class assigment (essay+quotation)

"There must be language that doesn’t depend on words… If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world"(1)Have you ever thought about how difficult is to understend the world? What is the reason why do we exist? I have some evidences to support what I am saying. 

When we are children we are always  told that our dreams will come true whenever we grow up. But why do we have to want to reach for the starts when we do not have branches to carry us that far? I beleive that it would be easier if we didn't have the oportunity to figure out what do we have to be or how do we have to behave. It would be easier if we just follow our hearts to the place that we want to be. However, there are people who still believe in destiny. I think that destiny is for loosers it is just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.

To sum up, I would like to encourage everybody to follow their hearts and no what 4 crazy boys dressed in jeans told them to do.  

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1.Paulo Cohelo,the alchemist (Barcelona: Booket,1988), pg 46

Dear Blog,

Another year has gone, another year is about to come. 2014 has been a really important year to me. Therefore, I have decided to write to my 2014 a few words. I am really proud because now I am able to say that I have found my place in this world. I have spent a lot of years wasting my time  but after a lot of effort  I have reached it!

I have to admitt that my 2014 started with me studying hard- I am going to end up it in the same way. However, I can deny that this year has brought me amazing changes. I remember my first high school year, I can see myself saying: " In thousand years I will be making selectividad, I will be going to university, I will be driving a car, I will go abroad, I will always have the same people in my life, I will figure out what I want to be". This year, 2014, I have done selectividad, I have obtained my driving license, I have started the university, I have been abroad and, what is more important for me: Now I know what I want to be. This year I have learnt that with effort and sacrifice you can reach everything you wish for and, that all our hopes must be be  put in ourselves, not on the rest of the world. With valor we can reach whatever we want to. Fortunately, we are not alone on this journey. We will always have people who  love us around us. They will help us to to reach our goals and our biggest(and wildest) dreams. Hence, thanks  to all that people that are not part of my life anymore, they taught me that they did not diserve to be on it. But, THANKS (in capital letters) to those people that are still part of my life and also to those that are now new components of my life. Thank you for believing in me, for teach me how not to stop believing, thank you for believing in me, in my dreams. Thank you  for cheering me uo when I was down .

Now, I know who I am , whenever I hesitate on it I have you all around me to remind me it. I can perfectly see myself last year, crying because I did not know what I was going to study at University , I thought that I was studying just for pleasure. Fortunately, I have found the perfect degree, wchich I hope to love more and more every day. Dear 2015, I wish you bring me happines, health(as my grandmother says) and also all the good things that I have reach on 2014  and that I don't want to miss. 

XXOO

María.

PS: I hope to keep in touch with you dear blog. 

It is the most wonderful time of the year..

Yesterday nigh was Christmas eve and, as usual I have spent this night with my family. However, this year has been a bit special. Four months ago my cousin went to Dresden as an Erasmus student. I have not seen him since he left. Hence, I was looking foward to seeing him. He has helped me  a lot with my German as I am also learning this language, I am really thankful for this. He has told me a lot of beautiful things related to his new hometown. I wish I could do a similar thing in a near future.

My family and I having dinner 

This year we have had an special guest. We have had a new cousin as my cousin got marry three months ago. However, he has always been my cousin because I have known him since I was six years old. It has been really exciting to be with all my family. My cousin who lives in Madrid has also joined us for dinner. He always has the best stories  to tell! You can  never get bored with him, he is so much fun!

My grandmother and all my cosuns 

We have spent a marvelous night in wich food an laugh were the main courses. It has been a relly interesting talking. We have been talking about different issues but travilling has been the main issue. My cousin and her husband have been talking about New York City as they spent there their honeymoon. My cousin who is studying in Dresden has been talking about Germany and German people as well as my cousin from Madrid because he went to Dresden to visit my cousin. They have told us amazing experiences from their meeting  there. My other cousin was talking about Finlad as she is going to be an Erasmus student there in five months- I wish I could visit her there. Me, I was just really pleased to hear my  elder cousins talking about their experiences. They always have something to teach me.  

my cousin who lives in Madrid,
me and my cousin who is
in Dresden.

My grandmother was really happy to have all her family gather together. I believe that she feels really proud of having an extended family in wich love is the first valour. However, we could not avoid missing my grandfather who unfortunately passed away two summers ago. 

After dinner, we had had  to sing to our grandmother in order to get our "aguinaldo", my granny has given "aguinaldo" to everyone, even to our new cousin! It has been so much fun! 

In short, I have really enjoyed this night as I considered that the best thing in life is not money. The best thing in life is love and happines and with my family I have both things. It is true that you can not choose your family. However, If I had been given the chance to choose, I would have never choosen another family. They are the best family I could wish for! I love them very very much!

Merry Christmas!!! 

4º práctica evaluable

Thirty years ago, it was compulsory for women to know how to sew.  Sometimes, when a button falls apart from my jacket I feel pity of myself because I don’t even know what a needle is. I wish I could sew my things because someday I will be alone and nobody will sew for me. I have tried ir hard, but I had no luck. 

