Orizoba still keeping the secret

For over half a century, seven men who were climbing the north face of the Peak of Orizaba (Mexico) at a height of 5.300 meters, suffered an avalanche of snow and four of the group disappeared in it. The bodies were never found, but this week, a group of mountaineers that were crossing the area, found two of the four corpses that might be of those who disappeared 56 years ago (except if the DNA test says the otherwise).

The expedition of the City of Mexico found last Sunday one of the corpses by chance. One of the members of the expedition was climbing a crater when suddenly, slipped and fell. In this moment, he saw something round and he thought that it was a coconut, but it turn to be a skull. The mountaineers announced the discovery in the social networks and they warned to the Red Cross. The picture that they take of the head and one arm of the mummy was very successful and the Mexican Association of Mountaineers began to move quickly for exhume the mummy. Then, the second corpse was discovered hugging the first. They also found a red jumper, a jacket and a bag: remains of the expedition. 

Luis Espinoza, one of the seven men that were climbing the peak that November of 1959, still have a picture of that same day at the foot of the mountain where later, four of his friends would be missing until now. In the picture, we can see one of the group dressed in a red jumper. 

After almost a live, two of the members of his group had been found but two bodies still missing: the mountain still keeping the secret.

Original new: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/06/actualidad/1425638791_599529.html

Why it's so hard to see black and blue?

Few days ago, the only think spoken in the social networks and the question that have the world without sleep was: Is the dress blue and black or white and golden? Well, taking advantage of the fame of this dress, the organization against the gender violence The Salvation Army, has carried out an advertising campaign with the catchword "Why is so hard to see black and blue" and a picture of a women full of bruises and dressing that famous dress (in this case, the dress is white and golden). The picture is also accompanied by another phrase that says the next: "The only illusion is think that has been her election. One in six women is a victim of the gender violence. Stop the gender violence". With this campaign, the organization want to show that even the most beautiful dress (or in this case, the most famous) can't cover the bruises of the woman skin, and it has been done because there are still people who can't see the reality of the problem of the gender violence (the 35% of the women in the world suffered gender violence). Using this dress, the organization wants that this message reach as many people as possible like the question of the color of the dress. 

After, for bolster the campaign, the same organization had publish another picture answering the question of the first ("Why is so hard to see black and blue?"): "Because they covered it with white and gold" and adding the phone number of the association and another phrase: "majority of women who are abused never report it".

I think hat it's a good advesrtiment and also, a good moment to publish it because coincide the fame of this dress with the day of the woman. Besides, The Salvation Army had turne a "silly" internet fasciantion into a powerfull awareness campaign. It's an original campaing with an original catchword for try to make aware the women that suffered abuses that they have to say it. The campaign also encourage to all the poeple who knows someone who is going throuht this situation to report too.

Original new: http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2015/03/06/54f9e4d6e2704e326f8b456d.html

Siwitzerland, come back

Last summer was one of the best summers of my life because I went on vacations with some friends to Switzerland! We went there because the family of my best friend has a house there because they use to go on winter to ski, and they left the house to us some days.

The house was in a little and beautiful village called Elm, well, the house was not exactly in the village, it was in the slope of the mountain of the Alpes. It was so nice and reminded me to the house of Heidi because it was made all with wood, the next house nearly were in a hundred meters... And next to the house, always appeared rabbits, deer... We also have a cable railway near the house!

We were in Switzerland about ten days. My friend and me, left the airport of Girona in the morning and at noon, we landed in Germany. Then, we took a taxi that took us to the train station and there, we eat and we took the first train. It was the longest journey because it took us to Switzerland. Once there, we took three more trains to arrive to Elm, there, my friend's brother and his friends were waiting for us for, at least, take us at home. They had gone by car two days before. 

The ten days past very fast! We did a lot of excursions through the Alpes. What impressed me the more was the beautiful landscape! All was very green and some mountains still have snow in the peaks. Further, in front of the house, there was a big mountain with waterfalls. The mountain was so high that you couldn’t see the sun until half past seven!

