My new blog

http://aura-loveclassicrock.blogspot.com/

Final reflection

In my blog I can see that I'm much better in grammar and I know more vocabulary. For exemple I learned how to do a good sentence and my writtings are much better than at first and It's because I know more vocabulary.

I think that the activity which show better my level is the writting or maybe my exams, but more the writtings because I can't think and writte in english more easy, but my oral level is poor.

In my opinion the Oral presentation was so dificult but my oral english know is a little bit better because I practised how pronounce the words for not say it wrong.

I think that the english book is not important for improve your english because a lot of things that I did was not important to me because I learned to do the activities in the class, for improve your english the other activities are better.

Well, do this blog was dificult because I had another things to do but I thing that the next year I would to do it again.

Informal letter

C/ d'Empuries

Snt. Martí d'Empúries

Girona

7 June 2011

Dear Meriem,

Is everithing OK? I'm missing you so much!. My grandparents are amaized with my brother, they spend a lot of time playing with him and he's so happy for the attention.

All of us spent the time at the beach. It is really relaxing here, Snt. Martí d'Epúries is so good! we go to the beach in the morning when there are no people and we can play a lot, the water is good, the sea is blue and there are a  few fishes around.

In the evening we come back again to the beach only a few hours. In beetwen we can only stay at home or go shopping to the stores around. 

In the morning we come back again to the beach only a few hours. In beetwen we can only stay at home or go shopping to the stores around. The streets are narrow but it's ok and the stores have a lot of things that I want to buy but I can't! (I bought something for you! It's a surprise, so you can't ask what it is!).

I'm going to writte to you more frequently. I promise you!.

Take care!
With Love
Aura Julieth

Podcast

Transcription

Jamie: (Speaking on the phone) Yes, yes, great party, wasn't it? ( Sound of doorbell) Listen, Polly, I've to go. There's someone at the door. Come here this evening? Yeah, Why not? I haven't got any plans. Ok, see you later. Bye, Polly. Bye (Sound of doorbell again). OK. OK. I'm coming! (Opens door) Oh, hi, Tania. How are the things? I wasn't....I wasn't expecting you.

Tania: Well, aren't you going to invite me in?

Jamie: I.....Yes, of course. Come in. (He sits in front of the TV looking worried)

Tania: Jamie, can you turn that thing off?

Jamie: Hang on a second, can I just watch this?

Tania: No, you can't. Jamie, I need to speak to you. This is important.

Jamie: I'm listening, i'm listening.

Tania: You aren't. You never listen. (Turns off the TV).

Jamie: Why did you do that?

Tania: Jamie, it's over.

Jamie: What do you mean? What's over?

Tania: I mean You and me. Us. It's over.

Jamie: Oh, come on, Tania. Let's not start thet again.

Tania: A friend told me you were out on Friday night. Is that true?

Jamie: Someone invited me to a partu, OK?

Tania: OK for you, maybe, but you didn't want to ask me, did you?

Jamie: Idid. It isn't that simple.

Tania: Well, my friend was there and she said that things were very simple for you. (Doorbell rings again.

Jamie: Hang on a second, Tania. I'm sure we can sort this out. (Jamie opens door. Polly is there smiling.) Polly. How did you....?

Polly: I was just around the corner when I called you, so I thought..... (Polly sees Tania.) Oh, sorry, I dind't realize...

Jamie: (Jamie sees Tania and then turns to Polly) Oh, don’t worry, can you go up to my room? In a moment I go.

Tania: (Who was listening) No!, you gone with her to the party last Friday and now you say her to go to your room? And I?

Jamie: (seeing Tania) Well, we only have to talk one moment and....

Tania: Oh, I understant, you want to talk with me quickly for go with this...(pointing Polly and turning red for anger) girl...

Jamie: Don’t be angry for one thing like this, I only said to her to wait me for talk with you. (seeing Polly) Please, Polly go to my room and wait a moment for me. (Polly go to his room)

Tania: Oh, so you are saying that you want to talk to me first and then, you want me to go? I don’t understand!

Jamie: well, what do you want to do later? And... I’ve arranged to meet her today and I can’t say to her to get away now.

Tania: Well, if you prefer to stay with her, our relationship is over, goodbye!

Jamie: But...

Tania: (Opening the door) I don’t want to listen to you! ( close the door so angry)

Polly: (So worried, Polly downstairs slowly) Jamie...

