WRITING JOURNALS
1- How my life has changed since I came to United States (Tuesd. 31st Oct. 2019)
Nowadays I'm living in the United States and it's been incredible. I'm Spanish, and I'm only 17 years old. I'm actually in my ERASMUS year, and decided to go to USA because I'm studying English. This is a dream come true!!
I live in a flat with a family composed of a married couple and their little daughter. I love them, thhay are so charming and caring with me. I'm continuing my degree here, so it hasn't changed much. These universities are huge, are whatever you imagine in a teenager movie. I've found some really good friends the same age as me, as well, and some of them are ERASMUS too, so we all come from different parts of the world.
The cities here aren't any different than the Spanish ones, by the way I'm living in Atlanta, and it's really cool. Sometimes I do videocalls with my parents and teach my father English because he likes it. The only thing I miss the most is my Spanish food.
I feel so free here, I don't know, I feel like home. I guess I'm made to live in places like this or I was born in the wrong place.
I hate to think next year I won't be here anymore because I'm enjoying this so much, For real this is an experience I'm going to remember.
Timing: about 15 min
Timing: about 15 min
2- A special skill you have (Tuesd. 1st Oct. 2019)
I have to admit I'm really creative and imaginative. Since I was a kid, I've seen my mother how could fix something broken, or even change it if she didn't like it. There was a TV programm, Art Attack, and you could make handicrafts. In my spare time, (and I still do it) I used to just gather things we don't used at home o paper or cardboard and just make anything that comes to my ming.
I often do this on summer because it's the time i have more free time the most, but I love to make gift to the people I love, and I love to do them by myself, not buy them. I remember once a friend of mine was just operated and when we came to the hospital, I gave a bunch of flowers I made by mself with wood sticks and EVA rubber.
Due to this, My room is full of stuff I made, and when I fing some space, or something without drawings, I'm not wasting any time to decorate it and make it mine.
Timing: about 15 min
Timing: about 15 min
3- A hobby (Tuesd. 1st Oct. 2019)
I need to recognise I have a lot of hobbies, such as sports, drawing, listening to music, reading... I couldn't choose among them, because all of them define me.
Fisrt of all, sports. Since I was a kid I've always gone to extra classe in school fo doing sports (and P.E. was one of my favourite subject). I did judo for 5 years, at the same time I was attending swimming lessons for 7 years. When I quited these ones I started playing volleyball, the love of my life, for 6 years, I even became a volleyball referee for 2 years; unfortunately I had to quit because I wanted to focus on my bachelor studies. Other than this, I know how to ride a bike and I have run some marathons (because my father is so keen on running).
Other of my hobbies is drawing. As I said before, since I was a kid I used to draw everything for everyone, and I still think it's a unique way to tell something to somebody.
I think this one has been on the top these years, listening to music. This is the way that I have to do a lot of things I love. Firstly, the 90% of it has English lyrics, so it helps me to understand and pronuncate. Besides, it makes me desconnect with the world and connect with myself (and it's a really useful way to desconnect from the stress of exams and it makes me calmer) and lastly, it make me feel happy, i don't know the reason why.
Lastly, i'd like to comment something about reading. When I was a kid I could spend hours and hours reading my Geronimo Stilton books, and everywhere I go, I'd carry a book with me. I don't like to admit that this has decreased with time because now I'm keener on music and cinema because I learn more English, but I will never refuse to have a good book.
Timing: about 25 min
4- Learning to play a sport (Wednesday 9th Oct. 2019)
Not everybody can be perfect in every sport, and like always, you'll have your preferences. To learn a sport is not a piece of cake. Firstly, you have to be motivated, if not you'll become lazy and effortless. Then, and this is important, you have to be patient with yourself: if you make something wrong, don't blame yourself, with another try. For example, in my volleyball team there was a new girl who hadn't played in her life. Of couse at first you feel clumsy, but when two weeks had past, she didn't appear again. She felt worthless when she saw us playing, but of course that was her fisrt year, and for example my fifth year. She felt like she coudn't catch up with us, so she just quitet.
When you try someting new, give yourself a try, don't throw the towell at first. But, if time passes by and things don't change, maybe that sport wasn't made for you (I was a total desaster in judo and I spent 5 years in my life until I realized).
Timing: about 15 min
Timing: about 15 min
5- Your favourite sport to play or watch (Wednesday 9th Oct. 2019)
I'm am not really into watching sports on TV because I get bored really fast, because I like to play them better. If I had to choose one sport I've played, of course it would be volleyball. I was so in love with it, and I wasn't that bad. I started go to lessons because my mother encouraged me to play some sport because at that time çi wasn't playing anyone, and one of my best friends in school was going too. First of all, I remember my first trainner as if it were yesterday, she was so marvellous and charming. I had 5 different trainners, and my favourites were the two first and the last, I even loved it that much that I went to prepare an exam to be a referee, but it wasn't a good experience at all. I made really good friends, we were like a family in the last years and we went to some different villages as well. Other than that, we went to beach volleyball for two years, and we always ended up with mosquito bites and sunburns. Unfortunately, when I started my bachelor's studies I had to quit, because in the first year I was going to English clases to prepare my B2 level exam, and the second year was hardest I had to prepare the exam to go to university. However, I will always look back and smile remembering all these things of this amazing sport that still makes my skin crawl.
