Mark and Mathew story. Mark.Hi Mathew, how are you? Today is a very hot day, isn’t it? Mathew. Hi Mark, I am glad to see you, it had been a long time without you. About the weather not at all, at least for me. Mark. Are you serious? I am feeling like walking on the desert. Mathew. Don’t make me laugh. The desert is worst, you must believe me. Mark. How do you know about it? Mathew. because I had been surviving on the desert for 2 days when I visited my relatives last summer. Mark. Why did you keep it in secret? I didn’t know about it. Mathew=.I didn’t keep it in secret. You can see the photos in my Instagram. Mark. I have Instagram, but I don’t use it too much, I don’t like to be connected all the time. But could you die? Mathew. Yes but it is Ok, isn’t matter. Now I am alive, and maybe I am a little wiser. Mark. But why did you risk your live in the desert? Mathew. I didn’t know that I was risking my life. But it is true, I risked my life because of an meteorite. For the night in Morocco we saw how a meteorite hit in the desert. My relatives told me that we could go at the morning, but I knew where it fell, so when we went to sleep I decided to look for the meteorite in the desert. I was pretty sure where it fell, but what I didn’t expect was the distance. I had been looking the meteorite for all night until dawn when I found it. It was a rock like a punch. ¡This experience was awesome, I was so happy. Mark. so how did you return with your relatives? Mathew. I waited for someone. You know, I was where the meteorite fell, so someone should come to check the zone. I built a settle with some of my clothes and a stick to keep myself safe of the sun. I didn’t have any water or food. The only thing that I could do was to keep my mouth closed. Maybe the worst part was to keep a healthy thinking. When you are alone, and your life is in risk, some crazy ideas can appear suddenly in your head. Mark.What kind of problem did you had? Mathew. the shadow of my settle wasn’t enough for my large body. When I started to get burnt, I just hid my legs inside the sand. Then I realize that I could feel better and started to hide my body, except my head Which was covered with my improvised settle. Mark What did you do? Mathew. I just tried to sleep. ¡ I woke up at the hospital. My relatives found me. They knew that I was stupid enough to go to the desert by the night to try to look for an asteroid. But it was worth doing, because now I have a meteorite in my room.

My trip to "Dos Hermanas" My cousin and I hadn’t seen each other for 3 years when we started to talk on social media. So I decided to visit him.The first thing that we did was to have a meal with my cousin’s parents. We were staying in “ Dos Hermanas” which is a smaller town than Seville. There my cousin helped me to fix my bass. We talked about my illness, about work, and about music. Then we went to my cousin’s girlfriend’s home. He showed me his new self-made guitar, and we started to play some music. We love to play vulfpeck music. So we decided to record some music with a great microphone recorder, then we improvised some kind of blues structure for more than 10 minutes. I had been visiting him in Seville for 3 days when I discovered a new game. The name of this game is ‘Overcooked’. You can download this game from Steam; it is a multiplayer game. You can play with up to four people. so if you know about Overcooked, it is a game that can be a little bit stressful, although I laughed a lot playing with my cousin and his girlfriend. On the last day, I met with Eusebio to travel back to my town. In the beginning of the trip he seemed nice, but at the end of the trip he drove so fast inside the city which scared me.

Mark Goffeney. Mark Goffeney is a 46 years old man who lives in San Diego, California, and he is a professional guitar player and bass player. Actually he plays with his feet. He was born without arms, so for him it was very natural, for example, to play with his toys, fight against his brothers, and deal with everything with his feet. At the age of 18, he started to look for musicians to start a rock band. At the beginning, everyone accepted him in their bands because he played the guitar with his feet, so he had to learn to separate the real musicians from the posers. Then he decided to form his own band, "Wicked Misfit", and after a couple of years chasing this rock star dream, he decided to play music that could make money and could support his family. That's where everything started feeling good and working out. I think about his life, and I realize that the worst part was dealing with the differences, because to deal with daily life without hands is ok, but to fight against people’s assumptions of his abilities , not hiding the fact that he was born with no arms in his normal life, makes me think about how obsessive we can be about people who are different.

Scuba divnig The first time I tried scuba diving was when I was living in Cairns in North Queensland, Australia. I was travelling around the world and I decided to stop and work for a few months. I had been on a gab year between finishing university and beginning work. Years before, someone told me the best way to see the coral reef was scuba diving. The diving I did on the Great Barrier Reef was fantastic. As I was diving I saw spectacular marine life.

