Carnival Time

Carnival is a time of colour, music, dance, original costumes, funny parades and above all, cheerful atmosphere in the streets. Certainly, this celebration breaks has broken the daily routine every February since for thousands of years.

It is said that it was popularizated by Romans and then was espraid spread to of the rest of the Europe and America, taking on some peculiarities according to the in each place.

What I like most is the creativity displayed in many fancy dress so many costumes. In addition, I admire the desing? and beauty of many masques used for cover the face. In fact, some of them are truly pieces of art. However, I might feel a bit uncomfortable in a party with people using masques. Although the masques were used in many cultures for different purpose such as in the theatre, for dance, religious ceremonies etc, the inexpressive and unkown face creates distrust, some mystery and inhibition.

On the whole, the Carnival will be alive for many a long time. These days, many schools has an active participation on actively participate in it and even there are even more businesses around this show that do. Happy Carnival!

I'm jealous!  I wish Carnival had spread to my part of the Americas!  Glad you enjoyed, Mila!

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It is believed that your family will always be by your side doing and important supportive task playing an important and supportive role, but there are people who think that friends could/might be the best family you have ever had.

Firstly, the activities you do with your family mostly are mostly traditional events like the typical meal at Christmas or celebrations for the someone's birthday of someone else. On the other hand, with your friends you tend to do more recreational activities, such as clubbing or travelling around the world, so your own enjoyment would depend on the situation.

Moreover, if you ask your family for advice, you should take into account that your problems could make them worried, so it is better to choose carefully what you say. In contrast, it is probably true that your friends would give you a more reasonable suggestion/better advice in order to help you.

Therefore, your family makes your education possible at school, where you met some of your current friends. Because of this, we ought to be grateful for having the chance to meet such an incredible people.

In my opinion, family is more important than friends because they will be there for you forever, even if your friends disappoint you or fail you in a particular moment.

Great job and great analysis, Mamen!

An important person in your life.  www.capitalizemytitle.com

Talk about an important person in your life. What role does this person have/play in your life? What are the reasons why you have chosen him/her? Tell an anecdote or talk about a memory you share with this person.

The person most important person in my life is obviously my daughter. She is three years old and was born in Almeria. Although her father is from Galicia, she is very Andalusian. She has brown eyes and curly hair, which is brown too, like her eyes. She is a likeable girl and always smiling. In general, she is my happiness. The role my daughter has in my life is all-encompassing, because I like doing everything with her. Also, she and I often are together because I´m looking after her every afternoon as she usually goes to school in the morning. So, she and I are together in the afternoon. It´s unnecessary say that she is a good girl. The reason why that I have chosen her is clear; we aren´t special people. For everybody their children are the most important in their lives. It´s very usual normal.
An anecdote that I can say tell is, for example, when we are at home after lunch every day and I tell her, ‘Nieves, we are going to sleep some minutes’ soon and she says, ‘I´m not mummy, I´m not going to bother you, you sleep you’. Then, I want to give her a big kiss.

Could you correct me, please?

Great job, and very sweet!

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I'm going to talk today about a good guy who I've recently known is from another website similar to this one. We started to talk since because he was looking for someone who can/could help him with Spanish. And I was very happy to help him because I was also looking for someone who can help me with English. Now we are good friends, and we talk everyday on WhatsApp.

He doesn't speak Spanish yet; he's just a beginner. So basically we talk in English. I'd better say "we write" because he is still not ready to have a spoken conversation in both languages; he needs to study a bit more and eventually he will be ready. But I'm happy because I see he's doing making an effort everyday and he keeps key words and verbs in mind.

I'm also learning a lot, specifically about American English and culture in general. He tells me everyday things about American culture and modal phrases he uses commonly. By the way he lives in South Carolina. We also usually talk usually about series and movies, as we both enjoy it them and we have similar tastes (I'm not sure about the last expression, what I mean is that we like mostly the same things). For example, one day he told me he had been to Cheers in Boston, the bar from the famous TV series and showed me pictures of that moment. That was amazing! I loved that series when I was a child.

Summarizing/In summary/Overall, I'm very happy because I see how a language exchange can be very positive experience, not only as a way to improve your language skills but to learn how other cultures work and, of course, and most important, to find interesting people and good friendship. I hope we can meet soon and have some beers!

Excellent job, Victor!

The Pilgrimage to Santiago

Every year pilgrims, all over the world, arrive to in Santiago de Compostela to visit Santiago's cathedral and to see the statue of the saint, Apostle Santiago. It is a tradition that started in the Middle Ages. One thousand years ago, the society was very religious and Christians, from different parts of Europe, walked a lot of many kilometers to obtain the protection of from Apostle Santiago. The pilgrimage was so important that there were books with some/various tips to for pilgrims to follow in order to complete the pilgrimage with success. Some ways routes started in the centre of Europe and finished in Santiago crossing some several countries.
Nowadays, we live in a less religious society less religous than some hundreds of years ago, but this route of pilgrimage continues being important to a lot of people. The motivations are not the same that as in the Middle Ages, but the use of this route is a fantastic form to show way of showing the beauty of some regions of Spain, especially Galicia.

Great job, Ramón!  I would love to see Galicia someday.

Should Professional Athletes Take Performance-Enhancing Drugs?

Most people believe that professional athletes shouldn´t take drugs to enhance performance. However, others maintain that ‘why not’. In addition, They people don´t know where the limit is. For example, if an athlete has a headache, could he or she take an aspirin?
This fact would make that the athlete feel better and he or she could compete and even win. Like that, There are many similar medicines better: remedies that we could mention.
In addition, why are drugs forbidden for professional athletes? Because they are unhealthy for them, but, is the extreme training good for health? How many things should we forbid? I´d like to recommend to people with power to who decide these things that they have to forbid everything, above all football. This sport should be removed in from the world. Although However, I wouldn´t make the same argument with basketball. Not only is Spanish Selection second in the world, but also they have won many titles through the over time.
As far as I´m concerned, I think Pau Gasol is the best in the world and he has never taken any drugs.

Thanks for your thoughts!  The football part gave me a chuckle!  Great job!