THE HAPINESS.

A lot of people have all that they need and more, but they say they aren't happy. There are other people that are poor and they are happy with themselves and with their environment. This is due to people that don't value their things. You can be happy when you aren't ill, when you have a family, when you are loved by someone, when the people who you love are good... So, some men, women, girls and boys think that if they aren't rich or they haven't got money they can't smile.

In my point of view, I consider myself fortunate of having good parents, people next to me who help me when I'm sad or worried about something, food every day, also that I have my own house and I'm never cold. All of this is through my parents work.
To be happy you need some luck because if you are born in a poor country, it'll be more difficult to live in good conditions.

I think that the less things you have, the more you realize, the few things you have got in your life is the most important to be happy. Rich people seem to think that they're happy. But money doesn't always bring out the good and the hapiness of people.

JOKES.

1

There were three men going for an interview to England for a job. One was Italian, the other one was French and the third one was Spanish. In the interview they had to make a phrase in English and in the phrase they had to use three colours: yellow, gree and pink.
First, was Italian and he said: "When I get up I see the yellow sun, the green grass and I feel in the pink".
The French man said: "When I get up I eat a yellow banana, I eat a green pepper and I watch the pink Panther".
And the Spanish said: " When I get up the telephone goes "green"" green"" green" and I pink it up ans say: yellow?

2

There were two mafia men were crossing the desert in a Mercedes. Suddenly the car brakes down and one tells the other to take whatever they needed because they had to walk. One takes a bottle of water and the other one takes the door out of its hinges. The other says:
"What are you doing?" I'm taking the door because when it gets hot I have to wind the window down.

FORTIA'S PLAYBACK.

Last weekend, on 9th of January, the comittee of parties, was formed by the village young people, organized a playback because was the town's "Fiestas". The people who wanted to participate, prepared a song some days before it. The majority of the people were from the town.
Well, the first song was interpreted for two people. With it, the public laughed a lot and if I tell you the name of it, you can imagine all the rest; " Di papá". One of the actors, was a woman, Eric Mesas's mum.
Then, five "young" boys did a striptease and were left with a red "tangas". I enjoyed myself because I saw the bums of people who I knew.
Now I'm going to tell you what I did. I prepared the song: Walking on sunshine, with Ariadna. Here, I wore a purple shirt with leggins and boots. Also Ariadna and me played the guitar in a song: This is the life, which was interpreted by Ariadna's cousin and her friend, Maria. We wore clothes like a boy, including underpants. Finally we, the four girls danced a song by Melendi. It was an improvision because the day before some people asked if we could do another song because only there were thirteen of them. I said yes and I thought what song we could do and in the same afternoon, half an hour before the performance, I taught them the dance. We were very nervous because we didn't rehearse enough, but the best song was Melendi.

After the playback, the people congratulated us.

MY TOWN.

I live in Fortia, a little town situated in Catalonia. Concretly in Girona's province, between Figueres and Empuriabrava. Fortia has got around 600 inhabitants. Few years ago we knew all the people but now there are a lot of people who I don't know. Some of them only come to my town on holiday and they come from Barcelona and France. Also, there weren't so many bad people and life in the village was more peacful than now. Fortia has got a school, a theatre, a basketball court, a park, a football ground, a swimmingpool, two shops, a bar... I don't live in the town center but I only have to walk ten minutes to arrive there.
There is a group of young people who made things for the village. For example: They do the three kings, prepare parties, the carnaval... They give life to the town. I think that when I am 18 years old I'll be with them. It's important because if nobody do anything, it will be a disaster and Fortia'll end up disappearing. I have got some friends who live in the same town like me and they think that the village is pathetic and always go out of it to other places.
Maybe in the future I'll continue living in Fortia because is quiet, or I'll go to Girona because it's a "big" city but there aren't too many people like in Barcelona, but you have everything you need.

THREE KINGS.

