Hello my name is Lidia, and my favorite sport is athletics. It's my favorite sport because my whole family has always done athletics. It's like a tradition. When I was younger, I saw my brothers and my sister doing it, and I told myself that I would do this sport when I turned 8. I achieved my goal, and now I do athletics regularly. Athletics involves many activities, like the high and long jump, the shot put, and more. My favorite is the long jump because it's what I'm the best at. It's very fun, and it's good for your body because you compete against others like you. You can make friends with other people, and you get medals. There are long-distance runners and sprinters. Long-distance runners don't run as fast as the sprinters, but they run for a long time and cover a lot of distance. They also do cross-country running, which is similar, but it's not on a track. Sprinters are the opposite: they don't run long distances, but they run extremely fast. Competitions on tracks include high and long jumps, and the shot put. Cross-country running can be in nature, but you don't have the necessary material for the other activities. I recommend you try this amazing sport. You will learn many new things.

Dear The Magazine, sorry for not writing before, but I have been up to my eyes preparing for exams. My favourite sport is football because you help your friends and your teammates. My coach is a very fun and clever person. That's why I like him. My team and I are playing in our city's league. We play against another team of friends. Football is a very social game. I enjoy watching and playing it. I don't like playing football when it's foggy and rainy. My favorite team is Real Madrid because they have won 13 championships. They are an excellent team. Football is a very famous sport, and a lot of people play it. If you don't like football, I can only say that you should try it again. I also practice badminton. It's a fun sport, but for me football is the best sport in the whole world. Football is a very simple name for such a beautiful game. Everyone can learn how to play football. It is easy. My favourite player is Rodrigo because he is a good man inside and outside the stadium. He is an example of a good player. I hope you like football too. Best, Javier

I am a big fan of sports in general. My favourite sports are football or "soccer", and swimming, but I hate basketball or "netball," and fishing or "angling", because I think they are boring. My favourite football team is Deportivo, which is actually playing very badly now. I play on my school's football team. I'm a defender. Two weeks ago I learnt that there are a lot of sports with very different rules and conditions. For example, rugby is very different from bobsledding. The main difference is that bobsledding is done on ice and rugby is played is on a pitch. There are other differences which are less important. American football is also different from rugby because in rugby you have to play without protection, and in American football it is the opposite. There are sports which use rackets and a ball, like in tennis, or a paddle, like in ping pong. If you love skating you can play hockey or ice hockey, which use sticks and a special ball they call a puck. Ice hockey is on ice and regular hockey is on a court. In my opinion, if you want to be a very good athlete, you have to practice a lot, and make a big effort.

Okay, for me that´s a very tricky question because I love all kinds of creatures. From the ocean, to land, to the sky and everything in between there are animals everywhere, some can even defy logic! For example : the goblin shark with its retractible jaw, the jackalope a bunny with horns, the zonkey and liger real life hybrids, the gigantic colossal squid, the electric torpedo ray, and much, much, much more. But, if I had to literally become an animal, then it would be a siphonophore. For those who don´t know, siphonophores are some of the strangest critters on the planet. Think of them as dozens of teeny-tiny creatures that are linked toghether by a looooong body that´s also very thin. The one in front guides the whole crew. Some of those little creatures have sticky arms to get their prey when hunting. Others have arms that give electroshocks to their food, eventually killing them. They´re all bioluminescent, which means they can glow in the dark thanks to some chemicals their bodies can produce. They live in the Pacific Ocean in the midnight zone, the deepest part of the ocean. They can be longer than 2 buses. If they go to a higher part of the sea they´ll explode! Why did I choose the siphonophore? Well, as you might have already guessed it´s weird, strange and unbelievable. Just google it and get ready to have your mind blown!

