FINAL REFLECTION, looking back

1.  Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s?  Where, for example?

Last year I think I just have done one or two oral presentations in English, this year I practiced more my oral English.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English? 

I think these are watching films,  the class songs, the three reading books and the oral exams.

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why? 

News and the vocabulary extension dossier were so useful to improve my English. News because I search for interesting things to talk about in Spanish, so I have to translate them to English and sometimes I have to look for the words in English because I don't know how to write them so I can learn new vocabulary. And the vocabulary extension because there was different topics where you can practise and like this you learn a lot.

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not? 

Composition writing in class for me haven't been useful. I didn't learned anything but it helps me for practise.

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English? 

Blog yours-says and news, listening and evaluating to other presentations, Grammar and vocabulary and Skills exams, oral exams and reading books.

The oral presentations makes me so nervous but at least I learn more more about different topics and I practise my oral English, so I like to do it. Watching videos in class, for people that are used to watch things in English or have a good level it's a good activity, but for the others that can't understand it easily I think it's bored.

Extra my-say, "What makes me happy?"

I have listened at least 5 times the question "What makes you happy?" and I had always said one thing: people that I love like family or friends. So in this my-say I wanted to specify my hapiness.
Before all my family, to be with them, to sleep in my grandmother's house with my cousins and watch films, the summer, swimming relaxed, spend time with my friends and to enjoy the moment, go around the beach and to relax observing the pretty ones views that are there, travel fascinates me, my best friend and their nonsense that make me laugh, photography despite not having a good camera, singing, watching series and staying with the intrigue in each chapter, riding a motorcycle even if I don't do it often, climb on a swing as if it were the first time, look at my photos as a child and try to remember the moments, it makes me very happy to have constant memories in my head of the best moments of my life, make new friends, experience new things, live risky adventures, take care of my little cousins and play with them, have good marks obviusly, to advise my friends when they are sad ... I could name a dozen more things, but I think that is enough.

Extra new, the artist who colored the gay pride flag

Gilbert Baker is the creator of the rainbow flag, symbol of the LGBT community (lesbians, gays, transsexuals and bisexuals), he was born in 1951 in the American town of Chanute (Kansas). Baker joined the Army at age 19 and was assigned to San Francisco (California) in full swing of the civil rights movement, for women, as well as claiming homosexuality.
Two years later, Gilbert Baker decides to leave the Army and they license it with honors. In San Francisco was where he learns to sew in a self-taught way and begins designing banners for anti-war demonstrations and pro-homosexual rights. It was at this stage that he met and formed a close friendship with the political and activist Harvey Milk.
Thus begins a degree as an artist who has in the rainbow flag (1978) his most famous creation and has also become the iconic symbol of his work.
On the occasion of the gay pride parade of 25th June 1978, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected United States politician, commissioned Gilbert Baker to design a symbol to represent the homosexual collective.
Gilbert Baker sewed some fabrics that he himself had dyed to create that rainbow flag. According to confessed Baker himself in various interviews, was inspired by the song Over the Rainbow, interpreted by Judy Garland. At first, the flag consisted of eight horizontal stripes with different colors with a particular meaning. After November 27, 1978, after the murder of his friend Harvey Milk along with the then mayor, the demand for the rainbow flag increased exponentially.
A year after the tragic death of his friend, Baker began working at the Paramount Flag Company of San Francisco and from that moment he designed advertising panels for numerous political figures, presidents of different countries and even kings.
In the Paramount Flag Company Gilbert Baker began to sell a new version of the flag, reduced to seven colors, to the detriment of the pink color, due to the scarce availability and difficulties to acquire that color in the factories but then it was reduced to 6 colors, disappearing turquoise.
Since its creation in 1978, the rainbow flag has become a worldwide symbol in favor of gay, transsexual and bisexual rights and next year will turn 40. Baker, with his creativity and skill to sew it by hand, replaced the Existing pink triangle until that year, a symbol of oppression of the Nazi classification of LGBT people in World War II.
In 2003, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the LGBT flag, Gilbert Baker devised a two-kilometer rainbow flag that crossed Key West from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. After the celebrations, he sent different parts of the flag to more than one hundred cities around the world.
There in 1978 began to change the history of visibility and recognition of the rights of the LGTB collective, and in its main square, on a huge mast, has been flying for years a flag of colors that vindicates the gay community.
Gilbert Baker, who died in his home in New York on March 31 while sleeping, will receive the homage of the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco next Thursday, 8 th, while the city of New York will make a march in his memory the Next June 14.

