The happiest day of my life! There have been several happy days along my life but, without any doubt, the happier of them was when I arrived in San Frnacisco, CA to spend a fortnight holiday. Moreover, I was celebrating that I had passed successfully the public state competitive examination and I became a civil servant. I was looking forward to travel to this wonderful city because is the place in the world I like most. I had watched this city on the TV hundreds of times, but being there was an amazing experience. Despite my happiness, at first, I was a little worried about people carrying guns everywhere and anytime but, this fear wasn't justified. Every American we met was extremely kind with us and we felt safe anytime, even walking along the street in the middle of the night. The only thing to complain about this fantastic city is the fact that probably, San Francisco is the most expensive city I've visited in my entire life. I realised of that when a waitress from a road diner ask us for a twenty dollars tip after our first lunch. Both of us were petrified. Anyway, I want to come back there but first, I need to save a huge amount of money!

Teleworking! Telework is another advantage that modern tech companies such as "starts up" have brought nowadays. Having a teleworking job allows people stay at home and work from there. You avoid commuting everyday and it's not necessary to lose your temper in a traffic jam during the rush hour. Moreover you cut down on expenses like petrol and money for lunch and if you work by shifts, usually, they are very flexible. The company also gets advantages because workers hardly ever take a medical leave or a "sickie" (a day pretending being sick). Also there are no problems of labour harassment. A friend of mine who works as a translator, puts Spanish subtitles in some TV shows to allow deaf people watching TV in an accessible way and his office is a beautiful cottage in the middle of the countryside...his own house.

Food, food, food!! I´m going to talk about mediterranean diet. Secondly, I´ll talk about a special food in my hometown and finally, I´ll speak about a family gathering. I´ve had the opportunity of tasting a lot of foreigner foods and I like them, but I really like spanish and italian food, I mean, mediterranean food. Fortunatelly, as I live in Spain I have the chance of having a mediterranean diet, the most healthiest diet in the world. This one consists of eating a lot of vegetables, fruits, olive oil, wine and so on. This diet pevents diseases like cholesterol, diabetes, heart attacks, obesity or overweight and extends our life expectance more than people with other diets. About the special food in my hometown, every year, in the summer, around the fifteenth of August, all people of the village eat a big "paella" in the main square of the village. A catering company cooks a "paella" for five hundred people at least. The neighbours bring to the square portable tables and chairs, coolers full of drinks like beer, wine, soft drinks, etcetera. Some people are in charge of making "sangría", a typical spanish drink made with red wine, alcohol, fruits like peach, apple, pear and a lot of sugar. It´s very important to drink it as cold as possible. Regarding a family gathering, the most special I remember is Christmas Eve dinner. All family members go to my parents´ house to have dinner together. While the parents cook, we set the table with the best tablecloth, glassware, crockery and cutlery. We usually eat as a appetizer prawns, salmon, mussels, octopus and so on. As a main course we have roast lamb; my mother also make a spanish omelet (también sirve omelette) and sausages for her grandchildren. We usually drink cider with the seafood and red wine with the meat. We don´t eat any fruit that night. As a dessert, my sister in law always brings a homemade cake. Dinner ends eating some typical christmas sweets, nuts ,making a toast with champagne and singing christmas carols. This is all.

Amazing Berlin! Last Summer I spent a whole month in Berlin. As everybody knows, Berlin is the capital city of Germany and it’s located in the North-East of the country, two hundred miles south from the Baltic Sea and close to the Polish border. Berlin has a lot of highlights places and a huge cultural offer. Its recent history, with facts such as the Berlin wall fall and the World War II, still surrounds its different neighborhoods. In my opinion, the most shocking place in this exciting city was the abandoned airport of Tempelhof which currently is a wide park in the middle of the city also called ‘Mitte’. Instead some people could think, Berlin inhabitants are very friendly and open-minded people. Physically most of them are very tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. While I was there the weather was warm and the sun shined almost every day and the temperature was delightful, but in Winter it can easily reach to 20 degrees below zero.

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Boys&Girls When I was a little boy I attended to a state school where boys and girls studied together, unlike my sister who is four years older than me and went to a religious school only for girls. I remember myself playing while breaks at the playground of the school with boys and girls. At this time I had as much boyfriends as girlfriends. There were some girls who played soccer as well as many boys. Furthermore, family is, in my opinion the main socializing agent and the most important factor to avoid gender discrimination. In my own case, there weren’t differences between my mother and father doing the household chores, because both of them had full-time jobs. I think it’s important the example that parents show to their children independently they were boys or girls. It doesn’t matter! Of course there are nature differences between men and women. Usually men are physically strongest than women (not always) and, a few years ago, there were jobs such as builder or truck driver where it was hard to find women doing them but nowadays, farmers for instance have machinery which allow them do their job easily and faster than before.

A hunted house? I’m going to tell you a horror story which happened to me many years ago. I don’t believe in ghosts, witches, wizards or hunted houses but, something strange happened to me at my parents house when I was young and I cannot still forget it. My parents owned a big, old house in a little village in the Pyrenees area. The house was surrounded by mountains and it's an isolated place. Easily it could take you two and a half hours getting there from anywhere. I used to go there with my family mainly in Christmas, Easter and Summer holidays. My bedroom was in the third floor of the house and it was the only room there so, I used to sleep alone. How I like sleeping locked myself in my room, every night I didn’t forget putting the key on the door and locked it but, every morning, when I woke up the door was fully open. Nightly, the same thing happened… I was terrified.. I didn't understand nothing! Finally I found out that my mother, scared because the possibility that something wrong could happen to me during the night, had a spare key of my room and every night, before going to bed, she made sure that my room’s door was unlocked.

Make a wish When I make a wish I’m not too much ambitious asking for… last year for instance, in my birthday I blew the candles and I make an only one: to live forever. There are wishes and, on the other hand, there are New Year’s resolutions. In both of them I’m always asking for the same things: being healthy, rich.. bla, bla.. quit smoking, studying harder…bla, bla… Sometimes I wish just stuff such as a new laptop, a new mobile phone, a smart TV or new clothes… things that I don’t need at all, and mostly because I’m influenced by ads I watched on the TV. What I mean to say was that we spent lot of time… actually it’s a waste of time, wishing rubbish and we are not aware about everything we already have.

Paterna Summer Festival! The last festival I have attended to was the Paterna Summer Festival. Last week Paterna, which it’s a little village next to the east coast of Spain, was celebrating its Summer festival. I live in Beniferri so it takes me only a few minutes driving to get there. At the festival there are gigs, stalls with food, jewellery, sweets… like in a fair. The big deal is that the festival is crowded because people come here from everywhere so you have to get there early in the afternoon firstly to find a parking slot and then to have a seat close to the stage. The main performance in the festival it’s a flamenco show with the most famous singers and dancers of Spain. Another well known event it’s “La Cordà”. Hundreds of people wearing special clothes set off firecrackers and fireworks inside a huge cage (as you can see at the picture below). A few years ago they used to do that in the street, but it was very dangerous and every year there were many people injured and burned so today, the council city hall has forbidden this practice outdoors.