Great movies that I have last seen Even though it's supposed to be the time of Avatar, the Twilight saga or the new Harry Potter movie, I have had the opportunity to watch some other great movies this year. I know these three tapes are quite the most appreciated movies; but I'd just like to focus on productions such as Inception, Toy Story 3, Buried or even "lighter" one like Up in the air or The A-Team. "Inception" has been the nice surprise of 2010, that's for sure. Maybe, in my opinion, there are people who rate this movie too high. Anyway I like the way it's told along with the original plot. However it's clear that it is expected to make a great deal of money and that means that there are some "required" aspects, that were not required at all. You also can have a good time by simple seeing Up in the air, a comedy by George Clooney, which deals with the problem of being away most of the time; and The A-Team, a funny movie that doesn't pretend to win any awards but it's able to make you feel good. Any suggestion? Everyone to his own taste!

"Need success? I need Spain" I found out today the way Spain is "sold" abroad. The question here is that, as any other nation in the world, my country tries to get more investment and improve the export rate of the national products. And there is a way to do it: it's called "place marketing" or "nation branding". "Need success? I need Spain" is the slogan of the Spanish campaign. The point is to take some advantage of the great performance of the national team in this summer's Football World Cup. Ideas such as teamwork, beauty and passion are related to the football team as well as the nation in concepts like planning, design and excellence. I really like all this new idea of the brand nation, along with all the feelings and emotions that are required to success in this issue.

What is your favourite destination when going on holiday? (For example, mine is Barcelona)

rober83's notebook entry: Sep 28, 2010 Hello! News from Spain. Despite the nice weather that we are enjoying at the moment, it's not a time for optimism in this country. The reason is that tomorrow the whole nation is expected to go on strike, as a result of the inefficient decisions made to face the economic situation. It turns out that the figures on people who neither work or study is higher than ever and we can't expect them to change for the short term. No matter what, it seems to me that it's always sad when things like these happen. We are aware of other important countries such as Germany which are really working on getting over and are actually close to get it. Thank you everyone!!

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hello everyone! I'm new at this website and I'm looking forward to meeting new people who are interested in learning English as well. I hope there will be lots of people around here in the mood for having some talk!