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On 22 April, I went with two friends to Ramon Mirabet's concert, celebrated in Hospitalet de Llobregat as one of the activities during "Festes de Primavera". Mirabet is a Catalan singer but his songs are in English. So, my friends and I, who love his music a lot, sang the most songs played in the concert, such as "Those Little Things" (a well-known song because it was the BSO of Estrella Damm's advert in 2016) or "Happy Days". It was a great experience!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTPV3LRDJP3/?taken-by=noeliansf

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Visit MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)

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Visit MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)

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On 22 February, I went to visit MNAC with Modern Painting and Sculpture's teacher and classmates. This is one of the subjects that I studied during the degree's second trimester and it consisted on working about Renaissance and Baroque's Art. That Wednesday, we had the class in the museum, where Tobias, the teacher, told us in English (the language of this subject) about that medieval gothic paintings which have some Flemish or Renaissance features, such as "Virgin of the 'Consellers'" by Lluís Dalmau and "Epiphany" by Fernando Gallego. Moreover, we had some minutes to write down and hand in a comment of one of these paintings.

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Exposition: "The pillars of Europe. Middle Ages in the British Museum"

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Exposition: "The pillars of Europe. Middle Ages in the British Museum"

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On 22 April, I went with Mireia, a classmate, to visit an exposition in CaixaForum Barcelona: "The pillars of Europe. Middle Ages in the British Museum". It was exhibited some objects, paintings and sculptures from Middle Ages. It was an interesting experience because we visited the exposition with an audio guide in English. Thanks to it, we learned a lot of this fascinating period of time: the Christianity influence, the popularity of Tristan and Isolde whose love story was represented in different objects, the type of life in the court, etc. Moreover, we confirmed the strong influence of Middle Ages in our society, our cities, etc.

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The train journeys from Sant Vicenç dels Horts (my town) to Pompeu Fabra University are so long and boring. Luckily, I have a friend (Noelia) who has to do the same journey as me every day. Then, we talk during the journey and, in this way, they are less dull. Moreover, as she is studying for Advanced English Exam, our conversations are usually in English. This is a good way to practice this language because we can talk about different topics (our lives, the news, the studies, etc.) in a quotidian context.

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Mireia (classmate) and I went to visit an exposition in Barcelona some days ago. When we were coming home by train, we had the opportunity to talk with a foreign family. The conversation started when we tried to sit down on two free seats but a woman told us that one of them was occupied by her husband, who stood to look at train stops plan. Then, we continued talking with her and she told us her family trip to Barcelona and the intention of visiting Montserrat.

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Carol is a novel about a nineteen-year-old girl, called Therese, who has a bored life in New York. But this changes when she meets Carol, a sophisticated housewife. They both will start an intense and complicated love story.
I strongly recommend this novel because it is a classic book in lesbian literature which breaks with stereotypes of lesbian relationship (Carol was published in 1952, when there were a lot of prejudices related to homosexuality) and because the story explained is so moving.

* 311 pages: 311 x 1,25 = 388,75 weighed pages

Highsmith, Patricia: Carol. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.

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The boy in the striped pyjamas is a novel about an eight-year-old boy, called Bruno, who, because of his father's job (he is a Nazi commandant), moves into a new house, near to a Nazi extermination camp. There, Bruno, who has no idea about what is happening with Jewish people, meets Shmuel, a Jewish boy who lives on this camp. They become friends and live an innocent and strong friendship.

This is an interesting novel above all because the tragedy of Holocaust is showed  from the perspective of little and innocent boys.

* 223 pages = 223 x 1,25 = 278,75 weighed pages

Boyne, John: The boy in the striped pyjamas. London: Vintage, 2012.

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The boy in the striped pyjamas (by John Boyne)

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The boy in the striped pyjamas (by John Boyne)

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This is us is a series about the life of a family, composed of parents and their kids, who are triplets.
The series shows the present life of this family (that is, the day to day of triplets -Kate, Kevin and Randall- when they are already adults) and also the past life of them (when they were children and their father was still alive).
I think it is an amazing series because it is a portrait of the real life, which is full of problems but also of happy moments. Moreover, the spectator (at least in my case) can identify themselves with situations exposed on the series which make think out about our personal lives.

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Stranger Things is a series about four children who are friends and one of whom, Will, disappears strangely. His friends, with the help of Will's family and Eleven -a powerful and magic girl-, try to find him. But they have to face magic and strange situations and also have to confront a governmental organization which is involucrated in the Will disappearance too.
In my view, this is a thrilling and emotional series, with a great interpretation of the actors. Sranger Things is also fascinating because it is contextualized in the 80s American society. I recommend it!

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Sense8 is a series about a group of 8 people who are mentally connected. They are from different countries but they can share at the same time, the same place, feelings, emotions, etc. However, in this first season (the second one is coming: it is going to be on TV on May!), they are persecuted by those who consider them as a threat and want to maintain the control of the world and consider them.
I strongly recommend this series because it is so exciting, thrilling and multicultural (the main characters are from USA, Germany, India, etc.), and there are some touching scenes and sentences which make you think out about our strong mind and our Humanity.

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Why have there been no great women artists? (by Linda Nochlin)

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Why have there been no great women artists? (by Linda Nochlin)

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This is an interesting article about women and the arts. According to this feminist historian of art, Linda Nochlin, there have been no great women artist because of the social and historical context. That means, as role of women and men traditionally were so defined and women had to charge of house and being a good mother and wife, they were removed from art's institutions and art's schools. Therefore, although we can find some great woman artists in Art History (Artemisia Gentileschi, Berthe Morisot, etc.), they are minority not because of their talent but because there have been no equality and the same opportunities for women.

* 37 pages: 37 x 1,25 = 46,25 weighed pages

Sthortened version of an essay in the anthology Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness. Edited by Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran. New York: Basic Books, 1971.

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This course, I watched three series in original version with English subtitles. I enjoyed them a lot!

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Listening to music is also a good way to learn English. And https://lyricstraining.com/en is a fine web page to learn song's lyrics. Through this web, I practiced listening and I learned by heart some songs by Passenger, Birdy, Lady Gaga, Adele, etc. Here there are some examples: