Writing journal

WRITING JOURNALS

1. How your life has changed since you came tothe United States

Since I came to the United States everything has been different, not only for the culture sock but also for the food, the people and how everything works here. People here are quite unusual, you can find someone who is quite similar to you but another who is it not. The food is something remarkable because you always have heard that americans only eat junk food and in part it is true but also there are some things that are not bad.

 The supermarkets here are quite huge you will be quite unlucky if you get lost in one of those. Culture is totally different too and that is thanks to the people from other parts of the world who lives there, each house is a world and they make United State a good country sadly that in those last years things are getting quite difficult for them.

2. A special skill you have

If you think about it everyone has their own special skill, ones can draw quite well, others can cook,  write or sing but sometimes you think that you are not good at anything and for example,that is my case.

 I have been thinking about what I am good at but nothing cames to my head, I like drawing but I am not good at it, I can not sing or dance and if I think of something more simple nothing cames to my head either so that it is, some people like me are not particulary good at something but we try our best and we support those ones who can make things and should be proud of themselves.

On the other hand, sometimes we think that we are not good at something but then someday, you discover what passionate you and you start to have a hobby that you never thought that you would end up with.

 So in my opinion, if your are not good at something do not worry! Maybe you did not find it now but who knows if someday it would appear! Just make it if you like but never get desmotivated.

3. A hobby

Some people would say the same because more or less nowadays we all like the same things, listening to music, watching series, doing sports etc. And I do that too but in particulary, I like to watch japanese cartoons, also called anime.

 In those recent years, more and more people knows what it is and all but a few years ago they would look at you with some bad face and honestly that is amazing! I started watching anime when I was twelve and it was thanks to my cousin who really liked it too. You could say that this is nothing really important but I have met some amazing people who are now my best friends thanks to it.

It is actually really good because there are conventions around differents parts of Spain that are quite good, there I have met a lot of amazing people who I only see there and we spend most of our days together and I could not be more thankfull to my cousin for that day that she told me to check it out.

4. Learning to play a sport

Sometimes you want to start learning to play a new sport and maybe it would be difficult but if you are realy interested in it, you will make it for sure. First, you start to like this sport and little by little your desire to do it start to grow and then there you go! You can not stop thinking about learning it.

 You search for places that are near you for practicing and to sing up so that is when you definetly start, maybe at first it is not what you thought it would be but with effort and dedication you will be good at it and you will love it.

And later you made friends thanks to it who loves the sport you are doing as much as you do and then you are not lonely so this increase the desire that you had at first more and more and who know if you might start someday take part of some competitions and start to win prizes. A sport can leave you to some incredible places who you never thought that you will end up doing.

5.Your favourite sport to play or watch

I am not really a sport person to be honest, because I am a little bit clumsy and I do not think that I would be good at any sport but when I was little I used to do swimming and I really liked it but when I went to the high school I dropped it and since then I did not thought of doing anything more. I reallyliked to play volleyball but in my town there were any place to play so it was impossible.

Although this, I really enjoy to watch sports, I used to love football but nowadays I am not fond on it anymore, I like to watch swimming because it is a thing that I used to enjoy and also gymnastics are a thing that catch my attention too but there is a sport that I really love and it is ice skating.

I used to watch it with my mom because she likes it too when I was young when there were events and competitions but nowadays, it appasionates me, what they do it is just incredible.

I really think that it is an undervalued sport because what they do in some seconds is amazing, the most difficult and important jump it is the cuadruple that consits on diong four laps while you are in the air. It is almost impossible and seeing them do it, it is a feeling that I will never tire of.

6. An accident
Sadly, there are thousands of accidents happening everyday at each time, sometimes there are light but some others are really hard and can cause deaths and problems.Accidents are things that are mostly quite difficult to avoid, they happen in just few seconds and you do not see it, but those seconds are ages for you.

In my case, I have never had an accident so I do not really know how it is but I have someone who unfortunately has suffered four and this someone is my father. He has broken both arms and the left leg, plus he lost a piece of his finger.

The right hand was even before I was born, I do not really know who this one happened but I think it was with the car, the other hand was when I was little and he fell from the stairs, the anecdote is quite funny now because he stayed on the floor until my mother came because he also hurted his back but he had a back pain for weeks plus the broken arm.

Lastly, he broke his leg in a motorbike accident, the crosswalk was just painted but it was not signalized so he fell and the motorbike fell on his leg. This was in summer so we spent a really bad summer but after some years he is really good and for some reason, he loves to tell those stories.

