A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF ALINA KABAEVA

Alina Kabaeva is a gymnast. She was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistán), in 1983. Her nickname is Lina. 

She began to practise rhytmic gymnastics when she was three years old. 

Her coach took Alina and her family to Moscow, in Russia. There, she learnt a lot.

In 1997, she succeded like a professional gymnast. She won a lot of first medals in many championships. Only one time she made a serious mistake, the circle went out of the tapestry. For this reason, she lost the Gold, she won the second place.

In 2001, Alina participed in the Madrid championship, the medical control said that Alina was doping. She won the Gold but she lost it because she was eliminated. The I.G.F (Internacional Gymnastics Federation) told her, that she couldn't compete for 2 years.

For a long time, she won height, and finally she decided to pay the I.G.F a lot of money, and then she could compete again.

Alina went to the European championship in Granada, and she won the Gold. After she went to world championship in Budapest, and she got a good position to go to the Olympic Games.

MY SUMMER IN ENGLAND. Conclusion

·THURSDAY 28th

In the morning, we went to London to go shopping. 

I bought presents for my family and for me. 

One shop that surprised me, it was the M&M.

·FRIDAY 29th

This day was the last in the school. In the class we played games and ate chips and sweets. 

 The teachers and the students organised a party.

·SATURDAY 30th

We saw off my new friends. But I cried for my Italian friends because they are very special to me. 

We came back to Spain and I saw Catalan friends too.
I miss them.

MY SUMMER IN ENGLAND. Part 5

·MONDAY 25th

I got up early because we went to class but only in the morning. 

The rest of the day we didn't go to class, because the boy students had a basketball match. 

The winners were the Catalan group. The present was a pizza. 

This day we went to bed very late because we celebrated the victory.

·TUESDAY 26th

In the morning we were very tired. In class, I was almost asleept. We ate a rotten chicken for lunch. It was very bad. We thought that the chicken had been cooked the last week. In the evening, everybody went to the bathroom many times.

·WEDNESDAY 27th

In the morning, we had class in the school, but in the afternoon we went to visit  "the London eye". It was very beautiful, and the views of the landscape were spectacular. I thought the London eye was faster. When it was finished we took a photo. This photo was another memory.

MY SUMMER IN ENGLAND. Part 4

· THURDAY 21th

This day was very similar to the day before. 

We went to school early and I played tennis with Marco.

· FRIDAY 22th

We went to the city, London. 

We visited many interesting things but the best for me was the Big Ben. 

We ate a picnic. The food was very bad. There was a bag for everyone with sandwich, water, chips and fruit.

·SATURDAY 23th

We stayed in the campus all day. 

I got up at 11:00 am.

I went to have lunch leisurely. 

This day was a relax.

·SUNDAY 24th

We got up early because we went on a tour again, but this day we visited a castle. It was very beautiful. A guide explained the history of this castle. It was interesting.  
We returned to the campus at six o'clock.

MY SUMMER IN ENGLAND. Part 3

· MONDAY 18th 

I got up at 9:00 am. 

The teachers got all the students together because we had a test exam. So, the teachers knew the level of each student. 

After we did the exam, we played football and we could do other games more.

·TUESDAY 19th

I got up early because we had to go to school. 

The teachers divided the students in five groups. In my class we were twelve students. My teacher's name was Ben. He was a good teacher. 

I met three Italian boys (Enrico, Marco and Franchesco), they were nice persons and they were funny too.

 

·WEDNESDAY 20th

I went to school too. Every day we went to school except on Saturday and Sunday.

I presented my Italian friends to Catalan people. 

Every day we ate (breakfast, lunch, dinner...) in the diningroom campus unless we went on a tour.

MY SUMMER IN ENGLAND. Part 2

In England I stayed for two weeks. 

I travelled to England on Saturday 16th of July and I came back to Spain on Saturday 30th of July.

For me it was a good time outside of my home.

·SATURDAY 16th

I met other catalan students at the airport in Barcelona, because they were in the same agency where I was. We flew together to London, the flight lasted 3 hours. 

When we arrived to the campus in the Cambridge University. The director gave us the keys of our rooms. They  were in the same flat.

·SATURDAY 17th

We visited all the campus. 

At that moment in the campus stayed only my group and a french group. 

We went to a comercial center. It was near the campus. 

After we played a game of cards to get to know each other. 

I went to bed early because the next day the school started at nine o'clock.

MY SUMMER IN ENGLAND. Part 1

Guess what I did this summer.

I went to England in July. I had thought about going to England because I wanted to stay in a residence and I wanted to learn English very well. However I discovered that in the residence you don't learn very well, whereas in a house with a British family, you can learn a lot. 

Our residence was in Medway. It's a city in the south of London. Its name was "Cambridge University". There we slept in apartaments and the school was inside "the campus". The travel agency was "Sheffield Center". I flew with another students and a teacher/guide. She stayed with us every day. It was perfect because the teacher/guide was young, she was 23 years old, so we did a lot of crazy things.

In London, I met a lot of people. I met Catalan students (Mireia, Cesc, Ramon, Adrià, Arnau, Roko, Genís, Ferran, Lluís...) and I met students from other countries (Enrico, Marco, Lorenzo, Andrea, Franchesco, Lui, Ben, Tom...). They were nice persons.

The first day, we did an English test and they put us in five groups. It depended on our level in English. We were twelve students in my class. Most  of them were italian. My teacher's name was Ben. He was a good teacher and was very friendly with us.

Consequently, next year when I'll be sixteen, I would like to go to London too, but I'll stay in a British family's house.

It was a very good experience.

ME!

Hello Milco!

My name is Èlia Carreras López.

I’m fifteen years old, but on 19th of December I’ll be sixteen. I’m the youngest in the class.

I live in Empuriabrava (Castelló d’Empúries), I lived in Roses before, but when my brother was born my parents decided to live in Empuriabrava because they bought a house there. I like Empuriabrava because it is a famous port and we can have a boat or a jetski. In summer it is lots of fun to live here but there are lots of people. In the Emporda we live near nature (Aiguamolls, animals, the sea, the river..), we’re very lucky.

I love my family, my mother helps me, my father protects me, my brother is an angel and my cat is very special for me.

I practise rhythmic gymnastics since I was 7 years old, but I will finish it because this year I have started sixth form and I know it will be hard, so I will study and I will try hard to get good marks. I have chosen scientific subjects. My favourite subject is biology. I like Maths and Science of the earth too. I would like to have a high level in English when I finish high school because it’s really important.

I would like go to the university in Barcelona, if It’s possible.

In the future, I would like to be a very good veterinarian, and I will travel to Australia. 

What more could I wish for? To be happy. :)