144. Write an e-mail to a friend explaining her what you did at the zoo of Santillana, by L.S (E.S.O 4)

SONG:  Dulce Pontes - Cançao do Mar

Hi Celia! How are you?

I have missed you since you travelled to Galicia last month. Time passes by slowly and days are longer without you.

Last Sunday, it was my cousin´s birthday, and my family and I spent the day in Santillana. We ate in a restaurant and later we went to the zoo. I had never visited that zoo as I always go to “Cabarceno”. Like my cousin Paula, I love photography so we spent all the afternoon taking photos. We also saw a lot of animals like birds, pigs, tigers… At half past five we ate a sandwich of ham in a bench.

When we were walking out of the zoo we saw and read a poster that explained that visitors can sponsor an animal. It consists of paying 100€ to feed the animal. So we sponsored a monkey.

That was what I liked most. We spent a great day there so I would like to repeat it with you.

See you soon. I love you.

                                                                                 

143. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED A FILM AT THE CINEMA , by N.S.M (E.S.O 3)

SONG:   Abel Korzeniowski - Juliet's  Dream

The first time that I attended the cinema, I was seven years old and I went to watch 'Avatar' with my parents, Fernando and Ana.

Since I had never been in the cinema, for me, it was amazing. While we bought the tickets, I saw a long queue. I asked my parents why there were a lot of people there. My parents answered me that that was the place where people bought the food and the drinks.

When we finished purchasing the tickets, we bought two colas, popcorn, candies and a hotdog with ketchup and with fried onion.

When we walked back into the cinema, I was very nervous and excited. The lights of the cinema went off. I was scared at the moment when the advertisements appeared since the volume was too high and I put my hands on my ears. But, since the film started, I put on my hands on the armrest and I was nervous with the things that happened in the film.

When the film finished, I wanted to watch another film, however  my parents told me that I would watch it another day.

I loved it.

142. MY FAVOURITE FREE TIME ACTIVITY , by G.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Cyndy Lauper - Time After Time

I love drawing. I don’t usually have time to draw, but when I can find some free time – I don’t care if it is an hour or just ten minutes –,  I draw.  

Sometimes, when I’m bored or I don’t know what to do, I just take my pencil and I start doing lines in a paper, just doodles, and little by little a shape is formed and I discover something to draw, the beginning of a drawing to create, a new idea.

When I have this start, it’s easy for me to continue drawing and create a new and original drawing.

However, sometimes it’s not so easy. Sometimes, I start to doodle and nothing happens; I can’t see nor imagine any clear figure to transform my doodle into a drawing. Sometimes, when I really want to draw, I have no ideas to create.

Yes, it’s true. Although it seems an illogical situation, when I want to draw I haven’t got any ideas in my mind, and when I don’t want to or I’m just bored I have millions of them: I have more ideas when I need them the less. That’s very frustrating!

Other times I just look on the Internet or in some books for drawings that I like and I copy them as I don’t want to become frustrated or even to drive me crazy because I don’t have any ideas to draw.

Finally, there are some times when I know exactly what I want to draw and I have the sketch inside my mind, so I just need to “ let it go” without being a lot of time thinking about what I’m going to do.

About my artistic style I can only say that I prefer drawing by pencil, shading instead of colouring, as I think that if I colour my drawings they will be worse than if they were in black and white.

But this doesn’t mean that I never colour my drawings; I do it, and when I paint them I prefer using coloured pencils since I don’t know how to use water colours, oil painting, charcoal and many other materials which I would like to use to colour my drawings well, as I’ve never attended art classes – apart from the ones which we have at the high school.

I would like to attend art classes to learn the different techniques and to know more about the artistic styles to be able to do better and more professional drawings, not the pencil sketches that I make !

141. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MY DINNER AND WHAT I DO UNTIL I GO TO BED , by M.G (E.S.O 3)

SONG:  Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better

I help my mother to cook the dinner as I like very much cooking with her. We take everything we need to cook and then start to make the food. We talk about interesting events of the day.

When the dinner is finished my mother calls my father and my brother and the two come to the kitchen. My father eats in the living room watching the TV, and my brother goes to his bedroom. My mother goes with my father and I go to my bedroom.

When I finish, I take my phone and I watch videos on YouTube, and chat with my friends. Sometimes, when my father goes to bed, he comes to my bedroom to say me good night and he doesn't like when I leave the dirty dishes on the carpet, so he tells me that I must take the dishes and I go to the kitchen to put the dishes in the dishwasher. Then, I go back to my bedroom.

140. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO THE CINEMA , by A.C.G (E.S.O 4)

SONG:   Michael Bublé - Home

Now I watch many films, but the best are the ones I watch at the cinema because I love it.

The first time that I went to the cinema was in 2007, nine years ago, when I was seven years old.

It happened in El Corte Inglés. I went with my parents  and some friends since we wanted to watch the film “Ratatouille”. It’s about a mouse that wanted to be a professional cook, like his idol “Gusteau”.

The experience was incredible , but not only because of the film. It was amazing too for the many people that were watching it and the big screen.

The film finished, and I and my friends went to eat to Burger King. We didn’t stop speaking about the film.

Now, when I’m fifteen, I go to the cinema three times a month with some friends.

The contemporary films are very different from the films that I watched years ago, with more effects, different actors…But I will remember “Ratatouille” as the first film that I watched at the cinema.

139. WHAT FRIGHTENS ME, by A.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Sia - Alive

   I’m a paranoiac person. Every time I see a horror film or I read something scary in a book, I'm not able to sleep the following night.

   Once I watched with my friend Caterina “By your side”. It's a movie about an insane harasser who is obsessed with teenagers’ teeth. In the film, he kidnaps seven adolescents and tortures them by pulling their teeth out. I didn't enjoy watching that film. In fact, I was terrified and I couldn't sleep for three days. I even had nightmares during that month.

   Horror films are not the only thing which scares me: illness, death, syringes, spiders and mosquitoes frighten me too. However, my greatest and darkest fear is my terror of the black beings under my desk.

   My bed is right next to my table. As the desk is under a window, I have got nightmares in which madmen, monsters, thieves or kidnappers come into my bedroom through the window and hide under my table. I have to stretch out my arm to turn my desk lamp on, and in my imagination the dark beings are there, so I can't move my arm. I can't move my body. I must keep motionless.

   When I have got this kind of nightmares, I become paralyzed. I stay tense in my bed sweating in the dark till I fall asleep. I try to think that they are product of my imagination; however, I cannot control my panic and I succumb to it.

   I hate to admit that my mind is so fragile, so weak. This makes me feel I'm just a puppet which moves by the caprice of the irrational parts of my brain.

138. THE PREPARATIONS I MAKE BEFORE GOING TO THE BEACH , by G.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Boston - More Than A Feeling

Preparing everything to go to the beach might seem like an easy and quick task, but in reality it is not.

For my family, it is always the same chaotic routine. We start collecting our swimsuits and towels to put them in our bags, but we can’t find them. We look for them all around the house: in our bedrooms, in the bathrooms, in the basement… Even in the kitchen!

When we finally find them, we put them into the bags.

Then, we realise that we haven’t taken the suntan cream and we go to take it, but it is never in its place. We start to search again all around the house to find it. Finally we put it in the bags.

And the same happens with the caps, the flip-flops, the sun glasses, the rackets and the ball, the kite, the parasol…

We spend almost an hour walking upstairs and downstairs to find and prepare everything! More time than when we were younger…And then it hardly fits in the boot!

Personally, I prefer going to the beach with less objects, just a bag for each one with a swimsuit, a towel and suntan lotion. But I don’t care about carrying all the other things since if we don’t take them, on the beach I will be bored if I don’t have rackets or a kite to play with, or the sun will burn my skin if I don’t have a parasol to protect my body from its light…

Finally, after we have found everything and put it in the car, we drive to the beach, ready to spend a fantastic day there.

And we know that we aren’t going to need anything!

137. THE CARTOON I LIKED MOST WHEN I WAS A CHILD , by L.S.L (E.S.O 4)

SONG:  Keane - Somewhere We Only Know

When I was a child I only watched TV a little bit because, on the one hand, I like it, but on the other hand I preferred to do other activities like playing with my brother or friends in the garden or reading, for example.

If I had to choose, one of my favourite cartoons from my childhood, I would select “Las Tres Mellizas” or “The Triplets” in English.

The director of the serie was Roser capdevilla. It was an entertainment program that was televised on Clan.

Nowadays, I don´t see it so I don´t know if it is televised or not. My favourite character was Helena because she was like me: she loved eating and doing sport. She usually wore green clothes, and then it was my favourite colour. Now, I prefer pink.


