barrakones!!

Hello!

Today I have been all the day in my house because I'm ill, I think that tomorrow I will go to high school, but I'm not sure! Maybe I got a cold this weekend in barrakes,but never mind, it was fantastic!

A lot of people went there on Thursday, but I stayed at home sleeping because I was really tired, but on Friday the party started for us!

We caught the train at nine o'clock and we went to Girona.

To be honest, we ate in an ugly bar, and we met Nerea, do you remember her?! Our Spanish teacher, who came with us to Italia in 4th of ESO, she's so nice!

By the way, after dinner, we went to the park of attractions and there we got on to many attractions and we spend a good time laughing a lot!

A little bit later we went to barrakes, where the best of the night was about to start. Like in all of these places we started to met everybody, and a lot of people who we hadn't seen for a long time.

In the middle of the night a really wierd thing happened; all the people started to run and we tought that there were some people killing each other, but they were not! There was a girl completly naked walking there, supposedly she had drugged herself, because it seems that she wasn't from this world. When the police caught her, she didn't understand anything, it was so sad, I'm sure the next day she passed a really bad day thinking about what she had done, well, if she remembered anything.



well, as you can see barrakes this year was really complete, with some bad things, but overall with a lot of good moments!

MEDIEVALS

Hello!

Today I have been seeing some pictures and I remember a lot of things, so, now I will talk to you about medievals, a really interesting party in Castelló d'Empúries.
In the picture, you can see that we are a group of four girls, and we've been going to the medieval festival for four years. I know that, because I've been wearing four different dresses, lol. The first two years I wore some of gemma's dresses, but the third year I decided to get my own dress because I realized that I wanted to continue the tradition. So, I went to a tailor, and had a dress made personally for me. As you can see in the picture my dress is maroon, a color really fashionable then, but now really typical, everybody (above all the children) wears dresses of this color.
The party normally starts on a Friday, arounds the 11th of september. All starts with a dinner, where we serve the food. All the village is there eating and at the same time enjoying different shows, always related to medieval times.
The next day there are a lot of activities in all the town, the typical one is a band of medieval musicians playing the music while they're walking around the town.
All the village is decorated with medieval items, including the bars. The bars which are really interested in the party only serve typical food of those times, so, as you can imagine we spend all day eating "pinxos i butiffares". It's a shame that in those times, chocolate didn't exist, so, we miss it a lot during these days.
Sunday is the most important day, because there is the famous medieval market. One year we had a stand, and we sold little figures, witches, carrying good luck, that we had make ourselves. It was really funny and we made a lot of money, and thanks to it we could afford a really good dinner.




P.S: have a look at the top of my blog where there is another funny picture from Medievals :P

SHOES!

Here is the entry of a dictionary. Shoe: an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.

But to me, it is much more:

Asking any women about her favourite item of clothes, for sure, you will get the answer: SHOES!

The earliest known shoes date from about 8000 to 7000 BCE and were found in Oregon, USA.

Since the mid-20th Century, manufacturers have created shoes in rubber, plastics... to create new styles.

There are different kinds of shoes, confortable ones, sporty ones, elgant ones, fashionable ones... and I love each and every one of them!

In fact, I have never met any women who wouldn't.

You have shoes for every occasion and every style, of course, every body has a different taste. From my point of view the nicest ones are the fashionable.

This year, the fashion shows shoes with really high heels, and I'm in love with them, but I can't wear them because I'm so tall. Anyway, I have some pairs but I can only wear them on special occasions, to go to school, I prefer flat ones, which I like less, but well...

I hope that next year this will change! :)

this year...

Hello!

Today I start my second blog talking about second of high school!

I wanted to talk about shoes but I'll do it next time because I think that this isn't a topic to introduce a blog!

On one hand this year it will be so hard, we are at the begining and I'm stressed! (lol...)

The exams go on and on, meaning that every week we have exams so we can't stop, but on the other hand we should enjoy our time a lot because this is our last year at high school, so, this is our last year with best friends, our last year, if we'll go to study to BCN, living every day with our parents, our last year with the theachers of "all the life"... you know, it's a big change, and I'm sure that it will be really funny but at the same time, maybe, a little bit difficult.

As I have explained a lot of times I want to do medicine, it's my dream, so I'll fight to become a good doctor!

Can you imagine in a few years find me in one hospital? it will be incredible!

By the way, I talked with a lot of people who said that the second of batxillerat was the worst year of their lifes, so when I started I was really afraid, but now I see that it's the same than every year...except that I spend all the afternoons in the library! lol!

