Entroido in Galicia.

   In this post I am going to explain the most important Entroido traditions in my village (Corrubedo). 

   Fistly, we are going to define the term Entroido: it is a celebration that takes place during the previous days to the Ash Wednesday (the first day of the Lent, a period of forty days of fasting in the Christian religion). In it, people eat typical foods (filloas, orellas, cocido...) and dress up, enjoying these pleasures before the long period of abstinence.

   Here, in Corrubedo, there is not any special tradition related with the Entroido, apart from the following: during this celebration, people used to dress up of choqueiro (it consists of wearing old clothes and a more-expensive mask, trying to make impossible for people to identify you) and went house by house, looking for typical foods and drinks, but this tradition is almost disappeared today.

   Besides, on the last saturday before the Ash Wednesday, my father, with my mother and some of their friends, roasts pork chops and serves them, with bread, filloas and drink, to the people who goes there, all for free!!! (but people can give a tip).

   Finally, on the Ash Wednesday, at night, we burn in the beach a big puppet, worn with old clothes, called Felipe, to say goodbye to the Entroido.

   During the Entroido celebrations, we use to eat typical foods. The most important of this foods are cocido, filloas and orellas. The cocido is a typical Galician stew that in its ingredients there is hard pork sausages, shoulder of pork, turnip leaves (called grelos), potatoes and other ingredients.

   The filloas are crepes that are sometimes made with pork blood.

   Finally, the orellas (translated, ears) are a desset made by a fried dough, which has flour, leavening, eggs, anise, sugar and other ingredients.

   This year, my only costume was a Santa Claus hat that I worn during the last class day before the Entroido holidays, like Daniel and Ramón, as you can see in this photograph:

Nicolás Vidal Vázquez.

Miniquest: a trip to Hawaii.

  In this post, Andrea Rodríguez González and me are going to design an adventure trip to Hawaii (Yankeeland, also called the USA), in which we are going to practise some extreme and adventure sports.

    

  Firstly, we are going to take a bus from Ribeira to Santiago. Then, we are going to take a flight to Madrid, and there we are going to take another flight to Honolulu, with two scales in London and Los Angeles. There, we are going to stay in a hotel called Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. The trip is going to last for four days, in which we are going to do the following activities.

  The first day, we are going to practise skydiving, with the help of an instructor, because it is going to be our first time. With this activity, we will enjoy the views of the island, specially of Pearl Harbour, the North Shore, Diamond Head and instead the other islands.

  The second day, if we survive to the skydiving, we are going to go to the beach, and there we are going to practise fly boarding and surfing, and then we are going to do some tourism in the city. At night, we are going to go out and join the night life of Honolulu.

 

                

  The third day, when we recover from the hangover, we are going to do an extreme helicopter tour over the island, to see the wild forests, the volcano, the waterfalls, the historic places like Pearl Harbour, and much more.

  The fourth day, we are going to practise scuba diving with sharks, taking care of all the security measures offered by the agency that provides this service, enjoying the submarine natural life of this wonderful islands.

  Finally, if we are still alive,  we are going to take a plane back home with the same scales. When we arrive at Madrid we are going to take another plane to Santiago and there our families will be waiting for us.

  This will be a great experience and a great trip where we will let out our crazy side!

Andrea Rodríguez González and Nicolás Vidal Vázquez.

Description of myself.

   Hi, my name is Nicolás Vidal Vázquez, and I am the author of this blog. I am 16 years old and I live in Corrubedo (Ribeira). I am a student of 1st Bacharelato, group A, at IES Leliadoura, in Frións (Ribeira). I like reading, walking, watching TV, travelling and, in summer, going to the beach.