Complaint letter Dear travel agency, last week I bought a voucher of 10 night stay on your travel agency. According to the salesman I was able to spend it in almost any hotel and whenever I wanted. However, I am became very disappointed when I could realize that the reality was by far very different from what the salesman told me. First, I cannot use whenever I want whatsoever. As long as all the hotels subscribed to the promotion are around Valencia. That is to say that the further hotel that I would be able to go is only 30 minutes by car from my house. Second, the salesman told me that I could use it whenever I want. That’s why I think that at least it still worth it, since I would spend it little by little. But, after all, it was another confusion of the salesmen. In fact, according to the conditions written on the back of the voucher I should have spent it by the end of July. All in all I did not mean to complain and I consider sharing it with some friends, but that was the last straw. Yesterday, when my friend tried to use it, the receptionist told him that the voucher could only be used by me. So, at the end of the day, I only have a useless and unused voucher due to the lack of responsibility and misinformation of your travel agency. Therefore, I would be very grateful if you could improve your conditions so that I could enjoy the weekends as I wanted in first place. Nevertheless if it could not be possible I want a completely refund. I do hope that you do not make me waste my time anymore. Thank you and I await your reply.

Regrets and whishes My biggest regret was to reject that job. “You’d better to reject the job” said my parents. What made us hate the job was the low salary, zero euros. They wouldn’t have even paid me for the petrol that I’d need to spend to do my job. However, the thing is that I wish I had taken it because now I’d have a better job. Usually a requirement to get a job is to have experience and I don’t have it at all. If only I had say “yes” they would have hire me for sure, who doesn’t want a free employee? After all, I also spend money looking for a job. On the other hand, my parents told me that if I do my job for free nobody will value what I do. Moreover I’d be letting them to take advantage of the current economic situation to do whatever they want. If I think twice, I realize that I did the right thing. P.S.: I made up the story!

One way of learning Children are very keen on having a pet while adults usually don’t like them as much. Why do children love pets? The answer is easy, because they are lovely, funny, always want to play and… nothing else. Children don’t see the responsibility of taking care of a living being, most of them think of a pet like a bicycle or a videogame. However, they won’t let their pet starving and little by little they’ll become more responsible. Nevertheless this way of teaching doesn’t work always, it depends on the parents. If the parents take of the pet instead of his son or daughter, he or she will learn nothing but to do only what he or she wants. But here is the thing that worries parents: what if my son or daughter doesn’t feed it properly? If I didn’t feed it neither, it would starve to death. Over years, experts have given the same answer to all those parents who ends giving up and taking care of the pet by themselves: your son would have feed his pet if you had teach him how to be responsible. That’s to say, pets don’t educate children by themselves even though some parents seems to think so. Actually pets are what help the parents to teach their children and make them see that apart from fun there are things that must be done even if we don’t like them.

A formal letter Dear Headmaster of the Italki high school, The purpose of this letter is to request permission to realize a course of “Computer drawing” at the high school. The idea is to teach new skills of drawing to the students of 7th grade. As requested this is the report concerning the elements needed to develop this course and the goals that we will achieve. Regarding the goals, by the time the students will have finished the course they will know how to face a real graphic design project. As I am sure you are concerned, we believe this have an extraordinary value to the future of those children. Nevertheless I am afraid that this new kind of education is far more expensive than the traditional one. I am well aware of this disadvantage and we have already made a list of the things we need. The huge part is of course related to the hardware, we will need at least one computer and one by student plus a software licenses. In conclusion, a big effort must be done in order to improve the reputation of the high school. We can not look the other way, technology is changing our students lifestyle and we must prepair them. Looking forward your answer, David.

3d printers are the future Long time ago everything was handmaded/handcrafted. As a consequence products were expensive because a lot of work was required to make them. Later on, the industrial Revolution brought us cheap products seeing as everything was done in factories. Since then, we produce almost everything (even food) in factories. However, have you ever thought how many people have your watch? Or how many people have that “special ring” that you bought to somebody? That’s the Achilles’ heels of industrialization. Nowadays, 3D printers are likely the perfect way of production to get cheap and unique products. So far, they have been used to print experiments or complex pieces (like prosthesis, etc.) But it’s only a matter of time that we’ll print our mugs, spoons, clothes or jewelry. By the time they will have got into our live, we’ll have changed completely the way of buying things because they will be downloaded. That’s why many people are keeping an eye on this new technology.

New school year I have started a new academic year. This year I will be studying Catalan too because I will need it for my work. Actually I don’t think I will use that language but it’s required to be a public employer. It has been 5 or 6 years since the last time I spoke or wrote in that language. That’s why I have found out that I’m mixing English and Catalan. Don’t get me wrong, my English is not so good! The thing is that I’m use to saying connectors like “so” or “what I mean”, etc. to earn a little extra time while I’m speaking. And now those words are crossing my mind when I’m thinking in Catalan. Thankfully Catalan is a very close language to me and I know that I will catch up soon. Unfortunately this language isn’t like English and it won’t open a new world as big as English has opened.

Speaking about a book As I don’t want to spoiler any book, I’m going to do a review of an invented one. Last week I finished reading “The book: 3rd part” and I found it very interesting. It’s a history about a teenager girl which has to take care of her family. The setting is in Mars due to the history is developed in the future. I usually don’t like futuristic stories but on this book they pretend that the new planet becomes more or less like the Earth with a few differences. Regarding the main character, the girl, is a responsible and sensible person. She is shy and even though she makes mistakes, she knows what is important and tries helping her family and friends as much as she can. Moreover, I’m really into the books where I am able to know what’s thinking the main character, like this one. In my opinion this makes it more gripping because somehow the author lets you be the main character: you can read whatever she does, speaks or thinks and draw your own conclusions. I recommend reading the whole trilogy because it’s very gripping and I’m quite sure that the end won’t disappoint you.

The future is now Last night I wanted to saw a film. It reminded me when I was a child and the films were rented. By the time we (the whole family) had got dressed to go to the video shop to choose a film, I had already decided my film yesterday. Once I have chosen it, I just got it from internet. As I finally got the film, a few years ago I probably had already been on the video shop. Later on I just played the film, while a few years ago I would have been coming back to home. Eventually a few years ago I had to return the film after seeing the film; certainly it was the worst part. That's why I think we are in the future. Whenever I want to be lazy and just saw a film, it needn't to get dressed, to walk and whatever no lazy stuff to see the film I want.

Neighbours I was walking to the supermarket, when I bumped into my old neighbour. She lived just underneath my old flat, which I rented. She greeted me. “Hi. How are you today?” I asked her. “So, so.. the new couple who lives upstairs are driving me crazy” answered her. She waited one second and added. “They have been arguing for 6 months! Last year today was when I met them and they seemed so happy. They had just come back from their honey moon, despite they didn’t got married, you know...” I nodded. I realised that if I had left my house just 30 seconds after, at that moment I would have already arrived to the supermarket rather than gossip. She went on: “At the beginning I only listened to laughs. I am not a gossip person, you know, but it’s not bad to know you neighbours” “Listen, I’ve to go, sorry” I told her. “No, no, wait. It is said that will be divorced by the next month… I guess that if they don’t get on well, it’s for the best. So… will you come back? Or will you rent it again?” “I’m very sorry, but I really have to go” I told her again. “All right, call me back if you want to know anything else” she answered while she started to walk.