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. 

Problem/solution Poverty

Poverty is a serious problem. In fact, we should be aware of how unfair the world is. The poor are poorer, the rich are richer. This is nothing new under the sun. Moreover, in leads to several problems like the lack of educarion. food or help.

One answer to this problem could be really easy to say but not as easy to do. The solution could be saving money in order to donete it. You don't have to save a huge amount, you can start by easy things like saving a quid per day. Being an altruistic person won't aplly much effort.

Another possible answer to this issue could be trying to help there by being part of an NGO. At his way, you can make use of some of your skills  and help then to learn a language, to dance or simply to read and write because most of the poor people are illiterate.

A final answer to this problem is to strike on developed countries in order to support them. However, this is a really difficult step to accomplish because most of the people don't care about the rest of the world expect themselves. In order words, they do not know what "loving their neighbour" is.

To sum up, if we are not concious about the problem, we will never be able to finish with it. Fortunately, if we try to work together we can develop a better world because we ran the world.

Fear- Raymond Carver.

Fear of being alone
Fear of changing myself
Fear of being missunderstood
Fear of not making my dreams come true
Fear of myself
Fear of my weackness
Fear of being frightned
Fear of revange
Fear of being a looser
Fear of a car crashing
Fear of French
Fear of people
Fear of busy people with busy lifes
Fear of this WILD WORLD 

Pre-Writting ( class assigment)

Brainstorming:

- Making a list 
Travelling

1- visit different places
2. discover a new culture
3. know different things
4. how a place can make you feel better
5. Get pleasure if it is a family trip
6. Get profit of it if it is a bussisnes trip

freewriting(with mistakes)

When I was younger I used to go to dance classes. I really liked until my teacher become a bossy woman and she was yelling at my classmates and I. It was awful. So, that is the reason why I decided to stop to go to that classes. The advantage of drop it was starting to learn new things as English.

Freewriting( with mistakes checked)

When I was young, I used to go to dancing classes. I really liked it until my teacher become a bossy woman who was always yelling at my classmates and I. It was awful. So, that is the reason why I decided to stop going to ballet. The advantage of dropping it was that I had the chance to learn new things such as English.

2º Práctica evaluable

thesis statement: A language is thought to be dead when it is not longer used. Therefore, Latin is not a dead language because it is still used and it is never going to disappear.

I. Introduction and thesis statement at the end

II. It has a huge influence on other languages
    A. Romance languages
        1. Spanish -e.g agenda
        2. Italian - e.g custodia
        3. French - e.g dame
   B. Germanic languages
        1. English - e.g pauper
        2. German - e.g Prosit

III. International uses
    A. Music - e.g ad libitum
    B. Science
         1. Medicine - e.g name of some diseases
         2. Biology - e.g name of plants
    C. Literature

IV. International Grammar
      A. Expresions - e.g quid pro quo
      B. Conjuctions - e.g ergo

V. Conclusion

While it is being used all over the world, it is never going to disappear and if somehow it is thought to be completely dead it would be a fake because Latin has given a huge inherit to all languages. Is the mother that all languages have in common.

Music. There's nothing that express words that can not be said better than music. Music makes you feel all the feelings you can imagine- and even feelings for which you don't have names. As you can read on my previous lines I love music. 

Music has been part of my life since I was born as my grandad used to play plenty of instruments and so does my dad. Therefore, it was expected that someone in my family would have this passion for music. In addition, it has been me the lucky one. 

When I was a child I used to compose lyrics with an old friend- of course not really difficult lyrics, I was 8 years old. My songs were about cats, dogs and homework. Moreover, nowadays  when I read them I can't avoid laughing. They were so much fun! When I was 13 years old I decided to learn how to play guitar as I wanted to be like my father, who used to be a little famous with his music when he was young. Hence, I enrolled into a guitar course. Nevertheless, I had to give it up two years ago because of my studies. But I have to say that I have never stop playing guitar, what's more 3 years ago I decided to learn how to play the ukelele by my own. It's an hilarious instrument. My musical interests don't finish here. I have also been singing in the choir of my high school for 6 years. It was called " The bilingual choir" because we singed music in all language but normally nor Spanish.

