Nicholas Sparks

In my opinon Nicholas Sparks is the best author ever. He's an american novelist, screenwriter and producer. He has published seventeen novels plus one non-fiction. Eight of his romantic-drama novels have been adapted to films. He wrote his first novel at school, but he never published it, and the next he wrote is the most known, The Notebook.
Every single movie had a big success, they are about love storys but not always with an happy ending, mostly a main character dies in a tragedy and the partner learns to live without someone by his side.
His movies are very popular, for young people as well for the older ones, they have the perfect dosis of love, tragedy and mistery.
Most people I know, think that his movies are romantic and sad at the same time, and they end crying after seeing it.
Some examples of his novels are:
- The Notebook
- The Lucky one's
- A walk to remember
- Dear John
Now i'm reading the novel Best of me (in english), a story about a man and a women who were in love when they were teenager, but they parents forced them to end the relation and 20 years after of being separeted, they see each other at the funeral of a friend and they are falling in love again.
The book will be adapted to a movie in October.

Orphan Black

Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction television series starring Tatiana Maslany.
The main character is called Sarah Manning, a young women who assumes the identity of her clone, Elizabeth.
Sarah, saw the suicide of a women at the train station and she stole her handbag  and discovered, after seeing a picture, that the girl looked just like her and the girl seems to have a great job and a lot of money. So she decided to go to her apartment, and there, Sarah realized that that was the solution for all her problems, she needed money and she acted like she was Elizabeth, even her "boyfriend" didn't notice anything strange.
After a time she discovered more and more new interesting facts until she realized that she and Elizabeth were clones. But that's not all, she also discovered that there are more people like her out there and she wanted to know who was the creater of the clones.
The series are about the moral and ethical implications of human cloning.

Dolly

Dolly was born on 5th July 1996 and had three mothers ( one provided the egg, another the DNA and the third carried the cloned embryo to term).
She was created using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer by Iam Wilmut, Keith Campbell at the Roslin institute in Edingburgh. Dolly wasn't the first animal to clone but she gained the attention in the media because she was the first to be cloned from an adult cell.
The sheep lived her entire life at the Roslin Institute and produced six lambs until she died on the 14th February 2003 because she had a lung cancer which is very common of sheeps. After Dolly died many other animals were cloned (pigs, horses, bulls..) but no one was so famous like her, so she has been called "the world's most famous sheep" by the media.
In my opinion, cloning an animal isn't that bad, and I don't understand why so many people think that it is something that goes against god and religion. It's just a new technique of creating life, and Dolly had the same life like other sheeps and she didn't have any problems, she was just a normal happy sheep.

Christmas Eve

For me, the best day of the year is not my birthday, not the last day of school, it's Christmas Eve. This year I decided to leave my mother here and go to visit my family in Germany. I love this time of the year, it's snowing, everyone is happy, everyone is baking cookies and the whole family is together.

My grandparents picked me up on the airport and I have slept there during the holidays. The first days I did the typical last-minute shopping to buy some presents and christmas cards, it was amazing to see how much people buy their presents on the last day, and how much money they spent. On Christmas Eve, everyone in my family has to go to the church, even if you are never going during the year. It is very boring to sit there, and listen for hours and hours to something you can't even understand, but it's always funny because my cousins bring their children and they can entertain us very well. Last Christmas they told us to go outside because we were making too much noise and other people wanted to listen to the pastor. This was the best moment ever, we laughed so much and had so much fun even it was freezing outside.
After church comes the best, going outside and wish everyone, and I mean everyone, a happy Christmas. There are always so much people that after this everyone hurts the hand from shaking everyone's hand. After this every family goes home and have the Christmas diner and then it's time to open their presents.

The next day, the stress begins. You have to go every day to someone of your family's house. So the most people are happy when Christmas is over.