My last writting

Hello everyone, this is my last writing I will do on 2^nd Batxillerat. I’m so excited because it means that I end Batxillerat and my life will change completely in a month. I will go to University, living alone or with friends in a strange and big city, I will meet a lot of people,… but now I will remember you how I entered IES Castelló d’Empúries and how I have finished it.

First of all, I was a little child who has left from her primary school. There, all the teachers were attending me but I knew that the same second I will enter to high school, my life would change a little bit. And it was! But it wasn’t a difficult change. The differences were that this school was bigger, there were a lot of people, a lot of different teachers and subjects, and a lot of gays to know. I remember the first years I only went with my friends of my town, but at 3^rd of ESO I began to meet new fantastic people.

Then, when I finished 4^th of ESO I knew that I will enter on Batxillerat, but it was on the same school so it didn’t afraid me. These two years have been really hard, spending a lot of hours studying, with a lot of problems but with plenty of happiness too, I’ve done my first research project, I’ve met a family on my class and I’m glad of it, I’ve taken care about “Shakira” (our plant of the class) and a lot of things more that I can’t remember now.

Now, I’m in a nervous, exciting but also afraid situation. I have to decide my future and it’s the biggest responsibility I ever faced. I am sad of leaving my high school, leaving all my friends and all of them will create their way, even knowing we will reconnect again, but we will never be on the same class together. But I am also really happy to end my first stage, and open another door with a lot of new things to learn and experiences to happen.

This is my last writing in IES Castelló d’Empúries.

Sant George's Day

Traditionally and from the fifteenth century in Catalonia St George’s Day is the day of love, and it is customary for couples to give each a red rose “like blood” and a book. The day claimed many Catalan culture and many balconies adorned with the flag of Catalonia. It is celebrated on 23rd of April.

This day has been part of many stories for all ages. A short example:

“Legend says that long ago in a village there was a very angry dragon spitting fire-breathing smoke and pulled the nose. The dragon ate all pigs, chickens, goats, cows, … and the people were terrified. Every morning they offered a person to eat it. One morning, the bad luck wanted to be one’s turn of the princess and the king became very sad. But when the dragon was ready to eat the princess, appeared a very strong boy riding a horse and killed the dragon with a spear. Blood of the dragon was born a rose. The villagers cheered and the castle became a party”.

Summer '13

I want that this summer must be the best I ever had before. I have plenty of things to do but I am also worried if I have a lot of hours empty, because I am an active girl who has to do something in any moment.

At first, my objective of this summer is to get my driving lessons. I am so excited! I want to get it but it makes me respect too. I’m quite afraid if I couldn’t get it or if I don’t know how to drive, but I will put all my desire and strength.

Another objective is to get the first certificate in July. As you can see I will be very busy studying, but I think it’s a good idea to get it before going to university, so I have to sacrifice for what I want.

Finally, the rests of my objectives in this summer are not planned or maybe not as important as what I’ve said before. I will be with my friends, my family, going to parties and other things to relax of this hard year I’ve past!

Pancakes

-Recipe ingredients of pancakes:

125 g flour

2 eggs

¼ L of milk

50 g butter

1 teaspoon butter to grease the pan

5 g of sugar

1 pinch of salt

-For the sauce:

75 g of chocolate couverture

100 mL of milk

-Development of pancakes recipe:

To melt the butter, enter it in the microwave for 30-40 secords.

Place the milk, butter and eggs in a jug. Add flour, sugar and salt. Grind the ingredients and pass the mixture through a strainer to remove any lumps you may have.

With a brush smeared the bottom of a pan with a teaspoon of butter and heat it over medium heat. Pour a little of the dough, spread it well, and when it begins to set, turn it over. Kitchen briefly and remove it to a plate.

Repeat until all the dough finish. Put the chocolate and milk in a saucepan over low heat and wait until it melts.

Serve pancakes and accompany them with chocolate sauce.

CHALLENGE: Can we make Humans rights more relevant in the world today?

Previously, without internet, television, social networking or any of that, people were quite lost in what was happening in the world. They didn’t wise if there was a war here, if there was a violation there, … everyone cared about himself and move on. But with the implantation of new technologies, people are much more informed. Sincerely, I believe that this can help people to communicate and to do groups for helping others. However, I think that having so much information to know what happens at all times, we don’t pay attention and it doesn’t give us any importance that it should have. The reason is because we have listened it a lot, so it’s not new for us.

"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.

New Year Propositions

My new propositions in this New Year are a lot, even more if I didn’t realize the propositions of the year before, so they are accumulating on my list. I’m not a person who does it every year, because I think it’s a waste of time. So I’m not going to do a list but I’m going to describe and tell you what I really want to.

