Informal letter

C/ Onze de Setembre, nº 62

Sant Pere Pescador – Girona

26 March 2010.

Dear Kieron,

If you want to know about places and activities about my country for your holidays, I am going to explain about this. I recommend the places to visit and the activities which you can do.

The capital of Spain (my country) is “Madrid” but I think that if you come here the city that you have to visit is “Barcelona”.

I like Barcelona because it’s a big and beautiful city, but it’s noisy.

There are people with different personality, I mean that the majority people are friendly, but you can find a person who is rude.

You can do some differents things, for example, in this city there are a lot of shops, there are cinemas, you can skate, you can go to the Barça stadium, there are commercial centers for buy, there is a beautiful square, there is a zoo, there is a beautiful beach where you can go in summer, there are bars and restaurants.. And if you like the parks of adventurous you go to “Tibidabo”.

If you go to Barcelona you must to visit “la sagrada familia”, “el parc Güell”, “la casa batllo” and “el monument de Cristobal Colon”.

Finally, you have to go in the harbour, because is one of the most important in Spain.

The weather in this city in winter it’s cold but not very, and in summer it’s hot. If you come here in winter you’ll need a coat, and if you come here in summer you’ll need a little clothing, and swimsuit.

See you soon.

Anna xx

University

Today I’m going to talk about the university. Two months ago I with my course went to the university in Barcelona, and the next week to univeristy in Girona. In there everyone went to a different class for hearing talks about what we can study in the University.

I don’t know in which University I do my studies. I like the two cities.

Barcelona’s University is good, but the building is ugly, and in some parts of the Girona’s University is more beautiful. Also depends about my notes. But in Barcelona I have family and this is one advantage because I have one house, and this is very important, instead in Girona I will have to rent one flat.


I am secure that I want to study “Administració i direcció d’empreses (ADE)” or anything relacionated about economy, because I like it. And for this reason in the univerities I went to hearing a discussion about ADE and everyday I like more, because I think that is interesting and the topics for the future are importants. Also, I think that this studies have got different departures, and I can work for example in a bank or in a company. Also I went to hearing a discussion about tourism but I don’t like, and I am secure that I won’t to study it.

Now, I have one year approximately for decided in which University I will go for study.

Film review

Today I'm going to do a critic of the film: "Un sueño para ella".

The main characters of the film are Daphne, Henry, Libby and Ian.

The film is about Daphne who has got everything that she want, but she dreams about find her father, because she don't know him. She decided to go in London where she discover that her father Henry is an important man in there. Also she knows Ian, and they fall in love. When Daphne go to live with Henry, she want to change her father, and with go with him in a parties, fashion events and social events. But with her father she can't be herself, and she doesn't like live in there.

I like this film because it's fanny and isn't boring. Also I like the characters, because the girl is about seventeen or eighteen and it's more modern. I have seen "Un sueño para ella" two or three times, because I like so much.

I recomend this film for people between thirteen and twenty years.

Self evaluation

When I was doing my oral presentation:

I spoke about differents problems in Salt. We used a powerpoint. Approximately my part during five minutes. I try to looked my companions and my teacher. I tried didn't look my notes. I moved my hands almost all the oral presentation because I was nervous. We organized all the information in differents parts, in this order: immigration, robs, racism, drguds and problems of coexistence. We used words like: first, then, now, after. I think that all of my companions know something about Salt, but I am secure that they now know more things. We searched information in the internet in different pages. I think that my grammar was good, but with some mistakes. My vocabulary wasn't much rich and varied. I used some sentence linker like: and, also. But I dind't use pause fillers. I found all my words for know the pronunce, but maybe some of they I pronunce bad. I check some words in a dictionary. I think that I used a monotone tone all the time. I think that I spoke very fluid, because I studied my text. I believe that I got a mark of six.

My oral presentation

-Now I am going to talk about the immigration, the racism and the drugs.

· Immigration is the introduction of new people into a habitat or population.

The immigration have got negatives and positives ascpects. I think that the immigration could show most positives factors that negatives. For this reason I think that the immigration is not a problem, but is a challenge.

The problem appear when the results of the phenomenon is concentreted in a particular social or geographic group. And this is the problem in Salt.

In 2000, the immigration was around 10%, in 2004 was around 25%, and today is more 35%. And they think that in the next years of the economic growth Salt will be more immigrant population than native.

Now, we don’t help integrate two or three neighbors who just arribed in the building, now, in the most of buildings they are the majority.

But the famous “integration” every day is more difficult, because every day there are much people for integrate and less people who want to help integrate those people that come here.

Racism: Racism is the belief that race is a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

The immigrants in Salt, complain because when they pass in the streets, they are besieged. They say: “the police arrest us and they usually hit us, often times in the same night but they don’t remeber that we have registred a half an hour ago. They treat like criminals and the spanish boys they don’t look. We are tired that they use insult us. We have the same laws like the spanish people, we pay our taxes and we work and to quote here.”

· Drugs: is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function.

The most of the students don’t finish their studies, and they dedicated to sell drugs for the Salt streets, and some of them also consum. This is the only solution that they find for have money, because they haven’t got studies for get a good job.

For example, in some streets there are moroccan teenagers that they are smoking “hachis” in a door of a chinese restaurant. Most of them were born in Catalonia. They don’t studying or working. They play in a billiards, speak about cars or speak about have a wallet full of money..

8.03.10=)

Today I’m going to talk about the snowfall.

It was 8th of March, and like a normal day, I went to school. We did only three hours, because when we were on playground began to snow.

First snow not very, but later more and more. After, we had to left the school, and our parents have to come.

Passed the time and snow more and more, until that the light left. My parents, my brother, and I, we had to had lunch in a restaurant that they had got prepared food, because we didn’t have light and water.

The next day we didn’t have school, because there were much roads cut. And Wednesday, we have to go in school. In fact, in my class were few people.

It was my first time that I saw so much snow. All streets were whites, full of snow.

In the afternoon on Tuesday, I met with my friends for took photos and saw the town and play with the snow. My brother and I, we did a snowman.

I never forgot those days.

Natillas recipe

Hello friends!

Today I felt a bit hungry and I went to the kitchen and I started making my favourite dessert.

It's a traditional catalan dessert called "Natilles".

It is very easy to make!

Here you can see the recipe of this dessert.

I hope you try it one day!

Ingredients:

-8 egg yolks

-1 litre milk

-200 gr. sugar

-1 dessert spoon cornflour

-1 stick of cinammon

-Powdered cinammon

Method:

1. Put the milk in a saucepan with the cinammon stick and heat. Save a small glass of cold milk.

2.Beat the egg yolks with the sugar. Dissolve the cornflour in the cold milk, stir well and then add to the eggs and sugar.

3.When the milk is starting to boil, remove the cinammon stick and add the mixture of flour, milk, eggs and sugar. Stir well over the heat until the custard thickens. Don't boil.

4.Put the natillas into individual bowls or dessert glasses. Sprinkle with a little cinammon powder.