The favourite summer I've never spend was the one I went in PortAventura two years ago. I went to this theme park with my family and my cousin, Carles. We went there because it was the third time we have gone and we liked it a lot, especially my sister and I. It was really fun to go there because we liked exciting activities like roller coasters.
I won't forget this experience!
Below, there's more information about the park:
PortAventura is located in Tarragona, and it's a place that when it's summer is very crowded and everywhere you look is full of tourists. The park is divided into five main zones: Mediterrania, Polinesia, China, México and The Far West. All these are very different to each other. For example, the Far West was the hotest and dryest part in the theme park while the Polinesia temperature was colder than all the others, and also all the buildings that made up each zone were very different from each other.
This summer is going to be very busy for me. I've never done so much activities in vacations as the ones I'm gonna do this summer. It's weird but, I'm feeling excited and stressed at the same time. Today I'm gonna tell you my plans for the following three months:
The first week of July, I'm going to an English course in the morning, where I'm gonna practise and learn this language in everday situations at EOI; and in the afternoon I'm going to a volleyball training that will finish at 20.00h.
The next seven days, my volley team and I, we're gonna travel to Italy to make a competition against other international clubs. The 3rd and the 4th week of Juli, my family is going to stay in the south zone of Germany (Bavaria). Here we're gonna visit some interesting places such as the "schwarzwald" and the "neuschwanstein-castle".
In August, the 2nd and the 3rd weeks, I'm going to do a field work two with my friends in the Alt Urgell. During these days, we're gonna study the flora and fauna of there and we're gonna sleep everynight inside tents. That's going to be such a great experience!
So that's the end of my summer plans... Hope I will have a good time!
What will you do when grow older? What will be your job? Which are your future plans?
These are the typical questions the adults make us. Since we can speak, our parents, our family, our friends, have asked what we're gonna do when we become older. In my opinion, that's an unnecessary thing to ask now that we're young, because we're constantly learning new things everyday and we're changing our minds too. We are going through an unstable period of time where nothing is sure. Anything can change our lives forever from now on. We're not the same person as the one we were five years ago. It's our way of being.
In the last years I wanted to be the head of the Catalonia's government, but I hate politics. Now I would like to be an astronomer or a psychologist. Maybe in two years I will want to become a teacher! Who knows?!
This year I'm taking ESO, my final struggle to finish it, and probably next year I'm gonna do a scientific batxillerat in Carles Rahola's high school. I'm going to study chemistry, biology, geology,... and so on. But, the only thing I have for sure in my future is that I'll live the happiest I can and I'll do my best in everthing!
This year, Laia Font and I, decided to participate in an international contest where you had to make a video related to the 30 ONU's goals. Why? Because we thought that that was a great opportunity to make our world better and to have a good experience with foreign people, so we decided to make a video about nowadays Christmas issues. In it, we added some solutions we found out to solve these problems, and thanks to that, thanks to our originality, we won the first place of our category. We were, and we still are, very proud of ourselves. We made a good team together using new technology to make a better video and we help what we explained with images, which were done by ourselves too.
One week later after we knew we won, the responsible of the competiton kept in touch with us to told us we would win 100$ and we could go to Washington five days to go in a winners' gala. These news made us happier! We couldn't believe what was happening.
This weekend, to speak with Linda (the responsible of the competition) and to get more information of what we are going to do once in the capital of the USA, we tried to skype with her, but unfortunately my Skype didn't work. Hopefully, my English teacher helped me to contact with her. It was such an exciting experience to talk with a native american!
I love listening to music and I'm used to listen english songs. Sometimes I can understand some verses but this song, the one I'm gonna translate know, I understand all the lyrics and I'm very proud of it. Here's the songs translated in Catalan:
PER QUÈ- Sabrina Carpenter
A tu t'agrada la ciutat de Nova York de dia
A mi m'agrada la ciutat de Nova York de nit
Dius que t'agrada dormir sense l'aire condicionat
Jo no, el necessito obert.
