WRITING 2: OFFICIAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL BANYOLES CELEBRATES ITS 10th BIRTHDAY.

Last Thursday, 8^th October at six o’clock, there was a speech in Auditorium l’Ateneu (Banyoles) because of the OLS 10^th birthday.

OLS is a public language school inaugurated in September 2005. It’s in 155 Llibertat Street, Banyoles. This school is opened evenings from 16:00h to 21:00h, and right now there are 400 adult students registered who have the possibility of learning English and French.

That is why this institution has four English teachers and two French ones.

For this reason, OLS provides students the possibility of learning five levels of English and three of French.

Four participants took part in the 8^th October speech.

First, the school’s principal, Annie Gili, talked about the school success and she also made a positive evaluation of the OLS achievements since it’s a kind of challenge running a language school which is so close to Girona, where there’s already one of it with great suggestions.

After her intervention, the director of the Educational department in Girona, Albert Bayot, emphasised the importance of proposing new projects and the introduction of other languages.

On the other hand, the mayor of the town, Miquel Noguer, congratulated the school and encouraged its teachers to keep working in that way.

Finally, an important linguist and communication expert, Sebastià Serrano, made a speech called: “Communication in the third millennium”.

Despite the proximity of the school to Girona and society’s economic situation, the OLS’s principal remarked proudly: “We ran the risk, but now the school is filled up”.