Well today I'll talk about “El Internado”. I know that Guillem did a entry about this topic but I also to do it!

The first time that I watched the TV ad of the El Internado I know that I had to watch the program. I believe that was Wednesday and I had a problem that on Wednesday the TV broadcast Hospital Central but I left Hospital Central and turned on my TV and I watched El Internado. I think that this program is for everybody but more for the teenagers because the protagonists are teenagers and a part of the argument of the series, is that the boys and girls explain the problems, the loves and lovers, the family and more. At the first time I confused the name “El Internado” with “ El Orfanato”.


What do you think about the life in a boarding school or orphanage?

I think about these things, on one hand life in a boarding school is comfortable and you live with your friends and these things that is you want or don't want, have your good part, but on the other hand, you don't stay with you family and if I stayed in there I would miss my family.

If you are in the Orphanage it's different because you don't have parents and I really wouldn't like to have been in an orphanage . I like to have biologic parents and if the adoptive parents adopted me , for a most part I lwould ike to meet with my parents but on the other hand my heart tells me: NO! I don't know why.

It's better to go to the public or private school but go to sleep in your house.

Well, I change the topic, I return to the El internado. I think that it's a good series but I recommend that if you like to watch the series, you must watch from the beginning because if you begin to watch it, it's a little difficult to continue because in one episode a lot of things happen. I believe that it has become clear that I like the series.

So, I won't talk about the argument of the series, because it's very complicated to explain because there is a lot to explain.


Some Characters and actors are:

Martín Rivas plays Marcos Novoa


Yon González plays Iván Noiret

Ana de Armas plays Carolina Leal

Victoria Martínez plays Elena Furiase

Blanca Suárez plays Julia Medina

Daniel Retuerta plays Roque Sánchez

Fernando Tielve plays Cayetano Montero

Carlota García plays Paula Novoa

Denisse Peña plays Evelyn Pons

There are a lot of actors but I have put only the more importants for me. If you want to see more information about this you can visit

http://www.antena3.com/PortalA3com/El-Internado/P_84035

Catalan " Burnt Cream"

Crema Catalana
Crema catalana is a rich custard usually covered with a sheet of caramelised sugar and thus as a rule is virtually identical to the popular French dessert called crème brûlée.





To serve 4(as dessert)

500 ml/16 fl oz single cream
peel of ½ lemon
½ cinnamon stick
3 eggs yolks
170g/5 ½ oz sugar


Heat the cream, lemon peel and cinnamon stick in a saucepan over medium heat until just boiling; then remove from heat immediately, discard the lemon peel and cinnamon stick and allow to cool.
Beat the eggs yolks with a third of the sugar until thick; then strain the cooled cream into the eggs, stirring constantly.
Reheat the custard mixture in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until it thickens slightly and coats the back of a wooden spoon.
Allow it to cool slightly.
Pour the custard into four 250-ml/8-fl oz ramekins, custard cups or 10-13 cm/4-5 inch cassoles. Allow it to set then sprinkle each with a thin layer of sugar and caramelise until dark amber in colour.



Vocabulary:
single cream: crema de llet
ciannamon stick: canella
Heat: Escalfar
Saucepan: Cassola
Remove: Treure
Discard: tirar
Allow: permetre
to cool: que es refredi
Beat: Batir
thick: espessa
strain: colar
stirring: remenar
Reheat: Refredar
heavy-bottomed: que pesa molt
slightly: una mica
wooden spoon: cullera de fusta
Pour: Avocar
Ramekins: Recipient( de la crema catalana)
sprinkle: Tirar sucre( ruixar)
layer: capa

What's flu oz? It's a fluid ounce

What's inch? An inch is 2'5 cm

This is a typical dessert of Catalonia, but now everyone can find it everywhere. I like Burnt Cream but it's not my favourite dessert. I prefer for example ice-cream, some fruit or chocolate..

Dangerous Form of Meningitis Thrives in Winter, Experts Say

What's Meningitis?
Meningitis is the inflammation of the linings of the brain and spinal cord. When caused by meningococcal bacteria, these two conditions together are know as menigococcal disease.
So, meningitis is inflammation of the membranes which cover the brain and spinal cord. There are two types of meningitis
-Viral, is milder and usually needs no treatment
-Bacterial, can be life-threatening and requires emergency treatment
Both viral and bacterial meningitis are usually caused by an infection and can occur at any age. However, bacterial meningitis more often affects children whilst viral meningitis more commonly affects young adults.

