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.