Please don't procrastinate this as we'll be talking about this for just a week or two.
Here's a transcript of my discussion in case you need it:
I started
smoking at 14. At first I was on one or two cigarettes a week, but it soon
became something a lot more serious. By 15 I smoked half a packet a day. I was
so hooked on nicotine I used to go to bus stops to collect the cigarette butts
people dropped so I could roll a new cigarette using that tobacco! As I didn't
get pocket money from my parents, being able to buy cigarettes was one of the
main reasons why I started doing little temporary jobs like babysitting or
handout advertising. In my 20s I didn’t use to smoke less than a packet a day,
particularly during my time at University.
However, over 15 years ago I started
taking Bible lessons and learnt that Christians should keep their minds and
bodies clean. The fact that it mattered to God gave me the motivation and
willpower I lacked to give up smoking. Today, I don't even miss it. I usually
see others smoke and I don’t envy them at all. In fact, I’m so used to being a
nonsmoker that when I sometimes come across an old photo of me holding a
cigarette it just feels so odd! I say to myself 'Wow, look, it's true. I used
to smoke!'. I’m so glad I’m not a cigarette addict anymore.
Mireia Garés Fragoso. Group 118.
ReplyDeleteFASCINATED BY CLARINET
I started studying music when I was four. At first, I can't play any instrument. By 8 I began to play clarinet. I was very fascinated by this instrument. I used to go to class of clarinet once a week. In my ten I used to play in the small band of my city ( Alzira ) which was called " Banda Juvenil ", this is junior band.
I used to study an hour a day, but it became something nice and funny and little by little I studied more and more.
In my fourteen I used to play in the big band of Alzira. As I had age enough I started to play in a charanga band.
As my parents couldn't afford buy me a better clarinet, I earnt money playing in a charanga band for buying it by myself. I was very luckily.
By fifteen I used to study two hours a day. In my eighteen I started the university and I gave up the classes of clarinet, because I had too somethings to do, and I only used to play it in a Charanga Band.
By thirty I didn't use to play clarinet. I left the charanga band.
Today, I usually remember it, but I don't envy it.
In fact, I'm so used to being an ex-musician that when I sometimes remember myself playing the clarinet I feel very good and pleased.
I say myself: You can play clarinet and you can teach your son to play it if you want.
Some day I will play clarinet again.
PILI VILA GONZÁLEZ. GROUP 118
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a 9 girl, all I wanted was playing with my friends.
Every day, after the school, me and my friends used to play in the street until it got dark. We were mad about to skip. I was able to be jumping all day. We never were tired. I love remember that time when we were used to being at the street, in the open air. We felt free.
All places when we went, the skipping rope also came with us, for instance, in the break time, while we were waiting for starting classes, at the birthday parties… We were addicted to it.
It was very funny because we could play with a lot of people, with our parents, brothers, with our classmates.
When I grew up, I started to be tired of it. I liked other things.
Now, I can’t jump more than two minutes. I get tired quickly.
I usually see my niece playing with her friends, but it isn’t the same. They hardly play to skip, they like video games much more.
Sometimes, when I go to the country with my family, I like playing with my nephews with the skipping rope because I remember those wonderful age.