7.Being on time
This is something that should be really common and everyone must do but there are hundred of people who do not do it. It is really simple you just have to organize your time and know when you should left.

I used to have a group of freinds that always arrived late and a day I met some other friends and I went with them because I spent an hour and half waiting! They got a little mad with me but I had my reassons so I did not felt bad.

The thing is that I hate people who arrieve late, if you have decided and hour to be, then be at this hour! It is not that difficult, people should start being more puntual because in some places like university or work you would not be able to do this. Maybe if you are a teacher it would not be this hard but there are million of cases where it would be.

8.The people you live with
Well, right now I live with my two flatmates, they are really nice and amazing, we do not spend a lot of time right now because they have morning classes and I do not so we mostly see each other only at night.

The days that we do not have really important things to do, we watch a film or a serie. We sometimes play videogames and cardboard games too. I am really gratefull to have them because at first I did not know how would it be because any of my classmates were staying in Murcia so I did not had anyone to share a flat but I found that one girl was looking for two flatmates and I did not think it twice.

Our flat is a little old and sometimes strange things happens but I would never left the flat, I am really gratefull to have them.

9.American customs you like/dislike
There are some American customs that I really like, for example, the way they addapted Halloween is really amazing, I would love to celebrate it as they do, I love to dress up so I would be really happy if here it were like that.

On the other hand, I really love Thanksgiving, since I was young I always watched in cartoons and tv series how they celebrated it and it always catched my attention. Family and friends meet and talk about each other, some watch sports like Super Bowl that it is always that time and have a really good time.

There are some customs that I might not like but those one are really good and I love them, I would love to celebrate them here too.

10.An important story in the news
Everyday something happens, sometimes it is a good thing and some other day it is sadly a bad one, those last ones are more common so when something incredible happens, it is time to celebrate it.

Some incredibles stories are for example when a country legalize same-sex marriage, I think that this should be legalized in every country but unfortunately, we are still a long way from getting to this so when some new country legalize it, I celebrate it happily.

Some other great stories are the one about people overcoming tough diseases, seeing those people smile and be really happy made you smile too without noticing. In this world, a lot of bad news happen so we should celebrate when a good one came in between.

11.The working student
Being a student is sometimes a really hard vacation, you have to work really really hard to do everything, you have to cope your life with youe student duties and soemtimes this can be quite hard.

The best cuality that you should take inti account is to try and work everyday. If for example, you want to study a degree, you must study mostly everday because the final exams are something that you must be prepared for. This year might me difficult and sometimes you might think that you would  not made it but you will, mostly everyone do it.

It is a stressfull year that must be said but with work and desire everything will end up well and in a few months you will be studying what you always loved.

12. A big mistake you once made
Mistakes are something that everyone hate, some are more important than others but those who are big, are really difficult to forget. Sometimes is just something that you should never said, or a fight or a lie that are really bad but when everythong is done it is almost impossible to fix it.

Years ago, I used to have a really good bestfriend, we were inseparable but one day we had a stupid fight that was really big and since then we never were the same. We spent some time without talking and later we started to talk again but as always we were way more distant and now she is studying in other city and we no longer talk.

I will always regret what I did because in part it was mostly my fault and I hope that this will never happen to me again.

13.Using e-mails
Technology is something that in the last decades has evolved incredibly, and e-mails were and are actually a really good way to comunicate.

Nowadays, people do not use them as before, I remember talking with my friends with e-mails but since apps like whatsapp and some other people only use them to submit works, or to share photos or videos that you have in your computer such as a trip or a concert.

I can not say that I miss it because the excitement to have a new e-mail was really good but now more or less it is the same with the messages so I find e-mail quite usefull for those things because thanks to them you can access to webpages and some more things.

14.Cell phones
As I said before, technology has evolved a lot and some good thing about it is the invention of cell phones, at first they were only made to comunicate via message or call but with the time they have evolved that much that nowadays you can practically do everything with it.

Some people says that they are bad and that teenagers are adicted to them, but I do not see it like that, we need to talk about the social netwoorks too, there we have friends from some different parts of the world and you only talk with them via your phone, or just talk with your family if they are not from the same place as you are.

Cell phones are now a really great tool that allow you to do whatever you want apart from  talking with people, you can buy things, study and learn languages and also consult something if you are not feeling good.

I think that cell-phones are a really good invent and I am greatefull to have one because I have met some amazing people thanks to it.
15.Teenagers
Teenagers are really difficult to handle sometimes, it is also a difficult time, everyone remenber who stupid one day was and how difficult everything was but it is a thing that everyone has passed and those years are quite difficult but everything will go well with time.