We also visited some cities such Zurich and Lucerne. In Zurich, my friend and I spent the day shopping and seeing the city although the guys that were tired of walk, spent the day complaining about our shops. The second city that we visited, Lucerne, was my favorite; it has a beautiful bridge, the Kapellbrücke, decorated with flowers and it that cross the lake of the four sides that we crossed by ferry. Another day, we visited the Schaffhausen waterfalls that were very awesome and some more villages and little cities.

The return trip was like the journey of the way there, with all the trains and the plane but without the enthusiasm because our vacations in Switzerland were running out and my friend and I were so tired, that we slept most of the way.

How I had said formerly, what impressed me the most was all the landscapes! All was so beautiful: it didn’t seem real to me, I was like in a film!!! Another thing was the currency, in Switzerland they have the Swiss franc and of course, I have to change my money before the trip. And my friend had to do the shopping because I didn’t understand the change of money… Anyway, I think I still have some Swiss franc in the wallet.

Another think that impressed I was the language: it’s true that in Switzerland they speak in German, but they have a very strange accent: even my friend, who’s German, didn’t understand them. Luckily, everybody speak in English so we could understand with everybody. 

Below, there is a part of the video that we made of our trip!

Jordi Casals and Muerte Por Funky

In the subject of Spanish language, we had to read the book "Muerte por Funky", written by Jordi Casals. The main character of the book, Eutanasio, works helping people to commit suicide and between all of this "works", there also are loves problems, revenges for suicides that went wrong... Well, the author of the book lives in Figueres and he teaches history in the high school of Roses, so he came to make a speech about the book and clarify some doubts.

In the morning, all the students of first of batxillerat and some teachers went to the Convent Of Santa Clara where the speech would take place. When we were all sitting, Jordi Casals started the conference.

At the beginning of it, the author confessed us that it wasn’t the first time that he did this kind of conferences to students of a high school and for this, he already knew more or less which would be our questions. So during the two hours which latest the conference, he didn’t stop talking about the book. He told us some interesting facts about the novel, for example, he told us that at first, what now is the novel, it would have been a screen player, but some friends convince him to pass it at novel. He also talked about the set of the novel: the history elapses in the Barcelona of 80's, when the music was an important entertainment in the city and also, in the Barcelona that he lived. Jordi explains us that before be teacher, he was member of a group of music and for this, all the musical references in the book such as the fact that the main character, is also manager of a rock band in Barcelona that will have exit at the end of the novel or what I think is the most quirky of the book: the titles of the chapters: instead of be a number or a “normal title”, are the name of different songs. Jordi also talked about this, he say that while he was writing the novel, in his way to the school by car, for example, he listened to some song that inspired him for make the

chapter and for this, he decided to put the title of the song at the beginning of it. He also talked about all the characters of the novel and he admitted that he was inspired by some friends for make them. The novel have autobiographical dates too, like the set of the novel, the music elements, the romantic infidelities... Summing up, the speech was very interesting and entertaining because we laugh a lot and there also were a very emotional moment when the author talked about the suicide and the complications and difficulties of the live, but he advised us to think that always, something better will come. 

I think that the students where a little participatory. When Jordi stopped to talked, rather, when made him finish because time was running, we make a few questions but I think that it was because the dedicatory) author had already answered all the questions that we had! Anyway, when the speech ends, we were able to talk with the author and he signed our books (well, actually the author only put my sister name in the dedicatory).

