one of the things we didn't know

it can be difficult to believe if you hear it for the first time, but the fact is true.

Although being in a awful period of Spain caused by the worst financial crisis for decades,  the Spain’s king  Juan Carlos decided to take some personal free time to go on holiday, what’s more the holidays weren’t cheap at all, so it seems he doesn’t mind the economic problems.

The trip consisted on going to Botswana, Africa, in order to spend some time hunting.  Firstly nobody should know about this private trip but unfortunately while he was there he had an accident.  as I see it if the accident hadn’t happened nobody would know about it because the palace wanted to keep it as a “secret” trip. I think maybe he and his family have done many trips and we are really innocent and we don’t know any of them.  In addition, when the accidents had recently happened the palace said the fall in Botswanna was “accidental” but gave no further details, they didn’t want to mention why he was there. But  the Spanish daily “El pais” said the truth at the time. After the surprise of the king's trip it has also come to light the journeys of the Queen, one of them to Greece.

When the king suffered the accident he was immediately flown home by private jet. Juan Carlos had a hip replacement because he had fractured his right hip in three places, and the following day he had begun walking with crutches. The king was expected to spend ten days in hospital and another six weeks recuperating.

Considering the sort of the trip and the time that it was made I don’t find strange that king Juan Carlos has come under a barrage of criticism for taking the trip while his country faces financial crisis. May Spaniards took to Twitter and other social networks to criticize the monarch for shooting elephants. Many photos making fun of Juan Carlos posing next to a dead elephant or holding a shotgun were published on Spanish news websites these days too.

In addition the king has had four operations since May 2010, the kink has had a benign lung tumour removed, a torn Achilles repaired and was given an artificial right knee joint.

It is know that hunting trips to Botswana cost more than Spaniards earn in a year. “El pais” said the cost to arrange a hunting trip in Botswana to kill an elephant usually comes in at 44,000 €, about twice the country’s average annual salary.

In my opinion the king had a disgusting behaviour, how the king could do things like this while he is showing at us at the same time that he is against animal abuse.  He has proved us that he isn’t the person who everybody thought. He pretends to show us that he takes part in association of protections of animals and he is against killing them while in the real world he likes hunting. Only an irresponsible and impolite person could spent for private reasons money which is from Spanish people.

Everyday the monarch is becoming less important, so why we have to have a royal family? They don’t do anything for us and they only spend our money. I guess that the world would be better if our money were spent in necessary real thing such building hospitals, helping poor people, distributing food and a lot of more things.

In the past monarchy was really important but currently their roles of monarchies have decreased significantly. The most important thing which they ordered to do is a representative function of the state to other states. However I’m not  enough informed about it, I’m sure that they do more functions than I know so I can’t judge correctly if monarchy should continue existing or not, but one thing which I can say is that they should rethink their current behaviour.

TESTING NEW EXPERIENCES

Two days ago I participated in activity which I had never done before, it’s paintball. We played it to celebrate two friends’ birthday.  

The boys who celebrated the anniversary had two flowers on de mask to distinguish themselves.

Paintball is a sport in which players compete, it can be in teams or individually too, with the aim to eliminate opponents by tagging them which paintballs.

The games is played on outdoor or indoor fields of varying sizes, in our case we played on a outdoor field in where were different types and sizes of boxes and trees in order to facilitate the tactics of attack and defense

We had to wear a suit of clothes, gloves and a mask with glasses to protect.

Rules for playing paintball vary, but it can include capture the flag, elimination, defending or attacking a particular point or area, or capturing objects of interest hidden in the playing area. Depending on the variant played, games can last from seconds to hours, we spent there all the morning. We ended up really exhausted.

Before leaving we made the last surprise, we had a croissants in which they blew the birthday candles.

EASTER

The Easter week has passed fast than I thought it would pass. I planned to do a lot of different things during those days, and now I’m in doubt about If I will be able to complete it or not. A part of the things which I wanted to realize I must study because next week we will have some exams in addition I must do a lot of homework from school.

From now until the end of course we have exams every week, we won’t have more free time until the summer so we had to take this week like a really short holidays.

Las Saturday my friends and I went out to celebrate the beginning of the Easter week, if it had been an usual weekend with exams during the week probably we wouldn’t have gone out. I spend a great night with my friends.

On Sunday morning instead of staying at home like I usually do, I went for a walk to Vic with my sister to see the market stalls. However the market stalls are used to be the same as always, for this reason I found it a bit boring.

On Sunday afternoon I washed my dog, it needn’t have to be washed but as it was a sunny day I did it.

From my point of view of Monday the rest of the week was supposed to be a normal week, but suddenly I received a call which changed my way of seeing it, I was invited to go to the beach and obviously I accepted.

I was really looking forward to go to the beach in order to sunbathe, hang around, and maybe put our legs into the sea’s water. Instead of it the only things that we could do were watching films and walking under an umbrella because it was raining the most of the day.

We weren’t very lucky, what’s more the next day we had left it was a sunny and hot day, knowing it it’s a bit frustrating.

I wish you had passed a fantastic easter too!!.