LIVING WITH A DISABILITY

I´m deaf since I was born. I´ve never heard anything, but it´s normal for me. I can speak, but at first all was very difficult. My parents knew that I was deaf when I was a baby. When some noise happened and I didn´t mind. They carried my to the doctor´s and since I was a child, I´ve had teachers who have taught me to speak with my voice like most of the people, and to speak with sign language, too. I prefer the last, because speaking with my voice without hearing myself is so difficult. I go to a special school for deaf people, where I have a lot of friends, and we speak sign language, of course. Life with a disability isn´t easy, I know, but I´ve learnt to live my life almost without problems. Sometimes, when
I´m, somewhere and an unknown calls me to ask a question, he or she has to touch me, if I´m not looking at him or her. Normally, people is nice to me, and in my neighborhood I feel loved. An advantage that I have: if a silly person tells me something bad, I don´t mind, because I can´t hear!

AN E-MAIL

Hi Lilly,
Everyone is so excited about your visit next week. I´m sure it will be fun. On Sunday, we´ll meet you at the airport. We are going to do a lot of things! On Monday, we´re going to go to the city centre to visit the port, have lunch there, and then, go shopping in Larios Street. On Tuesday we´re going to visit Selwo Adventure in Estepona. I went there 4 years ago and I loved it! On Wednesday, we´re going to spend the day in the beach. I hope it´s a good weather. On Thursday, we´re going to do trekking in Jarapalo with some friends. On Friday, we´re going to visit my cousins and have dinner in a restaurant together. On Saturday, we´re going to go to Vialia with some friends, and we´re going to see a film in the cinema and have fun. I´m sure we are going to enjoy all the week.
See you soon,
Paula.

DROITS DE L´HOMME

La constitution espagnole dit qu´il y a des droits à accomplir comme:

Le droit à avoir une logement digne: Tous les citoyens ont droit à une logement. Il y a beaucoup de gens dans la rue sans une maison, quand il y a des milliers de maisons vides. C´est très triste. Ces personnes ne sont pas protégées sous un toit. Pour aider ces personnes l´ État peut mettre les logements plus bon marchés, avec des prix très bas, pour qu´ils puissent les acheter et ils puissent avoir une maison où vivre et être plus heureux.

Un autre droit est l´igualité devant la loi: la constitution dit qui tous les citoyens sont égaux devant la loi, sans discrimination de race, ni de sexe, ni de religion…
Un exemple: pour travailler dans quelques professions on oblige à quelques conditions, pour exemple la hauteur, être célibataire dans quelques entreprises… C´est très injuste. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, seulement on peut changer les lois, et les faire plus égalitaires.

ENGLISH CEMETERY

Well, we went to the cemetery at 9:30. We went by bus. After that, we stopped near the cemetery and we ate some snacks. And then, we entered the cemetery. It´s on Pries Avenue. It has a lot of trees and flowers. We saw a lot of toms, big and small toms. There was a little tomb for a girl called Violetta, and we wrote a lot of information of the tombs and the cemetery.

After leaving the english cemetery, we didn´t want to go to the high school, so, we went to visit the Roman Theatre, and we walked around the center of Málaga. Then, we stopped in the Merced Square, because the teachers wanted to drink something in a bar. María Lagos drank a coffee (I don´t know how she wanted to drink a coffee at 1:00). Anyway... . Ricardo drank a Fanta. While they were talking in the bar, we stayed in the square, talking too. Next, when they came, we all talked together and we took some photos. About 2:30, we decided to came back to school. We went to the bus stop, and we waited for the bus. When it arrived, we got on it, and we arrived at school at 3:05 more or less, after the bell rang. We took our bags of the locker, and we went home.

Before the visit to the cemetery we took some notes about the cemetery. For example: the cemetery´s name is St. George. It´s in Málaga (Av. Pries nº1). It is an Anglican Church. The cemetery has got 1000 graves, its garden is beautiful and romantic. The church is an ancient greek temple with doric columns. The gatehouse is situated beside the entry. The second customer was Robert Boyd. He is one of the most important of people buried here. In the cemetery we saw a lot of graves and we took some notes, for example:
The general consul of the USA is buried in the cemetery: it´s Edward J.Norton. The lines written on Dr. Gerald Maurice Jewson´s tombstone are: "Here lies a man forever kind of gentle loving noble mind and  through our tears we all, can see now god can live in you and me".
The executed  person at Playa de San Andrés was Robert Boyd. This was on 11 December 1831. He was executed for defending the freedom of the village. The Malaga´s English cemetery was founded by William Mark. The worker of the four military men who died in 1940 are Flying officer, Sergeants, and Commander. The famous "amigo de España" writer is Gerald Brenan. Gerald Brenan born in Malta, (Abril 1894). He died in Alhaurin el Grande (1987). A Canadian married couple that are buried is Ethel Mabel Miles and George Gordon Miles. St. Augustine´s quotation is written on Alfred Cecil Gee´s tombstone: "Than hast grated us for thyself and our heart cannot be quieted till it may find repose in thee". The English master painter that is buried in the cemetery was Thomas William Jacques. He lived in the XX century.

AN EVENT

Last week, on Wednesday morning, there was an activity to clean up the beach. Almost of all the students of 3º ESO in Fernando de los Ríos high school, and some teachers, went to Misericordia beach   to clean it up. There, there were other high schools like Litoral, Mare Nostrum or Emilio Prados cleaning the beach too, to make easier the project. Each high school was in an area. My high school were collecting bottles and cans, recycling it in the containers, picking up papers and rubbish and throwing it to the bin when Litoral took photos of the beach. We also saw birds, and played some games in the sand. We obtained a more beautiful beach and it was a great day!

A HEALTHY DIET

I´m a nutritionist and I´m going to give you some advice for have a healthy diet and obtain vitamins, proteins and minerals. If you want to be healthy, you should doing exercise two or three times a week during one hour more or less. You should drink about 2 litres of water a day. I think you should have 4 pieces of vegetables a day, and 5 pieces of fruit a day. Fruit and vegetables contain a lot of vitamins! You must eat each day bread, cereals and potatoes. I think, about 6 servings of these, and pasta and rice too. You should have 3 servings of milk, cheese and yoghurt each day, and you should eat 2 servings of meat, fish, beans and nuts. You shouldn´t eat a lot of junk food, cakes, sweets, butter, candies... because they have fats and they are bad for your health, so, you should have only small amounts, once or twice a week. It´s very easy to try it! You can change your alimentation. 

A RESTAURANT REVIEW

Dallas:

Dallas is a restaurant of my neighborhood. It´s in Camino del Pato Street, in Las Pirámides. It´s an informal restaurant when you can eat a lot of types of food, but mostly food with bread (sandwiches, baguettes, "camperos") they are very good. But you can eat pizzas, showarmas, chips, salads, etc. too. I like all types of food, but my favourite food in Dallas is chips with cheese, kebab and yoghurt sauce (Turkey chips). They are really good! The food is always cooked and delicious, and although most of this food is fattening, I don´t care, because sometimes, you can allow a treat. Food isn´t too much oily or spicy, so, they aren´t too bad. There are some desserts. I don´t have tried any of them, but I think they are very good. One thing that I like of Dallas is that you can take out the food for eating at home. It´s great! It´s open all days, but I don´t remember the time when it opens, and when it closes. It´s an excelent restaurant because it´s very good and cheap. 

I love it!

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