FALLAS; BEGOÑA RODRÍGUEZ MANSILLA

FALLAS

First of all, we need to know what is "Fallas". It's the most important and popular festivity in Valencia, Spain. Also, it's a festivity declared of National Turistic interest. It involves the construction of figures which will be burned later, concretly on 19th of March.

This party starts on 15th of March and ends on 19th on March too.

Every single figure is called "falla", and they have their own name depending on the place that they're located. People who live there has a holiday week, during the festivity. Furthermore, people wear the typical clothes: girls wear a very big dress with powerful and brilliant colours with a special hairstyle too. On the other hand, boys wear a vest and a shirt with short jeans. They usually wear a hanky on their head. The typical food are doughnuts and 'paella' which are delicious.

In addition other thing that is very famous are firecrackers and even there's an amazing and noisy explosion of them every day at 2p.m since the festivity has started.

Finally, all the figures mentioned before, are burned the last day, and the following day, the artists start building new ''fallas'' for the next year. 

In my opinion, it's the best festivity in my country. I love it and I go to Valencia every year to see the 'fallas'.

Yi Peng Festival- Blanca Aurora Martin Maldonado

Yi Peng  is a traditional buddhist festival, celebreated in Thailand and Laos. That festival is also associated with the Loy Kratong festival. Yi Peng takes place on the evening of the full moon of the 12th month in the Thai lunar calendar. People throw lamps to  celebrated the beginning of a new period, to forget about the negative things of the past, and start with the new year's resolutions. 

The festival was originated in the 13th century. According to the legend, Nang Nopphament was a consort of the Sukhothai king and she had been the first to launched a decorate lamp. However, there is no evidence that Nang had ever existed.

Nowadays, the festival is known throughout the world, and people from all over the world visit Thailand and celebrate that day with the locals. The country is decorated with lights and colours. And at 20:00 pm, after the Buddhist ceremony, everyone launch their lamp.

To sump up, this festival it's a perfect way to leave bad things and start with new resolutions, taking part in this illuminated festival.

THE SUPER BOWL

THE SUPER BOWL

 The Super Bowl is a special American football game played every year at the end of the National football game (NFL) season. The best team from each of the two NFL conferences play for the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which was named after the first coach to win a Super Bowl. For most football fans, it is a very special event.

Some people who do not like football still watch it for the commercials and the half-time show. The TV advertisements during Super Bowl are the most expensive in the world in per second value. Because the high cost of advertising companies usually produce unique advertisements. As a result, watching advertisements has been a well publicized event in itself.

 In my opinion this event is amazing, not only because the top two teams play in the final, which is staged as a single match, also because a lot of famous singers and famous brands participate in it. For example, the NFL commissions its merchandising companies to annually produce two sets of championship merchandise, such as T-shirts and hats, for each Super Bowl. Moreover, there are a lot of advertising spots which are very expensive to produce.

In different famous series like ``The Simpsons´´ or ``How I met your mother´´ appears this match because  It´s the biggest sporting event for Americans. The equivalent in Europe is the Champions League.

I want to go someday in the future.

José Miguel Salmerón Serrano

Advantages and disadvantages of ''Eurovision''

Eurovision is an european TV concert of music celebrated every year on May. In this concert, participate different people of each country who represent it. This people was chosen by judges of the own country. It is celebrated in the last winner country of the concert since 1956.

Firstly, there's no doubt that celebrating Eurovision increases the level of Europe because the world audience watches it during the weekend when it's done. Eurovision could help someone's to improve it fame for example, the winner or 2012 (Loreen from Sweden) has earned many millions of euros only with the social impactic made by the song 'Euphoria' and now she's became really famous. Nevertheless, not many poeple get it. It's not used to happen that the winner of one year become famous. The main advantage is the social boom of the country.

On the other hand, many countries decide not to participate because they think the punctuation is not fear. At the end of the interpretations, each country mark the others depending on it representation
but unfortunately, the countries wiches are near used to help to each other. Austria or Serbia obtain always good marks and its songs not are really good. For that reason, if the way to mark not change countries like Italy or Ireland won't participate (not all the years).

In my opinion, I believe Eurovision is not a really concert where we can obtain future artists of music. Is an event very popular and this is why is celebrated each year. The best artists have never been in Eurovision. It's a concert blinded by the quantity of money that it produces.

NBA All-Star Weekend

The NBA All-Star Weekend is a weekend festival held every February during the middle of the NBA regular season that consists of a variety of basketball events, exhibitions, and performances. No regular season games are held during this period.

On Friday rookies have leadership with Rising Stars Challenge. Next day there’re four contest; shooting stars competition, skills challenge, Three-Point Contest and an unbelievable Slam Dunk Contest.

On Sunday there’s The NBA All-Star Game, it’s an exhibition game hosted annually, matching the league's star players from the Eastern Conference against their counterparts from the Western Conference. Each conference consists of 15 teams each, making it 30 in total. Fans decide which players play the game; this is decided by an online vote.

Now, players want to go to NBA All Star Weekend to exhibitionist and to earn more money. This weekend mobilizes many people. It’s a big event that have concerts and other performances in order to entertain people.

Corpus Christi- Lucia Ardid

This week in Granada will be hold the Corpus Christi which is a very popular tradition here. As a result of that, we also celebrate the Granada's fair these days. 

It consists on many parties and parades. To begin with, there is a very famous parade called "La Tarasca" which walks around the city centre on Wednesday. The most important item is a figure of a woman that every year gets her clothes changed. Moreover, there are famous people such us the Catholic Kings or the "cabezudos". 

Then, on Thursday there is a religious procession very famous because of the people who appear in it. They are the children who have done the communion this year.

In addition, you can go to the place where the fair is situated, which is not very near of the city centre but it worths it. There, you can dance typical Andalusian dances and sing flamenco music. Furthermore, there are some attractions like the bumper cars or the roller coaster. 

On balance, I think that Corpus in Granada is very interesting and its celebrations are so impressive so everyone should come and have fun here.

Corpus Christi- Maria Jimenez Infantes

The international day of Corpus Christi in Granada is celebrated sixty days after Easter Sunday. This feast celebrated by Catholic Church, aimscelebrating the Eucharist.


During the feast of Corpus Christi there are different events, one of them is the Tarasca day ,in which we can see giants and big heads through the streets of Granada.The figure presents the fashion maid of the year. It's a girl above a dragon, it is a tradition that goes back to the old Mesopotamia.One of the events that represent Granada in the Corpus Christi is the figure of the bull.Where famous bullfighters fight bulls in the bullring.


I would reccomend this party because you can spend many days dancing drinking and having a great tiime, it is also a beatiful week to walk through the streets of Granada, where you will fing tourists from all around the world coming to visit this unique festival.