domingo, 1 de diciembre de 2013

Strikes aren't enough!

As you know the Goverment in the latest years has made some reforms in some areas. One of the most affected is Education. They have reduced teachers salary and in some cases they work more hours than before. What's more the right of the worker says that they have to recieve two extra pays for winter and summer holidays and both have been reduced a lot too. 

In Catalonia there is also the problem of the language they say Catalan is not important and it should be reduced as a foreign language as English or French. But they don't see that Catalan is part of our culture and nation and it will always be with us. 
Anyway, the education section ,including teacher and students, organized strikes every month moreless but we obtain any positive result, less now with the new law of Wert. I feel like my country is not developing, it's going backwords. What about Anna Botella? She rediculized Spain in front of the entire world!

If you ask foreign people which words they know in Spanish; the first two words they come to know are: "siesta" and "fiesta". What an image of Spain do they have!!!
The Goverment requires to all studients in College certain level in English and they aren't capable to have a conversation in English !!! 

What I want to say with all this is that strikes don't make any effect, we have to think of another way to hurt and harm the Goverment. But we have to be all together there is no point if we are only a few trying to make a change. 

YES WE CAN ! 

New York



A train wrecks in New York next to a river before turning. In this tragedy four people died and more than sixty were hurt. The accident whic left some of the wagons upside down, was questionated to be for the excess of speed, mechanic problems or a human mistake. 
The train had 150 passangers, the train wrecked at 7.20 am when it was about to turn where the rivers Hudson and Harlem cross. It was one of the biggest accident America has experimented with death consequences. Now this train line is still closed whic harms the people who used it to go to work. But the Goverment has put busses which will take those passangers to an other train station.

It's hard to hear this on a sunday and I send my best wishes to all the people involved in this. 

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Paul Walker death

Paul William Walker was an actor from EEUU most known as Brian O'Conner in the movies of Fast&Furious. He died yesterday (30th of November) in a car crash.
His mother was a famous model and his grandfather a famous boxer. He was nominated as the sexiest man in the People's magazine.
He went to college to study marine Bioligy and in 1991 he graduated.
It is said to be that he was a person who helped a lot with charity work. Yesteday he was going to a charity event in Santa Clarita ( Southern California, not too far from Los Angeles).
Walker was with a friend, Roger Rodas, who died too.
They were driving a Porsche which its speed influenced in the crash, I guess. They crash first with a lamppost and then witha tree. They both were trapped in the car while it was burning in flames, they couldn't move.
Nowadays he was on the project of makinf Fast&Furious 7.

It's a shame that someone loved like him has passed away with only 40 years of age.


Self evaluation of my oral presentation

This link is to see the video in Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MazsDN3iSLw

To begin my oral presentation was about women stereotypes. When analyzing an oral presentation you have to set some points: 
the presentation, the content, the structure, the body language and eye contact, the language and the pronuntation.

I used the Prezi for the first time and to be honest it was a million time better than the Power Point. The structure of our oral presentation was clear and organazed. We explained it at the beggining as it showed the index. Meri started with the definition of what a stereotype is. Then I explained where did everything began with the beauty myth. I also explained the how should be the perfect woman in the planet. Before the conclusion we told the negative consequences. 
We took all the information from Internet and we translated everything to make it more understandable. We also put a lot of pictures to keep the atention of the class on them and not on us. 
My weak point as usual is the body languages; it was the first time doing an oral presentation in front of them so that made me nervious. I always study everything by heart but then I get stressed and I think I'm not saying everything I have to say and I start to read. I try to do my best and at the end of every sentence I try to look up. 
To finish up my best is the pronuntation, I have the advantage of being a person who has the facility on catching any pronuntation in any laguage. What's more as you might know I've been living for a year in Ireland and that made my accent brilliant. 

I always can improve some little things in my oral presentation and I will do my best to make the next one better :)  

Friendship will never die

(DIALOGUE)

Scenario: Two friends sit in a bank in front of the London eye.
Characters: Lily, Jenna

Lily: So have you made up your mine about doing your boobies?
Jenna: I don't know yet... The operation is so expensive, and you know.. I don't have much money now.
Lily: I don't think it's so important how you look, I love you the way you are.
Jenna: Suuuuuure, you say it because you have BIG boobs, you can't understand me!
Lily: Shut up slut! I love you and I hate this type of operations, you know what I mean.
Jenna: yeah... you're right, of course, you're always right... but.. you know, it's depressing.
Lily: Don't be like that, you've a gooood bottom, I want it and you know!
Jenna: excuses excuses, we aren't speaking about my ass, we're speaking about my SMALL tits.
Lily: Hey, hey, listen to me and shut the fuck up. Stop thinking about surgery and love yourself like I love you. I tell you this as a good friend, you know, if I don't like something about you, I say it.
Jenna: Sure, you don't understand it. Look at THESE.
Lily: What?
Jenna: THESE!
Lily: What's wrong?
Jenna: You know what's the matter!
Lily: I don't, they're beautiful.
Jenna: Yeah, a small beauty.
Lily: Enough.
Jenna: Not, not enough.
Lily: If Duchess of Alba is married, you can.
Jenna: Fuck off.
Lily: Don't be mean I'm just trying to help you.
Jenna: It's not helping at all. Please, Duchess of Alba? REALLY?!
Lily: C'mon, I was just kidding.
Jenna: I can joke too.
Lily: NOW it's enough.
Jenna: ok, ok, you win.
Lily: C'moooon, give me a big hug.
Jenna: Not.
Lily: I'll leave you here...
Jenna: ok, byeee bitch.
Lily: See you later!
Jenna: If you step one more time, I'll kill you.
Lily: Making you angry is a piece of cake! hahaha
Jenna: Oh Lily, stop. Please don't start that all over again.
Lily: Now tell me that you love me.
Jenna: mh... I love you and your sweets, give me one.
Lily: yeeey, you did it!
Jenna: yeah, yeah, I've did it so give me one!
Lily: You'll never change.
Jenna: And you love just the way I am




LINK:

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