I was in Rome,
the capital of Italy, some years ago when I was a teenager. I went to there to
learn and speak Italian. It wasn’t possible. I lived in a flat with some
partners. They were from Alcoi. We spent the entire trip talking in Catalan. I
returned to my home. The trip has been wonderful, Rome is a beautiful place to
visit and stay and I lived fantastic experiences but I didn’t improve my
Italian. I would like to come back again.
Rome has not seen a modern building in
more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Yesterday,The Poppins continued with their
English classes. They started doing some exercises about Social English and reviewing Used
to. Later, they practised with the Relative Pronouns and paid attention to
the importance of questions and short answers.
The Grandma explained some stories about Cuba and
Catalan economy during the XIX century, paying special attention to the figures
of the Indians, Catalan-born people who travelled to Cuba to make business and returned to their hometowns where they
tried to evocate the Caribbean country building the same kind of houses and
planting the same sort of plants and vegetables.
She also told about slavery in
American countries and the abolition of it in The USA thanks to Abraham
Lincoln.
After some
days without reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, they
continued working the plot of this interesting book and they created another
plot about sharks, an animal well-known in Australia and one of the most
dangerous enemies of swimmers and surfers like EstherPoppins’ new boyfriend.
Che
Talking
about boyfriends, The Grandma,
following the advice of her family, decided to say goodbye to her last lover, Dave Clipster. A misunderstanding about him
created some tension between the members of the family and The Grandma had to take a decision: choose between The Poppins or Dave. It was easy. Obviously, The
Poppins won.
Next, the
family listened to some stories from its members about difficult and
uncomfortable situations in the past and they analysed how to confront them.
Tomorrow,
the family is going to listen to Lulú
Poppins’ explanations about fashion and trend and they’re going to play
poker.
Come on
Poppins! The die is cast!
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters
of principle, stand like a rock.
For other
hand, The Grandma is sad. While Esther, Laura, Irina and Saharay have new boyfriends, all the
family is against the relationship between The
Grandma and Dave, her new
friend. She can’t understand why they don’t accept the idea of a future
marriage between them.
After
listening to all the members of the family, she is very affected and sad and
she feels alone only with a little help and comprehension of Eli & Esther Poppins her anchors in this difficult moment.
Finally, she
has decided to take an important decision that will affect the future of her
family forever. Tomorrow, we will know the final of this story which seems a
little tragic.