In love with summer

When I was little, each year, diuring the summer holidays, my family used to rend a house in somewhere in Spain and we spend 15 days there. We had visited most of Spain but we stopped doing it because my brother, my cousins and inclouding me, started to spend the vacations with our friends, working,... But I miss this "family vacations", it was so funny! We have been in each autonomus region of Spain. We usually rend a house in little villages, I don't know exacly why, I guess it should be because there, is where the biggest houses where because we were 12 cousins and adding the parents we were 18 perosns in one house! We spent a really really good time and we also learn new things, the cousins,  used to have a big room for all of us and the houses used to have a big garden with a swimimg pool where we swam altought the water were 5ºC. In Cazorla for example, we also had a tennis court (altought we didn't used it very much...), in the Pais Vasc the propietary of the house that we had rented had a farm where we went to "work", I put work between quaotes because we played more in the mountains of bales of straw than work, anyway, we feed the cows, we collected the eggs from the chickens and the propietary of the farm give us rides in the tractor shovel! In Palencia, the propietary of the house also let us work in his farm, but it was a differents one: he had a bee's farm and he tought us to make honey! He also had horses and we gone on some horseback riding. And we did it and more in our "free time"; during the mornigs, we did routes throught the mountain and it was also very funny! We went to beautiful places, we swam in lakes, rivers,... one year, we devote to look for fossils (and we found quite!), we saw a lot of animals: deers, rabits, snakes that my father and my brother like to catch,... actually, my brother was always searching animals: in Soria, he catch a big lizard and it bit his hand and left a good mark on it, and another year, I think it was in Cadiz, we devote to take care of a bird, a cat, shrews, two dogs and two turtles (a weird combination of animals) that we had found. 

The years that we spend the vacations in the beach, we spend the hole day in differents beuatifull beaches diving, doing canoing trips, in boats,... and for a change, my brother was always catching octopus (of course, he also was bitten by one), eels, starfish,... And my summer, didn't end after all of this: at the end of the vacations, the "reduced family", I mean, without cosins: only my parents, my siblings and me, used to go to Mallorca or Menorca where we continue diving, going to a beautifull beaches,...

We always had a great time: all the cousins laugt a lot togehter, we knew many people,... Now, we do something similar: each summer, all the cousins went to a house that our grandparents have in Benicassim (Valencia) and we stay there for a few days without parents! It's also very funny because we know a lot of people there (all of us have been going there almost since our birth) and ther's also beach, waterparks, music festivals (the FIB, the Rotottom, the Arenal Sound,...), so we spend a really good time!

For all of this, I'm waiting patiet this summer, further, last year I went to Switzerland with my best friend and it was one of the better vacacions of my life (I will talk about this trip in another ocasion) and we're preparing another forthis year! 

Summer, come now please!

Valentine's Day in numbers

There's no doubt that Valentiene’s day is one of the American most popular holidays; more than 62% of Americans celebrate it by sending cards and flowers, giving candy or other gifts or enjoying romantic dinners (or the three!). But does anyone know the history behinds valentine’s day? Well, this celebration comes from the ancient Rome; during the reign of the emperor Claudio III, he diced to send all the young men to the war and for make them better soldiers, he decided to ban the marriage. Valentin, a friar, realized the injustice that this prohibition supposed for the young people and he decided to marry young couples secretly. He did this until he was find out by the emperor and imprisoned. But this is not all: in the prison, he fell in love with the daughter of the director of the prison and before be executed for breach of the rules, he wrote a love card to his love (and here comes the tradition of the love cards), and all of this pass the February 14: now known as Valentine's day. Even so, the tradition of the "romantic day" didn’t appear until the XVIII century.

Anyway, nowadays this holiday, especially in America, has been stablished like a consumer holiday. I found some interesting studies about the amount of money spent during the day and what impressed me the most is the next: each year, 1 billion of valentine’s cards are sent, more than any other holiday except Christmas. More than 33 million of heart chocolate boxes are sold, more than 220 million of roses are produced for the holiday and 4 million of dollars are expended in jewelry! American spends more than 20 billion of dollars on Valentine’s Day, what means 130 dollars per person each year! And at least, the "ultimate romantic gesture"; more than 6 million couples engaged this day.
This day supposed a big amount of money for the Americans and it shouldn’t be that way, I mean, is nice make a little detail to the person that you love, but have an average of 130 dollars per persona is a lot! Instead of wait for the day, Americans should fear it!

