MY GRANDMA

I want to talk about my grandma because she’s the person who always helps me and she gives me advice. She always spend the time working, cooking, and looking after (before, her five children) and now, her grandchildren.

I remember that when I was a child I spent most of my time with her because my brother and my parents were working. But I was so happy, because she told me her stories, we played a lot and I enjoyed myself.

I also remember when we went to the beach and we played with a float.

She has a lot of patience, so I did what I wanted to do: watch films, play with something, but the favourite thing that I prefered was to do her hair.

Last summer, she was really ill and the doctors said that she would die. This time was very hard for me because I always wanted to go to hospital to see her and to hold her hand and to speak to her even if she didn’t hear me.

Fortunately, now she’s with me again and, of course, we can’t do the same things as before, but I have lunch in my granparents’ house everyday, so I always visit her.

For me, she’s the strongest person that I have ever met. And I will never forget the moments with her, because for me she’s like my mum, my old mum and I love her more than me and more than everything!

My childhood

When I was a child, I remember that I always played with my cousin Grego because we stayed at our grandparents’ house. He always bothered me when I was sleeping, but we were good friends.

After, my other cousin Artur was born. So, we three played with different things, for example: we painted and drew, we jumped all over the garden, we played with barbies (because I was the only girl and they sometimes did the things that I wanted) but we played more at fighting than dolls.

Also, we played football and I wasn’t too bad. We went by motorbike and we went on a trip.

In summer, I spent more time with Artur, and we enjoyed the time too. We went to the beach to played in the water but most of all my cousin loved fishing a lot of different types of fish. Moreover, on 30th of August it was my birthday and my mum always prepared a lunch for all the family and everybody give me a lot of presents, so I love summer.

In my opinion, my childhood was one of the best stages because I was really happy and I didn’t realize the problems. Finally, if I have to sumarize my childhood with two words or two names, for me, are these: Gregory and Artur.

Film

The Back-up Plan

I think that the plot of the film is not so original, because it is about a woman who wants to have children and she goes to a clinic. She becomes pregnant but at the same time she meets a man. He’s perfect, he looks smart and he’s handsome. But there’s a problem: he doesn’t know that she’s pregnant, so she’s afrait of his reaction.

This type of film always has a good ending: he accepts the twins and they live together forever.

In my opinion, this story is the typical story of Hollybood and always has a happy ending. But, I liked it. Because I prefer to go to the cinema and watch a film that is funny and with a happy ending.

Of course, I believe that films have to be comedy, horror, funny... But I’m very afraid so, when I watch a horror film, after I’m afraid!

Moreover, when I watch this type of romantic film I think that the story is perfect, because the woman is always so beautiful, the man

is handsome, and at the beginning of the film maybe everything is a little bit strange or bad things happen but at the end everything is perfect.

When you’re watching this film you think: “ Oh! I want to do this and I want to have a boyfrend like this and, and...” But if I think for a moment, I realize that in real life is different because it’s imposible that everything is perfect.

But it doesn’t matter, I continue enjoying these films because I’m a very romantic person.

Song

We are the world




I want to talk about this song, not noly because it’s very beautiful, but also because it transmitts many good feelings. Moreover a lot of really good singers appear and I think that all their great voices together give more strength to the message.
In addition, I believe that the idea of doing a song to support and help countries that need it, in this case Haiti, is very good.

And refering to the lrics of the song, in my opinion, they are fantastic, and they have many interesting messages:
“There comes a time when we hear a certain call, when the world must come together as one...”. It’s amazing when you hear this piece of the song, because you think: “It’s true, we have to do this.”

“Send them your heart so they know that someone cares, so their cries for help will not be in vane. We can't let them suffer no, we cannot turn away right now they need a helping hand”. But, in my opinion, this is one of my favourite messages, because it explains that we can’t control the earthquakes, but all of us have to help people who suffer these misfortunes.



