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