Cibeles Catwalk is the main platform for the promotion of fashion in Spain, and nowadays it is the fourth most international catwalk after Paris, Milan or New York.

It is situated in Madrid, and the last edition (49^th) was from 20^th to 24^th February 2009, Autumn - Winter. There are two catwalks –Cibeles and Neptuno-, and they have different characteristics, such as design, lighting or the terraces.

In the 48^th edition, a new and decisive chapter was opened in the history of Cibeles, IFEMA (Institute Fairground of Madrid) made a new project and Cibeles had a new format with a new identify: CIBELES MADRID FASHION WEEK.

A lot of designers take part in this event, like Jesús Del Pozo, Amaya Arzuaga, Andres Sardá or Victorio & Lucchino.

After the fashion show some cocktails are served backstage, but these cocktails are only for the most renowned people and over 18, because they are served alcoholic drinks.

It is said that most of the models that parade on the catwalks suffer from anorexia, but it is not true. They only follow a simple diet without too many excesses.

I recommend you see a fashion show, its cool!

Dorian Gray

Hello people, I am Laura!

Today I am going to talk about a book I have just finished reading named " The picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

This book is really interesting and peculiar. The main character of the book is Dorian Gray a very attractive handsome man. An artist named Basil Hallward paints a portrait of him impressed by his beauty .Dorian feels worried about losing his beauty and because of some magical, strange event, the portrait starts to became older instead of him.

Dorian starts to live a life full of sins and satisfaction. In a particular way Dorian is showing us a life guided by his own senses and desires. By this time his picture apart from being old is getting deformed because of his vain and bad life.

Another character of note is Sibyl Vane, a poor actress who Dorian falls in love with. He destroys her career and finally she kills herself drinking prussic acid.

In the end Dorian finally kills Basil the artist, and with the same knife he kills himself stabbing it into the picture. The police find Dorian’s body old and in a very bad way and the picture in its original form.

If you are interested in the plot of the book you should read it! It is really good! There is also a very old film of this book but this October a new one will be premiered.

Father's Day

Hello! I am Sandra, and I am going to talk about father’s day in Spain. Here we celebrate “San Jose” or father’s day on March 19th, but I know that in Sweden, Estonia, Finland and Norway it’s celebrated on the second Sunday of November. It is a celebration that changes according to the country.

Father’s Day is a bank holiday and is celebrated by families. Here it is typical to give your father a present and spend the day with him. The typical presents are after shave, clothes, watches, etc. Younger children usually make drawings for their fathers in school. Also, small children make cards and sometimes objects in clay. It is usual to celebrate with a cake after lunch.

It is a special day when you have a holiday and you don’t go to school or to work. I like this day because some families spend time together and celebrate.

What do you do that day?

Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!

Hello everybody!! This time, I’m gonna talk about last AC/DC’s world tour. The release of their last album, Black Ice, pulls the trigger to start this worldwide tour out. AC/DC, is a hard rock band, which was formed by 1973 in Sydney. Some members didn’t suit the band and left, and some others left as their first official lead singer had died. Despite all these facts, AC/DC has been rocking all around the world till today.

Between 2008 and 2009 they’re gonna give nearly 90 gigs that will surely fill huge arenas. The 20th and 22nd of February, The Globe in Stockholm was crowded, and around the beginning of April they’ll be rocking in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.) Unfortunately, the tickets for the Spanish concerts were sold out in less than 3 hours and if you wanted one, you had to camp in the street and wait in a queue that lasted the whole night.

I don’t know if anybody has been to any AC/DC concerts or if they have one of those desired tickets, if so, comment here!

Rock on!

The First Time

I don’t have a blog and I’ve never written anything for one. In fact, I think I’ve only seen a few. Some were done by friends of mine who talked there about themselves, like a diary.

The last was my cousin’s wedding blog. She lives in Belgium and her blog has a different entrance depending on the language spoken. She has had some problems with it, there is a youtube video about the place where the wedding is going to be, but it never works. The thing I like most is the book of visits, everyone wrote about the very sweet story of their love.

I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t yet visited the Swedish blog and I’ve just remembered that I promised to give to the teachers some photographs of the trip (don’t kill me, please!)…..I’ll do it soon, for sure.

Let’s change the subject! I’m excited about the visit of the Swedish people. I think I’m going to take Therése to my village, El Burgo de Osma, because I find it really unfair that there are visits to Calatañazor, Abejar, Vinuesa… and not to El Burgo! I’m sure she’ll love it.
Nothing else for the present time.

Vector

Hi! I’m going to talk about a book I read some weeks ago. This book is “Vector” written by Robin Cook.

It’s a thriller that has to do with a possible biological attack to New York. A Russian citizen (Yuri Davydov) with the necessary knowledge to create two kinds of biological weapons, anthrax and a botulism toxin, decides to attack Manhattan with the help of a paramilitary group. There are thousands of people who might die, but two forensic scientists start to investigate the problem.

It’s a very interesting book that I’d recommend to everybody. When you start reading it, it is addictive. The end is unexpected and you will be surprised if you read it. Robin Cook is a great writer and Vector will not disappoint you.
I hope you’ll enjoy reading this book.

Tinkerbell

Hey!! I’m Elsa

I want to tell you about what my friends and I did on 21st February.

That day was carnival and we dressed up as Tinkerbell, Peter Pan's Fairy. We wore beautiful green dresses with wings and a magic wand. We put our the hair up in a bun.

That day we went to the discos to dance and everyone was dressed up as angels, witches or policemen. It was really funny except when we had to pass between many people with our wings, that was horrible everyone told us “take that off NOW”.

I expect to dress up again the next year!!

That was a funny day, please write your opinion.

Stereotypes

Hi!! How are you? I’m going to talk about stereotypes, because it’s something quite common especially when you are going to visit another country.

Spanish stereotypes are normally related to: tortilla (potato omelet), sun, sea, sand, bullfighting, flamenco dancing, salsa, Shakira, Ricky Martin, Benidorm, Barcelona, paella, sangría, chorizo (of course!!), wine and tapas. There are some other things thought about Spanish people like being very lazy and of loving having a siesta (nap). Spanish people are considered to be very rude, shouting at each other and arguing instead of talking. Also, we shouldn’t forget that Spanish people supposedly have really weird timetables.

As for Swedish people, we can say that people think (and maybe they get it right) that they have blonde hair, blue eyes, and they are tall and beautiful. These all fit the Swedish stereotype of both men and women. However there are brunette, brown eyed, short Swedish people.

However, when we were visiting Sweden we could see for oursleves that most Swedes speak really good English and enjoy talking to foreigners. They are very friendly and they love to celebrate holidays. I hope you’ll enjoy your stay here in Spain.

Jueves Lardero (Part 2)

Hello people!

I am Lorena. I am also going to talk about our very special day of February in Soria (my city). It is one Thursday in the middle of February. This year it was February 19th, and I went out with my friends at 11a.m. to go to the Royales (it’s a field to approximately 3 km from Soria). Other people prefer to go to Valonsadero (it’s a country park further from Soria than Royales) or the “Dehesa” (a big public park). We decided to go there because there are more people of our age. We went at 11:45, we took food (sandwich of tortilla and chorizo, chips, little doves, sweets …) and drink. Thankfully it was hot the whole day. Some people made a barbecue to roast chops, chorizo … We left at 7 pm went the sun went down. There were many people and we knew many people, so we had a good time :) Next year we’re going there again.