FEMINISM AND "FEMINAZISM"

I have wanted to talk about this topic for some time now, so I'm going to do it in this post. I'm going to talk about the difference between feminism and the coloquial called “feminazism”.

Let's start from the beginning, what is the feminism? The feminism is a social and political movement that fights against woman discrimination and supports gender equality, wanting men and women to have the same rights and duties and wanting their equality.

Nowadays, feminism is getting everytime more popular and it's gaining a lot of support, either from women or men.

The problem is that some people go further and defend another way of thinking under the name of feminism, although it is not the same at all. This is when the term “feminazism” comes in. These people, normally women, defend the rights of women and complain in case men have advantadges or better conditions, but don't complain when it's women who are having this advantadges.

In my case, I don't agree with them. I think men and women should be equal and have the same rights and duties, because we are all human beings and, of course I cannot say we are equal in everthing, because there are obvious different between the two genders, but this shouldn't be a reason to be treated differently. And, although I'm a woman, I find some situations in which women are being treated with advantadges in relation to men unfair.

But, even though I don't agree with the thoughts of the “feminazis” and in my opinion, if they are against male chauvinism, they shouldn't defend what they defend, I think everyone has the right to think and express their opinions and thoughts. What bothers me is that these people consider themselves feminists and state they are totally in favour of feminism, but they are actually acting in a lot of situations as the opposite of feminism is defending.

So I think they should accept that they are not feminists and don't make other people believe they are when they are defending other things. 

OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA

On 27^th May, Obama visited Hiroshima, becoming the first United States president to do this since the nuclear bomb was thrown in the World War II.

The president talked about nuclear weapons and that we shouldn't use them and he said that we must never forget what happened 71 years ago, although he didn't apologize in the name of the country.

Obama visited the Peace Memorial Museum and the Park, spoke with two survivours and even hugged one of them, Mr Abe. This visit has caused diversity of opinions: some people see this visit as a good thing and some Japanese people welcome it, despite the fact he hasn't apologized; and other people say that he made a very idealistic speech, but he is still the leader of the country with the biggest nuclear arsenal.

The same thing happens with the throw of the nuclear bomb, some people think it was good because it brought the war to an end, but other people, amongst which there are people who were directly or indirectly affected by the bomb, who think it was cruel and it shouldn't have been done. 

PERSONAL OPINION:

I think it's something good Obama visiting Hiroshima, because even though he didn't apologize, it's a way to show he accepts whan the country did. Also I like the fact he spoke with survivours and people affected by it, because I think it is a good gesture of him.

And about the if it was good or bad throwing the nuclear bomb debate, I think it wasn't good, because even though it meant the end of World War II, a lot of people died and it had horrible consequences that are still prevailing until nowadays.

NEW WORDS:

· Wreath: corona funeraria

· Complacency: autosuficiència

· Poll: votació

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36394975

REVIEW: THE FIGHT CLUB

Some months ago I watched a fim that I had heard about before but it never really caught my attention: it was the Fight Club. Someone reccomended it to me, so I decided to watch it and it really surprised me. I ended up liking it a lot!

This movie was directed by David Fincher and it's based on the book with the same name by Chuck Palahnuik.

The story starts when the main character, whose name we don't get to now and who is played by Edward Norton, starts having insomnia and starts attending support groups for problems which aren't even related to him, there he meets Marla, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is doing the same as him. With that, his life changes a little bit, but then it makes the big change when he meets Tyler, played by Brat Pitt, a soap maker who lives a particular life. Together, they start a fight club that develops into something out of control.

When I started watching the film I was interested in it. Then the middle of it I started to get a little bit bored, and I think it was because I wasn't understanding the whole message of it. But then, there comes a point when there is a huge plot twist that totally surprised me and that I didn't expect at all. From that point I started to really like the movie and I began to understand the things better. The film has a full of ideologies background, that can be hard to understand, but the main ideology that it transmits is the rejection of the consumism and the idea that people are living lifes they don't like because of the system we are living in.

There are films that use plot twists to explain the story using the easy way, that maybe it has nothing to do with what happened before and that's why it surprises the viewers, but at the end it was just a way to end everything easily. This film isn't one of these cases, because if you watch it for a second time you can notice different clues the director puts in scenes previous to the plot twist that subtly warn you of what it's actually going to happen.