Oral presentation

I did this oral presentation with Berta and we talked about weird celebrations around the world. We were interested in this topic because we think it's an interesting one and some celebrations are so funny! We had a great time doing this presentations because we found some hilarious videos of te celabrations that we talked about. My favourite celebration was the last: Holi. This is a beautifull festival that takes place in India every year when springs beggans.

Just do it

Shortly, this year will go and will come another and between this coming and going, there is the famous New Year's Resolutions. The New Year's Resolutions, it's  the time of the year when we have to chance, to reflect on the past twelve months and look forward to the endless possibilities of the next twelve months. It's a time full of hope, positivity and a feeling of purpose.

As much as it is a beautiful notion, I'm totaly againts it. I think that it's a procrastinator's ideal defense: "I'll start in the New Year". According to Static Brain, a web page where people can say their new years resolution and then, ther is a ranking with the most said, the 45% of the people make a New Year's resolutions with the promises of "enjoying life to the fullest", "change my life" or "do something more/better" and being ones of the highest ranked, but I don't understand why wait to get started a new goal? I think that the date it's what matters the least, if you really whant to change something of your life or start a new way of life, why don't start right now? or if there is something going on in your life that you don't like, why you don't change it now? In fact, starting now will ultimately benefit you. I think that the countdown to a new beginning starts every day when you wake up, not every fisrt day of the New Year. If it feels right to start now, start now, it's not so complicated. Don't wait for tomorrow, next week or the 1st of January. What's the difference between starting on a Thursday, in November or in the secon weekend of a month? A date won't define your succes.

Maybe, you decide to put a date for make a change or take up something because you may never feel like you are entirely ready to start your next move and it's easier to make an excuse (that it's already say "tomorrow"), but waiting is just limiting yourself. For sure, that everybody has heard the typical  phrase "don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today" and this phrase have a lot of truth! If it's no like this, tell me what it's going to change tomorrow for do what you didn't dare to do today? What makes you belive that you will feel ready tomorrow or on 1st of January? We have to believe that we are capable  of doing wathever we put on our minds to.

Another typical phrase that also have a lot of truth is the next: "don't wait for the perfect moment, make the perfect moment". By starting now, you will be one step nearest of your objective than starting in January, I mean, where you thought you could be in January, you could be now, in December.  

We all have 365 days (sometimes up to 366) to take up something or make achange in our life, so please, use all of them.

Social networking sites

Social networking sites are not new. I have been investigating a little and I find out that they were first introduced to the world in the late 90s, but they don't became very popular until the new century because at first, not everybody used to have a computer at home and were thought to be too "advanced". Nowdays, for many people, mostly, the teenagers, visiting the social networks sites like Facebook, Twitter or MySpace are part of their daily routine. Sure it's a good way to keep in contact with your friends or family but in my opinion, this sites can be only beneficial if you know to use them in a certain way because these can also be detrimental if you use them in the worng way.

Firts of all, these sites make it possible to interact with people next door or even, across the world very fast and with a simple gesture: one click  This allows you to keep in touch with the people who lives far away from you whoever and whenever you wanted to. 

Second of all, one of the countless features that many of these sites have, is that allows you to upload or dowload pictures. This is very helpful for sharing pictures with friends and family, but there is one thing more that could be a good or a bad thing: the capacity of people to comment on your pictures. It's nice to see what people thinks about your pictures, but often times, some people don't have positives things to say.
Another drawback about the networking sites, is that some poeple act completly different over the internet than they would act in real life, or sometimes, people can trick you (there is a TV porgramme called CatFish that it's about these tricks through the internet). 

Finally, the most common disadvantage of social networking sites, is the addition. Often, users of these sites get addicted to it: they spend hours using these sites and it can cause mental health problems.  