         *Clan: Spanish television channel for kids.

136. WHY I FORGOT MY COMPOSITION AT HOME , Z.G.V (E.S.O 3)

SONG :  Black - Wonderful Life

   Today I am going to explain why I forgot my composition at home.

   We had to hand the correction of the composition on Friday so the day before, in the afternoon, I was doing my homework as usual. I studied, I did my English homework and I placed my composition in my notebook not to forget it. However, that notebook wasn't the English notebook, it was the notebook of religion!

   The next day when I arrived at the high school, I checked I had all my homework, however, I didn't have the correction. I looked for it everywhere but it didn't appear. I called my mother with my mobile phone but she was at the gym so she couldn't bring me the composition. I tried to copy but it didn't work. So finally I couldn't hand the compositon on time.

   So, next time, I will check that all my homework is inside my backpack before going to school.

135. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MY DINNER AND WHAT I DO UNTIL I GO TO BED , by N.S.M (E.S.O 3)

SONG:  Howie Day - Collide

Before having dinner, I set the table for my parents and for me. When we sit down at the table, my father serves some water and my mother the food. My mother often cooks healthy food. When we finish having dinner, we stand up to put the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, and I wash the dishes.

When I leave the kitchen, I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Later, I review the things that I have studied at the high school that day. When I finish studyng, I watch the TV and read since I should clear my mind to sleep well.

To end the day, first, I play with my dog Igor and, in spite of feeling tired, I brush its white fur while I watch some videos on Youtube. Finally, I go to bed at 11:00.

134. WHAT FRIGHTENS ME , by V.D (E.SO 3)

SONG: Bryan Adams - Please Forgive Me

I have had an extreme arachnophobia since I was young and nobody of my family knows why.

This phobia makes me angry because I can’t do activities that I like – go to forests, lakes and other places – as in those places there are a lot of spiders and for me it is impossible to come near to one.

The types of spiders that I hate more are the spiders with long legs as it seems they are going to jump on you at any moment. My brother, who is two years younger than me, thinks my phobia is funny since I sometimes call him to kill some spiders that I find.

I often have nightmares with spiders. In the strangest one I was in a forest and I met a giant spider.

I’m sure that those nightmares/dreams mean something, but I’m not sure what.

This phobia is very common therefore I know a lot of people who have it, but nobody like me. 

133. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I FLEW , by C.M.T (E.S.O 3)

SONG:  Joanna Serrat - Sharing Wine

The first time I flew was at the age of three and it was something incredible.

It was a normal elementary school day. When I got home my parents told me thet in July we were going to travel to Mexico and, to travel there, we obviously had to take a plane.

The day of the trip arrived and I was very excited since it was going to be the first time I was going to fly.

First, we had to wake up very early since the plane took off fram Madrid at midday and we had to go by car from Cantabria to Madrid.

When we arrived at the airport, we parked the car and we checked in the luggage  because of the weight and the size of it.

After that we were waiting a few minutes in the queue to board the plane , and finally, we were inside the plane.

The days before the trip I was very exicted but when the plane started moving I was freaking out. The plane was getting more and more speed and suddenly took off.

It was a weird sensation that I had never felt before. My ears got plugged and my head started aching but this was only for a few minutes. As soon we were flying over the clouds, I was in love with the views.

The flight was ten hours long so I had time to do many things, such as take a nap, paint my father`s nails, do sightseeing inside the plane and meet new people.

After what seemed ages, we landed. I did not realize that we were landing since I was sleeping.

I will always remember the first time I flew and the fantastic days I spent in Mexico.

132. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF MY DINNER AND WHAT I DO UNTIL I GO TO BED , by S.L.V (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Chicago - If You Leave Me Now

I have dinner at about  half past ten.

First, my brother and I  walk the dog beacause  my mother is cooking and my father is working. When we return home, we help our mother to cook.

Then, my brother and I set the table. My brother takes the glasses and I take  the dishes, the knives, teaspoons and the forks and we place them on the table.

When my mother finishes cooking, we watch TV with my father,who finishes  working at half  past nine, so he comes home a ten o’clock.

After, my brother and I have a shower, we put on our pyjamas  and we go to the kitchen to have dinner.

My father sits next to my mother and I sit in front of my brother. We talk about our daily activities: my brother and I talk about our day at school and my father and my mother speak about their day at work.

When  we finish our dinner  we clear the kitchen table.