In conclusion, it is a film I totally recommend and although it can be a little difficult to understand (it happened to me and I am not sure I understand it fully now) it will surely surprise and shock you.

THE TRAILER:

SELECTIVE XENOPHOBIA

One of our society's problem nowadays is the xenophobia. Not everyone, but there's a lot of people who feels rejection for immigrants, specially on situations like the one we are living right now, when we are not in a good economic moment and some people think that unemployment is caused by immigrants who “steal” the jobs to people from the country.

But we could say this xenophobia is selective, because normally people tend to reject immigrants from specific countries, a lot of times from African countries, who are normally in a worse economic situation. But then, when people come from other European countries, such as France, Germany or the UK, or even people from African countries, but who are rich, this xenophobia disapears and everyone is pleased with them. There is the typical example of the common rejection to the arab immigrants, but the acceptance and fondness to the arab sheikhs, because they are extremely rich and they bring money to the country.

Another example of this, that I saw on the Internet recently and that it made me think about writing this you say, is Donald Trump, one of the USA presidential candidates at the moment. Donald Trump is the representant of a republican party and is totally against immigration. He wants to close the borders of the country to avoid the entrance of immigrants, specially from hispano immigrants who come from the south of the country. But, despite his hate for immigrants, on the 5^th May, when the “Cinco de Mayo” Mexican festivity is celebrated, he posted a photo eating a taco bowl and saying how much he loved this festivity and the hispanics. Or pictures of him with arab sheikhs can be also found, after he has said more than once that muslim people are a danger for the country.

Xenphobia is a problem that exists and that society needs to fix, but I think that total xenophobia is not something common, what is common is this “selective xenophobia”, that lots of times changes depending on the economic situation the person in front of you has.

This “selective xenophobia” is a problem, as well as the “total xenophobia”, but I think it is even worse, because it shows the incoherence and the illogicallity of a lot of people, who show that can't even follow their own principles. If you are against immigration, it's okay. I don't agree with you and I don't think you are right, but at least be coherent and be against all immigration and don't break your principles, even when the thing you don't accept is beneficial for you.

Also, I think it's a shame that someone famous, who totally shows this “selective xenophobia”, is having so much support on being the next USA president. 

WOMAN CONFRONTS NEONAZIS

The news talks about something that happened on the 1^st May in Sweden: Tess Asplund, a Swedish woman, stood in front of a neonazi grup, confronting them while they were doing a march. This took place in Borlänge, a city in Sweden, and the march was organized by a political party which is against immigration, the Nordic Resistance Movement.

A photographer, David Lagerlöf, immortalized the moment in a photo that went viral and quickly spread on the Internet, in which you can see Asplund rising her fist and standing in front of three uniformed neonazis with a firm attitude.

The photographer took the photo and after realizing how powerful it was he posted it on Twitter, after what it became viral. That's when Tess Asplund fully realized what she had done. She says that it was an impulsive act, that she didn't even thought how dangerous it was. The woman states that now, after the impulseveness that moved her, is still happy about what she did, because it has showed to the world what is happing, and she is happy to show that she is not okay with that. She hopes this photo makes other people fight against this kind of marches and against racism, just like she has been done for 26 years. 

PERSONAL OPINION:

Even if it was an impulsive act, I think this woman was very brave for doing what she did. I think it's a shame that after all the nazis did during World War II, there is people who still shares their ideology and exaltates the same values they did, for example the violence. And I think now it is a problem, because with the economic crisis we are living, the refugees situation and other problems we are having in our society, this kind of political parties are gaining everytime more popularity and support.

That's why I really like the photo and I think it's shoking and powerful, because it lets you see that there is still people who fight against what they think it is wrong, even if they are alone, like Tess. Because one little spark can start a fire.

NEW WORDS:

· Hook: ganxo

· Pinch: pessic

· Clash: enfrontament

LINK: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/05/europe/swedish-protest-nazis-woman/

REVIEW: LOVE, ROSIE

Love, Rosie is a film directed by Christian Ditter which is based on the novel Where Rainbows End, by Cecelia Ahern.

