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Last Sunday (17th May), I participated to the II Guitar Meeting of Figueres. In this meeting attended so many music schools in Alt and Baix Empordà, la Garrotxa and Girona. It also participate the only guitar orchestra of Spain, the Orquestra de Guitarres de Barcelona.

Every guitar school played their own songs (1, 2 or 3 songs) and then we played two songs together. The Orquestra de Guitarres de Barcelona played 3 songs too, and they were amazing!

On Saturday, we had to rehearse the  songs that we had to play all together. The songs were a bit difficult, specially because they were so fast. But we practice enough, and on Sunday we all made a great concert. Also, our director was the director of the Orquestra de Guitarres de Barcelona, so it was an honor to all of us.

I think it was such a good experience, because I could learn a lot and try new things. I also met new people. And, one of the bests parts, I could heard the other guitar groups and the Orchestra.

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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES BETWEEN READING A BOOK OR AN EBOOK

Nowadays, we're so familiarized with tecnology. That's why it's not strange that we can read a book without having a book: we can read it through a screen using eBooks.

Personally, I prefer reading books, because I'm always connected to mobiles, pc... And, when I'm reading, I like to disconnect of all. Also, because I like having the book, like turn pages, smell the odor of the book... But, let's see the advantages and disadvantages of reading a book and reading an eBook.

                                                             BOOK:

ADVANTAGES:

- Books don't need energy to run.
- When you finish reading it you can keep it and save it.
- You can feel the book.
- The book is yours and you can do whatever you want with it.
- Also, the writer can sign the book.

DISADVENTAGES:
- It's more expensive.
- It takes up more space.

EBOOK:

ADVANTAGES:
- It's cheaper than a book in paper.
- You have all the books you want in the eBook. That means that it doesn't takes up much space.
- It's easy to carry the eBook, because it doesn't weights too much.
- You don't have to move or wait to buy a book. You can buy it instantatly.
- You can also search the definition on the eBook, because, most of it, bring an incorpored dictionary.

DISADVANTAGES:
- eBooks need Internet to buy any book.

- It also needs to charge the battery. And the battery can ends at any time.
- It exhausts your eyes.
- Not all the books have a digital version of it.
- You can't feel the same as the book. I mean, you can't turn the pages, smell the odor of the book...

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Last Saturday I went to a speech contest in Vilajuïga. Our catalan teachers (Quim and Ofra) signed up Mireia Colomer and I. 

The contest consisted of: they give us two topics: "What would you like to be invented?" and "What historical moment would you like to have lived?". They gave these topics on Thursday, so we had 2 days (aprox.) to prepare these topics. Our teachers helped us to prepare a good introduction and how to prepare the presentation. Then, on the contest, we had to choose one of these topics randomly and we had to expose it to the contest jurors and talk about it 3 minutes (in the contest we can't see the time so it was so hard to control it). The 5 best people, will go to the final.

Finally, on Saturday was the contest, so in the early morning we were ready to start. We were 24 participants from all the high schools from Alt Empordà. They divided us in 2 groups, and me and Mireia were in the first group. We were all so nervous! The participants had to go into a room where the jurors were. Into that room only were the jurors, and the parents saw us through a camera so we didn't see them, but they could see us. The participants couldn't see the other participants, so they were outside.

When it was my turn, I was so nervous because we couldn't bring any support like powerpoint or a paper, but once I started to speak, I started to feel so much comfortable and even though I forgot some things, it was good.

While the second group was exposing, the first group went to visit the "Celler Espelt" and vice versa.

Then, the most interesting part was when, finally, the jursos said the finalists. We were 24 people and it only were 5 finalists so it was hard to pass into the final. But... I passed! At that moment, I didn't expect it because there were people who had prepared a lot and me, compared to them... I thought I couldn't win. But I passed into the final so I was so exited.

The jurors give us 5 minutes to prepare the exposition. We had to expose the theme that we didn't do the first time. The first time I did "What would you like to be invented?", so this time I did "What historical moment would you like to have lived?". Personally, I think that the first one was better than the second one, so that's why I passed into the final and with the second one I had no opportunities to win, but I never lost hope. 

I was the second one to do the exposition, so I heard 3 of the other 4 participants, and I was so suprised. They did all very well! 

Finally, after a long 10 minutes, the jurors gave the final results. And I was in fifth place. It won girl from Ramon Muntaner, Olma Giró. The girl did it so well! She deserved to win.

I was very happy with my result, because I never thought I could get into the final. I also won an award, all the finalists won something: spend a day in "Forum Impulsa", that it's in june in Girona. Also the first prize was a tablet; the second, a GoPro and the third, a headphones.

I think it was a very good experience that will help me in the future and, also, I made some friends and I hope that I will see them again!

DESCRIBING A PHOTO

This is a photo of a flat-topped mountain with two cities in the bottom.

In the background, I can see the mountain covered with clouds. Also, I can see the blue sky with some stars.

In the right part, I can see a beautiful city illuminated with lights (because the photo was taken at night). Next to the city, There's the sea.

In the left part, there's another city. And, also, behind this city you can see another city or maybe it's the same city, I don't know.

In the middle of the picture there's a small light concentration, and it seems to form part of the left city, maybe it's a separated neighborhood. It stands out the main road that communicates the two cities.

In the foreground, I can see a rock with moss and maybe another plants.

This is a very cool photo. I love the contrast of the different parts of the photo. For example, the contrast between the lights of the city and the ground or the sky. Also, the clouds above the mountain are so beautiful and stunning.