MADRID

Last week it was Magdalena in Castellón. I have never gone to this party because I am from Valencia, so I took the advantage of it and I went to Madrid with a friend. Last February it was her birthday and I knew that she wanted to go to Madrid or Barcelona so I bought the tickets and that was my present for her. I chose Madrid because she loves Ángel Martín, a host in the program of the sexta channel "Se lo que hicisteis", so I called to the program to attend like public. I gave her an album with photos of us too because we are best friends and last year for my birthday she gave me another one. She was really happy with her presents but we had to wait to Magdalena to go to Madrid because we have not classes those days. We were looking forward to travel there and we made a lot of plans. My mother look for a cheap hotel in the center of Madrid, in Fuencarral near to my aunt's house. My father is from Madrid so I have family there and also has my friend.

We went on Monday in the morning by bus and we arrived at five o'clock to Madrid. The hotel was really good: it had a room for the two of us and a little toilet. It was really beautiful with the walls green. It had tv and air-conditioning too. We left the suitcases and went to see the city. The first day we visit "La cibeles", "La puerta del Sol" and "Alcalá". At night we wanted to go to a pub or something like that but it was really cold so we decided to stay in the hotel. We thought that we had to do things that usually we don't do because we were alone in Madrid and we want to have fun, so we went to the bathroom and take a shower with the piyamas and fighting and taking photos of that. Then we went out to buy a packet of cigarretes because we have never smoked. We come back to the room and smoked one. It was a good night.

The next day we have to get up early because we had to go to "Se lo que hicisteis" and we didn't know how to go there. We had to stay there at 12 o'clock and we get up at 7 o'clock, take a shower and get dressed. We decided to go with the underground because it is very cheap. We ask how to go there to a lot of persons to make sure that we were right. The woman that told us where was the set said that it was in Pozuelo de Alarcón so we went there really easy and at 9 o'clock we were there. But there was something strange because there were nobody and the set of telecinco is near the set of "Se lo que hicisteis" and there we did not see telecinco anywhere, only a big building with the number of the sexta channel. At ten o'clock we decided to ask the security guard that was there and he told us that was the building that was in front of us. My friend and I went there but the security guard was wrong. There they filmed only the program "El intermedio" so we come back to ask the security guard who told us that if we want we could enter to the building with the symbol the sexta channel, which later we discover that were the offices of the channel but not the set. The woman that was there was really nice and told us that the set of "Se lo que hicisteis" was in Alcobendas, really far from we were so we had to take a taxi because with the underground we would be late. The driver of the taxi was really friendly and he charges us less than it was. Once we were there we had to wait in a kind of hall with the rest of the public. There we could see how they film some sketch outside and say hello to all of them. Later we saw some other famous like an actress of the serie Los hombres de Paco and the comedians of El club del chiste. We had lunch there a sandwich that the program gave to all of us. They gave us 15 euros too, just the prize of the taxi (30 euros in total, 15 my friend and 15 me). We have fun there and it was really interesting.

We arrived at the center of Madrid late in the afternoon, so we had a walk and come back to the hotel. We were very tired but that night we wanted to go out so we get ready and went to a neighborhood called Malasaña but there were few people and the pubs were close because it was Tuesday so we were in the hotel at 1 a.m. The next day we went to the park El retiro which is so beautiful and big and then we went to visit my aunt and my cousins that live near our hotel. My foot really hurt me so we decided to go wiht the underground. We stayed there until the hour of have lunch because in the evening we had to meet my friend's aunt. So we went to Vallecas, where she lives, and stay there until 8 o'clock because my friend's cousin is our age and studies the same as me and we were talking with her all the evening. Her aunt took us to the hotel by car and we met some italians that we saw the first day. I explain this. The first day we were in the underground trying to find the way to arrive at the hotel when they ask us if we were italians (I don't know why but everybody think that we are italians, even there is people who talk to us in italian). Since that moment we have seen them all the days. So that night we went with them. But suddenly my friend told me that she had lost 100 euros! Her aunt had given her to her family and she didn't found them. She was really nervous but an italian told her that he would give her the money, so he took out of his pocket 100 euros and gave to my friend. She didn't want to accept the money but the italian insist so much that finally he took them crying. The next day was the our last day in Madrid so we met the italians in the Museo del Prado. We stayed there and then went back to the hotel to take the suitcases, but suddenly I realised that I hadn't the tickets of the bus. My friend went back to our hotel to look for the tickets because I couldn't run because of my foot. The tickets weren't there. We were a little late so we went to the bus station to try to get the tickets somehow. In the end we show our identification cards and we could go up to the bus. We arrived home really tired and I had to go to the hospital the next day because of my foot. Now I have my leg in plaster and I can't go out. Happy holidays for me...

GOSSIP GIRL

Gossip Girl is an american serie about teenagers based in the novels written by Cecily Von Ziegesar and it was created like a serie by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and started on tv in 2007. The characters are:

-Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively): she is the daughter af a rich family and has a brother. She has been in a boarding school in Connecticut and has been with the boyfriend of her best friend. After that she start meeting with Dan.

-Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester): she is the only daughter of a rich family and is the best friend of Serena. She is a spoiled girl and when she finish her relationship with her boyfriend Nate, she falls in love with Chuck.

-Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley): he is the son of a humble family and has a sister. He is a responsible boy and studies in the Upper East Side because of a scholarship. He is in love with Serena since he first met her and he goes out with her.

-Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford): he is the son of a rich family and is the boyfriend of Blair but he falls in love with Serena.

Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick): he is the son of a family who has a lot of power, so he gets all what he wants. He falls in love with Blair.

-Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen): she is the sister of Dan. She is a rebel and hard-working girl.

-Eric van der Woodsen (Connor Paolo): he is the brother of Serena. He is homosexual and the best friend of Jenny.

-Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr): she is the best friend of Dan and has a humble family too. She is in love with Dan but after she falls in love with Nate. She is intelligent, modern and loves the cinema.

-Ruphus Humphrey (Matthew Settle): he is the father of Dan and Jenny. He is divorced and is in love with Lily van der Woodsen his first love.

-Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford): she is the mother of Serena and Eric. She is in love with Ruphus although she goes out with Chuck's father.

-Eleanor Waldorf (Margaret Colin): she is the mother of Blair and is divorced because her husband is homosexual and start a relationship with a man. Eleanor is the owner of a brand of clothes.

The serie starts with Serena van der Woodsen arriving to Manhattan after being in a boarding school in Connecticut, but all in the Upper East Side has changed. Her best friend Blair Waldorf doesn't want to speak with her because she knows that Serena has been with her boyfriend Nate who has falled in loved with Serena. On the other hand, Dan Humphrey who is in love with Serena since he was a child try to approach to her and finally they start a relationship.

But Gossip Girl not only has had exit with the teenagers but also with fashion. Its main characters have been the image of brands all around the world. Taylor Momsen (Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl) has been the image of Nike, and a lot of magazines has had in their covers these actors and actress, like Vogue or Vanity Fair.

The sound track has given the serie a single style thanks to a list of the best songs of the moment. The musical supervisor Alex Pasavats ("Grey's Anatomy", "Tru Calling", " The O.C") is the responsible of that. Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and Amy Winehouse are some of the artists whose songs appear in Gossip Girl.

In my opinion this is a great serie for all the people because it has all what you want. It is really interesting and the music and clothes that appear in it are just fantastic. I recommend it to all of you because I am sure that you are going to enjoy seeing Gossip Girl.

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.