The story follows two best friends: Alex and Rosie. They have been best friends since they were little, but growing up, having to make important decisions and the mixture of feelings they feel for each other gets everything more complicated.

Before watching the film I didn't have big expectations on it, but it surprised me in a good way. I found it a very beautiful film, and I felt like it was different from the ones I had seen before.

It is catalogued as a Romantic Comedy, and although it has some funny moments it is not at all like the typical romantic comedies we know. It has emotional parts, but it isn't a drama neither. And I wouldn't say it is a total romantic film, because it is not one of these extremely corny films. It is a mixture of several types of films.

I liked the two main characters because you can see how they commit several mistakes, and then try to fix them, even if it's not possible, and well, they are realistic characters, that could be real life people. I loved the relationship they have, because they are very close to each other as friends, and then start realizing they feel something else for each other, so they have like a lovers-friends beautiful relationship, because they still take care of each other as they always did being friends.

Summarizing, it is a film I totally recommend. Maybe if you don't like romantic films you are not going to like it, but maybe you'll do, because I think it is a little bit different from the typical romatic films, and besides the romantic part, it tells a beautiful friendship story. 

THE TRAILER:

"TREBALL DE RECERCA"

In this you say I wanted to talk about something I think it is quite unfair: the “Treball de Recerca” or Research Project only being done by students in Catalonia.

The Research Project is a project, which consists in a theorical and practical part, that students have to do between first and second of batxillerat and it is important for your Batxillerat final mark.

I don't think this project is a bad idea, because it makes you gain experience in working on this kind of projects, it prepares you for projects you'll have to do at university, and if you choose a topic you are interested in, you can learn a lot about it and it can be very interesting. But I find it very unfair that only the students in Catalonia have to do it. It may be a good project, but it takes also a lot of work and this extra amount of work it makes a big difference.

When you are in first of batxillerat you have to start thinking about your topic and maybe start working on it. Then, during the summer, when the school year is supposed to be over and you should have time to relax (or in case you have a summer job, relax a little less and work), you also have to work on your Research Project. Of couse you are not going to be working on it every day and every hour and it's not going to ruin your whole summer, but in my case, one of the things I like the most about summer is that, after a whole school year working, I can finally be three months without school responsabilities. And the Research Project takes me this away.

Finally, when you start second of batxillerat, your project probably won't be finished yet, so you will still have to work on it while you are starting the new school year, having exams and other school work to do. Because yes, it is an independent project, it doesn't belong to any subject, so you have to find some time to do it between the six hours you spend at class and the extra hours you spend at home doing homework or studying for the different subjects.

When you think about it like that, you see that it actually needs a lot of time and work, and I think it is unfair that while Catalan students are spending all that time and effort in doing the project, the rest of the students in Spain can spend that time doing other things. I don't really know how it works in the rest of Spain and maybe they have more work from other things that here in Catalonia we don't have, or maybe they have to do another kind of project, but I think this is just a little work compared to the Research Project here in Catalonia.

THE ANCIENT PERUVIAN MYSTERY SOLVED FROM SPACE

In the region of Nasca, in Peru, there are the called “Nasca lines” or “puquios”, geometric shapes carved on the ground which have a gigantic size. Recent studies and investigations using satellite imaging have arrived to the conclusion that in that area there was a flourishing society.

It has been discovered that the puquios were a hydraulic system which allowed the people living in that arid region, carry water to every part of it. This system retrieved the water from the underground aquifers and brought the water to the surface, to be used for agriculture, irrigation and even domestic needs.

It is believed that the puquios were a much more sophisticated system back then than it is right now, but with the centuries it has been dilapidated. But although we can't study this structrures like they were back then, the investigators have been able to establish that the population of the Nasca region was organized in a hierarchy and they were a sophisticated and intelligent society. Building this hydraulic system required having important knowledges of the geology and also being able to calculate the water level variations along the year, something this society was able to do and which allowed them to bring water to one of the most arid areas in the Earth.

