A different weekend

Today in the afternoon I am going to Porta, a little village located on the border of France, where my family has an apartment to go to skiing. Naturally we are not going there for skiing today, but to spend three or four days in calm. 

So today about 19.00, Jordi is going to pick up my friend Laura and her boyfriend Edu and me. If we are on time, we are going to arrive about 21.30, because there are two hours of trip and we are going to stop in the supermarket of Puigcerdà for buy some food.

We plan to go to Andorra on Friday, so we will have to wake up, have breakfast and take the car because there is about one hour. Once there, we are walking around the city and buying something in the shops. We are having lunch in some Restaurant and in the afternoon we are making the same as in the morning until we get tired. In the evening we are staying at home and after we will have dinner, we could see some movie, play cards and have a drink until go to sleep.

Saturday is going to be “La Diada de Sant Jordi” and our intention is to make the same as on Friday not in Andorra, but in Puigcerdà. I have gone to Puigcerdà a lot of times, but never on this special date, so I am curious about how will be this celebration. I know that it will not be much different from here, but it is just curiosity. I think that in the evening, when we are going to arrive at home, we will give us the gifts of the day. I have bought a book and a wallet for Jordi, Laura only a book for Edu and, Laura and me will have the roses, I love that day.

We have to decide when we are going to come back, on Saturday evening or on Sunday noon. I think that the most probably is that we will chose for Sunday noon, because when you are there, you do not want to come back. Then I am going to make the suitcase and I will have to wait until Jordi arrive.

Mar

A very special trip

The students of one year less of us, this week are in Hemel Hempstead, a town in Hertfordshire, England. We also went there one year ago, I remember it perfectly. It was very special. For me it was the first trip outside of Spain that I went with the school and it served to make friends with some other students. 

Laura and I went together in the same family, I do not remember which their name was but what I remember is that they were very kind, cheerful and treated us very well. We always had the breakfast ready when we woke up in the morning, in the evening we had dinner all together and some nights, we also watched some TV programs or movies while we were talking with them about the day, what we had visited...

One day we went to Cambridge, where I had always wanted to go because I have gone to England in several times but I never had been in this city and furthermore, because my sister Núria had been living there for two months the winter before we went. Of course, we also went to London, but this time the visit was quite different than the other times I had been there. Obviously we went to see Big Ben and London Eye, but we went to see London Street and Camden town, too. Two sites in London which had always heard about it but that I had never been, and possibly, some of the best experiences that I will remember of England.

What I will never forget of this trip will be Wembley Stadium. I remember that when we entered in the corridors and in the changing rooms I was very excited, but that when we went through the tunnel, as the professional football players do, and we came out onto the football pitch, my legs were trembling. I thought that I was in the site where the professional football players are and that in this particularly, in Wembley, the Barça’s footballers would be playing and winning the final of the Champions League 2011.

We went to many more places, but those I have described were which I liked more. I hope that students now are in London, everyone will enjoy just as well that us.

Mar

My 18 years

As I told you in other writing, in 11^th of January I turned 18. Today I am going to explain my celebration which was more than fantastic. 

After leaving school I went to Viladrau where father’s gift was waiting me. When I opened it I could not believe what I was seeing, it was a Canon Eos! I had always dreamt to have one of these cameras and now, my wish has been complied. Then some of my town’s friends came home to congratulate me. Everything was perfect, except one thing and the most important for me… Jordi just phoned telling me that he could not come to see me because he had been working late. I could not avoid it but this new made me feel sad. 

I went to the kitchen to see if there was at least a cake, there was not. Above, my mother was cooking vegetables and she knows that I hate it… This made me fell sadder, because it meant that not even celebrate my birthday with my family. So I decided to go to have a shower and put on the pyjamas. Then, while I was watching TV, the doorbell of house rang. I went to open the door and I could not believe what my eyes were seeing, Jordi had come! I must admit that I was in shock for a while but then he gave me a letter. When I finished reading it he told me that I had to get changed because I would go to have dinner at Vic. I was much moved but I did what he said and undoubtedly was the best birthday I have lived.

If that were not enough, Jordi, my family and my friends make me a surprise party a few days later, which was more than great! Again I could not believe that that was my party and that all those people were there for me.

Now I understand why people say that 18 are the bests!!

Mar

Why is everything so complicated?

Why when you have found what you had been looking so long, became all complicated? Why when you have got the strongest friendship you ever had got, you have to break it for the sake of both? Why when you have found the person who really love, appear another one? Ultimately, why is everything so complicated?

It is difficult to get right in the way you act in front of your problems, and it become more difficult if you are not agree with the decision you have to choose. But unfortunately, there is not always more than one option to choose. In most cases, there is only one choice and even knowing that this is the best, usually finish with suffering. I am going to tell you a real case that happened very close to me.

There was a girl who had found her great love, a sensitive and affectionate boy who loved her a lot. Their relationship was perfect, like a fantasy. But one day, one of her best friends, admitted that he was in love with her. She reflected about what her friend said before, she loved her boyfriend but she could not forget her friend’s words, probably because she had loved him time ago. So those words made her relive that feeling. 

She was completely safe of her feelings towards her boyfriend and she did not see her life without him, but there was something that tilted her to the other side, I mean to talk, to laugh, to flirt...with her friend. This was like a game, which lasted a long time. A season their relationship as friends was colder, and in others the opposite, they did not separated. But one day the two friends realized that they had been accustomed to talk to each other every day, and this was not good. So they met one day in the afternoon to talk and to put things in place. It was like a farewell, as if they had not seen anymore... The two agreed to split up a while without talking, so that they could forget all the feelings that had grown up.

I do not know how this story will end, but what I really know is that their last decision was the best that they could ever choose and that they are very brave to choose it. 

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Happy New Year!

Christmas has finished and New Year’s eve also. So, what we have left of all these holidays? Only the three kings. But as with my family we do nothing this day of celebration, I find that is important to note that we have entered a new year. 

2011 is the entrance in a new decade and the year that I was a lot of time waiting because that is when I become of age. This fact means several things like that I will became 18 years old, that I will be able to get the driving license, that in the next September, if everything is all right, I will start in the university, and a lot of more things that I forget.

I’m looking forward to January 11 because it is my birthday and I will be 18 years old. Although we have exam of history.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR ALL YOU!

Mar