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.