"The Fault In Our Stars"

When I was waiting at the aiport in London to take my plane, I saw in the shop the bestseller "The Fault In Our Stars", a book that has been read by thousands of people and that everyone seems to love. So I bought it there.

The book is about the story of Hazel, a 16 year-old girl with lung cancer that starts going to a Support Group and meets Isaac, who has a tumor in one eye , and Augustus, a friend of his that joined him.
Hazel, who according to her mum does not have a social life because she is always at home, becomes friends with them. That's when Hazel's life changes. She lives new experiences and grows as a person.

I started to read this book last Friday and I finished it on Tuesday. To be honest, I really loved the book and I also cried a lot.

In some weeks the movie is coming out and I truly recommend to read the book before watching it. I cannot wait to watch it !!!!!!!

Ed Sheeran sings the song "All Of The Stars" and it's very beautiful.

Ed Sheeran's song:

"annie96 is typing..."

Yesterday during the free time at school I saw the whole Twitter was talking about the "annie96 is typing..." story. The following hour I didn't have class so my friend and I decided to search what it was.

"annie is typing..." is an online short chat story that takes around 5 minutes to read. It's about an "horror" story that starts with an introduction of an unknown person that explains he/she saw this conversation on WhatsApp and that he/she saved it, but that when he/she wanted to see it again, it wasn't there anymore.

The chat is between Annie and David McDavey, two teenagers that are having a normal late night talk conversation. At the beginning they talk about Johnny, someone that apparently has "issues". But suddenly Annie, that is home alone all night, sees someone in her garden... And I'd explain the whole story but that wouldn't be nice so I'll just leave the link of the story here: http://storiesforyourscreen.com/annie96-is-typing/

And in case you don't understand what happened (I think it's an open final), there is this pic that explains a bit what can have happened: https://twitter.com/search?q=annie96%20story&src=typd


This is what everyone was talking about yesterday on Twitter and got so many views in less than 24 hours. Because I read it with my friend, at class and with all my classmates around, I didn't find it scary at first. I honestly thought people were going too far away saying that it was really scary but then, when I was having dinner approximately at 8pm, I was explaining the story to my mum and my sister and I couldn't even finish to explain it because I was really freaking out of how frightened I was. In addition, I had opened one window that doesn't close properly and I forgot to close it and while I was explaining started to make noise because of the wind. That was really not cool. But the story in general is not that scary, it's only me, I guess. 

Writing a story with a WhatsApp conversation is something no one has done before and I think it's very nice! I really enjoyed reading it. It's a new way and I hope people gets motivated to write more stories like this. Until now I've been reading online stories on Wattpad but not in a WhatsApp conversation.

Spring Break Party

Last Saturday there was 9one of these huge local parties, apparently.This year is the second year this party has been celebrated here, since last year was an epic party and was really well known and they decided to have the party again.

At first when I got told there was this party I said I wasn't going, I just didn't feel like it. All my friends were giong but one of my closest friends didn't know how to come back home and she really wanted tio go so I told her tio sleep over at mine.

When Tania, Léna and I were there we didn't know what to do, but we decided to pay the ticket and take a look what was inside. There were so many people and we were constantly recognizing people that used to come to our school, and that was really nice.

I had had a good feeling, like something good was going to happen and that was actually what happened! We had such an incredible time and great things happened. But apparently there was a fight and the organization told us we had to leave the party. It was only 3:30am and some people were bothered but we all left peacefully.

But at the end I had a super nice time with my closest friends.

Shawn Mendes

Shawn Mendes is a 15 year-old guy (almost 16) who lives in Toronto. He started to post videos on the Internet singing and in less than two years he has experienced new things and now, during this Summer, he is going to be one of the openers for Austin Mahone in America.

Shawn started to post videos on the Internet, on Youtube and Vine, and then he joined the Magcon group, a teenage group of boys and one girl that have talents like making people laugh or singing. But in the past months some things have happened and Magcon is not the same anymore.

But from Magcon and its tour in the U.S.A., more people started to know about him, especially people from America. He started to post more videos and he is being so happy lately because he is receiving a lot of love and I'm happy because of that. With time, Europe has started to know about him as well and I can tell he is really excited with everything that's going on.


He can sing anything you ask him for, but he likes Ed Sheeran a lot and he makes a lot of covers of his songs. In fact, weeks ago he tweeted he'd like to tour with Ed one day. Crossing fingers he does! I'm pretty sure he'll accomplish it and if he doesn't, I'm sure he'll do something better like having his own tour? Who knows, but his voice is amazing and he is really, really good. 

The first time I listened him was in one of his vines, because in these six seconds videos he sings different songs so many times. I was on Facebook scrolling down and a Vine page posted one of his videos. I even remember tagging my friend telling her to take a look because he really can sing! And weeks later another friend sent me a cover of him and that's when I started to follow him everywhere and support him.

I hope Shawn becomes more famous and that then he can open for Austin if he comes to Europe or for Ed or someone because I really want to see him. Or maybe his own tour! But it also has its negative things because if he is more known then I won't have as many chances as I have now to be noticed by him on Twitter. But I wish him the best so I hope he gets to tour with Ed Sheeran someday!

Keep your eyes peeled!

