Pretty Litter Liars

Some time ago I started watching a serie called Pretty Little Liars because one of my friends was always talking about that and I was curious for know what it was so one Friday night I took my laptop and I search the first chapter. Being honest, I remember that I didn't like it very much, I thought that is was a strange serie and I decided to spend the rest of that night watching a film. I don't know why, another day that I was very bored I decided to continue watching the serie and this time, I liked it more and in the twinkling of an eye I had finished the first season. Since then, whenever I can, I see this serie because it has become one of my favorites.

It is based in a serie of books but I haven't read anyone. The serie it's about a group of five friends: Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily, the fifth called Alison, disappeared and had a mysterious death. One year later of the death of Alison, the four girls start to receive anonymous messages signed with the letter "A". This anonymous person knows all about the life of this girls (like Alison), he or she knows everything they do or they had done, what they say,... and through the messages this person blackmail the girls, threat them,...

During all the serie this girls keeps investigating and they discover things about her friend that they didn't know before and each time they get closer to "A". At the same time, there are love stories, family problems,...

I love this serie because it's very entertainign, almost every chapter appears a new character that makes that everything turned out to be more gripping and also have mystery! When a chapter ends the only thing you want is continue with the next. Now I'm seeing the fourth season and as it hasn't been released in Spain, I watch it in Englis that it's perfect because I have another excuse to see the serie: learn English.

I don't have any favorite character, of course there are some that I like more than others but in generally I like the five friends although Alison (that we know how she was because the serie has flashbacks where she appear) seems that was the worst friend ever but you realized that she did all for protect her friends. Anyway, I think that if only one character were missing, the serie would not be the same. 

Excalibur, the dog sacrificated for precaution

I decided to talk about this new because it's about one of the most spoken matters in the last days and it has caused a big impact in Social Networks like Twitter and Facebook where a lot of people, incluidin celebrities, has left their opinion about the measures taken and  has caused an important conflict in the streets as well.
Excalibur has been sacrificed for precaution in the face of the risk of been a carrier of Ebola. This happened despite the big campaing that the owners, especially the husband of the nurse that was infected by the virus, made to avoid it. A van of the University translated the death corpse of the dog to an incinerator between the protests of a crow formed by animalist groups and people of the surrounding. When the van was lefting the house the group of people that were waiting at the exit started to scream “Killers” and similars things to the people responsible of carrying out the operation, also, three women had lay on the road with the message: “Excalibur, the world is with you” .
The Ministry of Health says that they had sacrificed the dog because it was in constant contact with the sick nurse and there was the risk of contagion, thing that will supposed another risk: the transmission of the sickness to another person however the big conflict has appeared because never before has been a transmission between a person and a dog, and for this, a lot of people considered that there was no reason for finish with the live of the Excalibur without any proves. This fact has caused a big alteration in the social networks: the conflict has been “trending topic” in Twitter with the hashtag #SaveExcalibur where a lot of people, including some celebrities, have left his opinion.

 

In contrary with the opinion of most of the people, I think that sacrificing the dog Excalibur has been a good idea because there was the risk of contagion and prevent now it's better than cure after, also, you can’t know if a dog is infected or not because they don’t show symptoms, I mean, when a person is infected by Ebola, he or she have a number of symptoms like fever, head ache,… but the dogs doesn’t show anything, they are only careers and of course, they can infect other people and animals. It's also true that maybe, scientific, should have taken this “opportunity” for study the behavior of this virus in animals because for the moment we don’t know almost anything about this. Anyway, I’m continuing thinking that the decision taken was correct for the security of the population that at the end, is the most important thing.

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Hi Ana, my name is Andrea Mateos and I’m studying the social batxillerat.

I started studying English when I was 8 years old, my mother inscribed my sister and my in an English academy called Aula, the same academy that my brother used to went. Since then, we were going to the same place for thought English. Before, I used to go with all my school friends and we spent a very good time and I think that for this I like to study English.

My school was different from all others, instead of taking English lessons, we took French lessons. It supposed that I should know some French because I was taking lessons until the age of 11 years old (we changed the French lessons for the English lessons because our teacher retired), but I don’t know nothing!

I have never traveled to another place specifically for learning English (maybe next summer I will) but when I traveled to another countries like Germany, Switzerland,... I was required to use it, but it isn’t necessary to go far away to practice your English, every summer I meet someone who I can only can speak in English to understand each other.

Last year, I was on the point of making the First Certificate Exam but at least I didn’t do it because I think that It is too expensive for an exam that it isn’t the maximum, I mean, there are others exams above this that I can do without this. Now I’m preparing the Advance Examan.