Hi Emily,
How are things with you? Sorry I haven't written for ages - I've been very busy studying and with exams at school. But they're over now and the holidays have begun. I'm going on holiday next week to Rome. I'm looking for a job but I haven't found anything yet.
Enough of me. Do you remember Maria? He's going to live to another country next month because her parents have found a job there. John and Maria have broken up and Maria has decided to leave school next month. She says that she's tired of studying. My family is fine. My sister has passed all her exams and my parents have bought her a present.
What have you been up to? Are you still enjoying life in New York?
We must get together early. Write soon.
Love,
Irene.

Getting together

Sara and John have been married for 5 years now. Everything started at school. They used to go to the same school and also the same class. They were very good friends. At the age of 12 they went to different high schools. At first they met on Saturdays but it wasn't the same. Some years after each one went to universityand one day they were talking when they realised that they were going to live to the same place and study the same things...Everything was like some years ago, when they were in primmary school. John asked Sara out. She accepted and they went out for 6 months . They had a big argument but they made up quickly. After that they got engaged and when they finished university they got married. Since then until now, they've been married for 5 years.

My lifestyle.

I think I have quite a healthy diet. I eat a lot ofmeat and fish although maybe I don't eat enough vegetables because I don't like them. I probably drink too much fizzy drinks like cola... I should drink much more water but I never remember to do it.
At school I have two PE lessons a week. Sometimes we run or we do other activities. In my free time I go to the swimming pool twice a week, on Mondays and Frdays. In the summer I sometimes play basketball with my friends.
In my free time I also like wathing TV series, I usually meet friends on Friday and Saturday evenings and when I don't have exams, also on Sundays. Sometimes I think I should read a book or do something cultural as some years ago I used to do but finally I always lose my time watching the mobile phone and when I realise I don't have time.

Vinaròs.

I live in a small town in the east of Spain. Its name is Vinaròs and its by the sea. The town has changed a lot over the years.
In the past the town was much smaller. There used to be some small shops and now there are lots of them, There didn't use to be housing states but now there are lots of them.
There used to be one or two factories. Maybe some of them closed but now there are new ones. People used to work there and now some of them work in other places.
People didn't use to have cars, not everybody could afford them. Now all the people travel by car or they just walk. There's also a bus to go to the nearest cities.
The town, Vinaròs, is much bigger than it was and I think it has improved in different ways. In my opinion now it's bigger and noisier, but for me, it's better.
I've lived in Vinaròs since I was born and although it has some bad things, I really like it. I always enjoy the beach in summer and there are some great parties here, like Carnival.

Sant Sebastià

About ten days ago was Sant Sebastià. It's a special day here in Vinaròs. Young people go the night before to the hermitage and spend the day there. The adults usually walk to the hermitage at 7:30 more or less. This year my friends and I met at 3:30 am in the town hall but some friends and I were a little bit late and we finally met them in the swimming pool at 4 am, they were waiting for us... On our way to the hermitage lots of things happened, this day you always see some people that is already going home or some crazy ones. I don't know exactly how much time we needed to arrive there but I guess it was about two hours. We spent some time there but at about 7 o'clock everybody was ''dead'' After some hours people started to appear and the day continued. We spent the day there just talking and watching people going up and down. After having lunch we fell asleep on the floor. At 5 o'clock we catched a bus and went home. It was an exhausting day so I spent the evening sleeping.

End of year.

This year I celebrated this day with most of my friends. We had been planning this night some weeks ago. We always said that it was going to be unforgettable and... it was. Some of us went to Maria's house to have dinner. We were there since 10 o'clock. When everybody arrived we had dinner and after that we ate, or well, tried to eat the twelve grapes. Some people prefered eating nothing and others did it its way. After the twelve grapes, more friends arrived and the party started. We had a great spotify list so we danced a lot. The party was totally crazy, everybody was doing things that had no sense. We went to sleep very late but the next day we couldn't get up so late. We helped our friend to clean her garden and after that I went to my house. The only thing I wanted to do was sleeping but I had to go to my grandparents house to have lunch with all my family. Luckily the lunch didn't start until 3 o'clock and I had some time to have a shower. It was the best party ever, all the things that we expected were accomplished.

Halloween

The 31st of October was Halloween. Some years ago I didn't use to celebrate it but now I do. Halloween isn't a Spanish party but people here celebrate it as it was.
This year all the streets were full of people wearing costumes, some shops put Halloween decorations... This evening I met some friends and while some of them were dancing along the street with their dance academy we went to buy some things for the night.
When they finished we met and went to a kebab to have dinner. We had to go to three different ones because all were full of people. We finished having dinner at 12 o'clock and after that we went to a friend's house. She lives in the south coast so we had to walk up there. We were distracted and when we realised, we were lost. We didn't know exactly were was the house but after a while a friend came and showed us the way with her motorbike. When we arrived the party started... It was such a great night!