Jamie: (sees Polly) don’t worry, it doesn’t matter.

Polly: Whatever, i’m sorry.

Jamie: Don’t think more about it. (Polly and Jamie upstairs and go to Jame’s room and star to play with the play station but few minutes later, Jamie sees on picture of Tania and stars to cry)

Polly: I’m sorry...(goes to hug Jamie)

A few minutes later Jamie stoped to cry... Polly and Jamie looked each other at the eyes and then, so slowly, they kissed.

 

NADA ( Book review)

Book written by Janne Teller.

Sinopsis:

Anton Pierre leaves the school the day he discovers that life is meaningless. He raised up a plum tree and recites aloud the reasons that nothing matters in life. Demoralizes his classmates who decide pile up objects essential for them to show that there are things that give meaning to who we are. In their search will risk a part of themselves and will discover that only after lose the stack of meaning, is that the stack of meaning is important. But it may be too late. 

I like so much this book! Is striking because this kids do a lot of things that are so wrong. They are very extremist!

I remember the book that I read last year, the road, is like this, things that are so striking and show the way we are in situations that are out of our control.

Is the type of book that you can't stop to reading because you want to know what they will do later.. maybe for people that don't like dark things and all have to be happy won't like this book.

Rugrats

Today I saw Rugrats, a TV serie that I didn't see since I was little and I remembered why I always saw them! It's so funny and, then, searching by internet, I found an article where says that there are a new chapters where the babys are older.

These days I'm searching and remembering series that I saw when I was little to see them again. I'm also listening old music that I was listening when I was little. But... I can't remember very well titles of series and groups of music!

Well I hope find all these older songs and videos (series or films) for see them again.

The woman in white (book review)

The woman in white is a novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859 and published in 1860. 

Synopsis:

The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland and talk with Walter Hartright that thanks to Professor Pesca will work like drawing teacher in Limmeridge House where will meet with Laura Fairlie and will fell in love with she and meet with Marian Halcombe, Laura's half-sister.

Laura have to marry with Sir Percival Glyde and her marriage life isn't good. Marian have to help she when she can and she maintains de contact with Walter. Sir Percival Glyde marries with Laura only for her money, but Anne Catherick is the way to know the secret of Sir Percival and separated him from Laura.

Opinion: 

I like this book because have a lot of  mystery and the end is not like you imagine. Is a book wich if don't put atention you will be lost and won't understand nothing.

I read this book in english so was a little bit difficult but I understood all and I liked it.

Now I hear that there is a film about this book and I will see it this summer if I find it.

Oral presentation

Transcription of presentation

Hello everybody, we are Aura and Meriem and we going to talk about genere violence.

First of all I going to tell you the definition of genere violence because it can be confused with the domestic violence but is totally different.

The genere violence are all act by wich the woman is discrimated, ignored and subordinated in the diferents aspects of her existence. It's all material and symbolic attack that affects their freedom, dignity, security, intimity and moral or physical integrity.

Now Meriem goes to tell you about the tipes of genere violence.

The tipes of violence. 

There are two tipes of violence; the physical violence and the psychology violence. 

The physical violence is one type of violence that can be objectively perceived by others. The victims that suffered this violence have external marks. This external marks are caused by hand, any object or a weapon.

This violence is more visible.

The psycology violence appears when the prepretrator control psycology and abuse it. The psycology violence include the threts, insults, humilliation and content for the woman persives. In this category there are two types of psycology violence: the economic violence and the social violence.


The economy violence the prepeter control any money for the victim and the social violence the prepeter control any contacts for the victim.


And now Aura talk the cicle of violence.

Well, the cicle begins with the first phase of the voltage buildup in which the victim perceives clearly how the offender is becoming more susceptible, agresive and find sources of conflict all the time. The second phase involves the outbreak of the voltage wich finaly explodes violence leading to agrassion. The thirt phase called honeymoon or repentence the agressor try to show his repentence by gifts and excuses and all the time is showing his repentence. That can explain because the woman continues with the relationship, because the offender maintains the ilusion of change all the time. 

Well, this repence will becoming more shorter and eventually it dissapear.

The treatmen

Some of the most important common and basic treatmen for the gender violence are the information of gender violence, reduction of activation and anxiety and promotion of autonomy and finally Aura goes to tell you about the prevention of gender violence.