Talking about the library I have to say that it is a really good place to study, I go there with my friends and we work a lot but we are in company so it's a little bit different than studing alone in your home, isn't it?... but there is a problem: the library opens at 4 o'clock and closes at 8'o clock so there isn't much time, and the worst thing is that on Saturday afternoons it's closed, and for example, next week I'll have a lot of exams, and tomorrow (you have to know that today is friday) I want to go to the library, but it will be imposible! .. so I'm sure that in my house I won't study! lol! it's impossible to do anything if you see all the people watching TV, or going out, sleeping..

Well, I have to say goodbye because I have to... guess what... study phisics!

kiss!

SCIENCE HIGH LEVEL STUDIES!!



=)

END OF SCHOOL.

Once again we are at the end of the school year, and like every year we are really tired and fed up with homework, exams and… blogs!
It seems that it’s always the same: we, and also teachers, are going crazy, we don’t want to learn anymore, and they don’t want to teach us. Nevertheless we have to put up with an exam every day, and of course, the results aren’t the best under those circumstances.
What circumstances?
Well, it’s so easy to guess, the sun, the beach, our social life, tourists arriving and bringing with them the atmosphere of holliday…
Despite seeing them walking on the beach with an ice-cream, we are pretty stressed ourselves studying really hard to get a good mark.
For me it’s very important to have a high mark from A-level “Batxillerat”, around a nine, because I want to study medicine, and the average is and 8.5. So if I think about the university entrance test “selectivitat”, where my mark might go down by 0,5 points, I have to enter with the highest mark possible, which means I have to study a lot, never mind if it’s the end of the school year or not.

HOLIDAYS.

If you asked me what kind of holiday I prefer, if the beach or the mountain, I would say both.

On one hand, in the winter I love skiing, it's a family tradition that we go every January for one week to Masella, a Catalan piste.

I've been skiing since I was 7 years old, and I will continue until I have an accident, so keep fingers crossed that nothing is going to happen.

On the other hand, I love the beach when summer comes. When I was little, as you know, I lived in Barcelona, and we used to come every summer to Llança, my favourite costal town. Since then, we were so lucky to have moved to Empuriabrava and now I have the beach right in front of my door.

In hot summer nights my friends and I enjoy walking along the beach, and on summer days we spend a good time lying in the sun.

How Tro came to our family.

One day when I was little, my brothers and me were selling fruits and bracelets, like a child's game, and one young man came to us.

In his hand he had a really small and white dog, and of course, we asked him about it.

He told us that he was looking for a new owner for the dog, and that if he couldn't find one, he would have to kill it.

We quickly went to ask our parents for permission, that was really difficult because we knew that our parents never wanted a dog, but because of the dramatic situation they said yes.

We were really happy and to keep him we promised a lot of things which never have come true.

We named the dog tro, and for seven years, he has been a member of our family.

ARE YOU BEING JUDGED BY THE CLOTHES YOU WEAR?

Nowadays a way to express you ideology is by clothes.

The other day I read an article about a fight at one school, the fight was about a girl who was not wearing "the right clothes", by the opinion of her class mates.

but, my question is, what are the right clothes? And, are we really judged by the clothes we wear?

It seems that ideology has became uniformity, maybe because of the globalization.

So when a teenager dresses diferently then his/her class mates she automatically becames an outsider.

This is really sad because it shows how materialistic people have become.

At high school, for example, you can distinct a lot of different groups by the clothes they wear.

For instance, there are the skinheads, who have shaved heads and iron boots.

there also are the "gothics" who only wear black clothes, and in extrem situations black make-up.

there exists the "posh group" who is dressed in brand clothes, and others...

They don't get on very well due to their physical aparence, but maybe if they met each other they would find out that they aren't much different at all.

Never judge a book by the cover.

Homage to Gemma.

Today I want to talk about a really good friend of mine, who has a rather funny but a little bit weird hobby, taking photos.

Her name is Gemma, she is as old as me and all her life she has been interested in art.

When she was little she started to attract attention with her paintings. Later, we were really amazed by the decoration of her bedroom, which was quite freaky. When she grew older, she turned to photography, and fortunatly we are her models. We are: Anna, Marina and me.

Some days a year Gemmas organizes a photo shooting in different locations but the landscape she loves most is the forest and the beach, so the last session took place exactly there. First we started in a forest near Castelló and later we moved to the beach in Empuriabrava.

We all met at nine o'clock and we finished five hours and seven hundred pictures later, at two o'clock.

It was fantastic because she gave us a lot of stylish clothes which she wanted to take pictures of.

We had to do a lot of different movements and take up a lot of different positions, I have to say that at the end of the day I was really tired from smiling, moving, smiling, moving...

Our make-up was really special too, with a lot of colors to bring out our personality.

I have mentioned seven hundred pictures, but after a carefull selection she only accepted the best two hundred.