A tu t'agrada que la llum passi a través de la finestra
Jo m'adormo tard
Així que les tinc totes tancades
Tu ignores la música de la ràdio
Jo no, canto al ritme.
No et demano que canviïs
Carinyo, no, no, no
I tu no em demanes que canviï.
Diga'm com no som iguals
però funcionem tan bé
I ni tan sols sabem per què
És curiós com les estrelles s'alinean
Perquè funcionem tan bé
I ni tan sols sabem per què
O pot anomenar-ho foc i gel
Però funcionem tan bé
I ni tan sols sabem per què
Ni tan sols sabem per què, no, no
Ni tan sols sabem per què, no, no.
No, no, no, no
Ens agrada de dia
Ens agrada fins al final dels temps
No, no, no, no
Ens agrada de dia
Ens agrada fins al final dels temps.
Fa fred a fora i només portes una samarreta curta
Tinc la sang fred fins i tot amb un dessuadora
Comences amb la teva nit bebent per quilos
Jo no, sé que ho saps
(Chorus)
D'alguna manera acabem del mateix costat
I tu no pensaves que estaríem bé
Fins i tot els nostres ulls són de diferents colors
Però veiem bé
(x2)
(Chorus)
Here are the original lyrics in English:
WHY- Sabrina Carpenter
You like New York city in the daytime
I like New York city in the nighttime
You say you like sleeping with the air off
I don't, I need it on
You like the light coming through the windows
I sleep late, so I just keep 'em all closed
You ignore the music on the radio
I don't, I sing-a-long
I don't ask for you to change, baby no no no
And you don't ask for me to change
Tell me how we're not alike
But we work so well and we don't even know why
Funny how the stars crossed right
'Cause we work so well and we don't even know why
You can call it fire and ice
But we work so well and we don't even know why
We don't even know why, no no
We don't even know why, no no no
No no no no
We like it in the daytime
We like it in the end of time
No no no no
We like it in the daytime
We like it in the end of time
Cold outside and you're just in a t-shirt
I have cold blood even in a sweater
You start your night sippin' by the kilo
I don't, I know you know
(Chorus)
Somehow we end up on the same side
And you wouldn't think that we'd be alright
Even our eyes are different colors, but we see fine
Somehow we end up on the same side (up on the same side)
And you wouldn't think that we'd be alright (think that we'd be alright)
Even our eyes are different colors, but we see fine
That's the title of one of my favourite books. "Els secrets que mai no t'han explicat" is written by Albert Espinosa and it's a special book because it doesn't tell you a story, it's like an instructions manual that tells you how to be happy in this world. I know you are probably thinking that it is ridiculous because a book shouldn't tell you what you have to do to be happy, but let me show you some advices that were written by this author. Before starting, you should forget all the things you've learned! They're pointless! These rules were created to be unhappy and to not complain. Here are some quotes of the book:
-Happiness doesn't exist; and try to find it is find something that doesn't exist. Happiness "evaporates" daily. What it does really exist is to be happy every day. That's why, instead of talking about happiness, we'll say: TO BE ALIVE MEANS TO BE HAPPY :)
I'm sure you have a lot of old problems,a big quantity of responsabilities that you don't want and all them stops you from being happy. What should you do? Follow these seven steps:
1. Discuss with yourself.
2. Get a solution.
3. Learn to say "no" (Main rule of the daily happiness)
4. Learn to say "yes" to other things (Act: too analysis brings to paralysis)
5. Forget your ego (Daily unhappiness)
6. Dance (Dancing, the problems are solved. Thinking creates more of them)
7. Change, jump, shout. Live with the body.
Since 2010 it has never snowed before, and for the first time during eight years, in the 28th of February it snowed! I've been waiting this day for a long time! In fact, it snowed twice in this week.
