Especially vs specially Morning everyone, I allways make the same mistake: I don't really know when I should apply especially and when specially. Could you help me please? Thank you in advance!

Amenities, facilities, services Hi there, When you would use amenities, facilities and services? Their meaning is almost the same, isn't it? Thank you!!

Version vs cover version Hello there, I have a doubt: what is the different in meaning between "cover" & "cover version" (talking about music)? Thank you in advance!

The two-party predominance ending It is clear that we have had a two-party predominance system since almost the beginning of Spanish democracy. Every 4 years, when the polls take place, PP (right wing) and PSOE (left wing) fight among themselves in order to get the majority. Personally, I think it only makes undermine the population and the democracy. In our two-party system, the parties don’t make a difference when they come to power. While they are in electoral campaign they claim to be concerned about society different problems and promise to uphold the causes if they win. Even so, at the end parties do nothing to work out them and Spain is declining every year; we are in recession, the public spending is constantly decreasing, the unemployment rate is soaring, there are cutbacks in education and the tuition fees are increasing continually. Furthermore, people lose faith on politics when they are struggling to meet ends met while politicians become more corrupt than ever. By other hand, when the government launches a new initiative and all the politicians have to vote against or for it, any of the members of a party are able to vote in a different way of the party. If they do, they are punished with a fee and a political penalty. In other words, there is not a real democracy and population loses faith too on that. They decide to vote isn’t worth. Hardly anyone bother to vote in comparison with the first democracy ages. Nevertheless, something has changed in last elections and there are new parties which do come across to be aware of the current society problems. I am fairly expectant to see how they can do make the difference in our country or, at least, how the two old parties are going to reach an agreement with the new ones.

Easter Sunday In Carcabuey Carcabuey is a little village situated in the heart of Andalucía. Their citizens live from the agriculture, especially the agriculture of olives. Our olive oil has been considered several times as the best world olive extra oil in the world. But this is not the unique wonderful thing of this stunning village. Carcabuey is an amazing place in which spending your holidays at any season of the year is always a good bet. Easter Sunday is an especial day. We celebrate it as if it would be carnival. It dates back over 300 years, when a religious brotherhood included a real fast and penance in Easter. When this week ended, people celebrated a big party in order to satiate the previous shortage. As the people who belonged to this brotherhood dressed in purple, we call Purple Sunday to the Easter Sunday. In the morning, people go out to enjoy the "murgas", who go over the village making an exersice of critique about, not only the behaviour of different citizens, but also the local goverment. They make this show dressin up with costume according a theme they are selected, and singing the critical letters while travelling in a customized float too. Just after lunch time, all people go back at home in order to dress up. At 5 o'clock a parade begins from a historic square of the village and go over the main streets, where everypeople join to them. This parade is made up of people dressed up and led by a steel drum band. On hour later, there are no people in streets without wearing a costume. The party goes on in the streets where the pubs and tavernas have built temporal bars and have got out their sound system outside and there is music everywhere. At night, a gig begins playing cover versions that people sing along and dance until 6 or 7 in the morning, when the party finishs with a communal breakfast in the main square. You could see a brief video summary here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=h0N6kSAeUeo

A wedding vs being sent to jail It was Friday. 8th July 2011. The day after everything would be over after all. I couldn’t believe it. It had been the most stressful month ever. The last week was especially hard. I remember that I was really overwhelmed; going back and forth, without sleeping, solving every kind of problem that could happen those days. I was definitely worn out. I was driving to the country house where it was supposed we were going to spend all the weekend. I felt pretty nervous, exited indeed. I only wished everything could run smoothly. I had just left the motorway in order to take the regular road towards Vejer. Suddenly, in a crossroad, a policeman indicated I had to stop. He submitted me to a breathalyzer test in which I got 0’0. However, he decided not to let me go. In fact, he asked my driving licence. I felt embarrassed because I had blocked my glove box with some stuff so I couldn’t reach the document. Finally, I got them and the policeman could check everything was fine. Even so, he began to look and check the rear of the car. The rows of seats were folded and it was plenty of weird stuff. He asked me – ‘What is it for?’. I just told him about the weeding. Immediately his face chanced and said ‘If you want, you can be held in custody several days, so you could avoid to get married’. PS Curiously, in Spanish "esposados" means both; handcuffed and married. ;-)

Writing a review I have to learn to write a review in English. I have always thought that if you know to write (I mean, if you like writing and you have ability to do it) it is easy to do it regardless of the language you write in. But... I'm studying for B2 certification this year and my English teacher is pretty strict. She says how many paragraph we have to write and what about in each one. It's not only a suggestion but a mandatory matter. I always enjoy studying languages. I really love it! However this severity makes me not to enjoy as much as I'd like. What do you think about rigidity and languajes learning? PS Do you mind to correct my previous entry about a book review, please?

A really neglected city – Can you image which is it? The last book I read was “In the country of last things” by Paul Auster. It has been my first not adapted book written in English and, despite of that, I have to say that I have really enjoyed reading it. This book is about a future dystopia that takes place in a grand and well-known city of USA. The main theme of the film is the search for a missing man in a neglected society. The story is writing in first person by Anna Blume, the main character. She leads the reader into a new world characterized by massive unemployed, lack of food and housing, sore the price of basic consumer goods, and, consequently, a widespread desire to die. The story grips you and keeps you turning the pages, especially when Anna begins to meet the other characters of the book. One of them has a particular way of being and living that ensures an amazing second part, in which he is the main character. Love, friendships, murders, vanishings,… You can find them all reading this special book. The country of last things is a delight to read. I can only hope that from a writer of this talent, the following part will be as exciting as the first one is indeed.

La vita ti cambia tui piani La domenica escorsa habiamo fatto il transferimento de tuta nuestra vita a un'altra cittá, perche volevamo éssere piú vicini al mio nuovo posto di lavoro. Siamo stati per 3 settimane cercando piso, pensando molto e perfino litigando per scélere la citta dove cercare e anche le caratteristiche che volevamo. Inoltre, io avevo cercato altre 5 persone per condividere con loro il viaggio e costi quotidiani per arrivare a Jerez. Soltanto, in apena 5 minuti tutti cambia. Una chiamata ci modifica la vita. Altra cittá, altra ricerca di piso, altro lavoro,... Questa é una di tante volte che penso che non hai bisgno de pensare tanto nella vita. Lei ti porta lo che vuole cuando vuole, e tutti quanto hay pensatto prima, non hai mai senso. Ci andiamo in Córdoba. "Che sará, sará..."