Well, for prevent the agression and stop the violence the woman have to detect the tempering of the man, unsolicited aproaches, wary of promises that make no sense at a time of relationship and she has to be clear to say 'no' to something. In addition she have to value her ideas about love and the couple, the role of woman in the relationship, what they should to resign for love... etc.

Summary:

Topic & Person	Things I have learned	General impression
Acoustic pollution // Clara/Quim	1990: Spain was the country with most pollution	Clara didn't read and had good pronuntation. Quim read and his protuntation was regular.
Hungry // Africa	Probrety: 6 billions of people suffering of probrety	She not had power point but her presentation was so good.
All about the pollution // Manel	-------	It was good, his pronuntation and his powerpoint.
Child Soldiers // Aleix/Juan Carlos	the soldier child have to take out  the eyes, tall feats...	It was good, but Aleix was a little bit better.
Teenegers // Natàlia	-------	All was good.
Drugs // Dominik	Spain: 50000 people die in a year because of the tabacco.	It was good and now he don't say 'yes' all the time.
The world // Sebas	-------	I that this was the best presentation, it was fast and all what he said was so clearly.

Self-evaluation

Last term I said that in this presentation would be better, but ins't it because I didn't have time to prepare it and my grammar expresion was not good because I was nervious and I was nervious because I didn't prepare it well before. I have to improve my pronutation bacause is bad. I dind't stop to moving! Well, if the last presentation was a disaster, this was worse.

Why men hate homework

I read one article, from today I love english magazine, wich said that the reason why men hate house work is for a chemical called oxytocin - a substance that increases the desire for bonding - than women do. Men also secrete more of the calming chemical serotonin.

The theory is set out in a new book called what could He be thinking? How a man's mind really works. In the book, social scientist Michel Gurian suggest that these chemicals also explain why men dislike emotional conversations.

I disagree with this theory because I think that is not that they don't like homework is that they don't want to help just for don't do it. In my opinion they don't have to avoid household chores with this type of excuses.

Of course I think that is in general that men don't want to do housework because there is a minority who help to do it.

We are almost learnt to respect our world?

There is a lot of pollution today in the world and the enviroment is changing day by day. The most worrying is the global warming because a lot of species can disappear and the high temperatures can be higher and will arrive a moment that life in the world will be impossible.

I don't agree with the statement that we have almost learnt to respect our world because we haven't . We know that the world is changing but we can't do any important thing to change the situation; the people who can help to change are the owners of factories and they don't do it.

Today the people don't think about anything except themselves, we live in a consumer society and we can't live without all things we have like cars, fast food, clothes...

The chemists have invented ecology things, yes, but it isn't enought to change and stop the pollution. We have to do something more important with a big impact and also we can begin little action like recycling.

The comic-manga festival

On 16th of April I went to Barcelona by train with my friends, Meriem and Laila, to go to the 29 festival of comic-manga exhibition wich was infront of the 'plaça espanya'.

It was the first time that I went so I was so excited. When we arrived there, we bought the tickets and went inside. When we were inside we saw a big salon with a lot of things related to the comic, manga and Asian world like food and groups of music from Japan and Korea.

We were there all day except when we went to lunch and the final of day we met with Paula, Sergi (Paula's brother), her father and Kevin. I didn't buy all things I wanted to buy I had not enought money.

My friend's father brought us home by car. The way was short because we fell asleep all the way back.

I will go next year, I'm sure, and this year I'm waiting to go to the manga festival!

Sad story

One young men  was sitting on the green boil in the park trying to forget the desire to fight with 'new' boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend. Why she did it? why she lied him? supposedly they would marry, so why?

After thinking about this things he went to his house so slowly. But he could not sleep and put the DVD where he had recorded the day of their third anniversary, like other days with she, these day was fantastic, but now seeing how much he was happy with she the pain is bigger.

Next day at morning when He was going to his work, He saw the the bastard that took his fiancee and He could not keep the desire to fight and blow off steam.

Three weeks later his forgotten friends, who apparently wanted to be more with his ex-fiancee than with him, called him and wich they said left his mind in white.

He ran as fast as He could to the hospital and when He arrived the 'boyfriend' of his ex-fiancee stops him in the deserted corridor and gave him the ring He had given his girlfriend for their commitment saying: ''I'm sorry I lied, She really loves you''. When He arrived at the hallway leading to the operating room and saw his friends He understood everything.

