1st July: Translate the first few sentences of your favourite book
A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning) by Lemony Snicket
“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Sunny and Klaus were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.”
In Spanish:
Si estás interesado en historias con finales felices, estarías mejor leyendo otro libro. En este libro, no solamente hay ningún final feliz, no hay feliz comienzo y muy pocas cosas felices en el medio. Eso es porque no eran muchas cosas felices en las vidas de los tres niños Baudelaire. Violet, Sunny y Klaus eran niños inteligentes, y eran encantadoros y inventivos, y tenían la físonomia agradable, pero eran extremadamente desafortunado, y la mayoría de lo qué pasó a ellos era llena de desgracia, miseria y desesperación. Lo siento de te contarlo, pero eso es como va la historia.