My town, by Alícia Sedó

From Alícia to Maja Birgisdottir

Hello, Maja! How are you? You haven't written to me yet. I hope you will write me soon. Today, I’m going to talk about my town.

I live in Juneda, that it’s a town with about 3500 inhabitants situated near les Borges Blanques, the town where is our High School.

Juneda isn’t very big, but it’s a lovely place. There are lots of things to do and places to go every day.

There isn’t a High School there, but there is a Primary School, and a very big modern library. There’s a new music school too, where I go to learn music, sing on a chorus or play the guitar nearly every day.

There are lots of green squares where the children can play. There’s a church too, lots of food shops, a theatre (which is a cinema too), a sports centre where you can practise lots of diferent sports, a karting court, a town hall, an English centre, a small museum...

In our free time we buy sweets and we go walking through “la Banqueta” that it’s a very big and beautiful place where you can go walking or running. This natural park is very long. It has got more than 5 km of paths, where you can walk under the shadows of the trees and near a famous canal which has nine small falls. We love spending our weekends there.

One of the falls of la Banqueta

A path on autumn, near the canal

In our summer holidays, we go to the swimming pools nearly every day. There are three swimming pools: the small for the babies, the medium for playing, and the bigger which is reservated only for swimming, but you can play there too. Next to the pools there are a soccer field, a paddle court, and a beach volleyball court.

Sometimes, when the weather is hot on summer, we do picnics or barbeques with our friends, and we eat meat and “calçots”, that are a special type of long and thin onions eaten in Catalonia. And we participate in a local competition too, where all the participants have to cook a traditionall grove stew with an earthenware pot  and a firewood oudoors like our grandparents did, following the tradition.

The traditionall grove stew  competition

Juneda

I love living in Juneda, because we always have a good time there.