After waiting four hours, with all his pain, with a brokenheart, doctors carried on a stretcher his loving fiancee, which was dead. He went slowly to She and, crying, He could not do more than scream for such misfortune and kiss her one last time.

 

The seeker

One day a seeker felt he had to go to the town of Kammir.

He had learned to follow those feelings coming from an unknown location itself, so He dropped everything and left. After two days of walking the dusty roads to kammir, He saw the town in the distance. 

Just before reaching the village, a hill to the right of the trail was so striking for him. Was covered in a wonderful green and had a lot of trees, birds and beautiful flowers. The completely surrounding a kind of small polished wooden fence ... A bronze door inviting him to enter.
Suddenly he felt that he forgot the town and succumbed to the temptation to rest for a moment there.

He started walking slowly among the white stones that were distributed as at random from among the trees.
He saw all with his eyes very open, so He discovered on one of the stones, One registration ... "Abdeul Tare, lived 8 years, 6 months, 2 weeks and 3 days." He was a bit startled to realize that this stone was not merely a rock. It was a tombstone, was sorry to think that a child so young was buried there ...

Looking around, the man realized that the stone next door, also had an inscription saying "Llamar Kalib, lived 5 years, 8 months and 3 weeks." The seeker felt a terrible shock.
This beautiful place was a cemetery and every stone a tombstone. All tombstones were similar: a name and the exact lifetime of the deceased, but it contacted the horror, was to prove that the longest lived, barely exceeded 11 years.

With a terrible pain, he sat down and began to cry. The caretaker of the cemetery saw him for a while in silence and then asked him if he cried for a family member.

- There is no family - said the seeker - What's with this town?, What terrible thing is in this town? Why so many dead children buried in this place? What is the horrible curse on these people, which has forced them to build a cemetery for kids?

The old man smiled and said, "Can you calm down, there isn't such a curse, what happens is that here is an old habit. He said: when a child turns 15, their parents give him a book such as this that I have here, hanging from the neck, and a tradition among us who, from there, every time you enjoy something intensely, open book and write on it: on the left that was enjoyed so ... right, how long you enjoy it.

"He met his girlfriend and fell in love with her? How long was this huge passion and pleasure to meet her? ... A week?, Two?, "Three weeks and a half? ... And then ... the excitement of the first kiss, how long did it take?," The minute and a half of a kiss ?, "Two days?," A week? ... what about the pregnancy or birth of first child? ... what about the wedding of friends ...?, what the most desired travel ...?, what about the meeting with brother who returns from a distant country ...? How long you was happy of these situations? ... hours?, "days? ...

So we write in the book the time we enjoy these moments, when someone dies, it is our custom to open the book and add the time of the enjoyed, to write on his grave. Because that is, for us, the only real time we lived.

This story is not mine but I love it, I don't know who is the autor but this story is so good! the first time I read the story was fantastic and now too. I was searching this story for a long time because I forgot the name of story. But I remembered it a few days ago and I searched it. I had make changes in the story because it is a translation, it isn't in english, so to give meaning to story I had make changes. I hope you like it, the story is  wonderful and make you think about your life and how happy you are.

Dead of Osama Bin Laden (News)

 

On Sunday 1 of may, at night, President Barak Obama annunced the dead of Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda in a televised address to the nation. His death was the result of a U.S. intelligence operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan. “Tonight I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden”, “Justice has been done,” Obama said basically for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

 I think they just killed Osama Bin Laden to revenge the attack on Sep. 11 of 2001 because they didn't judge him in an international court for all his attacks. I think that it's not justice. Of course I'm not defending Osama but the actions of  US isn't good. But, well... they did it and now the world is a little bit better without him, but Al Qaeda won't stop.

The royal wedding (News)

Friday 29 of April was the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Like other royal weddings this wedding was so big with a lot of people around seeing the event of the century ( It is what the Britains say).

The wedding stars at 9 AM and all the day was a celebration for a lot of britains. (you can see at the picture)


 

In my opinion this weddings are so beautiful, yes, but are expensive too. With all these important guests, the celebration have to be perfect.

In times of crisis, events like that, have to wait. But well the people is happy and they don't think about money on these days when all the world is seeing this big celebration. There are people who thinks like me, that is expensive, but, of course, is only a minority.

Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan (News)

 

On March 11, Japan was shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 8, 9. After the earthquake generated a tsunami alert for the Pacific coast of Japan, Australia, Russia, Philippines, Hawaii, United States, Central America and some South American countries among others.

The warning issued by Japan, announced it expected a tsunami 10 meters high. A wave of 4 meters high struck the Iwate Prefecture in Japan, while a wave of 10 meters high, flooded the airport in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, sweeping cars and buildings as they moved onto the land.

To compound the situation the central Fukushima has been in very poor condition and could cause harm to people by the large amount of radioactivity

It is expected that there are more than 25,000 dead and missing.

In my opinion is that this is a tragedy that those who can should help the country recover faster. The wrong of this situation, which for more than a century that did not happen, is that it can happen again. I'm sorry for all these people.

50 First Dates (film review)

 

Sinopsis of the film

Henry (Sandler) lives an enviable life in a Hawaiian paradise, spending every night with a beautiful tourist in search of an island fling. It's a sweet life with no strings attached...until he meets Lucy (Barrymore). He and Lucy hit it off from the get-go, but the next day she acts like she doesn't know him. Has his karma come around to kick him in the butt or what? Actually, Lucy has short-term memory loss so every night all memory of her day is erased. But a man in love will go to any lengths to win over the girl of his dreams, and if that means having to find imaginative ways of doing it over again every day, then Henry's up for the challenge.

http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/50firstdates/title-navigation-4.html

Personal opinion

Days ago I asked to my friend for his favorite film and a few minutes later he told me that 50 first dates was a film good for him, then, I watched the film and, not is good, this film is exelent!!.

I loved this film, first I thought that in the end, like in the others romantic comedies, the end would be very happy, but no! the end for me is between happy and sad!. The end like this  makes the beautiful.

The film is funny too, and I liked so much when the boy tries to make the girl loves him. I think that the people who thinks that all the comedies are funny has to go to see this film.

The woman (news)

40 years ago only the 27% of the spanish woman were working. Now more of the 55% of spanish woman are working.

In these years, when the woman only could stay in their house caring their children, they had no the same rights that the men. For exemple, the woman could not open a bank account or have a driving license without the permission of their husband or father.

There were women who not wanted to live that way and began to fight for equality between men and women. For exemple, Amalia Rol who was , in 1972, the first police woman or Sagrario Aguardo who was the Champion of Spain's high jump, she had to fight with a society that considered unfeminine women who practiced sports.

 

Today the difference between women and men in front the rights or duties are minor but we, the women, have a long way for get the total equality between us.

Podcast

Meriem is a great friend of mine. She is 1,65 metres tall, brown eyes and she's got long wavy black hair. She's got a friendly face and she doesn't care a lot about her apparence and is for this that sometimes her clothes don't match.

She's a person who can stress you easily because she's really persistent, she always wants to be right and you have to tell her a good argumentation if you want to convice her.

Sometimes she can be a bit bossy, but i don't care about it. She says the things that she thinks straight away, i like this sometimes, but other times she can get in problems. I like that she doesn't have two faces and you can trust her.

She loves all about manga and anime. She loves corean groups of singers and her platonic love is Kim jaejoong, a corean singer who belongs to the group DBSK, her favorite group.

Fairytail

He is running, running, and running. He is seeing and listening her voice in his mind again and again: her songs with her sweet voice, her 'I love you' that always is saying with her happy face and her bright eyes and fill of love, her slower moves through these trees in these woodland, like dancing a soft song....And he is running through the empty streets trying to forget all these happy moments that torment his mind, moments that make his tears go out by his eyes without stop, and he tries but he can't make it stop.

In what moment he had become a monster? he has not heart? he has not salvation for his soul? he doesn't know it.

He arrives to his house, the house where he lived the most happy moments in his life, an old life that he never would live again. He opens the door and through the corridor looking around with his heart bating like crazy with his eyes much open and a rapid breathe for run. He tries to calm down before open the door, when he can do it, he opens the door slowly for not to wake his little daughter. She is lying on her bed, smiling because her dreams are happy.

He really wants kill that little life that is pure and innocent?, but why she has to live? she may be will become a person as her father, able to killing?. He stumbles with the nightstand and makes noisy. His little and sweet daughter wakes up, and half asleep, with a big smile on her face and her sweet voice, she says: 'hello daddy can't you sleep? want you sleep on my side? with me?'

