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Archive for Abril, 2007

Silent letters

Posted by mbenitafv under Phonetics

Would you like to practise with ” silent letters. Go to the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/soundandspell/silentletters/index.shtml

Audrey Hepburn

Posted by mbenitafv under Biographies

Audrey Hepburn

· Her childhoodAudrey Kathleen Ruston was born in
Brussels, the 4th of May of 1929. Her father, Joseph Hepburn-Ruston was an English bank manager and her mother, Ella van Heemstra, was a Dutch aristocrat. From 1935 to 1938 Audrey attended boarding school in
England. But then, her parents divorced and she and her mother settled-down in
Holland. There, she started to take dancing lessons. It´s then, in the year 1939, when the German occupation begins. Audrey will suffer from famine during all the war and it will affect her health for the rest of her life. Actually, it’s the reason of her envied thinness. During the last period of the Second World War, being only fifteen years old, Audrey colaborates as a messenger of the Resistance group against Nazism.
· Her youthWhen the war ended, Hepburn and her mother moved to
London, where she went on with dancing lessons with Marie Rambert, Nijinski’s teacher. She started to work as a fashion model and she was also choosen to appear in an instructional film called ‘Dutch in seven lessons’. In 1951, without imaging what the future had in store for her, she oficially started to work as an extra actress, what it wasn´t a problem for her, because it made her stablish her reputation as an actress not only in England, but also in the USA. Soon she is contracted to act in a leading role in ‘Gigi’, a musical work in Broadway, which was on for six months.
· Her careerThis success makes her get her next important role in the American film, ‘Roman Holiday’, with Gregory Peck as her partner. Hollywood would have wanted to see Audrey and Gary Grant working together in this film, because
Gary was the most fashioned actor by then. But he refuses to act in the film, considering himself too old to make Audrey fall in love with him in the screen. He thought it would be unreal. So it was finally Gregory Peck who worked with her. She won the Oscar for that film and she would be nominated four times more during her career.
It´s the year 1953 and Audrey Hepburn is now considered one of the most famous and required actresses. By that time, she meets Hubert de Givenchy, a very important fashion designer who works for Dior. Givenchy becomes her best friend and the ‘Audrey´s look’ designer. Audrey becomes his muse. All eyes focus on her talent, elegance and glamour. In the following fifteen years she won´t stop working. She will act in a lot of very sucessful films such as ‘Charade’, where she finally works with Gary Grant, ‘Sabrina’ next to Humphrey Bogart, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ with George Pepard or ‘My fair lady’ with Rex Harrison.Since 1967, and after having success in every film she starred in, she colaborates in a few films only from time to time. Her last appearance was in ‘Always’, a Steven Spieberg’s film, where she played the part of an angel – a perfect role for her in many people´s opinion- and some months later she is named UNICEF’s special embassador. Hepburn devoted the rest of her life to helping the children in the poorest countries through this organization. Even three months before her death, ill with colon cancer, she went to
Somalia, representing UNICEF in a campaign against aids, this dignified even more her modest and humane way of understanding life.
· Her personal lifeAudrey was married twice. Mel Ferrer was her first husband. She had her first son with him. Her second husband was Andrea Dotti, an Italian doctor who was thirteen years younger. He was her second son’s father. In her last years of life she was sentimentally involved with Claudio Jones, a famous music composer.

She died in
Switzerland the 20th of January of 1993. That very same day, Elizabeth Taylor said that ‘God would be pleased to have an angel like Audrey with him’ .

Some months ago, the black silk dress she wore in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ was auctionned off for 467.200 £, a quantity which was donated to create a school in Bengala.

Aniria 4-5.30

The future

Posted by mbenitafv under tests

http://web.educastur.princast.es/eoi/eoigijon/archivos/future.htm

Future

Finish the sentences in such a way that the meaning stays the same

Fill in all the gaps, then press “Check” to check your answers. Use the “Hint” button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the “[?]” button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

a- I don’t think you have heard the news.
You won’t
b-Jane expects a vistory for her team.
Jane believes that .
c- This project will take me two years’ time.
In two year´s time I this project.
d- Mary will take Peter’s place in June.
Peter is in June.
e-Why don’t you come to see us after lunch?
Why don’t you come to see us when lunch?
f-What exactly do you want to do?
What exactly are you ?
g-The arrival of the plane has been delayed.
The plane will
h-You’ll find me waiting outside the station.
I’ll outside the station.
i-Jane is pregnant again.
Jane will baby.
j-Mary and Alan’s wedding is next weekend.
Mary and Alan are next weekend.

