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Good morning everyone! Today I wanted to share a little bit about where I'm from.

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So as you know I'm from the United States, which is a very big country, all

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the way across the Atlantic Ocean from where we are in Spain. I am from a state

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called Florida. So Florida is this state right here. It's similar to Spain because

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it's a peninsula, and so is Spain. It sticks out in the ocean. And so to get here, I took a plane

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and I flew from Florida to New York, which is a big city right here. And then I flew from New York

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all the way to Madrid across the ocean. So I want to talk a little bit more about Florida.

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so this is Florida it's a big state and most of it is surrounded by ocean and Florida is

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famous in the United States because it has a lot of beaches so people travel there from

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all over the country to go to the beach and it's also very hot all the year round

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so there are people who live up north in the united states where it snows in the winter and

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it's very cold and there are people who have a lot of money who buy a second house in florida

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so that they can come during the winter and then that way they're not freezing during the winter

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florida is also very famous for its theme parks like disney world and sea world and these are in

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Orlando. Orlando is a very, very famous city. Yes, yes. And then another famous city in Florida

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is called Miami. A lot of people in Miami speak Spanish. There are some people in Miami who only

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speak Spanish. They don't speak English. So Florida has many different cultures.

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And I was born in this city called Fort Lauderdale. I was born here, but when I was young,

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my family moved here to, okay, my family moved here to Tallahassee and this is the capital of

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Florida. So Tallahassee is the capital of Florida just like Madrid is the capital of Spain and this

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is where I grew up and then here in Gainesville is where I went to college. So I went from here

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to here to here to here, which was much farther. Yes. So this is Tallahassee. This is the city

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where I grew up. This is the Capitol building right here. So Tallahassee has two Capitol

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buildings. As you can see, this one is very old fashioned looking. It was built, I think,

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the 1800s so over a hundred years ago but as florida got bigger and bigger and more people

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moved there they needed a bigger government so they built this big capitol building right behind

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the old one so now we have two capitol buildings and this is the flag of the united states

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and this is the flag of florida right here this is another view of the two capitol buildings

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from the road. So there's a big road that goes right in front of it. Okay. Tallahassee is known

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for canopy roads. So roads that are covered with trees. So the whole city is full of trees,

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lots and lots of trees. And especially oak trees, which look like this. And so as you're driving,

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you are always driving through the trees and it's very very beautiful we have so many oak trees that

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the the official seal of tallahassee is a tree yes this is a picture from tallahassee in the 1890s

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so about 100 150 years ago and even back then there were oak trees

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so they've been there for a very long time this is a postcard of a Tallahassee oak tree from 1940

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long time ago Tallahassee is not on the beach as you can see in the picture it's in them it's

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inland but we are less than an hour away from the ocean and this is one of the closest spots

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on the coast to Tallahassee it's called st. Mark's lighthouse so this is a

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lighthouse and you can see there are places where you can dock your boat and

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this isn't really a good beach for swimming but a lot of people come to go

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boating out here the lighthouse I think so another big thing in Tallahassee is

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our university it's called Florida State University or FSU this is not where I

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went to school I went to the University of Florida which is the rival school of

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FSU so there's a big football game but not not football like you know American

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football every year between FSU which is this school and UF where I went and it's

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it's a huge game it's like Madrid versus Barcelona here it's a big deal so this

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is a picture of the school and then this is the mascot of the school it's we call

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them the Seminoles because back before the Americans lived in Florida it was

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the home of the Seminole Indian tribe yes and this is FSU is very famous for

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its football team. Here are some pictures. This is the stadium in Tallahassee. It's very big.

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And I have a video of the opening of one of the games. So one of the famous things

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that FSU does for football. So they have somebody dress up as the mascot. His name is Chief Osceola

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and he has a horse named Renegade and they do something called the planting of the spear.

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So I'll show you. Yes, in the football field. And this is the chant. Each football team has

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its own chant and this is FSU's. So I'll skip ahead a little bit.

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and you can see all the people are doing the football chant

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there's the band there's the cheerleaders okay right here oh yeah all of the all of this team's

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games yes at home when when it's a home game yeah yes so it's very famous

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Is he a real Indian?

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I think so, yes.

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It's better than Alabama, I think, no?

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Yeah.

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It's better.

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Yes.

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Yeah, definitely at least.

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It's like Real Madrid, no?

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Very, very famous.

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Yes.

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Yeah, Alabama.

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And another cool thing about Tallahassee is that we have an old Spanish mission.

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so the the first people who came to florida were from spain so spain settled florida and then

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after the united states became a country they bought slash fought for the land from spain

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but before the americans were there the spanish were there and so where i live there is an old

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Spanish mission. It's not the buildings that were there in the 1700s because they were very old and

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they fell down but these this is meant to be what it would have looked like. So this is the church

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so this would have been the church that the missionaries worshipped at and this here is

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a house that the Native Americans would have had their gatherings in and it doesn't have a roof

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but there's a big fire inside so when it rained the fire was so big that it burned up all the rain

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mm-hmm but it's it's huge it's really big

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and that's all I have about Tallahassee today thank you for listening