Miss Universo 2008

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Well, now I’m writing about Miss Universe 2008.
The Miss Universe competition started in1952 as a local beauty competition in Long Beach, California. Now it’s one of the most important beauty competitions in the world.
Last year’s Miss Universe was Riyo Mori from Japan. My dad, mom and I thought that Riyo shouldn’t have won because Miss Venezuela was more beautiful. Now Riyo looks better.

This year’s edition took place in Vietnam and the judges were: Roberto Cavalli, Donald Trump JR., Nadine Velasquez, Louis Licari, Jennifer Hawkins, Taryn Rose, Nguyen Cong Khe, Joseph Cinque and Eesha Koppikhar.

This year top 15 where:
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
Miss Kosovo; Zana Krasniqi
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Vietnam; Lam Thuy Nguye
Miss South Africa; Tansey Coetzee
Miss Australia; Laura Dundovic
Miss Japan; Hiroko Mima
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Italy; Claudia Ferraris
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
Miss Hungary; Jazmin Dammak
Miss Czech Republic; Eliska Buckova
Miss USA; Crystle Stewart
Miss Spain; Claudia Moro
After this, these 15 misses modeled in swim suit and the judges gave their mark. In this part Lady GaGa sang her hit Just Dance.
After this they gave the names of the top 10 that passed to the next round. They were:
Miss Kosovo; Zana Krasniqi
Miss Australia; Laura Dundovic
Miss Spain; Claudia Moro
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss USA; Crystle Stewart
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
Miss Italy; Claudia Ferraris
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
These 10 misses now modeled in night dress. I liked very much the dress that used Miss Venezuela. It looked very nice.
Now last year’s Miss Universe Riyo Mori came and told some words. They also showed a video of some things that she made during her reign.
The Misses that passed to the last round were:
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
This last round is supposed to be very difficult as the last 5 misses have to answer a question that one of the judges makes them.
After some time Donald Trump Jr. gave the cover with the results.
The results where:
Miss Universe 2008: Dayana Mendoza; Miss Venezuela
1st runup: Taliana Vargas; Miss Colombia
2nd runup: Marianne Cruz Gonzalez; Miss Dominican Republic
3rd runup: Vera Krasova; Miss Russia
4th runup: Elisa Najera; Miss Mexico.

Here everyone thought that Elisa Najera could be Miss Universe 2008 as she had won the best body. We also thought that Miss India, Simran Kaur Mundi could be in the top 5. Now everyone is very sad.

The best national costume went to Miss Thailand, Gavintra Photijak. I thought that Mexico was going to win that one because Elisa’s dress looked very beautiful.
Miss Congeniality was Miss El Salvador; Rebeca Moreno.

Mexico has had only one Miss Universe. It was in 1991 with Lupita Jones. India has had 2 Miss Universe; in 1994, Sushmita Sen and in 2000 with Lara Dutta.

Miss Universe is an interesting competition. I like it!

Graduacion de 6º

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I’m going to tell you about my graduation this year.

In Mexico the graduation in 6th grade is very important as we finish our primary school. On Friday, 27th June, 2008, our generation (2002-2008) had the graduation. It was in the auditorium of Cuidad Universitaria de la UAdeC. Everything was very nice.

In the morning before the graduation, we went to my akka, Sarahi's house. She ironed my hair and made the hairstyle for the graduation. I liked that hairstyle and all my friends appreciated it too.
First we had the mass and to be honest everyone wanted to sleep as it was very boring. In the mass, Nancy and Mauricio read a passage from the bible.
After the mass there was the change of escolta. There the abanderada (person carrying the flag) told some things (we didn’t understand what she told) to the new abanderada and after that she gave the flag to the new abanderada and like this the change of escolta finished.
After this the director and owner of the school; Mr. Guayo Gutierrez del Bosque, his sister; Mrs. Susana, the coordinator of Spanish; Miss Lulu and the coordinator of English; Miss Silvia passed to the dais. Then Mr. Oswaldo (sports teacher) called Miss. Rocio to pass to announce the list of students of her group (6º A). When each person heard their name they went to get a paper and a disc which contained a video. When everyone had passed from that group, Mr. Oswaldo told who got first place and second and so on. When they had given the certificates to the people that had first, second and third place in both Spanish and English; Miss Grisel from (6º B) passed to do the same and when they had finished giving all the things. A girl from that group, Saidee passed and gave a little speech in english. After that my Spanish teacher, Miss Alma passed to do the same. After everyone had passed, they gave the certificates. I got first place in both English and Spanish. After that Miss Angelica from 6º D passed and did the same. After that Mr. Oswaldo told something about me, that I don’t remember well. Then I passed to the dais and they gave me 4 certificates (1 for 1st place in the Olympics of Knowledge in the our region, 2 certificates for passing in the Math Olympics (one given by the school and the other by the SEP) and other for getting a average of 10/10 in my generation) and a letter from the SEP that congratulated my parents and me for my average of 10 out of 10 in all the grades. After that Mr. Oswaldo said something and then I passed to read a little speech in Spanish. When I finished they put a video that was made with photos we had taken throughout the year. We were all happy and also laughing about the photos. When this finished we played a song called Titanic by flute. When we finished Mr. Oswaldo thanked everyone, and the graduation was finished. I took photos with all the teachers and with Mr. Guayo. Everyone there congratulated me. Dra. Lilia and Yessica had also attended the graduation ceremony. In the evening there was a party but I didn’t go.
All the years from 1st to 6th were fun.

UEFA EURO 2008

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This post is going to be about UEFA’s Euro2008.

This edition of the Euro2008 took place in Austria-Switzerland. It started on Saturday 7th June and finished on Sunday 29th June. It was very exciting to see all the matches. I liked it very much, it was fantastic.
The teams that participated in the euro were:

Group A:

Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal,Turkey

Group B:

Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland

Group C:

Netherlands, Italy, Romania, France

Group D:

Greece,Sweden, Spain, Russia

After the first round, the teams that passed to the quarter finals were from group A: Portugal and Turkey; group B: Croatia and Germany; Group C: Netherlands and Italy and from group D: Spain and Russia.

The results of the matches in the quarter finals were:

-Portugal 2-3 Germany
-Croatia 1-1 Turkey (1-3 p)
-Netherlands 1-3 (aet) Russia
-Spain 0-0 Italy (4-2 p)

Now, only Germany, Turkey, Russia and Spain passed to the semifinals.
In these matches the tension was very high as all the 4 teams were playing very very good.
The results were:

-Germany 3-2 Turkey
-Russia 0-3 Spain

The finalists of the Euro2008 were Spain and Germany.

I think it was easy for Spain to go forward as Germany wasn’t at the level it had been in all the other matches, but even though it was a very interesting match.

Spain hadn’t won the Euro Cup for 44 years and it hadn’t been in the final for 24 years. So now that Spain is the champion of Europe, all Spain is very happy.

Spain also won another title; its midfielder, Xavi Hernandez was named the Castrol Player of the Tournament for UEFA EURO 2008.

Now many people in Mexico say that Spain could be a candidate for winning the FIFA’s World Cup.