A missed opportunity

Last week I learned that sometimes we should listen to other people's advice because I suffer like never before.

Last week I had my second race car. This race was very important for me and my group. I thought that I would win. For this reason I decided to change some pieces of the car so that my car would be faster than the others competitors.

I thought remove the cd's brakes because this thing weighted so much, but one of the technicions told me - This thing is essential to the car, it can't be removed -. I was very angry with him and I didn't listen and after I removed the piece.

On the day, in the race car, I thought that I would be the winner but my technician was right, because of this piece my car didn't stop correctly in a curve of this circuit. I lost, a part of my car broke down and I suffered serious injuries.

In your life always listen all the tips that the people say because they could help you I can learn a lot from this story!

Ken Block

The perfect bedroom?

Would you like to have the perfect bedroom? It's easy!

Everybody is tired with their boring bedroom, but new you can change it.

First of all, don't get stres, if you want a good bedroom you should be happy because your bedroom is like you. You organise your bedroom. Your bedroom is part of your character. 

After this, another important thing are the clothes. How do you have your clothes? The best thing is to have a dressing room. Because with this way your bedroom will have two parts one for the clothes and the other for sleeping and enjoying things. This is the key.

Now, you know the key.

Come on! Run and change your bedroom! I can see you. 

My plans for summer

Maybe it's too early to plan my summer but I would like to have everything organized because I would to have the best summer of my life at the moment.

First of all I would like to pass the high school and then I will be calm.

Then when I finish school I'm going with my friends to Mallorca for one week, I hope that it's going to be perfect.

When we come back I will start working at the moment I don't know where it's probable either with my uncle at the horseriding school or in a camping, there I can practise English with the foresting people.

And finally I would like to go with my friends to the beach or swimming pool or some parties or wherever, but I will be enjoy it.

Films

The best film I have seen recently was "War Horse" I saw it last month at the cinema. It is an incredible and passionate film.

The worst film was Rec 3, I thought that it would be better but I was really disappointed. I recommend everyone goes to see "War Horse" it's a very passionate film and this film has history, love and friendship.

Rec 3, I didn't know that it was very bad, but it really was a very stupid film, you musn't spend any money on it. In my opinion Rec 1 was better than 3 and Rec 2 was acceptable but the finally film, Rec 3, was a disaster.

I recommend everyone that reads this redaction and you go to see " War horse"!

My new friend from England

Hello my new friend!

Well.. We began to get to know each other last month. We often talked but nothing else. You said me that I talked you about my life more or less.

I live in Empuriabrava, near Roses in Girona. I live in a house, it's in a good place. I will invite you one day.

My family is so kind, my mother is the best person who exist in the world, my father is very happy, he always laughs and tells jokes and my brother i so cute, he plays football. Oh! I don't want to forget my favourite animal in the world, I have a cat called Kitty and she isn't dangerous, she is like a dog.

So.. my interests.. Before I did rythmic gymnastic but at high school and other I left the club.

I like films, it doesn't matter where, for example at the cinema or at home with the fire, on this place is wonderful.

I like music, my favourite song is all my people by Sasha Lopez.

Well, Nicole, now you tell me about yourself.

Kisses from Spain.

Èlia

Can teenagers live without mobile phones?

Teenagers can't live without mobile phones because the world changes and people adapts to new technologies. In my view the most technology thing at the moment is the mobile phone.

In my opinion mobile phones are the best thing in the world.
Everybody in the world has a mobile phone. This thing is very important nowadays because thanks to it we can talk a lot with the world.

Nowadays both young and old people have a mobile phone.
This mobile isn't only for talking, it's also used for entering facebook, twitter, photos, videos and other things.
There are very different mobile phones and different colours or things for each person's taste. The mobile phone is very practical because we take it easy and isn't upset us.

I think that teenagers can't live without mobile phones but neither can other people too.

To me, the mobile phone is the best thing of the world.

My normal life

Do you know me?