My brother and I go to the bathroom, where we  brush our teeth.

Finally we go to our bedrooms and we go to bed.

131. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I FLEW , by R.C.S (E.S.O 3)

SONG:Barry White -You're My First, My Last, My Everything

The first time I flew I was five months old, so I can't remember it.

Since I can't remember the first time I flew, I am going to talk about the second time, when I was three years old. 

In the year 2005, my family thought that we needed a holiday, so my parents organized a journey to the Canary Islands. I was very happy as I was going to fly. That day, we got up early and my aunt drove us to the airport. We went to a room where there was a conveyor belt where the passengers put the luggage, and it went directly to the aeroplane.

After that, we waited in a very long queue. When it was our turn, we passed through a metal detector. Finally, we boarded the plane through a tunnel. I was very happy. Then, when the aeroplane was going to take off, I was very nervous but it was an exciting feeling.

I was sitting next to the window, so I could see all the houses and some cars that were like ants. It was very funny. While we were flying to Lanzarote there were some turbulences and I was frightened but they finished quickly. In two hours and a half, we landed and we picked our luggage.

The second time I flew was fantastic and amazing.

130. WHAT FRIGHTENS ME , by G.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG: Janelle Monae - We Are Young

Since I was a kid I have had many illogical fears. The most strange ones were probably my fear to hairdryers and my fear to a toy called Gusiluz, which moved and made noise.

Although these fears disappeared as I was growing up, new ones took form around me, caused by different situations that I lived.

I became afraid of  being alone at home and being indoors…

In one way or another, I finally overcame these fears, although I still feel a bit nervous when I’m alone at home or when my hair gets tangled up with the hairdryer…

But there is a fear that I have never been able to get over completely: my fear to elevators.

It appeared after a visit to my aunt.

Four years ago, on a summer holiday, I was going with my mother to visit my aunt, who lives on a third floor.

We took the lift to get up there.

We were inside it, waiting for the first and second floors to pass, hearing the annoying music of the elevator, lit with the faint lights inside it…

Suddenly, it stopped. The lights turned off and the music finished. We couldn’t see anything. We were trapped inside the lift, left in the dark.

We waited, but nothing happened. I started to get nervous. We shouted, but nobody heard us. I got frightened.

Although we knew that nobody could hear us, we continued shouting and making noise.

After a while we realised that we were really trapped in the lift.

I became hysterical. I started breathing hard and trembling with fear.

My mother said to me: “Don’t worry, it must be a power outage. We just need to wait until the electricity comes back”. But these words didn’t calm me at all.

We waited in the dark seconds, minutes, hours…

In reality, we waited just half an hour, but it was the longest half an hour of my life.

Finally the electricity returned, and we arrived at my aunt’s flat as if nothing had happened.

However, I could never forget that experience.

After it, I became scared of elevators. I couldn’t get inside elevators, and I always walked downstairs or upstairs when I entered and left a building, no matter the floor I needed to go to.

Two years ago, I started using lifts again, but each time I enter one, I feel very nervous and a little bit afraid as I remember the half an hour that I remained inside the elevator that day.

129. WHAT FRIGHTENS ME , by R.C. (E.S.O 3)

SONG:  Audioslave - be Yourself

I have some phobias to many things, like when it is Carnival and in the parade there are 'cabezudos', but the main phobia that I have is the phobia to horror films or when you are in a camp and someone starts to tell horror stories at night.

On the one hand, I have a phobia to horror films since when I was eight or nine years old I went to my best friend's birthday as we were going to sleep in his house. At night, we saw some horror films, and I was very scared. I couldn't sleep several nights as I was terribly frightened.

On the other hand, I am scared of horror stories since seven years ago I was in a camp with my cousins and some friends older than me. At night, you could see the bell tower of the nearest village. My friends told me that Fredy Kruger was living in that tower. He was a monster that some nights was looking for children between five and seven years old  to eat them and then he was going to scatter the bones in the meadow. Surprisingly, that morning we saw some bones. I believed in it and I was very scared with those horror stories.

128. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I FLEW , by A.P.C (E.S.O 3)

SONG:   Heart - Alone

My father woke me up and he opened the blinds of my blue bedroom. No light entered through the windows. It was night outside! I looked at my clock: it was 6:00 in the morning. Then, I looked at my father. I could only appreciate problems and nervousness.

Suddenly I remembered: it was the day on which my family and I had to take the plane to Australia. Immediately after having realised this, I got nervous.