Firstly, I want to continue like my 2012’s life, of course, because I don’t want to change every year, but I want to be better in any ways. For example, I usually study a lot but this year, even because I have selectivity and I have to end this type of my life, 2^nd Batxillerat, I want to be more organized and try to understand more what the teachers explain in the class. Obviously, I want to follow being a good girl, have a lot of friends and even meet a lot more, because I will enter to the university. I also want to start the career quite good and enter there happy, because I will be there more than three years, so I hope it will like me.

Certainly and apart of pretty things, I also want a big party on my 18’s birthday, another party at the end of this course and I also really want to have fun in 2013’s summer. I’m really anxious to end this course because I suffer about the pressure of the school and all in general, I just wish that I can be able to pass.

Apart from real wishes, I also want to be thinner, resist to nutella (but I know it will be impossible), do more exercise, be much browner in summer and enjoy my life every minute.

For ending this your-say, I just want to do all those propositions next to my friends and of course with my family, because they are the reason that I continue in this life.

Mario Casas

Mario Casas was born in la Coruña, on the 12^th June in 1986. He is a young Spanish actor and one of the best ones. He does his job quite good and with much effort.

At first, he thought he could be a footballer, a policeman or a fireman, but suddenly he saw that his specialty is the interpretation. He started on the publicity and realizing few series and films, nevertheless and inadvertently, he was already infiltrated in this world. All of us knew that he would be an actor who would really excite us with his words and enjoy any of his films.

In the last five years, Mario Casas has done a lot of films with a lot of famous actors too. He is so young but has a long way to go, to succeed and to be even better.

Personally, he is one of my favorites actors, not only because he is very handsome and attractive, if not because he transmit me something that is really difficult to do. He makes me participate on each film he does and cry in all of them. In my point of view, he is particularly good in his job and I hope he will continue along this way and I will continue exciting these feelings that I like so much.

Halloween

Do you celebrate Halloween?

In my case, I don’t like Halloween, so it’s a reason that I don’t celebrate it at home. It is an English festival and not a Catalan tradition, but it has arrived here from American films and English classes at schools.

However, when I was younger I used to celebrate it with my friends. At the evening, after having dinner, we dressed up costumes, we make-up like ghosts, and we planned how we would do it that night. Then when we were ready, we rang at the doors of our neighbor’s houses. We sometimes met nice people who gave us sweets and presents, furthermore, there were other kind of people who didn’t open us the door.

When we got cold and we had a lot of sweets, we came home and distributed the presents.

But now, I’ve grown up so I don’t do this, but there are some adult parties here that teenagers can enjoy this night.

Maybe I will go at one of these parties with my friends, but in my case, it won’t be for the Halloween night, if not to have a great time with them.

SUMMER PARADISE

My last summer was really stressful. I did a lot of things. First of all, when I finished 1^st of Batxillerat, I started to work on a summer camp, taking care of children at the age of three, four and five years old. I was working in the mornings all of July, and at the afternoons I was working in a Paintball. I really enjoyed this month because I like being stressed, but the next month was better than July. In august, I didn’t work in a job, but I particularly worked in my schools’ project of 2^nd Batchillerat. I have learned a lot because it’s an interesting topic for me. My project is about the apples of Sant Pere Pescador, in particular. Apart from working, I have seen a lot of friends that I didn’t see for months. We really enjoyed the beach, the swimming pool, going by boat, going out at nights and also to different towns’ festivals. On the last party of the summer, I went to a small town festival. I go there every year and it’s amazing. You have to dress up like Carnival and other different activities, too. I love go there because all the residents take part on the festival and they do it together.

The end of the summer was sad because I didn’t want to start school. Now, I’ve just started and I hope that those quarters will be easy and quick, although I know it’s not true.

Lovely summer, goodbye until the next one!

Left outside alone

All my life I’ve been waiting/ Tota la meva vida t'he estat esperant 

For you to bring a fairy tale my way/ perquè tu em portessis un conte de fades

Been living in a fantasy without meaning/ he estat visquent en una fantasia sense sentit

It’s not okay/ no està bé

I don’t feel save/ no em sento segura

Left broken empty in despair/ em vas enfonsar en el buit de la desesperació

Wanna breath can’t find air/ vull respirar, però no trobo aire

Thought you were sent from up above/  pensava que tu em pujaves des de dalt

But you and me never had love/ però tu i jo mai hem tingut amor

So much more I have to say/ tantes coses t'he de dir

Help me find a way/ ajuda'm a trobar un camí

And I wonder if you know/ i em sorprenc si tu saps

How it really feels/ com realment se sent

To be left outside alone/ estant sola

When it’s cold out here/ quan fa fred fora d' aquí 

Well maybe you should know/ bé, potser tu sabràs

Just how it feels/ com se sent 

To be left outside alone/ estar sol

To be left outside alone/ estar sol

All my life I’ve been waiting/ tota la meva he estat esperant

For you to bring a fairy tale my way/ perquè tu em portessis un conte de fades

Been living in a fantasy without meaning/ he estat visquent en una fantasia sense sentit

It’s not okay/ no està bé

I don’t feel save/ no em sento segura

I need to pray/ necessito resar

Why do you play me like a game?/ per què em tractes com un joc?

