Turn for Tennis

National tournament of tennis starts today and some Escuela Internacional Sampedrana students are participating for first place. The event will take place in Club Social Hondureño Arabe (Arab-Honduran Social Club).

Representing in the junior category are junior Jose Raul Duron, sophomore Stefano Kafati and junior Andrea Abudayeh.

In the first round, competitors of S.P.S. and Tegucigalpa play against each other. In the second round the competitors can be of the same place the player is representing (i.e. Tegucigalpa against Tegucigalpa).

Last year Abudayeh got between the first three places of the competition in the women’s category. Tegucigalpa won last year’s first place in both categories

“We proudly represent San Pedro Sula (S.P.S.) and I pretend to win first play in order to go to this year’s Central American tennis competition” says Abudayeh.

“This time I will do my best to win first place for San Pedro (S.P.S.)” exclaimed Duron and added “I’ve been having training real hard this two weeks, and my efforts would be seen today after school when my first match begins.”

“Some of the competitors are hard, but with a hard concentration and a lot of courage, we may win the matches” says Kafati.

“I think San Pedro Sula will be greatly represented by Jose, Stefano and Andrea” says junior Mario Castro and added that “we students have to support our friends so they can win.”

Tegucigalpan competitors arrived yesterday in order to get a good sleep for today’s competition.

Plant Donations for junior social work

Juniors of Escuela Internacional Sampedrana (E.I.S.) donated plants for social work and moved them up to the greenhouse area on Friday, April 29, 2005. Each junior was required to bring 6 green leafed plants, 4 flower plants, and 1 palm tree, for a total of 11 plants.

Although the plants are considered donations, not bringing them would result in loosing social work hours that the student can not make up later.

Junior Erick Ramirez, who did not take the plants, said “I can’t believe that we can’t make up the time lost for not bringing these plants, they are supposed to be donations, and we should not be affected for not bringing them.”

The deadlines for bringing in the plants have been changed several times. First the plants were required to be turned in at the beginning of April. Then it was changed for April 14, this date was changed because it contrasted with other social work activities. The final date was ultimately set for Friday, April 29.

Junior Jeffrey Mollinari said, “Finally at least they kept to the date, I’ve had these plants since 2 weeks ago when they were originally set to be turned in.”

According to Jeffrey Mollinari, the disorganization of the people in charge of social work has affected students who are sometimes accused of being irresponsible and disorganized.

The plants are going to die if they give them a proper treatment said biology teacher Jessie Willing and he also commented that the ones that had less life expectancy were the flowering plants

The plants are to be planted in 3 weeks in a public school and in the E.I.S. campus

“We should have given the plants the day we are required to plant them” said junior Andrea Handal and added that “the way they have less chances of dying.”

Cool rooms in warm temperatures

Air conditioners are already in use in Escuela Internacional Sampedran (E.I.S.) since the beginning of this week. All the air controllers have been given to the teachers for them to turn the air conditioners on.

Temperatures in the classrooms have decreased from 37º C to 18º C and less in some cases.

“Both us and the students are happy of having air conditioners because many of us couldn’t work with very hot temperatures” says Jesus Collantes and adds that “last year the temperature was lower that this year for about four degrees.”

“The air conditioners would be there for future generations as well” says principal Sor Reina Rojas and comments that “with the air conditioner we eliminate the short schedule and that way we will have more hours of school

Classes are colder than last week said sophomore Jose Hernandez and added that it was better to end the day at 2:00 pm and be with air conditioners than leave at one without the air conditioners.

The air conditioners were supposed to have been given since the week after spring break.

The air conditioner installers said there were too many air conditioners to install before the time there were supposed to be given because they had to install for secondary and primary.

“It’s not fair that we had one week without air conditioners and we were leaving at 2:00 pm, we should have one week with air conditioners and leave at 1:00 pm” demanded junior Yasmin Vasquez.

Some students like junior Marcela Valle are saying that classrooms “are too cold for us because they are in very low temperatures.”

“I prefer to be cold than to be hot” says Vasquez.

Basketball team is traveling tomorrow and they are
Ready to win


The ABSH basketball tournament starts this Thursday and the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana (E.I.S.) teams are traveling tomorrow to the tournament that takes place in Tegucigalpa. The teams are playing for the first place in bilingual schools in Honduras.

The categories in which the participating teams are: the freshmen, which are people form ages the youngest age in secondary to 14, junior varsity team, ages 15-16 and the varsity team from ages 17 to the oldest age in secondary.

Both male and female categories are going to play.

The rivals of the E.I.S. will be announced at the tournament said sports coordinator Juan Santamaria.

The school teams participating are from Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and la Ceiba. The other places don not participate because they are not part of the ABSH association.

“The hardest team we are playing against is The American School of Tegucigalpa, especially in the varsity category” says junior varsity player Maria Duron

“We hope to bring first place for all the categories” says Asthor Rubio varsity trainer, and adds that “we have great players in each team that will give us the victory.”

“We are training hard in order to get the trophy because that way we could give some trophies for the E.I.S. this year” says Kevin Romero three-point shooter of the varsity team.

“There haven’t been many first places in soccer or volleyball this year” comments Romero and adds that “we may have lost the AASCA (American Association of Schools on Central America) tournament, but we wont loose this one because the participants are less hard.”