I got dressed and I walked downstairs to the kitchen. My parents and my sisters were already there. I dislike having breakfast early in the morning: there isn’t natural light in the kitchen therefore you have to switch on the lights. With the artificial light my kitchen looks like a cold, non-cosy room; what’s more, I’m not hungry until ten or eleven in the morning, so, when I must have breakfast at six, seven or eight in the morning, I can only drink a cup of milk with cocoa. The rest of my family were eating toasts with butter and jam, cereals, cookies and my parents were drinking coffee. The smell of coffee and freshly baked toasts when I’m not hungry in the morning makes my stomach turn.

We were in a hurry. After having breakfast, we made sure that our suitcases were all packed for the trip. Since we didn’t want to leave our park in the car park of the airport for three weeks, we took a taxi. I found the fifteen minutes between my house and Paraya’s airport eternal.

Finally we were in the airport. There weren’t many people there. While my parents walked up to the counter to get our tickets and verify that everything was in order, my sisters and I sat in some chairs. I could see that they were happy and a little anxious. I realised I was feeling the same. It was the first time I was going to fly! I could not believe that I was going to fly more than twenty-eight thousand feet above the surface of the Earth! I was constantly thinking about that, so you can understand that I was scared. I couldn’t get it out of my mind.

My parents came to sit with us. Our urgency wasn’t justified: we had to wait for almost two hours. I was getting angry and bored when we heard the boarding call: “Flight 87 to Australia, boarding gate number three”.

127. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I FLEW , by G.P.C (E.SO 3)

SONG: Luis Eduardo Aute - La belleza

I have flown twice in my life. The first one was when all my family and I went on holiday to the Canary Islands, but I was too young to remember that travel. In fact, I was only two years old.

Due to this reason, I’ll write about the second time I flew, not about the first one.

It was a hot sunny day, and I was excited as in the evening I was going to fly to Scotland with my family.

I spent all the morning preparing my luggage while my family was preparing theirs.

We finished packing our suitcases and we ate. I could hardly eat since I was nervous due to the trip. After eating, we had to wait three hours since the plane took off at five o’clock.

As time passed, I felt more and more nervous, therefore I couldn’t do anything but sit in my bedroom and wait until the three hours passed.

Finally, my mother shouted: “ Come on! Hurry up! We’re going to be late!”. We quickly took our suitcases and put them in the car. Then, we drove to the airport.

When we arrived, the parking was full, so my father left us at the entrance of the airport with the luggage and then he went to look for a parking space.

We walked into the airport. There was a chaos of passengers going to and fro, hugging their relatives, waiting in queues, resting on benches, in the snack bar…

We went to the end of a queue to check in. While we were queueing our father joined us. After checking in we went to check in our suitcases.

At last, it was all done. We sat on a bench and waited.

I was watching how, as the  previous flights were taking off, our flight was raising positions on a screen.

A voice said over the loudspeakers: "Passengers of flight number five with destination to Scotland must go to boarding gate number two."

We took our bags and suitcases and walked to the boarding gate, where two flight attendants led us to the plane and indicated our seats. 

I was very nervous. After the explanation of the flight attendants about the safety rules, the motor started to make noise. We were going to take off !

The plane started moving more and more quickly and my heart started beating rapidly. I felt some pressure in my head and my stomach. We were taking off !

I was a little bit scared, but when I watched through the window and I saw the beautiful landscape, I was just amazed. It was wonderful !

I saw the houses and cars becoming smaller and smaller as the plane was ascending. Then, I just could see clouds.

And after two hours and a half…  

                                                      We landed in Edinburgh!

126. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST TIME I FLEW , by V.D (E.S.O 3)

SONG:  Caetano Veloso - Un vestido y un amor

The first time I flew was on the 18^th December 2008.

My mother had the travel programmed for the 17^th , but my father forgot to send a photo of a document where he allowed us – my brother and I – to travel with my mother.

Some days before, Daniela, who was my best friend, gave me a soft toy of Garfield, however, I lost it at the airport.

I remember the plane was white – like most airplanes – and the seats were blue. We were situated in the seats of the middle. My mother was on my right and my brother on the left.

My mother and I were very nervous, so she decided to sleep while I was watching a film with my brother Vitor.

A few hours later, I woke up and I realized that Vitor hadn’t slept yet as he was watching a film called “Wall-E”.