We are very much impressed by the pictures ourselves, but I have noticed that there are some people who think that this is a crazy and stupid thing to do, who are prejudiced and don't see the art behind the photos.

judge for yourself!

GETTING READY FOR SUMMER.

Every year it's the same, summer is just arround the corner and we go crazy to get our body in bikini shape, so what do you do?

you could stopp eating, but I hate it.

you could go jogging every morning before going to school, but I hate it even more.

you could consider plastic surgery, no way.

well, the only thing I can do is do sport.

Some weeks ago Gemma and me, we inscribed in the Gym of Empuriabrava, and we go there three days a week.

we take spinning classes, go to the pool, do some weights...and all of this things but we don't work out really hard, we are a little bit floppy and still want to enjoy ourselves.

A lot of times we don't feel like going, but hey! for sixty euros a month of MY money I simply have to go.

In my opinion it's really expensive but there aren't any other gyms arround here, so this is the only solution to get in shape for summer.

Sorry but I have to finish now because Gemma is coming to pick me up for our next sweating session.

Mc Donalds, - alternative food?

Every day there are more and more people who eat fast food because they don't have any time to prepare their meals... and for my point of view this is a really bad habit.

Statistics show that every day Mc Donalds, the paradise for some little children, is becoming more popular, seen in the number of Mc Donalds restaurants inaugurating year by year.

But are those "restaurants" really an alternative to healthy food, even though they offer "fresh" products?

The well-known documentary "Super size me" showed a man in a self-experiment. For one month he ate only Mc Donalds products.

All the time, he was under medical control and the results of the tests were really shocking.

The data taken from his kidneys was as bad as the data of an alcoholic after twenty years of drinking, so, as you can imagine, he was really ill, he was in real danger.

In my opinion if a person likes fast food, he should find the right balance between his health and his pleasure.

LONDON.

Last summer I went to London for two weeks, my intention was to learn English but it was really difficult because I met a lot of people from Spain, and not so many people from there so, I couldn’t learn the language but I spent a lot of good moments.
Every day we got up at 8 o’clock in the morning, we had breakfast, maybe you think that we ate the typical English breakfast: bacon and eggs, chips… but this isn’t true, nowadays the people in London during the week normally have coffee with toasts, milk with cereals….-they call it continental breakfast-.
At 9 o’clock we took the bus to school, we had class until half past one, and after that we had lunch.
Every afternoon we visited lots of amazing places in London, like The Big-Ben, the London eye, Harrods...
The nicest thing that happened there was that I met a really nice person who now is a very good friend, Marta.
I must say that I met a lot of people and all of them were really kind and good, but with her it was different, she is the only person I'm still in touch with.
The other day, for example, we went to Barcelona together and we spent a really good day walking on the street, with the sun in our faces, it was perfect.

there Delilah.

there Delilah



Hey there Delilah,

What’s it like in New York City?

I’m a thousand miles away,

But girl tonight you look so pretty,

Yes you do,

Time Square can’t shine as bright as you,

I swear it’s true.



Hey there Delilah,

Don’t you worry about the distance,

I’m right there if you get lonely,

Give this song another listen,

Close your eyes,

Listen to my voice it’s my disguise,

I’m by your side.



Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

What you do to me.



Hey there Delilah,

I know times are getting hard,

But just believe me girl some day,

I'll pay the bills with this guitar,

We'll have it good,

We'll have the life we knew we would,

My word is good.



Hey there Delilah,

I’ve got so much left to say,

If every simple song I wrote to you,

Would take your breath away,

I’d write it all,

Even more in love with me you’d fall,

We’d have it all.



Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me.



A thousand miles seems pretty far,

But they’ve got planes and trains and cars,

I’d walk to you if I had no other way,

Our friends would all make fun of us,

And we'll just laugh along because,

We know that none of them have felt this way,

Delilah I can promise you,

That by the time that we get through,

The world will never ever be the same,

And you’re to blame.



Hey there Delilah you be good,

And don’t you miss me,

Two more years and you’ll be done with school,

And I'll be making history,

Like I do,

You’ll know it's all because of you,

We can do whatever we want to,

Hey there Delilah here's to you,

This one’s for you.



Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

Oh it’s what you do to me,

What you do to me.



http://youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8



At the moment I really love this song, I'm always listening to it.
In my opinion it's very nice, it's one of the most popular tunes right now.

It talks about a couple who is in love but they live really far, so sometimes they feel sad because they want to be together. But the boy, who is really positive, says to the girl that one day when she'll have finished school they can make their dream come true.
The singer writes this song to his girlfriend who has remained at college while he is travelling at the beginning of his singing career.

By the way Delilah, is a pretty strange name wich I like a lot, I think it's original.

