Personal description

Aida is my cousin. She is 7 years younger than me. She is so different from me and we don't seem like cousins, because she is green-eyed and blonde-haired. She has a lovely complexion and she is really beautiful. She has a regular size for her age and she is quite thin. We are close cousins, even though we can't see each other due to the distance. 

She has a strong personality: she is extroverted, friendly and particularly cheerful. Her hobbies are cooking and dancing. We sometimes dance together and we really have an amusing time. 

I admire her because she gets on really well with other people. We both are quite open with anyone but she is maybe less shy than me. I have to say that I admire her because of her intelligence, because she thinks like an adult person. 

I don't have a lot of cousins, but she plays a great role in this part, although we sometimes don't share the same opinion.

TDR's summary

What makes an apple tastier? What are its main features? Which one is the ideal apple?

My research project consists of a study of the apple: its organoleptic characteristics, which varieties grow in my town, Sant Pere Pescador, etc.

As for the practical work, a taste sampling has been carried out both by students and teachers at IES Castelló d’Empúries. From the results, the ideal apple has been designed, out of the three selected samples, grown in Sant Pere Pescador.

"Calçotada"

Today, I had a whim to eat “calçots” (there isn’t a direct translation, so I will talk if it were a simple onion). This food is traditional in Catalonia, and within two weeks I will eat it with my friends. I'm so excited! 

The meal, called "calçotada”, is community and it has become the most traditional way of eating onions. With strong connotations of celebration and gathering. “Calçotades” are usually from late winter until March.

The first dish on the menu are typical “calçotada” onions (usually between 10 and 20 per person, although I eat around 50, and even more) along with the typical sauce. The second dish I usually grilled meat with toasts, accompanied by vinegar or champagne, but then I don’t have much appetite, because I’m enough with the onions.

The preparation is:

Before you cook the onions, they shorten the leaves were longer and cut a piece of root. Then, without washing or removing the floor, put the onions on the flame grill, like if it were taken out of the field. Once cooked, wrapped with newspaper, so you just soften and keep warm. Usually, they serve the onions wrapped and put on a tile. Is advised to wear a bib to avoid staining clothes. Take each onion with one hand, with the other one stretch the peel out, it dips into the sauce and eat it until the leaves (which aren’t eaten).

I hope if you haven't ever eaten them, you might have the opportunity because they are actually delicious.

Pulseres Vermelles

“Pulseres Vermelles” is a series that started on 2011. In this year started the first season and nowadays, on Mondays, tv3 emits the second one. Author is Albert Espinosa who has written some Catalan books too.

At first, I want to say that it isn’t my favorite series, but is within the most I like. At first, you can see that this series tells the story of a group of boys and girls who meet in a hospital because of the diseases and talks about friendship, zest for life and a desire to overcome. This story can be reflected to lots of young gays, and it can be aid for the real ones, because the people can know how they feel and how they suffer. And also, being a Catalan series it has been translated in different languages.

On the first season, I was quite attached to the series, but I thought that the second one would be less good and responsive as the first has been. But I was wrong! The early days, all the things were getting there place (because of the new characters too) and it seemed that might be bored. But last Monday, was the day that finally the characters cleaned out and I fell crying. It was really sad.

I hope that this series will continue exciting me and also will continue broadcasting on TV.

Apple Shop muddle prompts new name for Wroxham Barns store

A Norfolk business called the Apple Shop says it has had to change its name after becoming inundated with complaints about iPhones and iPads.

The shop, at Wroxham Barns that was opened 20 years ago by Mr Fisher’s brother (1987), said it had received up to 24 calls a week since the technology giant opened a store in Norwich in 2009. Owner Geoff Fisher, who sells cider and juice, said it was amusing at first, but some callers had been rude.

Ha said the shop would be renamed The Norfolk Cider Shop from Easter, adding that Apple had not forced him into the change and he had “a lot of respect” for the company.

This news has impressed me a lot. At the first read of the title I just laughed because what an amazing power Apple’s company has nowadays. And also I was surprised because the average calls per week were quite high. I’m sorry that the poor man has had to change the name, but sometimes the call, as he says; it was fun, within the unpleasant.

Vet makes tiny wheelchair for disabled piglet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBmQNaThr0Y

A month-old piglet from Florida, born without the use of its back legs, is now sporting a custom-built wheelchair to get around.

Chris P. Bacon has become an internet sensation after vet took pity on the creature’s plight and built the contraption from a toy building kit.

Chris’s exploits on Youtube have logged more than 474000 views in two weeks.

I have been really impressed of this happened, because it isn’t really frequent that a piglet has borned without its back legs. Piglet’s family and caregivers might be like a toy for them and also they might love them because they are tacking car for it all the time.

On one hand, it has to be a nice animal and nice, but for the other hand, it has a large expenditure of money, especially to adapt the wheelchair every year, and their stay in house. 

Coca-Cola drinking 'linked to New Zealander's death'

Drinking large quantities of Coca-Cola was a “substantial factor” in the death of a 30 year-old woman in New Zeland, a coroner has said.

Natasha Harris, a mother of eight children and who died three years ago after a cardiac arrest, drank up to 10 liters of the fizzy drink each day (this is twice the recommended safe limit of caffeine and more than 11 times the recommended sugar intake). Her family said she had developed an addiction to Coca-Cola and her teeth had been removed because of decay.

Coroner David Crerar said her Coca-Cola consumption had given rise to cardiac arrhythmia, a condition when the heart beats too fast or too slow.

Mr Crerar said Coca-Cola could not be held responsible for the health of consumers who drank excessive quantities of its product. But he called on soft drinks companies to display clearer warnings on their beverages about the risks of too much sugar and caffeine.

In my opinion, I think this woman didn’t thought about her healthy or her way of being, because firstly he drank a lot of liters a day, and then if all of them were fizzy drink, she might be an extremely nervous person. Unfortunately, for those eight children, her mother had gone away, but they can change their lifestyle if they were following their mother’s way. They have learnt about this nasty experience.

I’m a person who loves Coca-Cola and I’m sure I will never be addicted to it like her, but is sure that it is attractive when you drink and you want more and more. I just hope that anyone won’t end like this, and I don’t think that Coca-Cola’s company have the fault of this happened.