The first time it was on Monday, while I was in Pont Major doing my volleyball training. I got very angry because I could't see it, and I really, really wanted to. When I arrived at my village all the snow was thawed. You can figure it out how I felt... Words can't explain it.
The second time it snowed was the best because I stayed at home and I didn't go to school! When I got up in the morning, and I looked through the window, I saw the snowflakes falling from the clouds and a white blanket covered all my garden and all the rooftops of the houses. It was awesome! And it was a big sorprise for me too, because I thought it would never snow anymore. After having breakfast, I called my neighbours, who are 17 and 18, to take some photos of us together in the snow. In less than ten minutes, they arrived at home and we took over fifty different photos! Here are some of them:
Nowadays we think we eat quite healhy but that's a lie. In the majority of the aliments, no ecological, that we cosume, are plenty of additives like pesticides, insecticides and fertilisers.
For example, the no-ecological fruit has more pesticides than we expected. The peers have almost 50 different kind of these chemical subtances, strawberries have over than 20 and the apples have 32 pesticides. Is it a lot, right? That's what I thought after searching this information. But I haven't finished yet. Here's a list of one of the most damaging aliments we shouldn't eat daily:
These aliments may cause cancer because they contain nitrates, potassium bromate, propyl gallate, BHA and BHT, which are all preservatives.
Here's another list with another damaging food for our health:
-Cupcakes (include propylparaben which cause femenine infertility)
-Fast food (contains phosphats which cause cardiovascular illnesses)
-Chocolate and energetic soft-drinks (produce negative effecte in the animal development due to theobromine)
"Unusual travel words with beatiful meanings"? What does it mean?
I am a lover of words, and that's why I want to write down the most unusual and strange words I've ever read but also the ones who have a big meaning for their size.
Have you ever felt that your emotions are bigger than words and you can't express yourserf? I'm sure you've never tried to turn to another language! There are lots of words of different languages like French, Japanese or Greek that can help us to express perfectly what we want to transmit. Below, there are some of them:
- Petrichor (n) The pleasant, earthy smell after rain.
I love rainy days, but the best of all is when it finishes and "leaves its tracks".
- Acatalepsy (n) The idea that it is impossible to truly comprehend anything.
I usually think a lot about the life and how the world was created. I get crazy with all this stuff.
- Nepenthe (n) Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.
Sometimes you feel bad with yourself and there's always a friend that will be always by your side, making you forget about all the things that annoys you.
- Duende (n) The mysterious power of art to deeply move a person.
There's a teacher that can make me feel like that. It's like a superpower.
- Shinrin-yoku (n) Literally "forest bathing"- a visit to the forest for relaxation and to improve one's health.
As I said before, I love rain, and that's why I like to wander inside the woods and relax my mind.
- Ikigai (n) A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning.
Every day I have a reason to get up from my bed at 6:45 AM, but it has to be a good reason. Otherways, I wouldn't get up to go to que high school.
- Underthink (v) To not fully consider or analyse, opposite of overthinking.
That would help me a lot in my daily life.
- Empêchement (n) An unexpected last minute change plans.
That's what we do spontaneos persons like me.
- Tu chantes du yaourt: Literally "you sing yoghurt"- singing made up words or sounds when you don't know the lyrics to a song.
This expression defines me very good because I like korean songs, so most of them I don't know the lyrics.
This time I would like to write about my favourite sport. It isn't only and entertainment: for me it has a big meaning. It's like an escape from the reality because when I play it I feel I can forget all the worries and I can totally relax my mind. Volley it's like a "recess" for my brain. Since I'm in the high school I get stressed very often and that's why I need a break in my student life.
I started playing volleyball last year because I thought I needed to do some sport. At the beginning, the first year, it was cool to play it and it was also very fun, but there was something in this sport that didn't "fit in" with my personality. For this reason, this summer I wanted to change to another activity and leave volley, if it wasn't that I started watching one anime series called Haikyuu.
