Party time for Sant Narcís

1.Read the newspaper article. What is it about?


The article is about the annual festival of Sant Narcís. First it talks about the history of the saint ( a legend: Sant Narcís saved Girona from the French troops... ), then talks about the party, the programme with the activities and the tradicional celebrations from Catalunya: for example the castellers o the correfocs. It say the days and the places of the activities too.


2.Which events / activities did you take part in ? ( October 2008 )


Well, this year in the Sant Narcís festival I took part in the popular activity of les barraques. There, there are lots of concerts, and if you are tired to stay there you can go to the "fires", but it's better stay in the concert. This year, after the concerts my friends and I went to a floor in Girona, we slept there, and we come back to Banyoles in the morning. It was great and fantastic. And it was a good think don't come back at night.

DESCRIPTION: My cousin

Today I'm going to talk about my cousin Mònica, because she's my only cousin and I like meeting her a lot in our grandmother's house.
She's the daughter of my mother's sister, and she's 30 years old. I'm quiet younger than her because my aunt is 13 years older than my mother. She lives in Girona with Jordi (her boyfriend) and with Èric (her son).

Physically she isn't tall in contrast with the family stature (for example my brother is very tall). She's underweight although now she's pregnant! In April her second son will be born, and next week her first son is going to be one year old. And I'm his godmother!

She has got a very beautiful face, in general people say she's very pretty because she looks like Kate Winslet (the actress of Titanic). She has got big and blue eyes. And her skin is pale althow if she waned she can be stunning easly. She has got long curly dark hair.
She usually wears fashionable but not expensive clothes. Once a year we go shopping with her other cousin in Girona. This day is great!

She's the kind of person who can always help you. She's very generous, outgoing and patient. But we never get her to arrive at the family lunch on time, she's a bit heartless!

She has got sense of humour but she can get angry easily if you are disappointed with her.

In conclusion, I think I admire her a lot because she's a very good example for me. As she studied in Barcelona, and I want to do it too.

This is Èric

Lídia Bartrolí

E-MAIL

Hi Mònica,

How are things? I haven’t heard from your for a long time. I’m worried.

I write this e-mail to you because I want to explain you my summer job. During July and August I worked in Pals, a very nice village in Baix Empordà. I worked as a shop assistant in a pottery and custome jewellery shop.

I started at 3 o’clock p.m. and I finished between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. depend on the number of customers.

The owner is called Maria, and she’s a very nice person: some days she invites me to have breakfast, because she said that she was very happy with my work.

Most tourists were French or English people. At the beginning, with French people I couldn’t speak anything. But when I talked to English people I could practice and improve my English.

At the end of the month I earned more than I thought.
It was a great day! Now I still remember the times that I was counting my money. Part of my salary was used to buy a new bicycle. I want to show it to you!

That’s all for now. Give my regards to Èric. And write an e-mail to me soon!

Love,

Lídia