Bad news for volleyball.

It’s really sad that a national team with players in the best leagues of the World and actual European Champion has been eliminated of the World Championship, after being classified for it, due to a scarce number of spectators in the international matches that have been played in its country. I’m talking about the masculine national Spanish volleyball team, this situation is unfair especially for the players and all the people around this team, Spain has not ever been in the top ten of national volleyball teams, and after decades of fighting, we are there, when we are in the top of the wave, in the elite group of this sport but something has eclipsed all this effort.

What happens in this country, and in the majority of the others, is that money only goes for football, and these amounts of money are mainly invested in media for publicity. What do people do? People do what they find in the press, and nowadays, the main thing we find is FOOTBALL, and if we are lucky, in our country, a bit of basketball or tennis.

Our city, Soria is an exception in Spain because with its size, it has an elite volleyball and football team, and what happens? It happens that the situation of the football one isn’t in danger because it generates a lot of money, but the volleyball one is always with problems in its direction and economic activities.

Why in our city we have much more than twenty football school teams and in volleyball we have ten at much? Because the result is what children watch at TV or at the press, they see that loads of people are rich due to that sport. In the case of volleyball, in our province we have something to see to in our volleyball elite team, but not to much to find in the press.

My team has two categories, we play a league in our region, Castilla y Leon, and when we end the highest category (at the age of 15-16) we have nowhere to play except from a team of a senior category that requires a lot of money for the transport and inscription of it. While in volleyball, when we are 16 we have problems of finding somewhere to play, in football they have dozens of teams with a great variety of levels of game and categories to choose.

What we can do to solve this problem? It’s difficult but not impossible to solve it, because the solution, like lots of times in this unfair world is money. But this problem has to become solved starting with the promotion of different sports in young people and with the accessibility to them in the fields of media.

McDonald’s: I’m not lovin’ it.

Mc Donald's restaurant if we can call it a restaurant, was founded in California by Dick and Mac McDonald the 15 of May, 1940.

The food you can find her is fast food; like hamburgers, chicken, chips, soft drinks, milkshakes, salads, desserts or breakfast.

Spurlock made a study only eating McDonald’s food for 30 days. He ate there three times a day. At first, before he started the study, he was a healthy man, but when he finished, he weighed 11.1 kg more, by eating 5000 kcal each day. He needed 14 months to come back again to his original weight. This study was done to show how bad McDonald’s food could be for human health.

My personal opinion about McDonald’s is that the people that have a meal there every day, don’t know what they are eating, because that food has a lot of calories. I have only eaten in a McDonald’s twice; the first because I wanted to taste it (and I didn’t like it), and the other because I was in a theme park and I was very hungry and there wasn’t anywhere else to eat.

So think before you eat, if you don’t want to be a fat ball.

We're all going on a summer holiday!

I want to talk about my summer’s holidays! We decided to go to Paris. My brother was always talking about Disneyland Resort, Paris and this summer we decided to go for 6 days! We went to Madrid to catch a plane on 10th August, and by mid afternoon we were in Paris.

We visited Paris a little before going to Disneyland, and at night we went to our hotel near the park, called "Sequoia". After dinner we visited some parts of the park and we saw the Disney characters parade. We did all that on the first day.

The next 4 days, we woke up early to get to the park quickly and to enjoy ourselves a lot!! It was very beautiful; with many colours, characters, buildings…it was fabulous! We went on every single attraction and i went into many buildings! We stayed in the park all day except when we slept. We did that at the hotel. At night the park was very pretty and the castle was very well lit up all night. There were very pretty parades of the characters that left the great castle at night, when there were fireworks. My favourite thing was the castle in the middle of the park, it was very beautiful and everything there seemed very real!

I enjoyed myself a lot and I'd love to return!

The day before we left we went to Paris! They say that this city is fabulous and they are right. We visited the Eiffel tower and we went inside, we saw Paris from the Eiffel tower and it is very beautyiful! In Paris we visited the Loire gardens that have many very good sculptures! We went through the Arc de Triomphe and the thing that I preferred was Notre Dame. I have always thought that it was beautiful and it really is. I liked that cathedral because of Quasimodo and I still like it now. The last thing we did in Paris before returning to Disneyland was a short cruise on the Seine.

When I returned to Soria I was thinking about the trip and I was very happy! I liked it a lot and I'd recommend a visit to everyone!

Me and my family enjoying our visit to the great castle.