Option A:
One day of my Xmas Holidays: December the
31st , New Year's Eve
Today I'm at my grandparents´s home, in Cornellà. I'm
helping to my grandmother to prepare the dinner for all the family. My cousins
are decorating all the house with wreaths, balloons and coloured lights.
Later, my uncle and my aunt arrive, they bring a big
black stereo and some music to dance. We don't usually dance in New Year's Eve,
we always play bingo or other table games
like “uno” or “parchís” with all the family or we can also perform a
little improvised play, but this year is different.
We are having dinner at 9 pm. We are eating some
appetizers and a piece of chicken with vegetable sauce and different drinks and
some desserts like ice cream or a piece of chocolate and vanilla cake. While we
are waiting for the chimes we eat some shortbreads, “mantecados” and nougat and
we also watch TV.
Later we are preparing the grapes in small dishes.
There are twelve in each one. For one of my cousins, who is 3 years old, we
don't put grapes, we put some olives because he prefers them. He can't wait and
he eats one of them.
The chimes are starting and we eat the twelves grapes.
We are very happy, we are in 2015.
My little cousin doesn't understand anything so he
cries but later I hug him and he starts smiling.
My aunt prepares the stereo and we start dancing and
later we do karaoke until 5 am. It's too late and we are tired. Everyone go
home but my mother and I go to sleep at my grandmother's home.
It was a great night.
Written by N.M., a former student at Cervelló Middle-School
Option B:
A day in a summer camp (My diary)
Day Two
Today I am lying in my bunk bed, reading a paperback
titled “In Cold Blood” that I found in the library.
Today is Wednesday so we have to go canoeing to the
river again. We do that activity just on Wednesdays so I’m losing it but I am
not in the mood to go out of bed.
Honestly, I am beginning to feel truly accepted by the
Olivias, the Chloes, and the Madisons of planet Earth. I am also getting really
good at canoeing. But I still prefer to play volleyball with Barbara and Jenny..
Day Three
I have a crush! His name is Ryan and he’s a junior
counsellor. There’s so much I like about him: his blond hair, his blue eyes, his
goofy smile, … Oh Godness!!! He’s so handsome !!!
Tonight at the campfire sing-along, someone yelled
out, “More Taylor!,” and I leaned over and asked Ryan what a “More Taylor” was.
“You don’t know Taylor Swift? In which world do you
live?” he replied, looking at me as if he was seeing me for the very first
time.
I felt really embarrased but then he got up, went to
his tent and took a cd that he gave me. “Here! Listen to her” he said to me and
here I am, lying in bed, listening to Taylor Swift
Written by an American young girl who published a blog
