Christmas days I was really out in those last weeks. Usually, I don’t know what propose write about, but I have to improve my writings so I am going to try write what else. During this last weeks, I went to London for a few days. I was in a Christmas Park in Hyde Park call Winter Wonderland, and all the people wore Christmas jumpers. The city was beautiful decorated, and there was a lot of Christmas markets. I tasted a hot wine called musle, but I didn’t like it very much. I was skating over ice, I can’t do it in my city, so I really appreciated that. Although London is a shopping city, I not really get into shopping so I only bought some books and an umbrella. This last ‘holidays’ I have cheers with friends and family, but I missed some people too, that is the worse about Christmas. Tomorrow is the last day, when East kings come to children’s houses to leave gifts. And next Tuesday everything come back to the routine. My next trip is to New York, I am anxious to pass this month. I know this text is boring, step by step my friend.

Have you ever been in London?

Next weekend I'm going to London. I've arldeady been there two times before. I'm going to travel with some friends of me. They have a couple of friends living there, so one day we will make an appointment with them.

 

I've already been in the street markets: Candem, Portobello, Bricklane (this last is my favourite, I don't know why). I was in a theatre musical, The wonderful Oz Wizard (¿?). I walked by High Park, I've visited the The Tate, The National Gallery, The British Museum. I've never been in Madame Tausee, maybe this time, I don't Know. I walked next to the Thames, I saw the St. Paul Cathedral....

 

To sum up, I am the perfect tourist, I have a reflex camera of course, so If you had ever been in Londo, If you live there or If you know a lot of things of this city of Babel, what special and personal (event, pub, concert.... place with a beautiful landscape...) would you recomend me?

 

 

Thanks international great people!

Have you ever been in London? I'm going to London next week for a few days. Which places do you recomend me?This is my third time, so I've already known the common tourist places, so if you know some interesting place I would be very grateful. Thank you for your attention.

Translate Spanish-English. Grecia está formada por dos zonas diferentes: continental e insular y una tercera zona en la antigüedad que fue colonizada y aculturalizada: la costa de Asia Menor (Turquía). Su clima es mediterráneo y son pequeños valles separados por montañas. Este conjunto de factores condiciona la organización política (en ciudades-Estado) y la actividad económica (agricultura, ganadería y comercio marítimo). The Antic Greece was completed by two different zones: continental and an island, and another zone that in the antic was colonized: The Minor Asia cost (Turkey). Its weather was Mediterranean and its geography was made up by little valleys separated by mountains. This group of factors conditioned the politic organization (state-cities) and the economic activities (agriculture, cattle and the sea business).

How many ways to say 'because of', 'por culpa de' do you know? I need examples in sentences with 'due to' and perhaps 'owing to', that's ok? thanks

The Amazing Catfish II, or Panzer Chocolate destruction I was talking about a cinema festival..... What was the film makes me disappoint? The festival made a world premier last Friday, the film called Panzer Chocolate, I saw it, it was awful. The most important point in the film was that you can use your cell phone during the movie and see another images or information that you can’t find in the movie. It’s supposed that you doesn’t need the phone to understand the story, but when the film is over you can see another end’s story in your phone, like a magic book or a game where you choose the ending. Well, during the film all the people, including me, were most expected to what ‘s going happened in the phone than was really happen in the screen, all the people were talking about it during the film, all the people repeated the scenes in the phone so you were heard all this noise. In addition to this, one woman in front of me had a little computer was running faster, I could see the end of the film fifteen minutes earlier. And the worst of the film, it was in English but the casting were Spanish, so it was very weird, the actor who makes the wicked professor had catalonian accent, it’s seem Eduardo Punset in Redes. Well my friend liked this film, awesome.

The Amazing Catfish This week I went to the International Cinema Festival of Gijon, I saw several films, one of my favorites vvas The Amazing Catfish. This film was a contestant in the competition. However, it didn’t won anything here in Gijón, the director, Claudia Sainte-Luce, won the International Critic’s Prize in Toronto, and the Young Jury Prize in Locarno. The amazing catfish it’s about a young called Claudia, who lives alone in Mexico and one day she has to go to the hospital because of a severe case of appendicitis. There she meets her room’s mate Silvia, and her four children, three girls and a boy. Claudia is very unsociable, but Silvia is so confident and talkative than when both of them leave the hospital, Silvia convinces Claudia to go home with she and her family. At first it was just a lunch but then Silvia’s Family necessities give Claudia a reason to entry in this particular family. This film is the Opera Prima, or the first film of the director. Before the film started, the director Claudia Sainte-Luce, made a introduction about herself and the film. She said few words, but in essential, what most take me on fancy was that she said that the story was based in her own life, and she was grateful of this family who had helped her and they had made possible that she was there in that moment. I supposed that for that reason I burst in tears at the end of the movie, it was like Titanic. The end was very emotional, you can imagine, the mother died, you know that since the beginning, because she has a terminal disease AIDS. It doesn’t mean an unhappy ending, it has a positive message anyway: Claudia finds a family. The public in the event had to vote, I gave it a 10, obviously. I think It something impress you in this way is have to be good. In the other hand, my friend didn’t like the film, he said it was very predictable. I didn’t believe him, or maybe he didn’t has good taste for films.

And Sunday always come too late Well, today is Sunday. What do the people in my country on Sundays? Generally, we go to the street markets and we take a vermouth (a cup of wine), but nowadays because of the crisis, we have other options… fly markets! Since several months ago, and overall in this special dates (Christmas is near), normal people like me or you, go with their old things, clothes, book, furniture… to a special events where they can buy it for low cost. You have to pay for a space in the market 30€, more or less, it depends of the event. Every market is independent and there is one usually once a month but not in the same Sunday. For example, my city, the last Sunday of the month there is a market in the Train`s museum, and today I went to another market that it was in a memorable old Disco, we were in the dance floor under the disco lights, actually, you couldn’t see very much. I bought an old Long Play vinyl, the soundtrack of the film….I don’t know its name in English. In Spanish has another title, Julie Andrews with Von trap family, surely, you know it. In the market, there was a place to buy handmade ships, and a bar obviously, to take drinks. And that’s all. Thank you for your patient.

I won't understand how I become an artist. Previously in Maria’s diary…. (read my introduction if you want). Hello everybody, in my introduction I explained that I go to a languages school and one of the extra, optional activities is The Theatre Club. Well, I went to my first meeting yesterday. I didn’t understand much because I’ve never been in a Theatre club before, and of course, I’ve never acted before too. The point is we have to make several performances along the year in the building of the school, sometimes in the cafeteria, sometimes in the library, in the hall, and in the corridors (How do you say ‘incluso en los pasillos’?). We have to play comic sketches that they take around 4 minutes, in English. The teacher sent to our emails an acrobat reader archive that contains the scripts. Furthermore, I had to read a script in the class yesterday; my role was a train inspector. Actually, the scripts aren’t too funny, but they are easy to understand. Then we had to choose the script for every group of two or three or (‘incluso’) four people. The teacher looked at me and said, ‘I see you Maria in this story, you will be a housewife who open the door when a salesman coming to your house’ (:S) and she chose me and another guy called T. I have and another minor role in a story called ‘Slow food’, I’m an angry costumer. That’s all. Have a nice day!