Timing: about 20 min
Timing: about 20 min
6-Accident (Wednesday 9th Oct. 2019)
Luckily I've never been into an accident in my life, and I hope it still goes like this. However, I was saw one that made me had nightmares whe I went to sleep. I was a kid, and I was in my car with my parents and my brother. We were going to my village when we saw a big trafic jam. There had been an accident. I remember I saw the front cristal all broken and nobody inside. People started saying that there was a man who didn't have the seat belt fastened, he stopped so rudely and he went off the car. That image was recording in my mind over and over again, even though it could be a lie, I started dreaming about my brother or my family going off the car with wounds and blood. I promised myself to always fsten my seat belt since then.
Timing: about 15 min
Even when I have an apponitment, I always get there sooner than I'm supposed becuase I tend to walk really fast because I believe I'm late, but I'm not. Now, I kinda force myself to not to be so punctual because I always have to wait, everybody is always late
Genuinely, I can't stand being late, or people, I think it's disrespectful for the people who are waiting for you.
Timing: about 15 min
We coincided we all wanted to study something that wasn't in Albacete, so we had to move on here. A girl wasn't supposed to come with us, instead there was another girl but she was knee operated so she culdn't come, and we found this other girl, and we are really lucky with her, she's adorable. The boy is the one who is always joking around and I have discssions with because he thinks British accent it's better than American.
We've been friends since we started high school and we really get along. I don't imagine myself living without them.
Timing: about 15 min
But, I've been searching and it's supposed to be like a kind of celebration to thank God for blessing the crops. However, it depends on the region you are in.
We don't have anything similar in Spain, and, as far as I'm concerned, there is something similar in Asia.
Other option is Halloween, and how it has coquered the whole world and we don'r even know how, and it's a time dedicated to remembering the dead. we all have seen others dressing up with their costumes for the partys, squeletons, vampires... but it is thought to be influenced by Christian religion, because it's celebrated the evening before the christian holy days of All Hallows' Day.
Timing: about 15 min
Everybody was really upset with the woman, and now it has been the court, and I don't know hown many years she'll spend in jail.
However, the journals and the news made a mountain out of a molehill to gain more audience with this story.
They did exactly the same with the story of another young boy that fell on a well while he was playing, and the police and firefighters were digging to find him, but when they did, he was already dead.
Social media made this story a complete roll in other to make it longer, like how, when he fell,or why there was a well there, it was his parents guilt or the house's owner... it's really disgusting they use really breaking news in their own benefit.
Timing: about 20 min
When we are studying, we don't have much time for anything, at least me. I couldn't even sleep when I was ending high school, how could have i worked? Many young people drop out of their studies, because they don't want to or are too lazy, and sometimes tehir parents make them work, so that they won't waste their time. Apart from that, there is no much works to choos among, most of them work as waitors or delivery people in some junk food chain.
Nonetheless, when we are talking about university, it's different. University is really expensive, even more if you have to move away to other place (like me). It's true that here you don't have the pressure of selectivity and teachers telling you how, when you have to do the stuff. But, in university you don't have pretty much free time (or at least me). Many students can organise themselves and study less, so they can enjoy more, or they can work to help their parents pay their degree. In USA, go to college is way much expensive than here, but you have a comlete year free since you finish high school until you start university, and I don't want to ask the costs of universities of Cambridge, Oxford... because i'd probably die of a heart attack.
I believe students working is good for them to get used to have a work, but they should have more free time to earn money to pay it.
Timing: about 25 min
I remember we planned going to Valencia to spend the day with high school, and of course I was going with my best friends of that time. We went to see museums and this kind of stuff, and one of my friends' birthday was near that date. We had everything prepared for her birthday, but she had no idea. The thing is, when we had like a time off for lunch, we stopped at McDonalds to eat something. We were talking I don't know about what, and the smart girl that lives in my brain decided to make a comparison with an example and I said "Yeah, that reminds me of that time when we went to by Christina's birthday present..." and the three otheer girls were staring at me shocked because I forgot for a minute that my friend (Christina) was right there in front of me. They were making signs with they hands like cut it off, and I didn't get it and said again "Girls, don't you remember when we went to the mall and bought the blablabla..." and I started telling all the presents out loud. My friend was like oh thanks for telling what ws supposed to be a surprise, and my other friends were staring at me like "you are unbelieveble, you just messed up". Then I realized what I had just done and mu mouyh formed an O shape like "yeah, I really messed up".
My friend didn't get angry at all, she said that now she wasn't with ants on heer pants fot knowing what the presents would be, and when we remember this now, we all laugh.