Haikyuu written in Japanese
This series is about a japanese guy that loves volley but, unfortunately, he hasn't any team to join in and no skills neither. Haikyuu explains the story of this boy and, further on, of his volley team and how they raise up to become one of the best teams of Japan.
I know it seems nonsense but it really helped me to go forward with the volleyball and it taught me which are the values or principles to play a good volleyball and not give up.
In my dreams, children sing
Als meus somnis, els nens canten A song of love for every boy and girl
Una cançó d'amor per cada nen i nena. The sky is blue, the fields are green
El cel és blau, els camps són verds And laughter is the language of the world
I el riure és el llenguatge del món. Then I wake and all I see is a world full of people in need
Després em desperto i tot el que veig és un món ple de gent necessitada.
Tell me why,(why) does it have to be like this?
Explica'm per què ha de ser així? Tell me why, (why) is there something I have missed?
Explica'm per què hi ha algo que trobo a faltar? Tell me why, (why) cause I don't understand
Explica'm per què, ja que no entenc When so many need somebody
Quan tanta gent necessita algú We don't give a helping hand
No donem ajuda Tell me why
Expica'm per què.
Every day, I ask myself Cada dia em pregunto what will I have to do to be a man?
Què hauré de fer per ser un home? Do I have, to stand and fight
He de posar-me dret i lluitar To prove to everybody who I am?
Per demostrar a tothom qui sóc? Is that what my life is for
És per això la meva vida? To waste in a world full of war?
Per gastar-la en un món ple de guerra?
CHORUS
Tell me why (Why why, does the tiger run?) Explica'm per què ha de còrrer el tigre? Tell me why (Why why, do we shoot the gun?) Explica'm per què llancem la bala? Tell me why (Why why, do we never learn?) Explica'm per què mai aprenem? Can someone tell us why we let the forest burn?
Algú pot explicar-nos per què deixem cremar el bosc? (why why do we say we care?) tell me why
Per què, per què diem que ens importa? Explica'm per què. (why why do we stand and stare?) tell me why
Per què, per què estem drets i ens quedem mirant? Explica'm per què. (why why do the dolphins cry?)
Per què, per què els dofins ploren? can someone tell us why we let the ocean die?
Algú ens pot explicar per què deixem que l'oceà es mori?
(why why if we're all the same?) tell me whyPer què, per què si som tots iguals? (why why do we pass the blame?) tell me why
Per què, per què passem la culpa? Explica'm per què. (why why does it never end?)
Per què, per què mai acaba? can someone tell us why we cannot just be friends?
Algú ens pot explicar per què no podem només ser amics?
(why why do we close our eyes?)
Per què, per què tanquem els nostres ulls? (why why do we really lie?)
Per què, per què mentim tant? (why why do we fight for land?) Per què, per què lluitem per terra? can someone tell us why cause we don't understand? Algú ens pot explicar per què,ja que no ho entenem? When I saw this song for the first time I coudn't believe what I was listening: the melody was awesome and very sticky and with it, the lyrics felt more powerful. I completely agree with topic of the song. We don't really know how the world is getting worse because if we know it we would stop polluting the air, killing and abusing the animals, don't letting the forests burn... Only few people is trying to stop all this but we haven't enough. We don't accept our mistakes and for this reason we in a constant war between some countries.
During the last week we had a lot of homework and projects and on the weekend I decided to take a break of this routin. On Saturday I met with my friends on the afternoon to play a little bit together and do some time of work afterwards. At about 5 o'clock they arrived at home and we had a snack. We ate toasts with A LOT of Nutella. I was very bored then and I started to put my finger in to the jar of chocolate to get dirty my friends. What it's obviosly, we started a kind of battle between us and I finished with Nutella on my hair.
I was very "angry" with them and I think to take revenge later.