PERSONAL OPINION:

I found this news very interesting because I didn't know the existence of the puquios and when I read it, it caught my attention. I find it quite shocking the fact that this society, living in the Nasca area in Peru was able to create and build such a complex system back then, with the resources and tools they had and that, as the news says, some of the puquios can still work today.

NEW WORDS:

· Hierarchy: jerarquia

· Retrieve: recuperar, rescatar

· Flourishing: pròsper

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160408-the-ancient-peruvian-mystery-solved-from-space

REVIEW: CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS

This review it's going to be about the last book I read: Cat among the Pigeons, by the famous writer Agatha Christie. I'm really into detectives and crimes books, and I always said that I had to read something by Agatha Christie, and I have finally done it.

The book takes place in a girl's school, ruled by Miss Bulstrode and where almost al the characters are either studying or working. As you could expect being a book by Agatha Christie, there is a crime and from that point, the book is about police trying to find out what happened, involving more crimes. Unlike most detective books, the crime is not commited at the very beginning, first we get to know a little the characters, the situation and there is even some action happening. And I can't say a lot more about the plot, because as a mystery book, knowing a lot about it would remove the excitement of discovering step by step what happens.

I liked the book and it met my expectations. It was the way I thought it was going to be, so it didn't surprise me, neither in a bad nor in a good way.

At the beginning maybe it is a little boring, because you don't really know what the story being explained has to do with the girl's school mentioned in the first chapter, and also because there isn't a lot of action, although there is some. Then, once the first murderer is commited, it becomes everytime more interesting until the end, when everything is explained and you finally understand fully what happened. 

Summarizing, it's a book I would recommend, specially if you like the books with mysteries and things to solve, because it doesn't dissappoint you. 

Photo of the TV series Poirot.
 Episode 11, based on the novel Cat among the pigeons.

FEMALE PILOTS RECEIVING THEIR HONORS

The article is about the female pilots of World War II, who are receiving honors from the State for their service during the war.

Elaine Harmon, Miller's grandmother. Pilot in
the World War II.

Erin Miller, a girl whose grandmother was a pilot in the World War II serving the WASP, started a campaign to get the honors to the female pilots from the Congress, after her grandmother had these burial honors denied after dying.

Miller explains that her grandmother received the honors from the Department of Veterans Affairs and also a Congretional Golden Medeal, but that when she died the Department of the Army denied her the burial honors. Her grandaughter made a petition in the website Change.org, to spread this story and get more people to support her. A lot of people, including Martha McSally, a retired Air Force Colonel, supported her and thanks to this she could get in touch with the Congress.

After some weeks speaking with different parties representatives and people from the Congress about this, she finally achieved her goal and all the female pilots who served in the World War II are now going to be regognized for their job and honored in the name of the United States.

PERSONAL OPINION:

I think it is good that Erin Miller has achieved her goal, because it wasn't fair that these female pilots weren't receiving their honors while others were. I liked this news because I found interesting that she got what she wanted by posting it online and thanks to the people who supported her. This proves that with support from people and by making just a little action, is it possible to finally get to change something you find unfair.

NEW WORDS:

· Amendment: correcció

· To lobby: pressionar

· Media buzz: enrenou a les xarxes socials

LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/05/20/female-pilots-world-war-ii-like-my-grandmother-finally-receive-honor-deserve.html

SELF-EVALUATION ORAL PRESENTATION

After seeing the recording of the oral presentation I can talk a little bit more about how it went, although I already had an idea before watching it.  

We tried to think an idea to make the presentation original and not an average presentation. The idea that came in our minds was to make it a little bit like theatre, introducing characters and a little story through which we gave out the information we had to include in the presentation. 
After watching the video I realize that maybe we could have worked more on that idea, but in general it turned out well and I'm happy with the result, because it is a way of making the presentation different.

About the images and the format of the presentation we used, I think that it was quite similar to all the other presentation, taking away the fact that we used some pictures to represent the settings of our "little play", although after watching the video I see that maybe that wasn't very clear.