The train of the Magic Kings

The longest train journey has just begun: 21 days and 13.052 kilometers across icy plains at -30ºC, deserts and hug mountain ranges where Marco Polo walked! From one of the extrems of China, across Russia, Poland, Germany, France,... definetly, up to eight different countries with one ojective: reach the Spain capital, Madrid (if all goes well, the train would arrive the 9 of November). In the picture you can see the route that the train will do, from China to Madrid and how exceeds the record of the TransSiberian Railway (that until now was the longest train journey made) by far. 

It's going to be many replacaents of enginers drivers and watchers. Acording with the calculations of an american journalist that reach the new for the The New York Times, only between Kazajistán and Polonia, more than 100 enginer drivers took the train control, what menas that there is a change every 800 km.

The initiative of this Yixin'Ou (the name of the train) starts in China when the chineses wanted to make the new Silk Road. In the last months, Xi Jimping, the precident the country, has been committed to invert 32.000 million of euros in rail infraestructures with the objective of be the center point of the economic belt of this 21st century Silk Road. 

The segurity is extremly for prevent thefts in lawless regions. The wagons are guarded by an armed guards the 24 hours of the day and all the wagons have the "GSM technology", a stamp that shoot an alarm if the wagon is manipulate. 

The train is formed by 82 blue wagons: 1.000 tones of weigh and with a dimensiones of 12 meters of lenght, 2,35 meters of with and 2,70 meters of height; in total, 30.560 cubic meters full of  "made in China" products.

In Spain, for the days that this train is going to enter in the country and for all the toys that bring in their blue wagons (8 wagons are reserved for the Spain marked), it's know as The Train of The Tree Magic Kings. 

The train have a lot of advantatges as a trasnport methood, is faster than a boat, cheaper than a plane and can arrive to places that don't have port (like Madrid) and also, it doesn't miss anything from the trip, on his return to China, is going to pick up merchandises from all the countries crossed.

I think that the only fantastic thing about this train, is the long trip that it's going to do because the quantity of wagons that carries it's nothing compared with the high number of wagons that a cargo ship can carry (that is more than 10.000 wagons!). Anyway, it's incredible how chinese people always come up with new ways of surprise the world.

(Original new: http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2014/11/30/5479b71ce2704e591e8b4577.html)

The gender violence

This last 25th of November was the international day against the gender violence and this reminded me some good avderstiments against this problem still present in our society  and actually, "supported" by the social nteworks. But first, a little introduction about the consequences of this problem.

The gender violence this year, only in Spain, has caused 45 deaths and in the last ten years, has been exceeded the 700 detahs. Is calculated than, more or less, 600.000 people in our country sufferd gener violence but only the 18% of this cases, dare to report. Otherside, there's also the gender violence from a women to a men and it's the 40% of the cases.

The gender violence is like an illness, the only solution is the education and the respect. There aren't any other solutions but the porcess of the total elimination it's very slow. All the people have to conscious that there are attiudes that are not tolerables and besides, all the girls have to be aware that they can not tolerate this attitudes. This is not a problem of the past or maybe, a problem of others generations, it's a problem of any and every and for this, everybody have to contribute to erradicate this social problem once and for all.

Now, here the advices!
The first on it's great because shows you the other side of gender violence that anyone sees or talks about probably becuase is less frequent; from a women to a man.

The last one is a song that it's not about the gender voiolence but talks about the geder difference.

Rayo Vallecano, the voice of the concience

The football team Rayo Vallecano is going to destine five euros of each ticket sold this Sunday for the match against Sevilla with the purpose of paying the rental of Carmen Martínez Ayuso, the old woman of 85 years old that was evicted from his house. This gesture adds to the engagement of all the players, the coach and the others members of the club that days latter, announced they intention of pay the rental until the institutional helps arrives. 