Timing: about 25 min
Then, when I started high school, I creted another account because that want was like erased and always told me there were errors and things, so my 13 or 14 years old self created the new one, alejandralondres2001@gmail.com. It's quite better than the old one, and now I had the account in my mobile and in my laptop. I was really surprised that they gave a personal email for university, that was like new for me, but it's better, so I don't mix my personal thins with the university ones.
Timing: about 20 min
What I don't like even a bit is that capitalism makes us buy one new ohone each little period time, and each phone is more expensive than the other. Besides, now people have the great idea of giving phones to kids instead of giving them toys. This is one of the reasons now almost each kid has to wear glasses, their delicate eyes cannot support the screens. For these reasons, cell phones are a big step as well as a big bad step for society, and we don't want to know what comes in the futurre because we are scared of it.
Timing: about 15 min
People should realise that we are the future they are working now, we'll have what they have left us, and we should teach them that changes are not that bad and all teenagers are not the same.
Timing: about 20 min
I have had a lot ot friends, discussions, then we messed up and stepped away, but now I've found my (I think) true friends, they are for me whenever I need them, and we are comfortable with each other and we help up and support us,
Now, I've met some girls at university, who knos what's next?
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I've always said that my car would be blue, dark blue, because it's my favourite colour. Yet, I woudn't recommend a black car, because it gets stained really eaasily, for example if it rains, and you need to wah it a lot. This also happens with white cars, they can have grey marks or just stains because of the land and the cement. If you have a family, you need to seak for something comfortable for each of you, if you have your partner and two kids, you cannot have a car with two seats. The problem is when you are numerous family, because you need a big car, with 5 seats or more, even 7. Also, if you a beginner with the car, you can buy something cheap and comfortable for you to use, so can get used to it. In case you work a lot with the car, you need a good car, but I don't mean big. Good car in the menaning of having a lot of fuel, this modern screen with a lot of settings and options. However, if you just need the car like almost everybody, just to transport yourself, it's okay if it's not the las car.
Summing up, the best car to own is the one that has your needs and expectations.
Timing: about 20 min
Simply, smoking is bad for our health, so if you want to smoke, it's your option and your decision, but, if you please don't bother others with your smoke. Although they are not smokking a cigarrette or something similar, they do smoke your smoke. So, if you smoke, don't do it with others around you. For instance, if you are in a coffe shop talking to a friend, don't smoke because you bother your friend and people around you. In a park, you shouldn't smoke with all the kids playing around. Smoking in closed places is forbidden, I don't know if it's forbidden in public places in general. But, even though is not forbidden in general, try to control yourself, do it to protect others, not just for you.
Timing: about 15 min
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In addition, I guess that your life cannot be perfect as well as cannot be a disaster. There's always a middle point. for example, You are envious because a person has a lot of things you life but you cannot afford, and you ask why life is so cruel that you cannot have it too. But now compare another thing. Maybe that person has more things but her parents don't mind her, and your parents love you a lot, or you have good marks and good friends, and that person hasn't. My lecture is that life doesn't make anything worthlyless.
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7- Being on time (Mond. 14th Oct. 2019)
I have to admit that I'm a person that is always worried about being on time to places. My friends. unfortunately, are the opposite, except two of them. Once, I was with one of these two friends and we were about to come to my cousin's house, and she is extremely unpunctual. Well, before we had even started our way, we told her we were already there and she was supposed to appear. By the time we had arrived 40 minutes later, she had just appeared. We were shocked. What would have happened if we had told her to come when we were already there?Even when I have an apponitment, I always get there sooner than I'm supposed becuase I tend to walk really fast because I believe I'm late, but I'm not. Now, I kinda force myself to not to be so punctual because I always have to wait, everybody is always late
Genuinely, I can't stand being late, or people, I think it's disrespectful for the people who are waiting for you.
Timing: about 15 min
8- The People I live with (Mond. 14th Oct. 2019)
I'm not living in the city where I was born, I'm living here due to my university degree, so I'm sharing a flat wit four of my high school friends (3 girls, 1 boy). I sometimes get pissed off because they don't do the things on point and I have to be following their steps, but over this, I love them. It's quite good to talk to people who are living the same experience as tou, so we understand and help each other a lot.We coincided we all wanted to study something that wasn't in Albacete, so we had to move on here. A girl wasn't supposed to come with us, instead there was another girl but she was knee operated so she culdn't come, and we found this other girl, and we are really lucky with her, she's adorable. The boy is the one who is always joking around and I have discssions with because he thinks British accent it's better than American.
We've been friends since we started high school and we really get along. I don't imagine myself living without them.
Timing: about 15 min
9- American customs you like/dislike (Mond. 14th Oct. 2019)
I'm keener on British culture than american, so there is a whole bunch of stuff I don't know. But, something I have ever understood completely it's Thanksgiving Day.But, I've been searching and it's supposed to be like a kind of celebration to thank God for blessing the crops. However, it depends on the region you are in.
We don't have anything similar in Spain, and, as far as I'm concerned, there is something similar in Asia.
