LOOKING BACK ON MY BLOG

I can see an improvement on my English level, especially in my vocabulary skills. I think that my essays and oral presentations are the activity that best shows my level. I think that I learned most doing the opinion essays and blog posts, because even if we don't like it, writing is the best method to improve our skills. I did not found useful the readings and listenings because they were at the same level than last year, and I already did some of the vocabulary units last year.
For next year, I hope that I can improve even more my English level keeping doing the blog, oral presentations and watching movies.
In conclusion, I have learned a lot this year and I hope that I can finish school with a better level than I have now.

Monokini 2.0

A group of women who survived breast cancer shows us that they are more important things than our problem areas, like celullitis or to not be thin enough to wear a bikini.
Some finnish designers have created swimmwear for these womens, who have lost one or even both breasts. This project is called Monokini 2.0 and it shows how strong they are, after defenfing the cancer.
The designers of the special swimmwear don't want to hide or cover up something, they just want to show the world that breast cancer survivors in bikini or swimmsuit can still look good and be sexy.

For the women, the photo-shoot surely was a test of courage. It is not natural for them to feel comfortable in their bodies one hundred percent with all the changes. But precisely this is what the project "Monokini 2.0" wants to.

On their officialy website, they say:
"We want to create a positive self image in women who have undergone surgery on the breasts,". "We show that they can be completely beautiful and sexy -., Even with only one breast or none at all"

So the next time we put a bikini on we shoud think twice before we complain about our problem areas, because they are more important things in life than to broad hips, to small breasts or thick legs, and this
 project is the proof.

http://monokini2.com/

Frostie

I just found this news article on a german page and I wanted to comment it because it's a wonderful story and it demostrates that good people still exist.
It's a story about the little white goat Frostie.
Frostie lives in a farm in Melbourne, Australia. Already in her young years she suffered from a bacterial infection, which damages the joints. With antibiotics and lots of love from the farm boss, Frostie is nursed back to health, but she can't move her two hind legs, until she gets a second chance in the form of two small wheels. With a wheeled walker, which is strapped to her body, the little goat can walk again and explore the world. The walker was from another animal living in the farm, called Leon Trotsky, a small pig. Immediately after his birth Leon's mother accidentely fell on him and injured him so much that he never could walk again, until the walker came.
The walker passed to Frostie because Leon learned to walk alone and now we hope the same for Frostie!

Primavera Pop 2014

Every year, the spanish radio station 40 Principales organizes a festival called Primavera Pop. It is celebrated this 23th and 24th in Barcelona and Madrid.
Marta, Tània, Esther and I decided to participate this year. We will go this friday after school to Badalona and we are very excited because this year they have invited a lot of special guests, and the best is that it's for free!
It is true that I don't know the most of them but I can't wait to see The Vamps. It's a british pop rock boy band formed in 2012, so they are newcomers. The members are the teenagers Connor Ball, Tristan Evans, James Mcvey and Brad Simpson and in England they are like The Wanted or Little Mix, so we could say that they are pretty famous.
I'm also excited to see Clean Bandit, the newcomer from England with the song "Rather be". To sum up, it will also come Sweet California, Abraham Mateo, Fraag Malas, Xuso Jones, etc.
In conclusion, I will enjoy the festival with my friends and I hope to have a good time together.

Should teachers wear an uniform?

Personally, I think that, in our school, it would be completely stupid to force the teachers to wear an uniform or to have a dress code.
Firstly, in my imagination it seems very funny to see all my teachers in uniforms, just when they were younger and went to school.
Secondly, it also would be funny if they had a dress code, like to wear a skirt everyday. But, in this case, the male teachers wouln't be an exception, they would have to wear them too.
To finish, it is true taht it would be funny, but anyway, it is a stupid idea. It is widely known that the students are the ones who should wear an uniform, and not the teachers.

Fighting for a better world

Over the past couple of years, our environment has changed very drastically, but I think that our world had these problems already a long time ago, but they tried to hide it from the inhabitants. Because it's a fact that it's nearly impossible that from one year to another people can damage our planet so badly. If we had reacted before, we probably wouldn't be in this situation today, but we were not able because we had no idea of what was happening.

The main reason of the environment of the world is because humans don't take enough care of the Earth, and if we don't to anything about it, the Earth will not be in a "good shape" for a long time anymore.

Luckily, there are many solutions for this problem. One thing that we could do is to conserve energy thinking in a smaller way. We can reduce our necessaries and then recycle them, turn off every light that we don't need, turn off the water while brushing our teeth or washing the dishes, etc.

Another more drastic way is to use more the bycicle or to avoid completely the car. But this is impossible for the most people. We need our car for everything so we can't renounce to it.

But, it is true that the most effective and easy way to save our environment is recycling. Recycling means to reduce, reuse and recycle and we should all do this. It's not difficult; we just have to do very simple things like separating plastics or glass from the organic or paper trash and take care about where we leave the waste.

In conclusion, we don't need to change completely our way of living, if we all do little things to avoid these problems we can make a big change, but his only works if we do it together. 

BLOGGER

Blogging has become a popular hobby for a lot of teenagers in the last years. Especially girls use it to express their feelings and to talk about their lifes. Some of them also give their opinions about fashion or celebraties and make tutorials about make-up and hair.

On one hand, the fashion bloggers have become so famous that they already can live and pay their bills with that "hobby". They also get invitations for Fashion weeks and they also have the opportunity to meet famous designers.