Educational blogging

Since last year I've been working on my blog at English cloass, which consists in posting essays and tasks. 
To be honest, I really like the educational blogging even though most of my peers hate it and find it useless. I think it's a great way to free yourself in some things and give your opinion about thigns you like, you are interested in, worried about... And in addition it lets the teacher know more about their students. 

I personally think you can learn a lot with this because it makes you think and be a bit creative. It's also useful because to write your posts you need to have a clear structure. But blog posts are prepared at home, which means teachers have no idea what their students do at home, so that's why I think it's kind of important that teachers see what their students are able to do by themselves. With this I mean, when a student prepares his/her post, they can use dictionary and translator, which on the one hand is great because they can learn the words they don't know but on the other hand it keeps them from doing their best-maybe, sometimes.
Besides, if you write and post things in your blog, you have no idea what you've done wrong and you don't know your mistakes because the teacher checks it but doesn't correct it and gives it back to you.

But I still think it has a lot of positive sides. With blogs I can also check my peers' blogs, take a look at them and see their thoughts, such as movie opinions, music taste... And I actually do this quite a lot probably like very single time I go online on my blog.

If I were a teacher I would probably make my students do this as well, but I'd try to find a way to let them know where they have made mistakes so they can know it and not do the same mistake again.

Should teachers wear an uniform or have a dress code?

In the country I'm currently living, in public school it's not necessary to wear an unifrom and to be honest I don't know if that's okay or not, but that's another topic.

In schools like mine, students don't wear uniform and teachers don't either, which is pretty obvious; if they did and we didn't it would be a bit weird... If we don't wear them, then I don't ask them to neither; in case I did and they didn't I would be mad!

I personally don't think it's necessary for teachers to wear uniforms or to have a dress code. We live in a free country -apparently- and they don't need a code that shows they are teachers or something, I think it's useless. Who has them as a teacher then they know their name but for example I don't have my friend's History teacher, why do I want to know his name or something? And, as I can show who I am or how I am with my clothes, theachers are allowed too. We actually can see a lot of things -and wonder even more things- of them by only their looks, and it's kind of interesting. 
In case we wore uniform, then I would want them to wear one special for theachers, but not with a sign of their names, I honestly don't think that's necessary.

Sometimes I think maybe there would be less bullying and judgemental people if we wore uniforms because basically no one can see your style, if you are rich, poor... Everyone is the same. But on the other hand I think it's great to give people the freedom to express their personality with their clothes, so I guess I kind of like our method, even though I don't think I would mind a lot to wear uniform. 

Mean Girls

This year it's the 10th birthday of Mean Girls, a teenage movie that shows high school life and it's people, like the popular girls, the most handsome football players, the nerds, the ones that don't give a damn about anything... Everyone.

This movie has been very popular and actually a lot of girls have followed the popular girls of the movie's things during these past ten years. These three girls are the coolest girls in the school and they have some rules that for them are really important. Important to the point that if you didn't follow them then they'd say "You can't sit with us". 
Regina, Karen and Gretchen are theese girls and some of their rules are that they wear pink every Wednesday and they always say things like "fetch" and "grool", which means that something is great and cool. 

So since it's been the teenth birthday, my friends and I have been talking about the movie more than the usual and we've started to follow some of their rules too and in addition we've added more things. For example, on Wednesdays we wear pink, like them, but we also wear striped shirts on Mondays and something with a flamenco on Fridays. We say things like "fetch" and "grool" as well! It all sounds so corny but we like to do it so! 

I really love this movie and so my friends do! We all agree it is one of our favourities! In fact, Tania and I have done a quiz to see which character from the movie we are and I got Karen and she got Gretchen! So Angelina is Regina.

GERMANY

Exactly one week ago I was heading to Germany, to my friend's grandparents' house in a beautiful town called Braünlingen. It was the second time I went and it was even better than the last time. I had so much fun and I could say it has been one of the best trips I've ever done.

On Thursday my daddy brung us to the aiport and there we took the plane. We are 16 so we are legally allowed to fly without an adult.When we arrived we had to take a bus and then a train for around two hours, until we arrived at the train station and her grandparents were waiting us. 

We would wake up early every day and enjoy the whole day. We visited her family and since I know them from last year, it wasn't that awkward. 

We made a lot of things like visiting different cities and such, and on Saturday we decided to visit a city two hours away by train. Surprisingly, there was a HUGE festival where the people dresses with typical dresses and drink a lot. The whole train was full of drunk and dressed people and my friend and I couldn't help but laugh all the time. We had a blast during all the way. The youth next to us were singing out loud all the time and they even talked to us. A funny fact from there was that while we were there, a Mexican guy walked by us and thinking I was German, he asked me if the toilets where there. I didn't understand so I looked at my friend and one of the drunk German guys, who knew I don't talk German, told him something like "hey, she talks Spanish, ask her where is the toiletá", so the Mexican guy turned to me and told me "toiletá?" but I still didn't know what was going on so my poker face was epic, I guess. And my friend started to laugh so much and I was like what the heck. The German guy thought toilet in Spanish was toiletá... actually has a bit of sense if you think about it like, why not? 

Last year we went to a lounge bar in her town and we met two of the waiters, so this year we went again. Actually we went everyday because it's a restaurant as well and one day we went with her auntie and another day with her cousins. I couldn't understand anything but Angelina would translate everything to me so I wasn't lost all the time. 