Hello! My name is Lucia; I am from Mexico and today I will talk to you about my biggest goal in my life. It’s something we can all do; if I have the opportunity, I will surely do it. I love reading, it is one of my favorite hobbies, and I want other people to do and feel the same. I stay hours reading at night, sometimes I stay late at night reading because time passes very quickly, for example: I am reading at 9 p.m. and when I realize it, it is already 10:30 p.m.! Also reading at night helps you to sleep better. But that is not the point, my biggest goal is that I want to make campaigns to invite people to read, so that they discover all the magic that can be in a single book. And with this, everyone can read and write. But not only will you know how to read and write well, you will learn new words and speak better. These are some of the reasons why I would like to do the reading campaigns. Don't you like to read? Well, give it a try, even if you don't like it very much at first. You will see that, when you open the book, you will enter a magical and wonderful world. This is what I want to do, encourage people to read. Do not forget, doors and books are the same, you open them and go to other worlds. Encourage yourself to read!

I think at my age, almost 14, it's too early to decide. Everyone has always dreamed to be something that by passing the time that dream becomes another thing. I love science, in almost all ways, and I also like it a lot. If I could be something when I grow up it would be to be an Astrophysics, I know it’s a little bit difficult, but I would love to have that career. I also want to go to NASA, and if it's possible to work there. I think it's amazing that in one place like that, they have all that technology to see almost 1000000 stars and planets with one telescope. I want also to help people. I have the idea that with small things you can help a lot to someone, so I will help to make a better place of the world with small and big actions. Like I have mentioned before, It's what I want to be when I grow up. In this year, that I am in Junior High, I would like to have in all my subjects good notes, have a scholarship to help my parents and to go to a good High School. I also want to go out of quarantine, go out with my friends and family and go to the mall, the cinema and all that things. I also want to travel around the world, help people and see the sky of other countries, maybe in one place we can see more stars than in others.

My biggest goal in my life is to always be happy, in everything that I do, at every time, everywhere, with everyone..., because happiness is enjoying the little things in life. I think that if you enjoy everything that you do and you’re happy with it, everything is going to be fine for you, and for everyone around you. I always try to be happy with everything that I do, because deciding to be happy is a decision that only brave people make. Another thing that has to do with the subject is having a good attitude, because if you have it, everything will turn out well for you. I checked it myself! One day, I was in a bad mood and had a very bad attitude and everything went wrong for me, but later, I relaxed and changed my mood, and everything turned out good again. I want to be happy in my life, no matter what I'm doing. When I grow up, I want to become the greatest singer ever, but that's not the biggest goal in my life, because I was thinking: what if I became the best singer ever but I’m not happy and I don't like it? I would prefer maybe not becoming what I want. Maybe I get to be an engineer, or maybe a farmer, or a nurse, or another thing, but I'm happy with it, so my biggest goal in my life is to always be happy. Happiness is the key of success, that's something that my mom always told me, and that's another reason why my biggest goal in my life is to be happy.

First, I think it is necessary to tell you that I am not a big fan of Carnival. And I don't like wearing costumes very much. But when I am with my friends all is better. I don't mind dressing up together, it is very fun, and sometimes embarrassing. It's fun because we choose who wears the worst costume. But people always ask who the winner is. Well, we don't have an award yet, only a lot of jokes about his or her costume. When I was child I always wore a costume and I went to my grandparents' house. Now I don't go, I stay at home, calm and happy. I want to talk about how I see Carnival in my city. All young people wear their costume, but the teenagers go to parties. When I was younger I always awaited an incredible Carnival, I waited for something special. But now I understand that Carnival, although I am not a big fan, is not special. The thing that is special, is all people losing all types of shyness, and having a good time, and enjoying a lot of things. So please, enjoy it with the people of your city, because you are one of them, you represent the parts of your city all together. In conclusion, Carnival is very fun when I spend it with my friends, and I also like it because I can rest after a lot of exams and homework. I can enjoy time with my family, play video games, meet my fiends, etc. It isn't my favorite holiday, because I can do all the things that I do during Carnival in the summer holidays. But it isn't the worst. I think that there aren't any bad holidays, only some holidays that are longer and which we say are better. But we like all holidays.