On the other hand, the personal bloggers write about their whole world and everybody can read it, I think that, for those people nothing is private, and everybody need their privacy.

In my opinion, I think that writing a blog is a good idea for a lot of people, but it isn't for me. It is true that it helps to improve the writing skills and to express the creativity, but I feel like my blog is homework where I have to write an essay every week. In other words, I don't have fun doing it.

In conclusion, if I would like to do it, I would write about my life and I would give tutorials.

Elk herd

I have just found this funny video on Youtube.
In a small town in Canada, Canmore, some tourists went on a trip to visit the Bow River when they suddenly saw a whole elk herd swimming in the river.

Haribo

Haribo is a german confectionary company, founded in 1920 by Johannes Riegel. Haribo made the first gummy candy in 1922 which was called Gummibärchen ( little gummy bears). 

The company is now one of the biggest manufacturers of gummy and jelly sweets in the world. They mainly produce gummy bears, but also jelly sweets and liquorice. Haribo has five factories in Germany and 13 throughthout the rest of Europe and you can buy them in nearly every continent and country of the world. 

Until now, they are available in six colours:

- White (pineapple)

- Yellow (lemon)

- Orange (orange)

- Red (strawberry)

- Purple (raspberry)

- Green (apple)

But in June 2014 we can buy the new edition of the Gummy Bears, with six new varieties: 

- Pink (grapefruit)

- Green (woodruff)

- Dark red (cherry)

- Yellow (apricot)

- Green (watermelon)

- Blue (blueberries)

Fit and Healthy

Two weeks ago, I decided to change my lifestyle. I want to become fit and healthy, but not in this excessive way because I don't want to be addicted to the gym or to be obsessed with my figure neither.
Because of this, I decided to sign in in the gym of Empuriabrava. They just opened two weeks before, after closing for a time. I'm trying to go from Monday to Friday about one hour or two, of course if I don't have too much homework and exams.
I know a lot of people who goes there, and I also have met some new people. They are all very friendly and they help when you have a problem.
The first week I had muscle soreness, I couldn't even get out of my bed! But now it's getting better, I feel that I can do more, and for a longer time.

PHRASAL VERBS

A long time ago, a girl called Emily get away from home to travel to her favourite continent: Africa.
She get on a bus and looked for her african friend Kaplan. After finding him, she dropped of in an hotel and she carried on her trip. She went to visit some museum, natianol parks and historical monuments in Kapstadt, of course with her friend Kaplan. The next day, they went to the beach, and there, Kaplan confessed that he was very sick, he only had a few years more to live, so Emily cared for him and she sweared to look after him forever.
She had to look up for the best medicine to save him and she worked out untill she fount it!
Emily and Kaplan fell in love and settled down in a small apartement in the middle of Kapstadt for the rest of their lifes.

SCHOOL

Last week my classmates went to London and unfortunetely I had to go to school. Most people didn't come, we only were about six or seven people in class.

The teachers were very upset and angry because so much people dind't come just because they didn't wanted to. I supose that they thought that the teachers won't advance the class but they don't care anyway. The people and teachers were very happy about the feeling we had in class because we only were the people who really wanted to learn, nobody was interrupting and also the teachers were much more relaxed that the others day. We didn't have homework to do too, because we had time to finish it all in class.

After school I had to help in the Café of my mother, the café is always full of people, so much that I don't understand from where all the people come from.

All in one, this were some really relaxing days and I enjoyed them.

Barbie vs Lammy

Every little girl dreamed to be like a Barbie, to have a perfect body, perfect skin, perfect hair and a perfect boyfriend, but most little girls don't unterstand that they are just dolls and that they don't exist in real life.

Lately, the criticism of Barbie was getting bigger, the unrealistic proportions of the plastic doll show young girls a false women picture.

Last year, appeared a picture with " Barbie with a normal body", and the whole world have celebrated this new normal doll. The american artist Nickolay Lamm has designed this doll and for the prototype, he used the body measurements of a 19-year-old average American women.

To make this reality they have oppened a Kickstarter project and called fans for help to finance the project. Those who pay 17 USD (approximately 12,34€)  gets the first edition of the new Babie, Lammy.

The Kickstarter project was a huge success, and the fans payed 95000 USD for Lammy going in production. Already on the second day, the project has collected more than the double because everyone wants to have a Lammy at home!

New Zealand

In this picture you can see New Zealand.

New Zealand and Australia are very similar but I have always prefered New Zealand, I don't know why.

For me, New Zealand was always a little big dream of mine, I always wanted to go there one day because it's seems to me like the perfect paradise. It's a country of stunning and diverse natural beauty. It's like an all in one island, you can see jagged mountains, rolling pasture land, steep fiords, large lakes, raging rivers, wonderful beaches and activ volcanic zones.

These islands are one of Earth's most peculiar bioregions, habited by flightless birds seen nowhere else such as a nocturnal parrot called Kakapo and Kiwi, wich are national symbols.

 Another highlight of the islands are the glaciers. When somebody thinks about glaciers they woul situate them in the cold places, but New Zealand has several, the most famous are the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers in the Westland National Park.

I would love to travel to New Zealand because it often adds an adventure twist to nature, it's the original home of jet-boating and bungy jumping.

I hope this dream will come one day true, so I have started to planning my activities:

-Birdwatching

-Boat tours

-Bungy Jump at the Lake Taupo

-Canyoning

-Diving

-Hiking

-Ice Climbing

-Jetskiing

-Rafting

-Swimming with dolphins