On the fifth of January, we celebrated the arrival of the three kings. I helped in by being a page girl. I was painted white and I was wearing orange trousers and a blue shirt. Besides I was wearing a shiny turbant. In the afternoon they made the floats and at 8 o'clock all together we did the street procession in Fortià. We gave a lot of sweets to the children. Later we went to the Civic Centre to give children some presents. After that I felt good because I had made some girls and boys a little bit happier. The next day in the morning, Robin, my parents and me, went to La Cellera to give my little cousins the presents. I gave Nuria clothes and a mister potatoe and Jordi more clothes. Then we went to La Corenya ( a restaurant), to have lunch. When we arrived there it was snowing and when we went out it was snowing harder than one hour before. While we were eating we could see how the snow was falling through the window and when we finished eating, Robin and I went to touch the snow and take some pictures like the one at the top of the text. In the afternoon we returned to La Cellera and we went to my aunt's cafe to visit her. At six o'clock my mum decided to leave the town in case it snowed more and they cut the roads off. We said good bye to the family and we got into the car. When we arrived in Figueres, we stopped the car and we went for sandwiches. Finally at home Robin and I watched a film.

THE FOOLS DAY.

I woke up at one o'clock because the previous night I had gone out and I was tired. When I was in the process of opening my eyes, my mum told me that the day before a man had phoned my home to say that I had to go to the theatre. I started to shout because that day I had to do all my homework... But I descovered that this was only a joke by the expresion of her face.
Later, she phoned my dad and told him that he had the house full of people. My father asked her who was there and she said that they were members of the Andalusian family. He was at the bar and then left. When he arrived, he didn't see any cars in the street and he was puzzled. He came into the house and asked my mother what was happening. She answered him that they went out for a minute to visit the other family who lived in the same town. A few seconds later my mum said that all was a joke and that my father was an innocent person that means he was the fool of the day.
Finally my dad thought he would play a joke to Lluís, my cousin's husband, because he always did it tu us. My mother phoned him and she told him that we were in Vilanna and the car was broken. He started to tell her that he would try to find someone who could help my mum. After that she said: it's not true!. The surprise was when he appeared in my home five minutes later. He told us that he was working in Empuriabrava and he had to go to La Cellera and he took the advantage to visiting us.
Another joke explained by my English teacher is the next one:
A man who was well known in the Montserrat supermarket had been fooled by the cashier. She told him that his wife, in the morning, hadn't paid for the shopping because she didn't have enoug money and owed 110 €. The poor man was nervous and he didn't know what he could say. Besides all the people who wanted to pay were listening.

In conclusion, my mum this yera has laughed a lot but the nest year I'll laugh at her. I will prepare something.

"NOCHE BUENA" and NEW YEAR'S EVE.

First, I'm going to talk about Christmas Day. All the day I worked and at nine o'clock, my father came to Figueres to pick me up. When I arrived home I found that there were Robin and my cousin. Later, arrived the rest of the family and we started to have dinner. My mum one day before cooked some dishes and all was nice. We ate melon with jam, salad, beef with mashrooms, cake and a lot of "turrons" and "polvorons". When we finished it, the eldest people gave us some presents like money, chocolate, perfume... And the yongest people gave to my grandfather a microwave. Then we played games. My impresion was good because all of us laughed all night, a lot. Now I'll speak to you abous New Year's Eve. I celebrated it with Ariadna, Dídac and Robin. Everyone brought something to eat. I bought "canalons", Ariadna prepared a coctails and the boys bought drinks, grapes, crisps, olives and pudding. We went to have dinner to my grandfather house because he doens't live there at the moment. When we were full of food we played a miming game and the the "UNO". At twelve o'clock we stood up and we listened to the clock strike twelveland ate the grapes. For good luck nobody choked but in the end we needed cava wash it down.
After that we went to Sant Pere. There, we met a lot of friends ans we danced all night until six o'clock in the morning. We also drank some beer and talked to everybody. I was very happy and I felt wery well. My feet couldn't walk any more and when I arrived at home, I collapsed to my bed. I woke up at 1:30 because my mum called me. I had a headache and all the afternoon I slept in the sofa.