Always someone else to blame/ sempre algú més a qui culpar

Careless, helpless little man/ sense cures, sense ajudes petit home

Someday you might understand/ algun dia potser entendràs

There’s not much more to say/no hi ha gaire res a dir

But I hope you find a way/ però espero que trobis un camí

Still I wonder if you know/ encara em sorprenc que sàpigues

How it really feels/ com se sent

To be left outside alone/ estant sol

When it’s cold out here/ quan és fred fora d'aquí

Well maybe you should know/ bé, potser hauries de saber

Just how it feels/ només com se sent 

To be left outside alone/ estar sol

To be left outside alone/ estar sol

I’ll tell you/ t'explicaré

All my life I’ve been waiting/ tota la meva he estat esperant

For you to bring a fairy tale my way/ perquè tu em portessis un conte de fades

Been living in a fantasy without meaning/ he estat visquent en una fantasia sense sentit

It’s not okay/ no està bé

I don’t feel save/ no em sento segura

I need to pray:/ necessito resar:

Heavenly Father/ Pare celestial

Please/ siusplau

Save me/ salva'm

And I wonder if you know/ i em sorprenc si tu saps

How it really feels/ com realment se sent

To be left outside alone/ estant sola

When it’s cold out here/ quan és fred fora d'aquí

Well maybe you should know/ bé, potser hauries de saber

Just how it feels/ només com se sent 

To be left outside alone/ estar sola

To be left outside alone/ estar sola

All my life I’ve been waiting/ tota la meva vida he estat esperant 

For you to bring a fairy tale my way/ perquè tu em portessis un conte de fades

Been living in a fantasy without meaning/ he estat visquent en una fantasia sense sentit

It’s not okay/ no està bé 

I don’t fell save/ no em sento segura

I need to pray/ necessito resar

My first day on the beach

Yesterday, when I left from classes, Marina and I were very tired and very hot because of the weather. When we were coming home, we decided to go to the beach. We didn’t know who will carry us, but we wanted to do the first tan.

When we arrived, anyone was at home, so we decided to go by bike. We were riding for 20 minutes approximately and at last, we arrived on the beach. I really wanted to have the first bath because I love the sea but I am a bit afraid to it. At first, the water was cold but then, when you are all inside it’s the best. There weren’t any jellyfishes, so I could swim.:) After half an hour, I went to sunbathe for a long time.

It was particularly fine because I could relax and think. I hope I could repeat that day with Marina!

Brownie

Today I’m going to tell you something about me and then I’ll put here a recipe.

Well, I like cooking, specifically make the desserts but I don’t know so much. If some day I have to prepare the lunch or the dinner to my family, I use to cook easy dishes like Italian pasta (macaroni, spaghettis …) or rice with a little bit of tuna, tomatoes, corn, egg, cheese, some olives etc., vegetables boiled, cheeps, salads, meat or fish and more, but not complicated dishes.

Now, it’s coming the season (summer) I have to cook the lunch very often, because my parents work and they can’t make it.

I make these and other cakes with my sister because she knows a lot, more than me.

The dessert I make often is the brownie which is much known in England and more places of the world. The essential ingredients of this dessert are the chocolate and the walnut… it’s very good.

Here, I leave brownie’s recipe if someone can make it or if he/she doesn’t know it.

Ingredients: 

-80g of fondant chocolate

-125g of butter

-2 eggs

-150g of sugar

-60g of flour

-100g of walnuts

Preparation:

1. Melt the chocolate with the butter (to the bain-marie). Take off the recipient from the fire and to stop to cool.

2. Beat the eggs with the sugar until they are creamy and add the molten chocolate.

3. Incorporate, little by little, the flour and the minced rudely walnuts, and mix well.

4. Lead it in a rectangular tin (mottle) smeared with butter. Introduce it in the oven (200ºC), and cook it during 20-25 minutes.

5. And taste it!

I hope that somebody try to cook this dessert ;)

Enjoy your meal.

My 2012’s summer

In June I finish my classes and the summer start with particularly emotion and I can’t wait to come. I’m really enthusiastic because I am going to do a lot of things.

First, I am going to go to a camping with my friends for four days. We will go to the beach, to the swimming pool and go to parties, too. When I return, I will work, in the mornings, in a summer camp side if they take me on for the job, and in the afternoons, I am going to work in a Paintball, like a joker doing what they need, or doing my research project of Batxillerat.

In August, I will be very stressed with the research project and I will be with my friends doing activities. In September, before starting 2^nd Batxillerat I will go to famous parties with my friend, Carla.

