HORSE

The horse is my favourite animal. I love horses, because they are very fast and beautiful animals. Horses usually live in farms or in free spaces. They are mammals. There are horses of a lot of colours: brown, black, white, white and dark brown...and so on, and there are horses of different races too.The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Horses have got one peculiar characteristic : they are able to sleep both standing up ans lying down. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years. The horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavywork; and "warmbloods", developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particulary in Europe. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, developed for many different uses. Horses are herbivores, they  usually eat grass, they are adapted to grazing. In an adult horse, there are 12 incisors at the front of the mouth, adapted to biting off the grass or the vegetation. Horses and humans interact in a wide variety of sport competitions and non-competitive recreational pursuits, as well as in working activities such as police work, agriculture, entertainment, and therapy. Horses were historically used in warfare, for riding and driving people, using many different styles of equipment and methods of control. Many products are derieved from horses, incluiding meat, hide, hair, bone, and pharmaceuticals extracted from the urine of pregnant mares. Humans provide domesticated horses with food, water and shelter, as well as attention from specialists such as veterinarians and farries. That is why I love horses.

Hello, my name is Garazi and I´m 12 years old. I have got dark and curly hair and green eyes, and I´m a very active and playfull person. I live in a  small town located in the north of the Basque Country, it´s called Zarautz. Zarautz is a very beautiful and quiet town, it has got a big beach and a lot of high mountains to go walking. I have one tween sister and her name is Adriana, she´s very active and friendly too. We go to Lizardi, one of the secondary schools of our town, there is more than one secondary school here . Now, i haven´t got any pets, but I had a little white cat, a lot of grey hamsters  and three lovely rabits. I also love animals, but my favourite animal is the horse, because it is very fast and beautiful.  I really like sports: football, basketball, tennis..., but  my favourite sport is handball. I play in a handball team in Zarautz, it´s called Aiala D. I like traveling too, because when I travel, I see a lot of different cultures and countries, and also other ways of living.  I travel to a lot of different countries: England, Portugal, Denmark, Turquy, France...and so on. I am very into art too, I love art and painting, and when I´m older, I want to be an artist and I also want to visit other places of the world.