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/06/02/actualidad/1496354435_812969.html

Extra new, the genius of Google

The genius who invented the Google engine, whom nobody knows is called Massimo Marchiori, a professor of Computer Science University of Padua.
The world of science and technology sometimes resembles a large vanity fair. The search for the medal, the prize, the recognition or the glory of passing to history as one of those human beings who made a contribution to the advancement of humanity, lead to unfair forgetfulness and relegate to the background to Many anonymous geniuses. We live surrounded by objects that make us the simplest things, and that were created thanks to the ingenuity of women and men of whom we do not know the name. We can all list the names of those who were Tomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Guillermo Marconi or Isaac Peral. But few know who was the engineer who discovered that the waves used by the radars could be used to cook popcorn. Although most of us take advantage of their idea every day to heat the milk in a microwave oven.
Massimo Marchiori is one of those guys. His name is completely unknown to most of us and yet it is possible that some of those who are reading this have now come to this page thanks to him. Because Marchiori is the mathematician who devised the famous Google algorithm. From his head came the heart of the beast, the secret that has led the company to become one of the most powerful technology companies in the world. The funny thing is that Marchiori, after presenting it at an international conference, gave up his idea for the development of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In a time when all the young people related to technology, even tangentially, are looking to become millionaires and to enter that rockstars club in which Internet gurus have become, Marchiori chose to continue investigating. And don't regret: "making money for a certain company and increasing my bank account is not what I want to do in life."
The Italian, who after spending some years at MIT lives and works near Venice, insists that his goal has always been to do something to improve people's lives and that this can not be achieved from a company that is bound by Income statement. That is why, he says, he does not envy the founders of Google, since he says he only needs "a place to sleep and time to think". This freedom is what makes you notice the development of the Internet, with Google at the top, with the analytical distance of real scientists, and considers that the time has come for us to change the way we relate to the network: "until Now the seekers are like the oracle of Delphi: you put the key words and you wait to obtain the result ".
Marchiori works in a more dialogic type of search engine, which includes a social dimension and in which the artificial intelligence behind us allows us to interact with the Internet more naturally. The goal, in short, is to make technology a more human space: "those who understand how good technology is made know that in the end what has to be is a heart behind," says Marchiori. Undoubtedly, the Italian deserves a place in our memory; Much less Percy Specser, the inventor of the microwave, has a building in Massachusetts that bears his name.

I chose this new because before that I didn't now who was the genius who invented the Google engine, so if I didn't I think most of you don't know him too.

http://one.elpais.com/genio-invento-motor-google-quien-nadie-conoce/

Extra new, arrested for a sexual assault

Three arrested for a sexual assault in Plasencia that was recorded with a mobile.
Police have arrested three young people with the aged of 26, 27 and 28 accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Plasencia (Cáceres) and recording it with a mobile phone.
They forced the victim into a vehicle and, while two of them "subjected it to humiliating and vexatious acts", the third recorded the aggression.
The events occurred around 3.00 on May 20, when the victim, as reported in the complaint that he subsequently filed, was walking along Avenida de la Vera. Then he was approached by a moped vehicle occupied by three men and, "after standing at his side, one of the occupants showed him through the window a wad of bills, while another of the men got out of the vehicle, took it by behind and put it in the car in knees.
In the same place, and when the vehicle was stopped, two of the occupants assaulted the victim and, under threat, "subjected her to all kinds of degrading and humiliating acts of a sexual nature", while the third recorded the whole scene with a telephone Mobile phone from the rear seats, has informed the National Police in a press release.
While recording, the man commented to his companions: "We are going to rape her with a condom, we take her to the camp, we kill her and we put her in the trunk." When they saw a person passing by the sidewalk, the authors were frightened, they threw the victim of the car and left the place.
Once the complaint was filed, the agents of the family and women Unit assumed from the outset the investigation of the facts and the protection of the victim. It's a comprehensive police service that provides specialized and personalized attention to victims of gender and domestic violence, as well as any victims of sexual violence, regardless of gender and age.
From the type of vehicle in which the assault was committed, the color of the car and the partial registration data provided by the complainant, the investigators were able to identify the car as well as its owner, a man whose physical characteristics fully match With those described by the victim. The policemen also managed to identify the other two men who allegedly participated in the criminal acts, friends of the owner of the vehicle, that night they had gone out with him for drinks.
Identified the alleged perpetrators of the aggression and obtaining the necessary evidence and evidence, two of them were arrested on May 31, while the third was arrested Thursday. The three young people have passed to the judicial authority.

