What money can't buy

It is said money can't buy happines, but it can help to reach it. Money can not buy feelings, the human's essence and what marks our life. We act, live, move, love... because of feelings, and no one won't buy my feelings, nobody can decide what I feel.

Is it ethical to pay children to read books or to get good grades? Of course I'd like to be paid for that I'd earn money for something I love! But that is not ethical, The incentive of a good book is the pleasure to read it, make up the story, and not to earn money! If we educate children in this way they'll expect money for everything in life, for going into a museum, for listening one hour of quantum's physic...

Money won't never buy my happines, money would help me to reach it, money would pay the back to the world, money would buy the coolest dress of Abercrombie's but not the feelings and stories I'll have wearing it.

FORMAL LETTER

                 Figueres, Sant Pau street, number 70

Palau de la Generalitat

                                        11-05-2015

Dear Sir Arthur Mas

Inspite of complaining about many situations, you are not our superhero, I am going to focus on my situation. I am 18, and I should be on cloud nine, but I am not, because even finishing high school this year and starting the best part of my life in university, I might not pay my daily life out of home. Students need more grants and supports to dedicate all day to study and not all night to work.

Studing a degree is a full rime job and families should not struggle just for trying to give the best opportunities to their grown kids.

Yet, that is not all, The students that can finish their degree are forced to move away, to another country, like Germany because they can not work on what they have studied. Catalunya is educating some people, but then it loses them.

Artur Mas, I am asking you more opportunities, more scholarships or grants for us, the future of Catalunya if it finally becomes a state. Education is a Human Right and everyone should be able to afford it.

Looking forward to your prompt reply.

Yours Faithfully

A soul mate at this point

What's a soul mate? It should be your mirror who shows all your flaws? Or it might be your best friend? The love is subjective, is hard to define it, but finding your soul mate may help you on your voyage. However a soul mate isn't a fixed person or archetype, it changes with the time, so not all the relationships are a match made in heaven. At this point I have an idea of my perfect soul mate or how I want him to be.

At first, he must be a boy. I don't have the hots for girls. He should be loving but not excessive, two kisses are right, but not hundreds! Another feature is that he must help the others without waiting for anything back, taking part of an NGO or doing a voluntary work on Saturday afternoon is pretty sexy. His family is important too, I want nice fathers-in-law. 

We must be like-minded and our relationships should be like best friends who have a lot of mutual understanding and maybe live together. He have to make me feel loved every day and to fall in love every day a little bit more. We must have quarrels, but his angry can't last more than 3 hours. Faith will be our value.

I love travelling and I want to him to come with me to every neck of the woods. Furthermore, the sweets and desserts please me, therefore he must bake cakes, cupcakes.. as well as cook pasta. I don't care about his fortune, but if it's huge, much better. If he doesn't know how to make a manicure, no problem, I'll teach him!

Who knows?  I might have found my soul mate. 

Research paper abstract

Do you know what a leukodystrophy is? In case you don't, it's a group of minority diseases, practically unknown. My research paper abstract describes this degenerative illness and the hereditary factors which involve it. 

Also I looked into some research lines (most of them about stem cells) with a clear conclusion: we need more research on minoritary diseases. To prove it I did a survey to 35 families who are affected by leukodystrophy, and the average time to get the diagnose is more than 2 years, an alarming datum that means the lack of research on this diseases.

I wanted to write down on a paper some social aspects that affect the life and the coexistence with a disability in my personal point of view and with my personal experience, passing from the home or car adaptations to the not medical therapies, like hippotherapy.

If you want to know more about leukodystrophies you'll find my research paper abstract below. 

Looking back on my blog

Last years I've been working on my blog, and well, I think that I've improved a lot with my English. Now I write better and faster, I know more vocabulary and my essays are more reachfull, I can express my opinion better and better.

I'd like to speak more in English, to improve my accent and speaking. This summer I'll talk in English every day on my summer job, love it! Maybe the most useful activities to improve my English are this, speak and speak, and then, speak again. 

I don't find useful doing exams, I do it, and then I forget all about it. But exams are basics to see the basic English skills. 

Maybe the next yeat I'd like to do more speaking, some writings, but not a lot, one or two exams. I only want to learn English and have fun with it!

Project based learning

“The world needs more clears” But, how we could educate them? Recently a team of teachers has created a project base learning. The classes with the following project aren’t the normal ones, the students must solve problems and find the perfect solutions. So teachers are forming the students on these topics: knowledge, collaboration, critical thoughts and communication. They try to educate and entrepreneur adults who can create a rocket, find a cancer solution or stop the wars.

Actually in our school the English teachers are educating us with these objectives. They’ve made projects like contamination, science, world rituals, customs… and showed them to us. I love it, because I learn a lot of concepts, and in English! My opinion is that the school can be more efficient and effective with projects like that. I’d like to use more computers and make teams to solve problems in ESO. Also, now in Batxillerat we are already at the university and we must think like adults. For this reason I would to do the project base learning only in ESO and school, the Batxillerat now is quite correct.

It is clear that the government should think about the education of our children and change the old fashioned ways of teaching. So to conclude with, be clear, organise and managed your team and do your own project based learning.

Should teachers wear a uniform or have a dress code?

In many expensive schools and in schools in other countries, the teachers wear uniforms and elegant clothes. Also the children wear uniforms.

When I was little I dreamed on wearing on elegant uniform like in a lot of movies that I've seen. But I never hada a uniform. So I think that pupils and the teachers should wear a uniform, because there are a lot of studies that prove this type of clothes.

Secondly, the fact of wearing the same clothes improves your achademic results. I believe that if everybody dresses like you, it makes you feel more comfortable with yourself. Because nobody will spelling you for the way you dress.

