BANK ROBBERY

My father works in a bank in Manises, a town in Valencia. He is from Madrid but when he was young he moved to Valencia where he met my mother. Today he has gone to work by car like every day, but it was different. When he was attending a client three robbers came into the bank with a hostage threated with a knife. It was very early in the morning so there were very few people, just my father, two clients, the boss of my father and two workmates working. All the people run into a the boss' office except my father and his client because they couldn't. While two of the robbers were waiting in the car the other one went straight to my father's client and want him like a hostage. But the problem was that he is an old man who has just been operated of his legs and he couldn't walk well, so my father told the robber that he would go with him like a hostage and he will give him the money that they wanted. The robber accepted and my father opened the strongbox and gave him the money. After this the robbers have gone out by car and my father has called the police. They have found the car of the robbers but not the money neither the robbers. The police have said that these persons are robbing more banks in Manises and that they are really fed up because they can't catch them. We all hope the police will find them soon.

PLANS

This is the first year that I am going out at New Year's Eve with my friends. I have always gone with my parents and my sister to my grandparents' house where we had dinner and stayed with them until we got tired. Some years my aunt and my uncle came too and we had a good time there, all the family together. Last year it was the first time that my sister didn't come with us. She is now twenty-one years old and she has a boyfriend since he was seventeen. She now goes out with him and her friends and I remember that last year my parents and I went with my sister to her boyfriend's house with his parents and his brother who now is eleven years old. This year she goes to a friend's house in Naquera with him and her friends by car, but she can't go in the morning because she is working like a cashier.
On the other hand, I am going to my grandparents' house to have dinner and to stay with them and my parents, but then I will go to the Hilton hotel with my friends. I have bought a nice dress which is black and I would like to buy a pair of shoes and some straps. My best friend has also bought a black dress and we are going to the party really beautiful, of that am sure.
I look forward to go to this party and have a good time!

CHRISTMAS

Last Thursday it was Christmas Eve. Like every year I went to my town called Moraira, in Alicante, with my parents and my sister. There we meet the rest of my father's family. They are four sisters and four brothers and I have about twenty cousins. This year two of my cousins had babys, Daniela and Gimena. We were 42 although some people didn't come because of his job. As we are too many people, we meet in a big house of one of my aunts.
This year my father went to Moraira on Wensday to prepare some things for the party, but my mother my sister and I went on Thursday because my sister worked this day. We have a little house there and like every year one of my uncles and his wife and daughter stay with us and help us to prepare about 500 sandwiches. When we have finished preparing all the things we get dressed and go to my aunt's house where there is the rest of the family. In the house all is prepared and there are two big tables, one for the adults and the other for the cousins, but before eating we open the presents. One of my cousins, the oldest, take a microphone and speaks over it to distribute the presents. This year my presents were a beautiful dress and a pair of boots that I don't like, so my mother and I will go to buy anothers. My sister's presents were a sweater and another dress. My mother had a perfume and a strap, and my father some masks for decoration because he loves them.
After this we start eating and telling all the things that happened this year. I had a lot of cousins that are living abroad so they had a lot of things to say. One of them is a model and has lived in China but now is in Milan, another is living in France, another in Japan, and another in Ireland. My cousin who is a model fell down in the street because it was rainning and it was really funny although we were worried.
After having dinner we take out the tables, put music and dance until we get tired. This year we went home at eight o'clock in the morning. Next day we got up very late in the morning and went again to my aunt's house to have lunch at six o'clock in the evening. This day we play a game called Risk and the adults play cards and make a championship.
This year, in New Year's Eve I will go to my grandparent's house and then with my friends to the Hilton hotel because I have never been in a hotel in New Year's Eve and I hope it will be really funny.

