BEAS DE SEGURA 

Beas is located in the north of Jaen a city of Aldalucía..It is included in the Segura range.The river Guadalimar pass through it.Here you can find a lot of different things to do .You can go for a walk and see the old buildings , the parks or go to bars a very typical thing there.

I am going to speak about some aspects that  are very common there like food ,holy week ,buildings and  feasts .

Food:
Beas is very famous of producing morcilla blanca or negra (black puding). Everybody loves it and if you comes to Beas is a must to taste it and also the migas.
Another very famous thing is the oil. Jaen has a lot of hectares of olive tree.I think almost everybody lives of oil there .It is really good and is different from another one you'll taste .People usually buy a lot of oil cans .

Monuments:
There are a lot of monuments but some are:

The convent of the carmelitas

The front of the old courthouse.

The monument of a very famous feast in Beas that is San Marcos that takes place in the center of the town and it is usually in April. And consists in running before bulls like the San Fermines but normally the people get into the river to be safer and It is very common that the bulls fall into the river .

I mentioned the importance of the oil in Beas and because of that they have a monument in the entrance of Beas for everybody to see it when they arrive to Beas.It is the machine where they used to grind the olives to made oil.

The monumental fountain that is to remind the floods that were in 1955 and consists in three figures sculpted in stone and look like this.

El Callejon de la risa.It is a passage that gets narrower as long as you pass through it and is very funny anybody can pass through it with the umbrella for example and they get wet.

And also I would like to mention the arquitecture because it is very famous almost every house there its front is unfinish and It is something that people laugh at because you can see the bricks and it is a thing that you get shoked if It is the first time you visit the village.



Feasts:

San Marcos .I think It is the most popular one .It is very dangerous because the streets of the village are narrow so a lot of people that take part here have to pass so sometimes a bull catches a runner .

Holy week:
In Beas there are really beautiful processions.There are fourteen divided in Passion, Death and Resurrection.
But my favourite one is the one that my grandfather Roque Frías refounded after the civil war and my uncle donate the silver guide cross.The image disappeared during the civil war but finally my grandfather reorganised the procession.It is called Nuestro Padre Jesús Preso and almost all my family are member of that procession.I must say before you see it that he has a horror sense of fashion choosing the clothes.

To conclude I hope you will like my presentation of Beas .It is different from any part of the world .I hope you will visit it because you will like it.

WHAT'S IN THE JAR?

In th last few weeks we had been working in a charity project that consists on doing an activity to raise money for Cáritas.

First,we made groups of four or five people and each one had to look for information about different charities in England .Each group was given a topic like people in need, animals ,environment ,etc. and discuss them in groups to see what of the charities was the best one to do our project.

The second step was to do a power point with the information of the charity and some ideas of activities in order to do it and raise money.I must say there were brilliant ideas like races with pets or  a sing star . The activity that won was mine and consist on filling up a huge jar with tones of sweets and the person who was going to participate had to pay one euro and say the number aproximately of candies that were in the jar.

Afterwards came the hard work like contact the director of Cáritas , write letters to the principal teacher to ask permission to take tables and  those things.Then with the permission we started promoting the activity putting posters all over the school and sending whatsapp messages .

We did the activity on different days in order to cover the principal part and the attached building .We earned more than one hundred euros and the director of Cáritas was very happy with us .

We gave the prize some days later and the winner was Paula Ruiz .We are very happy because we had helped poor people and we alson had eaten candies too.

My special ability

My special ability is riding a horse ,it´s a very special activity because not all the people know how to do it.

I started to horse riding when I was seven years old when my grandfather was still alive. He was a farmer and he had a lot of animals in the farm .So since I was very little I was interacting with animals. I´ve always loved horses so when my grandfather died we sold the farm so I joined a riding school.

Riding a horse is a very good hobby. You learn a lot about the mood of the horse because they feel your mood when you are up. You also relax yourself a lot.

The people who see me riding tell me that I do it very well. It´s a very enjoyable sport because you make a lot of friends in the riding school so you have fun.