This is not the first time that this team makes this kind of works of charity: only this moth, they had participated and had made several donations to associations for the cancer researcher, for disabled childrens,... and the last month, the club, offered his training camp for the team Deportivo Aviación before the city hall destroyed their because they can not afford the maintenance bills and in this way, they allowed that 400 children could continue playing football.

It's incredible all that this football team do without having the same high wages as the other "big teams" like Madrid, Barça, Atleti,... (it's also true that this big clubs do great things too). I think that this is an important lesson for all the politics, bankers and others leaders, they had done what the administration or the city hall don't and have to, thanks to they, this old woman have a ceiling for live and this is fantastic, it’s like a Christmas story... I think that this is a gets that no one should forget and many should copy. 

(Original new: http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2014/11/24/actualidad/1416859062_787266.html)

This new stage

This year, I’m coursing first of Batxillerat and I think that the principal difference between this new curse or stage and the last years in the ESO is that you need to work harder than you used to work and I think that if you do it on anongoing basis, you would be able to pass the course.

For me, Batxillerat it isn’t so difficult than I thought this summer before started but you have to focus all your free time, or almost everything, in the studies and also, I think that the only you need for be successful with this new stage it’s have desires to work and time. Of course you can have free time for spend with your friends or for do whatever you like to do but you have to organize all your work and manage for do it (in a appropriately way, not in an either way –and I admit that I used to do things in a either way during the ESO-). You have to be conscious that maybe, you can not do anything you like because your first priority have to be the studies. This is what is happening to me this year: there are days that I have to stay at home studying instead of meet with my friends or go to a football training, but actually, I don’t mind to much because I know that I would have time for this during the holidays and it’s not so horrible study for get good marks… Summing up, you have to take advantage of the time that you have because sometimes, it’s not the time that you dedicate for something, it’s how you uses this time.

What I’m doing Batxillerat? At the moment, I don’t know what I’m going to do after Batxillerat but the most probably is that I will go to the University. I don’t know what I’m going to study there but I chose the “Social Batxillerat” because at least, I’m sure about one or two things: I don’t want to do anything related with sciences like medicine, physics or something like this, I know that if I were a nurse, would be wonderful have “the power” for heal people but I know that I’m not worth for that. The other think that I know, thanks God, is that I would like to do something related with marketing, journalism, audiovisuals,… The principal doubt that I have when I have o choose a career, is that I don’t know if I should choose something that I like although it hasn’t have many job opportunities or choose something that although it doesn’t excite me a lot, have more opportunities for find a job. Maybe, I should try to find something between this two points…the problem is WHAT? Anyway, even, I have to years ahead.

I know that it’s a little precipitate talk about were I want to study without knowing what I want to study but the reality is that I think about this even before knowing what I’m going to do… Well, my idea is going to study to Barcelona or to Madrid like my brother that actually, he’s studying INEF in this city. Of course, my parents wants me near of home and they want me to study in Girona, anyway, if my brother could go to Madrid, me too (I’m like a child, I know).

Well, firts of all, I have to focus on this two years that I have ahead  and try to get the best marks that I could because if I do it well, I would can choose watherver I like to study so good luck to me!

  

The consumerism

Last Friday, I saw a film called "Confessions of a Shopaholic". It's about a girl obsessed with the clothes and she can't stop of buy things that she don't need. The worst thing is that she became a famous writter in a newspaper thanks to a differents articles that she write talking about the waste of money. 

I find it an interesting film becuase, actually, the society is very consuming, especially, the teenargers. For this, I decides to talk about this topic.

Consumerim is the term used today to describe our obssesion with buying things. Some would say that is has become a way of life. In fact, for many people, spending money equals happines and in this group, teenagers are the most affected. 

