Super funny #Superbritánico

Looking around some shops, I stumbled upon some notebooks and diaries that caught my attention. Traditional expressions were written on them, but translated literally from Spanish into English, which looked like funny, very funny.

Straightaway, I googled some of them and I discovered Superbritánico. Three colleagues with a Translation company in Seville, one French, one English and one Spanish, like in the joke, started to amuse themselves by translating colloquial expressions literally from Spanish into English. Short after, thanks to the social networks, they became incredibly popular.

Because it is an easy way to make people smile and because it may be less embarrassing to say certain things, now you can express yourself with an air... Superbritánico, even if you are an English philologist.

The United Kingdom and The United States Point-by-Point

Definitely, two of the best places in the world where to learn or improve English are The United Kingdom and The United States, but there are great differences between them to keep in mind. First of all, we should consider the distance of each one from our country. While The UK is just around 2 hours far from Spain and there are flights from most of the airports, to The USA it becomes a bit more complicated and less accessible if our intention is to visit our home regularly, since we need to travel to Madrid or Barcelona and from there take a 7-8 hour flight to our destination, most of the times with a stop-flight somewhere else during the journey. The flights are

therefore cheaper to The UK than to The USA, but when it comes to currency, life is probably cheapear for us in The USA, as the value of the dollar is lower than the value of the euro, than in The UK, as the pound is higher than our euro. Another thing to consider is the kind of English we will get in each place. Although both are useful, the British English and the American English differ in many things such as pronunciation, vocabulary and spelling. Whereas the British English is said to be the best English, a lot of people agree that the American accent is much more understandable and easier for foreigners. A last important issue to take into account too is the way of life in each of them. The weather in the United Kingdom is generally rainy and cold, which might be the reason why British people are said to be colder and closer, while The United States are bigger so the weather changes a lot from one area to another and also people's character, I guess, although in general they are thought to be more friendly. At the end, both places have advantanges and disadvantages, it is all about your personal preferences and, of course, your budget!

Read more, vote less (Opinion Essay)

Because we are born in a particular family, nation and class, we are all different. We all live in some kind of social and cultural circles which attach us to specific values. But we are also living in a world of globalization, coexisting therefore with others. Unfortunately, this coexistence becomes a problem sometimes.

Normally, we tend to form groups based on similarities and then we produce stereotypes about other groups of people. I decided thus to write an opinion essay supporting and defending multiculturalim environments and the importance of connecting ourselves with the world beyond the one we take for granted to grow ourselves.

I think most people would love to travel to far and exotic places like South America or Africa, but when they find families from these countries as their neighbours, or children from these places as their own children's classmates, it becomes a problem. We live in a society which seems to tell us our values and ideas are the right ones, and therefore the best. My mother, for instance, has been a teacher in a Primary School for 30 years. For sometime now, she started to have some Moroccan and Chinese children in class. In my opinion, it is very positive for kids to have children from other cultures as classmates, and also for teachers. It can teach them many things. They can learn, for instance, that one girl who covers herself is not an oppressed girl, that her reasons are spiritual and her choice, personal.

I am convinced that one of the best ways to overcome these cultural ghettos is through reading. When we read, we get involved in the story and empathize with the characters, no matter their race or religion. We like them or we dislike them for their personality, not for their background. Literature, fiction, stories connect us. I will never belong to any political party because, from my point of view, they are very dangerous. They create ideologies that teach us that as humans beings we are different than others and therefore we are better than them.

Because it is not healthy for a person to spend so much time staring at the mirror, it is not healthy likewise to stay for too long inside our cultural circles, our friends, our neighbours, if all the people in our inner circle look like us it means we are surrounded with our own image. If we are going to learn something worthy in life, we are going to learn it from people who are different than as rather than from people who are exactly like us. At the end, the culture of coexistence is the only way that will lead us to a better world, we only need to learn how to build it..

Me, myself and I (Description Essay)

Because I don't know any person better than I know myself and because it is good to look at yourself sometimes, I have  chosen me as the person to describe in the description essay.

I am a girl in her twenties who loves music and art, sunny winter days and cloudy summer days, and gossiping while drinking coffee with her best friend. I like walking around the empty city at night. I eat mostly green things, but once I was wild and ate pizza.

I am usually quiet and shy, but kind and friendly too. I love reading novels  written just by female writers- someone really has to convince me that one book written by a male author is enough good to read it. Oh, I am not a feminist, it's just a preference.

If you ask my mom about me, she will tell you I am just like my dad, but I have actually things from both. I have got green eyes like my mother and my hair is naturally blond like my father, but I also have many things from nobody. For instance, I am not afraid of changes while my parents are not very fond of them.  Indeed, I have recently changed my hair colour (it is not blond anymore) and I am back in Murcia and in La Merced after a two-year gap, which feels like being new in home, a sweet home full of lovely strangers.

At the end, I am like a plant, an ordinary girl who undergoes a metamorphosis every once in a while but keeps her roots  in the same place, and still  listens to her favourite band since she was 16.