Other option is Halloween, and how it has coquered the whole world and we don'r even know how, and it's a time dedicated to remembering the dead. we all have seen others dressing up with their costumes for the partys, squeletons, vampires... but it is thought to be influenced by Christian religion, because it's celebrated the evening before the christian holy days of All Hallows' Day.
Timing: about 15 min
10- An important story in the news (Mond. 21st Oct. 2019)
Not a long ago, there was a heartbreaking story of a little boy that dissapeared, the parents were really worried and the whole country was searching, helping and looking forward to find him. They had different clues and it ended up that the kid was killed by his father's girlfriend. She said it wasn't on purpose because the kid didn't like her.Everybody was really upset with the woman, and now it has been the court, and I don't know hown many years she'll spend in jail.
However, the journals and the news made a mountain out of a molehill to gain more audience with this story.
They did exactly the same with the story of another young boy that fell on a well while he was playing, and the police and firefighters were digging to find him, but when they did, he was already dead.
Social media made this story a complete roll in other to make it longer, like how, when he fell,or why there was a well there, it was his parents guilt or the house's owner... it's really disgusting they use really breaking news in their own benefit.
Timing: about 20 min
11- The working Student (Mond. 21st Oct. 2019)
Spanish people are able to work since we are 16 years old. However, almost nobody works at the age of 16, not even at the age of 18.When we are studying, we don't have much time for anything, at least me. I couldn't even sleep when I was ending high school, how could have i worked? Many young people drop out of their studies, because they don't want to or are too lazy, and sometimes tehir parents make them work, so that they won't waste their time. Apart from that, there is no much works to choos among, most of them work as waitors or delivery people in some junk food chain.
Nonetheless, when we are talking about university, it's different. University is really expensive, even more if you have to move away to other place (like me). It's true that here you don't have the pressure of selectivity and teachers telling you how, when you have to do the stuff. But, in university you don't have pretty much free time (or at least me). Many students can organise themselves and study less, so they can enjoy more, or they can work to help their parents pay their degree. In USA, go to college is way much expensive than here, but you have a comlete year free since you finish high school until you start university, and I don't want to ask the costs of universities of Cambridge, Oxford... because i'd probably die of a heart attack.
I believe students working is good for them to get used to have a work, but they should have more free time to earn money to pay it.
Timing: about 25 min
12- A big mistake I made once (Mond. 21st Oct. 2019)
First of all, I need to start saying that this happended when I was like 14, yeah, in the middle of puberty, so I guess I wasn't smart at all.I remember we planned going to Valencia to spend the day with high school, and of course I was going with my best friends of that time. We went to see museums and this kind of stuff, and one of my friends' birthday was near that date. We had everything prepared for her birthday, but she had no idea. The thing is, when we had like a time off for lunch, we stopped at McDonalds to eat something. We were talking I don't know about what, and the smart girl that lives in my brain decided to make a comparison with an example and I said "Yeah, that reminds me of that time when we went to by Christina's birthday present..." and the three otheer girls were staring at me shocked because I forgot for a minute that my friend (Christina) was right there in front of me. They were making signs with they hands like cut it off, and I didn't get it and said again "Girls, don't you remember when we went to the mall and bought the blablabla..." and I started telling all the presents out loud. My friend was like oh thanks for telling what ws supposed to be a surprise, and my other friends were staring at me like "you are unbelieveble, you just messed up". Then I realized what I had just done and mu mouyh formed an O shape like "yeah, I really messed up".
My friend didn't get angry at all, she said that now she wasn't with ants on heer pants fot knowing what the presents would be, and when we remember this now, we all laugh.
Timing: about 25 min
13- Using e-mail (Mond. 21st Oct. 2019)
When I was at school is when started all this stuff about Internet and hotmail and gmail. Well, my mum decided to create me a profile on hotmail, because i was a kid basically, and she even started like TIC classes to know how to use a computer. At school, teachers told the parents not to put our true names in the direction because they could get our informations and this thins, and that year was when "Tangled" the movie was relesed. Guess what my mun used to made myself a hotmail account, I still remember: rapunzel2001@hotmail.es. There you are, my first email, and I even remember I used to forget about if it was .com or .es. That helped me how to use google depply.Then, when I started high school, I creted another account because that want was like erased and always told me there were errors and things, so my 13 or 14 years old self created the new one, alejandralondres2001@gmail.com. It's quite better than the old one, and now I had the account in my mobile and in my laptop. I was really surprised that they gave a personal email for university, that was like new for me, but it's better, so I don't mix my personal thins with the university ones.