I have no idea of German, not more than ten words but I don't know how I made it to understand some things when she was talking to her grandparents or cousins, like maybe she said one word and I recognized it and I knew what were they talking about.

We met a lot of different people during the hours we were in the train and it was HILIAROUS. If I had to summarize the trip in one word I'd say funny. Angelina and I were laughing the whole time, like  a l l  the time.

COACHELLA

Right now is having place the famous Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. It's one of the most good known festivals in the United States and a lot of celebrities attend to the festival every year. 

Coachella was founded by Paul Tollett in 1999, even though the festival's origins trace back to a concert that Pearl Jam performed at the Empire Polo Club in 1993. At first, in 1999, the festival lasted two days, and the following year there wasn't any festival. In 2001 the festival only lasted one day and again, in 2002 it lasted two days. In 2007 another day was added and in 2012 another weekend. So nowadays, Coachella lasts two weekends. 

During these days people can camp on the grounds and that's one of the reasons a lot of people attends to this huge festival. In 2010, around 75,000 people came each day. Only last year, the festival two weekends grossed $67 million, which made it the highest-grossing festival ever. Obviously, the tickets aren't that cheap so that's why they gross a lot: a general pass costs around $375 and the VIP pass $799. But a lot of famous artists attend it during these days like Amy Winehouse, Snoop Dogg, Paul McCartney, Madonna, The Black Keys, Jay-Z and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. 

Practically all young celebrities attend to this festival, like Harry Styles, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Selena Gomez, Cara Delevigne, Lindsay Lohan, Katy Perry, Kendall Jenner, Paris Hilton... They all wear an indio style, which I personally think is so cool. 

This year, Coachella started last weekend from April 11th to 13th and this is the last weekend, and it ends tomorrow. 


I really hope one day I can attend Coachella personally, not Tomorrowland or something like that but Coachella. It's amazing and while these days everyone is posting pictures on the Internet I'm here stuck in this country. 


Here you can take a look of what things happen in this enormous festival: https://www.youtube.com/user/coachella

Chloe Campbell is missing

Chloe Campbell, a three year-old Australian girl has been reported missing from her home Thursday at
7am, when her parents woke up and didn't find her. 

Chloe's parents put her to bed and they went to sleep hours later, but when they woke up Chloe was missing and so were her blanket and teddy bear, and in addition the window was opened. 

This little girl is blonde, with fair shoulder-lenght hair and she is 100cm tall, with some similuties to Madeleine McCann. Madeleine was also three years-old when she dissapeared and looked similar to Chloe. 
Also, this case has reminded locals of the disappearance of a four years-old girl and her father in January, but their bodies were found 17 days later.

I can perfectly remember when Madeleine went missing. All of my friends and I were talking about this like all the time. 

I've always been scared about these things. I always have faith until the very last minute when the bodies are unfortunately found or until like in Marta del Castillo's case, where the murder confirmed he killed her even if he doesn't seem to reveal where the body is. I always take a second to remember one case where the girl was kidnapped for 10 years but she finally escaped, or that case where three girls -or already women- with one of the girl's daughter escaped from a man who had kidnapped them as well. I think there's people with psychologic problems that don't kill people but just kidnap them and it is luck that one day the kidnappers are not concentrating, and the victim can escape.

My opinion on: terrorism

Nowadays, to talk about terrorism seems an old thing, something past, but sadly it isn't. There is terrorism all the time, it never stops, and it should have stopped years ago. We are in the 21th century, how is that even possible?

There are a lot of different grades of terrorism, from making bombs explode to burning something public on the street. Sometimes i'ts to claim about something (normally politic) or basically to make fun. Exploding bombs to kill people because you don't agree with something I think is not correct. If you want to protest about something there are other ways to, that may or may not be easy but everything is better than killing innocent people, otherwise, if you kill people then obviously you are not going to be listened to and won't be respcted at all. Making things correctly is the best way, even if it needs more hours and more dedication to succeed. On the other hand, burning public stuff on the street is something I don't find very bad -as long as it doesn't harm anyone- because many times doing things properly and following the rules doesn't work. But that should be the last option; if you can try to do things correctly before, then why not?

One of my wishes since I was little was the end of wars. All I would always ask for was that, because I I used to see it on TV (wars) and a lot of people dying and that would always break my heart. I was approximately 8 years-old and I actually thought the war stopped. Little me, probably I stopped watching the news, or I wouldn't even notice there were still wars. But at least I felt better for some years of my childhood.
Wars have never stopped. There are always two or more countries fighting for different reasons. My opinion on this is: there are ways and ways. Why would us keep fighting, involving our countries into wars when we all should have learnt after Hitler and Franco's years that killing innocent people because of other reasons is not the right option? Children, teenagers, adults, old people... Everyone receives this, everyone is living in danger. And what have these little childs done? For example. Who can answer this...? Come on...

I don't see the "cool" side, the "pleasure" of terrorism. I don't care which grade it is, I really don't get it. I know things are not working lately with politics, and probably have never done, but there are a lof of different ways to talk and express thoughts, or at least that's what should be. Us, the humans, should have never have had to wander to violence or any kind of terrorism.

