This summer I decided to study at the EOI in La Seu d'Urgell because I need it for my future career and I can also get an official certificate of English.

- I think the first advantage is that it is very economical to study in the EOI because compared to other schools the EOI is much cheaper.

-There are schools that offer a wide range of languages to learn, for example: English, Arabic, French, etc.

- Another advantage is that they are continuously doing competitions, talks and many activities and this is also a positive aspect of the school.

- Offers several levels.

- In my case, I come from Organyà, it's a bit far from school, but luckily only twice a week is not so heavy.

- Sometimes classes are long since there are two hours in a row.

I have decided to study at EOI because I like travelling around the world. Now I want to tell you about sports in l’Alt Urgell.

In La Seu D’Urgell you can find a lot of sports like football, basketball, rafting, kayaking and canoeing. This one is the most famous and important in La Seu d’Urgell because the athletes train in El Parc del Segre that was built in 1992 for the Olympic Games and since this moment, many sporting events are taking place in the Parc del Segre and it’s very beautiful to see them.

In Organyà you can play football, practise adventure sports and paragliding. Paragliding is the most important sport in Organyà because the world cup is held.

In La Seu d'Urgell there is the biggest group of "caramelles" in the Pyrenees.

Ball Cerdà is one of the central events of the festival, and is danced each year on the last Sunday in August in the morning, in Palatín Square in front of a large audience and musicians placed on a platform. First, Cerdà Infantil Ball and later Cerdà Ball of adults. It is also danced in October, in the week of the elderly, with mixed couples formed by young and old.

The dance, during the 20th century, had a continuity interrupted only by the civil war. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were critical moments, due to lack of dancers. It was at the beginning of the 1980s, with the advent of democracy that the number of dancers and interest in dance were rising.

The Cerdà Ball of La Seu d'Urgell, is structured in several parts: it passes through the streets, the passage, the entrance to the gallop of the dancers in the square, the roundabout, the snail, the dance of the couples, the shout from "Risto", and finally the married couple.

The reference character is the elder, who marks the compass, and when he starts dancing, he dreams of dancing all the girls in the snail. Every year is a different child chosen by the volunteers that are offered.

Musically, it consists of two ternary motifs of eight points in each sequence. The contracted song is the one that repeats the same melody during the hours of the dance.

On July 19, 2016, the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia agreed to declare Ball Cerdà de la Seu d'Urgell as a festive element of national interest assets.

The dress of the dancers is one of the aspects that has changed most over time. Men, at the beginning of the century, wore a short vest, a white shirt, a red curve, the band, the apron pants up to half a leg, white sock and the espadrille Vigatana. Then they went to dressed, with a tie and hat, and towards the 90s, they were uniformed with black trousers, white shirt, socks and black shoes, shorts and hatches, red for singles and mustaches for the married.

The dancers, formerly, wore elegant changing suits. For years they have been dressed with the tie (shawl embroidered with sequins and golden fringes), black short sleeve gipon, black apron with tip and embroidery, skirts of different shades, red, mittens, enagos, white stockings and half-heeled half-shoe. It is necessary to emphasize the importance of the jewels and complements of the dancers.