Timing: about 20 min
14- Cell Phones (Thursd. 24th Oct. 2019)
Every single perons nowadays have a cell phone, it's the thing we have to be sure we don't go out of home without. I mean, now we have everything there, and it's really tiny. I even have my university projects in there, and it keeps fascinating me w¡how the human could have created such a thing, how though cables can you get a photo, an audio, and the things called apps.What I don't like even a bit is that capitalism makes us buy one new ohone each little period time, and each phone is more expensive than the other. Besides, now people have the great idea of giving phones to kids instead of giving them toys. This is one of the reasons now almost each kid has to wear glasses, their delicate eyes cannot support the screens. For these reasons, cell phones are a big step as well as a big bad step for society, and we don't want to know what comes in the futurre because we are scared of it.
Timing: about 15 min
15- Teenagers (Thursd. 24th Oct. 2019)
People believe teenagers are the worst of society. Why? Because they are unruly, rebellious, they don't like rules, they do whatever they want, they're not polite or kind, they are lazy to work or study... or at least this is the image of us that adutls make. Why? Because they are afraid of the future, and they know they cannot change it, but we can. Teenegers should be treated better in society because we are the future, the future parents, workers, presidents, inventors... we deserve a bit of respect. Adults ans specially elderly people don't like changes, and when we make them, they think we're not good. They think we are fools, we don't know nothing about life, and in many ocassions they try to take advantages of that. For example, when we contrated Wi-fi at home here, we're five students of 18 years old, and we had to pay double the price that is normally required just because we are "students", they wouldn't have done that if we had said we're 40 years old. And, we don't usually work becuase we are studying, but people that works have to deal with comments like "you are too young to understand", "you are still wet behind your ear", "you are lazy"...People should realise that we are the future they are working now, we'll have what they have left us, and we should teach them that changes are not that bad and all teenagers are not the same.
Timing: about 20 min
16- The right age to get married (Thursd. 24th Oct. 2019)
Some years ago, families used to be really big, with some 5 or 7 kids, and parents were really young when they had kids. Now it's different, now not even everybody gets married, there are a lot of couples with kids and they aren't married yet, Society has changed a lot, as well as single parents or divorced. Now, when couples have kids they usually have one or two, it's a miracle if they're three, they aren't as young as they used to be so grandparents are who have to take care of the kids most the time because their parents are working.
There's no specific age to do one thing or the other, but the problem is that people are having kids near 40s, and it can be a health problem for the baby and even for the mother because she is "too old", and when they are elderly people, the kids will still be young. But, if you have divorced, and now you are in love again and you have that hope, you can get marry again as if it's your last. There's no specific time to get married, you only need to be sure about who are you married to.
Timing: about 15 min
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17- A good friend (Thursd. 24th Oct. 2019)
I have had a lot ot friends through all my life, and not all of them hd been real friends. I used to have a group of friends at school, but when we went to highschool, we separeted, except from one girl, that it's still with me, eventhugh we are in different cities at university. Then, in highschool I made another group of friends, whilts I had another group with my cousin, that friend from school and their friends, I still have that group and they are amazing. My group of highchool was composed of 7 people with me, but then we ended up being 5. Now, I only keep in touch with one, that is one of my best friends and now my flatmate here. Then, as time passes by in highschool, I made another group and I still have it, and they are my best friends. Some of them are living here with me, I love them.I have had a lot ot friends, discussions, then we messed up and stepped away, but now I've found my (I think) true friends, they are for me whenever I need them, and we are comfortable with each other and we help up and support us,
Now, I've met some girls at university, who knos what's next?
Timing: about 15 min
18- Shopping (Mond. 4th Nov. 2019)
I'm not that sort of girl that likes spending a lot of money shopping clothes, make up or jewelery. Apart from not liking to waste money on that, If I buy whims, they are stuff like CDs, albums. headphones, things for my phone, funkos, books, or earings. I don't like brands, I hate wearing clothes of famous brands or designers, and I'm not that trendy, I don't dressed up to the nines, my look is more casual, average, simple, subtle. My mum is the one that buies me clothes, and they are from common shops. It has to be really strange for her to hear me ask for clothes, and it that happens it's because I 've seen a t-shirt or something about my favourite singer, series, movies... and CDs, I have a problme with that, I want them all, and movies, but theyare too expensive, so I take advantage on my birthday and Christmas to aske for them, last year, everything was about singers, and I loved it. In make-up, I don't know much so I don't have the best things, but one thing is true is that I always have to use the same mascara, because my eyelashes are the best thing I have and they are sacred. And in jewelary, I love piercings so much, I want more, and I like every single accesory on the ears, I want them all. Apart from this, I don't usually or I almost never ask for thing to my parents to buy me, and if it happens, it's from time to time.Timing: about 20 min
19- Your last day in your country (Mond. 4th Nov. 2019)