SANT JORDI.

Sant Jordi is a traditional celebration in Catalonia on 23 of April.
This is the day of love.
The main event is the exchange of gifts between sweethearts, loved ones and respected ones. Historically, men gave women roses, and women gave men a book to celebrate the occasion.
Roses have been associated with this day since medieval times, but the giving of books is a more recent tradition, and more expensive.
By the end of the day of Sant Jordi, some four million roses and 400,000 books would have been sold in the name of love.


Well, in my opinion this is a really nice tradition which everybody should celebrate.

to celebrate this day in high school we have done some different activities, for example, I have done a cooking activity and I've made two cakes.

tomorrow I'll put the recipe in the blog.

There is a minour thing I hadn’t known before which I want to tell you:
This is the only day of the year when the Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona's principal government building, is open to the public.

byeee!

good night.

hello!

today I must do my last post and I want to talk about last night.

Yesterday there were a letter dinner, I mean that the people that study letters in the school, class B, have a dinner.

Marina, one of my best friends, and I, we went to have a dinner to another place because we don't study with those people, but after we when to their party! :)

a lot of people went to Fata, one disco in Sant Pere Pescador, a town near of Castelló d'Empúries, and there we passed a really good moments.

It was fantastic because we were a lot of people from the high school there, so I knew more or less everybody and I could dance, talk... with all of them.

On one hand, the night was fantastic because there were a lot of animation in the disco, and everybody were so happy, but on the other hand the music were so bad, so sometimes we didn't know what we could do because dancig were imposible.

well, in summary was a good party, and a good started for the easter-weeck. :)!

MACHISMO

Many years ago men were considered better than women. People thought that they were more clever, stronger... and all of these things, but luckily for us, nowadays a lot of people understand that this isn't true. Women can do the same things as men. Of course, in general men are stronger than women, but this isn't the most important characteristic in the world today.

there are a lot of characteristics which ara really more importants like intel·ligence, empathy, kindness, a social conscience, loyalty... which are shered between girls and boys.

I'm not saying that we are better, I'm only saying that we aren't losers.

It's a shame that some people still think that men are better, and they devalue us.

These people aren't only boys, there are also some girls who have this opinion about themselfs and they are always submissive to their boyfriends, etc.

These women are always doing things to make them husbands happy. They don't live their own life.

I think that this acctitude are really old fashion and I'm not agree with this.

the perfect pancake.

Pancakes are a type of flatbread prepared from a sweet batter which is cooked in a frying pan. There are a lof of different types of pancakes, it depends on the place where you eate it.

If you want prepeare one pancake in your house it’s really easy, you only must buy some ingredients and cook:

INGREDIENTS:

Of course it depends on the people, but more or less:

· some milk
· some vainilla
· some butter or vegetable oil (I recommend to you, to use the vegetable oil because it’s much healthier)
· some sugar
· some salt
· large eggs.

DIRECTIONS:

*First you must beat the eggs, the milk and the vanilla until foamy. You need more or less 3 minutes for obtain a good mixture.

*Now you have to add the butter or the oil and continue mixing.

*Now you can add all the others ingredients in the mixt, and it’s so important that you continue mixing.

*Now it’s necessary that you let the batter relax, the mixture will thicken upon resting.

*You must butter and head up the frying pan, and now you can drop some cups of the batter inside.

*Now you only need to wait until the batter become golden.

IT’S READY FOR EAT.

our oral presentation!

:)

"LAS CHICAS DE ALAMBRE" - by Jordi Sierra and Fabra.

This weeck I was ill so I had a lot of free time and I could read a really good spanish book, “Las chicas de alambre” written by Jordi Sierra and Fabra
Know I will explain to you the argument of the book .
One journalist, Joan Boix, works in a really important magazine from Barcelona, “Zonas interiores”, they send to him to do an article about three models really importants ten years ago.
They were really populars by their extrem thinness, and because they were so pretty, but their beautiful moment died at the same time than died two of them because anorexy, the last one, Vania, desapeared.
Joan, started his work with a lot of enfasy, like all that he does; he looked for a lot of people who were relacionated with the girls, he called their families... but nobody knew nothing about his more important objective, Vania.
One day, when the lucky was with him, he met one woman who looked after Vania when she was a child.
This woman, Samantha, said to him that Vania was dead but he didn’t believe her and he continued his work since one day when he found her in a house. She explained to him that she was hide a lot of time because she didn’t want to return to fashion world wich try to kill her.
After spend some days with the fashion model, he returns to Barceola, his city, and writes the famous article.
The writter doesn’t reveal us the end of the novel.
She doesn’t say if Joan writes the truth about Vania or if he kept silence.
We have to imagine.