The start of an obsession....(by Cristofer Sánchez)

...To dicover the space beyond the earth and our solar system

It all started when I was a little boy ( 4-6 years old). I really liked looking at the sky at night and I used to ask my parents about the shiny points in the vast night sky in my little village, and they only said to me “those shiny points in sky are only stars”, and that answer was not sufficient for me.

Night after night I used to look at the stars and the moon, asking myself what the stars could be, and I started to ask my school mates and teachers “what are the stars?” One of my best teachers told me something that was quite interesting for me.

He said: “The stars are suns, comets, galaxies, solar systems and other kind of things I don’t know”...
That awoke inside of me a really ambitious feeling, “to know what those stars were in reality and what they were doing up there in the dark sky”.

Sometime after, my parents gave me a birthday present, a present which I still have, my first Astronomy book. With that book I learnt all about “stars” , and I could understand where I live, where our planet, the earth, was located , and lots of things about our solar system. I also learnt about galaxies, other solar systems, planets, suns, nebulae (or nebulas), comets, and so on.

And that ambitious curiosity was the reason why I am still interested in the space and the
galaxies and I can feel I am still a curious boy who wants to know everything about outer space...
Like observing the moon and all the mysterious things connected to it...

An obsession I would like to satisfy now and in the future...

Learning to ride a bike (by Pedro Capó)

My parents didn't help me to learn how to ride a bike. My grandfather did.
When I was a child I really liked my grandfather’s bike and I wanted to ride it, but there was a problem, I had never ridden a bike in my life.
Then, one day, my grandfather helped me and put me on the bike, the bike had only two wheels not four. I tried to ride the bike with my grandfather holding me. We expend all the day trying it. And at nigh I managed to ride the bike without help.
On Christmas my parents gave me a bike, but with four wheels. I told them that I had learned to ride a bike only with two wheels, but they didn’t believe me.

Two weeks after we went to visit my grandparents and my father told them that I had a new bike, then my grandfather asked:

-With four or two wheels?
And my father said:
-With four wheels of course.
My grandfather looked at me and asked me:
- Why didn't you tell them you know how to ride a bike?
And I answered angrily:
-I told them, but they didn’t believe me.
The day after I found my bike with only two wheels.

A Place to Relax (by Pedro Capó)

There is a place where the time doesn’t pass by. There is a place where nature and humans coexist in harmony. There is a place where mountains touch the sky.

This place is Lluc. Lluc is a monastery in the mountains, for that reason there aren’t skyscrapers or motorways, only the silence. There is a small park for children. There is a botanical garden and a Via Crucis.

There are many excursions to go near Lluc and all of them are very beautiful. Behind Lluc there is a big valley, it is beautiful and there is a farm with cows, goats, horses, hens, dogs and cats. It is a peaceful place to clear the mind. The trees are always green, for this reason the place seems always lively.

A description of a place (by Cristofer Sánchez)

The place I’m going to describe is my old little village in Salamanca, which is called Gallegos de Argañán .
I lived there the ten first years of my life.
Gallegos de Argañán is located at 120km of Salamanca.

It is a small town with nearly over 300 people which are living now in the town, but in the past where living over 1000 people or more (in a period of time aprox. 1800-1900 and since then, the number of people has been decreasing). I don’t know very well the real data.

In general is a small town surrounded by land, which is used to feed the animals, the farmers plow the land, they plant seeds and they grow vegetables which are later sold in the market.

You can see my village in the photos below.




It is located in a big valley, surrounded by hills and in the distance there are also high mountains. In the mornings and evenings, you can breathe some fresh air coming from the mountains. I really like that fresh air, it's the best time for walking or doing sport, because in summer the rest of the day is really dry-hot weather and its unhealthy to walk in those conditions and more if you have sensitive skin and eyes xD.

I like to travel to my little village in summer, because it is a peaceful place to relax and to disconnect from everuthing, and also to see my grandparents and uncles who live there. Another reason why I like going there is that I remember great things I lived when I was a child.