Who is affected?
The cause varies at different ages, so 80 per cent of bacterial meningitis occurs in the under-16 age group and the majority are under five. Viral meningitis tends to affect older children and adults.

Viral meningitis
Viral meningitis tends to appear in winter epidemics, is usually not very severe and most people recover fully, often without specific treatment. The illness is because of infection that's caused by a virus. Initially vague flu-like symptoms occur with fever and muscle aches.

Bacterial meningitis
Bacterial meningitis tends to be more severe with a serious risk of complications,including death. It's mainly caused by the haemophilus influenzae bacterium, and the meningococcus type B and C bacteria. The bacteria that causes meningitis vary with the child's age - but meningococcal meningitis is the most common, and on the increase. Non-infectious causes of meningitis include cancer and auto-immune diseases. In bacterial meningitis symptoms develop rapidly, often over hours, whereas the symptoms of viral meningitis may take a couple of days to develop. In meningococcal meningitis a rash may develop that starts as purple-red, pinprick spots and rapidly spreads to become blotchy. The rash doesn't fade when pressed.

What are the symptoms?
In adults and children symptoms include:
-severe headache
-fever
-stiff neck
-dislike of bright lights
-nausea and vomiting
-dislike of bright light or noise, and neck stiffness
-fast pulse and blue cold periphery.
-An unusual rash which doesn't blanche when pressed may be a sign of meningococcal infection.
-Complications, especially in bacterial meningitis, include damage to hearing, damage to other nerves in the body, brain abscesses, stroke, and collections of fluid on or in the brain.

Vocabulary:
Linings : Revestiments
Milder: suau
life-threatening: Amenaça la vida
whilst: mentres que
fully: Plenament
increase: augmentar
rash: erupció
develop: Desarrollar
spreads to become blotchy: s'extenen per convertir-se en taques
stiff neck: rigidesa del coll
dislike of bright lights : no t'agrada la llum brillant

Well, after this summary you can see that meningitis it's a serious and dangerous disease, I had the bacterial and I know that it's usually for the children under 16 years old, but I'm a exception. I don't wish to anybody this disease.

Very bad things

The real protagnoists were Christian Slater and Cameron Diaz.Fisher is a men, that in few days will marry a woman, Laura. His friends are going to do a party in Las Vegas, that Fisher will never forget. They arrive in a luxury hotel and there the things are chaotic; drink, drugs and a stripper. However the problems start when Kyle a friend of Fisher wants to have sex with the stripper in the hotel bathroom.

While they are having sex, the man slips and the stripper digs a hook in the wall on the head, accidentally killing her. Everybody discusses the problem, some decide to phone the police but later they decide not to phone the police. A few minutes the security guard goes to the boy's room and tells them not to make noise, the security guard finds the dead stripper’s body and he threatens to call the police but he is stabbed to death. The group of friends decide to buy things to bury the bodies in the desert. They buy luggage and put the parts of the body in different bags, after everybody goes to the desert and starts to bury the bodies.
They return to the city to their families and soon it’s the wedding of Fisher and Laura, the friends are angry, in the wedding all is chaotic and a friend hits another and after everybody ends up dead including the woman of the friends. Fisher wants to kill the last friend and the dog, but after they have an accident and Fisher, the friend and the dog are in a wheelchair.

The film aims to discover that the friendship and happiness are nothing more that appearances I think that this is a thematic film, that everybody dies, and I believe that it's a bad film. I don't recommend the film but if you are bored and you want to spend the time it's fun.

Vocabulary:

slips: relliscar

hook: Ganxo

threatens: amenaçes
tabbed: apunyalat
bury: enterrar

Well, after a lot of days I'm at home. I spent 15 days in Hospital Josep Trueta. But now I'm in my house, this text I'm writing in here, in my room of the hospital. I have a bed, small TV, two chairs, bathroom and small table and a lot of tubes, but now I'm accustomed to it. I like to explain this story like I did one day about the Orphanage, and I’d like this story to be false like that but it can't be.