So, in conclusion, I chose these topic because of the children who died, the children who survived and they don’t have family and, in general, for all the people who unwittingly have to live through this.

Smoking

Today, I want to talk about smoking because it has always been a very important problem for the society and it affects children, teenagers and old people, because there are so many people that smoke.

So, I think that it’s an interenting topic to talk about.

Most smokers begin during adolescence or early adulthood. In my opinion, smoking has elements of risk-taking and rebellion, which often appeals to young people.

I also think that the presence of high-status models is also an incentive to smoke and it’s good that nowadays people who has a cigarette don’t appear in television.

Moreover, cigarettes are a very addictive substance and people depend on them. I meet people who say something like: “Everyone dies and so cigarettes do not actually change anything”, this sentence is only to justify that his or her behavior is not so important.

But often I listen to teenagers saying this and I believe that young people who think this don’t think that life is very important and it’s very serious that these people think like this.

I have had a very sad experiance because of smoking, and that’s not so easy for a family. My grandfather died of throat cancer a few years ago, but before he died we were all hard hit. And my other grandfather had the same cancer, but he survived.

So, I think that smokers should think about what they are doing and if it’s worth it.

I’m not aganist people who smoke, because I believe it’s good to try something to find out what it is like.

Feelings..

This year is so hard for me because of school, family problems, teachers... So sometimes I want to disappear.
I think that nobody understands me and my personal problems, because everybody has their life and they don’t stop and think about me.
When I was a child, I thought that my world was perfect and my family too. Of course I continue thinking that but everything has changed for me. Because I have grow up I have to learn that life is more difficult as you get older. So, your mum doesn’t protect you like before, your family has new problems, your friends become different and sometimes they don’t talk about their problems and they aren’t interested in yours and this is when I realize that there are 3 or 4 people in your life who want to be with you forever.
For me it’s very difficult to understand this. Like a child who doesn’t understand that he has dropped his lollipop, I don’t understand how people don’t think about others, they don’t think about people who are important in their lifes.
But I hope that my future will be good because I always believe that I have good luck, because I have people who love me, I have a fantastic boyfriend who always helps me and he understands me, but maybe we won’t always be a couple. But I know that he’s one of these 3 or 4 people who will never fail.
In conlcusion, there’s a thing that I have learnt and I understand too: Life is very short, and we have to make the most of it to the end.

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A GIANT CHALLENGE

Catalan festivals wouldn’t be the same without “Gegants”.

Giants really exist. Anyone who’s been to a “festa major” has seen the tall kings and queens supported by humans who “wear” them.

Some of these giants emerge from a workshop in Terrassa and the man who makes the giants is called Jordi Grau.

In Catalunya there are approximately six people who make a legal living from making giants.

Giants are made from moulds, on top of which is stuck a type of cardboard like papier mâché. Once it dries, it’s very hard, and can be painted. It takes them approximately 1’5 months to make a single giant and 2 to 2’5 months for a couple.

The clinets are councils or associations and for asmall giant they pay three or four thousand euros and a large giant, five or six thousand.

A lot depends on the clothing and hair. A wig is very expensive, and can cost up to 1.500 €.

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OBESITY (Fat is beautiful)

Americans are fat, they’re getting fatter and, as soon as they out-eat the South Sea Islanders, they will be the fattest people in the world. This alarming message, form the journalist Greg Critser, has helped promote the provocative bestseller fat land.

So what should they do about it? There is an obvious and a not so obvious answer to this question. The solution would be that they should eat more carefully and do more exercise.

The McDonalds executive who discovered super-sizing, offering vast single portion’s of food so people eat the equivalent of the double helpings that they were too embarrassed to ask for.

They believe that there’s nothing wrong with being overweight: negative acttitudes towards larger people are simply prejudices that need to be fought.

America suddently deciding to eat sensibly is hard to imagine, especially as it’s black and Hispanic minorities have never been critical of solid builds.