This summer

When I finish school I will enrol the driving schoolto take the car licence theoric test.

I hope to pass it in three weeks, because after wards I'm going to London with my friend Laia.

We mill be there from the 12th to the 29th of July.

This summer I would like to work but my parents don't want to hear about that.

And I'm going to start doing my research work.

But most all I'm going to go out a lot with my friends, go the beach, go cycling, go swiming a lot and get a very nice suntan.

26/05/09

26th may 1991 Laia was born.
I have known her since I was very little because their parents and my parents are friends. Every year we go on holidays together.
Laia has a sister, Eva, who is a good friend of my brother Pau.

This summer Laia and I are going to Britain to learn the language, English.
We're going to stay for two weeks.

On Saturday 30th on May, Laia's friends had a party on the beach in Llançà, we were also celebrating three other birthdays. We bought food and drink, we talked, listened to music, and we had a great time.

It was supposed to be a surprise but they found out.

LA CAVALLADA

Many exhibitions and blessings for horses took place this spring throughout Catalan villages and towns. one of this village is Sant Pere Pescador, my village; where the blessing of horses has a long tradition. Innumerable riders came in fancy riding dresses, riding down the roads and to either the church or Plaça Major.
The riders don't have to starve or suffer thirst -they are offered special pastries (Brunyols), it's typical in this zone; and wine from the villages.
In Sant Pere Pescador , the blessing of horses is traditionally taking palace on the Plaça Major.
This year,riders ang guests seized the beautiful day and met in the park near the river for a bit on the show.

27/0/09

Today I'm 17 years old. I was born on 27 April 1992.
The day of Saint Montserrat, patronsaint of Catalunya, but I'm not called Montse.
The year of the olimpic games in Barcelona.
My mother was 29 and my father 30 years old,
I have always lived in the same house. I didn't go to nursery school because my grandfather took care of me. Then I started the infant school in St Pere, I stayed three years. Later I went away to a school in Figueres, La Salle where I stayed ten years.
But now I am doing first batxillerat in IES Castello d'Empuries.

For my birthday my parents gave me a beautyfull watch, my gradparents, money, my friends, a pair of shoes, bracelets,...
But I wish I was 18 years old.

SANT JORDI-23/04

Nowadays the day of “Sant Jordi” is a special day. People are very happy because they work a short day, They plan to have some free time to go out to the town centre and visit the special market with stalls selling books and roses.
Men give a rose to their wife or girlfriend, and women give a book to their husband or boyfriend. Not only lovers buy roses and books, some men buy roses for their colleagues and everybody buys a book for their friend or themselves.
Some schools have stalls to raise money for their end of course trips. At schools teachers organize different activities related to literature like writing poems or short stories, reading texts or watching films. Finally the best ones receive a prize.
At home it is a special day, because my fater is called Jordi and my parents celebrate their wedding aniversary, so we have a dinner party.
Don’t forget to congratulate Jordis an Jordines.

the SPRING in costa Brava.

Spring has come at last, in costa Brava, right in time for Easter. We enjoy long walks in the mild spring air, enchanted by the beauty of the blossoming flowers. We regain the will to live and love, we are longing for warmth, light and colours and we reawaken our senses. Energy, exercise, sun, blue sky, singing birds, the sea – spring rouses our spirits and a sunny intermezo on the beach is a real treat after the long cold winter.
Easter in Costa Brava, that meant to say farewell to the long grey winter.

Gentoo Penguin

Scientific classification
Kingdom: animal
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Bird
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family:Spheniscidae
Genus:Pygoscelis
Species:P. papua
Scientific name: Pygoscelis papua

The habitat of Gentoos breed on many sub-Antarctic islands. The main colonies are on the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Kerguelen Islands; smaller populations are found on other islands. The total breeding population is estimated to 300,000 pairs.
Gentoos live mainly on crustaceans such as krill, with fish making up only about 15% of the diet. However, they are opportunistic feeders, and around the Falklands ( in the Malvinas islands) are known to take roughly equal proportions of fish, crustaceans and squid.

It is recognized by the wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head. Chicks have grey backs with white fronts. Adult Gentoos measure 51 to 90 cm

The males
just before moulting have a maximum weight of about 8.5 kg.
the males just before mating have a minimum weight of about 4.9 kg.

The females
have a maximum weight is 8.2 kg just before moulting, but their weight drops to as little as 4.5 kg when guarding the chicks in the nest.

These penguins are the fastest underwater swimming penguins, reaching speeds of 36 km/h. The Gentoo is built for very cold weather environments, unlike its northern cousin the Magellanic Penguin, which is leaner and more mobile in terrestrial movement.

Status: Near Threatened