The best thing  is when  I am on the horse because I feel in high spirits.I feel more self confident , I see everything with another perspective ,and I feel secure. The worst thing is to fall down of the horse, fortunately feel down only three times in my live since I´ve been riding horses and the discipline that I like most is jump.

To conclude ,Ive always loved a lot riding horses .You are wlcome to have a look at the pictures below.Hope you like them. Looking forward to your comments :)

Thanksgiving day

Today It's thanksgiving day and I want to say thank you to all the people that help me specially my parents and my grandparents for giving me support in everything I did and for all the good memories I have with them.

I'm very grateful with my parents and my brother because they are very permisive and they always want the best for me even sometimes when I think they are horrible.They a lot of patience with me when we argue.My brother is incredible.He is seven years than me and since I was born he has looked after me at every moment .He used to play dolls with me when I was a child  and I remember having a good time with him .I look up at him because he is very responsible and I think he's perfect ,he persuade me into doing thing that are beneficial for me even when I don't want.

Now I want to say thank you to my grandparents.What can I say about them?The only thing I can say is that they are the best grandparents I could have.I don't remember too much my grandfather Roque because he died when I was very little but the memories I have with him  are very funny, he was diabetic and I remember I used to stole his biscuits and he followed me saying :"They are the biscuits of my breakfast!!!"and we laughed a lot together.My grandfather Manuel died when I was little too but I remember more things with him,I think I'm from the Betis because of him ,we saw the matches together with the flags and scarfs, my fist   t -shirt was a present of him.My grandmother Rosario is the only one that It's alive .I think I love her so much because It's my grandmother oviously but because I didn't have another one. She takes car of me when my

parents can't.When my brother and I were very little we loved going to sleep to her house because she always took us to the  pigeons park and we fed them.

To conclude ,I wat to say thankyou because because I am who I am because of them and even if they don'tlike how I am sometime I always receive inconditional hugs.

Halloween story 

In the English class we did  halloween stories or films I chose a story and I did it with a friend of mine Cristina and here it is the story:

 -Scary story

This is the story of a rich family from New York. They were Tom, the father, Jane ,the mother, Kate that was the older sister and Aston the younger brother .They were looking for some places to go on Halloween’s bank holidays. They found a beautiful castle in the mountains of Russia .But then they found a legend that says that the castle was enchanted. However they decided to go.

The family arrived to the castle the 30^th of October .It was dark and foggy ,it was very difficult for them to found the hotel, but finally they could. There and old woman ,with a very bad aspect and very bad tempered welcomes them. They looked around and the hotel was dirty ,old ,empty and smells really bad .The woman gave them the key .Their bedroom was in the last floor ,they went upstairs and they could see the cleaner ,a young handsome boy called John ,Kate felt in love at the moment with that guy. So she introduce herself and started to talked .The rest of the family entered to the bedroom ,Next to it there was a bedroom that in the door says “Private Room”. They had a look at the room and they saw on the top of the chimney a picture of a family in black and white ,Kate realized that there was a boy that looked like John ,but she didn’t care very much about it. So they put  on their piyamas and they went to sleep because theywere tired.

All the family was sleeping,when suddenly Aston,the younger brother ,heared some strange noises and decided to look along the corridor.He didn’t find anything so he went back to bed .

The door closed by itself ,and the wind banged the window against the wall. Afterwards the picture felt down and they were able to see the year that the photo was taken ,1803. Aston was urprised because the photo had three centuries and after that Kate was afraid and she runaway  looking for John,but she didn’t find him anywhere ,later she decided to enter in the private room ,there she saw John and the old woman.Kate wanted  to hugged John ,but she couldn’t because that room was the spirits room .John appeared with a knife on his hand and killed Kate ,she knew his secret .The family saw the death body  so they runaway back to New York .And from that moment every night they had nightmares with the spirits and with the deatk body of Kate .

MUSIC AND IMAGES

We have chosen a song by Ed Sheeran called "The A Team".Here I show you the lyrics and the song.

