Happy Husky

Hi! I’m Miguel Angel and I’m going to talk about Siberian Huskies.

Firstly I want to say that I have the one you can see now.Huskies are strong, working dogs. You can see them in many colours from white to black, and they usually have markings on their heads.
The Siberian husky has a thick, woolly undercoat and a soft outer coat. It’s able to survive attemperatures as low as -50 degrees C. These dogs are very gentle and playful.

As I know very well, my dog never tires and if he doesn’t get enough excercise he can be very destructive. They don’t like to be alone. Another good point about these dogs is that they are good with strangers and children. We probably know these dogs pulling a sled. Their weight is about 20 and 27 kg .My dog’s name is Max and he is 8 months old.

Formula 1

I would like to talk about the formula 1 championship this year. The competition between the pilots is very close this year. The difference between each car is little and in some cases they are almost the same. The FIA try to promote a balanced championship by forbidding some kinds of aerodynamic changes and making the tires totally different.

However, their efforts were for nothing because as always happens, there is always someone cleverer than them. In this case, we find BRAWN GP team that created a new diffuser which makes the car go faster.

The championship started on April 5th; the first race was celebrated in Malaysia. There was an enormous surprise in every team when the first positions were held by Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. The new diffuser made them beat all the other teams such as the great Ferrari or McLaren. Other teams had a new invention called KERS (kinetic energy recovering system) but it didn’t help them to get better positions.

Most of the teams without the new diffuser complained about it to the FIA. Later it was ratified as legal, and as a result they needed to change their cars to improve them.
Now that most teams have changed their cars like Renault, there was an incredible change in the last race in China. After the hard work of the engineers, the Spanish driver was able to get second place in the qualifying session on Saturday.

Until the end of the championship in Brazil we won’t know the name of the 2009 champion.

Spanish Stereotypes

There are a lot of Spanish stereotypes.

One of them is that all Spanish people like flamenco dancing, but I think that it isn’t true because I don’t like flamenco.

A second stereotype is that Spanish people are very rude because they shout a lot, but I think that Spanish people shout because there is a lot of noise pollution here, so we must talk louder to the people who we are talking to in order to hear them.

People also think that we all love bulls. However, in Spain there are a lot of problems with them because there are some people who are always protesting about them.

Yet another is that Spanish people drink a lot. I think that this is right, but there are also a lot of people who don’t drink.

Finally, people think that we have strange schedules. I think that this is true but we are accustomed to them so other countries’ schedules are strange to us.

Motorbiking

Hi, I'm Miguel and I'm going to talk about the Grand Prix motorbike championship and my favourite rider Valentino Rossi, who is the current world champion.

The championship takes place every year between March and November and there are more or less 17 races.

There are three classes:

•125cc: This class has really young riders some of them are 15 and the motorbikes are
little but they can do over 200 km/h

•250cc: This is the 250cc class with bigger bikes. The champion is Marco Simonchelli

•Moto GP: This is the top class with really big bikes, which go at over 350 km/h

Valentino Rossi has won one championship in 125cc, another in 250cc and 6 in Moto GP. He also holds the record of victories in Moto GP, in addition he has won nearly half of the races he has competed in.

He is also known for his funny celebrations when he wins a championship or an important race. For example, once he went to the podium with a plastic chicken to promote a friend's butcher's, another time he dropped the motorbike on the ground, he jumped over the circuit fence and went into a portable bathroom.

His best rival is Casey Stoner who won the 2007 championship and beat him in the first race of the year, which took place last Monday at Losail circuit in Qatar. It was supposed to take place on Sunday but it was cancelled because it was raining a lot. The most shocking thing about this race is that it is raced in the middle of the night lit by huge spotlights.

It is raining again!!

People here in Spain might think that Sweden is cold or windy. But they are not right. The best adjective to describe Sweden's weather is: RAINY. Yes, it is true.

I took my thick coat and then I had to leave it inside my bag and use my umbrella. Amazing!

One night, we were outside, talking and suddenly, it started to rain. I remember Jennifer said: This is Sweden. I heard that same sentence so many times during the following days…

The day we went ice-skating, we were walking and it started to rain again. We had to run. Hope you never have floods.

Tour de Bilbao

Hello, I´m Sergio and I´m going to talk about an impressive cycling race in Bilbao, on the north coast of Spain. This race is so impressive because more than 6000 people take part every year.

Last year I took part in it with my father and some of his friends, but this year I will do it with all my cycling team mates so it will be fantastic. During the race you can see people of all kinds and from all kinds of places. Last year I met an American guy that told me he has been taking part for the last 11 years. But the person who impressed me most was an 87 year old father and his son who only had one leg! Also if you are lucky you can see some professional cyclists like Samuel Sanchez or Miguel Indurain. If you like bikes you also can see a display of some famous brands during the previous and the following days.

The race is not very hard so most people can finish it, also in the middle of the race there is a huge area to get as much energetic food and drink as you want, because you need to eat something to finish it alive. When you finish, the organization gives you a free ticket to have a look at the Guggenheim museum.

The only nightmare is to finish the 120 kilometres long race.

Would you like to take part in it?