WHAT IS GLOBAL ROCK CHALLENGE?
1980: Global Rock Challenge started as 'Rock' n' Roll Eisteddfrod' in New South Wales,Australia,with a small number of local high school. In 2006 over 400 schools and 40,000 students competed in 50 shows across Australia.
1993: The event openend in New Zealand,with 20 schools and 2000 participants. New Zealand now has 171 scholls and over 16,000 participants.
1995: An English policeman visited Australia,and saw the Australia Eisteddfod Challeange. He liked it and decided to introduce it to the UK in 1996. It started in England with an event in Portsmouth. It is now a national 2-day event that takes place every year at the Hackney Empire Thearte in London.
2006: The African continent became a part of the GRC family! Over 2,000 south African students performed on starge in Jahannesburg.
Today: The Global Rock Challenge takes place in 50 locations worldwide, including New Zealand , Germany, the UK, the Republic of Irland, the United Arab Emirates and south Africa.

                                   The weird world of sports!
Cheese-rolling.
Cheese-rolling takes place every May Gloucestershire, England. Competitors run down a very steep hill (in places it has a 1 in 2 gradient!)...and why? They are following a very big local cheese that rolls down the hill! Every year there are hundreds of spectators. The Master of Ceremonies,in traditional costume,starts the race. A special guest lunches the cheese,and the participants follow. The person who arrives at the bottom of the hill frist wins the cheese!
Zorbing.
Zorbing is a new sport from New Zealand. It's not a competitive sport. The 'zorb' is a gigantic inflatable ball,abount 3 metres high, and contains another smaller ball. The ball made of clear plastic. A person (the zorbonaut) stands inside the zorb,and  rolls down the hill. During the journey, the zorbonaut feels strange sensations, and sees blu sky and green grass,blue sky ... green grass ... blue ... green ... The inflated sphere is very soft,like a cushion,so it isn't dangerous!
Speak Takraw.
Speak Takaraw is a popular sport in Malaysia and other countries in Asia. Speak means 'kick',and Takraw means 'ball'. It combines football,volleyball and gymnastics in one game! There are three players in a team,and the two team stand on opposite sides of a net. They can't use their hands or arms. Players are very athletic!
Bossball.
Bosseball is a new,musical sport from Belgium. It is a combination of volleyball and trampolining,with live South American muisc! Players play on a inflatable court,with round trampolines and a net. People play it at school,on the beach and at music festivals. Teams of 3-5 players can use their hands,feet or hand to hit the ball over the net. They jump on the trampoline, and try to keep the ball in the air. A team can touch the ball eight times before they pass it to the other team. The bossaball referees play live music while the teams are playing!

                                                             avril lavigne:3
 Avri Lavigne is my  favorite signer. Lavigne is the young singer/songwriter whose first album came out when she was only seventeen.

Avril Lavigne was born on 27th September, 1984,in the smalltown of Napanee in Ontario,Canada.She was the middle of three children and liked to be the centre of attention.She always knew she wanted to be a singer and when she was twelve years old she taught herself to play the guitar and wrote her first song.She sang in the local church and at festivals. When she was 16 she went to New York where she was discovered by Antonio Reid who got her a contract whit Arista records.But New York was not a success for Avril and so she moved to Los Angeles.Here she met the producer,Clif Magness, who helped her whith her career.
In 2002 she released her first album,Let Go,which sold millions of copies worldwide.Her music is special and her  music conveys emotions inespiegabili and that is bicouse she is my idols.

THE ORIGIN OF MY NAME

                               
Diminutive of Antonia, named after the Latin gens Antonius, probably of Etruscan origin and of uncertain significance; hypothesis is that it meant "priceless", another is "fighting, which addresses" in the Renaissance has spread to the 'hypothesis unlikely, that can be linked to the Greek word anthos, meaning "flower

                         ALL ABOUT ME
 Hi! My name is Antonella but for my friends it's Nella, I'm from Mondragone in Italy and I'm 14 years old,. There are four people in my  family: my brother Luca, my dad Francesco and my mom Giustina. 
My life is music, I love rock. My favourite singers are Avril Lavigne, Sum41 and Simple Plan. My hobbies are singing and playing the guitar.My biggest dream is becoming a singer.