MY EASTER HOLIDAYS IN GALÍCIA

Last Easter I went to Galícia with my grandparents, my brother and his girlfriend. I loved that trip! Really, I loooove to travel.  I think you learn a lot of things when you're traveling... I like to know other cultures, food, ways of thinking... it's interesting. My conclusion of Galicia is that there people is more friendly than here... but I understand why.


We started our trip at 9 am. Oh my God... we stayed into the car a lot of time!! First day, we drove to Sant Sebastià. Although I had been there before, I enjoyed it. Second day we went to Sanxenxo, in Pontevedra (Galícia). We stayed a lot of time more into the car... But it was entertained because landscapes were extremely beautifuls!! And we were listening to the music, so the trip wasn't so hard. 


I fell in love with Galícia. Landscapes, food, people, little towns,... I really enjoyed a lot. I liked more villages than cities. For example, the part of Rías Baixas was AMAZING. I didn't want to go away from there. Little towns near the sea were nice.. what a wonderful place to live in!


Firstly, we went to Santiago de Compostela. What a beautiful cathedral! I ate typical Santiago's cake... I loved it!! Then we went to Pontevedra. 


On the second day in Galicia we went to Rias Baixas, as I said. Little villages and islands as La Toja (where I bought the famous soap!), O Grove (we went on a ship where they gave us a lot of mussels), Cambados, Arousa Island (there was a lighthouse in the middle of the rocks), and finally, Combarro (in that town there were a lot of "hórreos"). There you can see some photos:

 This church is made with a lot of shells! (La Toja)

 Me in Arousa Island

One of the typical "hórreos" of Galícia (Combarro)

We went also to Tuy (the last galician's town) and to Portugal, in a fortified village. One funny anecdote is that in Portugal we found... "Licor de Merda!" I saw it before in Buenafuente's TV programme... but I laughed a lot! The best part is that in the label it is written: "Extracted from reliable shit". Moreover, "year" in portuguese is called "ano"... Extracted from reliable shit, Ano 1875. My gosh! 

Here you are: 

Our last visit in Galicia was Finisterre (Costa da Morte). I really loved it! It was a quiet place, on the sea... very inspirational... So next day we started our return trip. We stopped in Burgos, where we slept. People seemed to be cold and distant compared with Galícia... but it's a colossal city and I liked it a lot! 

In summary, here you can see a bit of my travel. I want to travel more and more!!

INFORMAL LETTER: DEATH OF A BEEKEEPER

Hi Paul!

How are you? I miss you a lot... I hope you are fine living in London! 

I still remember you used to love nature and animals. I've just finished to read a book called "Death of a Beekeeper", by Lars Gufstasson and I thought you would love it. It talks about a Beekeeper called Edward, who explains his work is dying in his country. However, he carries on and he explains how he does it. A part from that, he talks about his life with the bees. It's very interesting! Do you remember when you told me you wanted to be a beekeeper?? I thought of you instead when I read it!

By the way, next summer I'll go to London... I'd love to met you! I hope we'll keep in touch. 

See you soon my friend!

Rawiora Sylew

VÍCTOR: A PERSON WHO HAS MADE AN IMPRESSION ON ME

From the first time I met with my best friend, Víctor, he made an impression on me. I had never believed I would met someone so similar to me. I met him on Internet, thanks to our interest in PortAventura.

Víctor is 17 years old and he lives in Barcelona. He's slightly tall and quite thin (although he's always saying he's fat...) He has brown curly hair and his eyes have green effects when the Sun shines on them.

He's very creative and smart. I love this fact of him! He's always writing stories and playing the piano. (He made Rawiora's soundtrack! He's an artist.) I REALLY love his imagination. 

He loves cinema and music. His thoughts are so similar to mine. So many times we have a strange connectation. I mean, I know what he's thinking in a moment and he knows what I'm thinking. It's like a telepathy!

In conclusion, he always knows how to make me feel better. I admire him and the things he does. I wish our friendship never died. 

DIRECTION: PARÍS! TIM BURTON'S EXPOSITION :)

That June we are going to París! :) I'm so excited about that... I LOVE travel, but I can't do it a lot of times... there's no money! But Tim Burton's MoMA Exposition is now in París and I decided to go there. IT'S AN OBLIGATION. I have done all the possible to go there... next week we're going to buy the train tickets :) When I said it to my parents, at first, they thought I was getting mad. But they accepted! Afterwards I said it to my friends... and they wanted to travel to París too! So I'm happy because I won't travel alone... I'm going to París with the best company :) 

We are deciding where to go. At the moment, we'll visit the Tour Eiffel, Moulin Rouge (we'll be in apartment on Montmatre, so we'll be near!) Opera of Paris, Notre Dame, "Catacombas", Louvre Museum, Versailles, Amélie's Bar (Les deux Moulins), old cemeteries,... and of course... TIM BURTON'S EXPOSITION. At least, one of my dreams will come true!! It would be exciting we'll meet Tim at the exposition, isn't it? I think I would die. 

Here you can see some photos of Burton's exposition:

LOOOOOVE!