PETRA

Posted by ord1 under General topics

 

 

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 This city is in the south of Jordan, 200 km from
Amman.It was the capital    of the Nabataean kingdom. Absorbed  into the
Roman Empire in  AD 106 and finally destroyed by an earthquake around AD 663.         

   But , nowadays is by far  Jordan´s largest tourist attraction and candidate as one of the New Seven  Wonders of the World.           

 The entrance of this hidden jewel is a long sandstone gorge called the Siq. The colourful and unusual sandstone patterns in the rock  walls are an awe-inspiring  sight.               
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However  , the best view  is at the end of this path,.In front of you it is the facade  of the most impressive building in Petra : the Treasury .I had seen lots of photographs  of this place before , but  nothing is comparable to be there.

 The Treasury, which is the best preserved monument in Petra, is so named because of the urn that is found at the top of the facade.  However, the urn has been checked out, and the only thing inside of it is solid rock.  Some speculate that this beautiful facade was actually built to be the tomb for King Harith IV, while others believe it was a temple dedicated to the Goddess Isis.

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  Among  other things, what makes Petra so miraculous is that all the temples, buildings, and tombs are carved out of the mountains.There  are lots of interesting ruins like the Roman  theatre , the Silk  and the Royal  Tombs , but  if you want to see the largest carve monument in Petra you have to walk for an hour , more than 800 steps up,  to the Monastery, which was dedicated to King Obofas who died in 86 B.C.  It was later used as a Chrisitan church.  

 

It is worth going to Jordan to visit Petra ,but you can do other things in this country:·       

  •    Have a bath in Dead Sea·        
  •   Visit the ancient city ofJerash·         
  • Follow the path of Lawrence of Arabia in Wadi  Rum  desert.·         
  •  And , of course ,taste the Jordan cuisine . My favourite dishes are: an starter called Baba ganuj  and a typical dessert , called  Mamoul . 

Would you like to spend your next holidays there ? 

 

  Teresa Castañón 

KISS KISS

Posted by ord1 under book reviews

BOOK REVIEW 1: KISS KISS (ROALD DAHL)

FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK:

This book is a compilation of the most hilarious and absurd short stories for adults written by Roald Dahl.

The following stories originally appeared in The New Yorker: The Landlady, The Way Up To Heaven, Edward the Conqueror, The Champion of the World; Parson´s Pleasure appeared in Esquire Magazine; Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel´s Coat in Nugget; Genesis and Catastrophe(under the title A Fine Son) in Playboy.

THE AUTHOR:

Roald Dahl (Glamorgan, 1916- 1990) was one of the most successful and wellknown of all children’s writers. His books, which are read by children the world over, include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Danny, The Champion of the World, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Twits, The Witches, winner of the 1983 Withbread Award, The BFG and Matilda.

THE STORIES:

  • The Landlady: (**)Billy Weaver has just arrived in Bath after a long trip and is looking for a Bed and Breakfast or a boarding house to stay there for a short time. He finds a lovely cheap place. Its landlady is a fifty-year-old woman who gives him a warm welcome. Then, when he is in the living-room and writes down his name in the guest-book, he notices there are two other entries which are really familiar for him and although he can´t remember who they are or where he has heard them, he is sure that both names are connected. Billy insists on talking to the woman about it, to try to find out more about the two men. The woman doesn´t seem to be really interested in the conversation. She is only paying attention to the tea she´s preparing for him. Billy sips the tea and he thinks it tastes bitter like almonds. In the middle of the silence, he looks at a parrot inside its birdcage and a small dog which was curled up over the carpet. Both of them seem to be real. The woman tells him that they were her pets and that when they passed away, she stuffed them. She assures him that it´s possible to stuffed ‘everything’ after death.