Focusing on the presentation itself, in general I'm happy with the result. There are always things to improve, for example the pronuntation of some words, the volume of the voice, which I think should have been louder in my case, and the nerves. I was a little bit nervous during the presentation basically because I didn't remember to say some of the things and because, since we were conversating between us, if one of us forgot something, it could be bad for the other because she could get confused and don't know what to say. But although we forgot things and we didn't do the presentation 100% the way it was meant to be, something that happens almost in all the presentation, I think it wasn't very noticiable and from the outside it looked like a perfectly normal and good presentation. 

MY WORLD

At the beggining of the school year we had to talk about one of our dreams, and I wrote about travelling. I said one of my dreams or goals was to travel the most I could, and I'm very happy because after spending more or less two years without travelling, during the last months I have been able to travel more.

A month after starting the school year I travelled to Austria and Slovakia with my family. We took a flight to Bratislava, Slovakia's capital and then we went to Vienna by taxi. We arrived late at night and then we spent the next two days visiting the city. My favourite thing of Vienna was probably the Prater, one of the oldest amusement parks in the world. The fourth day took a train to Bratislava and we visited the town during that afternoon and the next morning. And finally we took a plane back here. 

In february I went four days to Madrid. It wasn't travelling to another country or something like that, but I had never been there, so it was good to visit the capital of the country. One of my favourite things was The Temple of Debod. It's an Egyptian temple that was rebuilt in Madrid as a gift from Egypt. I loved it because I visited it when the sun was going down, and the colours of the sky were reflected on the water that surrounds the temple, which was very beautiful. 

About two months later I went to Italy, as a school trip. Although we visited pretty beautiful places, I think that the best about that trip weren't the things we visited, but the people we went with. It was a really good experience to travel with friends and classmates, and spent some days together, so I have a lot of really good memories of that trip.


For now I haven't done any other trip, but in a month and a week I'm going to go to Ireland for three weeks, with Paula Caball and Paula Valenzuela. It's going to be a different trip, because the main goal it's not to visit the country, although we are going to go some days on trips around there, the main goal is to practice English and also to meet new people. We are going to stay with a family, so it's going to be a whole new experience and I'm sure we will have a great time there.  

FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER

MY WORLD

EUROVISION 2015

Last night the 60th edition of the Eurovision festival, with the motto Building Bridges was held in Vienna, Austria. The festival started with several performances, one of them by Conchita Wurst, last year's winner. Then the important performances, the ones who aimed for the prize, started.

The night drew on with the performances of 25 European countries, an Asian one (Israel, like every year), and for the first time ever with Australia, as a special guest. Before the festival, the favourites this year were Sweden, Italy, Estonia, Australia and Russia. 

On the other hand, Spain that brought Edurne with the song Amanecer to the festival was expected to be in the top 10, or at least close to it. 

During the festival, Belgium became one of the favourites while Russia, mainly for political reasons, recieved several catcalls.

After all the artists had sung and all the performances had been reviewed twice, the voting started. Forty countries voted, and they gave 1 to 7 points to seven different countries and then they gave 8 points to one country, 10 to another and finally 12 to the one they considered the best performance.

In my opinion, it was like all the years. Every year there are two or three favourites, which recieve points from almost all the countries, but then the countries always vote for the countries next to them. So the votes always happen to be given for political or geographic reasons. 

The winner, with 365 points, was finally Sweden, just like three years ago, with the song Heroes by Mans Zelmerlöw. Russia with the song A Million Voices by Polina Gagarina finished in the second place, and after it there was Italy, with Grande amore by Il volo. 

The other ones who were favourites before the festival ended up all in the top 10: Australia in the 5th place, with Tonight Again by Guy Sebastian and Estonia, with the song Goodbye to Yesterday by Elina Born and Stig Rästa ended up in the 7th place. 

The ones that complete the top 10 were Belgium (4th place), Latvia (6th place), Norway, Israel and Serbia (8th, 9th and 10th place).

The four last ones were Austria, the host, and Germany, with 0 points; France with 4 points, doubling their last year results; and the United Kingdom, with 5 points. 

Spain ended up worst than expected, it entered in the top ten, but starting from the bottom. Edurne ended up in the 21st position, just the same position she performed. She didn't perform perfectly, without a mistake, but in my opinion she deserved better results, as the song was fine and she also danced. 