Years ago, the pocket money teenagers got would not allow them to buy an iPod, the trendy oufit or anything more expensive than some magazines, sweets or a CD. But today things are different. In a web page, I had find an interview made to a differents teenagers in a shopping center about their consumer habits  and I'm going to talka about two of these. This is what two adolescents girls had say:

The firts girl interviewed was Rebecca and she was 16 years old. Just starting the interview, she admitted that she was a fashion victim. She said that she spent at least, six hours a week shopping clothes and shoes, she buy most clothes when the sales are on and she also said spending so much time in window-shopping compring prices for this, knows were to get the best bergains. She love it and she also said that she would not want to spend her time in anything else. When the interviewer asked Rebecca how she gets the money for buy so many clothes, she asked that she was working. She have a part-time job working as a cashier in a local supermarket on Friday nights after school and on Saturday mornings. Also, she ask for cash presents for her birthday and Christmas. 

I think that the only good thing that Rebecca does is use her own money: she works for it and of course, she can spend it in whats she likes but she should have limits. The thing that impresed me the most was that she showed to the interviewer a pictures of a shoes that she had just buoght and the, admitted, that she had another new shoes without clothing in her wardrobe. 

The other teenager interviewer was Kathy, she was15 years old. Although she was younger than Rebecca, she was more careful with her money. She said that she don't need to buy a lot of jeans or shoes to be happy, she thinks that it's a waste of money with needlessly, she save her money and waste it whe it's absolutly necessary. She said that she have hobbies, family and friends for spend the time and for it, she don't need to spend all her free time in the shopping center. 

I'm totally agree with Katy and I thing that people needs to know that there are other things in life than can make us happpy apart of shopping, in fact, when you have the "fixation" of buy a lot of things, then, you cyou can't never be totally happy because you never will value waht you have, you only think in what you don't have. But actually, it's normal because fashion changes every year and so, to keep up, you have to buy more things every year. Perhaps, if we weren't so easily infuenced by fashion magazines, we could see that all is like an speending tramp and we also could see that we could do another activities instead of go shopping, although it's difficult because every day more and more shopping centers are built around us instead of parks (for example).

Nightmares before Christmas

How this last Friday was Halloween, I have remembered one of my favorites films of when I was little: Nightmares after Christmas. I thought that it was a Halloween film and I haven't remembered that it was also a Christmas movie... it doesn't matter, also Christmas it's above to arrive.

I used to watch this film with my siblings because it was my brother's favorite film too, we will have seen more than thirty times!

The film starts in the cemetery where once a year, the city of Halloween where monsters, ghosts, zombies and all kind of this "dead creatures" lives, is the responsible of the preparing of the day of Halloween for the "real world". Jack Skellington is the king of this city and he's the one that decides what to do, even so, he's tired of having to prepare always the same. One night, while Jack is walking his dog Zero through the forest a little worried, he get lost and then, he find out something that he doesn't expected to find: the city of Christmas. Jack is hold spellbound for the decoration of the streets, all the colors, the lights, the snow,... but the thing that impresses him the most was Santa Claus, a friendly and a loving big man who was the king of this fantastic city. Is then when Jack decide to replace Santa Claus for create his own version of Christmas. For get his objective, he convinces all his friends from the Halloween city that, inmediately starts to work making his own versions of gifts, of sweets,...

At the same time, Jack meets the doll Sally who is in love with him.

I love this film because it isn't like the typical Christmas films: it's a gothic story were "the bad" charcter is a big bag full of worms and his helpers are the three troublemakers from school, a doll full of sewings is the slae of Dr. Frankenstein, who is invalid and he's the most unpleasant character and besides that, she fall in love with a skeleton! In adittion, Santa Claus is battered. Another think that I like about the film is that it's like a scary movie for childrens. I remembered that the fisrt time I watched this film, I was very scared and I had nightmares but the next day, I saw the film again and I continue watching the film and  I continue feeling a little scared.

I really like the music of this film and I still remember the lyrics of the first song that appears in the film that was my favorite song too. Following, you have the video where you can also see all the characters of the city of Halloween!