BOGOTA'S PARKS

By: Santiago Rodriguez

In Bogota there are different tipoe of parks, someones are from the city hall and other are private parks. there are some temathic parks as "Mundo Aventura" or "Salitre Magico" that had different mechanic attracations and others natural parks as "Simon Bolivar" in which people can pass a good time playing sports, riding bicycles or having a camp day.

 

Many of the private parks of Bogota has many different services like horser for ridding them, travels in boat and some restaurants for pople eating after a long happy day. Also these parks have different play zones on different fields for different sports like Tennis, Soccer or basketball and some other parks make activities som special dates or occations like a kite contests or, sport day or a gym group. In Bogota there are may different type of parks all with their special sevices but all are make for the same purpose, enjoying people with their open green spaces and play zones. 

Public Library Cultural Center:

The public library Julio Mario Santo Domingo is one of the four major libraries of the BiblioRed (Red Capital d e Bibliotecas publicas de la alcaldia mayor de Bogotá y la secretaria de educacion Del distrito capital). It is located in the park zone San Jose de Bavaria, calle 170 carrera 59-64.It opened its doors in May 26 2010, it is equipped with an excellent technology and it has an infrastructure to attend almost 1,2 million people of Suba and Usaquen.

Also, it counts with nice spaces, mixed with varied and innovative activities, which wakes up children, adolescents and adults an interest for reading, writing and arts.

We made an interview to an employee of the library, Antonio Forero, that knew almost everything about the library:

-What do you need to take Books or movies from the library?

- Antonio: You need a membership card, which is free to acquire in the BiblioRed webpage.

-At what time does the Library opens and closes?

-Antonio: In Mondays from 2p.m to 8p.m, from Tuesdays to Saturdays from 8a.m to 8p.m and on Sundays from 9aa.m to 5p.m

-How many books dos the library has?

- Antonio: It has 36,000 books and our goal is to have as much as possible.

-In what sections is the library divided?

- Antonio: It is divided in collections that are the general, reference, literature, hemeroteca, children and youth and Bogotá room collections.

-What are the available activities of the library?

- Antonio: The library has activities for families, kids, youth and adults and scholar public like “I Read with my Baby”, “The Story Time”, “Literary Café”, “Library, Literature and school” and much more counting with concerts and theatre plays.

-How many people work in the library?

- Antonio: Almost 70 people

-Who is the architect of the library, what important things did he made?

- Antonio: Daniel Bermúdez,  He did a great job with light and air, the air is the same one as the outside one and the library uses outside sunlight as much as it can. Also with sound and vegetation.

Our festivals

Rock al parque

The largest and most attended festival is "The Rock Al Parque" This project was born in 1995 with the intention of generating mechanisms of tolerance and coexistence among young. The festival have being for over 17 years. This show lasts three days, is celebrated in the month of June or July during the first three days and it takes place in the "Simon Bolivar Park". Gathering international guest bands, national and district levels.
Musically, the festival has historically brought together the best of Bogotá and Colombian rock talent, along with major figures from the exponents of Latin America and elsewhere.

Juan guerrero

Shrine of the Fallen Lord of Monserrate

Is a minor church of the Roman Catholic religion, it is at the top of Monserrate hill, east of Bogotá, which is dedicated under the patronage of the Fallen Lord of Monserrate. The church is a pilgrimage shrine that is part of the Archdiocese of Bogotá.

 The construction of the first chapel was authorized by Juan de Borja in 1640 the bachelor, Don Pedro Solis, who finished in 1657, initially under the patronage of the Black Virgin of Montserrat and soon replaced by the image of "Santo Cristo dropped to whips and nailed to the cross ", by Pedro de Lugo Albarracín master carved in wood and some pieces of lead and silver. This building had a chapel and an adjoining convent where recollect monks of St. Augustine lived until 1685, when they were replaced by the Cabinet of Madrid, by Candelario father

RESTAURANTS

I think that restaurants is like a place so good for going with your friends, family and too you boy or girlfriend. This place I like it so much because we don’t only go there for eating,  we go to for having fun and to talk and laugh at the same time we are eating.

Today I went to corral and I ate a hamburger like you now or if yoy don’t nowcorral is  a place were you eat fast food and is so delicious. Here I think in my opinion there are the most delicious hamburgers of the country and the potato’s too I think that are so delicious I love the potato’s  of the corral.

One hamburger cost without cheese cost $9.100pesos   and with cheese cost$11.00pesos. When I went to this place with my pareths they tell me like why we have to come and eat here and I tell them like no is that I have to make a project, but they didn’t  trust me but when I star to make some questions to the person who was in the catcher they tell me like oh yes is for a project.

I like so much this place is one of my favorites that why I came to this place and I ate here and that’s why I went with my parents.