With the choir I have sing in many places from the Molinas' theather to other Spanish cities such as Madrid, Valladolid or Cabra, which is a village in Cordoba. I have really enjoyed the choir and I am really thankfull for have  been given the oportunity to be part of it. Moreover, 4 years ago and old friend and I decided to enroll a contest in Thader Shopping center. We sang a played a song and we won the second place - the award was 400 € for both of us. It was an experience that I am never going to forget. Now, when I think about it, I don't even know how I was so brave to sang in front of a crowd like the one on the day of the contest. 

To sum up, As you can see I love music and I hope that it continues being an important part of my life. However, by saying that I love singing and playing it doesn't mean that I do it well. I just try to do my best while having fun .

Class assigment (Write an essay)

People sometimes ask whether art should be taught at school. Some say that the time spent on art would be better spent on more useful or academic subjects. However, in my opinion art should not only  be taught at every school it should be compulsory at school.

For one thing, most students enjoy learning art. This is because art is an active lesson that takes them away from lectures and books. Art lessons develop the students' creativity and help them to express their ideas and feelings in a different way-using colours instead of words.

In addition, learning art may be useful later in life. For example, young people often discover their artistic talents through art lessons. This can lead to a degree in art, such as fine arts, computer graphics or design. can you imagine what would happen if you have a gift for art and you never have the chance to discover it?

To sum up, art lessons should be part of the school curriculum. Art is an important and enjoyable subject that can benefit every student.

Dionysius is stalking

    Our society is the best representation of what " Apollinian" mens. It is a society controled by fool people. Fools without reason. When I say " fools" I mean vacuous people that are unable to think by themselves. However, these fools are the most powerfull people of the world. Nevertheless, We are  the true fools because we let them persuade us to do whatever they want to.

Furthermore,  we can't deny that our society is attending to a crisis of values. While the old greek men used to be worried about the  ἀρχή - which is the cause of everything-, the old roman people used to be worried about being the best engineers in order to make their neighbours life easy. What are we worry about? We are worried about having the latest fashion either in technology and fashion. We are worried about reaching our aims , even though sometimes it involves destroy the aims of our mates. We are worried about not being worried. What would our future be if the Greeks or Romans hadn't be worried about anything?

To my mind, the world would  never be the same. Maybe in our world, Dionysius would have always reigned and we would have never known Apollo. Fortunately, our world has known  Apollonian things- the order, the ability to think... and maybe that's the reason why we want him back. Unfortunately, there's always Dionysian in all Apollonian things. Is like a war that is being developed inside ours souls. I have some proves to support what I am saying. Ten years ago when a teenager saw an old woman, the teen used to help her. Nowadays, young people ignore everyone except themselves. What are we pretending to do with this? We are even loosing manners with old people. Don't forget that they are lucky, they have known Apollo.

Someone could tell me that I am a liar because ancient Greeks used to have a balance between Apollo and Dionysius. When they had to work hard they were Apollo and when they had to drink wine, dance and eat they were  Dionysius. However, in our society this is impossible. There will always be a dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysius. That's just because our society is the society of the excess. There is no a "modern Greek" that is a hard-worker and then has time to have time. Nowadays, if you work hard, you don't have time to have fun. And, if you have fun is because you don't have a job. Therefore, we can learn that by placing Apollo in our life we would have controlled our Dionysius, and we would have created another type of society. Maybe the old philosopher would have never disappeared.

In short, it seems that our society has lack of principles. It appears that we are just worried about sports, music, fashion and parties. At this way, Dionysius will always be stalking us. Our world would never stop being a fight between Apollo and Dionysius, a fight between the justice and the injustice, the reasonable and the unreasonable. As the great philosopher Karl Marx said" The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." That change has to be made by us. What do we prefer? Live on the ignorance or develop our skills to create a better world? 

Me and Marx's quote.