It was very late when we finished the battle so I suggested to study near my swimmingpool to be more concentrated. We were walking around the pool, almost touching the water, and then I said:
-Look over there! There's a butterfly suffocated in the water!
All of a sudden, taking advantage of the situation, I pushed him into the water. Lucky it wasn't very cold! But, while I was cracking up on the floor, another friend pushed me too into the pool and finally all my friends were swimming in it.
We all got very wet and cold and, for this reason, in the evening, we had a hot shower.
It was an amazing day and I really took a break of the student routin!
The worst part of this story is that, when all were at their homes, my mum got absolute angry with me because the day before she cleaned all the bathroom and after meeting with my friends it was very dirty so on Sunday I had to clean it by myself. It took me a long time to leave it like my mum cleaned it!
Every day each person in the world smiles, minimun, 20 times pro day. I'm also sure that every one of us has made a false smile when we have to wave at our enemy, a flirty smile to the person we love or a predicament's smile when someone takes us a photo for the DNI. However, I want you to inspire smile every day because it has a lot of advantages. Now, I'll tell you 7 reasons why you should do it:
1. Smile to be happier. If you smile, a substances called endorphins are released from our brain to all the body, making us feel this feeling.
2. Smile to cause positive feelings. It's very important to smile because this doesn't only have an affect to you, it affects the others as well. The responsibles of this affect are the "mirror neurons".
3. Smile because the others trust you. It will help you to look more confident, generous and with empathy.
4. Smile because the others forgive you. When you make a mistake it's recomendable to smile because you seem sorry for what you did and even if you aren't feel sorry, you will have more probabilities that others forgive you.
5. Smile to find solutions, Have you ever feel very stressed when you can't find out the solution of a problem? The only thing you have to do it smiling. You'll periphal vision will be bigger and this will help you to be more creative.
6. Smile to seduce. A university made a study which the women tried to seduce a group of men looking or smiling at them. The case that worked better was smiling at them considering that the 60% of men were seduced while in the other case they only could seduced the 20%.
7. Smile to live longer. Also an other study discovered that the people who smiled more in their life lived an average of seven years more than the other who didn't do it
This T-shirt I bought it in a Mango's shop, when I was going shopping with my mother. The first time I saw it, my eyes went to the quote which was written in white letters in the middle of the T-shirt and I started reading it: "I always safe the best flavors for the end". I felt very identified with this message because always that I have to eat something, I eat first the food that I don't like and then the one which I like the most such as the ice cream.
Once I read the quote I wanted to buy it immediatly!
This T-shirt was on sales, in Bershka. I found very ugly T-shirts but this one, it's missage shocked my. It was exactly the kind of clothes I was searching. It's says: "Blah, Blah, Blah... No excuses. Thank you".
There are a lot of people that sometimes, when you decide to meet with them or they do no do their homework, in the last moment they say: "Ups, sorry! I've made a plan before" or "I forgot it at home/ My dog ate my homework" and when this happens, this quote comes to my mind.
These quotes say in catalan:
La vida no és sempre perfecte, però et dóna el que et mereixes, per tant sigues tu mateix.
Mai permetis a algú que et robi la teva felicitat, si estàs buscant a l'amor de la teva vida.
La vida és un llarg viatge.
Si et trobes en un carrer sense sortida, intenta algo nou.
El bé que fagis avui, ningú ho oblidarà.
Si vius cada dia com si fos l'últim, disfrutaràs més fàcilment cada moment.
Envolta't de persones que sempre estaran per tu, evita les altres.
No desitgis res, no t'esperis res, agafa la vida com ve, i mai t'arrepenteixis de les decisions que has pres.
These quotes are a simple way to say you what you must do to be happy.
Simple actions that will improve your life and make it better.
One of the things that I like the most is meet with one of my best friends, Isabela, and watch one of Studio Ghibli's films every Friday night. This studio is a japenese fill producer which was founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata which are the directors of almost all the films of it. Maybe you have seen one before or you will recognise it's studio's mascot: Totoro.