DRUGS AND MUSIC

Today I am going to talk about an essay that I am doing for a subject in the University. My essay is about drugs and music. These concepts have been always related, even it is a famous phrase that tells "Sex, drugs and Rock 'n roll". There are more singers that have abused drugs and some of them died because of this.
An example of it is the famous singer Elvis Presley. He was born in Tupelo, EEUU but he and his family moved to Memphis. There the owner of Sun Records decided to edit a single of him. This fact gave Elvis the opportunity to participate in a radio programme. He became famous, specially for his moviment of the pelvis that gave him the nickname Elvis Pelvis. He made some films too. But The Beatles appeared and the popularity of Elvis decreased. Furthermore, in 1970 began to consume drugs, and he reached to the weight of 130. After falling inconscient several times in the stage, he died with only 42 years old.
An actual example is the case of Pete Doherty. He was born in Hexham, England. He was such an excelent student that he won a trip to Russia because of competition of poetry. He move to London to his grandmother's house, where he said that was destined to live. Pete Doherty went to University and began to study the career of english literature but only a year. After leaving the University he left his grandmother's house and went to live with his friend Carl Barât, and they formed together a band called The Libertines. But Pete Doherty's problems with drugs finally cause the separation of the band. He get so hooked with drugs that holded up Carl Barât's house and robbed him to pay his addiction.
On the other hand, there are a lot of songs whose lyrics talk about drugs. They often talk in a positive way and it is really strange that they criticize them. This can affect to the teenagers that listen to music every day because they love the singers who are idols for them and want to be like these singers. But of course we cannot blame the musicians because they should have the freedom to create their music.
Finally, music and drugs are related in other way. When teenagers go out to discos or pubs where they dance and listen to music, and usually drink alcohol and take other substances.

LEO MESSI

Lionel Messi has won the golden ball, a prize that is given to the best football player in the world every year that it is given by a french magazine. But this time he has made a record because he has obtained 473 votes out of 480. I admired Messi because I think he is a modest person and he has never been involved in scandals like the most part of the football players.

Leo Messi borned in Rosario, Argentina in the 1987 and since he was a child he liked playing football but at the age of 11 he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. The most famous club in Argentina in those days were interested in capturing Messi but they couldn't pay the treatment for his illness, so the FC Barcelona offered him to pay the treatment if he moved to Barcelona and Leo's family and he were agree with this offer. In 2004 he was given the opportunity to play for the Spanish national team but he declined because he wanted to play with the Argentinian team and so he did.

Because of his dazzling skills he has won a lot of prizes during his career and he is just 22 years old. When he received his last prize, he said that he has won it because of his workmates and that anyone of his team could have been the winner.

We don't know much about his private life but it is a good characteristic of Leo Messi, because he doesn't like being in gossip magazines or something like that. We only know that he has an argentinian girlfriend.

He is simply the best not only like person but also like a football player.

THE LYNX PARDINUS

Yesterday I watched in the news that the lynx pardinus is in danger of extinction. This animal eats rabbits which are dying because of an illness and as a result of that the lynx doesn't have enough food. The lynx pardinus is also in danger of extinction owing to other reasons related with humans. We are destroying their habitat and there are hunters who kill them. I don't understand how someone can kill an animal but is extremely worse if the animal is in danger of extinction.In my opinion the police should take more control of these hunters and be more estrict with them.

On the other hand, it has been proposed the creation of a place where the lynx pardinus could live without having to worry about hunters and humans that bother them and also they will have people who will take care of their lives and try to make the lynx pardinus to reproduce so in that way they won't be in danger of extinction.

MORE MUSIC

Yesterday I was watching Buenafuente like every day ( I only see the part where Berto, a collaborator, appears. Some day I will talk about him because he is just fantastic) when Andreu introduced a singer called Jamie Cullum. I listened to him and I really like it. He plays the piano like if it was so easy and has a voice that I love. I think that his music is different and relaxing and he plays jazz.

In my opinion it is interesting for artists that programmes on tv give them the opportunity to make people know about their music because nowadays the musicians, specially the new singers, have a lot of problems to send their CD's and this is a way to make publicity of their music. It is true that they are expensive although it is not the artists fault. And we can not forget that without them the music that we love wouldn't exist.

Here I let you a link to a Jamie Cullum's song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2h_QaJ9EbY

STRANGE WEATHER

These last months the weather is very strange. We are in November and there are days really sunny and we go with t-shirts when last year we went with jackets and it was very cold. Yesterday I saw in the news that shops are lowing the prices of the winter clothes like sweaters, gloves... although the sales are after Christmas because they are not solding this type of clothes. The shopkeepers say that they are solding summer clothes like if we were in July. At least there is something good about this weather and it is that we could buy clothes cheaper than if the weather was colder.

LONDON

Last year, in September, I travelled to London. It was a present from my uncle because of my eighteenth birthday. It was the first time that I travelled by plane, a little old to be my first time but I am really afraid of travelling by plane. When we arrived to the airport of London, we tried to find the house of my uncle's friends because we were going to stay there, but we took the wrong train. We got lost the first day with the suitcases and really tired. But soon we get the right train because we ask people who were there and they were very kind.

