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  In this photo I can see an african-american girl on the upper left, this girl probably has some illness, because I can see that in the middle there is a blood pressure tester connected to her finger, also I see that she is on a stretcher of a hospital, so probably she is on a hospital being tested to cure her illness. Also the caption says "I trust that the doctors will find the cure to my illness", with this caption I can

confirm that the girl is sick but she is quite because she trusts on the doctors.

  Related with the IB topic I can say that she prefers the traditional medicine, because to cure her illness she is using machines like the blood tester, in a hospital, with doctors and other typical things of the traditional medicine. On the contrary, it could bee using alternative medicine to cure her illness like acupuncture, ayurveda, massage or yoga, but she prefers traditional medicine.

  The medicine in the United States, specifically the traditional medicine is really good, it is considered one of the best on all the world, because of the technological advances that USA has, as contrary of Chile that the medicine is not so good (public medicine) and if it is good it is really expensive (private medicine).

My favourite day of the Europe Trip

The day started early in the morning about 5,30 when we left the school to the Arturo Merino Benitez airport of Santiago, Chile. There, after we did all th errands, we got in the plane with Edinburgh as our destination. Before we stopped over in the airports of Buenos Aires and Amsterdam, and after 20 hours of traveling we landed in Edinburgh.

The first impressions of this city were great, the buildings were medieval in one part of the city, because the city is divided in the modern and in the antique part. Then, after 15 minutes by bus we arrived to the hotel located in the center of the antique part, in the Royal Mile. There we took a bath and we rested some time. Then we had some free time in the afternoon to tour the city, I was impressed because of the buildings, everything was like the past, with castles and things like that, also it were very interesting the people of the city because they were very different to chilean people, they were very tall and blond, different to typical chilean that is smaller and with black hair. After walking this beautifull streets and taking some photos we went back to the hotel to have dinner. At 9.30 pm we had a meety where teachers gave us free time to get to know Edinburgh in the night, some students decided to go to sleep because it was a very tiring day. I went to the city and there I visited some bar's and I walked around the city. Finally we came back to the hotel to sleep, to rest, because the next day we visited the Edinburgh Castle.

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Lifestyle in Edinburgh

Lifestyle in Edinburgh

A beautiful city full of history

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, and is the second must populated city in Scotland after Glasgow, it has a population of 477.660 inhabitants. This city is divided in two parts, the ancient side, that was build in the medieval times and the newest side, that is the comercial part.

¿Do you no how is the lifestyle in Edinburgh?. This city is known because of his easy-going people. The tourist are welcome in here, also here the people is very respectful, always they give the sit to the ancient people in the subway and let the people pass before in the line at the checkout.

Because of their easy-going and respectful attitude they have a very happy life in which they work really hard in the day but they also have time to share and enjoy with other people, this is why the night life in Edinburgh is very entertaining.

Also because of all the green areas. the people do very much sports like running, trekking and cycling, but some times is difficult to do sport because of the weather, because in Edinburgh rains to much, in winter and also some times in summer.

I talk with Gregorio Aris, a inhabitants of Edinburgh that refers to the lifestyle in this city, and he said that he love to live in Edinburgh, because is perfect in all the things, like order, sports, weather (in his opinion) and the people.

Clearly, Edinburgh is a lovely city, with many things to do and to have a high quality of life.

By: Sebastián Merino

ACTIVITY 1: Edinburgh

1.- What is the nightlife like in this city? (60-80words)

2.- What are some of the most important tourist locations? (60-80words)

3.- What are some traditions in this city? (60-80words)

4.- How expensive is it to live there? What is the cost of living? (60-80words)

1) The nightlife in Edinburgh is amazing!, the people in there are very friendly, specially in the night, so you can meet many people if you visit Edinburgh in the night, the people usually go to bars and pubs to drink some beers and a drink called Jagger Bomb, then when it's late they go to some discotheque to dance and meet other people.

2) Edinburgh is a city full of tourist locations, because of its antiques, the city has a  medieval past ,so the constructions are still conserved up to these days. The most important tourist location is the Castle of Edinburgh, that is located on the top of a mountain, and has a privileged view of all the city, other tourist locations are the Scott´s monument and the Royal Mile.

3) There are some traditions that the people celebrate every year in Edinburgh, for example the Hogmanei celebration. Every new year, this celebration has a duration of 4 days, that all the people celebrate in the streets, there is also another celebration in the Castle of Edinburgh called The Royal Military Edinburgh Tattoo, a celebration of music and entertainment, here people of over 46 countries attend.

4) In general all Great Britain is a little expensive, specially in food and water, compared with Chile, but there are other things that are cheaper that in Chile for example the clothes, but to the people of Edinburgh they are not very expensive because the salary is appropriate to the price of all the things.