I really want to have a breaktime from homework and studying. 

My evaluationof 1st Batxillerat

This year has been very stressful and hard. At first, I was a little bit nervous because I didn’t know how it would be or if I would have to repeat the year. But now, I think it’s like 5 of ESO with a lot of homework and double exams.

I have chosen the best path for me, Sciences. I really like them and I enjoy the units. For example: Biology and Chemistry. I don’t know what I will do in the coming years, but I’m happy this way because I don’t like Economics or Humanities, and I wouldn’t enjoy then or learn anything. Now it’s the end of term and first Batxillerat and we have a lot of exams. I hope that I can do then without any fails. I have all the subjects passed, but this term is the final one and it’s more difficult. I will finish my classes in June, but I have the research project, so I want to do it in summer or move it forward.

I hope that my 2^nd Batxillerat will be with the same people from my class, because we have bonded, and the year could be like the first one.

Sant George's night

It was a really good day. During the day I was at the school studying and in the afternoon, I was doing my homework and then, at 8 pm I went to sing with my choir. I sing with Fato, Marina, Homa and Joana. That night we had a concert because it was a special or important date in the year for Catalonia. We had to wear a black T-shirt and black trousers, with different accesories for each song we sang. We sang 7 songs; one in Euskera, three songs in Catalan, twice in English, and another one in "Suahili". In the middle of our songs, some people of Sant Pere Pescador were reciting poems and doing a little theatre. It was really good and the people really liked it so much. In my opinion, this concert was one of our best concerts we have done.

DOING TRADITIONAL DONUTS OF CATALONIA

In Easter of this year I went to my grandmother’s house to do Catalan doughnuts. It was really great! My mother went there in the morning because they had to do the pastry, and in the afternoon my sister and I went there to do the donuts.

This year the pastry grew up very quickly and we started at 3 o’clock, approximately. I was cutting de pastry in lines and then in little pieces. Then, my mother was doing a little hole in the pieces and putting them in the casserole. Then my grandmother was frying the pieces and putting them inside a boul. At the end of the series, my sister was crystallizing the doughnuts. But the finalist of the series was my grandfather, who was eating them.

I really laughed doing it with my family and I think we did a good job, because I don’t like donuts, but I tasted it and was really good. I like to do something traditional of Catalonia and doing it with my family, too.

One day in BCN

5 days ago I went to Barcelona to spend a day there with my family together. We wanted to go to the Titanic’s exhibition in the morning, but it was raining and when we arrived there we had to wait almost 2 or 3 hours to go in. We were really wet and we decided to go to a mall. We got on a taxi. I hadn’t ever entered in a taxi. It was incredible! I was particularly exciting because I love go shopping even if it’s for me. I bought some T-shirts because the summer is coming, I also bought trousers and two dresses. When we finished the shopping we went to have lunch because we were hungry. Then we back up in a taxi. The driver was very sympathetic and I laughed a lot. We went back to the Titanic’s exhibition and then there weren’t anybody waiting. So, we went in very fast. The exhibition was utterly fantastic. I love this film and even if I had seen some real objects and listened the real history. After two hours inside, we left there. We went to visit our friends of Barcelona. We went to have dinner in a restaurant together, and at twelve o’clock we left Barcelona.

I really enjoyed this day!

LA RIERA

It is a TV series that talks about the history of a family, and her friends, who has a restaurant in a village on the coast, called Sant Climent, not far from Barcelona.

I’m doing this writing about “La Riera” because I like it so much. At first, when it began I didn’t follow the story, but sometimes with my grandma and my mother talked about it. And finally they stuck me to watch it every afternoon.

This story, how I said before, is about a family who has a restaurant. The mother, Mercè, is widow and she has 4 children who are adults. They called Claudi, Ernest, Lluís and Sergi. They also have children except Sergi. In this series they have a lot of problems day a day, but it’s amusing because all the problems are related with them and with some of their friends, too.

Claudi is divorced twice and he has three children. He is the worst of the brothers, and his character is the same like his mother. He isn’t a good father and he loves his business.

Ernest is divorced recently from his daughter’s mother. They have deceived each other and their daughter, Ariadna, is destroyed. He is so humble and worker. Ernest is the director of the restaurant.

Lluís is the naughtiest of them. He was always rather independent, but now he is changing and he has given that he wants to help other people who really need his help. Lluís is the reviewer of the restaurant’s room.

And finally, Sergi is the smallest. He hasn’t married yet but he has a girlfriend. He is the chef of the kitchen. He is new in the job and very immature in this type, but he is learning so fast and working hard to forward this restaurant.

A part from those characters there are a lot of more ones, but I think those are the most important to explain you how the series is and a small summary from the protagonists. I hope you have enjoyed this redaction and I hope you like it if you look at the series.