My impression

My impression this year is not so far than I expected, a hard course. The end is close so... should I give up as I have never done? Or just keep working hard and get better marks than now I'm getting. I think I'll choose the second option basicly because all time I've spent, all time I've been suffering and every good mark has made me a smile.

Even people say that the chance between ESO mentality and Batxillerat mentality it's a huge jump, I think that where there is that jump is between 1r and 2n, because you got more homework, more exams, more tasks to be done, and as supposed, less time because selectivity is turning the corner.

But... as every problem in this world, there is a solution: working hard. These two words means more than just two words. Working hard means that you have to optimize the time you got doing school tasks, it means no facebook while you're doing homework, leave activities you did before if these activities spend you more time that you got, etc...

In fact, 2n is a hard course, probably the most befor university, but it is not impossible, and even bad thoughs came to your mind, remember to don't give up never

Gregorio Luri

Gregorio Luri is one of the most important philosophers in our contry, Spain. We went to a philosophy meeting in Figueres, where he did a speech to us. He congratuled us for our composition about the myth of progress.
He said that people had changed their mind and their way to understand the things that happens. After this, he add that the world is going in a wrong way and we'll kill our planet. However, there are some optimistic people who thinks that as everybody, our minds can change to a better way but we have to work together. Apart from this, he also added that we are tending to think on our own, not in the rest. We just want whatever can feel us happy or feel us we're important because we got it.

Oral presentation

This oral presentation has been the first in second of batxillerat. As it's a custom for me, I was so nervous when I started to speak, but then, I improved my own security and I started to speak more clearly and more fluency. Even though I prepare an oral presentation, nerves will be there always, I can't keep them off.

I think I should try to move less, and stop saying wierd things, as sometimes I say. In general, although I don't know the mark I got, I should try to improve my fluency and my vocabulary. I did some important mistakes that I shouldn't do to improve my english. Next time I'll do better than now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrNPPMQJjI

20N

20N is the name people gave to spanish elections on November. Normally when one conutry has elections, people chose the president that they want and normally it is not clearly. But in Spain, probably elections wouldn't be needed.

Spaniards have chosen Rajoy with almost all votes. The PP won about 44% of the vots and socialists 29%. It's one of the most difference since Franco's time. Its PP vots should be abouts 186 seats on the lower house.

It affects us because we're Spaniards and it's our country, all action govern does, it affects to us. Also I think it will be a drak periode for Catalonia so I think catalans must be together to face up it.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15809062

I am a champion

I am a champion is the name of one of the videos I see before a match. In this video appears a coach, called Flower who's trying to motivate his players before a match. It's in english but there are lots of traductions to anothers languages. And as somebody say, if you see this video, you can jump to the square without open the door, you jump to play very concentrated, trying to do all things as well you can. This speech talks about how you have to jump to the square, the way you have to be, and what do you need to act correct and think clearly. It's important to get ready physically and mentally if you want to be a good player. Now the video, it's beautiful to hear him speaking to his players:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX39J_YyKbs

Nick Vujicic

Probably you won't ever heard this name because you think: oh it's just a man, like me or like some others. But he's different. He's 23 but he was born without limbs. Only there was a little "chiken wing" as he say in his left leg. When he was young, everybody thought that he had a mental disability but it isn't true, and other boys laughted at him. Sometimes he thought about to commit a suicide, even his parents thought that he wouldn't be nobody in this life. Nobody said it was easy and without limbs more. He's very clever, but just with his wing. He can swim, he can talk to someone, he can drive a car, he does a normal life like us.

Nick is very strong. He always say that you must not give up even thought things doesn't go well, you must carry on fighting for reach your dreams, as he did.

In fact, you don't have to feel bad to change your life if things go wrong, just think nothing go wrong *:)

HIMYM

How I met your mother is one of the most popular tv programme in USA. This serie explains the life of Ted Mosby and his friends. Ted is a rational man who doesn't do anything without thnking about it. This serie follow the life of he and his friend through a search of Ted's love. He's an architect who is working in a university but Barney Stinson wants to give him a project to build the new building for his company. Barney is a smart men who wants to roll up with a lot of girls. But also, he's looking for his love, but he doesn't find it.

