Sweet 18

I think that birthdays are the one of the best days in our live and, above all, when you are 18 years old. In my view, when you reach the legal age, you have more responsabilities than you realize. For example: you have freedom, you can go to prison, you can drink legally, you can be independent... To sum up, eighteen is a year to begin to mature and get a lot of responsabilities, an age for changes,  really big changes. 

My birthday was last week, the 13th March, and I can't see any changes but I can feel it. This year and, above all, next year, I have to decide a lot of things that could mark my life. For example, if I am going to live in Girona near the university or stay at home with my parents and travel everyday to the university. Which career to choose... Many things which I have undecided at this very moment. 

An idea came to me of doing a Gap year to meet people, to meet myself, to know the world... But at the same time I think that I'm too toung to do that. Maybe in another year. 

To conclude this, I believe thats to be in the legal age is a road with plenty of ways and you have to choose the best for you. 

Travel

The world is a fascinating place with a lot of special and magic places. Every country is another little world with different characteristics and with different people, for this reason I want to find a job which allows me to travel a lot. 

I would like to travel to different places, above all, places with different culture, gastronomy and customs because I find it interesting to see how other people see the world, their way to understand it... There are a lot of things to know and the best way to do it is by traveling and traveling. Travel is the best wayto acquire knowledge, experiences and to know interesting people. For me, is exciting when someone shows me a photo with a fantastic landscape... Well, it's amazing for me. I can be hours looking it and wishing to go there.

Well, as I said, the world is fascinating and magic. 

The Grand Mother's Remedies

KEY WORDS: principal active (principi actiu)

Nowadays we are in a civilitzacion where medicines are really important to live well and to promise the good progress of our species. The work includes information about the beginning of medicine and how it has developed from the past to the present. 

The objectives of this research project was to learn if the medicinal plants have a real curative use and in this case, what medicine carry in the composition the same principal active and if both have the same use. 

This research project collected and presented, in a organized way, the different type species of plants used from the citizen of Castellóe d'Empúries, the most popular way to preparing the medicine plants, which parts they used and finally for which diseases they used utilize.

THE GRANDS MOTHER'S REMEDIES

Hello, good morning I’m Judith Sevillano and I’m going to talk about my research work called: The Grands mother’s remedies. 

At first It wasn’t clear witch topic to choose to do my research work. I only knew that I wanted to be something to do with biology because is one of my favorite subjects and related to what I would like to do in the future. Looking through some different proposers of biology department I came across this topic “the grand mother’s remedies”.  

The objective of my work were the following:

•  Find out wich plants were used as medicinal plants.
• Look for information to get to know the most used plants and its active principals. 
• To check to see if the composition in some of the present medicine include some of these plants. 

My biggest problem was to find out people who could still remember the remedies that their ancestors used and how they mixed and prepared them. I structured my work in the following way.

• Pytotherapy: The finality of this work was to use this medicinal plants for curative purposes and in this way to have a good base to develop later on the rest of the work. 
• Plants used in the municipality of Castelló d’Empúries: In here we find a table where there are all the plants used by the citizens of Castelló. Inside those we will find the corresponding graphics.
• The most use plants: Among the most used plants are: Elder, Thyme and Verbena.
• Preparation: Among the most uses preparation were:         
• Preparation step by step: here is where I explain step by step each one of this preparation
• Uses: In this case there are multiple but one of the main ones if for cough.
• The most used parts: are leaves and flowers.
• Technical file for the plants: In this file we will find the five most use plants in this municipality. Where you will find the history of their use, with a small description of active principals and the use in the present moment.
• Traditional and present use: In this file I have compared the use with where given by the village women and the way that the medicine I use in the actuality. 
• Conclusion: At last, the conclusions. The pytotherapy has been losing importance through the times as the science has develop greatly and the methods of healing have change. Many of medicine plants, nowadays aren’t use but it is evident that without the knowledge of our ancestors we wouldn’t have arrived to the present medicinal conclusions. 

In general I think that everything went pretty well. I was quite nervous at the beginning but through the time I ended relaxed. I have always tried to look to the public and focus well my voice. I hope they likeed and whch have not been bored. 

Peces Raros

Peces Raros is a music rock band from Argentina. I know about them because I knew some of the members personaly. The members of Peces Raros are: Gabi Chacon, Lucio Consolo, Benja Riderelli and Marco Viera.  This band is just begning, they are starting from bottom but I'm sure that they will soon reach the top. I know that they work very hard to achieve their dream and all of their efforts will be rewarded. 

I know Marco and Benja. Marco was the first that I knew, he came here with two more friends two years ago. They were on holliday and I met him by chance, because he stopped me to ask where the beach was. From there we became very good friends and nowadays we are still in contact. 

With Benja was different, he came here with his familly and he decided to met me because Marco spoke really good about me and he wanted to meet me. I could only see him one day, but it was a great day.

In general, It was a great experience to know them and I hope that one day I can go to see them in Argentina because there are really good people.

Venice

This year I went with my family to Venecia on holiday. Our first impression was that Venice looked like a maze because the streets are really narrow. When we arrive it was approximately 8 o'clock in the evening and it was dark, we didn't know where we had to go and it was really difficult to find the hotel. 

In general I liked everithing I visited there. There are a lot of nice and historic monuments and the gondoliers make it seem that you are in another era. 

The most typical things in Venice are the venetian masks, all the shops have them, some of them are really singular but very nice. 

I would like to go there again and spend more time seeing all the things we missed.

Christmas Time

The best time in the year for mi is Christmas Time. I like Christmas because is the perfect excuse to be with all the familly together. I love all the lunches and dinners with all the familly. My cousin is left-handed and I am right-handed, so when we eat next to each other we get in each other's way. We do it on purpose and we race to see who finishes eating first.

It's beautiful to see all the family together and happy. What I like most is to see my little cousins, specialy when some of us dress up as Santa Claus and give them their presents. It's magical.

I really like this time because eaven if it is only for a few days people get together.