Hi, my name is Monica and I'm going to tell you about my Carnival. I usually wear costumes made by myself and other times I buy them. Carnival is a fun party because if you are dressed up you can have a great time looking at other people's costumes, taking photos, participating in costume contests…… In other cities Carnival is big, for example: Venice, Brazil, the Canary Islands… Normally, during Carnival in those cities what they do is hold a parade with all the costumes, and people go out dressed up because it's the only time you are allowed to be crazy, and it's fun. In some schools Carnival is also celebrated. The classes are dressed up according a theme, and they have fun and hold a parade. The children dance, laugh… During Carnival, when you go out onto the street and you see all the colorful costumes and people wearing masks, dressed up, it looks like they put on everything. During Carnival, many people from different places come to experience different customs from other countries, too. People enjoy it because they can bring their kids, and they dress up as their favorite characters. Since we are in the Carnival season you have to enjoy it and have a great time.

Hello! My name is Carlota and this Carnival I am wearing a costume that represent all the garbage on the planet. To make the costume you only need a yellow shirt and blue jeans. You have to put a little bit of decoration on. You need some bottle caps and a plastic bag. Using scotch tape, you have to stick it all on to make the costume, and you have to take more decoration, like glasses or a hat. Last carnival I wore a costume which represented an animated character called Walli, or if you are a girl you are Wanda. This costume is made of cloth and the colours are red and white. You need a red and white sweater and red and white tights. I like to dress up in a lot of costumes during carnival because you can see something on TV, and then you want to be that person, because they are very happy. And if you want to be that person, you can buy a costume of that person, and you can feel that you are that person now.

Hello! My name is Meagan, I’m ten years old. I live in Madrid (Spain). Today I wanted to participate in writing on the Magazine and I’m going to talk about "What are my favourite activities to do in winter". I have a lot of activities to do in winter. In winter, we celebrate Christmas, too… My favourite activities are: playing with my friends, ice skating, playing in the snow. When I was three years old I was with my whole family in a place with a bunch of snow. I played with my cousins there, who were 10 years old and we were playing with the snow and my grandmother was helping me to slide on the snow. My cousins held me so I wouldn’t fall and I was very happy in that moment when I was little... More activities that I do in winter: when school finished we had homework for the holidays so I sometimes call my friend over to help me and I helped her, too. She was a bit smart and also so funny. After we finished the homework we met at the school, because there's an ice skating rink. We went like four times there to skate. The first time I went, I was very nervous because that day I really didn't know how to skate, because it was my first time. The third time I didn't fall because I knew how to skate so that time was very cool... More things that I do in winter: play with my friends. We sometimes videocall each other. We talk about films. My favourite film is "Harry Potter" and I’m in the house of "Gryffindor". I would like to get some books to read Harry Potter. My other friend’s favourite films are "Stranger Things". She has a lot of drawings of those. Her favourite character is "Eleven" and more. She has, in total, four characters who she likes... My last winter activity is: staying at home. It's because outside it is very, very cold and so I sleep or watch movies... That was my writing for today! BYE BYE!!!

Hello, I'm Naroa and I live in Arganda del Rey (Madrid). I am going to tell you what my favourite activities to do in winter are. I don't really have any favourite activities for winter because I prefer summer and I think it is a normal season, but the difference is that it rains and it’s cold. In winter, I love going to the snow and going to ski although I only went once to each, but the times I went to the snow and to ski I had a lot of fun. In winter, I also love going to visit villages around Madrid or the city of Madrid to see the Christmas decorations. Every year, I go with my mom and my sister to Madrid to see the lights, to visit some shops or to buy something. We eat there, we eat some churros and some hot chocolate for the afternoon snack and we usually see Cortilandia.This is like a tradition for me and my family. I don't have more favourite activities, but there’s something that I also like a lot but it isn’t so much an activity. It’s to stay at home watching a film on the sofa with some popcorn.

Hi. I am Jacobo. My favourite activity to do in winter is play board games with my family. For example, Monopoly it is my favourite game. It goes like this: 2-6 players per board roll a dice and you land in, for example, the street and you decide to buy or not buy. If you buy, the player who lands in this box next pays you money. The money which is put on the card is very funny. We play cards, too. We play lots of games, for example The Liar. It is for 2-4 players, a person gives out 7 cards for each person and says who begins. The youngest begins and a person begins and says “3” and the other players throw the card out of their hand of cards into a pile. All at the same time. If not, one by one. You depend on the numbers you have. You can throw a card in the pile if you do not have, for example in this case, a three. You can lie. But if you get caught you take all of the pile and so on and on and on. The person who runs out of cards wins.