He really is a monster, a big monster in a city fill of monsters. What he has to do now? he just can lie down on the middle of his bedroom, on the floor, and use his gun for a third time to end this nightmare. was better not to be for see how humanity will became people without heart, able to kill anything to eat, including humans, even the most innocent and pure life as his beloved daughter.

May be in another site, wherever her love and her daughter were, he will find them.

The speed limit on freeways and highways is 110 km / h. (news)

The government move to save energy by the uncertainty of the political crisis in the Arab world.

After the reunion Council of Ministers, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba has reported that the highway speed limit be reduced from 120 kilometres/hour to 110 kilometres/hour, this new law will be since of March 7 in order to reduce the cost of petrol and diesel.

With the reduction, from 120 to 110 kilometers per hour on motorways, the government plans to reduce spending by 15% to 11% petrol and diesel.

In a country so dependent on oil, as Spain, the government has to take action depending the countries that are in cirisis and export Oil, because, if the country who export Oil is in crisis, the price of the Oil is higher.

I don't think that is precisely the solution of the problem. With These measures  the traffic will increase ( now there are a lot).They say that the cost of gasoline will be reduced but I think that, as slower we will go, we will spend more gasoline and money.

Another reason for not approve this new law is the change of all the Signals in Spain.
They will would to spend a lot of money in this when there are lot of things that are more important to change in this country.

Concert by Bon Jovi

Since the last summer I like so much Bon Jovi - I didn't listened them before - and now is one of my favorites bands like simple plan or FT Island or DBSK (from Corea). They are wonderful and all their songs are so good. My favorites songs are 'I am', 'What do you got?' and another is 'We weren't born to follow' their lyrics are so good and the music is fantastic.

Now I'm wating for their concert that will be on 27 of jule of this year, Natàlia V. and Natàlia S. bought the tickets but, of couse, we gave them the money before.

I will go with Natàlia Varela, Natàlia Sellés, Pau, and Victor. First, we will go to take the train in figueres to Barcelona and, then, we will meet with Victor when we will arrive there (he lives in Barcelona) and we will go to Stadio Olimpic of Montjüic by taxi, because yonder will be the concert.

I'm so happy, I never have been before at one concert like this and I like that the first concert that I will go is by Bon Jovi!. I'm so happy!.

Music from Corea and Japan

I like listen music from Corea and Japan. Normally the songs are talking about love (I say normally for no say always! XD) and I like this so much because I had listen songs about all and a lot of them don't have sense (from other parts of the world like france, EUA or Spain)

The groups that I listen from Corea are groups of corean pop that is similar to occidental pop but is not the same, they sing in Japanese too!; from Japan I like listen groups of pop, but I like more groups of rock and normally I only listen the songs that I like.

If I like a group it does not mean that I like all their songs. I can't choose only one song like my favorite song because there are a lot of songs that I like so much.

In the future I want to go to one concert of them; some of singers and groups from Japan come here for make concerts but if I go I have to go alone and I do not want to do it, and, always, they make their concerts in Barcelona and I can not go.

Exemples of thegroups or artists that I like:
 

From Japan I listen: X-japan, Gackt, Girugamesh, The gazette, News, Arashi, KAT-TUN, Utada Hikaru, Ai Otsuaka...


From Corea: DBSK, Girls generation, Kara, Super Junior, Shinee, G-Dragon (belongs to the group Big Bang), CNBlue, FT Island, Younha...

DS, Wii, And PC

When I don't have anything to do or my brother isn't in the house - when he is next to me I can't play beacuse he always is saying 'why you do it?, why....? why.....?' and, seriouly, I can't play!- I play a lot with the wii, the DS, and the PC.

On the nintendo wii I like play with the new game of Mario Bross - That game was a present for my brother on his birthday -, on  the DS I don't have one game in particular that I like to play, I like all of them, and on the PC I like to play the game the Sims 3 that was a present by my mother by christmas, at first I didn't know how to play and make one house was so dificult but now is easy and more if I have a lot of money! (I use the game tricks XD).

I want to buy a lot of games for Nintendo Wii, DS and PC and buy the new DS and give the DS that I have now to my brother, but I can't because I don't have money for do it. In the future I want to buy a lot of games and for my birthday I want games!, so I go to say this to my parents.