 

I'm Èlia Carreras López. I'm 17 years old. I was born in Figueres, but now we are living in Castelló d'Empúries. It's a nice place for living because there are the beach, the boats, good people and some places to go or to visit. I attend a high school in Castelló d'Empuries, called IES Castelló d'Empuries. I wake up very early in the morning, it's very hard for me. Before go to school I prepare a good breakfast and I have a hot shower and finally to get dressed.

 

My favourite subject, I think it's biology, because I like nature and animals. Next year, I will stay in the University. I would like to be a vet. I love animals and I decided to do it when I was younger. I wish that my dream becomes a reality.

 

I have got one brother, his name is Marc. She plays football and only he likes this. My brother is a very good student. He is a very kind boy.

My brother and me always have dinner with our parents and we help at home. My brother helps to my father with the mechanic's things and I help to my mother with the house's things.

 

When the weather is fine, I go with my family to the beach by bycicle or I meet with my friends or I do some fun thing.

 

I know that my family and my friends are the best and I am nothing without them.

My new friend

One day, teacher said that a new boy from another country came here, in our school. I was very happy, I would like know him as fast as it was possible.  We had heard that his name was Karsten. The desk next to me was empty and I knew he would probably sit there. I would like it.
 

When I went to school on Monday morning, I quickly hung my coat up and went to my desk. There was the new boy.

He was fantastic. He was happy and intelligent. He came from Rusian and he spoke English, French, Spanish and Rusian. He liked sciences like to me. Classes started and I found out that he was excellent at maths. He even helped me with one or two of the problems.  He helped everybody with the homeworks. He was incredible.

I knew we were going to be great friends.
 

My joke

Yesterday, in the english classroom was very funny. Because teacher said our that we searched a joke and then we explained it in the class.

Tiziana start with her joke and after Homa so all people of my class explained his joke.

In my view any joke destacated but all jokes was funny or a little funny.

My joke was a little funny. When I had my turn I didn't know what joke I explained, because I had two jokes.

My first joke for tried was this: 

- Mum, mum, in school everybody tells me that I'm confused!

- Hey, kid, this is not your house... you live opposite the street!

And my second joke was this:

A man walks into a bar one day and asks:

- Does anyone here own that rottweiler outside?

- Yeah, I do!- a biker says, standing up. - What about it?

- Well, I think my chihuahua just killed him...

- What are you talking about?- the biker says, disbelievingly. - How could your little runt kill my rottweiler?

- Well, it seems he got stuck in your dog's throat!

Finally I tried for the second joke because my first joke Homa explaines before me the same joke.

For that reason I explained to my friends the second joke. This joke is very curious in the first moment and last people laught a lot.

I hope that you like it!

My favourite sport

My favourite sport is rhythmic gymnastics, because I have done this sport since I was 10 years old. To me it is a very elegant and physical sport. I have done it since I was 6 years old. And this year I'm finishing because I think that I'm very old to do it. I'm finishing very happily and I meet it, but now I am going to start new things.

Another favourite sport for me is football because in my house football is the best sport. It is very competitive and hurt. 

My brother plays football a lot in the house, with a group in the school and with his team. My boyfriend plays football too. My dad likes football but he never plays it. My mother has always liked football. When she was little, she went with my grandfather to the Camp Nou.

These are my favourite sports at the moment.

Dreams are magic

Do you believe that the dreams become reality? Do you think they are moments you have lived in the past?

I think so.

There are too dreams about moments you should like to live.

Really, the world of the dreams is very stranger.

A lot of them, are a mix between things you have made, people you have known and desires you have in your life. 

Some nights you dream, anothers nights no. Why? I don't know.

When I dream I can live wonderful moments and another terrorifics. I like when in my dreams I'm flying and so I can see all over. I like too when I'm running very fast and nobody can catch me.

Oh!!!

It's fantastic. It looks like real. But, what's the mean of the dreams?

Many people have written books about this, but I'm not sure that it's true.

I prefer think that the dreams are a magic reality.

Summer 2012

This summer is fantastic.

