Dear friends! Dear pupils and teachers!
It is the 14-th of February today! The opening of the Festival of Foreign Languages and Happy St. Valentine’s Day!
And you know that the Festival of Foreign Languages is held in our gymnasium each February. It is a wonderful tradition. It means a week of wonderful discoveries, a lot of pleasant moments of happiness and joy, an opportunity to share our talents, our knowledge and skills, a chance to widen our outlook, to meet interesting people, to enrich our imagination.
Valentine Treasures
Joanna Fuchs
Valentine treasures are people who
have often crossed your mind,
family, friends and others, too,
who in your life have shined
the warmth of love or a spark of light
that makes you remember them;
no matter how long since you’ve actually met,
each one is a luminous gem,
who gleams and glows in your memory,
bringing special pleasures,
and that’s why this Valentine comes to you:
You’re one of those sparkling treasures!
Today all students had an opportunity to enjoy our traditional Valentine’s lessons! On these lessons our students made beautiful valentine’s cards, learned the history of the holiday and played games. Let’s have a look at our art workshops.
Send a valentine card with our post-office service!
Hooray! You can tell about your love to your friends, teachers and classmates! The greatest postmen in the world will deliver your card very soon! Be creative with your valentine card and don’t miss the opportunity enjoy the holiday!
What should we know about this holiday?
The 14th of February is St. Valentine’s Day, a holiday which is celebrated by loving couples in different countries. Each year on St. Valentine’s Day, people give valentine cards, candies and chocolate, flowers and other gifts to their friends and lovers.
Hearts, roses and cupids are popular symbols of Valentine’s Day. This symbol of cupid comes from ancient Roman times. Cupid was the son of the love goddess, Venus. He was a playful child who flew around shooting love arrows into people’s hearts, making them fall in love.
According to the legend…
According to the legend, the Emperor Claudius wanted to have a strong army consisted of unmarried men. He thought they would defend their emperor better. But young men didn’t want to leave their families to fight emperor’s wars, so Claudius prohibited them to marry. A priest named Valentinus lived in Rome at that time and he felt sorry for the young people, so he decided to marry them secretly.
Soon Claudius found that out and put Valentinus in prison. He was sentenced to death. While in jail, Valentinus fell in love with a jail’s daughter. She was blind, but Valentinus managed to cure her (he had some special abilities to do that). The girl brought him food and left paper messages. The night before his execution, Valentinus wrote the last note to his love and signed it with “Your Valentine”. Valentinus was executed on the 14th of February.
Find your favourite quote about Love!
- Friendship is Love without wings! (Lord Byron)
- Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein)
- Love conquers all. (Virgil)
- One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. (Paulo Coelho)
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin)
- Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. (Simone Signoret)
- Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Benjamin Franklin)
- In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. (Janos Arnay)
