Wednesday, 2 June 2010

The first day in London

During this course we have been practising English while working on this research project.

Each year we travel abroad and this year we went to London and we've been lucky enough to do it.

On Tuesday May 11 at 8 am, in the morning we were all gathered at the airport anxious to get to this beautiful country.

Because of the volcanic ash cloud we were delayed and the aircraft which had to leave at 10 ended up leaving in the afternoon, at 13h.

For some of us flying was a new experience, others had travelled once, but we were all very excited for this trip.

When we arrived the teachers tested as making us ask the best rate of the underground.

After that, we settled in the hotel which was the largest in all of London, where we were stayed during those days.

Monday, 31 May 2010

Child's Day

June 1st is the international Child's Day. On this day every child gets a small gift and feels very, very good. It is a special time for parents too. They enjoy giving their kids what they want and spending time with whole family, when everybody is laughing and having a good time. Off course kids want to get presents everyday but it is impossible. During whole year children get many presents but this day is really special. It's like second Christmas for us. For parents the most important thing is to see smile on their children's faces and this day enables that. Do you have something like this in Spain? Please write, I'm curious.

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

My pet :)

Hello everyone, as you see in the picture i have a yorshire female dog called yasmin and it has 5 years old it's very loving and very pretty! a year ago it got very sick and they had to take care of it in a dog hospital, because it had the kidney swollen all my family were really afected, because of the vet told us that there were very little chanses that it survive. now it is recuperated and very happy.

The fair of April

In Barcelona, in April the Fair of April is celebrated. Last Saturday, it was celebrated in our neighbourhood “Prosperitat”. We met our friends and we spent the afternoon and evening in the square "Angel Pestaña” where we had the celebration. In the afternoon women and men danced “sevillanas” and there were many tents around the place. In the evening there was dancing and drinking for the elderly, a lot of music, groups acting... Next week it will be celebrated at the Forum district where we will go and there will be attractions, dances, shops, restaurants ... and I will tell you more!

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

It is more than racism

I’m going to write about one of the most important, negative things in a society: racism. Many people think that moving to another country is very easy, but they don’t know how difficult it can be. They don’t know that it means leaving your country of origin, your family, your friends, your boyfriend/ girlfriend, your city or your costumes. They don’t know the pain of the nostalgia. But I have to say that not everybody thinks the same way, some people are very empathic and understanding. They don’t make differences among people: It doesn’t matter whether I’m from Africa or I’m from a South- American country.

Unfortunately, many people have other wrong or stereotyped ideas or thoughts such as the majority of South-American people are part of gangs, the foreigners can’t have the same rights as the Spanish citizens, the immigrants can’t have an education or health security, foreigners have to earn lower salaries in compararison to a Spanish person, etc. I think that these thoughts are the result of pure ignorance, because immigrants don’t want to leave their coutries, their celebrations, their language, their essence…; they have to do it out of necessity. I know that these people want to find a better future, better oportunities, a better education or professional training, they hope to archieve it. But I don’t understand why some people have to reject them.

Each person in the world is different and this is fantastic, because we can learn from eachother. We must have unique and indvidual ideas, because we aren’t living in a dictatorship. We are free!

I just have one wish, one dream: I hope that, some day, all the people in the world can look at each others faces and smile… smile with sincerity, respect and affection. I know that it is difficult, because we’re completely different, but we must listen to the person that we have inside, because everybody is important and valuable in their own way and you have to know that

We’re part of this society.