I’m going everywhere. Especially to the sea, because my father has a boat. This boat is bigger than the other one. My family and I sleep on the beach a lot. It's a good experience for us.

In the coves I have a lot of friends.

In July I got my boating licence. I wanted it because this summer I want steer a jetski and a boat. The jetski is much easier than the boat. Today, for example I went out to sea with my best friend and my boyfriend. We're very happy!

When I finished studying I started working. I work with horses at a horse-riding school. I like my work, because I love animals and horses. It isn't boring.

This summer, like every summer I go to the beach or swimming pool and I go to parties too.

I meet with my friends but less this summer because I’m working.

This year, 2012 is the best at the moment but next year, 2013 will be better. 

Conclusions of the year

This year is special for me because I learnt English very well. I think that in this course I learnt a lot than the others courses. In E.S.O I didn’t learn English, the teacher taught the introduction of English. But for me these four years is a lot of time to only study the introduction.

I worked a lot during this course. I had many projects, exams, writings and I read many books.

I think that the best activity in this subject is the speaking because the people learnt more than others activities and it is a lot of fun. I hate one activity because I didn’t learn anything, this activity is one part of the presentations, the part of see our school friends because each person has a different level toother people and sometimes they didn’t understand their oral presentations.

I hope that all the activities of this course will be there next year in second of batxillerat because all the activities have been very necessary to learn English.

One problem of this course is who Milco’s off sick because she had an accident and more time we didn’t work correctly but after we recoup the lost time.

I’m very happy of this English’s course because I know that I learnt a lot and I’m feel so good with my work.

Falling in love

One day I walked on beach. The blue water of the sea touched my feet and the sand stuck to me. I was wearing a white dress and a big beautiful hat.

I walked on the beach with my dog, Max, he is a dalmatan and he is very intelligent and handsome.

Suddenly, I saw a person faraway and another thing next to the person when I could see properly I saw a boy and his dog.

Max ran away and his dog too. I thought that they would fight and I ran behind my dog. When I was running my big hat flew and fall on to on the water.

The boy jumped into the water and recued my hat. When I saw him, I was very nervous. He was the best boy in the world. He was very handsome and he has blue eyes and blond hair. His body was perfect and his teeth too. His voice was very romantic and he was an incredible boy.

When I saw him, I thought "he is my boy".

What happened was he had the same feeling.

We liked each other first we talked about things and this day was very funny and beautiful.

For me this day was the best day of my life because my life changed. For him I think that it's the same because he loves me a lot but not like me. And our dogs we think that they like each other for this day changed too. So I created a very good family only in a day.

This memory is very special for me because we fell in love.

Craig David

Craig David was born in Southaupton, in England, on 5 of May of 1981. His father is from Grenda and his mother is from England. His parents separated when Craig was eight years old, he lived with his mother and grandmother.

David was only 19 when he became the youngest male Brithish singer to be Number One in the UK.

His first two albums were famous. But his third album didn't succeed. So David decided to change things.

Craig decided to get a new look. He stopped wearing hats and started doing sport every day with a personal trainer. But it isn't the first time he has changed his image.

When he was young he was fat. Then, at 15 years old, he discovered music. And he loved it, and now he too. He explains "Music was my new food, and I lost all the weight".

David changed his appearance and his music.

Some David Craig's albums are Born to do it (2000), Slicker than your Average (2002), The story goes (2005) and the best Craig's famous album is Trust Me (2007) and others.

This album is very important because it created when David changed a new style.

This album is his most exciting album.

And the best song for David in this album is Awkward because this song has reggae music.

In my opinion Craig David is a very important singer at the moment. I like his style and his songs are very beautiful because some songs are very rythmic and others are calm and relaxing.

My favourite song by this artist is Insomnia.

Summer '12

In my opinion this summer will be fantastic.

- This summer I'm going to go to England. I 'm going to go with my friend Júlia Fàlgas. We are going to go in July. This trip for me will be fantastic.

- This summer I'm going to go to the beach with my friends.

