The Egyptian pyramids are an impressive monument to the power of ancient pharaohs as well as to the toil of numerous slaves. It took 20 years and one hundred thousand workers to build the grandest mausoleum in world history the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) at Giza.
It is the oldest of Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one survived to our days. Khufu’s Pyramid stands 140 meters tall and can be seen from a far distance. Inside it there are three burial chambers: the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the underground chamber.
The Great Pyramid is surrounded by several smaller pyramids. They served as tombs for pharaohs and their close relatives.
The pyramid complex at Giza is guarded by the Sphinx carved from limestone. It has the head of a man and the body of a lion. The bottom part of the monument is buried under the sands.
School life
In our school begins at the age of six. Many boys and girls usually leave school at the age of seventeen.
School year begins on the first of September. It is the Day of Knowledge. Children going to school with their bags and flowers on the first school day look so clean and nice. Some of them wear unifirms, but some don't.
Classes usually begin at eight. At primary school childfen have classes five day at week. Saturdays and Sundays are days off. Every day schoolchildren have five or four lessons. Pupils sit in rows and follow a regular timetable. There are many different subjects on the timetable. Children study Belarusian and Russian, Math, Nature Study, Art, Music, PE and Handicraft. Many schoolchildren study English. After the second lesson they have lunch.
When classes are over about one o'clock, many pupils have dinner ar school. After classes they go in for sports, dancing, drawing and other famous and interesting places, theatres and cinemas with their teachers.
Schoolchildren have autumn, winter and spring hoidays for ten days. School is over at the end of May an summer holidays are the longest.
The legend of the leprechauns says they are a great shoemakers. Men make shoes for different representatives of the other world, for example, for the fairies, who I love to dance and often snachimoy their shoes. However, to catch a leprechaun at work so far, no one has ever succeeded - they usually seem to eye with only one left Shoe in his hand.
Leprechauns considered masters in search of treasures. Each green man has his own pot of gold, pointed at one end of the rainbow. But only the owner can show their treasure person.
Numerous legends tell that caught the leprechaun will perform three desire of man and show him your treasure. But the little men are very clever and always strive to deceive, for example, to slip instead of the real treasures silver coin that is returned to the owner or gold, which turns into a piece of grass, ash or something else is unimportant.
Kate asked, why I was eating that piece of cake.
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