NEWS

• MARCH 3th: THE IDITAROD TRAIL SLED DOG RACE
This is an annual sled dog team race in Alaska, USA, which takes nine to fifteen days. Mushers and their dogs race more than 1600 km through blizzards and freezing conditions.

• SAINT PATRICK’S DAY: MARCH 17th
Saint Patrick’s Day is an Irish tradition but people celebrate it all over the world. In fact, more people celebrate it in the USA than in Ireland: the population of Ireland is six million but there are 37 million Irish-American in the USA!

• MARCH 29th: COCA-COLA INVENTION DAY
Did you know that coca-cola was invented on this day in 1886 as medicine? Its inventor said the drink could cure many diseases including headaches.

• FILM OF THE MONTH: JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
This action-adventure film begins when a young adventurer, Sean Anderson, gets a distress call from a mysterious island. Sean and three friends go to the island to rescue its one inhabitant. But it is a place with strange creatures, mountains of gold, dangerous volcanoes, and many, many secrets….