I liked some of the songs which ended up in the top 10, just like Australia or Belgium, and I liked the winner song, Heroes, although before the festival, several people said it was too similar to the song Lovers on the sun, by David Guetta. And it isn't the only thing for which they were accused of plagiarism. A lot of people said that the lights show of the background was copied from a lights show called The Alchemy of Light. 

And well, these are the main things about the Eurovision festival of 2015. Next year it will be held in Sweden and let's see who represents Spain and how he or she does it.

THE WINNER SONG:

MY WORLD

DIGITAL BOOKS vs PAPER BOOKS
Nowadays, the number of people who read books in a digital way has increased a lot. I think that the main reasons of that are: the paper books are expensive and is easy for the people to get cheaper or even free books using digital devices.

I think most of the people prefer the paper books, but there is a lot of people that read more digital books to save money.

In my case I have only read an entire book in a digital way once, and I have to say that I prefer a hundred times paper books.

Here are some of the pros and cons of both of them:

ADVANTADGES OF PAPER BOOKS:

- You actually feel it like a book: you can turn the pages, feel the texture...

- It's a good thing to disconnect from all the digital screens, that can hurt your sight.

- You own the actual book, not only a digital version of it, so this means that you can place it on a shelf, lend it to someone, give it to someone...  whatever you want. 

- You can read whenever you want because you don't have to worry about the battery.

DISADVANTADGES OF PAPER BOOKS:

- Nowadays paper books are quite expensive.

- They are heavier and take up more space than ebooks.

- Sometimes you have to wait a lot for a book being translated and published into your language. 

- Paper books can be sold out and that is something that won't happen with digital books. 

ADVANTADGES OF EBOOKS:

- You can have a lot of books in just one digital device and you can carry the ebook wherever you want and it doesn't weight too much, considering the amount of books that you can have there. 

- Although you first have to buy the ebook, once you have it, the books in digital version are cheaper than in paper. 

- When a book is published you can have a translated version of it faster than if you want a paper book.

- There are dictionaries incorporated in the ebook, so you can search for a word instantly.

DISADVANTADGES OF EBOOKS:

- They have a battery, so you have to worry if the battery is full charged or not. If it isn't, the ebook can just ''die'' while you are reading, so you'll have to stop. 

- Not all the books have a digital version. 

- It's not good for your sight to be a lot of time in front of a screen, but if really like to read and you like to spend a lot of time reading, with digital books you don't have any other option than being in front of a screen. 

- They aren't like paper books: you can't turn the pages, they don't have any smell, the author can't sign you the digital book, etc.

DESCRIBING A PHOTO

This photo was taken by Ernie Vater in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in Wisconsin and it was published by the National Geographic.

In the photo you can see a completely frozen landscape and if you look close in the upper part, on the left, you can see some rocks, which makes me suppose that on the left there is a kind of cave which is frozen. 

In the foreground you can see a small pile of snow, that is surrounded by a ground made of ice, and this is in the lower part of the photo. Behind it, on the right, there is another pile of snow, this one bigger than the first one. On the left there's ice hanging from the ceiling of the cave, and this covers the whole cave. There is a hole which lets us see part of the sky and, especially the sun. The sun is shining so bright, and the rays of sun are shining through this hole. 

The cave covers the left part of the background, but on the upper part of the photo, on the right side, you can see it. In the background you can see a large portion of land covered by snow and a man walking on this snow. You can also see the sky, which is very clear and mostly blue, although in the lower part of it there's some kind of pale orange. 

I have chosen this photo mainly because of the colours. This is a white landscape, because of all the snow and ice, but the rays of sun shining make the white colour of the snow turn into other colours, just as yellow in the right part of the cave, or red in the left part of it. 

In the background, the snow is blue, because of the reflection of the sky. 

This photo makes me feel calm, because there's not a lot of movement, only the man in the background. And actually, the photographer said: ''Part of the beauty of this place is the silence of it.'', so I guess in this place you could only hear the sound of nature.

Also, what I like and I think it's curious about this photo is that, although it is a winter landscape in which everything is covered by snow, it doesn't make you feel the cold feeling that it should give you, because the sun and its rays make you feel warm. 

