Nico's Blog

 

  Music can be a personal thing to me, as memories are always involved in the music I listen to and the playlists I create. It can remind me of people, places or a special time of my life, one song can be related to several different situations , this is something my close friends can know sometimes how I’m feeling or what I’m thinking, just by looking at my Spotify activity. The special song I will share in my blog is one of the most famous Katy Perry’s songs: Roar. Roar was released on 2013, but for me it became special on 2014 when I participated in my first English Summer Camp on Santa Cruz, VI Región, a week full of good memories and new friends that changed my life for better. The English Camps are organized by the Education Ministry and consist on a week of inmersion into English language with a lot of English teachers and native English speakers. They organize many activities to improve our English such as the “Lipdub” a video with all campers and teachers lip sync a song

I couldn’t choose just a one country to visit because I love to travel and to know new cities, countries, cultures and to meet people. But if I have to choose the first country on my trip, Madrid, Spain is the answer.  To visit the great downtown of Madrid, the subway is the best option, many stations connect the principal places, buildings and the interest points with all the city and the Barajas Airport.  On downtown, Gran Vía is one of the most important boulevards in Madrid with many restaurants, hotels and important stores to visit and shop. This boulevard across in the middle of downtown and connect the principal government buildings, palaces, museums, squares and monuments of the city such as Puerta del Sol (the kilometer 0 of Spain) and Plaza Mayor, the main square. Near downtown, I would visit the famous park “Parque del Retiro” to relax and to know beautiful historical buildings and monuments inside the park like the Palacio de Cristal and Monumento Alfonso XII.  To finish my