- I'm going to go to coves with my boat and my jetski. When the mechanics have reparet my jetski I'm going to go to Illes Medes.

- This summer I'm going to go to a lot of parties many days and I think will organise a party at home but the owers of my house are my parents. I don't have control in my house.

- I hope I will swim in the sea at night.

- I wish to be 17 years old, because my birthday is in December, is at Chrisstmas.

- This summer I hope to go to Ibiza because there are many parties but I'm not thinking about parties because at this moment the most important thing are the studies.

- This summer I'm going to work because I'm 16 years old.

Laura's birthday

Yesterday it was my friend Laura's birthday, Laura, but nobody had mentioned it at school and training.

Her family gave her a lot of presents and a cake. Her family celebrated her birthday but she was a little sad because she thought that her friends didn't remember her birthday, because all day nobody at school said "Happy birthday Laura".

When she finished school I saw that she was crying. But she didn't know that we had prepared a party for her that night.

In the evening I met everybody and prepared the party for when she coming to the hall.

We prepared the party in a hall instead of the houses because we can play the music very laudly.

The friend's mum prepared the food and drinks. We invited many people but Laura knew.

When all the people arrived in hall, next Laura's mum brought Laura and she was very surprised.

At night we danced and sang all the time!

And Laura was very happy and extroverted, and she had a lot of presents for her friends.

The party was very good and Laura was feeling very good. And she will remeber this day always.

It was a memorable day.

Resolutions in Easter

This weekend starts on Saturday 31, and finishes on Monday 9. This holiday is only in countries where cristianaty exists celebrated, because is a tradition of a country.

I'm thinking doinf some things this week so I made a timetable. But the principal things that I'm going to do are:

- I'm going to read the book "El árbol de la ciencia".

- I'm going to go out my boyfriend and my friends.

- I'm going to go to disco called Chic for the last time.

- I'm going to work with a veterinarian because in the future when I'm older I hope to be a good vet.

- I'm going to study biology a lot because on the 10th of April I'm going to an exam.

- I'm going to chat with my best friend, because she talls me everything.

- My cousin is going to cut my hair because she is a hairdresser.

- I'm going to go to my friend Eugenia's party because she turned 17 years old last week.

- I'm going to meet with my family for celebrate the Pascua's day.

I hope that this resolutions will perfect.

And my week Easter very good and everything that I would like is done.

Letter from New York

Hi, Mum! 

I arrived very well in New York. We are staying in a hotel, called Hollywood Hotel. This hotel has three stars. It's very beautiful and big. The room is very confortable and the TV has many channels. 

Near the hotel there are many fastfood places. For example the most popular is Mc Donald's. Do you remember mum? in Figueres there is a Mc Donald's.

Today, ewe are going to visit a lot of things. We are going to visit the Statue of Liberty, The Bronx, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Midtown Manhattan, Central Park and another places.

Next we going to go to the hotel we will have dinner and finally we are going to go to sleep because the first day in New York is very tired for us.                                                                                                              

On monday, the third day I'll write another letter to you.

New York, in the first look is very impressive. I like it very much.

Josu's very happy because like you know he travelled to New York when he was young. And do you remember mum? When he told me that when we stay together one year, we'll go to New York and it was true. Jajaja We are in New York!

Well, mum now we go to eat and next we'll visit New York. We'll send you all photos!

I'll write to you or you phone me.

See you later!

Bye! Kisses. I love you!

Èlia.

Shortbread

In Scotland they prepare a famous food, it's shortbread. It's a type of biscuit. It's good and has a delicious taste.

Now, I'm writing how to prepare this short bread are:

- 300 grams flour

- 225 grams butter

- 110 grams sugar

- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

Sart by beating the butter. Next I add the sugar and beat slowly.

Secondly I add the almond extract, flour and I add the salt.

Next I put in the refrigerator for two hours.

Then I put the mixture into a greased baking tray. Prick the surface with a fork. 

Next I cut into small rectangles.

And finally, bake at 150ºC for 30 minutes.

and now, we go to eat!