Class Assigment ( Writing an introduction and a conclusion for an outline)

Everybody has thought about living abroad. It is normally seem as a quite rewarding experience. Many people look foward to having the chance of living aboad on their own or because of an Erasmus grant. It would be a dream come true. I am right, aren't¿ Living abroad could be seen as an option  with plenty of positive things. However, the adjustment of foreign people to a different culture can be really difficult. (Introduction)

To sum up, there is no doubt that living abroad is an experience that everybody should have the opportunity to live. However, It is also true that it is really difficult to get use to new manners,  different people, food and so on and so forth but, we should encourage foreigners to ask us whatever they want to know or whatever they need,  in order to help them feel like home. '' Love your neighbour as you love yourself'' (Conclusion)

What is art?

 This is one of the most difficult questions you will have to answer in your life. What is art? Is it a feeling? Is it something abstract? It is something which follows a rule? I'm going to talk about my personal opinion about art.

The first time I visited a museum, I was feeling curious. I was watching plenty of pictures and I didn't know the meaning of them not even the artist or the name of the picture. Therefore, I decided that I needed to study art. The world that I have discovered could never be bought with money. Since that moment, I created my own definition of art. For me art is whatever makes you feel something special in your heart it doesn't matter if it is a good feeling or a bad one. Not all artistics works have to be beautiful works. I was amazed thinking about  how a building -that was built two thousand years old- could be in better conditions than a modern one. I discovered that art can also make you angry. For instance the first time I saw this:

My bed- Tracey Emin 

I though: Oh my God! If this is art, then my room is a masterpiece. I have to admit that the first time I saw it I was angry, I couldn't understand why it was called art. Fortunately, I realized that the artist had reached her aim. Her aim was to make me feel something. Hence, she is a great artist he completely angered me and gave me some food for though! Moreover, I can't deny that the first time I saw this picture from Munch, I ended up crying:

It made me think of a poor boy, alone in life. The two men behind him were criticizing him. He was completely alone. He was a negative person, full of bad feelings and thoughts. Hence, he wanted to scream in order to be able to feel free of all the preasure he had. It is an amazing picture, isn't it? Moreover, I couldn't forgive myself If I speak about art and I don't mencion all the amazing feelings that an art performance can make you feel. I specifically like this one from Marina Abramocic. Imagine what would happen if you see your love after 23 years, in the middle of your performance, in which you can't speak and you just can see him. Words are left, it's better to see it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlf68X2qEpM

Thus, I have decided that if someone asks me what is art ,I would say. Art is everything. Everything that makes you feel something, it doesn't matter if it is a good feeling or a bad one. Literature, music, painting, cooking, girls making up themselves. Everything is art. The world is full of art. And if you feel something, that's because  the artist  have achieved his/her aim.

Education

Nowadays students have to bite off more than they can chew. They have to deal with a lot of subjects as math or science and also they have a lot of homework. That means that they don’t have leisure time for relaxing or for doing extracurricular activities like learning how to dance or sing in order to improve their skills. In addition, they learn things by heart and in a fortnight that will be forgotten, but they don't care as long as they get good marks.  What's more we are claming to have a good education because students get good marks. 

I wish I had been born in America because there doing extracurricular activities is compulsory if you want to have good marks. But the thing that I like the most about America or Britain for instance is that there, you can easily have a gap year. For me taking a year off is a great opportunity to learn new things, or to think about what do you really want to study  before going to university . Nevertheless, In Spain having a gap year in not an option.  What’s more ,  we come down on it. What does it mean? It means that we have to put all our eggs in one basket and go to university even though we don’t really know what we want to study. But, Why should we go to university? Look Roald Dahl the famous British writer. He didn’t go to university and he’s a really well-known  writer all over the world.