Also there is the only couple in the serie: Marshall Erikssen and Lilly Aldrin. They met them in the university and started a relationship since then. They are the characters who give stability in this serie and the perfect love.

And the character that's it's different than the rest is Robin. She's a journalist from Canada but she decide to work in NYC. Ted fell in love with her and after that he introduce her in his friend group.

In my opinion, this is one of the best tv serie and it shows how important is a friend group to enjoy

Don't worry, be happy.

Sometimes we get stressed and we can't think clearly. It means that there is something wrong inside our brain as neurotransmissors aren't working well at this moment and you need to take a break. Specialists now are trying to find out how the brain workd and what causes some of the most populars neurodegeneratives diseaes. Actually we know what every part of our brain does but we don't know the reason why it happens.

Some specialists are making an effort to look for this solution because they think that it would help them to understand how we are abd why we are.It could also help by looking for the regeneration of neurons, and neurotransmitors.

It can give society a ray of hope because if you have a relative who has a degenerative disease, it can help him and also to make people more intelligent, to understand feelings and emotions, but above all, to help people

Febrary 2011 Catalonia Today

Galileo

Europe has launched to the space a rocket that carries the most famous European GPS system: Galileo. A total of 16 satellites that have to complete this system that it has to be the most complex system and useful for us. The system allows you to know where someone is with in a milimetric precision around the world.

But the only bad thing that it has is that you can know were your mobile contacts are if you have an iPhone with "Find my Friends" and it can give problems to some couples.

In general, it shows how technology has improved a lot, and that's a positive point for European technology.

San Francisco

Before to leave LA, we rent a Suburban. I have to say that this car is one of the most comfortable I've ever been. We spent 7 hours traveling trought west Coast. We did a break in Santa Barbara, a great and beautiful place with an endless coastline full of beaches. Then, we arrived to SF, about 8 pm. The city was full of fog and all cars had the lights on. We found our hotel and as we were hungry, we found some place to have dinner. As it's usual in USA, fast food was the best solution to calm our hungry.

At 8am, we were going to pier 33 to take a ferry to Alcatraz. My impression about Alcatraz was magic. When you're there, you start to think how feelings people felt when they were there and how the life was inside the prision.

Afterwards, we went to have lunch, fish and ships in a chinese trade. Then we went to visit little italy and chinatown. When the night fell over SF, all homeless went out from some shelters and the city was afraid. But the positive thing of it, was that we could ride a cablecar, and see all famous places.

In general, one of the most beatuiful cities in USA, and a great place to enjoy.

L.A.

Have you ever had a dreamed place where you'd like to go? I had one: West Coast. I don't tell you what I felt when I was there right now, so let me explain my trip.

My trip starts in Barcelona in the airport. We catch the plan from Barcelona to Zurich. We arrive in Zurich at 11pm and 1 hour after, we were flying to L.A.. During 13 hours, my boring level was maximum. We land at 15 pm and we find the way we can go out from the airport.

LAX (the name of L.A. airport) is huge and there are infinity of ways to go out. We catch a bus and after lose ourself in L.A outskirts during 3 hours, we arrive to L.A. center, Hollywood Boulevard. Huge avenues, large streets, lots of cars driving at high speed and some homeless. We spend 1 hour looking for the hotel, and finally we arrive. After it, we leave the luggage to the room and go for some food, fast food, traditional american food.

1 day: We spend one day in L.A. After to explain what we do, I have to advertise you: L.A. is a waste of time and money. Then I explain you:

We wake up at 8am and we have breakfast. 20 minutes later, we are walking to Hollywood. We arrive to Hollywood and we see that it's a fantastic place. We spend 3 hours visiting Hollywood, Chinese theatre, Hollywood street and some more things. We take lots of photos. After it we decide to visit Beverly Hills and we meet a man who wants to guide us with limousin to Beverly Hills. We spend 3 hours visiting Beverlly Hills and Rodeo Street.