“The freshmen teams have a great motivation and are ready to give everything they can in the game” says freshmen coach Marisol

Night of Stars

The first big musical contest that juniors social work are holding in Escuela Internacional Sampedrana (E.I.S.) this Saturday, is going to take place in the E.I.S. Cafetorium at 5:00 p.m.

“The best singers and bands of San Pedro Sula’s schools are invited to participate in this event!” exclaims junior Yasmin Vasquez, and adds that “the winners will get fabulous prices.”

“In this event you will see a lot of music genres because of the wide variety of contestants” says junior Emma Lopez

“Social work is doing this contest because we are raising funds to make a greenhouse for our social work year as well as other generations of E.I.S.” says Juan Paz, junior social work president.

It is the first time junior class does this event. They have done the talent show but more than 90% of the bands and singers participating are from E.I.S. In this event more than 15 schools are participating, and many E.I.S. bands are not allowed to participate. They can just be invited guests.

“We are receiving donations from many of our sponsors, like Pepsi, in order to lower our expenses” says social work guider Fatima Bravo and adds that “we are also trying to make as much publicity as we can, but some students aren’t cooperating”

“We are working hard to make an outstanding decoration in the Cafetorium” says Lopez and adds that “the problem is that the Cafetorium is too big and we don’t have a lot of time, and some people aren’t doing what they are supposed to do.

The menace starts next week

Progress reports are going to be issued to students from 18 to 22 of this month in Escuela Internacional Sampedrana (E.I.S.)

Those students who have a grade lower than 70 will get a progress report starting next week. “I’m sure that I’m not going out next week because I will a get a lot of progress reports” says junior Erick Ramirez.

“Even though there are many high scores than last year, there are still a high number of people with low grades” says Jesus Collantes, math teacher

“There is going to be a lot of progress reports for this bimester because people tend to do lower their grades in the last one because the year is about to end” says principal Sor Reina Rojas and adds that “students must do their last effort to get better grades. They shouldn’t get satisfied with the minimum passing grade they need.”

“I’m just tired of doing too much homework. Teachers should issue less homework” says freshman Maria Duron.

“It’s alarming the great increase of progress report I need to give this bimester” says Stephen Ellis, United States History teacher.

“We also get tired because of the hot temperatures” says junior Ramirez and demands that “air conditioners should be turned on by now, instead of having them turned off.”

Air conditioners cannot be turned on because the date in which it should be given is not until next week said Carlos Cruz, air conditioner installer. He also commented that the air conditioners must be tested before giving them.

Champion’s league tension increase

As the semi-finals are decided

The European Champion’s league (most important soccer tournament in which the best European teams play) is reaching its end as the semi-finals were decided this Tuesday and Wednesday. Chelsea, A.C. Milan, Liverpool and PSV Eindenhoven classify to the next round.
Milan won by a global marker of 3-0 against the Italian team Inter of Milan. In the first game they won 2-0 as the local team in Guizeppe Meatza Italian stadium. In the second game they won 1-0. The second game was suspended because the Milan goalkeeper Marcus Dida received a hit from a firecracker that was thrown by the Inter fans.
“It was a great game” says Jorge Pagoaga Escuela Internacional Sampedrana (E.I.S.) “but I still wanted the Inter to win” added Pagoaga. “Milan had always the classification in its hand” says junior Jorge Canahuati.

Chelsea won against Bayern Munich by a global marker of 6-5. In the first game Chelasea won 4-2 as visitor in the Berlin stadium. In England, as local, they lost 2-3 but because of the first result they qualified.

“It was a great game with a lot of goals” said sports coordinator Juan Santamaria. “It was hard to predict who was going to win” said junior Jose Raul Duron.

Liverpool, a British won by a “tight global marker of 2-1 against Juventus (Italian team)” said junior Duron. In the first game, Liverpool won 2-1, and in the second game they tied 0-0. “Juventus was the one that had to win because it’s a better team” said junior Felipe Lardizabal. “Liverpool fought well for the qualification” exclaimed Duron.

“The PSV Eindenhoven of Netherlands won surprisingly 1-0 against the Frecn team, Olympic of Lyon in the last game” says Lardizabal. The global marker was 3-2. Lyon only had to tie 0-0 or 1-1 but the PSV won by a goal at the last minute.

Making the band

Erick Ramirez, Dennis Vallejo and Jeffrey Mollinari three Escuela Internacional Sampedrana (E.I.S.) students are trying to make a band since the beginning of the year. They all have the same passion to make music and now they are achieving their goal

This goal started since Aug. of 2004. Up till now they have their band complete. Mollinari is the bass guitar player, Vallejo is the lead singer, Ramirez the guitar player and its newest member Alejandro Rodriguez, a high school graduate which plays the drums.

The band has not been able to play live because it was completed recently and there is no event for our band to play said Mollinari. “We could play in the battle of the bands (a big band contest) but we aren’t ready enough for it.” Said Rodriguez

The band initially started with seniors Fernando Penavad as the second guitar player and senior Diego Zeron in the drums. “We left them because they played in other bands and we never had time to practice our songs” says Ramirez

“They played well, but we needed to practice” says Vallejo “they taught us how to play the guitar in a simpler way” adds Vallejo.

“We haven’t been able to practice with the new band because there are always events that must make us postpone our practices” said Mollinari.

“I can’t criticize the band because I haven’t seen it play yet” said Mr. Izaguirre Music teacher.

“We are going to do a lot of practice this vacation” said Vallejo