If I had only one day left to stay in my country, for sure I wouldn't waste a minute. Firstly, I would spend a lot of time with the people I love, seeing my family and friends, and I would do what I like the most, like going our for a walk, to the city center, to the cinema... For this reason, I would have prepared my suitcase the day before, so I won't waste any time on that. Who knows, maybe I'm doing a party, tematical party of the country I'm going to travel and I would invite everyone. Everybody with their faces painted with flags, food, music, but my music, the music I like (I always have to support my friends music, it's time they sacrifice for me once). If I were in that situation, I guess I would apreciate even the smallest butterfly that I see, because I don't know when it will be the next time. And I know for sure that I couldnt sleep at ight, I'm very nervious, even if the only thing I have to do is buy something, if I go to sleep knowing that I have to do something, acceot that I'm not going to sleep well that night. But, I suppose this nostalgic feeling wouldn't last me a long time. I believe I'm not that kind of person that loves to live in one place, I don't have any problem on living away from my hometown, but like every human, I would have this little butterflies in my stomach, specially because of my mum, becuase I know she would be the person who is feeling the worst.Timing: about 25 min
20- Your first day in United States (Mond. 4th Nov. 2019)
Imagine arriving for the first time at US. Oh boy. I would be like a kid seeing a huge bunch of candies on the desk. My mouth woudn't be closed. I don't know where I'm staying at, but I would just leave the suitcase in the room, take a look at the house/hotel and I would be wasting no time to go and see the city I am in. I would by a lot of souvenirs, but I would take advantage of that trip and visit more places. When you go to United States, you cannot limit yout journey to one city. And, of course, I would stop every single person in the street to aske them random stuff in order to just speak English with them, that's my first ilusion, going to a plce where I can only talk in Engligh with real speakers, not just Spanigh ones that learnt it. And, if I have the opportunity to see a famous person I know, I would be so in shocked that I wouldn't be able to even say hi. The bad thing is that because of the long journey I would be really tired and would go bach home not too late, but for sure the first thing I would do when I wake up is do my make up on, get dresed up, have breakfast and go out and go sightseeing everywhereTiming: about 15 min
21- Discrimination (Mond. 4th Nov. 2019)
As a person, even if I'm young, I've heard any example of dicrimination, or wathced it, because unfortunately there's more than we would like to. White people have always ruled the world, and when we see something different, we are afraid, so that's why we make it inferior. In United States, this issue has been present everytime. Because of Spanish sailors and Colon dicovering America, we took black people and left them in "the Indias" to use them as slaves. They of course made families and their lives there, and they starting reproducing. That's why we find a lot of different people in US. So, they considered black people inferior because they were slaves, and they made everything separated for them to not mix the races. This became a problem in bigger cities, because they created different neighbourhoods for each one. Yet, discrimination is not only for races, but for gender. Women have been aparted from history everytime because men think they are bette and they should be the ones leading, and this was even worst if you were a black woman. Now we see woman getting power in society, and for some men, this is something bad, they are afraid that they will loose their importance and power, that's why many women are being killed now by men or theis partners, because they are egtting empowered. Disrimination is something that shoudn't exist, but it continues, and it will if we don nothing, we need to aware people of he equality we have just for being human beings, and this should be learnt by schoolar education, because we do what we see.Timing: about 25 min
22- Your favourite food (Tuesd. 5th Nov. 2019)
This is even hard for me to explain, because I love food, so I cannot manage to choose only one. My mom always tells me that if we had to eat only what I say, it would always be pasta. That's right, I love pasta, any kind. However, now I'm getting keen on eating vegetables and more healthy food. Since I loss weight, I recognise I'm a bit obssesive with what I eat. I love candies, and chocolate and burgers and pizzaas, but I never eat them, I eat fruits and vegetables the most. Besides, I've always been really picky with food, but now that I'm living far from home and I am the one who cooks, I don't do that anymore. Now I just try it all and eat almost anything, because my aim is to eat healthy and not gain weight again. My parents are amazed with, they laugh because it feels almost impossible that I'm eating any kind of food. Sometimes I feel bad because I cannot eat what I want, but i'ts okay, because it's healthier. And of course, ,my favourite drink is coke, but not the original because I feel it too sweet. But now I think that there's a lot of soda, so it's hard, but I quited drinking soda, and of course I dont't drink alcohol, it kills your neurons. So yeah, basicly my favourite food is pasta.Timing: about 20 min
23- The best car to own (Tuesd. 5th Nov. 2019)
I'd like to start saying that I'm not really keen on cars and motors and this sort of things, so I cannot recommend you much. My father works as a mechanic, but I didn't inherit his qualities.I've always said that my car would be blue, dark blue, because it's my favourite colour. Yet, I woudn't recommend a black car, because it gets stained really eaasily, for example if it rains, and you need to wah it a lot. This also happens with white cars, they can have grey marks or just stains because of the land and the cement. If you have a family, you need to seak for something comfortable for each of you, if you have your partner and two kids, you cannot have a car with two seats. The problem is when you are numerous family, because you need a big car, with 5 seats or more, even 7. Also, if you a beginner with the car, you can buy something cheap and comfortable for you to use, so can get used to it. In case you work a lot with the car, you need a good car, but I don't mean big. Good car in the menaning of having a lot of fuel, this modern screen with a lot of settings and options. However, if you just need the car like almost everybody, just to transport yourself, it's okay if it's not the las car.
Summing up, the best car to own is the one that has your needs and expectations.
