DESCRIPTION OF MY BEST FRIEND

JULIA

My best friend's name is Julia. She is 14 years old and she lives in Aldaya, Valencia, but she was born in China.

She studies at the same school as me. She usually gets good marks, like me, so we hardly ever haven't problems.  We always talk about the fact that we want to be veterinarians, and work together.

She hasn't got any brother or sister, she lives with her mother in a beautiful flat. Her best friends are Sara, Laura and me, but she has a lot of friends out of school too.

We love drawing and watching anime and manga, so we are otakus*, and we usually draw together. She likes a lot of types of food, but she dislikes roast food. She loves a lot of outdoor activities, but she hates boxing and tennis.

Julia has a normal heigh and a normal weight for her age. She has long straight and black hair that I love, and she has dark slanted eyes. She normally wears comfortable clothes, because she prefers to be comfortable than wear another type of clothes, like Sara and me, but it look kawaii* on her.

She is always happy and smiling, and she's a really good friend. She sometimes is so lazy, but she is very clever.

I think Julia is a wonderful person and I'm really grateful that she become my friend.

*otaku: Otaku means a person who likes a lot manga, anime and videogames.

*kawaii: Kawaii means cute or nice in japanese.

SUMMER BOOK

MY  SUMMER  BOOK  (2O15)

These time I read Great Expectations, y by Charles Dickens, written at 1979.

It's about a poor boy called Pip, who lives with his old sister and his brother-in-law (because his parents die long time ago) in a little house near the graveyard and near the prison, so there is  lot of times that the prisoners escape. 

Pip used to go to Miss Haversham house for play with her (Miss Haversham was a old, rich and a bit crazy woman), and at her house he knowns Estella, a young and very beautifull girl. 

One day Pip mets a man who saws one day at Miss Haversham's house and he tell to him that he has a lot of money. So suddenly Pip made rich and get great expectations.

THE  BOOK

CHARLES  DICKENS

DELICIOUS RECIPE

APPLE  CRUMBLE  PIE

Hello! Today I'm going to tell you about my favorite dessert of england, the Apple Crumble Pie.

My first time I ate it was in a birthday party in Netherland and it was delicious! (I went to Neherland because it was a trip with my class, and it was a really wonderful experience). 

So here is the recipe:

INGREDIENTS:

- 1 (9 inch) deep dish pie crust.

- 5 cups apples (peeled, cored and thinly sliced).

- 1/2 cup white sugar.

- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon.

- 1/3 cup white sugar.

- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour.

- 6 tablespoons butter.

DIRECTIONS:

1.- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

2.- Arrange apple slices in unbaked pie  shell. Mix 1/2 cup sugar  and cinnamon; Sprinkle over apples.

3.- Mix 1/3 cup sugar with flour; Cut in butter until crumbly. Spoon mixture over apples.

4.- Bake in preheated oven until apples are soft and top is lightly browned, about 40 minutes.

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So, it is all, I hope you enjoy it.  :)

Greetings, Maria.

MY SUMMER (2015)

MY  SUMMER

Hello to everybody! How about you all? I hope you are having a good sumer. I had a wonderfull summer! Here it goes:

When my little brothers started their summer hollidays, I went one week to Asturias with my family and my friends for do fantastic mountain sxcursions, for swim in rivers... We stayed in the same beautiful house of last year. And one day we went to the beach! This is my favourite trip of the summer holidays, because I love the mountains!

WHEN  WE  WENT  TO  THE  BEACH

THE  HOUSE

ME

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On the return, my brothers, my friends and I went to a paddel summerschool and there was very funny too. It starts at 9:30am, later we make a break for 10:30am to 11:00, then we play one hour and half more and then we go to the swimmingpool!

THE  SWIMMINGPOOL

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The next week my brother and I went to Burriana(like last year, that we did a sailboat summer course), and this time we did a summer course of canoe. That week was really fantastic! I was very happy so I hope I can repeat it next year.

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Then, we did another week of paddel summerscchool and next week my family and I went to Zahara de los Atunes (in Cadiz). It was fantastic! But this year there was more people than last year. And one day I pass to Gibraltar, for buy tradicional sweets, for visite tradicional shops too and a lot things more! But I think that I liked more last year than this.