In my opinion it's incredible that there are still people of this type, after all the problems that have happened in our society I can't understand why people can do this like it were a funny thing. Don't we have enough?

http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2017/06/02/actualidad/1496416795_786951.html

Formal letter

St Sector Muga BA13

Empuriabrava

Girona

29th March of 2017

74C Burnett St, Pretoria
South Africa


Dear Madam,

I am writing to you because I want to offer myself as a teacher volunteer. I would like to apply for a position in a orphanatge, music school or somewhere else where I have to teach kids. I am 18 years old and I just finished baccalaureate so I would like to have a gap year for do something related with my future and take a time for myself.

I like children so much and I have a lot of patience for them. I also like teaching and if you accept me I would learn a lot of things. I am able to do activities related with sport, music, maths, etc. Careful, responsable, understanding are some of my qualities that will help me being a volunteer teaching. You would help me a lot because it would be a big step to start working with children.

I would be grateful if you could attend to this matter. Thank you in advance.


Yours faithfully,

Fouzia Ben Mokhtar

Youtube?

YouTube is a website that has now raised the number of people who like it and people that does videos. I leave a different advantages and then a few disadvantages.
It is a good resource for everything you need, if you want to watch a tutorial to learn something (as if the studies is as if something in our daily lives, such as care for our hair, etc. ) to search for a song and its lyrics or a song sung by yourself, watch videos for entertainment, laugh or people tags / challenges, to upload videos giving a personal opinion on any subject or talking about oneself, can also be daily blogs (record what you do on your day to day), is an environment where many people is advertising, etc.
There are many good things that you can do, but there I say other bad things also happen in youtube.
There are people who use videos against yourself threatening you; once you have uploaded several videos of yourself, you're making public your life and if you get to a point where a lot of people know you, wherever you go there will be people who will ask for a photo or autograph as if you were famous, at the beginning it seems a good thing to be recognized for what you do, but in my point of view is also something stressful, because you can not lead a normal life, because maybe journalists including will wonder about something interesting in your life to publish and it's something that usually don't like; comments have no censorship, so you can receive good and bad critics worldwide.
As you can see, there are a lot of things that can happen with youtube that are useful but care should be taken with the content.

My gap year

If I could afford a gap year I would like to go to Jamaica or South Africa to be a volunteer teaching placements.
I have never visited this places and even if there isn't the "torre eiffel" or "the liberty statue" etc., I really would like to go there just for teaching kids, working either in an orphanage, school or university, taking extra-curricular activities such as sports and music lessons or drama classes, or anything else relationated with these things.
First of all because I like to teach, whether it is a language, a sport or anything else and if I have to teach to little children I like it more. I am a fanatic of childrens and I'm very patient with them so as you can deduce, my future work will be something relate to kids like a teacher or something similar.
I think this vacancy is perfect to me because I would have a great experience being a volunteer teaching placements for the things that previously I said and because I can speak six languages and I could start a conversation easily with them. This gap year would help me a lot to decide if I really like what I will do.
It's a good step to start in the world of children and to be able to integrate and relate to them.
In this gap year I would take a time for myself to be more independent and find myself in an other country that it wouldn't be where I'm used to live, so I would go alone, with no one of my friends or my family.
I also like to see the difference between these countrys and mine or an other place more developed than these because I think there is a big different of culture, policy or economy, so I would like to learn something new of these things that I said because I had never been more than a month out of Spain.

Vacancy: Volunteer Teaching Placements
Company: Projects Abroad
Reference Number: Projects Abroad
Category: Community Projects (Community development, Schools & Education, Teaching English)
Dates: Flexible
Cost : Varies depending on project, destination and duration. Teaching project prices from £995.
http://www.igapyear.com/placements/volunteer-teaching-placements-2283.aspx

My favourite app

Here I am again talking about an other stupid thing which I like to talk about it.
It has been hard to me to choose just one, because each app has different kind of things I like but at the end I chose Instagram.
Instagram is an app where you can publish diferent kind of things, like a picture of you, your pet, a photo with a phrase that you like or anything like these. You can also follow people, friends, famous singers or actress and talk with them.
In my Instagram what I do is talk with my friends, one day in a month I publish a picture of me, follow famous people like singers because I love music and more if someone sings one (called cover) and I follow photgraphers too because I also like to photograph even if it's with my phone because I can afford a profesional camera.
Those are some things you can do with this app and there's a lot of things more.
Instagram has developed a lot, before you could make different effects to your picture and now there are better effects than then and that's another thing I also like. Even the icon of the app has changed.
I made my instagram in 2014, when no one liked this app and there it were few people compared whith now.
So how you can see it's true that this app has developed a lot in all the senses and now people like it more.