Timing: about 20 min
24- Smoking in public places (Tuesd. 5th Nov. 2019)
I'm really interesting in this issue cause I'm so against smoking, and even more if it's in public places. Firstly, why do you smoke? I mean, it's something useless, it doesn't make you fit, it doesn't make you loos weight. it's not food, so, why? Anyway, if you decide to smoke, and I understand that once you have started you cannot stop, please respect people's health.Simply, smoking is bad for our health, so if you want to smoke, it's your option and your decision, but, if you please don't bother others with your smoke. Although they are not smokking a cigarrette or something similar, they do smoke your smoke. So, if you smoke, don't do it with others around you. For instance, if you are in a coffe shop talking to a friend, don't smoke because you bother your friend and people around you. In a park, you shouldn't smoke with all the kids playing around. Smoking in closed places is forbidden, I don't know if it's forbidden in public places in general. But, even though is not forbidden in general, try to control yourself, do it to protect others, not just for you.
Timing: about 15 min
25- A movie star or singer you like (Thursd. 14th Nov. 2019)
I'm such a fan of cinema and music. Yet, one of my favourite people in this industry of cinema is the great Keira Knightly. She is a British actress that has done so many wonderful and incredible works such as Anna Karenina Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride and Prejudice and so manny more. I first saw her in Pirates of the Caribbean and I fell in love with her, but I didn't recognise I Had seen her before in Bend it like Beckam. She reflects a lot of power and I just love her facial features when he acts. She gets really into the character, and I¡d like to keep watching all her movies and I hope she works on more because she really deserves it. She empoweres woman characters I think, and I'm happy every character she has done is one of those, because I don't see her playing as the innocent wife becase most of her movies are nor based in modern things, they are more historical ones. When I speak in English I always think of her because I love her voice and her accent, and I always try to imitate it. She really is incredible and she's such a magnificent actress that I hope she's given an Oscar for such a talent. She's iconic.Timing: about 10 min
26- A believe you have or used to have (Thursd. 14th Nov. 2019)
I don't know if I believe in destiny but I do believe in karma, life gives you what you need. I tend to think that when something happens to you, if you deser4ve it is karma, because you did something bad before and now life is taking revenge, but if you don't deserve it, or at least feel it, it's because life gots something for you. When you desire good things, the long to come. So, if you feel you could be in better situtations, be better because you compare yourself to thers, I think is because life has something much better for you in the future. If somebody has something and you haven't, that's because your thing is taking long time to come because it's better.In addition, I guess that your life cannot be perfect as well as cannot be a disaster. There's always a middle point. for example, You are envious because a person has a lot of things you life but you cannot afford, and you ask why life is so cruel that you cannot have it too. But now compare another thing. Maybe that person has more things but her parents don't mind her, and your parents love you a lot, or you have good marks and good friends, and that person hasn't. My lecture is that life doesn't make anything worthlyless.
Timing: about 10 min
27- A story from your childhood (Saturd. 17th Nov. 2019)
I don't really remember this because I was a young toddler, but my parent's friend has always told me this little story. My dad is really gawky and absent-minded. I was really young, and we were on my friends house, at the outside of my viallge in la little house they own. My friend told my father to go to see something while going for a walk, and i was a little baby and my dad wanted to carry me to show me the lanscape. My mom advised my father to be careful with me, because she knew how was my dad. My dad was carrying me, and when we arrived, he let me down on the floor to walk on my own. The first thing I did when I touched the floor was fall down (I was really clumsy), I strechted myself on the knees and started crying, My dad was scared because my mon would tell him off, and my friend was loughing out loud. Then, he saw a tree with beatiful flowers. In order to calm me down from the pain, he carried me again and near me to the flowers. I stopped crying and tried to catch a flower. Suddenly, a wasp went out of the flower and stang me on my hand, and I started crying again, my dad couldn't believe it. My friend was laughing even more, and he knew my mom wa going to kill my dad. This is the little story my friend always tells when we are talking about how clumsy my dad is.Timing: 10 minutes
28- A favourite possesion (Thursd. 21st Nov. 2019)
I don't remember much about my grandfather, but I truly know that he was amazing. When he died, it was awful for everybody, it was the worst time of all my life. So, some of his things we have them. I have a box with a lot of his things, my uncles's... and one thins is a keychain. But, it's not a common key chain. It has like a little book and it opens to reveal one Hoto of myself when I was a kid, beside a photo of my brother when he was a kid. My grandfather used to have this with his keys. The color is not the best because my father used to touch it a lot and open it to see our photos, so the quality of it it's delicate, but I think it still remains to him. Apart from this, I remember he used to have a peerfume he really liked, and I used to smell the tap. Then, my father kept that perfume, and I would always go to the bathroom to just smell it, but the bottle was getting emtier and emtier. So, without my parents notice, I took one mini bottle and I filled it with the perfume so that I would have som when the bottle it's emty, and I still have it in my room. It remins me of my grandfather everytime. Them, a long time later I asked my mom if she could recognise the smell. When I expelained to her what I did years ago, she started crying of emotion.Timing: ten minutes