One solution to this problem could be asking my grandmother for help. I could live with her during  a month so that she can properly teach me how to do it. Maybe we can start by easy  things like learning how to use a needle and end up making my own clothes. Wouldn't it be nice if at the end I like it and I set up my own  haberdashery?

Another solution to this problem could be attending  a curse. I would have a teacher who would tgive me a sound knowledge in order to avoid my issue. Nonetheless, the course could be expensive and I wouldn't recive personal atentioon from my teacher as there would be more students on the course. However, that is not a problem because I can also learn from my classmates' mistakes.  

A final answer could be to try to let my  imagination fly – together with Internet videos-  and learn t on my own. However, this is really hard a to accomplish as I am a really pessimistic person, If something goes bad - o r I can not properly teach myself- I would feel depressed. I know, for sure, that I would give it up.

All in all, I have to learn how to sew because if I ever want to be an independ person, I'd better know how to solve my problems even if it is something as simple as fixing a button. Nonetheless, I am almost in my tweenties, there is much life ahead for me. Maybe, within five years a robot able to sew will  be invented. That would fix my problem and also make my day. 

3º práctica evaluable

Nowadays, eveerybody has a TV-or more than one. What's more, whoever doesn't have a TV is seen as a weird person. "There is no more to love when you have a TV"-that's the phylosophy of 89'5 % of the population. However, having a TV is not everything. In addition, I'm totally agains owing a TV. 

Believe it or not, the lack of a TV leds to the development of your skills. You have more leisure time as you are not looking foward to getting home to watch the afternoon's soap opera. You can spend your time on reading, painting or even learning how to play an instrument. Aren't those things better than watching violence on TV?

However, you can also spend tour spare time with your family or friends. You can not imagine how good is to have enough time to be outdoors making new friends while doing some interesting things like practicing a sport. Hence, not having a TV is also good for your health.

Nevertheless, the most important thing is that you are going to have more time to relax and sleep. Can you imagine the profits of it? You won't be tired and you will deinetely be succesfull at school or at your job. Moreover, students that do not have  a TV are lickely to get high marks not only because they do not have the influence from this gadget, but also because their parents have time to check their progress so that they feel that is studying is a rewarding thing.

In short, even most of the peple believe that not having a TV nowadays is unrealistic, I believe that not having it is the key of success of our society. Therefore, I would like to encourage everyone to never forget that growing up our skills like reading, painting and so on and so forth is most of the times more important than knowing who died on the soap opera you were watching. 

Two weeks ago, I was on my way home on the bus -The weirdest things happen to me on the bus-  and a a friend on mine told me something amazing.

He was telling me about his trip to France. He went with his class in order to spend a week there, it was a school trip. Moreover, he was using a crutch as he had had an accident two months ago. The thing is that, he lost his bag on the trip and he realised about that when it was too late to come back. He did not mind loosing his bag, the problem was that his nintendo Ds was on the bag. He has always been with his ninteendon since their parents gave it to him. Thus, it was not just a toy, it was also an important present that two people he loved gave him.  He felt sad and .He could not stop worrying about it during the trip.

However, his classmates notice that he was feeling a bit down about that and they managed to make him happy. Maybe this story sounds a bit childish but the amazing thing is about to happen. One week after the trip, he was sitting with a friend at the university's bench. Suddenly, all his classmates approached him a gave him a present. The present was a new Nintendo Ds. He could not believe his eyes! Why did they care about him? Isn't it amazing? His classmates told him that he deserved it because he has always been a good classmates and he is always helping them. In other words, that was their way to see thank you.


To sum up, even it is said that teenagers only care about themselves and that they  do not know that there is more to life than themselves. However, there is still being good people who care about the rest of the world.

A nightmare journey I remember so clear was two years ago when I was going to the countryside with my friend. We were going to the countryside because me and my friends were giving a surprise  birthday party for the friend that was with me in the car. The party  was almost 45 minutes by car far away from my house.

We left our house with plenty of time. But when we got to the motorway there was a huge traffic jam! The traffic wasn’t moving at all. I didn’t know what to do because we were going to be late for the party. I felt really nervous and sad at the same time and my friend was saying to me all the time “ don’t worry” but I couldn’t tell  her why I was feeling at that way. It was too late to go another way, so we just sat in the car while I was getting more and more stressed. After 30 minutes the traffic started moving slowly. I decided to leave the motorway and try to find another way to go  the party,  but I had never drove on that way so we got completely lost. In addition, the phone was ringing all the time asking for where we were. I was sure my friend was going to miss the party that we have been planning for two months. It was a pity. Suddenly, I decided to phone  my dad. He took us to the party . Finally we arrived there only thirty minutes before the party was going to start. My friend got a really big surprise and after that she started to laugh because she immediately understood why I was so nervous and stressed.

Although we had a nightmare journey my friend had a big surprise and we managed to give her a party.