Harajuku

I want to introduce Harajuku, where is a town of Tokyo. Young people especially go to the town to go out with friends, to go shopping, and to see different kind of people, so there are quite a lot of people like a festival every day. Harajuku has been giving birth to the newest fashion and culture which catches on young people for a long time. Thus, you can find the trend of Japan when you go there, but at the same time it is really difficult for you to recognize the culture clearly. Because lots of strange people stay in Harajuku and you can see people who wear weird clothes or are piercing all of their body: If you take pictures, they must be colorful. Now Japanese "Manga" which is comic are quite popular in Japan that some people imitate the character of Manga. It is also one of the big industry in Japan.

I can't understand why Harajuku people want to wear strange costumes. It's disgusting, but it's true that they are one of the aspect of Tokyo and Harajuku is composed of weird people. Anyway, you'll be able to enjoy a lot if you visit Harajuku. You can take a picture with Harajuku people if you want. They look strange but they are gentle as far as I know.

In the end, I was searching on Google to introduce the town and to put some pictures. But, I realized it's quite different between Harajuku and 原宿 in Google Images although the meanings are exactly same. In Japanese letter, you can see landscape or some snaps. On the other hand, you can see a kind of Harajuku style in English. Both of them are true, but the difference is interesting, I think.

Alcalá de Henares

Hi again!

I´m going to introduce you my city: Alcalá de Henares. It is 20-25km from Madrid, 35 minutes train ride.
It´s  the second biggest city of  the "Comunidad de Madrid" and World Heritage.
Alcalá is full of very beautiful places, museums, traditional events, bars, libraries...but I only told you about 4 things:
The University of Alcalá de Henares (or Cisneriana). Built in 1499 by the Cardinal Cisneros, it was one of the most important universities in Spain in the Golden Age.

The Cervantes Square (La Plaza de Cervantes) is in the centre of Alcalá. It has the Cervantes´sculture, called informaly as "El Monigote" by the young inhabitants of Alcalá where the most of people usually meet.
It is a very beautiful place to go for a stroll.

All the days, but specially during the weekend, to lunch and dinner the bars are full of people going to have a beer, vermouth or wine with a "tapa" free with each drink. The tapas used to be a piece of bread with spanish ham or chorizo, but now they are small typical spanish dishes or typical sandwith. It´s supposed to be an aperitif before lunch but it has become the lunch or the dinner.

The week around the 9th October, there is a famous event. Alcalá become a Medieval City, the people wear medieval costumes and sell handmade things, food...everything! there are gigs everywhere, in the streets, in sceneries...

The Don Juan Tenorio in the streets of Alcalá is a very famous event in my city.

I hope you have enjoyed with this small description of my city!

My first week in the course

Hi!!

I´m Laura, I´m investigating how to use the blog and, at the same time, I am taking this oportunity to tell us how has been my first week! I like that the class is full of people of a lot of countries and, when we are making the exercises and we have to speak with other partners, it became more interesting because you can learn things about another lifestyles, cultures, foods...
In my first day of the course, one teacher made me one test and after that, another one interviewed me with another girl just to know our level...the girl that came with me spoke perfectly, then, for a moment, I thought that my level was awful!!! but the teacher tell her that she had a very high level to go to our course...I breath after to listen this!!
I´m very happy because I can undestand more or less all that the teachers say and, of course, to my partners. But I can not undestand yet to all the british people in the street...I think I will need much more time!

Greets to all us...see you tomorrow!!!