Belenes in Seville

Christmas Holidays

During the  christmas holidays I have been in very different places and I have also been with different people. It has been a very excited holiday and I have had a vey good time with my friends and family.

From the 21th to the 30th of December I have been in Italy with my mother´s family. So I have passed the christmas day in Italy. In the christmas day we all met and we went to a very elegant restaurant. I went to a lot of places in Italy and I had a very good time.

In the new years eve I have been with my other family in the countryside in Huelva, in a town called Valdelarco which is very small. I had a very good time there with my cousins playing football and the 31th at night we had a very big dinner and we celebrated the New year. We had a lot of fun.

In conclusion it has been a very excited christmas and I  have done a lot of different things and I have also been with all of my family that is very good.

Christmas: "Belenes".

Hello everybody, today I am going to talk about a very old tradition in our country, the "belenes". I am going to explain and to let you know the different types of "belenes" that you can find around Spain.

Around Spain you can see different types of "belenes", one of them is the traditional one composed by figures  and this is the one that the people put in their respective houses. The main figures are: The baby Jesus, the virgin Mary and José but there are also a lot of more figures in a belen. Almost all of the families have one belen in their houses at christmas.

The other type of "belen" is the living belen and it is made of humans that wear specific dresses. There are carpenters, peasants, and quite a lot more. It is very nice to go and see living belenes in different types of places. It has been always a very old tradition in our country.

In conclusion, I think that it will be a very good experience for all of you and you will know how we celebrate and decorate houses  in christmas and the traditions that  we have so merry christmas!

note: this wednesday you will have in my blog different images of the best beelines of Seville.

SCARY MOVIE

This project consisted on on making or trying to make a scary movie with our classmates. In the few days of making and editing the film I have learnt a lot of new things on how to edit and make a good film, but we also had some specific problems.

During the filming and before of the filming we had some problems, one of them was that at first we could not meet all together but lately we agreed on a day in which we could meet all of us together. We also had some other little problems related with the sound and the quality of the image.

Thanks to this project I have learnt a lot of new different things like how to use a computer program for making films called iMovie. I´ve also learnt new english vocabulary and expressions and how to work well in group because we have always agreed on everything.

In conclusion, I think that with this project I have learnt a lot of new things and how to solve problems too. In my opinion I think that we should do these kind of things frequently.

here are the links of the trailer and film 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlkcj934wg

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

THANKSGIVING DAY

In this letter I would like to say thanks to three things that I consider very important: my family, to say thanks for being healthy and for having house & food. I think that without these three things I would not how to live a normal life.

Firstly, in my opinion I think that is very important to have a great family and my family and friends have been always very nice and they have helped me in my most difficult situations, so I want to say thanks to them for being always there.

Secondly, I think that the most important one is our health, because without it we would not be alive. I want to say thanks for being me and all of my family and friends healthy at this moment and I hope that this continue like this.

Finally, I think that having a house to live in and food to eat is very important because nowadays a lot of people do not have a house to live in due to the economic crisis and they also have to ask for some food to some different ONG, So I thanksgod that I have these important things.

In conclusion, I want to say thanks agains for having all of these three things, which are very important for me,  and I hope that this continues like this in the future.

Interview.

I have interviewed my cousin who has been a tennis player. Here are some questions I asked him.

1. Why did you start playing tennis? Because since I was 5 years old I liked tennis and then when I was 7 years old I started watching tennis matches so I decided to start playing tennis.

2. How many championships have you won? Well, I think I have won 3 championships, one I won it in Malaga, another one in Cadiz and the last one I won in with the regional team of Seville in Almeria.

3. What do you prefer eating sushi or pasta? Well, I like both but I think I prefer eating sushi because It is more exotic and i have always liked Japanese food.

4. Is your relationship with your parents good? Yes, it is.

5. What was your most embarrassing moment in your career? Well, let me think, in my opinion I think it was when I had to play a match at 11:00 and I fell asleep and when I arrived everybody was watching me with stranges faces.

Sport  Profile: Basketball.

Basketball is an sport which two teams compete against. Each team is composed by 5 players and their function is to try to score usually a brown ball into a basket. You can only play with your hands.

Basketball was invented by a physical education teacher in 1981, in Massachusetts, USA. This physical education teacher was told by his school to invent a new sport  to play in winter because it was very cold. Obviously it has to be played under a ceiling. He thought to invent an sport in which there was not so much contact and he wanted that basketball players needed more skill than strength. Since this time basketball has been developing successfully and now is one of most popular sports.

The most important basketball competitions are: NBA, National Basketball Association, that is a league where the best North American`s teams compete. Another important competition is euroleague, which is a competitions where best basketball`s teams of Europe compete to win the trophy and is the most important competition in Europe. The most important basketball competitions are the world cup, where best national teams compete and the Olympic games, which is every 4 years.