Mushrooms One day I was at home when my friend phoned and suggested going out to the forest and picking some mushrooms. At first, I thought it was a crazy idea, but I went anyway and quite enjoyed it. Here is my advice for people who want to do the same. Preparations. a) The first thing that you need to know about mushrooms is the perfect season to pick them. You know in summer you have the pool, in winter you have fireplace, in spring you have a lot of flowers , and then you have the season for the walks and mushrooms Autumn .It is nice to have a walk on the forest in autumn, and of course with a basket to collect mushrooms. It is better if you go by the morning. b) The best place to do that is the forest, or near trees. c) Before the walk you should check the weather. For example if the temperature is going to be cold, and the winter is going to blow fast I recommend you to wear warm clothes and a pair of good boots. In the forest. a) In the forest you should be careful, because of the animals and accidents. Try to be quiet and don’t splash trash on the forest. b) Go with someone who know which mushrooms to pick. The wild mushrooms are very dangerous, there are some of them that can kill a person in a few hours. c) Try to don’t get lost. It is very easy to get lost, so try to no use shortcuts, or separate from the person who know the path. At home a) Once you have the mushrooms you have to cut them in a half, put them in a ball with salt water inside the fridge a few hours . This is going to help to run the bugs inside of them out. b) Keep the water. c) After that you can dry them with a piece of cook paper. Cover them with the paper and wait a few minutes. d) Then you can prepare them to fry. It is very easy, just prepare a mix with eggs and milk and use another container with flour. mix the mushrooms with this mix, and then cover the mushrooms with flour, then you can fry them.

Swimming in the sea. To know you edges. a) First of all, you should try to swim in a pool. b) Practice some of the techniques to swim on opens waters. c) If you don’t know how to swim ask for some teacher. Preparations. a) Buy a buoy, There are some of this with a whistle, b) Keep some water, something to eat and your phone inside. c) Think about the weather. In summer you won’t need a diver suit. d) Try to persuade another friend to go with you on canoe. Don’t panic. a) If you and your friend start to drag on a current. You can use your whistle to call the life guard. b) You can use your phone if the life guard is not able to listen to you. c) If you lose your phone and the life guard is not able to listen to you. Don’t panic. d) Don’t swim against the current, with that you will loose your energy. e) Try to keep the water and the food that you have. f) Wait there will be some one who will be worried about you.

The healthy walk Two days ago my friend Stuart went to walk near of the river. He feels pain on his back, but he makes an effort because the doctor said him that in order to recover himself, he should have a walk each day. When we meet, we talk about our lifes, and I try to encourage himself telling him that he should keep it walking each day, because now he looks healthier, he just answer to me with one gaze. The last time we met he told me that he was feeling much better, so to work out every day is a plan that it is helping successfully. I think that the doctor told to Stuart the plan a little bit rude. I know that if you want to learn something or start a new habit, it takes one month for your brain. Maybe to prevent to give up the healthy plan the doctor could say that he could try just one month, because it easier to manage to do something during one month than to do something the rest of your life. But now it isn't matter. I think that also he could have a go at another sport, like swiming, but each time that I mention to try out to swim he answer to me that he has enough with walking. I don't want to pressure at this point, because when we try something new is important to motivate ourselfs to keep it up doing watever we started.

MY FRIEND, THE CAT. Write a story with this phrasal verbs. give up/ have a go at/ keep it up/ keep to/ make an effort/ manage to/ successsfully/ try out/ Work out. MY FRIEND, THE CAT. The first time I saw that grey and brown cat, I tried out to make a new friend, I thought that if I shared a piece of cookie he would become my friend. When I showed him the piece of cookie he just broke the distance to had a go at this new bite. Then the car arrived and I went to work. The second time I saw this creature, he saw me. He manage to try another bite, and keep it up as a token of our friendship, but this time, I didn't have any cookie. Then he just started to bite me. This time I got away from him. Our friendship doesn't working out very well. I thought "I have to give up this relation" . Then as always, the car arrived, and I went to work. The third time I saw him. I really wanted to recover our friendship and keep to it. And he seemeed to want the same. But one more time I haven't nothing to sharre. So when the cat saw me, I made an efford and went to the nearest shop to buy something for me and my old friend. I hoped that my plan would work successfully but when I went out of the shop, the cat dissapeared. End.

People to admire Everyone has someone to admire. There are different kinds of reassons to admire someone. For example, because they are inspiring people, or because they are able to identify with the people just using their art, or simply because they are succes people and it inspire people to continue with their lifes and their works. The question right now is what kind of people do you admire most? why? In my case the answer is the musicians. I admire how they are able to share what's going on inside their heads with out words. And also they are able to change the behaviour of the people toward a positive way. there are a little amount of musicians that I like to listening to and of course admire. I depend of the moment. For example right now to write this for my notebook I am listening Cory Wong "TThe Optimist", because it keep me motivate. If you look at his website to learn a little of his life as an artist, you just find a little text where he explain that it is the place where somebody will write something in the future about how amazing is he, and also you could hire him to record a new album. So it is all. Thank you if you correct this notebook, and feel free to write about the kind of people you admire most.