I only wish terrorism and smiliar things to this could stop for once...

Frozen

When the movie "Frozen" came out, my little sister wanted to go to the movies to watch it. Normally, my mum join her, but that day I was bored as hell and wanted to go out so badly, so decided to take her there instead of my mum.

When we arrived, I noticed I was the only teenager there and at first I felt a bit pathetic but then I realized that feeling that way was stupid. I'm 16 years-old and I still like Disney movies, what's wrong with that? They always give you strenght and faith to believe in things. But to be honest I wasn't that excited. 

The movie started and I felt like a little child again, and I really enjoyed the whole movie. Actually, I think I liked the movie more than my sister did, and I went home feeling so happy.

The movie related the story of two princesses, one some years older than the other. The older one, Elsa, has a weird power in her hands that makes her froze everything she touches, even though at first this would only happen when she wanted to. Until one day, playing with her sister Anna creating snow, harmed her. It was something serious, very serious, and they needed the help of some little animals. They made her get better but she forgot everything that happened that day. 
Since that day, Elsa decided to be closed in her room always, all the time. She would never go out, because the power became so bigger until the point all her room was frozen. Everything that was around her would be frozen, like ice. Her little sister would be always knocking at her door asking her "Do you wanna build a snowman?", but Elsa would never answer. 

Their parents had died years ago and on the day of Elsa's birthday, when she was going to become the queen. She got ready and wore gloves so she wouldn't froze everything she touched. 
Anna saw her for the first time after a lot of years and there, Anna decided she wanted to marry some guy she had just met because she thought she was "already in love". That made Elsa angry and suddenly, one of her gloves fell and her power was found out. Everyone got scared and so Anna did. 
Elsa ran away and went to the mountains, where with her own power she created a whole ice castle that wouldn't undo. She was sad, but at the same time she felt free. 

Anna went after her and left the city under that guy she had just met. On her way, she met another guy with his pet and he promised her he would help her find her sister. They lived some adventures and they met Olaf, a snowman so cute.

Finally, they found Elsa, but she was pretending to be angry and tried to convice them that she wanted to be there alone. During the movie, there are some problems and at the end, Anna finds out that boy she wanted to marry isn't what she thought. 

At the end of the movie, Elsa injures Anna again accidentaly and her heart starts to froze again. She starts to have her hair white, like Elsa, and she starts to not have energy. She is about to die frozen, but finally Elsa arrived, and hugs her and she lives again. 

So the movie, obviously, has beautiful happy ending. 


I really loved this movie and I'm not ashamed anymore to say it. I cannot wait to have free time again and watch it !

LONDON'14

Exactly one week ago I was in London. I went on a trip with school to spent four days there, visiting and enjoying one of the most beautiful and well known places in the world.

We had to be at 3am in front of our school on Thursday morning, so we could get to be in Barcelona airport at time and take the plane at 8am. For that, I woke up at 2am and I got ready and I reviewed everything was okay. On a normal day I would have hated waking up that early but to be honest I woke up happier and with more energy than in any other day.
The normal thing would have been to sleep in the bus on our way to Barcelona, but my friend and I were too excited for all, so we talked all the time. 
At the aiport, we all played some games until it was time to go.


When we arrived in London, the first thing we did was go to the hotel and take a look at it. Actually I was quite scared about what were we going to see there, because we hadn't seen pictures on the Internet of the rooms with bathrooms. But everything was okay because we had bathrooms in the room. It was all white, pink and purple, which made me feel very comfortable because my room is white and pink, and I love those colours and combinations.


We visited a lot of important things and had free time everyday to go on our way, which I really loved. We would wake up every day very early to have breakfast and then we wouldn't arrive to the hotel until very late hours, so I fell asleep very quickly every time. Which made me sleep in the bus coming back to my town and sleep the following morning after the trip. 


We had been praying for good weather because we all know the weather British people have. I had been comparing every single day for two weeks the weather we had to theirs, and it was quite similar to ours and they had had kind of hot days like us. But the days before we all got scared because according to our phones, it was going to rain every single day. Even my English teacher, who is from England, told me "England without rain isn't England". But as days passed, weather changed. And at the end, we would only have rain for like some minutes everyday and it wasn't that much. Unless the first night, where almost no one had an umbrella (neither me and Léna, but we had bought one earlier because we forgot ours in Spain), and it rained heavily. But we didn't mind a lot because we were all the time thinking "now we are in England, and we have to enjoy it no matter what". And so we did!


Using pounds wasn't that difficult to be honest. The only thing was that currencies don't have written the number as big as we have but they have it written with little letters, so the first days we would be reading all the time the currencies. But we ended up recognizing them, fortunately.


We are so many people in my grade, but not every one went. Actually, we were not more than 30 people I think, and there was people of my grade and the one year older one. From this last grade I only knew one girl, and now I kind of know more of them personally, not only their names. And from my year, the people that went are those I know I can talk with and trust them. They are really nice people and we all are always making parties together with big groups, etc. And, there were two of my besties! So it was awesome! 
The teachers that came with us, Sonia, Milco and Eli are all very nice and I'm sure that made the trip be cool and not with bad moments like sometimes happens because of some mean teachers... I'm thankfull they were who accompained us. 