29- Music that is special to you (Thursd. 21st Nov. 2019)
I am a that kind of person that cannot live without music. I like a lot of kinds of music, but sometimes irt reminds me of something or somebody. For example, there are some songs that reminds me of my childhood or when I was a kid. But, last year I went through a bad moment both mentally and academic. I was really really stressed with high school and with my personal care that all I could trust was music. Since almost two years ago, BTS has become my favourite group of all times. Their songs speak about health problems and issues about loving yourself. The music is really good, and they are as well, but their message is the most beautiful thing of all. So, whenever I was bad or sad or stressed, I just had to play their music and everything would turn alrigh. They helped me forget sometimes the horrorible things in life. So, I'm really thankful to them and I really hope that someday I may go to a concert, but I'm afraid they're not coming to Spain. They are the reason I want to have a tatoo of one of their album logo, because I want to start loving myself a little bit too, with their help.Timing: 10 minutes
30- A special gift you have given or recieved (Thursd. 21st Nov. 2019)
When I was a kid, I really loved drawing. Therefore, I would always draw something, even the smallest thing, and I used to give my drawings away like a present for everybody, and I still do it, but I don't have much time. So, I don't remember, but I used to give my aunt a drawing everytime I saw her. But, what I didn't know was that she would keep them all. For my 15th birthday, as always, my family would come to my house to have dinner and give my presents. My mom, obviously, knows everything I get, except for one thing. My aunt gave me a present that nobody new. It was a book a friend of her made with some of my drawing of when I was a kid and they were in order. My mom bursted into tears when she saw it. She open tha box where she used to keep them and decided to reveale them, so she chose some of them and gathered them in a book for me. That has been the most heartwarming and precious gift I have ever been given.Timing: 10 minutes
31- A special day or event in your life (Sund. 24 th 2019)
For the first time in my life, I had a really good sensation of myself. I'm talking about my prom day las June, it was amazing. I remember when I first came to highschool, and I was going to finish it. I had a lot of emotions inside, but my frustrations and anger with the course didn't let me cry. I remember all the nerves wit had, we were on the edge, and along the course we were talking of that day, what we were going to wear, our hair, highheels. I bought my beautiful dress on March I think and I couldn't wait longe to use it, and my highheels, I wanted to wear them everytime. We dedicate a lot of time to prepare, and we even had to go to practice. The day came, and I was so amazed with the vibe of the ambient. We were more than friends or classes, we were part of the same family, all together. At dinner and at the party, we didi as we know, and I fell part of something big and good. It felt amazing, I was overwhelmed.Timing. about ten minutes
32- Your worst habit (Sund. 24th Nov. 2019)
Since I am conncius, I have always b iting my nails. Whenever I'm stressed, worried or nervous I tend to bite my nails. I remember being at school and just being bored made me bite my nails until I even sored myself. My fingers used to hurt me a lot because I would have my fingers with blood everywhere. I kept doing that in high school, but then I decided to put a remedy. I found out that if I painted my nails. I coudn't see the white part of them, I woudn't remember it is there, so I wouldn't bite them. This started working. I even started counting the time I had been without biting them as if it was a goal. Oce, I was reading a book for hugh school and I wasn't ujderstanding anything, and I was so worried that I unconciously bite them again, I was angry because I had to start over counting the time.. Then, I completely forgot aboUt it, and it's been years since I last bite my nails, and I cannt see my nails without nail polish now. But, there's another problem. As I kept on mind I coudn't bite them, I started biting this kind of skin that is around th nails. Well, when I'm on exams, overall last year, I bite it. Last year I had awful hand because of the wounds, and when I coudn't bite them more, I started rushing my spots in my arms, thats why I cannot study with short-sleeve T-shirts. Now, at university I'm doind this fewer time. Let's see it I completely stop.Timing: about 15 minutes
33- A frightening experience (Sund. 24th Nov. 2019)
Whe I was a kid, I was afraid of dark and all this thins all kids are, as well. I've never been afraid of ghosts, or something like that. But, I'm really afraid of muders and thieves. It's weird because I love police officers series. One weekend I was at home as always studying. I was along at home because my parents were out with some friends. I was getting late, so I decided to go to sleep not very late in order to wake up early the following day. It was the first time I was going to go to bed alone at home. So, I tuned off all the lights, put my pijamas in, and I entered the bed. Suddenly, when I was trying to sleep, I heard something as if somebody was dragging their feet walking in my corridor going to my room. I remember Icouldn't move, I remained silenced. When the noise wa going to like enter in my room, that person, the noise went back to the beginnning of the corridor and started over again. Oh boy, I wa really scared because it sounded like real steps really near me, and everytime the noise was louder. Then, it stopped, I dont know how. Suddenly, when I was trying to sleep after what had happened, my parents came. Oh boy, I was so relieved.
Timing: about 10 minutes
