A great day

Like everybody by this time will know, this last Saturday, the 5th of march, was the carnival of Torelló, one of the most spectacular and probably the biggest around town one. My friends and I started thinking about how we could go dressed like a few weeks before that date, and I think this also made this day even more special. We had been designing our custom every day and we could be talking about that hours and hours, but finally, we finished it and we went dressed like cards or poker or however you prefer to call it.

Although we knew the carnival started later, we met at four o’clock at one of my friend’s house. There we finished preparing ourselves. We painted our faces, we took some pictures, we bought some things we would use later… all in all, it was all preparation. After that, we caught the train to go to Torelló. It was really stressful being in the train station waiting for the train and even more being inside. We could hardly enter in. It was really full. When we got down, we started fallowing the music and we started having fun. We met people, we took lots of pictures, we danced a lot and we spent a good time between friends. Finally, we ended the night in “carpes carnaval” and later we went to catch the night bust to return to Tona, were we could finally sleep and rest after a great day between friends.

The year of the 18's

A generation is a group of people from the same age, who were born at the same year. My generation is the generation of 1993. As you may deduce if you just calculate a simple mathematical operation, this is the year when our generation is going to be 18! Eighteen years old is not so much if you stop and think about it. But the importance of being eighteen it’s not what the number is but what it represents. In our country, when someone arrives at this age, it’s considered an “adult” (I write it in brackets because there’s a lot to discuss about it, but the law consider it like this so we should probably accept it). And what does it mean? For parents, it probably means the beginning of a new headache, but for us, the generation who reaches that age, it means we can decide thing for our own, we can sign documents, and even we could leave home if we wanted, as well as we are able to drive, enter to some bars or discos which are up to eighteen, …

So, as I just mentioned, this year is going to be full of 18’s birthday parties. What it’s common is to celebrate this special birthday a little bit different from others. Everybody celebrates it as they want, but between friends, it’s really exciting to prepare surprises and also give some extra joking presents. I’ve already been in some parties like that. It’s really funny to see the expressions the birthday-boy or birthday-girl make when they see the presents or even, if they know nothing, the surprise they take when they see all their friends together! In some occasions, you have to look casual and in others, you need to be dressed as if you were graduating (this is very common in “puestas de largo” that some families like to prepare for their children). All in all, every eighteen birthday must be unforgettable because not every year one can be considered as a new adult in a family or even between friends. It’s one day in all live and it must be a special day.