Anyway, I have to admit that my school days were really good.  I Will never forget getting an upset stomach and going to the nursery because I didn’t want to be on  my math' class. Moreover, I have never skipped  classes because, I think that I was a good student. I believe that the fact that my classmates and I have in common is that we have the same tutor in our hearts, even though he was really strict with exams and deadlines , I have to thank him because that’s the reason why nowadays I’m really methodical with my studies.

As I said before, education is changing due to it there are new methods of learning languages. There’s one called “ Crazy English” developed by a Chinese man which consists in yelling English on an auditorium in order to help his students to memorized new structures and vocabulary. There is also “ crazy Chinese” and I think that in a nearly future there will be more methods as this. I would be reappy glad to see "Crazy Spanish".

To sum up, education is changing , and it will me changing  but I’m going to give you some food for though. What are we looking for? Do we really want students that learn everything by heart and they don’t really know what they are studying?  Or do we prefer having qualificated students? As Oscar Wilde said “ You can never be overdressed or overeducated” 

Stand up to Cancer

         Today, while I was on my way to the university, I was listening to two friends talking about the C world. One of them was saying that her little nephew had died because of it two months ago with just five years. My heart was broken when I heard that story. Suddenly, I remembered a song of one of my favourite singers Taylor Swift.

This song is called "Ronan" and it is about a little-boy who died because of the C word. However, the amazing thing of the song is not that it is a song from Taylor, it is that she wrote the song according to the blog of Ronan's mum. She had been writing the blog in order to stand up to cancer and tell his own's son story. Moreover, you can read from her own words that she has suffered a lot as well as her kid. In the blog you can find all the information about her son's story. Nowadays, her blog has become a well-known blog that suport the C word. 

If you want to see the blog I enclose you the web page: http://rockstarronan.com/about/

Furthermore, I wish you could listen to taylor's song. I bet you can't hold your tears while listening to it. As Ronan Mum said " it is  absolutely the true story" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfzfiOhGPYI

As a conclusion, I would like to give all my love to those who are suffering this awfull disease. 

The outline of an essay ( class assigment)

Don't support private schools!

I. The number of private schools is increasing day by day all over the world.

II. Very expensive 

    A. Private schools are more expensive than the public ones

    B. Going to a Private school is expensive 

         1. Wear uniform 

         2. Buy books from school

         3. Buy part of the material- that you are going to be ask to bring to class- on the school.

 III. Sometimes at a private school you don't learn as much as in a public one 

        A. Many times teachers don't have the right experience/qualification 

             1. They have bought their post in order to work there

        B Students " Buy" their marks

            1. As their parents are paying the school they always get good marks 

            2. If they fail a year , instead of doing it again their parents are going to pay for the marks

 IV. There is a great possibility of going to university without knowing all you should have

       A. They have bought their marks

             1. They have not learn anything 

             2. They think they know everything they should know

        B. If they do Bachillerato in a different schol there are more chances of do again a year

             1. They don't have the appropiate knowledge acording to the level

             2. They can't stand the preasure of a new thing in which money is not allowed

V. Because of the cost, the little things that you learn and money; we should support public schools. 

1º Práctica evaluable

         When I was a teenager I was curious about our religion, Hence, I started to go to the Church while my friends used to play videogames. Perhaps, when you think about going to the Church, you imagine a group of people gathering together reading the Holy Book and praying. Nonetheless, I have never done that. We have fun at the same tume as we learn. For instance, we sing, dance, go out together to the countryside and so on and so forth. Furthermore, it helped me to find who I wanted to be and how I had to behave with people around me. I must say that , even though it started as curiosity, is finished being the place in wich I found some friends. It is really weird to go to the holy mass on Sunday and see more teenagers than grannies. In other words, I am not the only one. For these reasons, what started as a teen's curiosity turned to be an inspiring way of living.

many people think that it is necessary to own a gun at home because they feel "safe and sound". Others think that keeping a gun at home is a really bad idea. The truth is that Having a gun can sometimes be a lucky dip. Sometimes you don't know why you have it or when  you can  use it. 