I loved everything we did, and I loved everything there. I guess when you like a country, you like bascially everything from there but yeah. But one of the things that surprinsingly I really loved was the Hamleys toy shop. Yes, toy shop. At first, when one of my friends that had had been there before told us to go to a toy shop I was like "what", but when I came in and I saw that enorumous shop with different floors I was shocked. The staff were pretending to be so happy all the time, with a big smile in their face and so sympatheic. Each floor was of some different things. For example, one floor was all pink, with girly things and like bascially a paradise for little childs (and me). Then another one would be with sweets, another with teddies, magic... and some incredible things. In each one of these, there were like stalls with staff that showed you something they wanted to sell, and I don't usually fell in these things but, I did in one of those. I really love that place... It was like paradise!


Preparing the case the night before didn't feel good at all. I didn't want to come back to Spain, because 1. I don't like Spain and 2. I love England. And waking up the following morning knowing that I was going to sleep in my country that night didn't feel good either. And going to the aiport and taking the plane was the worst. My bestie and I really didn't want to come back. But we had to.

As you may know, lately it's been getting famous the "selfie game". Since we have the front camera in phones, everyone takes pictures with it, but no one called it taking a selfie until approximately one year ago. And, to be honest, my friends and I are kind of obsessed with selfies. We are taking selfies all the time and there is no day we are together and we don't take a selfie. I have a bunch of selfies in my phone, because casually we take all of those with my phone. 
Well, London wouldn't stop us from taking selfies so... yes, you can imagine. 

selfies with my friends and Sonia!

I really enjoyed this trip and I cannot wait to go back to that beautiful country as soon as possible. Hopefully, to live there. 

all my friends and I 

You can be beautiful, wonderful, anything you want to be

H&M with my girls

People goes shopping, we do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts08TOHTHZI

Positive mind

Everyone has problems, no one has a perfect and easy life. Lately people (and I include myself) tend to

think their life suck when something bad or unusual happens, believeing that everything around sucks too, like if that thing -big or little- involved everything else to suck too. 

I've always been this kind of girl that would think her life is horrible because of a little thing that ocurred to me. I would only see the negative side of everything, forgeting the good one. If something bad or that I don't like it happened, I would immediately see everything dark and think my life is the worse, not accepting to see that life is not only that. 

Everyone is always trying to find happiness when we already have beautiful things around us, all the time. Maybe they are little, and they are not beautiful for everyone, but perhaps for you it is. You just have to look at it with different eyes. There is this quote that says "People wait all week for friday, all the year for summer and all the life for happiness.", and how true is this? 

I think everyone has this moment in their life where they realize you don't have to wait for things to happen but you have to go to get those things. And you cannot wake up every morning with a negative mind; you have to wake up with positivity, thinking that everything is possible and not waiting for the perfect things. I mean, most of the people is always waiting for the happiness to get them. They are waiting to become happy but what they can't see is that happiness is something mental. And with this I don't talk for everyone but for people who lives in developed countries and have, more or less, a proper life. 

A while ago I realized I couldn't be sad anymore. We all have our up and downs, and that's what life is made for, but they don't last for ever. When you succeed in something, then you have to turn the page and start a new chapter. And you cannot start that chapter with a close and negative mind but open and positive. Everyone prefers to be with happy people that are always smiling than with sad people that are waiting for happiness to get them. 

For example, there is this girl that tries to see the good side of things and there is the other girl that is eternally waiting for happiness. If one little thing that is not good happens, the first girl would react in a totally different away comparing to the second one. A stupid example: it's Saturday afternoon and starts to rain. The first girl may get sad but would try to see the good side like it is a perfect afternoon to watch a movie while the second girl would be sad and spend a depressive afternoon because it didn't go like she expected. 

It's all about how we see the world.

It would be very beautiful to go to sleep every day thinking "What am I thankful for today?", and try to think about all the amazing things that have happened that day. Because life is not perfect, neither we are, but we must try to see the good side of life because otherwise we are wasting it. And we only live once.

So next time you are sad, try to find the beautiful side because life is amazing. 

United Kingdom, Candada or Australia

Since I was born I've been living in the same place and I've just moved once when I was one year old so I don't remember. I've just had one house I remember and I've just lived here so I've been with the same people since I can remember. I guess that's why I find so interesting changing of country and start a new life from 0, living in another place with similar or totally different cultures, with new people where you don't know anyone and with another language. 

I love traveling and if I could I would travel the whole world. To be honest I think every country has beautiful and interesting things, but there are some places I have preference to live in. If you asked me where would I like to go to live right now, I don't think I would be able to respond with just one answer. There are some countries I would love to live in and I will try to do my best to live or at least visit once all these countries. These countries are the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. I also love the United States of America and Holland, but in U.S.A. guns are allowed for everyone and that is something that scares me and Holland has it's own language which I barely know a word and I think the pronunciation is too complicated for me. That's why I have the U.K., Canada and Australia in my mind. I know a bit of English and at least I would be able to talk.

The United Kingdom is a place so many people around the world wants to be from. They have a cool pronunciation and to be honest I love the style they have there and the way they are. It's very beautiful and it's not hot, which I love.