Book club

Since I was on 4th of ESO I'm in the book club. In this club, that is organizated by Mario and Isabel, the spanish teachers , we talk about one book that they given to us for read. We talk about the things that are important about the book, we answer questions about what you don't understand, we say what we liked or not about the book etc.


In this club the last year I read 'La mecánica del corazón' by Malzieu Mathias, another book that now I can't remember the name and 'The road' by Cormac McCarthy, seriously, I love this book, a lot of people don't liked this book (in the club), but to my is one of the best books that I have read. This year I read 'Las hijas de Tara' by Laura Gallego García and now I'm reading 'La evolución de Calpurnia Tate' by Jacqueline Kelly and I like the part that I have read. We met for talk about this book but I had not finished yet so I'm still reading. For the next session I have to read 'Como agua para chocolate' by Laura Esquivel, I read the sinopsis and I don't have hurry to read it.

The Aquarium of Barcelona

On Wednesday 2 of March of 2011 I went to the Aquarium of Barcelona with my mother and my brother, my father couldn't go because he was working.

First we took the train to Barcelona Passeig de Gracia and then we went to the consulate of Colombia.

After, we took a taxi that led us to the Aquarium, but we were so hungry and we decided to eat in the McDonal's that was there. 

Then, we went to buy the ticket for enter and, because it was early, there were not a lot of people and it was good. When you enter they take a photo that you can buy when you go out.  In there all is fantastic, there are a lot of  species of fish!, all in the aquarium is so interesting and I saw a lot of fish that I never had seen before! My brother was very very happy! and we too of course. I took a lot of photos but without flash ( I didn't like the people who took pothos with flash because it isn't good for the fish) and I filmed a lot!

The most that I like was the sharks and penguins and we could saw how they fed them!. 

My mum bought one penguin, one ball and one glass to my brother, to me, she bought one snake  (she didn't like my decision because she hates the snakes) and one glass, and for herself she bought one thing that holds the photos. 

In the future I hope to go again because I liked it so much, and the next time I hope that all us can go together and, maybe, go with my friends one day.

Avatar ( film review )

Sinopsis of the film Avatar

Jake Sully, a former Marine in a wheelchair, is recruited to travel to Pandora, where the humans extracted a rare mineral that will be the key to solve the energy crisis on Earth. Cause Pandora's atmosphere is toxic, they have created the Avatar program, which "leads" humans have their minds together to an avatar, a biological body controlled remotely that can survive in the deadly air. These avatars have been genetically engineered as a hybrid combining human DNA with DNA from the native beings of Pandora, the Na'vi.

In his avatar form, Jake can walk again and infiltrate in the Na'vi 's clan, which have become a major obstacle to extract the precious mineral. But Na'vi Neytiri, saves the life of Jake, and this changes everything. Jake is accepted by his clan, and prepared to become one of them. As the relationship evolves with Neytiri, he learn to respect the way of being of Na'vis and he takes his place between them. But Jake has to decide to fight for Pandora or not.

Personal opinion

I love this film, all the special effects are wonderful and the Pandora's world is 'magic' all these nature and the pure soul of the Na'vi is so beautiful. This is what happens there in the Earth. We are destroying all this nature, and a lot of animals are dying day by day. Now they have descovered another world like the Earth, but I think that we don't have to search another worlds and another lifes if we, may be, in the future, we going to destroy them.

A raccoon rips a penis man who tried to rape him (news)

In Moscou, Alexander Kirilov, a Russian who is 44 years old, was spending the weekend with his friends, got drunk and thought it would be fun penetrate a raccoon.

The animal, scared, jumped on the man and  bite him on the penis.

I found this news when I was seeing the news on internet. I was very surprised to find this news because...the man is crazy? when penetrate a raccoon can be fun? seriously, poor animal.

I know, there are a lot of people who say and do stupid things but it is the first time that I am really surprise and I can be a bit cruel but I think that the raccoon was right to bite :S

Oral presentation

Transcription of the things that I said in the oral presentation.

-Well, Hello everybody, we are Meriem and Aura and we going to talk about Japan, but Japan is so bigger and we only going to talk about gastronomy, tradicions and festivals, and clothing.

-There are the tradicional dress for woman: the kimono, is using in festivals, there are the yukata that is only uing in because is more ligther and...well, is beautiful. Then there are the Jûnihitoe that is used on, is similar to the kimono, but is used only by nobles.