In those years, we tend to be a little bit stupid most of the time, we feel like we are always a little misunderstood and that nobody but our friends can help us when in reality our parents can too but we do not want to talk to them because we are quite shy or just because we do not want them  to know what it is wrong and that is quite stupid.

And above all, our parents are the only ones who have to support ourselves because they are our parents and they can do nothing more than support us. I am really embarrased for what my mother had to support because I was an idiot.

But those teenagers years are something that we have to cope with, when they grow everything will go well but until then, they have to be strong.

16.The right age to get married
Some people discuss about what it is the perfect age to get married, some think that it must be in the 20s and some other thinks that those years are quite early.

There is not a really exactly age to get married, someone can get married with 20 years and some other with 30 years. It depends on a lot of things, like what you want before. Some centuries ago there were no right age, when it was necessary it has to be, in the 70s and 80s mostly it would be at middle 20s or 30s but if you got married before nothing would happen neither.

I do not think that there is a right age, people are freely to do whatever they want whenever they want, and nobody can tell them what to do. If someone want to get married with 20 or with 50 it will be excellent! Or even if someone will never get married. It is a personal decision that must be taken when it is needed.

17.A good friend
There are million of things that are considered to be called "a good friend", some people consider that a good friend need to have their same hobbies or likes but some other think that likes are not important, that being loyal and honest is way more important.

It is true that likes and hobbies are really important becuase that would let you do more or less the same things but if they are not honest and lie to you they are not definetly a good friend at all. Everyone should have friends that are loyal and honest.

I think, that a good friend must be like that, likes are important too but not as much as the other things. In my group of friends, more or less we have the same likes but not everyone like the things that the other like but the one thing that I love about us is that we tell each other our problems and we are always honest, that it is what a good friendship consists on.

18.Shooping
Shopping is an activity that that does not have a neutral point, or people hate it or they love it. It all depend on what you are shopping of course.

Some people hate it, they can not enter to a shop and be there more than 30 minutes, mostly young kids hate it too but there are millions of adults who do not like it neither. And on the other hand, there are the people who love it. They can spend hours and hours in shop and never get bored of it. Those are qualities that humans being have and we can do anything to change it.

It also depend on what they are shopping of course, there are people who love to buy clothes, make up, books, games... If it not the same to go and but books or games that are things that you are going to enjoy than shopping food or furniture.

In my case, I love shopping, when I was young I hated it but now I do not, although it is not the same to go and buy food than buying clothes or books. But we need to understand the ones who hate it and not push them into liking it.

19.Your last day in your country
The last day is never eays, you are prepared to say goodbye to a lot of things that you love and that maybe you will not see untill months or years.

You need to have everything prepared and organized, for this the best thing it is to have a list of the things that you need and check it a few times. There will always be something left it is a rule that can not be broken but we always try that it is nothing really important.

Then you also have to say goodbye and this is really sad and stressful, some people might afront it in different ways, some might do it quite easily but others are not even able to say a word without crying.

In some cases, it is never to leave the place where you live but with the time, everything will go well and you will get used to your new life.

20.Your first day in the US
Arriving to a new country it is never easy neither, you are used to a place that it is probably quite different from what the United States is, their culture and customs are quite unique and you need time to get used to them.

Firstly, you need to try and get used to the place where you will be staying because that is a main thing. The people who live there, and if you are going to share the house with someone or not,  if you are alone the best thing is to make friend with neighbours and if you are with flatmates, get on well.

The first thing you can do is to set up and organize your bedroom, the kitchen and bathroom. If you are from a place that is quiet far, you would not have most things for bath and food so go to a supermarket and buy it, this will help you also to get used to the neighborhood and the place. 

Try to also get distracted because this will help you to not be sad and nostalgic. With those things, your first day will go perfectly.

21.Discrimination
In this world nowaday, there are a lot of discrimiation and this is something that should not exist. But not everyone is open minded, their family who probably lived in other years educated them with those ideals and they sadly believe them.

Discrimination is a thing that has exicted all along and with the time there are less people who think that being from a different religion or loving whoever people want it is bad and this is thanks to those famous people who talk oppenly about those issues and the ones who fought for their rights.

We owe to those people a lot and we still need to fight to finish with those prejudies to make the people who do not accept it why they should because we are all human beings, maybe with differents likes and aspects but need to learn to respect everyone.

In my opinion the best thing to do in those cases is to teach those rights since people are young because if they teach everyone that those things are completly normal they would not judge neither later when they grow.

