Contributions Spaniard´s members group 4 November

A day in my life

Pilar Saldaña, Spain

Hello from Madrid. I will try to write I do a normal day.
I get up at 7 o'clock and the first thing I do is to have breakfast (fruit, toast with oil and coffee with milk), after that I clean my home, later I go out into the balcony to look after my -bonsai- collection (I have got an apple tree, a pomegranate tree, an olive tree, a pine, a chestnut tree, ...). They're lovely. It's my hobby. I have two pieces of fruit half way through the morning.
On Mondays and Fridays at 11 o'clock, I go to English school, the other days I go for a walk. When I come home I cook food. I like home cooking. I have lunch at 3 p.m. with my twin sons. They're 23 years old and they study at the University. We listen to news in the radio while we eat. Later, I study English or I iron some clothes. From 6 to 7 o'clock, I do -pilates- or swimming. At 9 p.m. we have dinner all family together (my husband, my three children and I). After that, I watch T.V., or read a book or do crochet. I go to bed at 1 a.m.
On Wednesday, I meet my friens and we go to visit some museum, or exhibition and after that we have lunch a restaurant.
On Friday afternoon, my husband help me to do the shopping. We buy near home, meat, fish, pulse, vegetables and fruits.
On weekends, my husband and I often go to our country house. It's in a small mountain village. It's very nice. If we're in Madrid we go to the theatre, cinema, concert or citty centre. We live on the outskirts of Madrid.

My best wishes


Julián Hernández, Spain

Dear Members of the Open Gate Discussion Group 4In first place, I want to express my personal satisfaction because our group grow up with new members from Italie and Poland. Welcome friends.Following my work corresponding about the topic.
Seven years ago my son Jorge was living in Paris because he worked over there and I had been to visit him. When I came back to Madrid, I had a nighmare journey. I remember when I was going to the airport with my son. I was going to Madrid and we had to be at Charles De Gaulle airport about two hours before the flight.
We left home with plenty of time, and we caught the train. When the train arrive at Gare du Nord Station, the train stopped it. So we just sat in the wagon getting more and more stressed. After twenty minutes, the loudspeeker in the station said us that the employes of underground of Paris are on strike. Then we didn´t know what to do and we decided to go out of the station and take a taxi but the airport is about 25 Kms. far of this place of Paris and we wasn´t sure arrive on time.
Finally, we went out the station and we found a taxi that the taxidriver drove at top speed and we arrived at the airport just forty-five minutes before the plane was going to leave. While my son paid to the bill at taxidriver, I ran forward the check-in point with my luggage, but when I arrived at checkin-desk, the woman said we couldn´t to check in my luggage because it was too late.
Fortunately, my luggage wasn´t too big for tavel in cabine.
But, I think that our italian´s friends have had greater same types of experiences than we stayed in Krakow.

With regards to “ A day in my life”

As I am retired, I usually get up later at half past ten, more or less, next I have a shower and after that, I have a breakfast and I do the housework, depend of week day ( put the clothes into washing machine, vacuun cleaner the flat, to iron, go shopping the food, cooking,.....).
On the Tuesday and Thursday morning I go to the CEPA Las Rosas for work in our project.
Everyday on afternoon, I practice my hobbies ( go to the cinema or theatre or concerts of classical music, jazz, modern music, rock, etc., read a book, dance latin´s rithm, walk,.......).
Ahhhhh, I´ll forget it, since last July, when my first granddaugther was born, at least once a week I visit to my daugther and my granddaugther.