GIBRALTAR

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Now, I'm at my house, doing homework, sport, going to the swimmingpool and to the beach, meeting friends, making barbecues... And at the beggining os september I'm going to go 3 days whit my family and friends to Tabarca, a little island of the Mediterranean to dive and see all the species os fishes, wees, starfishes, sea urchins... And the 11th  of september we return to the school!!

TABARCA

This was a wonderful summer! I hope to have more summer like this one.

Hugs, Maria   :3

REAR WINDOW - ENGLISH FILM'S PROJECT

MY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS (2014 - 2015)

MY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

(2014 - 2015)

In this Christmas holidays I went to Torrelavega, Cantabria,  to visit my grandparents, my uncle and aunt and my little cousins, Isabel and Pedro. I  was there from december 23rd to 29th.  I was very happy when I played with my little cousins and with my brothers, premiering the new toys.

THE  BEST DAY IN TORRELAVEGA!:

The day that I liked more was  the 28th of december, because we went to the mountains to see if there was snow, and yes, there was a lot of snow! But it was snowing heavily and we had to go home.

I also enjoyed the day we went to Bilbao, we saw the Guggenheim, the Puppy and a lot of famous things more!

DECEMBER 25th:

The december 25th Santa Claus came to our house! We had a lot of presents and we were very happy. I had many presents: The Idhun encyclopedia, a wallet, a portable Charger for my mobile phone and a 2015 calendar. And the presents that I like more were the Idhun encyclopedia and the wallet.

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I have also gone to León to visit my other grandparents, my other uncle and aunt and my others cousins, Claudia and Lucas. I was there from december 29th to january 3rd. There I was very happy too, especially on New Year's Eve.

THE BEST DAY IN LEÓN:

The day that I liked more was  the december 31st. In the morning we began to prepare things for the night, in the afternoon we made dinner and at the night we went to my uncles house and we celebrated the New Year's Eve. We arrived at home at 2am., but we had fun.

JANUARY 1st:

Surprise! When we got up in the morning, there was presents in living room! My presents: a mountain pants, a wool gloves and a purse.

HOMECOMING!

We returned home, in Valencia, on January 3rd, and when we just put the luggage my father and I went to pick up my greyhounds. they had stayed at home of a friend (that she is a collaborator with GALGOS 112), and she took care of my greyhounds very well.

CRACKERS!!

CRACKERS

          This year, for Christmas, we made crackers. The teacher explained us that the crackers are typical for UK in Christmas and we wanted to make us our own crackers.

          At first, we write our names on a piece of paper and then each took a piece of paper from the pile, and the name of the person who was in the paper, would be the person that you will make the cracker.

          After, we wrote in the agenda which materials needed for make the cracker.

          We made our crckers in our houses and in the english class. Finally, at 17th of december, we split the crackers in class, everybody receive her cracker and all of them were very nice and beautiful. Each cracker had to wear: A cap of tissue paper, sweets and chocolates, a letter saying nice things to that person and a bad joke.

MY  CHRISTMAS  CRACKER

- HOW TO MAKE A CHRISTMAS CRACKER -

THE ZIPPER

THE ZIPPER

The zipper is an invention that has to be refined many times over the years.

       The first was invented in 1851, in EEUU, by EliasHowe, but it didn't work very well because it wasn't made well.

       40 years later (in 1891), Whitcomb L.Judson improved it considerably, but with this system, the deslizant part had to put over (after closed), and then had to put in the pocket. As the invention was not very practical, it was never sold. 

       In 1906, Gideon Sundback, Swedish, took the company of Judson and created the desing that we know today, and he took it for sale in 1914.

       At first, the zipper was used only for boots and "tabarqueras", but in the twenties they started using it in pants and in children clotes.

       In the thirties, the designer Elsa Schiaparelli included the zipper in some of his desings and thereafter it joined many types of clothing.

       Now, the most biggest business of zippers in the world is the japanese company "YKK", wich was founded by Tadao Yoshida in 1934. Japan produces more than half of zippers of the world.

       

       The name "zipper" in Spanish is "cremallera", this word comes from the French "crémallière", wich comes from the Latin "cramaculus", wich comes from the Greek "kremastrê", wich means "hanging".