Canada is a beautiful place too where they see snow every year. I know most of the people there hates the snow and are tired but I don't hate it at all and I wish I could see snow more than twice in my life. I don't know a lot of things from there but all the pictures I've seen are really beautiful. And it's kind of similar to U.S.A. and I love that country and if it wasn't because of the gums I would definitely have the idea of moving there in my mind but I'm way too scared.

Australia is a totally different place and people around me think it's weird that I would like to move to there, because they have a very warm weather and it's hot and all they have is beaches and such... But yes, I like it anyways. But that country is very far away from here and if something ever happened here that I had to come as soon as possible, it would be so difficult and expensive for me to take a plane and come here.

One thing I like from one of this countries is that they eat earlier than I do. For example, they have lunch at 12pm when I have it at 2pm, and they have dinner at 5-6 pm when I have it at 8-9pm, and if you think about it, us, the spanish people, have meals way too late because eating a meal that late at night it's not very healthy; it would be healthier to eat earlier and then go to do some sport or go out for a walk... I think they enjoy the day more than we do. And it would be hard for me and I totally know what I'm talking about because last year when I went to Germany in my friend's grandparent's house, we would eat at those hours and it was really difficult for me but life is kind of different that way.

If I could I definitely would like to change it to that way but here it's not easy to because people's work are related to the time we have meals, so it's kind of hard.

If I could move to any of those countries tomorrow knowing that I will have a place to stay in, I would totally say yes. I cannot wait to live new experiences!

Dear Mrs. Victoria Philpott

Monday 3th March 2014

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Dear Mrs. Victoria Philpott,
I'm writing to you because I'm interested in doing a gapyear in Canada.
I would like to apply for an International Experience Canada (IEC) to live and work in Canada for one year. Specifically in Toronto, working in the ski and snowboarding industry. I really like everything related to snow and personally I think if I could have a chance to do a gapyear there I would enjoy it a lot!
I'm  not a very sportive girl but I really like the cold and I would like to learn how to skii properly. 

One of the main reasons I'm interested in this is to improve my English and live a new experience in another country, meet new people and enjoy.

King regards, 
Esther 

Big Bird

Some months ago there was a big storm hit in Tanzania where a little pelican was abandoned by his flock. 

This pelican called Big Bird couldn't even feed himself when he was found. When this happened, the staff at Greystoke Mahale Park decided to teach him how to fly, and so he did. He would always run up and down flapping his arms and simulating a flight for him. He says Big Bird would look curiously how he did that until the day he did it by himself. In addition him and park workers teached him life skills to be able to survive.

While he was learning, his staff put him a small GoPro camera in his beak so the animal could record by himself his first flight, and so he did. 

When things like storms happen, it's normal that sad thing like this happen. This pelican was very lucky to be found by these men who decided to take care of him and teach him how to fly because he succeeded. In my opinion it's incredible how a human being shows a bird how to fly, when we don't even know how to fly because basically we can't fly. If I think about it then I arrive to the conclusion that we do teach dogs and horses... So maybe teaching a bird is not that weird, but I honestly think it's amazing what these people did with Big Bird. 

Super mum

Jane Plume is a single woman with three children who is taking care of her best friend's children after
her husband and her died. 

Jane and Gina met 14 years ago when they worked together and became best friens. They would always hang out and do different activities, even though it was only be relaxing. 



One day, Gina's husband was diagnosed with cancer and knew he was going to die soon, but unexpectidly, one day Gina had an accident and died. It wasn't an easy time for Jane but she and her friend's husband decided to stick together. But they both knew he was going to die, so Jane promised him that when that happened she would raise their children and he was very thankful.

When he died Jane had to work very hard but she says she doesn't regret anything because she loved her friend as a sister. 

I personally admire this woman because she had toi put in so much effort to keep going with 5 children even though they are not very little. I would definitely do something like this for my best friend but I think I should have to work so hard for it. I hope I don't ever have to do it but if I have, I will do it without even thinking about it. As Jane says in the article, family are those people you chose and to my best friend I would do anything because I know she will always be there for me if I need it. 

Miley Cyrus

All of us know about Miley Cyrus, also known as Hannah Montana for basically all the world. She started with this serie when she was 14 and she was only a preteen. She was famous all over the world and I dare to say that probably more than half of the girls (like childs back then) used to watch it. The episodes were funny and personally I really loved it.

When us, the girls that used to watch it, became older there was that tipical tropicl like if you watch Hannah Montana you are a child, and no one wants to be a child when you are in high school because everyone wants to get older and become a teenager as soon as possible. Mostly of the people stopped watching the series and in 2011 Hannah Montana stopped recording, it was over.

But Miley Cyrus didn't stop singing. She kept recording and making her songs and her fans kept following and supporting her no matter what. But she wasn't super famous back then.

