Jueves Lardero

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It's me Alberto, and I'm going to tell you about a tradition we have here in some towns in Spain.

The Thursday when the carnival starts is known as "Jueves Lardero". On this day in Soria, all the young people go to the countryside with their friends and stay there all day. Gastronomy plays a very important role and people eat the typical food of our region.

In Soria we celebrated last Thursday by going to a place named Los Royales, situated on the outskirts of Soria. The tradition is to eat bread, sausages (Chorizo) and eggs, there is even an old proverb that says "jueves lardero pan, chorizo y huevo."

I went to Los Royales at ten o'clock in the morning with my friends. We stay edthere eating and having fun all day. Then, at seven o'clock it started to get cold and we were very tired so we went home. Once I was at home, I fell asleep.

Later one of my friends phoned me to go out at night and he woke me up. We met at twelve o'clock and we went to a pub, but we only drank coca cola. I had a great day.

See you soon

Row, Row, Row

Hi!

I'm Lucia from Soria, I hope you remember me. It’s my first time on the blog, but I will contribute more often from now on.

I’m going to talk about the next trip we are preparing to Italy. At the end of the course all the students from 1º of Bachillerato will travel to Italy. Right now we are thinking about what dates we are going to go as we have some problems with the dates the teacher said to go, because we have some important exams. We are also thinking about the transport to go, we have more than one option.

The possibilities are to go by boat and plane. We want to go firstly by boat to Italy and at the end of the journey go back to Spain by plane. Also we have the possibility to go to Italy by bus and back to Spain by boat, in my opinion this option is worse because the journey by bus is very exhausting. We will have to wait and see how we finally go, but I hope we will enjoy ourselves as much as we enjoyed being in Sweden.

I will write again and tell you more about the journey.

I wish you would comment on the blog

My best wishes

Lucy!!

Hello Everyone!

Hi!

How are you all? I hope that you are all well. I'm here in soria, I go to high school everyday and all those things. I try to study more but I'm better at practising athletics. Nowadays I'm training very hard because I want to win all my races. Last week we ran in Palencia, my team finished third but we want to improve more .

Sometimes I play football and basketball, but now I can't because I have a little injury in my knee and I can't do brusque movements .

That's all for now. Hope to see you all soon,

Goodbye.

Relative Strangers

On Saturday afternoon I watched a film in which the plot is about Richard Clayton- the main character-, a young writer and psychologist. Things are going well, until he discovers few days before he gets married that he was adopted. His parents left him in front of an orphanage with a teddy bear.

When he found this out he immediately decided to call a detective to try to find his real parents. The investigations were so quick, that in few days he would invite his real parents and friends to introduce all the family before the days of the ceremony.

This couple appeared in America as fast as they could although they were living in Peking. The first meeting with Richard weren’t so good, as the two people were too small, fat and impolite, but kind-hearted. They worked as traders, nothing to do with Richard, a rich and polite man.

They spent some days living together at home, with Richard and his girlfriend. He became so stressed out by them, he couldn’t stand it and he threw them out of his house. When the couple saw that their behaviour was so bad they told Richard that they weren’t his real parents (although they were really), but one day he found a necklace from his mum in the garden in which there was a photo of him inside when he was a baby and a part of the teddy bear from his childhood. So, although his real parents were completely different, he look for them again and apologized and finally they celebrate the wedding all together.

Working in Åre

Hello Spanish people!

Here we are again!

This time we are going to write about the workplace training we’ll be doing for the next six weeks, starting on 16 February. We are going up to the Swedish mountains and the snow, to a place called Åre (se map to the right).

We are going to work at a big hotel, the Continental Inn. We hope we’ll learn how it’s like to work at reception, conference and housekeeping. We are going to live in the personnel residence.

In our spare time we will definitely go skiing. We are also going to watch the Alpine World Cup.

Love from Charlotta and Caroline 

Booooring!

Everything is so slow right now, this has been our last week at school before a six-week-long work experience period. The weather is very cold, but we have not had any real winter yet...  What comforts me right now is knowing that summer is coming closer and closer. Longing for warm weather, an ice cream in the city and a refreshing bath… Why was I born in cold Sweden? Are some born with luck and some with bad luck? Actually, it is not that I dislike Sweden, I'm just a little tired that nothing happens. Would need a major cultural change at the moment! ^^ Whatever! My next scheduled trip is down to Spain, so I’m looking forward to it! Hope to enjoy the things I have not done before. I am a little concerned about the food though. It has been incredibly difficult for me to try new dishes but it will be fun to see how the food in Spain is different from our food here in Sweden. I have already understood that your meal times are different from ours. You have dinner late compared to us Swedes, who are used to having dinner at around 5 or 6 p.m. And so what? It’s fun to learn about other cultures, it is a great experience!

Time goes sooooo slowly ^^

Jennifer V W

Hi there!

My name is Isabella Lindblom and I am going to tell you a little about my future work experience. I will have a trainee post at a hotel called ”Fars hatt”. It is a pretty small hotel in a town called Kungälv. I will be a trainee there for six weeks. The first week I will work at housekeeping and the second week in the breakfast restaurant. The third and fourth weeks I will be at reception and the fifth and sixth weeks I will work in the conference department.