We only stayed in London for five days so every day we got up early to be able to visit the city. The first day I went to Camden Town where I bought a lot of things for my family and me and then I went along the Thames with my uncle by boat and I saw The London Eye, The Tower Bridge and a lot of beautiful things. The last day I visited the British Museum and it was really interesting although I was really tired. I remember that the days I stayed there it was sunny and it didn't rain although we were in London. We were very lucky.

The experience was really fun and my uncle's friends were very nice although I couldn't practice my English because they were from Spain. A thing that really shocked me was that everyone dressed different and odd but nobody looked at you like if you were strange and I like that very much. Another thing that in my opinion was interesting is that there were a lot of people who speak Spanish and a lot of foreigners. Definitely I really like my travel to London.

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC

Today I am going to talk about music. I would like you to recommend the band Arctic Monkeys. They have recorded a new album that is in the shops just a few months ago. I could not give you an opinion about their last CD because I haven't listened to all the songs, but I really like their other CDs. They play indie rock and the singer, Alex Turner, writes the lyrics of the songs. In my opinion they are fantastic.



They are all from Sheffield, England and I love the accent of Alex Turner. Their first album was called Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not with the single I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor thanks to it that they won some prizes. A curious thing is that they become famous by demos that were circulating in the Internet.

Here is the link to a fantastic song of this band that I think is great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEKJAw_tuxg






Another musician that I also like is Pete Doherty. He had a band called The Libertines, but he had problems with drugs and the band was dissolved, but Pete Doherty formed another band called Babyshambles although, in my opinion, it was worse than his first group. Pete Doherty plays rock indie, like Arctic Monkeys, and has amazing songs but his main problem are with drugs. He has been in prison for this reason and has had problems with her last girlfriend, the model Kate Moss.

Here is another link to a song of The Libertines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g207eTzVw0

CRAZY FANS

Last Wednesday I went to the cinema to watch New Moon, the second part of Twilight. It was the premiere. Yes, the cinema was plenty of crazy teenagers. Before I arrived to the cinema I saw a girl with wolf's ears on her head and a t-shirt with a wolf and the name of Jacob Black on it, who is a character of the film. I think people are crazy with this film and the books. Last year when I watched the first film, Twilight, when the vampire, the actor Robert Pattinson, appeared in the film all the cinema started to shout at the screen. Like if he could hear them. Of course I couldn't hear anything of his dialogue. This time they shouted with Robert Pattinson and the worewolf, in the film called Jacob Black.
I didn't like the first film, but the second is more interesting, maybe because it has another film director. They didn't show everything that appears in the book, but the books are always better than the films.
On the other hand I saw some interviews to Robert Pattinson and he tells that some fans ask him to bite them or to marry him and they are shouting all the time. If I were him I would be a little scared because, definitely, fans are crazy.
Here is the trailer of the film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyDdfVgqnQ

SONGS FOR THE SÁHARA

Tonight it will be a special concert in Madrid. It is a concert where singers and actors will sing together and the money that they earned will be for the people of the Sáhara. In this project colaborate musicians like Estopa, El Canto del Loco, Conchita, Bebe, Pereza or Manuel Carrasco; and actors like Santi Millán, Juan José Ballesta, Alberto Amarilla, Álex González, Edu Soto, Inma Cuesta or Lluvia Rojo. They had recorded the CD but they don't earned any money, which will be destinated specially to buy camels for the Sáhara because provide milk, it is used as a transport and their meat is very appreciated there.
The concert will be introduced by the actor Santi Millán and the songs will be clasics of pop rock which are in the CD that will be in the shops tomorrow.
In my opinion it is a fantastic idea to help people who are living in really bad conditions and these famous people can do something to make their lives a little better, and also they admitted that it was fun.

WEEKEND

Hello! I'm Susana and this is my new blog. Today I'm going to talk about this weekend. On Friday I went to the University by train because I live in Valencia, and there I met a new girl in my class. When I arrived to my house I was very tired and hungry because it was five o'clock in the afternoon and I din't eat anything. I slept the rest of the day.
Yesterday in the morning, I got up at ten o'clock because I had to buy a present for a friend for her birthday. I went to the centre of the city and I met some other friends. We bought her a bag, a pair of earrings and a strap. Then in the afternoon I did my homework. Around eight o'clock in the afternoon I started to get dressed because my friend, called Miriam, celebrated her birthday that night and she invited us to have dinner. We went to her "falla", and after she had opened the presents we went to a pub to dance and have fun.
This morning my family have come to have lunch to my house. When they have gone out, I started to write this blog. I hope you enjoy it!