LOVE STORY

BLOOPERS:

TOURISTS INTERVIEWS

Last Thursday we spent the day in Barcelona, in a trip organitzated by the English, Spanish and French department. The task we had to do for English was to interview tourists that we found in the street. 
Here there are two interviews that me and my friends did:

INTERVIEW 1: to two girls

MAR:  Where are you from?
GIRLS: Belgium
MAR:  Ok, is the first time that you are here in Spain?
GIRLS: Yes, yes. Well, me the second time. 
MAR: And how did you come here, by plane, ship...?
GIRLS: Plane, plane. 
MAR: How long are you going to stay here?
GIRLS: We leave tomorrow. We stayed three days here.
MAR: Are you travelling with family or friends?
GIRLS: Friends, yeah. 
MAR:  What have you visited up to now?
GIRLS: The Parc Güell and... the Stadium
MAR:  Yes, Camp Nou
GIRLS: Yeah, yeah
PAULA V.: What do you liked the most in Barcelona?
GIRLS: Shopping
PAULA V.: Is there anything that you didn't like?
GIRLS: Emm... the people in the shops are not that friendly
PAULA V.: Do you know any words in Catalan or Spanish?
GIRLS: Yeah, ''hola'', and ''buenos días'' and '' buenas noches''
PAULA V.: And, do you think Barcelona is expensive?
GIRLS: No, not much.
PAULA V.: Okay, thank you!

INTERVIEW 2: to a girl

PAULA C.:  Could we ask you some questions, please?
GIRL: Yes, tell me. 
NEREA:  Where are you from?
GIRL: I'm from Peru. 
NEREA: Is it the first time that you are in Spain?
GIRL: No, I've been... I grew up here but I was born in Peru.
NEREA: How did you come here? By plane, ship or train?
GIRL: Oh, plane.
NEREA: Why are you in Barcelona?
GIRL: For my parents.
NEREA:  How long are you going to stay here?
GIRL: I lived here for all my life, so.. I'm not.. I don't want to come back to Peru, so I will be here for a long time. 
PAULA C.:  Are you travelling with family or friends?
GIRL: For family, for family.
PAULA C.: What have you visited up to now?
GIRL: Sorry?
PAULA C.: What have you visited up to now?
GIRL: Emm... no.. I'm not..
PAULA C.: Yes, yeah, okay.. so... what do you like the most in Barcelona?
GIRLS: Emm.. the most.. I think it's the party but.. haha but motions.
PAULA C.: Is there anything you don't like?
GIRL: The weather, all the time changes. I think is in all countries.
PAULA C.: Yeah.. Well, thank you!


We did another interview to a group of guys, but unfortunately the podcast wasn't recorded properly, so we don't have the interview here. 

ITALY 2015

Two weeks ago we went on a trip to Italy. We were all really excited about this trip and the truth is that it was fantastic and we spent a great time there. 

Today's task is about choosing the best photo and the best moment of the trip, but in both cases I can't choose only one, because there are too many good photos and moments! Also, a lot of the photos I have may not be the best photos in an artistic view but I like them because for me they are connected to good moments that we spent there. So I'm not going to choose one photo and one moment, I'm going to choose several photos that make me think about good moments there. 

These two photos were taken on the top of the dome, in Florence. 

To get to the top we had to climb so many stairs, and we also had to stop in some moments to wait for the people to go down.  

But when we got to the top, we could see the whole city of Florence and the views were incredible, so it was definitely worth it. 

In Florence, one of the best moments was when we visited the Ponte Vecchio, in the free time we had in the city. We stopped beside the river, we sat on the railing and we spent a lot of time there taking photos and talking. While we were sitting there, it started to get dark, so everytime the sun was a little bit lower, the river and it's views changed because of the light and the colors of the sky that were reflected on the water. We stayed there until it was dark and the lights in the street had already turned on. 

The last photos were taken on the boat, on our way back home. We spent the last night there, and as we could do whatever we wanted the whole night, when the party finished, some of us decided to stay awake to watch the sunrise. Although we were tired, and actually the sunrise at the end wasn't as good as, at least me, thought it was going to be, it loved that moment, when we where on the deck of the boat, at night, just waiting for the sun to rise.