Thirteen reasons why

Hi there,
here I want to talk about a serie that I recently have seen which shows how the society and especially the high school influence in weaker students and how someone ended up committing suicide because of little things that happen in their life.
After watch it and comment it with another guys that have seen it I saw two different points of view of the audience.
One is that these people are stupid for do these things and they just want to call for attention because they don't have enough friends or they want to be more spoken than before the suicide. She could speak with someone with she had trust, both as family as friends.
On the other hand the spectators can think that she was a poor girl to whom people didn't give enough importance, so she did that because she was sick of her life and she didn't want to suffer more.
I'm one of those who think she was sad and she needed do this for herself.
I heard that there is schools which doesn't want to talk about these kind of series because they say that it's a really bad decision and the serie shows how you can kill yourself because of little things that are hurting you and it's true. But it also reflects how something that you say to someone can fuck their life at all, so if you think like that you can realize that if you are one of these people who wants someone to die or punch and insult anyone who haven't done nothing, you are fucking her or him without realize what are you doing.
At the end there is a sudden change, because the whole truth comes out and it's something that you can expect at the sart of the serie.
I really like it, so I recomend it to everyone and even more if you are a teenager.
There I leave you a picture of one of the main characters and how she changes while people messed her.

An 11-year-old girl dies at an English amusement park

An 11-year-old girl died Tuesday at the hospital after suffering an accident at the Amusement Park in Drayton Park, about 25 miles from Birmingham. The victim fell into the water from a boat when he enjoyed a descent by a stream of water on a school trip.
The girl was rescued from the water alive by park employees before the arrival of emergency services. She was taken by air to a hospital where she died, police said.
"The intensive care ambulance staff took care of her before arriving at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, where doctors continued the treatment applied in the transfer," said an ambulance service spokesman. "Unfortunately, the girl died after arriving at the hospital."
Emergency services have not reported the injuries that caused the death. Neither the identity of the victim is known.
The attraction, called Splash Canyon, is described by the park as "the most unpredictable and exciting of rapids." A visitor to the park, Fiona Fletcher, told the BBC she saw park staff members with "tears running down her face".
The water attraction was closed after the incident. Drayton Manor Park will be closed this Wednesday in mourning. The accident is being investigated by the British security agency.

The graffiti artist

Kobra, the graffiti artist who Madonna fell in love with, opens in Spain.
The Brazilian artist, who painted the largest mural in the world, honors Dalí in Murcia.
Eduardo Kobra, the Brazilian graffiti artist whose painting fell in love with Madonna, author of the world's largest mural, opens in Spain. During this week he will portray on the facade of a cultural center of Murcia his particular tribute to Salvador Dalí, to emphasize the idea that "there is no difference between the art exhibited in galleries and museums and the one in the streets", because "the Streets are the most democratic art museum there is. "
From the 80's until today, São Paulo has changed much of the gray of its buildings by the color of graffiti that decorate streets and neighborhoods, and have become a sign of identity and a real tourist attraction. The city is experiencing an outbreak of street artists who, in some cases, have achieved worldwide recognition. Eduardo Kobra (1976) is one of those star muralists: more than 3,000 paintings in some 40 countries around the world endorse it.
His latest work was commissioned directly by Madonna: decorating the walls of the hospital that his charity has in Malawi with the faces of the anti-apartheid bulwarks Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
Having just finished this work, Kobra has set foot for the first time in Spain, in response to an invitation from the Grafiti Municipal Office of Murcia. In seven days, he will turn the facade of the cultural center Puertas de Castilla of the city into a canvas dedicated to Salvador Dalí, one of his head painters and whom he considers an "icon of creativity".
Many of his projects pay homage to important people in his life or in the country he is in. In fact, it is not the first time that Dalí has starred in one of his murals: in Miami he already painted the genius of Figueras in 2013, in a sequence in which you can also see the portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol.