  • William and Mary: (**) William is ill with pancreas cancer and he is next to death. A friend of his, is an excellent neurosurgeon and he´s looking into the brain´s independence on the rest of organs. William is very conscious about his illness. What it affects him most strongly is the fact that he´s going to miss his philosophy books very much, once he has died. His friend suggests him a very macabre experiment. He thinks he would be able to keep the brain alive although the heart stops pumping blood, after death. He would connect the main veins and arteries between the brain and a special machine that woud work as if it was a real heart. In addition, he would also keep one of William´s eyes connected to the brain by arteries’ system. William can´t believe his friend because it sounds ridiculous and quite disgusting. But the idea of being able to see after death is so temping for him, that he finally accepts.When his wife Mary receives a letter informing that the experiment has finally succeeded, she can´t believe it. What is more, she doesn´t seem to be really happy about it. William has always been a difficult man, very conventional and strict with her. She has lived under his rules all her adult life and she doesn´t want to continue with this routine any more. The first meeting in hospital makes her conscious that William will never be the same man she has known. Now, he is only an eye, what she finds really comforting.

  • The Way Up To Heaven: (****) Our heroine is Mrs. Foster, an old rich woman who lives in New York and has a pathological fear. She is obsessed with time. She needs to arrive in time wherever she has to go. Her husband knows it and enjoys driving her crazy. Whenever they have a plan together, while she is ready to leave the house fifteen minutes earlier than they have arranged, he will always wait in his bedroom enough time to make her get angry. They’ve got a daughter who lives in Paris with her children. Mrs. Foster has planned to visit her and stay there for six weeks. She will travel alone. The day of her departure, Mr. Foster, after putting into practice his usual game with her, and once both of them are inside the car, suddenly remembers that he has forgotten a present for her daugther and enters the house again. When her husband leaves the car, the woman realizes that the present is there. She rings the bell to enter the house, but there is no answer, only a strange sound. Now it is too late to go looking for Mr. Foster, in her opinion, and she decides to leave him there and write to him once she has arrived in Paris. When she returns six weeks later, she finds out that her husband had been locked in the lift ‘for a long time’.

  • Parson´s Pleasure: (****) The protagonist is Ciril Boggis. He works as a dealer in antique furniture, with his own shop in Chelsea. He´s got a particular method of getting authentic valuable treasures. On Sundays, he dresses up as a clergyman and travels in his car around the parishes in the outskirts. He knows that there are plenty of marvels in the country cottages of these areas. He is obviously an expert. What he has to do is deceive people into thinking that the pieces of furniture he identifies as masterpieces, are not valuable. He will offer to them a ridiculous amount of money and his victims will accept, thinking, ‘most of them’, that they have made a great deal …

  • Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel´s Coat: (****) Mrs. Bixby has got an affair with a Colonel. She arranges their monthly meetings giving her husband the excuse that she must visit her old aunt in Baltimore. She doesn´t seem to arouse her husband´s suspicions with this alibi. But one day, when she is just going to take a train back home, a man gives her a present in the Colonel´s name. It is a luxurious fur coat. She will have to prepare a good story to explain this to her husband. She can´t say to him that it belonged to her aunt, because he knows she can´t afford it. When she arrives in New York, she finally decides to put the coat in a pawnbroker´s hands. There, Mrs. Bixby borrows fifty dollars and asks the man not to write any name, address or description in the ticket. She is conscious that she is taking a risk. She can´t be sure he will give her the coat when she returns. Once she has arrived home, she shows her husband the ticket as if she had found it by chance. The man considers the ticket may be changeable for something more valuable than fifty dollars and he offers to go to the shop the next day, thinking that his wife is more liable to get cheated. She finally accepted reluctanly, to avoid being detrayed. The following day Mrs. Bixby goes to his husband´s clinic at lunch time, looking forward to being given the coat back. But the only thing his husband gave her was a ridiculous mink´s fur neckpiece, just identical to his secretary-assistant´s.

  • Royal Jelly: (***) Mrs.and Mr.Taylor are extremely worried about their babygirl, who is underweight, weak and she seldom eats anything. Mr. Taylor is an expert at bees, and one day that he is reading an article about Royal Jelly, he finds out that it is the main Queen Bee´s food during all its life. Royal Jelly is so powerful that makes the larva increase in weight fifteen hundred times in five days. Without mentioning to his wife anything about his discovery, he starts to put it into practice with his daughter. The effects are immediately noticed. Mrs. Taylor is really pleased to see the baby getting over her health problem. Mr. Taylor thinks that it´s time to appear as a hero and tells his wife the truth. It frightens the woman, who considers it dangerous and negligent. Soon the baby starts to put on weight, she´s now much fatter and bigger than his father has expected. The daughter becomes a monstruous baby.

