VENICE!

Last 7th, 8th and 9th of January of this year I went to Venice with my parents and my sister. It was an incredible experience because I saw a lot of important and wonderful places.

First, we arrived there with a vaporetto. I think this type of boat is very strange, but is really cool! We started to look for our hotel (we got lost!) and then we visited each of the beautiful places of Venice.
Look at this photos! They are some places that we visited:

















This is in Piazza di San Marco. This place is WONDERFUL!!

This is in Rialto's Bridge. I love this bridge.

The second day, while we were visiting the Piazza di San Marco, one old man approached to us and gave four tickets for travel free to Murano, the crystal island. Surprised, we take the tickets and went there! We saw the glass factory, the workers molding the glass, and a lot of different shapes and colors of glass. What a nice experience!

This is the glass factory of Murano. We have been there!

The last day, we went to Burano, a wonderful island which his houses are painted with different colors! I ate there the best lasagne of the world, I think! :D
Look at the houses, they are incredible:


After that, we returned to Venice, and we took a gondola. It was very funny!
















So, when we returned to Spain, I thought these holidays were perfect. And I was right!

Carnival~

I went to some carnivals this year. I went to Roses, Sant Pere, Empuriabrava, Castelló and Fortià. All these days were BRILLIANT!
Come on, I will explain more or less my greats Carnivals with my friends.
Our costumes were of Little Red Riding Hood. These costumers had a red hood very funny. The party consisted in to follow a route for the town with the floats and music, and get to the dance room.
Here are three cool photos:






Here I was with my lovely friend Lydia

Here I was with my friends Luciano and Moha. The boys had to dress the hunter's clothing who kills wolf in the story of Little Red Riding Hood.

It was great!

Best wishes,
Marta :)

Why is Shakespeare so famous?

1. Shakespeare's life

Sheakespeare was born in 26th April 1564, in Stratford, England.

William Shakespeare was born of John Shakespeare, a glover and leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a landed local heiress. William was the third of eight children in the Shakespeare household—three of whom died in childhood. John Shakespeare was a merchant, alderman, and high bailiff of Stratford, during William's early childhood. His fortunes declined in 1570.

At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway.

Shakespeare had one son and two twins. Finally, he was 52 years old when he died.

2. Shakespeare's time

In Shakespeare's life the Queen was Elisabeth I.

A great rival of England during this time was Spain. This country attacked England with the Spanish Armada of Philip II, in 1588.
The Elisabethan era was described as golden because it was the period of the start of the english poetry, theatre, literature and music.

3. Shakespeare's career
Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 6 poems. One comedy: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Somni d'una nit d'estiu in Catalan). One tragedy: King Lear (El Rei Lear in Catalan). One poem: The Passionate Pilgrim (L'apassionat peregrí in Catalan).
The Globe was Shakespeare's theatre. His location is in London.

It's here:



In the Globe are performed the play Kings & Rogues (23th April - 3th October 2010). The first built of the Globe was in 1598. Shakespeare worked there since 1599 to 1613.
The name of this theatre company was Lord Chamberlain's Men. In 1644, the thatre was closed, but Peter Street, a Master Carpenter of the City of London, built the Globe again in 1997.


4. Fame

A lot of Shakespeare words of our vocabulary are used today around the world. Shakespeare is a big influence in our culture!
There is a one phrase very important in play Hamlet: "To be or not to be. That is the question". this is a known phrase.
Another famous word invented by Shakespeare:
- A rose can have any name. It always smells sweet.
(Una rosa puede tener todos los nombres. Ésta siempre huele dulce.)

- If you don't remember the most light madness in which the love made you fall down, you have not loved.
(Si no recuerdas la más ligera locura en que el amor te hizo caer, no has amado.)

- This is better to be a king of your silence that slave of your words.
(Es mejor ser rey de tu silencio que esclavo de tus palabras.)

5. Curiosities

Miguel de Cervantes died during the same day in which Shakespeare did it.
Curiously Shakespeare tape-worm a nick, they were calling him a Bard of Avon.
Approximately 2000 movies of Shakespeare have been adapted.

Marta Rodríguez and Sandra Martínez