-Well, then are the tracicional dres for men: there are the Hakama that are a treasure special for ridding for protect the legs and there are the yukata is like a kimono but for men but only used on summer and then the hanbok is used by nobles.

-The most important festival are...is the shogatsu festival that is the japanese new year. All the family go to the imperial palace where the empiror say rituals for pray for they, for all the people.

-The hinamatsuri is a fetival where the parents pray for their daughters and they were kimonos these day and went to the house to their friends for eat tradicional food and things like that.

-Now we going to talk about gastronomy. Well, the japanese gastronomy has a long history and is clasificated in three foods: the shuzoku, okazu and wagashi.

-The okazu are the company of food they company agemono, fried food like tempura; yakimono, food fried or grilled bread, for example okonomiyaki.

Self - evaluation

Well, the things that I say not all are ok, and I have problems when I forget what I have to say thanks to my nervious. The presentation was long and I liked do it with Meriem for this. Another problem is that I can't see the public and I can't see the camera, I prefer forget the camera

summary

Topic & Person	Things I have learned	General impression
United States of America / Manel Cansado	America have an extention Est -west of 4000 km and 2000 km of North-South.	bad
UK / Dominik block	They never forget their teatime All the people go fast Famous musician: Elton John	Better than Manel but he always says 'yes'
Australia / Ariadna Montoriol and Diana Mora	Australia have people from all the world	They read and the pronunciatio is not good
Canada / Rodrigo	Ottawa is th ecapital of Canada	The power point is ok but he reads.
United States of America / Juan Carlos Martínez and Paul Mcann	It was gounded by thirteen British Colonies	They read all the presentation and their pronuntation is bad.
Scotland / Clara Vargas and Quim Gironell	The colur of the kilt depends to the family	Good pronunciation
New Zeland / Natàlia Varela and Africa Santelíz	New Zeeland is a constitutional monarch	They invent words.

Story

Always escaping, going from one side to another, If I have family why I'm not with them?, I can not, they would kill me. Since years ago I do not see my friends, and I sincerely hope not do it. You will ask because my own parents would kill me, right?. 

I always knew they were engaged, but prefered to avoid the truth, I never got into his affairs and had no problems, they never invited me to join them and I appreciated this, they treated me with affection and love.

When I was seventeen years they said to go to vacation. We went to a big house, bright and nicely decorated, my parents said they had some unfinished business, and I will should help them to go faster.

Do not want to, wanted to run out of that hell, but my body did not respond, did not want to kill this defenseless girl looked at me with fear! Did not want that life! Not want to be a hired murderer!. My mother put the gun in his hand to kill the girl that was so scared, I could only hear the cry of the small girl and the cries of the parents who watched that scene, the thick ropes that were around his wrists and ankles were not allowed to move. My body was shaking, could not see properly for the tears that filled my eyes, the hand holding the gun was moving from side to side, heard the cries, the cries, the cries of a family and my parents told me to kill her. My mother was beside me. He took the hand that held the pistol fired and the girl. My world went black. I was in shock. Everything had changed so quickly, and I felt so miserable. I reacted when I heard two shots, the laughter of my parents and the sounding of the siren of police cars showed that they came to meet us, my mother took my hand and pulled me out of the house, but before getting into the car I ran straight to the police station, I do not care if they locked me. 

After all this happened, half a year after they escaped from prison and are now wanted by the authorities, while they look at me me. I've been close a few times, and do not know if it's lucky or not, but I always can sccape from them, from my parents.

UAB

The 10 of febrary of 2011 first and second of batxillerat went to the day of open doors at the university of Barcelona (UAB).

I'm interested in the studies of law or something like this and the day of open doors at the university I went with one friend to the explication of the studies of administration of companies and law and now I'm interested into the two careers and I have decided to go to the UAB because there you can do the two careers in 5 years more or less in another university.

Now I'm thinking if I wnat to take the classes in Spanish or Catalan but I'm thinking to take the classes in spanish beacuse if I take the classes in catalan a lot of concepts can be named diferent and I don't know if in the future I go to be here in Catalonia and not in other country, so if I know concepts in one lenguage that is more extended in another countries can be better.

The other problem if  go to study in Barcelona is the transport. I don't want to be day to day waking up at 5 or before to take the train - I like sleep! - but I can't pay the studients residency because is so expensive and I have to pay the classes at the university too so I don't know what to do.