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I want to tell about what happened the last 24 hours in my home. All started last night with a phone call at half past ten of the night. My mum said that it could be one of her work, and answered the phone. Then, she yelled. I didn’t know what happened, and I continued chatting on my computer. She seemed to be very excited, and when she hung it up, she told my brother and I that Joan has just been phoned by the hospital, that there was a kidney for him. In that moment, my heart stopped beating for a few seconds. I had to take my time to assimilate the big new.

Joan is my mum’s boyfriend and he is our neighbor too. He is like a father to me. He has kidney problems; they didn’t work, so he had been doing dialysis for more than 3 years. He inspired me for my “treball de recerca”, that I talked about dialysis and kidney transplant. Joan is a very funny man, and he has a lot of energy and he always make jokes about his kidney’s problem.

Before he left, I went to wish him very luck, and I found him very happy and smiling, with a lot of energy. So at eleven o’clock pm, my mum, Joan and his son went to the Can Ruti hospital, in Badalona. We knew there was the possibility that the kidney could have some problems and he couldn’t be transplanted. But we thought in the possibility of a real transplant, and with the idea that no more dialysis.

Once he arrived at hospital, he had to stay there and the doctors made him a lot of analysis before they could say if he could be transplanted. My mum and Joan’s son came back home, because the nurses told them so.

At the morning, I went to the school, and my mum went to work. We didn’t know still if that kidney was for him. So we were really nervous. I called my mum on our break, but she didn’t know it. But a few hours later, she called me. She was so nervous and she told me that at 3 o’clock he would enter at the operation room. I was shaking. That were really good big news. Then I called Joan and wish him really good luck. As normal, he was very happy and funny. Then my mum went to the hospital to be with him before he entered to the OR. At 8 pm, I texted to my mum asking if the operation had gone well. She told me that all was going great. I was really happy.

Now, he had to spend 10 or 12 days in hospital and after that he could turn back home with a new kidney and free of dialysis.

A day in Barcelona

I just arrived from Barcelona. I spent the day there, with my brothers and the German girl who is in our home this week. We wanted to go someplace to show to Jenny, so we thought it would be a good idea to show her Barcelona. We knew that she’s going to BCN tomorrow, so we tried to show her some places that with the school wouldn’t visit, like Ciutadella’s Park.

We went to Barcelona by train. We caugt it my little brother Miquel and Jenny, and there we met my older brother Jordi. Then we started walking around. We went to see the new and very modern Gas Natural’s building. It’s very beautiful, a part of the building seems like is floating on the air, amazing! Then we went to the beach for a while, and then we had lunch on a Fresc Co, a self-service of salad, pasta and pizza. Very good! Then we catch the underground and we went to Arc de Triomf and Ciutadella’s Park. After a while, we were really tired, and we decided to come back to home. After an hour and a half of train, we arrived home.

Jenny is here since Thursday, and she’s going to go back to her house the next Thursday. She’s on an exchange with Miquel. Miquel went to Germany the last month for a week too. She’s a nice girl. We talk in Spanish, and if she doesn’t understand, my brother says it in German (he talks German very well), and if my brother doesn’t know how to say it, I talk her in English. And if after this, we don’t make us understand by talking, we make understand by signs, which are international.

I hope she’s having a good time here.

Internet

Internet is the invent that have revolution the contemporary world.

It started being on the 60s. It was invented with the idea of connected investigators, and this way they can exchange their progresses. Then it passed to the students of different universities.  And on the 90s, it extended for all people.

Internet is the most easy and cheaper way to find information. In just a few seconds, you can dispose of information of everything with just tipping the clue words on Google. It had changed the way that people look to the world.

 Now is all so much easy to connect people from the other part of the world. The companies can make business to other countries much easier. Friends, familiars and lovers can be connected and be in contact even with such a distance. You can find people with the same likes than you and chat. There are a lot of applications.

Messenger, Facebook, Twitter are the most important sites for chat with known people, or even unknown. Google is the main Internet searcher and with just seconds you can have all the information you want.  You can be up to date with all the news that happened on the words thanks to the virtual newspaper. You can shop and sell everything.

Thanks to Internet, things that were unimaginable now are easy to do. I think everybody is right if I say that Internet had really changed the world.

St George's day

St George’s day is on 23 April. It commemorates the dead of this saint on 23 April in 303 AD. It is celebrated by a lot of countries, catholic as and non catholic.

There is a legend about St George. It is told that in a far, far kingdom, a long time ago, there was a dragon that attacked it. The people give him animals to eat, so the dragon wouldn’t have to killed people. But when there weren’t animals to give him, they decided to send people of the kingdom, choose by draw. One day, the daughter of the king was chosen. The princess went to the cave where the dragon was, waiting to be eaten. When the dragon was going to eat her, St George appeared on his horse. St George plunged his sword into the dragon, and the dragon died. From the dragon’s blood, a rose grow, and it was given to the princess by St George.

In Catalonia, St George’s day is lover’s day. The tradition says that the man give to a love woman a red rose, and a woman give to a love man a book. On that day, a lot of streets market of books and rose can be found on the streets. You can buy red, white, yellow and even blue roses and a lot of good books for all ages.

23 April is the book’s day, declared by UNESCO on 1996, commemorating the dead of two writher of enormous importance on the literature: Shakespeare (age 52) and Cervantes (age 68) on 1616.

St George’s day is a good excuse for give a present to a love person and for read a good book

Today, I’m sick. I have tonsillitis. I have to rest all day, and I remember when I was a child and I was sick.

When I was a child, being sick was the excuse to stay at home all day, watching cartoons and not going to school. It was like a holiday’s day, but just with some pain somewhere. I don’t have to worry about homework or what it was made on school the days I wasn’t there. It was a time just for relax with pain.

But now, it’s really different. Now I’m sick and I have to miss some days of class, and I’m really worry about the school, if I’m missing something important difficult to make up for. And now I can’t spend the day watching TV or do something fun, because I don’t feel in a good mood for doing that, I just want to rest in my bed, taking the pills to make the pain go away. But I have to write this, because is my homework, and I should already done this, but I wasn’t at home these days, so I have to do it now. It’s a lucky I feel a little bit well and I can do this.

So that’s my conclusion of being sick: Now, it isn’t as cool as it used to be. And another conclusion is that carnival is not good for my health, and I wore two sweaters and a scarf, I can’t understand it.

Now, the only thing I can do is close the computer and rest, and hope that I feel better tomorrow and I can go to school and don’t miss more class.

I’m happy I have a thing that is easy to heal with just pills and a few days of rest.