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/04/27/actualidad/1493283016_049171.html

Fascist stabbing

Regrettable agression of "ultra béticos" in the streets of Bilbao.
The events took place around 11:00 am in the Plaza Nueva in Bilbao, when several young people, with an Andalusian accent, approached a person who had breakfast on the terrace of a bar located in Plaza Berria.
"Tú, Gabilondo, Arriba España”, that was the phrase that the radical aggressor made in front of the young man, before slapping him in the face and throwing him kicks and punches while two friends recorded the scene and laughed at the event.
As it is seen in the video, one of the young people, ultra of the Betis, approaches his victim and accusing him of "proetarra" at the same time that shouts "up Spain" throws to him the content of a glass and gives a Strong smack in the face while giving him a kick when the victim tries to flee the place.
The Sevillian club has strongly condemned in its official account of Twitter some facts that "under no concept represents the fans green and white" and that are "contrary to the values that football and Real Betis advocates and should be eradicated from our sport."

http://www.marca.com/futbol/betis/2017/04/27/59023a98ca474173398b461e.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNR2To75iI

Who I want to be?

Today I want to talk about who I want to be and what I would like to do.
Since I was little I liked to be a hairdresser and even now I like to brush hairs but when you grow up you think it and you realize that a hairdresser it isn't a fix job and it's something that you can do on your free time.
In the high school I think it a lot, I had a lot of ideas for my future and then I thought to be a psychologist because I like help people with their problems and search a solution for it but if I wanted to be a psychologist I had to do maths and biology in the science baccalaureate and I didn't like maths, I hate it. Finally, when I had to say to the high school what kind of baccalaureate I wanted to do I said humanistic and then I realize that my favourite job is a school teacher. One of the reasons it's because I like kids and the second one it's that I like so much teach and more if they are littles.
So here I am, doing that baccalaureate that I like too much which with I will be a teacher.

New of the International Women's Day

Manifestation 8th of March

Against gender violence. For the right to freely decide their maternity. Against the wage gap. To stop discrimination. Hundreds of thousands of women mobilized on Wednesday in several countries to claim equality, something that in the XXI century is still an entelequia. In Spain, Poland, Turkey, the US or Argentina took to the streets - many of them in black - to claim their rights, to show their strength and to protest against the sexist drift of some governments. The pandemic of macho crimes or the fear of Donald Trump's ultraconservative agenda and its global impact pushed women to mobilize. And they not only marched, they also stopped partially working, consuming and participating in domestic care. A kind of female strike to show what would happen if half of humanity were stopped. If women stop, they cry, they stop for the world.
We mobilize because we can't discriminate half of humanity and nothing happens. We stopped because we don't want to be invisible, because we can go out and claim our role in the world, "demanded Gloria Garcia, an official of 52 years, one of the protest actions of Madrid. In the popular Plaza de Cibeles illuminated violet, the historic color of the struggle of women, behind banners with slogans like "Together and strong, feminists always", "International Unemployment against Patriarchy" Maria Gabian and her friends, all 18 and 19, claimed the need to maintain the struggle. "There is more sexism in the television and in the marketing. It is so ingrained that it is no longer seen, "said Gabián.


Vocabulary learned:
claim: afirmation or declaration
ingrained: attitude (fixed, firm)
wage gap: regular pay-discrepancy

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/03/08/actualidad/1489004478_138303.html

Go shopping or rest at home?

Which are the good and the bad things of shopping?

I've always loved go shopping but there are things I don't like and I wanted to share it with you.

First of all I want to say that go shopping it's not one of the most things that I like because if you want to go out to disconnet or have fun with your friend and buy something, forget the part of disconnect because it's something that you can't do with people around you that each one talking to his roll. There are lot types of people, that one that smokes, a group of people that look at you as if you were different and strange, you will always find someone that you don't want to see just because you are not friends and you will do as if you don't see him/her, etc. 

Things that I hate in the shop is that not always they have sizes for everyone and many times beautiful things are sold fast.

In the other side I like the music that the shops have because are relaxing and I like to go directly to what I like and I know more, I don't usually go to stores I know that nothing will attract me. Fortunately always I find things that I like so much even if it's just shoes or accessories or one clothes.

I think there are more things for me against go shopping because I get so tired after going out for things like this.

