The Butterfly Circus

In the first International English class we had, we watched a short movie called “The Butterfly Circus”. It was about a man, Will, who was born without limbs, and he was a performer at a circus, where people laughed at him. One day, a circus director from another circus came to see him and the man without legs or armed decided to join his circus instead. There he devolved and became a strong man who managed to swim without legs and arms, because he was so driven and gave all he had.

The topic was hope, and this is a perfect topic for the movie, because it illustrates that you need to have hope and believe in yourself, in order to success. You should never give up, no matter how hard things get, because in the end, you will make it if you only try hard enough. :)

Every performer in the circus had struggled with an ugly past, but now they lived a great life among friends and happiness, because they joined the circus and could develop into something brighter. They were all like caterpillars, which turned in to beautiful butterflies, therefore the name “The Butterfly Circus”.

I think it was a great movie, really well made and it had a very important message!
You should definitely watch it, and here is your chance:





//Anna

International English

Hey readers!

My name is Anna, and I study at Sandvika VGS in Baerum, Norway. My hobbies are music and friends, and most of the usual things that teenagers care about! I love to travel, so English is very necessary for me! I’ve been to many countries, and in 3 out of five continents (Africa, America and Europe). This summer I was in Scotland, Italy and Sweden. I guess this is all you need to know for now!

This is my second year at Sandvika VGS. I’ve had English as a subject since first grade in elementary school, but this year we got to choose if we wanted to continue with the subject. English has always been one of my favorite subjects, because I love languages and communication. My choice was obviously to continue with English, since I’m running this blog now! You see, this blog is a task we got in my new subject, called International English. We use it to post homework and other tasks we get in class, and I think this is a great way of learning, because we learn to write English better and others can read what we write, so it’s a way of communicating with the world. My expectations of the subject, is that I think I will learn a lot and it will also be fun at the same time. I now I will have great use of it in the future. It sounds really cool that we are going to Skype with other people in English-speaking countries, and get to use the Internet to get to know the English world. I hope (and think) that this year will be exciting and that I will get better in English, both writing and talking.



Have fun reading my blog!

Anna