Football - my favourite sport

My name is Emil and I'm 14 years old. I love football. I spend a lot of time on playing with my friends, learning some new tricks and watching matches. Messi and Ronaldo are the most popular soccer players, but actually, I don't like them. I will briefly present 5 of my favourite football players. The first one is Gareth Bale. He plays in a representation of Wales. He represents also Real Madrid club. The second player is Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. He is from Gabon, and he represents this country. Borussia Dortmund is his club. The third soccer  player is Marco Reus. He was born in Germany, and he is in the representation of this country. He also (like Aubameyang) plays in Borussia. The fourth player is Eden Hazard. He plays for the representation of Belgium. He is a star of Chelsea London club. And the last soccer player, my favourite one is Robin Van Persie. He is one of the best players of the Netherlands. He began his career in Arsenal London, then he played 3 years in Manchester United, and now he is playing in Fenerbahce club. These are my favourite soccers. I really like them and I want to play like them. I hope I will. :)

Emil Seweryn 2a

K-pop

Hello! I'm Lu and today I'm going to introduce you to K-POP WORLD! 
First of all, what is k-pop? It's music from South Korea. Sounds weird, I know, but everybody knows "Gangnam Style", and this song is from... Yeah, South Korea! As you can see, this music isn't that bad. 
There are many different bands. One of my favourites is a boysband called B.A.P, which means "Best Absolute Perfect". Sounds ambitious? Maybe, but in my opinnion it's true! 
There are 6 members: Bang, Himchan, Daehyun, Youngjae, Jongup and Zelo. Difficult? No! 
Do you think that Korean is a really weird language? All new languages are weird to us. I got used to it! 
K-pop is very interesting because of its versality. It contains rap, pop, hip-hop, ballads and much more! 
Go and enjoy k-pop!

Lea Olszewska 2a

Cicada 3301 – The biggest Internet mystery of all times

 12 of January 2012, users that were browsing 4chan the web site, came across a mysterious information:

We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them we have devised a test

There is message hidden in this image…

Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few that will make it all the way through.

Good luck.

A lot of forum users got interested in that. But at the beginning they were thinking of it as: great viral, marketing campaigne or a simple joke. Some of them even wondered if it was a NSA requirement program.

Solution to the first riddle moved the user to the next image with hidden information inside. That information took the user to another codes and mysterious riddles.

Each part of these puzzles was signed by 3301

Professional code-breakers involved into that whole Cicada 3301 thing, after having solved one of the riddle, they got a phone number. When they called  that number they heard a prepared voice message, that took them to the website, where a picture of Cicada and the countdown was published.

After the countdown on website  geographical locations of paces appeared: North America, Europe and Asia. In each of these locations they found posters with the image of cicada, below the image there was QR code.

To people that have broken another code “Cicada” sent individual tasks. But when some of them were leaked, tests were changed, and leakers were disqualified.

One month  later, 3301 announced that the person they had been looking for was found. They thanked everybody for participation and said:

There will be more opportunities like this one

Each year since 2012 they have been making next puzzles, and each of them are posted in January. So it’s pretty obvious that they will made another quiz in 2016, too.

Szymon Gumiela 2a