The next morning, we finally landed in Madrid, Spain. It was snowy and when we went out of the airport, we saw my dad among all the people.

That was, on the one hand, the best day of my life since I finally was in Spain. But, on the other hand, the worst day as we had to leave our family in Brazil.

125. MY FAVOURITE TOY , by V.D (ESO 3)

SONG:  Irene Cara - What a Feeling

My favourite toy is a doll that my grandmother gave to me.

Three years ago, she sent us a package with some things and the doll. It was a birthday present. I remember I was very excited considering that she made the effort to send me something.

The doll measures 40 centimetres. It’s made of white rag. The hair is made of a light brown rag. Its face is painted. Its eyes are blue and its mouth is red. It has a little pink on the cheeks so it seems to blush.

It is wearing a white shirt which is under a pink skirt with braces. The skirt has some white flowers painted in it.

I have had it on my bed since that day. I was so grateful that I wrote her a letter saying I love her and it wasn’t necessary to send me the doll.

It is my favourite toy because I remember my grandmother every time I look at it.

124. MY FAVOURITE TOY , by Z.G.V (E.S.O 3)

SONG:  Ace of Base - Beautiful Life

When I was younger my mother decided to buy a doll that I had wanted for months; however, it cost a lot of money.

I saw the doll on the Internet while I was looking for some information. It was a beautiful porcelain doll with blue eyes and brown hair. It was wearing a pretty long red dress. I loved it!

So, finally, on my 10th birthday, my parents gave me the doll. I was the happiest person in the world. Although the rest of my family gave me other toys, I could only think of the doll.

That was my favourite toy for years, until my little cousin took it and threw it out through the window. Since that day I haven't had another toy.

123. MY FAVOURITE TOY , by A.N.M (ESO 3)

SONG:  Sia & David Guetta - Titanium

My favourite toy is the Rubik cube also called magic cube.

I got my first Rubik cube as a present from my parents. It was from a Chinese shop that sells many items. I got it when I was five years old and I remember I was moving and turning it.

One year ago I learnt to solve it. I thought it was impossible but now It’s very easy for me. Nowadays I’m waiting for more cubes of other sizes that come from China and the USA.

If I travel to another place that is nor near my house, I always take my Rubik cube to solve it and enjoy my time If I’m bored.

The Rubik cube is a cube made of 25 pieces and a core that sustains the pieces. It can be turned in many ways. It has 6 sides of six colours: white or black - it depends on the background colour - , yellow, green, blue, red and orange. The size of It is not so big. Every piece is 0'53 milimetres long.

 

122. MY FAVOURITE TOY , by S.S.M (ESO 3)

SONG:  Ultravox - Vienna

My favourite toy is a stuffed animal from PRENATAL. It is a little rabbit. My grandmother’s friends gave it to her as a present for me so my grandmother gave me the stuffed animal when I was born at the hospital.

The stuffed animal has big ears; it has a red and white square tie and a red and white square T-shirt. It has a pretty red nose and its eyes are brown. The colour of the stuffed animal’s fur is beige.

The little rabbit is my favourite toy because we have been together since I was born. When I am scared in the stormy nights, I hug it and when I am sad, I kiss it. So it’s my lovely rabbit! If I have a child, I have decided that I will give it to her or him as a present too!

121. MY FAVOURITE TOY , by A.P.C (ESO 3)

SONG: THE VERVE - Bitter Sweet Symphony

Since I was a little boy, even when I was a baby, I have liked to get into boxes. You’ll probably think that it’s a strange habit. My parents did too.

A good example where my eccentricity is showed is when I received a present: immediately after having opened the box and extracted the present (whether it was a toy or whether it was any other thing), I went into the box and I remained motionless.

In the living room of my house, my Dad had made a special area for my sister and I to play. It was similar to a park, with toys, balls and a colourful carpet. We couldn’t get out by ourselves as it was surrounded by a wood fence.

My parents thought that mi habit was fun, therefore they decided to put in the parka box. This box was, for years, my favourite toy. It wasn’t special at all: made of transparent plastic, with the perfect size for me to stay comfortably in it.

My Mum told me that I sometimes fell asleep inside the box.

I have reflected upon the reason for liking so much to stay in small places and I have realised that you probably feel similar inside a box and inside your Mum’s womb.

Even now, at the age of fifteen, I get into the small, claustrophobic places and corners I find. I like to be alone, with the only company of my thoughts.