  • Georgy Porgy: (***) The story is narrated by its main character. George is a young man who is allergic to women. Any sort of physical contact with them disturbs him considerably. When he was a child, he and his mother got on very well together. Every night, she used to tell him many stories about different aspects of life. One day, she considers it´s time to explain to his son everything about the relationships between men and women and the beginning of life. Then, she thinks the best way of doing it is taking him to the shed and showing to him a rabbit´s birth. However, after having its babies, the rabbit mother starts to eat one of them, and George is shocked. He starts running along the road and his mother, who follows him, dies when she´s knocked down by a truck. Now, he´s got the feeling that he hasn´t had enough time to be told about women and doesn´t know anything about them, and he thinks they are his enemy. He belongs to a flock which containes a great number of single women -spinsters- and he thinks the more he ignores them, the more he´s harassed by them. He finally decides to react, and after doing very interesting experiments with mice, he finds out that if he was more considered with these women, they probably wouldn´t be so interested in him. A woman of the flock organizes a tennis match in her garden´s house and he accepts her invitation to put his new personality into practice …

  • Genesis and Catastrophe: (*) A very short story in which the author narrates the birth of Adolph Hitler.

  • Edward the Conqueror: (***) Louisa and Edward are an old couple who live in the countryside. One day at lunch time Louisa goes looking for her husband who is in the garden working beside a bonfire. Then, they find a strange cat, with unusual rides and scars on its face. Louisa takes it home and gives it a bit of fresh milk. Edward advices her not to grow fond of the cat too much because it must be given back to its owners if they require it. Louisa is a brilliant pianist and she notices that the cat reacts to the music she´s playing. She sarts to study who its favourite composer is: Vivaldi, Schumann, Liszt … She notices a particular reaction when she plays Liszt´s repertoire. Then, she starts to imagine that that cat may be a reincarnation of Liszt. She goes to the library to look for more information and she sees in one of the books a picture of Liszt, whose face appears to have identical scars to cat´s ones. She is now convinced about it, but when she tells her husband the story, he thinks his wife is mad, and decides to get rid of the cat.

  • Pig: (***)Lexington is an orphan boy who is brought up by his aunt, Mrs. Glosspan in Virginia. She´s vegetarian and the boy only eats what his aunt prepares for him. When he is six years old, Mrs. Glosspan considers it´s time to teach the boy how to cook. The woman early notices that Lexington posseses a remarkable talent in cooking. He begins experimenting with vegetarian dishes of his own invention. His aunt tells him that ordinary people also eat animals but that she thinks it is disgusting and cruel. By the time he´s seventeen, he has recorded thousands of different recipes. Then, his aunt dies. He inherites a big amount of money but he has to travel to New York to see his aunt´s solicitor and be given back the money. In New York, feeling a new man, with enough money to publish his own cooking book, he decides to celebrate it going eating to a restaurant. He tries pork with cabbage. It tastes so delicious that he´s willing to pay the waiter a big amount of money if he tells him how it is prepared. When the waiter explains to him that pork basically consists of pig´s meat he can´t believe him. He starts to think that the reason why his aunt didn´t want him to cook meat was perhaps because she didn´t know how to do it, because he thought it was delicious, in fact. The waiter and the cook advice him to visit the packing-house that lot he has just eaten came from, over in the Bronx. There, he will find out the ‘authentic secret’ of the recipe…

  • The Champion of the world: (***)This story is narrated by Gordon, one of the main characters. Gordon and Claud work in a filling-station, but they are also poachers. They have been looking forward to the shooting-season. They have been studying different methods to catch pheasants in a private wood.They finally decide to stuff hundreds of raisins with narcotic- pills to feed the animals. The night they put into practice their plan, is the previous night to the shooting- season opening. Although they have some difficulties to go unnoticed because of the wood-keepers, they finally succeed with the pheasants. They count on Charlie, a taxi driver who helps them to get away with the pheasants, and they also count on the priest´s wife, who will hide the poaching´s pieces during that night. The following day she takes them to the filling-station in her baby´s pram. But the pills´ effect starts to disappear which makes the pheasants go away flying.

