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

Gapyear.com
6th Floor CI Tower
St. Georges Square
High Street
New Malden
Surrey KT3 4TE
United Kigndom

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.