Some people can compete with a good cheese accompanied by a glass or red wine; and the habitants of Ribes de Freser ( Ripollès) know this only too well. Every year, the village hosts the "Fira Formatgera", the perfect occasion to buy some of the best types of cheese made in the Pyrenees. For example, the last year the fair had held on April 17.
I think this fair is a good idea to people who loves cheese, like me, because for us every cheese is different to another, and we have the option to buy the best types of Catalonia's cheese for an economic price. In my opinion, I would do more publicity about it, because it doesn't do in everywhere, for this reason it is a good iniciative that this news was published here, because strangers can recive information about it, and they would know that the catalan cheese is one of the best in the world.
Probably, only catalan people know the mean of this word: "Caganer", but what happens if we explain to another people the mean of this word?:
In this video we can see Stephen Fry is explaining in BBC some customs of Catalonia, and the most spectacular is the faces of the players.
We know that "caganer" isn't the only character typical of the Catalan Christmas that defecate. There is another tradition, a tree trunk that children choose and that led to dining room. It is covered by a blanket because it hasn't got cold and the guys must to feed until Christmas Day, when children have to sing typical's Catalonia songs, and they must to give blows with a stick because "cagatió" give presents to children.
I think that it is one common tradition here, but in the other countries it is a very strange custom, but it isn't the most strange, because in other sites in the world we can see traditions more strange that it; for example in Jamaica, the people bury dead people into the garden of this house and it becomes to a party to say goodbye, and it's prohibited to mourn.
La Pegatina is a Catalan rumba group from Montcada i Reixac who was born in 2003 when Ruben (who plays alone) will be added to Ovid and Adrian to begin a new project called "Pegatina Sound System."
When it was created they began to crossing Spain and playing at festivals and concerts. In 2006, they changed the name of the group, and they, nowadays, are called "La pegatina" (the sticker). After recording several songs for the compilation, they recorded their first album called "Al carrer!". With this CD and an intensive work, the group increased with four members and then they did a lot of concerts around the world. In Febraury 2009, they have showed a new CD called "Via Mandarina", and for this reason they don't stop, because they are singing for this country, and later they will go outside.
The most important of this group are the members, who are: Rubén Sierra and Adrià Salas, the singers and guitarist, Ovidi Díaz, that plays the called "cajon flamenco", Ferran Ibañez who plays the bass guitar, Axel Magnani, who is the trumpeter, Romain Renard that plays the accordion, and finally, Sergi who is the drummer.
For me, my favourites song are: "El gat rumbero", "Mandarinas y Pomelos", "¿Cómo explicarte?",... for this reason, now I put here a video-song of this great group:
Valentino Rossi was born in Urbino (Italy), and he began his career competing with Karts. Then, in 1996 he started on the World of Motorcycling into the 125cc category and he won his first championship. After winning one year and other in the categories of 125cc and 250cc, V. Rossi passed to 500cc with an Honda (Team Repsol) which he had obtained 3 World’s titles consecutives. In the year 2004, Rossi did the major challenge of his career and of his live, that it was being champion of the world and the following year, with Yamaha, Rossi won it to. Other think that characterizes Rossi, are their celebrations, because he does very surrealist things, for example he took an inflatable doll in the motorcycle up, rised to the podium with a chicken, etc.
He has won 9 world championships, and the last has been one month ago in Malaysia.
Valentino has some nicknames, for example we can see the nexts: Valentinick, Doctor Rossi, Tavullia's Goblin,... and he is for many people the best pilot of all the times, because for us, he isn't normal!
This group was formed in 2001 in Sheffield (England), but they started to play officialy in 2002; the members of "Arctic Monkeys" are: Alex Turner who is the singer and the guitar, Jamie Cook that he is the guitarist, Nick O'Malley who plays the bass guitar and finally we can see Matt Helders, the drummer. Since 2002, the group use to be in the top ten of the list, because they produce a really good music and do a lot of concerts because they would like be more famous thant actually. This year, they have gone to differents sites, and the've done 65 concerts around the world; if we would like to see them, we have to wait until the 6 of Febraury, in Barcelona. The style of this band is tha alternative rock and it is influenced by the post-punk revival, acid rock and Indie rock. Arctic Monkeys have extracted 3 albums, that they are: "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" (2006), "Favourite Worst Nightmare" (2007) and "Hambug", which it's published this year. For me, some of the best songs are: "Fluorescent Adolescent", "Brianstorm", "The bad thing",... all of its are into the second album, which in my opinion it's better than the first and the third.
