9 de julio de 2010

The Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights

My teacher used this morning this song. "Seven Drunken Nights" is a humorous folk Irish song, most famously performed by The Dubliners and others. Each night is a verse, followed by a chorus, in which the narrator comes home in a drunken state to find evidence of another man having been with his wife, which she explains away, not entirely convincingly.



The Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights


Seven Drunken Nights - The Dubliners Live from the Gaiety in Dubline, 2002

As I went home on Monday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a horse outside the door where my old horse should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that horse outside the door where my old horse should be?

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
That's a lovely sow that me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But a saddle on a sow sure I never saw before

And as I went home on Tuesday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a coat behind the door where my old coat should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that coat behind the door where my old coat should be

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
That's a woollen blanket that me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But buttons in a blanket sure I never saw before

And as I went home on Wednesday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a pipe up on the chair where my old pipe should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that pipe up on the chair where my old pipe should be

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
That's a lovely tin whistle that me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But tobacco in a tin whistle sure I never saw before

And as I went home on Thursday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw two boots beneath the bed where my old boots should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns them boots beneath the bed where my old boots should be

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
They're two lovely Geranium pots me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But laces in Geranium pots I never saw before

And as I went home on Friday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a head upon the bed where my old head should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that head upon the bed where my old head should be

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
That's a baby boy that me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But a baby boy with his whiskers on sure I never saw before

And as I went home on Saturday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw two hands upon her breasts where my old hands should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns them hands upon your breasts where my old hands should be

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
That's a lovely night gown that me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But fingers in a night gown sure I never saw before

As I went home on Sunday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a thing in her thing where my old thing should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that thing in your thing where my old thing should be

Ah, you're drunk,
you're drunk you silly old fool,
still you can not see
That's a lovely tin whistle that me mother sent to me
Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
But hair on a tin whistle sure I never saw before

Gaelic football and hurling.

Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland in terms of match attendance and community involvement, and represents 34% of total sports attendances at events in Ireland and abroad, followed by hurling at 23%, soccer at 16% and rugby at 8%. and the All-Ireland Football Final is the most watched event in Ireland's sporting calendar.Swimming, golf, aerobics, soccer, cycling, Gaelic football and billiards/snooker are the sporting activities with the highest levels of playing participation. Soccer is the most popular sport involving national teams.

Gaelic Football is played by teams of 15 on a rectangular grass pitch with H-shaped goals at each end. The primary object is to score by kicking or striking the ball with the hand and getting it through the goals. The team with the highest score at the end of the match wins. Players advance the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, soloing (dropping and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands), kicking, and hand-passing to their team-mates.
Gaelic football





Hurling (Irish: Iománaíocht / Iomáint) is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. The game, played primarily in Ireland, has prehistoric origins and is thought to be the world's fastest field team sport in terms of game play
Hurling - The Fastest Game on Grass


7 de julio de 2010

My Irish birthday surprise

Today Ann and Michael surprised me with this present for may birthday.

I am a lucky guy! They are very kind people.
Ann remember me to my grandmother Manuela.
Ann and Michel surprised me!


Michael: "Wellcome to Ireland!"

5 de julio de 2010

Ka-ching - Shania Twain

Today in afternoon´s classes we talk about Money, and the teacher used this song of Shania Twain. The world has become obsessed with money.

Ka-ching - Shania Twain
Nota: el vídeo que estaba aquí ya no está disponible en YouTube.


We live in a greedy little world--
that teaches every little boy and girl
To earn as much as they can possibly--
then turn around and
Spend it foolishly
We've created us a credit card mess
We spend the money that we don't possess
Our religion is to go and blow it all
So it's shopping every Sunday at the mall

All we ever want is more
A lot more than we had before
So take me to the nearest store

[Chorus:]
Can you hear it ring
It makes you wanna sing
It's such a beautiful thing--Ka-ching!
Lots of diamond rings
The happiness it brings
You'll live like a king
With lots of money and things

When you're broke go and get a loan
Take out another mortgage on your home
Consolidate so you can afford
To go and spend some more when
you get bored

All we ever want is more
A lot more than we had before
So take me to the nearest store

[Repeat Chorus]
Greedy = wanting more money than you really need
afford = to have enough money to buy something
mall = shopping centre
broke = having no money
blow = to spend a lot of money on something
mortgage = the money a bank lends you to buy a house

Some pictures of cork

Here you have some pictures of Cork


My host family house in Cork

Thanks to those who have congratulated me for my birthday

Two advertisements, one for mobile broadband by Vodafone an other for Bible courses.

4 de julio de 2010

The house in Cork.

This is the house where I will live during July here in Cork, Ireland


This type of accomodations is "host family". In the home are there other student.

The dinner and the breakfast are included in the fee. We will breakfast at 8, and we dinner a t 6.

The House _FIRST DAY IN CORK IRELAND 2010 07 04

Ya estoy en Irlanda!

Desde esta mañana de domingo estoy en Cork, Irlanda, para comenzar mañana un curso de 6 semanas de inglés.


Mi intención es aprender mucho y aprovechar el tiempo puesto que estaré solo por aquí hasta agosto que vengan mis niñas y Pepa, y mis suegros.

Por eso he hecho unos videos hablando en inglés antesd e salir de españa. Tambien son para ver si se aprecia la diferencia de los videos que haga cuando termine agosto.

Los fallos en la pronuciación y en los títulos son muchos y clamorosos, pero bueno, son naturales y sin preparar, así se apreciará más el cambio. Espero.

En adelante escribiré las entradas en inglés y os animo a que en los comentarios la traduzcáis a vuestra manera. Si es haciendo risa mejor.



This is my hot garden´s door!


This is the program that I watch in the tv!


Am I ready for the rain in Ireland?

En los girasoles con los amigos, 2010.

Tenía muchas granas de repetir estas fotos en los girasoles con los amigos y con Elena.


Finalmente además de Jesus y Susana, nos acompañaron Rocio y Monchi y Carlos y Mari Angeles.

Las fotos han quedado muy chulas.

From 2010 07 01 Girasoles en Alcala del Rio Sevilla Spain
Las fotos


Un vídeo con las fotos.