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.