New of global issue

Particle pollution has killed 26,830 people in Spain in a decade

(2000-2009)

Only two months after Madrid became the first Spanish city to restrict traffic by pollution, the National School of Health calculates the magnitude of the problem. Particle contamination in the air has led to the premature death of 26,830 people in Spain over a decade, according to an investigation led by Julio Diaz, head of the center's Epidemiology Department.. "75% of the particles in a city is a result of human activities, mainly traffic," he warns.
The latest WHO (World Health Organization) estimate calculated that 6,860 people died prematurely in Spain in 2012 due to exposure to air pollution of all types. Diaz's work speaks of 2,683 annual deaths. The investigator specifies that 651 of these premature annual deaths are associated with respiratory diseases and another 556 are associated with cardiovascular problems. The rest of the deaths are due to the aggravation of other pathologies.
The decision of the mayor Manuela Carmena to restrict traffic in Madrid sparked a controversy negacionista to the real problem of pollution. The PP spokesman at City Hall, Esperanza Aguirre, came to proclaim that the measures now Madrid had "the ideological purpose of pitting cars with people." The new study is signed by four scientists at the National School of Health , under the Institute of Health Carlos III in Madrid. It's the leading public body for biomedical research in Spain and is attached to the ministries of Economy and Health.


Vocabulary learned:
pollution: contamination
pathology: study of disease
spark: bring on
spokesman: speaks on behalf of

Information from:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/02/28/ciencia/1488311481_104348.html

What's the meaning of this bus?

Bus campaign against transsexuals

On 28th February, a bus was circulating in the city of Madrid against transsexuals.

The City Council believes that the capital campaign "Speak up" (Hazte Oír) violates local ordinances and incite you hateful.
Institutions, parties, trade unions and civil organizations have expressed their rejection on Tuesday of the bus against transsexuals that the ultra-Catholic group, Hazte Oír, flew to Spain and started its route in Madrid on Monday.
Spokesman for Equality of the PSOE has asked the prosecution to prohibit it.
Catalonia and Madrid have also asked the Public Ministry to intervene. And the government of Carmena has ordered that it be immobilized.
In the next days was planned to circulate in Valencia, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Pamplona, San Sebastian, Bilbao and Vitoria, according to the ultracatal group.
The councilman of Security has explained that the police has paralyzed "the bus of the shame". The government team of Manuela Carmena has considered that there was "data" of infraction of the ordinance on the outside publicity, that "prohibits (the announcements) in any type of vehicle or trailer, in circulation or parked, except the one that realizes in Vehicles intended for public transport ". The objective of the City Council is that the bus leave as soon as possible of the city.
In Catalonia, the institutions also don't want that bus, which was programmed to begin its tour of autonomy next Friday. "There is no place for these buses in Barcelona," Mayor Ana Colau wrote on Twitter. The threat of the Consistory is to stop the vehicle as soon as they see you enter, under the threat of fine with up to 3,000 euros applying the ordinance of citizenship. "She does not have permission to move around the city. It is not welcome," said the mayor of Feminisms and LGBTI, Laura Perez. In addition, the Generalitat has stated that he will report to the Office of the Prosecutor for hate crimes.


Vocabuary learned:
ordinance
paralyzed
immobilized

http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2017/02/28/actualidad/1488285088_623918.html

Palamós

I'm gonna talk about Palamós and why I like it. 

Firts of all is one of my favourite places where I like spend time and even with my family of there.

If it weren't for my cousins that live there, I would never have visited this beautiful place. 

It's a city where you can go on holidays or live there. There is a lot of things you can do in Palamos: you can go shopping, go to the beach if it's summer and if it isn't you can just go and take photos and it's especially beautiful at sunset, or go for a walk.

Now I like more Palamos than before, because nearly a year ago the grandmother of my cousins died because of a disease and she was a strong woman that nonetheless she laughed a lot and always trying to draw a smile to those who were around her. 

Whenever I go, I remember the good times with her and every time we go for a walk to the promenade, I like it more than the first time.

I recommend the place to anyone that likes spend time watching beauiful places. 

And these are three pictures that I took of Palamos.

A description of a person

MY GRANDMOTHER

Her name is Sara, she doesn't work because she is more than 65 years old. My grandmother doesn't have any hobby because she is old but she also likes to do bread at hime and often likes to go to her daughter's and son's house to spend the time with them. At my home she's used to coming on Saturday's morning and I like to see her a lot.

Last year when I was at Empuriabrava's high school, after finishing the lessons I used to go to have lunch with her because she lives near high school and I miss going and having lunch with her.