Miley grew up, she got older and was engaged to an actor, but things happened and they broke up. Miley wasn't ready for this at all and suddenly her songs showed a part of Miley people didn't know yet.
Not even a year ago now Miley released a video called We Can't Stop, a video where she appeared a bit provocative and sensual, apparently mentioning drugs and alcohol. From this, almost all the world started to talk about her and criticize her, saying awful things. But she didn't mind a lot and months later recorded a video called Wreaking Ball where she appeared even more provocative. Apparently this song was made indirectly to his ex, because he hurted her a lot. One of the things she says is "Don't you ever say "I just walked a way, I will always love you". And people criticized her a lot again. Until one day she said in front of a camera that she only grew up and that she only shows what teens do but no one tells. People criticized her for appearing almost naked and all she said was that they couldn't understand because what that video showed is that she ended up like with nothing with all the pain of the break up. The truth is that there is so many other celebrities that do music videos similar to these but they are not judged because they've been doing this since always. What I think is, Miley only grew up and all of us have seen her do it, the problem here is that people judge her because they remember her as the little girl but she is not a girl anymore! People don't stay little for ever. She is mature enough. No one criticizes Rihanna or Shakira or Beyonce, but everyone criticizes Miley. Why? Can't she be what she is or does she have to pretend something she is not only to please people? Then she would be fake, huh? Some people should clear their mind and take care of their own business!!

Judgemental generation

When you are a teenager it's "normal" that you take care a lot of what you wear and do and we trend to judge people so fast by anything. A lot of people do that when they are little, when they are adult and when they are old, but the stage that does this more is the young one.

Teenagers tend to check other people from head to feet, criticizing their flaws and judging them. When they are in group they tend to make laugh of people and ridiculize them, like if they were perfect or something when they are not. It's hard to not be like this if you get easily attached to what people think and you think other people's opinion are more worth than yours, and this is something many people think nowadays. So if one person, for example, the "lider", the "popular" one at school thinks something someone is wearing is not cool, then everyone seems to not think it neither. Every single person has their own ideas! Some people should focus on what they think and not on what other people think!
But opinions are not always good. Mostly they are negative and affect other people. There is no need to make someone feel unworth or to make they think they are doing something wrong just by wearing some clothes or because they are how they are. Everyone is different and no one should criticize anyone.


What magazines post in their covers is what people follows. The current society's idea of a beautiful body is thin, super skinny. To be beautiful you must have a perfect hair all the time, a perfect make-up on, beautiful eyes and perfect lips; if you are not like that, then you are not beautiful.
Seriously? Even though this is seems to be changing lately. 

From all of this, this generation, my generation, is always caring about how do they look like and are worrying all the time if they are what it's apparently "good". It has arrived to that point where people is comparing themselves to other people all the time. They see only their flaws and tend to think that what other people have is better than theirs (if not then it's horrible and the worst). They spend they life suffering, thinking that they are not good enough and that they have to look specially in one way to be understood, love or whatever. I'm not talking about every single person but mostly, about more than half of the teenagers.


To be honest, I'm a bit judgemental but with the person that I'm more judgemental is with myself. Obviously I look at other people even though I don't like to do it that much but when I see something I don't like I don't go directly to judge it, I just respect it because it's obvious I can't like everything; I know there is people that don't like maybe my clothes but there is no reason to judge. Everyone wears what they like and that is it.
If I see something I don't like of someone, I take a look at myself and all I do is check and see if I'm not like them, but just to myself. There is no need to make someone feel uncomfortable.
 I think everyone should take care of themselves and not care about what other people is doing. If I could talk to the world I would tell everyone to look for them, take care of what they wear and what they do but never compare themselves to other people. Every person is different and no one is better than the other so there is no need to feel unworth or something. If there is something you don't like about yourself then go and change it, but don't be comparing all the time to other people because then it won't be you, it will be another person but not you.



On the internet there is so many people that gives their opinion on multiple things. In Youtube there is a bunch of videos and one I've seen recently is Chris Collins' one. I totally agree with his opinion and as he is from the same generation as me, all he says is so accurate:

FILM REVIEW: The Book Thief

Approximately one month ago I went to the cinemas to watch a movie with my friends called The Book
Thief. I really enjoyed this movie and to be honest it's very sad but because it is very realistic and shows things that happened years ago. I cried and I wasn't the only one; basically all the people watching the movie were crying.

This movie starts with the story of Liesel, a young girl whose little brother dies in the beggining of the movie when they are on their way to some "addoption" because of the situation in Germany during Hitler's times.
She arrives at the house where an old couple are waiting for her. They were expecting to have two children and the woman was a bit disappointed when she saw only the girl. This woman was kind of mean in the beggining but during the movie she starts being more comprensive and finally she loves her as a granddaughter. The man since the first time treats her very good and makes her feel more comfortable.

When Liesel arrives she is first made laugh of at school because she can't read. She hates it and the man helps her to learn. She starts to read a lot. Meanwhile she meets a blondie guy at her class who is her neighboor and they become very friends; he likes Liesel and he is constantly asking her to give him a kiss but she always rejects him.

One day a jewish guy arrives. He is the son of some old friend the man had and he has to take care of him because some years ago he promised his friend he was going to do something for him whenever he needed it. This friend was dead but his son was in danger so he asked him for help and he received it. The couple had to hide him from everyone because if Hiltler's people found him all of them would be dead immediately.

Liesel becomes his friend fast and they live a "normal" life. She gets to know the major's wife and she lets her go inside the house and read the amount of books she has for hours. She really enjoys it but one day the major sees it and gets angry. Since that day Liesel has to stop going to the house.