Everything started when on Thursday my neck hurt but I decided to to to the high school because it was the first day and it was a simple pain. During the day, my neck continued to hurt and when I arrived home I told my mum and we decided to go to the doctor. So we went to the doctor but the doctor wasn’t at the CAP, and I visited the nurse. We weren't satisfied we went to Roses and they told us that I had a bit of flu.

The same night I was very ill, I couldn't moved and I was very cold. On Friday I didn't go to school. In the evening I went back to the CAP, and it wasn't the doctor and the nurse didn't know what happened so he decided to send me to the doctor. In there I was very bad. And when she looked at me, she didn't know what happened and she said to me, " Take off your jacket" I was wearing a red shirt and thanks to the shirt the doctor could see a mark on my arm. Then she gave importance and phoned an ambulance. In the ambulance I was very dizzy and I vomited a lot. When I arrived at Hospital de Figueres, everybody was for me very quickly, but the doctor that attended me didn't give importance and she told me, “I’m not playing with you”.

When she saw I was very bad she was obliged to ask for help, a doctor came quickly, and he didn't know what I had and he started to do all the tests. He was very nervous. My father was dizzy and had to lay on a bed in the hospital and my mother was very nervous and walked. Well, I have told my parents because I lost the consciousness. After some tests, the doctor decided to do the lumbar puncture but I arrived at the hospital in Figueres and stayed less than one hour and after I didn't wasn’t conscience and I didn't remember anything.

The doctor said to another doctor, “please give attention to the girl now- it's the most important to all the patients that she leaves now, the girl, the girl!!” Well when the doctor did the lumbar puncture we had to wait for the results but the doctor was nervous and he couldn't wait that he decided to put me on medication and he said “If I'm wrong it doesn't matter”. When they got the results they told me that they had phoned an ambulance that would take me to Girona to the ICU because in Figueres they didn't have ICU.

The first ambulance.

The second ambulance

Well, today I'll write about my Christmas. I know that it's late but I couldn't do it before. I went to Andalucia for eight days.
I caught a plane on 27th of December in Barcelona and I arrived in Jerez, there
my aunt and my uncle waiting for us. We arrived to the town of my aunt and we decided
to stay there all morning because my uncle was in the hospital because the last before
he stopped breathing. When I arrived I was very hungry and I think that I ate too much.
So we went to see my uncle and later we went to my house, I unpacked and after I visited my other family, at first it was funny because I’ve always gone to visit my family and stay with them. Well I think that it's normal, but when the days passed everybody has his things and if you want to do something with us, they have plans or things to do.
I know people there but I don't know how they have their lives and I'm a forest .Not everyday but almost, I went to the first town that I went to, my cousins were also there, but they are older than me. All the family of my mother was together, and my cousins of Mallorca also stayed there. I don't know why but all the cousins when stay with me, do what I do. Well, they left Andalucia two days after that I arrived, but my aunt stayed a few days more.
Oh, 24th and 25th of December I stayed in Castelló with my family but we didn't do special things. I missed my father because he always take me to see new towns and buy cakes and it was always fun but this time it's different. Every day was more boring, but when we did something special it was fun. One day we went to San Lucar de Barrameda, a village.
I enjoyed it a lot there and I also ate a lot. Ar the end of the year, I went to dinner in Villamartin, the town of my aunt and uncle... where I spent all the days, the dinner was fantastic, and after my cousin, her boyfriend and me, dressed up and went to Prado del Rey to the party. I dressed as Robin Hood.
My aunt asked me if I wanted to dress with her, as an Egyptian, but everybody that works in a bar dressed as an Egytpian and I didn't want to dress like this because I didn't work in a bar, I stayed at the party and later when my cousins had to leave I returned to my house. But last year was better, I met a friend and I stayed in a big party and there I met a lot of people. Before this party everything was more boring, but on 3th of January, my cousin invited me to a party in his bar and it was really funny, I also met a lot of people and stayed with him and his friends. The next day I didn't feel well but in the evening I went to visit my family for last time. And on 5th of January I returned to Barcelona and my father was waiting there, after 3 days in Castelló I got ill and now I’m relaxing at home and soon I can go back to high school.