22.Your favourite food
Since I was young, I used to say that my favourite food was pasta and in some ways it is still pasta but I do not thing that I have a thing that I would eat forever if I had to choose.

For example, I love fruit and if I could choose one it would definetly be watermelon but the problem withfruit it is that most of them are from a specific season and this is why I never get tired of it. There is also ice cream, I love it like practically everyone but I could not choose a unique flavour neither.

So thinking about it, I do not have any favourite food, there are some things that I like more than some others but I am not able to choose anything but watermelon will be the one if I had to choose wisely.

23. The best cat to own
Cats are wonderful pets to own, although there are million of people who does not like them and you can not try and convince them, me personally I am more a dog person but I really love cats too.

There are also hundred of different species of cats and I think that all of them are beautiful, and unique it is not a thing that should be considered at the hour of having one as pet. The only think that must be considered is to not buy them, there are million of street cats that only need a good family and a lot of love.

People tend to buy animals as if they were furniture to decorate and this never sould be because animals are living beings and need to be treated as such, you can not love when they are little and later when they grow be dropped somewhere.

So to conclude, the only thing that must be taken into account when you decide to have a cat as pet is to be responsible of it forever.

24.Smoking in public places
I am a really peaceful person but if there is something that I hate with all my heart is the smell of smoke, and I am really used to it because my mother smokes but I can cope with it, and less if someone is smoking in a close place.

I do not mind if people smoke on the street because we are freely to do whatever we want but do not smoke in bars or other places like buses. You are not the only one who are there and you do not know if someone has breathing problems and you might cause them cough or just there might be children or old people.

If smoking places exits is for something so go and smoke to those places and not in the ones that you should not. You can make people feel uncomfortable when they should not be. It is not a difficult thing by my point of view.

25. A movie start or singer  you like 
If I had to choose who is my favourite singer it would definitely be Ed Sheeran, he is an English artist who has been in the music world since 2012, he started to sing on the street and used to dream about acting in the Wembley Stadium and with the years, he achieved that dream.

I started to like him thanks to a colaboration that he made with Taylor Swift,who is one of my favourite artist too, and I feel in love with him and his voice so I started to listen to his music because at that time he only had his EPs and his first album "Plus" and then I watched how she went from being the one who openned her concerts to be an individual artist who had his own ones,

I'm really proud of him as a fan because he has overcome a lot of difficult things and now he is really happy and he is preparing some new albums that will come out in the future. The other two albums are amazing so I hope the new one would be like always, I trust him and I know that everything will go well.

26. A belief you have or used to have
When I was young, I used to believe everything that everyone told me, maybe it was something really stupid but I was really inocent so I just believed them.

With the time, this stopped and now I know when somebody is lying altough sometimes I am still a little illusive. I hope the day that I would stop being like that honestly.

On the other hand, I used to believe in God but nowadays, I have realized that I "lost it", in reality my parents never were really fond, I made all those things such as the communion and I am baptized but there is nothing more than that.

I respect the ones who are becuase you must respect everyone but I do not understand them. Religion it is a really controversial issue and I just do not like to talk about it.

27.A story from your childhood
I have a lot of wonderful stories from when I was young but I always love to talk about the one when I went with my parents to Benidorm.

We were in summer vacations and my parents decided to go so we went to "Terra Natura" and "Terra Mítica", the first one is a zoo and the second one a theme park. Well with the first one, the hotel prepared us a meal and I saved mine in my back but the one for my parents stayed in bags and my father said that he would later save it but he left it in the room and they had to buy something to eat that day, I remeber that my mother was really angry with him

And with the second one, they laughed at me a lot because when I was young I used to hate fair attractions and I did not want that my father went on them because I was worried about him. The funny thing it is that nowadays I love them, I could go and try all roller coasters million of times and I will never get tired of them.

28.A favourite possesion
I have never though about this but if I only could dave one thing that I own it would be an artbook that my cousin gave me that it is no longer avalible to buy, it was a present for my 16 birthday and it is from my favourite anime serie. It was an special edition and I do not get how she could get that.

It is illustrated by the manga artist that the series are bassed on and it tells a lot of important imformation that I love to read whenever I feel a little sad, it is like my solution to all my problems.

There are a lot of other things that are quite valuable to me like a draw that one of my friends made me or a teddy bear that my uncle brought me from Germany and a windmill who it is actually a music box that my grandmother brought me from Holland. The last one it is actually really important because I used to listen to it the nights that I could not sleep because it relaxed me a lot.

So all of those things would be one of my favourite possesions because they mean a lot for me and I am really grateful of the family that I have.