PauCatalan’s Blog

On the first of January I went to Amsterdam with my family, we left Barcelona airport at ten o’ clock in the morning and we arrived at half past twelve. First we went to the hotel by bus and left the lugagge. We had lunch and then, in the afternoon, we went for a walk in the center. To get to the center to the hotel we used the public transport. The second day we visited Anna Frank’s house and the Rijksmuseum too.  The third day we visited a village near Amsterdam called Zaande Shans, in this village there were the windmills. The last day we visited other village called Volendam, near the sea. One thing that surprised me was that in Holland almost everybody travels by bike. We arrived late at home because the plane was delayed.

                              This year I have resolutions to fulfill: - Move more.   - Be healthy with the food.                                                  - Travel. - Have best marks. - Get more organised. - Be more independent. - Spend less time on social media. - Start remebering important dates.

THE GOTHIC NOVEL 1- Who invented the G.N? What was the title of the first G.N? When was it first published? The novel usually regarded as the first Gothic novel is The Castle of Otranto by English author  Horace Walpole , which was first published in 1764. 2- Which basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson? Darkness, pumpkin, knives, silence, night, steps, stairs, laughts, scream, goblin. 3- Choose one of the topics on discovering literature and write a post. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY Who is Edgar Allan Poe? When and where was he born? What was he famous for? Did he get married?  How did he die? Name some of his most famous works Edgar Allan Poe   was an American writer, editor, and  literary critic .  He was born in  January 19 in  Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.  Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly h...

Now it's December and it's starting to get cold and in some places it has started to snow. Last year I went sking and I suppose that this year I will go again. When Christmas starts my cousins from Cartagena come and I spend all my holidays with them. I usually spend Christmas with all my family, my parents, my grandparents, my uncles and my cousins. We have a lot of family parties together with lots of different food. On 24th December we have dinner with my father's family and we give presents to the invisible friend. On Christmas day we have lunch in a restaurant with my mother's family. The rest of the presents we give on the day of the three kings. In conclusion we always have a very good Christmas.

One day, a boy find a haunted place, that it makes dread. He explain that site to their friends, and days later they enter into the place, it was a dark night. In this place there are a dangerous stairs. When they go down the stairs, they see a dead man in the ground. They run for scape, but they realize that one of the friends aren't with they. They returned in the place, and they see a two mans dead now, one is their friend.

My favourite horror movie is Leatherface.  The film starts is a highway, a couple watch a rare boy in the middle of the road. The girl follow him in a house, were she fall in a hole with sharpener sticks, she dies.  His father, a police, inquire about the case. And he averiguates that the family of the boy is mentally ill.  When the boy grow, goes to a mentally ill center. Were he meet a beautiful doctor and falls in love with her. This girl helps him to scape, and all the mentally ill of the center escape. Finally, the police, kill all the mentally ill, but he does not. His family find the boy and they carry it in a house, with the doctor too. The doctor try to scape beacouse his familly is very ill, but the boy stopped her and he kills her. I like this film beacouse it is rare and this do a lot of fear, also, it have an unexpected end. Official trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2620590/videoplayer/vi3156588825?ref_=tt_ov_vi

Today I am going to explain a route that I go by bike. This route begins in Vilanova de la Muga, then goes to Peralada on sandy roats going by the dump. Then, when you get to Peralada, you have to go towards Mollet de Peralada. To get to Mollet, you have to ride along stony paths. Next, when you arrive in Mollet, you have to go to Masarac, going along a road with very few cars. A little later, when you arrive in Masarac, you have to go to Torre d’Altrera, a little mountain. When you pass the mountain, you arrive in a very little village, called Vilarnadal. Then, you have to go in cabanes, it doesn’t take long to get there. Next you regret in Peralada and finaly you have go to Vilanova. This route is thirty kilometers long, and normaly takes three hours.