I'm scared...

THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! EDWAARD! What a pity it's not the real Johnny!

As you can see, there are the materials he used in his movies. I want to scream a lot. IT'S JUST AMAZING! It would be my paradise... my dreams come to reality. All his universe I've been dreaming for these years... and I will see it. 

Spanish King Juan Carlos sorry for Botswana hunt trip

"King Juan Carlos has apologised to the Spanish people for going on a hunting trip in Africa while his country was in the midst of an economic crisis.

His trip to Botswana, which was widely criticised, emerged after he was flown home for treatment for a fractured hip. He broke his hip falling on a step and was flown home by private jet. He underwent hip replacement surgery on Saturday.

"I'm very sorry, I made a mistake. It won't happen again," he said, as he left San Jose hospital in Madrid. It was widely reported that he had been hunting elephants, which the royal house has neither confirmed nor denied.

After news of his visit to Botswana was revealed, many Spanish newspapers published a photo of the king dating back to 2006, in which he is seen standing with a gun beside a dead elephant. The king, 74, is honorary president of the Spanish branch of conservation group WWF and an online petition calling for his resignation had accumulated almost 85,000 signatures by the time he made his public apology."

I have been thinking about this news but I couldn't understand... why? Why is this man killing elephants in Botswana? Maybe it would be better if one of these incredibles animals had squashed him. Well, first of all... why is this man Spain's King? I don't know why we have to have a monarchy... For God's sake, we are living in the 21th century!  I really felt extremely annoyed when I read the news. I'm totally against monarchy but they could be better. But no... one of them is stealing us, another shoots their feets... but killing elephants in Botswana!!! That's so much for me. What's the problem with this family? Why have we to pay them? Is anyone of them smart???!! 

Apart from that, he was president of the Spanish branch of WWF!! What a shame, that's so disgusting. And then he apologizes his acts! You haven't got to make it and that's all! What a hypocrisy...

I don't like my country. I hate the fact that in my passport appears "Spanish Nationality". I don't feel myself as spanish, I have never felt this way. We have to evolute NOW! We have always been behind other countries as France or Deutschland.... why? I know it's Franco's fault in part. But what more? Is it for religion, spanish people thoughts, monarchy...? Pleaseee, Francesc Macià and Lluís Companys... come back!!!

WHY?

Why I was born? And who I am? I didn't choose born. They didn't ask me if I wanted to born this way, in this country, in this planet. All would be more easier if I hadn't born... sometimes I think about non-existence. And I feel very quite... and nostalgic. Afterwards, I start to wish it. Imagine you hadn't ever existed. That's a thought I have ever had since I was a child. Really, I wasn't normal, I think. I explain it now, and people stare at me strangely. They say to me it's not normal that a child thinks about death and non-existence all the time. But I did. I liked loneliness because it let me think without problems about the world, people, life, death... 

And I still being the same. However, if a child who doesn't have to get worry about anything thinks about all these problems... imagine a teenager. Society, the world,... are over me and I can't do anything. I don't know who I want to be in my life!!!!! I don't know what I want to do, where I want to go!!! And I haven't had time to discover myself. First, I was in school and I didn't think calmly about my future. In the highschool I started, but I found myself in 4th ESO and I wasn't sure about who I wanted to be in my life. Afterwards, I found myself in Batxillerat and I'm living a stressed and miserable life. I don't know why I'm studying these subjects. I don't know what I'm doing with my life and I don't know what I want to do next year. And exam behind exam, projects, "selectivitat",... I don't have time to find myself! To find what I want to be! 

I don't know which is my element. I mean... Everyone is good in something. There are a lot of artists, writers, scientists... who are brilliant in some kind of thing. But I don't know if I am really good in something... because I didn't find it yet and it makes me so sad. Right now I'm living a stressed life. I have never got splendid marks, and now I have to fight for really good marks to enter to college.. and I still not know what I really want to do in my life, what I want to study. Because I don't know if I will be good in Audiovisual Communication. In fact, I don't even know I will be able to enter. Actually, I have lived a depression during first and second term. I tried my best to study, because I need really good marks... But it was impossible, I couldn't concentrate... Now I'm getting better marks, but it's too late. 

Had never been born. In summary, I love this idea. Despite of I'm late. 

That's what I am in the world. Only a person. 

EAST AFRICAN FAMINE (SOMALIA)

"Tens of thousands of Somalis have died of malnutrition-related causes; three million Somalis are in urgent need of aid and more than 10 million are at risk. By early August, aid groups were trying to scale up their operations, and the United Nations began airlifting emergency food. But the two parts of southern Somalia where famine was declared are controlled by Al Shabab, a brutal Islamist group that is aligned with Al Qaeda. Many aid organizations are reluctant to venture into Shabab areas because of the obvious dangers."

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/famine/index.html

Where are human rights here? People have the right to food. Why are they dying of starvation? Why Al Shabab is denying to the population this elemental right? Why doesn't he help them? 