While I am writing this a memory has just come to my mind: when I was little boy, in the first days of May it started to snow, IN MAY!!, and it settled for a few hours.
It was a very strange day!

An important day (by Ana Carcaño)

Two years ago, before starting 4th of ESO, I went to Ireland to study English . I was going to be there four months. Two weeks before I left, my friends prepared a surprise party for me, it was a farewell party.
I thought we were going to have dinner somewhere in Paseo Marítimo, but that was just what I thought. My friends had called my mum and they had told her about the party so that evening my friends Claudia and Naika came home and we got dressed as any other normal day. Naika asked me if she could borrow a scarf because she said it might be cold that night (that was a bit strange because August is a hot month in Mallorca) and I lent her my scarf.

Then my mum offered herself to take us to the restaurant. I was surprised because I thought we had to go with the bus asusual, and when we arrived to the car Naika covered my eyes with the scarf. At this moment I started to suspect that something was happening, anyway I thought we were going to Paseo Marítimo to have dinner. I had my eyes covered when we arrived and I started to hear some familiar voices. They were my friend's voices. Then I took out the scarf and I realised that we weren't at Marítimo, we were at Diablito from Puerto Portals, my friends had booked a table there. I said hello to everybody , I was very happy because I didn't expect anything. Then we had a great dinner at the restaurant and at the end I was given another surprise. My friends gave me presents! The gave me a beautiful necklace from Tous and a T-Shirt signed by all of them. We took a lot of pictures and after dinner we went home. It was a wonderful day!

A CELEBRATION (Andrés Pozo)

A party that for sure I will never forget was my girlfriend’s last year birthday party.
She is Canadian so, like the Americans, they celebrate “their sweet sixteen”.
A sweet sixteen is a very important day and they make a big deal of it, so usually the parties are huge!
It was on the second of July, so it was a lovely sunny day. She wanted to do something original, so she charted a yacht for 15 people. We all got up at nine o’clock in the morning at went walking from Son Caliu to Puerto Portals. When we arrived she was already waiting for us on the boat. We all got on it and sailed away! First we visited the small lovely beach close to Cala Mayor, we suntanned for a while and took a bunch of photos .Then we decided to go for a dip in the clean sea water.
Afterwards, we visited many more beaches and finally arrived at Magaluf . We got off and went to eat some lunch. When we arrived back at the boat it was time to open the presents! She got all sorts of stuff, the girls gave her separated gifts but since the boys didn’t really know what to give her, they made her a huge group picture so she could hang it on the wall of her room.

Later on, we continued our journey. We passed by lots of different beaches but most of them were filled with jellyfish so we didn’t go swimming.
We reached the port at eight o’clock and she had another party planned at night for another group of friends, which I was also invited too. So I rushed to my house, took a quick shower and got ready as fast as I could.
The restaurant where we had dinner was really cool. It was on the beach and it was very modern, with really cool decorations and furniture. We had a lovely dinner, and ate a carrot birthday cake! When we were all full, the party started! We all got dropped off in Magaluf and spent the whole night dancing in the disco . I arrived home at six o’clock and went straight to sleep! What a day!

A celebration (William Wu He)

My favourite celebration is Christmas Holidays. These days are full of peace, tranquillity, and the Christmas spirit is inside everybody. Now that I’ve grown up, Christmas celebration is worse than before, but when I was a child these days were full of magic.

I remember when I was 7 years old, I wanted Santa Claus to bring me the PlayStation One. For that reason, the whole year I had been a good boy without playing any pranks. I was hoping for Santa Claus to give me the PlayStation, but when I opened the gift, there was no PlayStation at all, the gift was a book of Harry Potter, the fourth book, the longest by far. At that moment I got angry and disappointed and I realized that Santa Claus didn't exist.

But two weeks later, in the 3 Kings celebration, the gift was the PlayStation, but I had just discovered the truth. Santa Claus and the Magic Kings were inventions.

In that moment I left behind my ingenuous mind and I became aware of reality. That was the beginning of my growing up phase.