Badminton competition I

Yesterday, I had a badminton competition. The competition was in the same sport centre where I train during the week and it was organized by my badminton club. The competition began at 9 o’clock and it ended at 1:30 pm. There were a lot of matches, divided in four categories: Men A, Men B, Women A and Women B. I played in the Men A group, that was for boys between 14 and 18 years and I the youngest.

First, I met with some friends to go to the competition and we went together to the sport centre, where we arrived at 8:45. We trained some minutes and then, the competition started with the matches of the groups Men B and Women B.
At 9 o’clock, the list of the matches of my group appeared and I saw that I had to play first with the best player of my own team, and in my second match, I played with other boy that I didn’t know. My first game was at 10:00, so I waited to play for one hour. During this time, I trained with my friends and I was the referee in two matches, too.

I have said you that my first game was with the best player of my team and, like you could guess, I loss both sets of the match, for 21-6 and 21-8. The match was very short. It was only 10 minutes. I loss my second match too, but in this case, we were playing for 22 minutes and we finished the two sets 21-16 and 21-18.    

I’m very proud by my results because, taking in account that it was my first competition, the results were good. I think that I had only a problem in the second game. I should have to win the second set of this game and to get a third set, but I was very tired and my opponent played badminton for more years than me.

A photo exposition

Since the past Saturday I haven’t written noting in my blog. Sorry, I know it and this is the reason that I’ll explain what I did the last weekend. It wasn’t an incredible weekend but I did an interesting thing. Sunday morning, I went to see a photo exposition that one of my friends is doing in the Civic Centre of Les Corts.

My friend, named Àlex, is 18 years old and he has made an exposition of photos about the life in the street. The name of the exposition is “Personal Life” and it wasn’t larger: there are only 22 photos, made in Barcelona, Basque Country and France. The photos were taken during his holidays the last three years. The photos of Barcelona were taken in the districts of El Born and El Raval and they are fantastic. I like a lot this type of photos and all were incredible. I put here my two favourites photos.

If you want to see more information for the exposition  this is the web page:

http://www.lleuresport.cat/candeu/files/12litrefebmar2011.pdf

After the visit of the exposition, we went to the bar of the building of the Civic Centre. It’s very nice, with a big garden with a lot of trees. There, we talked for a long time and then I returned home for the lunch, because I’d met with other friend in the afternoon.

The withe week

This week is an especial week because we don't have class. It's a week to relax, or to go to ski at the mountain, or where you want.
Since now,  I've go to eat a "calçotada", to the village of Santa Margarida i Els Monjos, in El Penedès, and I've see the Carnival parade at the same place, and I've buy some presents for my dutch partner and his family.
Saturday afternoon, I went to the shops near La Sagrada Familia with my parents and my sister. There, we spent more than two hours searching the appropiate presents for my dutch partner and his family. Finally, we found the perfect present for everyone: my friend, his sister, his father and his mother, and after it we returned to home. 
Yesterday, Sunday, we have met with some friends and we have go to see the Carnival parade in the village of Santa Margarida i Els Monjos and then, to eat "calçots". They are like sweet onions, but larger. We have go to a tipical country house of Catalonia, a "masia", with a very strange name: Ca n'Aixelà. There, we have eat calçots and meat. After the lunch, we have go to our friend's house, near Sabadell, and they have show us the house, becasue they have rebuild it. The house is beautiful now.
I don't know what I'll do the next days but I hope that it will be fantastic.