TOTORO
My favourite director is Hayao Miyazaki. His films are so shocking, amazing and incredible for me. He's like my God. Since I was very little I've loved all his films. I've saw them more than five times each other and I've never get bored to replay them over and over again.
These are the three most famous films of Studio Ghibli:
This photo was taken three years ago, in 2014, in the summer vacation which we spent three days in a little village called Llavorsí in the Pyrenees. We were there in a four stars hotel in the middle of the mountains and every day we did an excursion around the forests which were very leafy and there were a lot of different types of trees such as firs or pines. At the top of the mountain, there was a big lake. It's water seemed grey and there were also tuna fish. The day that we did this trip was very foggy and cloudy which this made that the landscape was more lugubrious.
Another day we wanted to do rafting, a sport which you must ride and row a plastic boad through a mighty river (in the following image we are doing rafting and I am in the front of the boat). In the boat, apart of my family, there was also a funny teacher who taught us the rules and how to distribute our weight on it to do not fall off into the cold water and he was the responsible of the tiller too.
There was a time, when the boad went very fast, the teacher turned left towards a big rock in one of the sides of the large river and, one second left before crashing with it, he turn right, in the correct way and he said "Ups, sorry, my contact lent fell of into the water and I can't see very far".
Of course, in that moment, we were very scared, luckly it was just a funny joke!
Què faria jo sense la teva boca intel·ligent?
Que m'atrau a dins, i tu em fas fora.
Has aconseguit rodaments al meu cap, no em prenguis el pèl, no em puc aturar-me.
Què està passant dins aquesta ment meravellosa,
Estic en el teu viatge màgic i misteriós
Estic molt marejat, no sé què em fa mal, però estaré bé.
El meu cap sota l'aigua
Però respiro bé.
Estàs boja i jo estic fora de la meva ment.
Perquè tot jo
t'estima tota tu,
M'encanten les teves curves i totes les vores
Totes les teves imperfeccions perfectes.
Dóna'm tota tu
i jo et donaré tot de mi
Tu ets el meu final i el meu començament
Fins i tot quan perdo, guanyo
perquè et donc tot de mi
i tu tot de tu.
Quants cops t'hauré de dir
que fins i tot quan plores ets guapa també?
El món se't cau avall, estic al teu costat en cada canvi d'humor.
Tu ets la meva perdició, la meva mussa,
La meva pitjor distracció, el meu ritme i blues.
No puc parar de cantar, està sonant, en el meu cap per tu.
El meu cap sota l'aigua
Però respiro bé.
Estàs boja i jo estic fora de la meva ment.
Perquè tot jo
t'estima tota tu,
M'encanten les teves curves i totes les vores
Totes les teves imperfeccions perfectes.
Dóna'm tota tu
i jo et donaré tot de mi
Tu ets el meu final i el meu començament
Fins i tot quan perdo, guanyo
perquè et donc tot de mi
i tu tot de tu.
Dóna'm tot de tu
Les cartes sobre la taula, els dos mostrem cors
Arriscant-ho tot, encara que sigui difícil.
Perquè tot jo
t'estima tota tu,
M'encanten les teves curves i totes les vores
Totes les teves imperfeccions perfectes.
Dóna'm tota tu
i jo et donaré tot de mi
Tu ets el meu final i el meu començament
Fins i tot quan perdo, guanyo
perquè et donc tot de mi
i tu tot de tu.
Et donc tot de mi,
i tu em dons tot de tu.
WHAT'S THE SONG ABOUT?
The song is about a couple that are both in love but specially the man who is very in love with her girlfriend beacuse he loves all her imperfections and he loves also her when she is not in the best mood, in every way. So, I think the song wants to represent that he's like "the best boyfriend" and symbolizes the maximum level of love towards somebody.
This song was one of my favourites because,I loved and I still love, the romantic lyrics and melody of it.