  

                          ENTERTAINMENT               

BOGOTA have a lot of thinks were you could have fun  and to now different thinks about bogota

So I  will talk about entertainment in bogota. There are a lot of place were you could go and visited. Those places could be like monserrate, la place of bolivar, the planetarium, different parks. So I will talk about each one like moserrate here you could go to pray and to go to the church you have to go in a “telesferico” or if you like walking you could go walking like one or two hours  is like a mountain that you have to walk I have never do that .

In la “la place de bolivar” this place is not like so good for visiting because it is not that beautiful you will like to see but I will talk about because is a important place in Bogotá. So this place is in the center of bogota and is to famous for how is the arquitecture and all that.           

The planetarium too is so near to the center of bogota. This is place is so fantastic because you could learn here about the starts how they are , there color, is they are older or are young. This place is so good for coming with your friends, family or with both.   

The parks there so many parks in bogota like one of the most famous park el parquet de la 93 this park is good I love to go there in Christmas because you could see all with thinks of Christmas all is decorated and all looks fan tasting all looks so good.

I love bogota and those places that I have tell you.       

Valentina Parra                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

CINEMAS J

This place is so famous because you come here with you friends , family, and too with you boy or girl friend and you have lot of fun.

Lets talk about cinemas this place is so famous because this is the place were all the persons come and see new movies that have been come to the place you are you could find cinemas every were in the malls and there are too theatres.  So this they I went with my father to the cinema we went to see harry potter we were so bore in the house that I tell him like dad lets go to the mall and do something and he tell me like no lets go to the cinema and I tell him like yes lets go . when we were there I remember  that I have to do the homework of English so I star to do it after I enter to see the movie .

We were paying the entrance to see the movie it cost one entrance six thousand pesos we pay in total 12 thousand pesos, we enter there and we eat some snakes, like some pop corn and something to drink like a coca cola .

Form me the cinema if like my favorite place because we have lot of fun and we could have time with my friends and family. The most important part of the cinemas you see lots of new movies they have lots of kinds like comedy, romantic, science- fiction , of terror and too of funny toys. You could eat here like pop corn, a hot dog, or too a ice cream and for drinking you could drink water , a coca cola , or a juice. In this place you could not be bore or yes if you don’t choose the best movie for you .

I love this place J  

COLFERIAS

So this activity that we went to colferias was about expociencias this activity was because some of our friends have differents projects .those projects were created by the students not all the projects that were there were of the Abraham Lincoln, there was too some different schools like the colsubsidos school, there was too the alianza francesa and too many schools, but the project that I like the most it was from the school colsubsido there were too girlds that have like a plastic bag but that plastic bag was made of the nutrients that have the“yuca” and they tell me and my friends how to do that. So we were there and we look how was make the plastic bag of nutrients of the “yuca” so first they have to have the “almidon “of “yucca”and then it was like to put in something really hot , and then it same like some chemical treatment so if you put some much  almidon of yucca the plastic bag would be so ugly and so hard . that plastic bag have only 7 days to “descomponerce”.

There were so much projects that a I like to much like the plastic bag of “almidon de yuca”. But it also there was a project that was frpm the school it was about two cars but each one was different from the other the frist care have like some “imanes “in al the part of car and in the think were they have to have the race in the part of the car like “imanes “” it have too in the parte of the race. And in the other part there was a car that was a normal car with some weal’s and the part of the race was the same so the project was about wich one of those cars were faster so the girl tell me like which one is going to be faster and I tell her like the normal car and she tell me like no because of the “imanes “that were there the thinks go faster , so for me that was something new and   so interest .

I like to came colferias because it is not only about science , I went to, to the “feria del carro”that was to good I have a lot of fun because I see all the cars that were so fantastic it was so good. You culd see lots of thinks in this places and have a lot of fun with you friends, family and you to along too because you could learn lots of new things.

Valentina Parra (:

BOTANIC GARDEN

by : santiago rodriguez

The Botanic Garden José Celestine Mutis is place in which people can know and observe different kinds of plants and the different ecosystems that Colombia has in which they grow. This garden is divided into different areas in which grow different types of plant. Some of this areas are: “El Paramo”, “Bosque de Niebla y Trepadoras”, “Frutales y Huerto Tradicional de Clima Frio”, “El Humedal”, “Bosque de Lauráceas”, “Herbal de Plantas Medicinales”, “Jardín Sistemático”,  and the “Bosque de Gaques”.

The Botanic Garden has different services for people that visit it school and other institutions. The Garden has a service in which the Garden helps teachers for organizing visits and for getting a guide and teaching students about environmental conservation. Another service is the children’s vacations in which kids are send all mornings to the Botanic Garden form Mondays to Fridays during vacation times. Also the Garden has a library and a club for kids having good time learning about botanic and conservation.