One day Hitler's people is checking every single house to be sure there is no jewish people hiden. Liesel and the blondie are in the street playing with other boys and when Liesel sees it goes directly to the house to let the old couple know. They get very nervous and they try to hide the jewish guy. It seems like it's impossible and the woman tries to act like there is no one. They are friends with those men so they are very friendly but still, they have to check. So they go downstairs and the couple and Liesel were very scared. But they didn't see anything.

They calmed down but at night Hitler's people start to bombard the city and all the town have to hide in a safe place. But the jewish man can't and he decides to enjoy that time when no one is in the streets and decides to go outside. When the family comes back they see he is not there and guess he is dead. They are sad but keep with everything.

At the end a voice that is not any character in the movie starts to talk: the Dead. It says one of those nights he took so many lifes and the blondie and his family appear and so the old couple does. Suddenly Liesel appears (she is alive) and we can see all destroyed. She sees everyone she loves dead and the blondie lying in the floor. She goes to him and sees he is not dead but almost. At this time, the blonde guy tells her "let me tell you one thing" and she is like "no, don't say nothing", but he insists and he says "I love you" and then he dies. Liesel kisses him but it's too late. In this moment everyone in the hall cried.

Then appears how Liesel is in the streets and is in a shop where the blonde guy's father works ( he was in the war and didn't die ) and suddenly the jewish guy appears; he didn't die neither.



I really enjoyed watching this movie and I think it's very beautiful and realistic because it shows how people had to live years ago with Hitler and all that law. It shows how german people had to live and how jewish people had. In addition from the movie I realized that if you love someone you have to tell them everyday and let them know. You shouldn't stay it with you because you are scared of something, you should just let them know because you never know what can happen. Maybe tomorrow is too late to tell the boy/girl you like you love them.

Our world

Our planet is a big place with so many people, different languages and cultures. It's impossible to tell how many people there's alive in the world; babies around the world are born every second and people dies every second. It's shocking and you can see it with your own eyes in this link http://www.worldometers.info . Right now there is 7,215,014,980 people in this world. Well, not anymore. This link shows real time world stadistics about basically everything. You cannot even copy and paste a number because it changes in less than a second. 

But not every person in this Earth has a proper life. The U.S. is not the same as China, the United Kingdom is not the same as South-America and Australia is not the same as Africa. Some countries are more developed than others and with a huge difference. In places like the U.S, Canada, Europe, Australia and some parts of Asia there's a better life. There, people have houses with electricity, water and light. They can buy food and clothes and live more or less good. Obviously that is not for everyone and with the crisis everytime the number of people living like this is getting little. I just hope politicians do their job well and all of this gets better soon.

In other countries like South-America, Africa and some parts of Asia it's not the same. But this can be showed even more in Africa. There, is very hot and it's desert. There is not so many rich people and they live super good while most of the population is poor. People starves and need water to survive. For the moment, today about 19,733 people have died of hunger in the world and this number grows one number approximately after 3 seconds.Probably most of them live in Africa. That's why many africans are these past days trying to go to Spain, to find a better life yet they are doing it illegally. People need to move to other countries to live better.

I think it's impossible to go to any country, city or town and not see someone that is not from there. I mean, someone who their family and surname is from another country even if they are living in that country for years. People is constantly moving from one town to another, from one city to another or to one country to another. Some of them do it to change, to try new things or because any other random reason. But a lot of them do it because they can't keep living in the way they do in their country because the situation is horrible; they need a work and need to collect money to give a proper life to their family. These people is most of the time from poor countries and they live poorly in the country they go too, but at least they live. They normally work with the worst jobs native people don't want to work of. For example, cleaning the streets or being the cleaning lady. Even though these things are changing lately.

London is a cosmopolitan capital where they respect cultures and as I got told, you can see so many people from different countries. There are many cities like this which actually is great.

The world is quite unfair for some people and I think it's not a very comfortable thought thinking that while I'm writing this and you are reading this and being in the year we are now, 2014, the world is still in these conditions and we can't do a lot to change it. No one is better than the other, no country is more worth than another and people shouldn't be dying because of hunger and thirst. 

Awful reaction to Zantac

Medicines and drugs are in our daily life and most of us use them without thinking of how many consequences can they have. 

Leanne Howes, a 17 year old girl took 150 mg dose of Zantac Ranitidine to treat her IBS (Irritable bowel syndrom, a sympthom based diagnosis characterized by chronic abdomina kpain, discomfort, bloating and aternation of bowel habits) and suffered an allergic reaction. This left her skin falling off in chunks; it burnt up, scabbed over and finally fell off.

Lianne had her first symptom when she fell ill. She was at work and didn't feel well so she bought some tablets, which didn't do anything wrong during that day until the next morning. Then she was rushed to the hospital and there she fought hard for her life. Doctors said that it was a miracle and she got treated in the same way as burns victims.

She spent four weeks on a morphine drip in hospital and couldn't walk or talk properly. Her hair, nails, eyelashes fell out and she lost a lot of weight. 

While she was recovering she had her mother and boyfriend by her side and he would always tell her she was beautiful even though she had lost hair, nails and everything. 

Not everyone who suffers this survive and that is way Leanne feels so lucky to be alive. But now she is very scared of taking more medicines.


Here you can see from the photos the effects of her awful reaction: 

Leanne before the reaction

                                  

Leanne recovering

Leanne totally recovered