White lips, pale face

Breathing in snowflakes

Burnt lungs, sour taste

Light's gone, day's end

Struggling to pay rent

Long nights, strange men.

And they say

She's in the Class A Team

Stuck in her daydream

Been this way since 18

But lately her face seems

Slowly sinking, wasting

Crumbling like pastries.

And they scream

The worst things in life come free to us

Cos we're just under the upperhand

And go mad for a couple of grams

And she don't want to go outside tonight

And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland

Or sells love to another man

It's too cold outside

For angels to fly

Angels to fly

Ripped gloves, raincoat

Tried to swim and stay afloat

Dry house, wet clothes

Loose change, bank notes

Weary-eyed, dry throat

Call girl, no phone

And they say

She's in the Class A Team

Stuck in her daydream

Been this way since 18

But lately her face seems

Slowly sinking, wasting

Crumbling like pastries

And they scream

The worst things in life come free to us

Cos we're just under the upperhand

And go mad for a couple of grams

And she don't want to go outside tonight

And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland

Or sells love to another man

It's too cold outside

For angels to fly

Angels to fly

An angel will die

Covered in white

Closed eye

And hoping for a better life

This time, we'll fade out tonight

Straight down the line

And they say

She's in the Class A Team

Stuck in her daydream

Been this way since 18

But lately her face seems

Slowly sinking, wasting

Crumbling like pastries

They scream

The worst things in life come free to us

And we're all under the upperhand

Go mad for a couple of grams

And we don't want to go outside tonight

And in a pipe we fly to the Motherland

Or sell love to another man

It's too cold

For angels to fly

Angels to fly

To fly, fly

Or angels to die

We chose these photos:

This is a woman that it's crying maybe because she is suffering for any reason ,I think It is a really moving picture because of the make up.The connection to the song is because she spent a very bad time because of her addiction.

This is a prostitute working in the street waiting for somebody .Prpbaly she isnot happy withher job but it's the only way to get money.The connection to the song is because the girl is a prostitute because she need to get money to buy drugs.

This is cocaine it's a type of drug that it's very adictive and when you can't stop having them are very destructives.The relation to the song it's because the girl can't stop having them .

This is a lonely street ,it seems like it's really cold and there is nobody inthe street,the picture is spontaneous and powerful.The connection to the song it's that the girl work on the street all the seasons even if it's winter and she have cold. 

This picure is really moving and it seems that the person have cold .The relation it's that the woman have to stay all night on the streets going from one side to another until someone call her.

This picture is moving and it's not colouful at all .It's a man that is begging for some money and food he is on the floor with a blanket but it seems that he have cold ,and all the people is going long and don't pay attention to him.The relation with the song is that the woman begs for some money but she doesn't received nothing of the people soshe have to be a prostitute.

One thing I want to mention is one thing about the title that it's "The A Team" you probably won't understand that .It's a word game .The woman it's adiccted to cocaine and drugs it's divided into different groups and cocaine is in the A group so because of that the song it's called "The A Team"

Horse Riding 

I interviewed my horse riding teacher called Joaquin because he have a very long and interesting career.

Why did you start practising this sport?
I horse riding since I was young , I 've liked horses since I can remember , my parents always they have the oportunity they let me  rode .

Who have introduced you to this sport?
Sincerely I don't remenber , because my parents never had relationship with someone with horses , It was for own pleasure since I was young .

How old were you when you started to riding a horse?
I was really small  , I started with seven or eight years old more less

What is the thing you like most about this sport?
The thing I like most  is that you never stop learning because in this sport you have to work with horses and they are unprecictable, and you have to learn to coordinate with the horse to get on well with him.

Which is the  discipline you like most jumping or dressage?
I like more dressage , the reason is that dressage is more delicate and difficult ,you have to be very precise.

Have you ever won any important prize ?
Nowdays riding is not like in the past , contests were available to rich people because of  the prize of transport of the horse .Like a teacher I won some provincial ans autonomic prizes .