Now, I put a video about this group, that are playing "Fluorescent Adolescent":
All of the wonderful things, in life you can't buy Totes les coses maravelloses, que en la vida no les pots comprar They all can be yours with the right frame of mind Poden ser teves amb el marc correcte de la ment Just look and you'll find (no run, no lie) Mira-ho i ho veuràs (no córrer, no mentir) There are no secrets to hide (no run, no lie) No hi ha secrets per amagar (no córrer, no mentir) Leave your problems behind, leave your problems behind Deixa enrera els teus problemes, deixa enrere els teus problemes Tra la la la la - la la la la! Tra la la la la - la la la la! Hepcat in the front, to make you boogie bump Hepcat al davant, per fer-te el "boogie bump" Raise your glass and tip your brim Aixeca el teu got i inclina la ala del barret No worries friends, no worries No us preocupeu amics, no us preocupeu
Imagine that you're sailing on the big blue sea Imagina't que tu estàs navegant sobre el gran mar blau Just you and your best girl for company Només tu i la teva millor noia de companyia Rockin' the boat while the trade winds blow El vaixell s'està balancejant mentres que el vent bufa You'll never forget how you love her so.... Tu mai oblidaràs com l'estimaves a ella, per tant... Tra la la la la - la la la la! Tra la la la la - la la la la! Hepcat in the front, to make you boogie bump Hepcat al davant per fer-te el "boogie bump" Raise your glass and tip your brim Aixeca el got i inclina l'ala del teu barret But no worries friends, no worries Però no us preocupeu amic, no us preocupeu
Imagine that you're sailing on the big blue sea Imagina't que tu estàs navegant sobre el gran mar blau Just you and your best girl for company Només tu i la teva millor noia de companyia Rockin' the boat while the trade winds blow El vaixell s'està balancejant mentres que el vent bufa You'll never forget how you love her so.... Tu mai oblidaràs com l'estimaves a ella, per tant... You feel sick, you feel sad, the love you had Tu et sents malalt, tu et sent trist, l'amor que tenies Left you blue, In the time will you remember that it happened to you Et vaig deixar trista, al pas del temps tu recordaràs el que et va passar Just look and you'll find (no run, no lie) Mira-ho i ho veuràs (no córrer, no mentir) There are no secrets to hide (no run, no lie) No hi ha secrets per amagar ( no córrer, no mentir) Leave your problems behind - leave your problems behind Deixa enrera els teus problemes, deixa enrere els teus problemes Tra la la la la - la la la la! Tra la la la al - la la la la! Hepcat in the front to make you do the ska jump Hepcat al davant per fer que tu facis el salt de ska So dance, laugh, and sing... Per tant balla, riu i canta... No worries friends, no worries! No us preocupeu amics, no us preocupeu!
Now, I'm going to comment a little bit my oral presentation, which I has done with my friend called Guillem Sanz. The topic was "Youtube fun" and we explained the history of youtube, the videos' commons features that all of you can see to this page, the problems that can produce this webpage...
Now, for do the comment, I'm going to have grounds to the "evaluator's paper", which has the next structure:
Presentation:
Guillem and me used a powerpoint because for us it was be very useful, and all the times, this resource is good to follow the presentation. Other thing that we did correct had been the oral presentation's time, because we were speaking about nine or ten minutes ( approximately, five minutes per person).
Body language & eye contact:
In my opinion, I think that we should look the audience all the time, because it means that the presenter has studied, and he doesn't need read the paper. Other thing, that we should improve, is our nervousness, because the people, who are listening to us, note it.
Structure:
For me, the structure of this oral presentation was right, because we did an introduction, an explication and finally some conclusions, but we didn't use many discourse makers, and it was points against the note.
Content:
I hope that the content of this oral presentation had been entretaining and that we introduce new infotmation to the audience, because it was our goal.
To improve this part, I think we should give more examples and justify our opinions about the topic.
Language:
About the language that we used in the oral presentation was easy, because we decided to not complicate it, because for Guillem and me the english's language it's a little bit difficult, and for this reason we didn't use vocabulary rich and connectors, but we utilized a lot of fillers like "well", "for example",...
Pronunciation & Intonation:
For me, it was the worst part of our oral presentation, because our pronunciation was very poor and we didn't intonated the best that we know do; I supposed that it's for our nervousness, but I'm sure we will to improve this part, and the next mark will be better than it. ;)
La Pegatina is a Catalan rumba group from Montcada i Reixac who was born in 2003 when Ruben (who plays alone) will be added to Ovid and Adrian to begin a new project called "Pegatina Sound System."
