Ice Breakers

The other day in school, we were talking about things how to know each other a bit better.

To start a good conversation with someone it can be very important to have an effective way to break the ice.

Here are some good examples for Icebreakers:

• If you could visit any place in the world, where would you choose to go and why?
• What is the craziest thing you have ever done?
• What are your favourite hobbies?
• What is your goal to accomplish during your lifetime?
• What is your favourite meal?
• Who would you like to talk to (celebrity, ...) and which question do you want to ask him/her?

The 8 Companies that love Valentine's Day

Hi guys,

recently we were talking about Valentine's Day in school. We were reading an articel about companies that make the most profit around the time of Valentine's Day.
So I'd like to share some of my thoughts with you.

Companies that make the most profit are ones which are selling flowers or other presents for example 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. or Tiffany & Co.
But also Limited Brands Inc. makes a lot of profit with their lingerie products from Victoria's Secret. There are also a few other companies that are doing very well during this time.

I think that it could be a bit of a problem, that these companies are almost only making profit during this time and during the other time of the year almost none, except very few companies. But you have to say that these companies are making so much profit that days, the profit is almost even with other bigger companies.

So that's what I wanted to share with you, I hope there are some things you can agree with and feel free to comment your thougts.

See you!

My christmas holiday

Hi Raj,

I hope you are fine. We haven't had some contact for a few weeks now, that's why I want to tell you a bit of my christmas holidays. So on christmas eve my parents and I were going to the church, with a few friends. After church we went home again and ate some Racellete. It was a very nice meal and we really enjoyed it. About one hour later we then opened our christmas presents. I got some clothes, a videogame and a lot of money, because of that my parents and I were shopping on the 27th of decembre.

But first we had a visit from my uncle and my cousins on the 25th. It was a lot of fun being together with the family. Everyone was very happy.

The next big event was new year. I was invited to a christmas party near my place on new years' eve. We all celebrated and also shot a few rockets and we were partying during the whole night.

The following days were a little bit more relaxed, I just met some friends and I went to the cinema. Together with a good friend of mine I watched the movie "Assassins's Creed". Although the movie was ok I was a bit disappointed, but nevermind.
There was also a small birthday-party for a friend going on and I had a lot of fun. After that there were only a few days left until school started again.

So I think that is pretty much everything I did in my holidays. I am also interested to know what you did during that time, so feel free to contact me.

See you, Kevin

My business idea

Hey guys,

so recently we had to present our very own business idea in school. We had to make up an idea for a product/service, what we need, to reach our goals and how we want to become a successful company.
Now I want to present you a little bit about my ideas and thoughts.

So, my idea was to provide a fast and simple transport system for people in all cities and villages all over austria. So might you might asking yourself "Isn't here in austria a very good transport system?" And you are right, there are a lot of transport systems in austria for example the ÖBB, but the biggest problem of these systems is that they are often not on time. So in the worst chase your going by train which is late and you miss your bus which is going to bring you home and you have to wait for 1 hour or longer.
So beeing on time anywhere and at any time is our most important thing. That's why we need to create an exact transport plan and we need the latest technology. That's why we need to have a lot of colaborators all over the EU.

But our biggest problem hast to be to get the money we need. We have to search a location for our headquarter and build it. So we really have to find a investor who will provide us with the money we need.

Maybe in the future we want to expand all over the EU and provide every country with such a great transport system, but most important is austria.

So that's my business idea, tell me what do you think about it.

See you!

Excursion to Prague!

Hey guys,

about a week ago me and my class came back from our trip to Prague. It was a pretty interesting expercience and also included some surprises, but I will tell you more about that in the text below!

So, we were going by bus and were staying for 3 days in the beautiful city called Prague. It took us about 4 houres to get to our hotel which was called "Hotel City Club". It was alright for a school class, but I wouldn't come back at this hotel again. The rooms were ok and clean but nothing more. After our check-in we were immediately going out to explore the city with our guide. He was showing us around to see all the old and beautiful buildings, he also told us a lot about the history of the city and their monuments.
It was a pretty long day, so everyone was very tired in the evening. We fell asleep very early.

On the second day we were going on a boat trip to see a lot more of the city for example the "Karlsbrücke", and we saw the castle of Prague. In the evening we were visting a shadow theater which was quite interesting, and afterwards we had dinner in a fine restaurant, later on we were also allowed to go in a small pub and drink a beer.

On the last day we saw the "Budweiser" brewery on our way home. We saw the entire area where the beer produce was and were allowed to try the beer.

All in all it was a really nice trip, but I would not go there again in winter because it was really cold and not even a jacket was keeping my body warm. We had a lot of fun and I hope you liked my text.

See you!

Austrian stereotypes!

A few weeks ago, we, in our school welcomed an exchange student from the UK. As you can guess, he had some serious stereotypes about the austrian people and I wanted to clarify some of those.

So let's start with the first stereotype:

He said he was really suprised that we didn't wear the traditional "Lederhose" or "Dirndl" at his arrival. So this is one thing that needs to be clear! Like all the other people on the world we like to dress traditionally, but not all the time. In austria we also have the normal stores like H&M or Zara where you can buy trendy clothes just like in the UK. We're only wearing traditional things, most of the time at festivals like the "Oktoberfest" and so on.

That brings us to the next stereotype, which is that austrian people really like to drink a lot of beer at these festivals. Well, that's not completely right because we austrians really like our beloved beer but as much as we love beer we also like vine or "Most", aswell as Non-alcoholic drinks.

The last stereotype was that austrians are always on time. This is mostly correct as we take an appointment very serious, but I think for the younger generation it's not the biggest priority anymore 'cause sometimes it happens that you sleep a lot longer than you wanted to, so it's not completely correct.

So these were pretty much the most important stereotypes according to austria, I hope you liked it!

Advertisement!

The last two lessons at school we were talking about all the different kindes of advertisements and especially we were hearing about some funny advertisements. So our teacher asked us to make a posting where we should show one funny advertisement of our choice.

So this is a advertisement for a mobile phone called "EPhone 900". On this ad it says that the phone has fast internet access everywhere on the world, even when a snake is trying to bite you, the internet is faster and can show you how to dodge it.

In my opinion this is a very funny and still very good advertisement, because almost every time stupid and funny ads are going to stick in people's heads.

Personal opinion about advertising:
But my personal opinion on advertisements is very different from what I was saying before. Nowadays ads are a part of our lives but that doesn't mean they are good for us. Some of them give us unrealistic expectations of what we should look like or how to act.
So I am saying that we should take a stand and don't let advertising change our live.