OPINION:

When I started to read the book, I think it was too absurd for me. When I was a child I read most of his books for children and I suppose I was accustomed to reading a totally different style of stories. But as you go on reading them, you start to understand this particular sense of humour. I consider the book really enjoyable and quite easy to read. What I most enjoyed is ‘The Way Up To Heaven’ story, brilliantly written and absolutely hilarious.

Aniria Blanco Pascual

COPENHAGUE

Posted by ord1 under General topics

 

 

I am going to talk about the last trip I have made. It was last December, just before Christmas day. A friend of mine and I had several days for holidays, and we decided to do a short trip to know one city in Europe. Nowadays there are air companies which offer cheap flights, although you have to adapt to the dates they have available. After looking up different web pages, we found an interesting offer in Ryanair.com. We had several possibilities, but the one we liked most was the flight to Malmo, which is a city in the south of Sweeden that is very well connected with Denmark. We had tought to go to Malmo, and then, go to Copenhague. We bought a round trip ticket. I consider it was cheap because it cost us sixty euros by person. We also booked the hotel room by internet. We found a very central hotel in the city of Copenhaguen. In fact we booked the room in the annex to the hotel. Its name is Absalon and the difference between the annex and the hotel is in the price. The hotel is more expensive. In the reservation breakfast was included.

 

We set off from Madrid´s airport. I was in the point of not going, because I realized when I was in Madrid that my national identity card was out of date. Fortunately I had the passport and I could board. In case I had not taken the passport I wouldn’t have been able to travel.

 

The flight was not very long. We took off from Madrid at three p.m, and landed in Malmo two hours and a half later.

 

In the airport we cought a bus which took us to Malmo’s railway station. The journey by bus took us forty five minutes because there were several stops. We were very lucky because we did not have problems to find the train which we had to take to go to Copenhague. It’s been possible to travel between Sweeden and Denmark by car, bus or train since a few years ago. The train goes by a bridge and a tunnel which were built some years ago to overcome the distance between both countries which are separated by the Northern Sea. The journey was not very long, about an hour. In the train we met two Spanish boys who commented us different things about Copenhague like places to go or to visit in the city.

 

We arrived at the railway station which is in the downtown and very near our hotel.

First of all, I have to mention the weather in Copenhague is truly cold, but it is not so cold as some people could think. The temperatures oscilllated between one and eight degrees centigrade.

 

 

We were in Copenhague for three days, and I consider it is enough time to visit the most important places and know the city. Personally I don´t like long trips, so three days in Copenhague were enough to enjoy and see the most important monnuments.

 

I would say that Copenhague is not an spectacular city, like, for example Rome or Budapest, but it is a place that deserves being visited.

 

When you think about Copenhague, you probably have in your mind the view of “The sirenita” the mermaid. However, when you are in Copenhague, you see that you have to walk a lot to see the mermaid, and, frankly, it is a bit disappointing but if you are in Copenhague, to make a photograh with the mermaid, is nearly an obligation.

 

We were in Copenhague in the previous days to Christmas, so the streets had many Christmas decorations.

 

Copenhague is the capital of Denmark, a country in which the Royal Family is very important. You see that in the fact that all the important places and monumets are related with the Monarchy.

 

The Royal Palace in which the kings and the crown prince live is called “Amaliensborg”, and is composed by four buildings which are around a square. These palaces are in front of the Northern Sea, which enters through Copenhague like a river. In the other seashore there is a very modern building, Copenhague´s Opera House. Very near the Royal Palace there is a spectacular marble church. If you go to its tower, you can see a breathtaking view of the city. The problem is that you have to walk up to the tower, and the path has very narrow stairs. I do not recommend it to people who are claustrophobic.

 

Inside the churches you can see they are very austere which is very typical in protestant churches.

 

We also visited the National Museum, in which you can travel in time through Denmark’s history.

 

The Palace I liked most was Rosenborg, which reminded me of English castles.

 

There is a place in which there are different castles and palaces and it is called Christianborg. Inside that place we can find the Danish Parliament.

 

We also visited Copenhague´s city council, and we were very surprised because we entered the council without controls, and we were be able to visit all the rooms we wanted , and nobody told us anything

 

I think, people in Copenhague are calm and pleasant. You don´t have problems to communicate if you speak English because nearly everybody there speaks that language.

