Town Tradition

My parents are both from Seville, and so are my grandparents. One of the most famous tradition in Seville is "La Feria de Abril", in which sevillians enjoy during a week-holiday the great atmosphere it produces.

The main thing you can do in La Feria is staying at places called "casetas" with your family or friends just drinking an special drink called "Rebujito" and eating with them, while you hear flamenco, the typical music here, music that you can also dance with the traditionals "sevillanas". Furthermore, there is a place just for children with a fairground that has lots of attractions to enjoy.

But La Feria is not only drink, eat, dance and going to attractions, for sevillians is something more, it is a feeling, a period in which you feel Seville's atmosphere and sevillians in its maximun splendor; a place in which you really know how friendly sevillians are.

For me it is also a special holiday, not only because it is near the summer and you get your school marks, it is a week in which I can also feel that feeling that people from other parts of the world feel the first time they come to the Feria.

Oliver Twist-Passage

"The sun shone brigthly the next morning and lit the room where Nancy lay dead. There was blood everywhere. Sikes threw the stick into the fire and changed his clothes, which were covered in blood. He took his dog, looked at the dead woman, then quickly left."

I really like this passage because firstly it shows a contrast between the hapiness of a new sun-shining happy day with the sadness of a death, a death caused by the loved Nancy felt with Oliver. She put her life into risk only because she wanted Oliver to go away of the thieves.

It also shows how easy it looks to kill somebody and just left the death body without having any worries or just the ones on burning your clothes and your stick.

Oliver Twist

This story is based on the England of 1800, where child exploitation was a common thing and where living was very hard. This is the atmosphere where Oliver grows up: poverty and dirt. He is noble orphan  who is forced to do bad things.

I recommend this book because it shows you how easy you can be cheated and persuaded in order to do bad things that you don't want to. Fuerthermore, it shows you that you have to deffend people that are not able to do it itself. There are also some unexpected things that happen, as Rose's death. Besides, it isn't a difficult book.

Summary-Book review

OLIVER TWIST

In Oliver's birth, which was helped by Old Sally, his mother died. He went to an orphanat where Mrs Mann treated the children very badly. She spoke with Mr Bumble, who took Oliver with him in order to educate him. He was sent to an undertaker beacuse of his bad behaviour, where he had to run away as he fight with a boy in the shop he used to work in for Mr and Mrs Sowerberry. He went to London, where he met Fagin, Charley Bates and Artful Dodgen. He realised they were thieves and police caught Oliver although he hadn't done anything. He explained it to the police and Mr Brownlow accepted to kept Oliver in his house with Mrs Bedwin. Oliver took some books from Mr Brownlow who knew he wasn't a thief, but in the way he was caught by Sikes and Nancy, who worked for Fagin. They persuade Oliver to robb a house, but he was shot in the arm and left there. He looked for help in the same house where he was really well treated by Mrs Maylie and Mrs Rose when Old Sally, the only one who knew about Oliver's real identity, died. Monks, the rich boy who Fagin worked for asked to the girl who was at Old Sally's death, asking her about Oliver, so he actually knew the truth. But Nancy, who loved Oliver listened to Monks so she tried to alert Mr Brownlow and Rose. As she alerted them, Sikes kill her. Finally, Mr Brownlow and Rose showed people Oliver's real idetnity: he was Monks' brother and he was given his father's inheritance at the expense of Monks.

Opinion Essay- Online Dating

Nowadays it is frequent to find online friends in social networks, but is it really a good way of meeting people? I do not think so, we should just use it with people we know, not to meet them.

 On the one hand, you can see it as a positive way of being related for shy people. But if you are shy the first thing you have to do is to change, not to hide yourself behind a computer, you need to go and show people that you are not shy anymore. However, it can be a fast and good method of speaking to people and tell your friends, for example, where and when are you meeting or if you will hav any problem.

 On the other hand, and as I have said, it can be counterproductive for shy people which will still be shy, and it can be bad when looking for jobs and other aspects of life. Astonishingly, lots of people get into these social networks, and everyday more and more people log into them. Furthermore, you can be deceived because of some fake-profile people or cheated by people who just log in to make jokes to the other ones. 

To sum up, it may not be so bad when speaking to friends, but it can be really bad for shy people or inocent people as children.

Creative writing

This photo was taken in Amsterdam, in the amazing trip I have recently done with some school mates.

It shows us, having a relax time between the stressing routine we were used to have. For us it was a moment of peace, to stop, breath pure air in the middle of the park while talking in a relax way. We were going to the musseum next to the park, going back to the routine of visits, waiting four our Dutch friends who where supposed to be studying at school. It meant the return to our non-stop timetable, interesting yet a little bit stressing.

 While I was laying in the fresh grass, with the gentle breeze hitting my whole tired body, I started to remember some memories I had there. I was on the same place as 8 months ago, when I came with my family and where we exactly stopped to have a nice rest. Both times it came to my mind a park I used to go in the beach with my cousins in summer.

We used to go after lunch, when you just wanted to rest and have a siesta. We brought towels with us, so we could lie down without worrying about the horrible itchings it caused us. We used to go with a nice cold and sweet ice cream, which was one of the best things in my chilhood, this ice cream with chocolate, almonds and vanilla. So, as I was saying, my cousins my brother and I just lied down, sunbathing and eating our ice cream. It felt as a mixture of a hot that warm you after lunch, when you feel colder, the cold and sweetness the ice cream gave you, and the sleep you also felt because of the time.

 Remembering all those things I almost fell asleep, and, in both cases, I had to go back to the real life, leaving back my honiest memories.

Opinion Essay: Should "El Pep-" continue training Barça FC?

In my opinion, Guardiola took the best option. I personally believe that he should not go on training Barça.

 As he said, these four years in Camp Barça with so many matches and competitions each season have burnt him out a lopt, so I can imagine how tired he can be.

 Furthermore, I also think that Barcelona, which was at the very top (it is still at the top, but not so clearly) is starting to crumble at the same time as his rival, Real Madrid, is getting closer and closer, so that they are actually at the same level.

 Moreover, some of his most important players are getting old,such as Puyol, who was injured in his knee again, or Xavi, who can not compete so much as he used to.

 It is also clear that it is almost imposible to win again as much as he has won, so he would leave with all the records won.

 To sum up,I completely agree with him in his decission, because of all those reasons that have forced him to leave FC Barcelona.