In my country there's a lot of problems. I don't even want to think about them. However, we are so much privileged. Of course we don't have all the human rights... but at least, we can feed ourselves. The situation it's different.. but I can't tell you why. Really, I don't know why the world it's divided up in this way.. I wish I could know it because I would try to change it. We can help them, but Al Shabab is making it more difficult... 

Today, as almost everyday, I'm in a pessimistic way and I don't see any solution... because we need to change world's system and it's unlikely. However, we can fight for a better way of life, of course, as ONGs does!!

PAUL MCCARTNEY + JOHNNY DEPP = *NATALIA'S SCREAM*

When I heard Paul McCartney was working with Johnny Depp I almost died. They are two of my idols... I really loooove them! I listened the song before, but now I can watch the new video I'm so happy :')

I think this song is precious. It's calm and it has beautiful lyrics. I love the moment where Paul sings: My vaalentiineee... and appears Johnny's face. Yeees, this love of mine, my valentine... In the scene where Johnny plays the guitar I'm overwhelmed with peace. 

This video directed by Paul McCartney it's very elegant. There only appear Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp in black and white, without any special effect. They are interpreting the song with delicate movements and nothing else. In consequence... don't you think this video inspires a lot of peace? I really love it. As I said a lot of times before, I'm a nervous person (though it doesn't seem so) and I like this song and video because it's able to calm me (although Johnny's stare is really enigmatic and it disconcerts me.) 

What if it rained? 

We didn't care.

She said that someday soon

The sun was gonna shine.

And she was right,

this love of mine,

my Valentine...

This paragraph talks perfectly about love and its blindness and optimism. When you are in love, things seems better than they are... and Paul can demonstrate it very well in this song :) 

And I will love her for life

And I will never let a day go by

Without remembering the reasons why

She makes me certain

That I can fly

I looooove this part!  Don't ask me why... because I can't express it with words! 

Paul McCartney's son wants to form band with children of John, George and Ringo

Paul McCartney's son James has told the BBC that he is interested in teaming up with the sons of his father's former bandmates to form The Beatles: The Next Generation. "I don't think it's something that Zak [Starkey] wants to do," says McCartney. "Maybe Jason [Starkey] would want to do it. I'd be up for it. Sean [Lennon] seemed to be into it, Dhani [Harrison] seemed to be into it. I'd be happy to do it."

McCartney, 34, is furthering his solo career by performing soon at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, the old stomping grounds of his father's band. The rocker says he chose to play there because he wants to "just to embrace the Beatles legacy rather than running away from it." 

I almost died when I read it. I've always wanted to live 60's Beatlemania!! Maybe I'm about to live Beatlemania 2.0!!! Moreover, the sons are identic of the fathers.. don't you think it? It would be like see The Beatles on concert again... :') it would be my dream come to reality... I know it's IMPOSSIBLE to be in one Beatles concert (sadly...). But I have to see it with optimism... I might go to a Beatles sons concert!!! :D

On the other hand, I don't know if I have to be excited about it. The Beatles were fantastic; I can't express with words what they were into the music world. And I don't know if it's correct to try to be like them, because it's impossible. Even if they are their sons. However, it's nice to think about Beatles next Generation... how you can see, I don't know what to think about it!!! Time will say it... 

JK Rowling announces title of first adult novel

Author JK Rowling has announced her first adult novel will be called The Casual Vacancy. The Harry Potter writer revealed in February that she was working on the book, and said it would be "very different" from her previous material. 

The book will be published worldwide in hardback, e-book and as an audio download and CD on 27 September. "The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry's success has brought me," Rowling said.

The story is centred on the death of Barry Fairweather, whose unexpected passing shocks the local villagers of Pagford. The company describes the tale as being "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising".

I haven't read any book of Rowling in exception of Harry Potter. I'm extremely fond of this saga! Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone was the first novel I read (without drawings and a lot of lyrics). Since this moment, Hogwarts catched me.. and right now, I'm very fond of all this world as before. So I would be glad to read another book by Rowling! Moreover, this new one seems so interesting... although I'll have to read it on summer, because now I can't do anything but study... I want to do what I love, but it seems I have to wait more and more and more... 

SANT JORDI

April 23th is Saint George's day (it's like Valentine's day). According to the tradition, the man has to give a rose to his partner and on the other hand, the woman has to give a book to her love. 

It's so romantic... but it's too difficult to choose a book!! (and more expensive, of course...). Instead, it's easy to buy a rose... they are all the same. I have this problem right now! I don't know what to buy to my dear one! There are so many books... I know the kind of book he likes though I'm always doubting about which I have to choose. Although my thoughts, I like the fact he'll give me a rose. I definitely loooove roses! It's my favorite flower :) 

I don't know why I love roses. Maybe it's because of the colour. Red is a powerful colour... (though not all the roses are red!). Everytime I think about red a few thoughts came to my head. First one, a dragon. A red dragon... and afterwards, Dragon Khan, of course!! Fire, roses, blood, love... all them seem stunning things, aren't they? 

In summary, I think boys have it more easier than girls. However, I'll try to choose the correct book! In any case... what matter is the intention, isn't it? ;)

I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses... (8)