 

One of the differences between Copenhague and Spain is that, there, at night the streets are less illuminated than Spanish streets. The prices are another difference. In Copenhague things are more expensive. However, I think nowadays the fact that with the euro, prices in Spain have risen, makes you not to notice an extraordinary difference with regard to Denmark.

 

I had a pleasant experience with my stay in Copenhague, so I recommend you to visit that city, and all the places you can.

 

JOSÉ RAMÓN 5º 4-5.30

The Oscars

Posted by mbenitafv under Exercises, Video, listening

If you want to practice your English you´ve got here a very interesting link with reading, listening and song activities. I hope you enjoy it

The Oscar Awards

Later language learning

Posted by mbenitafv under listening

Learning a new language

( easy listening)

Young children seem to be able to learn languages with a lot less difficulty than adults. But why is this? In this programme we take a short and simple look at a very complex topic and hear a number of expert opinions. We also cover some useful vocabulary for talking about this topic

Before you listen to the programme look at the comprehension questions below. You can hear the answers in the programme.

1: What is the Critical Period Hypothesis?
2: What does Professor White think of this theory?
3: Why does Dr. John Coleman think children learn languages better than adults?
4: What does Erik Thiessen believe causes problems for adult language learners?
height=”240″]http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/weekender/audio/weekender_language_070216.mp3[/video]

Script

Climate change

Posted by ord1 under Video, listening

Listen to the video and answer the following questions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/video/88000/nb/88101_16×9_nb.asxView this video file



  1. How important is for a young hunter to learn from older people?
  2. What do scientists say?
  3. What do they get from icebergs and the wilderness?
  4. What does the wildlife ranger say about people from the industrialised world? Why?
  5. What do hunters search for?
  6. What’s their fear?
  7. What has happened to those who have already gone to towns?
  8. What do hunters eat?
  9. What did their forefathers foretell?

Key

CLIMATE CHANGE.INUITS

1.How important is for a young hunter to learn from older people?
Very important so that he could pass their culture to his children and grandchildren.
2. What do scientists say?
Artic ice has been going down steadily by 40 per cent in the last 2 decades.
3.What do they get from icebergs and the wilderness?
Drinking water from ice and the wilderness supplies all the necessities for survival.
4.What does the wildlife ranger say about people from the industrialised world? Why?
They make him angry. In the cities there are a lot of cars, planes, they’re polluting the earth I feel that something should be done.
5.What do hunters search for?
Seal holes
6.What’s their fear?
That climate change will push more inuits into the town when they travel they´re cut off from their family and culture.
7.What has happened to those who have already gone to towns?
They are often caught between two worlds. Their suicide rate is 6 times the national average.
8.What do hunters eat?
Frozen caribou meat, cut off and eaten raw.
9.What did their forefathers foretell?
The North will be summer all year.

My last New Year’’s Eve

I woke up on Sunday morning and I went to the bathroom as usual. I lookedat myself in the mirror and, at first, I couldn’t believe my eyes! Then, I started shouting and ranting: I had all my face covered with little spots. I ran immediately downstairs and when my sincere brother saw me, he said that I looked like a monster. Desperately, I called my mum and she made me get dressed and we dashed off to the hospital. There we had to wait an endless queue. Finally when the doctor saw me, he concluded that I suffered from a serious hay fever. He prescribed me some medicines and pomade; so we went to the chemist’s and came back home.

I was totally fed up. All my plans were spoilt. That night was going to be the first New Year’s Eve I hanged out with my friends. I had bought new clothes, I had an appointment with my hairdresser and of course, the ticket for the party; but it didn’t matter, I was horrible. The whole situation was letting me down and I felt the urge to cry. I phoned my best friend, he had always been a good shoulder to cry on. When he turned up, he asked my mother how I was going and she replied that I was much better; so not until he entered in my room did he realise how bad I was. The truth is that he got petrified as soon as he glimpsed me. Anyway he tried to cheer me up but I didn’t feel like going anywhere like that let alone assist to a party where everybody would be radiant.

But despite being depressed, I followed all the pieces of advice the doctor had given me, and in the evening, I started pulling through. My older sister helped me with the make-up and when I met all my friends, not even one noticed anything. I was all sweetness and light and even if it is not the best night to go out (all places were crowded), we had a whale of a time.

 

Cristina Pérez Rivero 5º 16h