The question, why do we have a gun? has a really difficult question. As I said before, it can be because you feel powerful with it. You know that if someone tries to hurt you, it won't be worth trying to hurt you because you will shoot at him. However, let me tell you something. Imagine that you are being annoyed by your neighbour and you wish you could kill him. Would you hesitate on doing it? Of course not. But you have to remember that your kids and watching you, thus, they are learning from you.

It is necessary to use it whenever something is wrong? I would like to tell you a situation that I read on a book called " emotional intelligence". It was about a family that had gone out to the cinema and their little girl stayed at her grandmother's house- which was next to their house. The thing is that the girl went to the house alone and she heard her parents opening the door so ,she decided to hide in a cupboard in order to scare her parents. Nevertheless, when the parents heard a weird noise- they didn't know that it was from their daughter- the father didn't hesitate on grabbing a gun, opening the cupboard and shooting to the girl. He didn't know that it was his daughter. Therefore, I would like to ask what's the point on having a gun?

To sum up, I would like to say that a gun is not a toy and we have to be really carefull with it. Nevertheless, the most important thing is to learn to be patient with those who annoy us because if we shoot at them whenever we are not happy with something, in two years the human race will not exisist any more. 

I know my heritage, do you?

There is nothing more interesting than Ancient Culture. Moreover, I have always been interested in Roman Culture due to the fact that I believe that without them in our history,the world would have never been as we know it nowadays.

There is no doubt that we are sons and daughters of our mother , which would be Roman culture. Unfortunately, our mum's language is thought to be dead - As I see it , it is a thing that has to be discussed owing to the fact that it is still alive in some hearts. However, we have inherited from her our  language, culture or even manners. You won't believe your eyes if you see how similar our culture is to the Roman one.

What would you think if I tell you that they invented our fast food restaurants? Would you believe me if I told you that they developed the fist bar? For those who would never believe what I am writing I have the perfect solution. Why don't you visit a blog about Romans's food and their way of behaving when talking about food or eating? I bet you won't regret checking it out.

My claasmates and I at a Roman banquet in class.

Moreover, two years ago a friend and I created a blog about Roman food and its culture. it is an amazing blog, not only because I really appreciate it but also because it won the second place in a national contest. What's more, we went to "onda regional" in Murcia in order to speak about our blog. We felt like famous people for a while!

My friend Anais and I at Onda Regional 

To sum up,  If you are interested in all this things. Hurry up! and click on this web link, We have to have roots before branches. Therefore , we should never forget where our roots started. 

http://romaentrefogones.wordpress.com/

This is our interview if you want to hear it: http://ficheros.orm.es:3025/descarga/Murycia/ENRED-20130725.mp3

Class practice: problems/solutions

It is a fact that people don't practice sport as much as they used to do in the past. Maybe, it is because they don't have enough time owing to the fact that, nowadays, we have to work more time because of the recession, or it is just because they are too lazy to do sport. Moreover, we have assumed that if we eat healthy food, it is not worth to exercise because it is the same. We are completely wrong. Eating healthy food is never enough. Hence, we'd better practice sport.

One solution to this problem could be the invention of a gift card on gyms in order to encourage people to practice sport. The more sport you practice, the better the gift. Furthermore, the better gift could be a laptop for instance. Unfortunately, people don't care about gifts as long as they have money to buy them. So, why would they go to the gym if they have enough money to buy whatever they want? Another solution would be "compulsory sport " on enterprises if employees want to be promoted. Nevertheless, if you are a boss ,you would like your employees to work rather than to be practicing sport . Therefore, not every boss will approve this solution.

To sum up, even though we try to help people to be sportive, they would do whatever they want. Hence, the best solution is to " mind our own business" and take care of our own health. We'd better not bite off more than we can chew. In other words, it is difficult to take care of our own health, why should we take care to other people health, then?