In conclusion, wearing a uniform on school is fine improves your results and makes you feel good.

Story of solutions

We live in a superficial society who prefers more money to waste than more time with the family. I’m tired to see a lot of people working on weekends, travelling and buying stuff all day, and without time to spend with the children or the partner. I really know that we are living difficult times, not everyone has food, and I understand people working all day with this conditions.

On the other hand we live in a too polluted world with a hole on the ozone layer. Many people say that if we don’t change our habits we will destroy the Earth. All the humanity must be together and ban plastic bags; recycle more; build cooperatives, schools and hospitals; use public transport and reduce the carbon dioxide emissions.

Finally, to my mind we have more than we need and other people have less than they need. We can also give all the stuff we don’t use to others and maybe share cars, tools or whatever thing.

In conclusion, spend more time with family, change bad habits like having a lot of plastic bags or going everywhere with car and sharing your stuff. Between everybody we will save the world from us.

Educational blogging

“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.” Brian Clark is a famous blogger from all over the world that thinks that as a blogger, everything you do flows from understanding your audience and seeking to help them as much as possible. I’m agree with him because if we do awful posts for the audience, they won’t follow us. It is fact that if you don’t like something, you will never read it again.

Firstly, many people say that having a blog will improve the academic results. I strongly disagree with this fact. This depends on the person, if he likes writing and sharing his opinion, the blog is perfect! But if he doesn’t like writing or sharing his opinion, the blog isn’t so good. Okey, I admit that writing is very important for a student, but maybe the student doesn’t want that all the world can read his texts.

Secondly, all the blogs aren’t educational. It is clear that everybody can have a blog, and everybody can share their opinions. So it seems to me that students could read Nazi blogs, racism blogs, blogs that incite to anorexia and bulimia… And this ideals aren’t educational.

Finally, when you post something on the Internet you may never delete it, so if after a time you don’t like and want to quit it you will never delete the post at all. Be careful off all the photos, texts and videos you post on Internet.

To conclude not at all the blogs are educational, if you don’ like sharing your opinion you won’t like the blogs and when you post something on Internet all the world can see it forever.

Terrorism

Bin Laden, ETA... this name mean terrorism and dead. But maybe, it means an intention for improve the society and lifestyle in general. I agree that they can't kill people for the ideals, but if we it think over, we will discover good intentions. For example, ETA wants the independence of Euskadi, like Catalunya. The difference between ETA and catalan people is that catalans don't kill nobody for our independence.

My opinion is ban terrorism and give them the opportunity to express thoughts. So please, don't kill people and animals, because every blood tear is too important.

In conclusion, ban terrorism, but don't ban the ideals. If we try it, we will live in a better place. Be carefull and kill the violence!!

Blue water waterfalls (Mexico)

This is blue water waterfalls. It's in Mexico (Chiapas).

This photo is beautifull, I would like to go there. On the background there's the great waterfall.

Here you can see the perfect blue of the water, it's because it have carbonate dissolved.

In this area sometimes you found petrified trees sailing through the water.

The creation of a monster

Science! What a wonderful word!The world is improving a lot, so science means pogress. Recently a investigation team had cloned animals with biotechnology. But when they wanted to made the same woth humans, the law banned it. The law says that it isn't moral. I guess the same that politicians because nobody needs to have a clon, but I think that if we made clones we would clon organs or cells. This is an important step for cancer.

A study says that in 50 years all the population of developed countries will have a 50%more of probabilitu to suffer cancer. The cause of that is the WIFI. The waves of the signal are crossing all the body constantly and this will produce a mutation on one cell and maybe it will produce a cancer. Speaking personally, I'm going to turn off my router every night. But this is only a study, maybe the waves aren't unhealthy, I hope so!

I really want to investigate life but without crossing the line of the dead. If I were a scientist I wouldn't create a monster, my dream is to help the people. A monster won't help nobody, so I disagree of cloning.

USA and Australia

I would like to know USA and Australia in the future. I have always thought that are incredible places.

First of all, I'd like to travel to USA. There I'm going to take a motorhome and cross all the country. And I'm going to be rich in las Vegas!!

In Australia I'm going to scuba diving a lot, I'm expecting to see see stars, see horses, sharks, dolphins, crocodiles... This is and incredible world!!

To know these countries is my dream, I already know that this travell won't be cheap but it doesn't matter to me.

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The orphan black

On Monday we saw on English class a TV serie called Orphan Black. When I saw the beggining of the first chapter I thaught that all is so strange and I didnt saw anymore, as you know, blood scares me.

But with the time the serie started to like me because it's very original and the argument is so intersting.

I think that Beth and Sarah are twins or clons. Maybe someone had cloned them. This makes me think that I have a clon around the world and one day I will find her.

This night I will see chapter two and three, goodbye!

A little part of me

Hello Milco!

It's nice to meet you at our classroom. First of all my name is Núria and I love England and USA. Last summer I stayed one month in Bournemouth, England to learn English I fell in love with this country, except the weather. I broke three umbrellas in only one month! 

I am 16 years old and I live in l'Armentera, a small village in l'Alt Empordà. I love going to the cinema with my dad and imagine that I'm the star of the film and I can do everything that I want. I used to ride a horse at the weekend but now I haven't enough time and I can't do it. Now in the winter I am learning to snowboard, I feel free when I am going downwards a slope.

I would like to be a vegetarian, but I have a problem: I hate vegetables, so I can’t eat it. For this reason I can’t be a vegetarian person cause I eat some meat.

I hate arguing with my friends and important people for me. If I discuss with someone I feel so sad. I am so affectionate.

So this is a little part of me, you will know me a little more this year.

Have a good day!

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