Now my parents and my brothers and I sometimes go to her home to visit her and mh grandfather too.

I can't say a lot of Sara's appearance because she is also a muslim woman like me and she goes covered from top to bottom, but also wears beautiful dresses that make her more beautiful that what she is.

That strong-willed woman is so understanding and self-confident, she suffers a lot but however Sara is thick-skinned and helps her family to be like that.

I remember when I was little my cousins an I passed a lot of time in her house and my grandmother look for us so good like if we were her daughters. We were calling her "second mum" for what.

She's a great person and I couldn't live without her and her laugh, I love her so much and she is one of the biggest woman that I know.

GLOBAL ISSUE

The half-brother of Kim Jong Un killed

Killed with a chemical weapon

The police have confirmed that the older stepbrother of the young North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un was poisoned with an extremely toxic substance called VX, which acts very quickly.

Malaysian police have discovered that their poisoning, which took place last week at the Kuala Lumpur airport, was with a nervous agent called VX, a powerful chemical weapon capable of killing within minutes. Included by the UN in its list of weapons of mass and prohibited destruction since 1993 by the Chemical Weapons Convention, it is an oily amber liquid that or smell or taste, but it can penetrate the skin and stop the system nervous.

"If the amount of this chemical component was small, it would have been very difficult to detect," Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said Friday in announcing the results of tests carried out on Kim's corpse Jong-nam. To find this toxic agent, one of the most powerful in the world, forensic scientists have taken samples of the face and eyes, where two women sprayed it to Kim Jong-nam on Monday of last week while waiting to take a flight to Macau, his usual place of residence.

Although both washed their hands just after, which according to the police proves that they "were aware" of what they were doing, one of them fell ill and ended up vomiting.

All these indications, together with their long history of attacks and kidnappings, point directly to the Stalinist regime led by Kim Jong-un, who in 2013 already executed his uncle and regent in the shadow, Jang Song-thaek, so that no one would dispute him Its absolute power. With its usual propaganda rhetoric, North Korea denies responsibility for the crime and has accused Malaysia of organizing a conspiracy against it with South Korea, which has poisoned its diplomatic relations. In this serious crisis between the two countries, the Malaysian government has refused to return Kim Jong-nam's body to Pyongyang until all tests are completed and if his direct family does not claim it within two weeks.

Vocabulary learned:

sample: specimen

chemical: substance

http://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-malasia-afirma-hermanastro-jong-asesinado-quimico-considerado-arma-destruccion-masiva-201702240240_noticia.html

Jung Tepology test

Fashion Quiz

I think it isn't my style at all but it seems a little. Even so, I change a lot my way of dressing.

My favourite singer?

Demetria Devonne Lovato or Demi Lovato was born the 20th of August on 1992 and she is an American singer, actress and songwriter. Right now she is 24 years old.
She is my favourite singer since I was little because she was acting in a lot of films and series and I have seen them almost all. I really like how she act but I like more shen she sings, she do that with a potential voice
One of the films is Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2, the most known, another film is Princess Protection Program, Sonny with a chance (Sunny entre estrellas in Spanish) that it was the best serie for me in this year, she also did some chapters of Grey's Anatomy and some of the serie Glee. I think she did more series but they couldn't do de Spanish version.
She has changed her appearance a lot but she still have the same attitude and that's what I like of her too.
I'm not a big fan of her, but if I would have to choose any famous or any singer, I would choose her.

Looks aren't everything, Cameron Russell

Cameron Russel is a model that however being famous because of her genetic lottery that she won she says that image isn't everything. The genetic that she won it's the genetic that she has been able to take advantages like make money.
She explained some of her experiencies in the real life being recognized like a model and she said that people treat her on an other way or they give her free stuff just because she is tall, a white and a beautiful woman with thin legs. And that's why she says: "appearance has a big impact on our lives even if it does not look like it."
She said she can't understand why girls want to be a model, according to her it's like if you say that you want to win the lottery, you don't choose it. Cameron says she is a model to pay the university and she show that actually she don't like how a model has to be. Even if you have a shiny hair, skinny and beautiful legs you also will be insecure.
In the real life she don't look like in the photos that people who work with her edit to be more fashioner, she looks normally. She isn't exactly the one in the picture, the picture is a simply construction of hairdressers, makeup artists, photographers, stylists, a group of professionals who manage to create an image.
At the end she says: I have taken advantage of a situation that benefited me, and it does not always make me happy.

Link of the video: https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model