Goodbye???

Hi Classmates,

Today and next days there are no more English classes, the course has finished…It has been a wonderful course, with a great teacher and of course, great classmates….

I have learned more than I expect and the learning has been in a good atmosphere…In one month I have connected more with my summer mates than in one year with my EOI mates…It sounds strange but it was totally true…

Huw, you are one of the best English teachers I’ve ever had in my life…You are Incredible as a teacher, but also as an Actor…Thank You for these joyful days…!

Finally, My classmates: Sergi (you are one of the best persons I’ve ever met, you are very kind-hearted), Sofia (the Venice Girl, nice to meet you), Magda (a good-humoured person, especially after the break), Paquita (a serious but a great person, the mum of all of us), Judit (a nice and Lovely girl, enjoy and learn a lot in Greenwich…!), Xavi (the Australian boy, nice to meet you, you’re great), Meri (what can I say about the best classmate I’ve ever had in my life…Thank you very much for all that moments I have shared with you in this summer course, I’m thinking if I’m going to miss you or not…!), Montse La Ràpita (a great and sweet person, I wish I could see next EOI course, English or French, it doesn’t matter…), Rosa (great Pupil, you know all that the teacher asked to us, you have travelled a lot, aren’t you?), Maria (a nice and good-looking girl, I hope we could stay together next EOI course, Good Luck…!), Maijo (Nice to meet you and sorry for not coming next course with you and Paquita to Tortosa’s EOI), Montse Amposta (nice to steal your car park almost every morning…Otherwise, nice to meet you) and finally Anna (you have one of the best smiles I’ve ever seen in my life, really wonderful…! Nice to meet you, you’re an interesting person…!).

I’ll miss you a lot….!

Rafel Puig

PS. I think Sergi’s mail is a good idea to keep in touch…I wish I could see you next Summer EOI course another time, it’ll be great…!

Formal Letter

Marcel·lí Domingo Avennue, 9

    43500 Tortosa

 Tarragona (Spain)

Ambassador Hotel            

16, boulevard Haussmann

75009 Paris - France

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with some things that happen last week when I was spending with my family in your Hotel in Paris.

First of all, when we arrived at the hotel nobody’s was at the reception. We have to wait more or less half an hour for a person that came to reception and gave to us a room. When we were waiting I could see that anybody was at the dining room, it was a bit strange, nothing was prepared and it was all in darkness. We asked for supper time and they said to us that it’ll be between 19:30 and 22:30.

We went upstairs to our room, we left our luggage, we took a fast shower and we went to supper, me, my wife and our two children. When we arrived to the hall, two persons were expecting us, it was really suspicious. They told that the kitchen was closed and there’s nothing prepared. They had to go with them to a restaurant outside the Hotel and have supper there. It sounds really strange but it was all that happen that night.

When we arrived at the restaurant, we couldn’t believe what our eyes were watching…! A Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant was in front of us…! Immediately I went to the responsible of this surrealist situation and I told him that we want to returned back to the hotel and check out. The responsible told me that they were obeying instructions from a superior and nothing could do about this…! “No Problem” I said to him, “but we can’t leave things like this, I’ll have to put somebody in his place, this couldn’t succeed anymore…!

We spent other times in your Hotel and nothing like this had happened. We won’t go there again unless I receive an explanation and apology for the unacceptable treatment we received.

Yours faithfully,

Rafel Puig

A nice weekend in a nice place...!

If you have free time to spend a weekend away, you can choose Catalunya, a wonderful and peaceful place that you can visit and get all sort of things.

First of all you can go to Barcelona, the capital. You can visit a lot of things but I recommend the most important on my point of view. Never mind to visit La Sagrada Familia, the most Important Monument that Antoni Gaudí (Riudoms, the 25th of June of 1852 – Barcelona, the 10th of June of 1926) has built (it isn’t finished yet).

If you have free time to spend a weekend away, you can choose Catalunya, a wonderful and peaceful place that you can visit and get all sort of things.

First of all you can go to Barcelona, the capital. You can visit a lot of things but I recommend the most important place on my point of view. Never mind to visit La Sagrada Familia, the most Important Monument that Antoni Gaudí (Riudoms, the 25th of June of 1852 – Barcelona, the 10th of June of 1926) has built (it isn’t finished yet).

Sagrada Familia Temple

Another place that Antoni Gaudí made is the Güell Park, a great building with great columns that I’ve never seen before and the famous Dragon.

Park Güell Dragon

After that you can go to the Ramblas, to the Gotic area and to Passeig de Gracia an avenue that you can see some different modernist buildings, like "La Casa Batlló" or "La Casa Lleó-Morera".

Batlló House (La pedrera)

Lleó-Morera House

You can also visit Tarragona and see different places of this wonderful city. It's my home town and you could read about it in another post published some days before.

Another place is “El Delta de l’Ebre”, a big and wonderful delta river. It is situated in an inhospitable place, far from the capital and sometimes forgotten by a lot of people from Catalunya.

Other places you can visit around this area (Terres de l'Ebre) are Tortosa, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Amposta, El pinell de Brai, etc.

