judgements which he has to present and after all to impose them on the others either by persuasion or another way to the representation of the college in the relationships with the self- employed persons and with the juridical persons as well, to the current administration, to providing the optimal conditions for the students: heat, light, water, hygiene, security etc. This explains the fact that I remain at school so much time. Practically, since I have had this job, this space whose name is the National College “Spiru Haret” has become equal to my house.

2. Do you believe that “Spiru Haret” has something extra in comparison with the other competitive colleges? How could it attract the secondary school graduates?

I could not say that we are poles apart from the others. At the moment, we have a business card, a statute and we project a positive image in front of those outside. We have the faith or the assumption that there are students interested in their formation and teachers interested in forming them, that there are students, teachers and others who obey certain rules at “Spiru Haret “. I strongly believe that the most important thing is this generous space which does not depend necessarily on us but on our predecessors who signed the documents of this space in 1924 – 1925. Sometimes, it also depends on shy results achieved at level of excellence. This means some competitive students with the students from other colleges, less than twenty, some assiduous teachers interested in their students’ preparation, some teachers who carry out research and write articles and psychology, methodological or pedagogy books as well. It meant a troupe of actors which unfortunately doesn’ t exist any more, it still means a choral that makes all of us feel proud of it and last but not least some chance successes which make us enter this competition.

3. We know that “Spiru Haret” is an European School. In fact, what is this statute about and how could we maintain it?

Yes, “Spiru Haret” is an European School but by the end of the year it will have already ended. This statute is awarded for three years and it is the result of two convergent issues. The first one refers to the scripted results that we achieved in what is called the educational process that is the graduate degree, the students` taking part in different competitions, the teachers’ attempts to improve their knowledge and secondly, our participation in some European projects. One of them was called “Theatre in School “ and it was coordinated by Mrs Carmen Cosmulescu, the college assistant principal, and due to her approaches we obtained this statute of European School. As I said it will soon end and we must remake the partnerships, the reference material in order to get back the title of European School and move heaven and earth to offer the other schools “something else” which for the moment I can’t feel (if you feel it you can tell me and you also can give me some advice).

4. About the school uniform, there have been several discussions and speculations. Will there be a final decision, after all? Will CNSH have a specific uniform?

“Spiru Haret” has its own uniform. I’ve been interested in this issue for a long time, since the year 2000, when we chose this distinctive outfit (I don’t call it uniform, I dislike the idea of absolute uniformity). I wanted to know clearly who studied in our highschool, but also to have no intruders here, for our students` safety. But, unfortunately, neither the students nor the teachers obey these rules and I cannot know everything that happens in this institution every day, what are the 1300 students wearing or how they behave. I would know if I were informed by the leaders of the students and by their teachers about what is happening in the school. Otherwise, it would mean to transform myself into a kind of magic eye that would be everywhere and nowhere. It seems that eventually it could be necessary to give up this outfit and find another representative one. For example, we could come to school barefooted, with trousers torn in the knees or shirts with worn elbows.

5. What’s your opinion about the students of this school, referring to both the positive and the negative aspects?

As far as I know, from the relationships established with the students, I think that you are good, hardworking, smart kids, but to develop all these qualities a certain action is necessary. Which one? A few people do positive things on their own initiative, by vocation, willingly. A few people work until the moment they feel they have accomplished what they wanted for that day. A few people, not only children, respect the rules if they aren’t in a certain way forced to do it. That’s why I could not lay criticism on my students. It has never happened to me not to get along with them. Still, there is a behaviour component that worries me: most of the students react positively only if the teacher raises his or her voice to them. Anyway, children nowadays are not better or worse than they were when I was the same age. I acted just like them: when I knew that a certain teacher was not interested in the class, I just left. But if the teacher was demanding, I didn’t allow myself to make a wrong step. That’s how you all do.

6. Finally, what do you think about our project, the “Teenagers” magazine, in an improved formula?

It deserves to be praised. Any initiative is to be admired, because we need it. It’s good to approach the most important issues, to give a decent touch to your magazine, to include in its contents many of our activities, so that all of you have the joy of fulfillment.

When Anastasia met Allan

2010-04-23T11:23:00.001-07:00

Don't forget about the play on Monday, the 26th of April, in the school amphitheater, at 19:00. We expect you and we hope you enjoy it!

Happy Birthday to...

2010-04-15T11:35:00.000-07:00

1. Stoichițoiu Dan…. April 2^nd

2. Bican Milica. . . . . April 4^th

3. Dabelea Delia……. . April 4^th

4. Popescu Angelica…. . April 6^th

5. Nichilciuc Sorina Daniela……. . April 7^th

6. Ianc Claudia Mihaela…………April 9^th

7. Moțescu Luminița…. April 13^rd

8. Găvan Elena…. April 19^th

9. Ușurelu Elena Luminița………. April 22^nd

10. Dima Luminița…. . . . April 29^th

When Anastasia met Allan

2010-04-15T11:31:00.000-07:00

Soon, for England’s Day, our school will held a play called “When Anastasia met Allan”, a romantic comedy, written and directed by Diana Munteanu. Anastasia is looking for her love and, after a long search, she founds it in Allan. The play will be held on April 26th, 2010 at 19:00 in the school amphitheater. We expect you and hope you enjoy it.

Smells like teen spirit!

2010-03-26T12:36:00.000-07:00

Until the magazine comes out, we invite you to rock your mind and soul for a few moments,with one of the best songs of Nirvana. We hope you enjoy it!

2010-03-20T13:39:00.000-07:00

The new number of the magazine will appear very soon, so stay tuned!

Editorial

2010-03-20T13:36:00.000-07:00

Dear Reader,

Thank you for trusting us . As coordinator of the magazine I want to tell you some things about it. Let me first of all tell you that this is not the first issue of the magazine.

The first issue appeared in 2001 being founded by me and class 9^th E, at that time, the class being rewarded with an Excellence Diploma by the Principal of the college for their initiative of making the first magazine of the college in English.

``Teenagers`` has had only three issues so far, unfortunately, but me and my new editorial team promise to fix that.

In order to do it, we have changed it a lot, for the better, as we plan to print it from now on, to give it an ISSN, and to vary its content as much as to satisfy as many of your preferences as possible.

Classes 9^th F, 9^th G, 10^th C, 10^th F, 10^th H, 11^th B have worked in order to make this present issue, the first improved issue of the magazine in a totally new team and format.

We hope to find our magazine interesting, as interesting as to join us on our May/June issue. Teacher or student, send your article to diana1977munteanu@yahoo.com by May 10^th and you will experience the joy of having an article in the school magazine as long as it is written in English.

``Teenagers`` is a magazine written by teenagers for teenagers so why don`t you join us?

Yours faithfully,

Diana Munteanu

Back in business

2010-03-20T13:08:00.000-07:00

"TEENAGERS, the English magazine of The National College "Spiru Haret", Tg-Jiu,is back! We promise you to be better with each number, with more interesting articles and things to find out. It's an initiative in which students from several classes contributed, with hard work and determination, guided by Mrs Diana Munteanu. In order to improve our project, we created this blog, where you can also find interesting stuff and, especially, give your impressions, opinions and recommendations about it. We will be waiting for your feed-back and we hope you will all enjoy reading the magazine. For any information you need, please contact the blog administrators.

Editorial team:
Editors-in-chief : Butariu Adina, Cîrstea Raluca, Petre Raluca
Editors : : Cârstov Isabela, Stoenescu Daniela, Găvănescu Vlad, Crețescu Horia

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