Tortosa's Parador (Suda's Castle)

Amposta's Bridge

Sight of La Ràpita and El Delta from the Holed Rock

Pinell de Brai Cellar (Constructor: Cèsar Martinell disciple of Antoni Gaudí)

My Favourite Music

I think music it's a very important way of life…Lots of groups, lots of lead singers, lots of compositors and a lots of people has made great this world…

When I was younger the only music that I liked to hear was Rock ’n’ Roll and all his varieties: Hard Rock (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC,…), Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Metallica,..), Rock (Status Quo, Mike and The Mechanics,…), but I grew up, and other kind of music begins to sounds me well…

Nowadays Pop, Disco, Trance and Classical Music as well as Rock Music make me live different feelings during the day. We listen each kind of music depending on my state of mind…There’s a kind of music for each moment of the day…

One of the most wonderful songs that I've ever heard in my life was "Radetzky March" from Johann Strauss Sr. played by The Philharmonic Orchestra of Vienna and directed magnificent by Daniel Barenboin (Vienna 01/01/2009).

On the other hand, one of the funniest videos that I've ever seen is one of a Band of indie rock that comes from Chicago, called "OK Go"

A Finnish Heavy Metal band that wins the Eurovision contest in 2006 was Lordi with their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". They show us a great spectacle and never before a Heavy Metal band had won this contest.

 

This year, in Eurovision has won a Swede girl, Loreen, with an original disco song called "Euphoria". It's a funny song with a catchy chorus. 
Great song Sweden...!

And here you have a bit taste of my music likings. There aren't no place for all of the videos that I've ever seen and of course, I like very much. A lot of songs from Heavy Metal Bands has been versionated by a lot of Musicians. One of them is Lucie Silvas versionating an original song from Metallica called "Nothing Else Matters". It sounds really good...!

And now, as a great colophon, I hope, I show you a great song from a great band. They come from Germany, they are Scorpions and this is one of my favourites songs, this  is "No One Like You"...

Happy Birthday Judit...!

Today was another classmate birthday...It was Judit's Birthday...!

Judit is a nice girl, she seems a very good person and she looks very young.

To celebrate her birthday she has brought some cakes (pastissets, sweet palms, chocolate palms…) and we have eaten it in our coffee break…

It was a good detail and tells a lot about you are…!

I hope you have had a nice day with all of your love ones…!

Hugs and kisses and I wish we could celebrate it next year altogether another time…!

Enjoying Nature

Next week we are going to do an excursion to Mont Caro's top. We'll spend all day around this place and we have to take care about some things.

First of all we are going to tell you a list of behaviours that you can and you can't do it.

Recommendations

First of all we have to wear sport shoes, trekking shoes or for example mountain boots. We are going to walk all over the mountain, but remember that we are not going to climb anything you see around us...!

We are going to be well equipped with any sorts of things that we might need during the trip (a Torch, a whistle, a mobile phone, a map and of course, some water, some food, a peaked cap, suntan cream...).

We are going to walk in groups, don't go alone and try to be sure that nobody left behind us.

We have to walk on the path and it's important that we have to keep out of the private properties, walking in these areas isn't allowed.

If anything goes wrong or something bad happens, you have to call immediately one of the teacher's mobile that I've previous gave to all of you...!

Don't feed the animal because it could be dangerous if they were very close to you (remember that some animals have antlers and it could hurt if they hit you). Don’t scare the animals, remember that they are in its environment and we are strangers on his land.

One important thing that we want to recommend you is: do not litter anything during the excursion, Mont Caro is a Nature Reserve and we have to respect this environment...

I hope we’ll have a nice day and all will go correctly…!

Enjoy this nature day as possible as you can…!

Happy Birthday Maria...!

Today is Maria's Birthday...She's only 29. She's so nice and she looks so young...To celebrate it she has brought a box of biscuits and we have eaten it while we were having the coffee break...

Thank You very much for the detail Maria, it tells a lot of how you are...!

I hope you have a beautiful and marvellous day and, of course, I wish we could celebrate it more times...!

Especulating about the picture

As you could see this is a marvellous place. I think it might be a Caribbean place and it must be, as well, a hot place. It must be one of the lovely destinies that people might have visited once in their life, you can't lose the rising or the sunset in a place like this. You must taste all kind of food and all types of strange fruits that you might have seen it and tasted before.

You might sleep in a kind of houses that there aren't any walls around it, you must hear all the nature sounds that you might have heard never before...

Sad Morning...

Today was a sad day...When we was doing our daily classes we've heard outside a noise like if two cars were crashed...We leant out of the window and we've seen a dog in the middle of the road that it might been hit by a car or a van...We've ran outside to help it but, it was almost dying…The vehicle might have been hit it on her head and there’s nothing we could do…It was, unfortunately, a mortal hit…

May it rest in Peace…!

Summertine

Having dinner in La Ràpita...This evening we'll might have an Ice Cream or maybe an Iced-Lemon drink...

About me...

My name is Rafel Puig, I was born in Tarragona in 1965, but now I'm living in Tortosa for two years.Tarragona is a beautiful city in Catalunya. 

Sunset at Mediterranean Balcony

Tarragona was an important Roman colony with the same structure as Imperial Rome (Cyclopean Walls, a Theatre, an Amphiteater, a Circus, an aqueduct, a Quarry, etc.).

Aqueduct (El pont del Diable)

Amphiteater

Quarry - El Mèdol

I teach electronics at Institut de l'Ebre where I have my definitive workplace.

 Institut de l'Ebre

I Like sports like football, basketball, tennis,cycling, etc. very much and in my spare time I like to go to the beach (summertime), I like to go to the cinema and one of my favorites hobbies is to travel all over the world.


I like pets very much, specially cats...Here you have a picture of my mum's cat, I think is really Beautiful...!

Mafitete