As we are starved, we decide to look for some restaurant and as normal, fast food.

At the afternoon we visit Pueblo, the originally center of L.A. at next to L.A. skyline. We spend all afternoon visiting pueblo and at 8 pm, we are at the hotel. We look for some fast food and go to sleep as tomorrow waits for us 8 hours closed into a car traveling to S.F.

My objective for this course

My objective for this course are manly to pass Batxillerat and get the qualification. I would also like to get a good mark in selectivity.

For the first term, I'm doing my homework ever day and if I have no homework, I do new posts or my research project. I have to say that I don't believe myself because I'm working very hard and on the 5th of october I have my first exam. And there's another problem that worries me: the research project, but this problem will be fixed in the second term.

For the second term, I'll keep going with the same dynamics, and must not give up, as it will be one of the hardest terms and I expect that my marks won't go down. And the third term will be the last. I'll finish batxillerat and then I'll prepare for selectivity.

I would like to maintain the same rythm than the first term and I think if I follow this rythm, it won't be a nightmare course.

How I am

My dream

I'm Aleix and now I'm doing 2nd of Batxillerat. I've always been a lazy boy. But this year it isn't. This year I'm working hard because I want to get the best mark in selectivitat if I could. I'm glad on myself because I'm not the same boy than last year, I've changed. I would like to study an computering career when I finish batxillerat.


When I'll finish my career, I would like to carry on studying and course some specialized master, like making and design computer games amb video games and go to workl on EA SPORTS labs or ACTIVISION labs. But all these words are just words.

Final reflection

This year I've improved a lot. I remember when I started the year, I wrote very slow, but now I can write with more fluency. I think this better is for the blog. Also, because this year I've known a lot of English and American people playing some on-line games and I've emailed with their.
The main activity I've could show my english level has been in compositions and exams. I've passed all english exams and in fact, I've imporved a lot.
For me, doing the blog has been a great way to improve in fluency and vocabulary.

Podcast

Child soldier

Child soldiers

Self-evaluation:

I think that it has been the worst presentation I've ever done. I was too nervous to speak with my habitual fluency. I have to recognize that I hadn't prepeared as well as I wanted and it can be one of the most problems to expose it. But slowly I'm improving and I think this is the main objective to reach, and the next steap is speak without any preparation so to reach it, I think many years has to passed befor I get it.

I haven't found the video into clara's phone.

Third age Total War

Third age Total War is a fantàstic game about the Lord of the Ring. This is not an authentic game, is a Medieval Total War's modification. TATW includes new soldiers, new factions like orcs, humans, elves, and some others factions. One thing I like in this game is that you can do all you want as kill orcs, or trade with elves. You can improve your soldiers with gold shields or improve their swords. Also, inside each faction, there are exclusive units. For exemple, humans have the white tree guardians or orcs have fighting elephants. I think this summer I will play as much as possible because I've started to play in exam's time and it isn't a good time to play now, I'll wait for the beginning of summer to play, and to enjoy so much!

Piece of news

Bin Laden has been killed by USA army in his house in Pakistan. Momently, there are no official photos about his death body. One thing it's true: there are too many incognites to resolve as: Does Bin Laden exist? According to Obama, Bin laden has been kill by an headshoot. The Bin Laden's death has been a consequency of a lot of preparations months and nerves, crawl, and research of files until Obama has given the final order to kill him when he was completly sure about the exit of the mission. Also, nobody except some persons of the USA government knew about this operation and neither the Pakistan government knew something. Finally, Obama said that the fighting against terror goes on, but it doesn't mean that Al-Qaeda will give up, they will carry on to make terror around the world.

This notice can affect us because if Bin Laden is death, they will want to revenge his death and it could be that attacks like 11-S or 11-M could take place again and it could the beginning of a non-stop massive attack around the world.

Piece of News

Philosophy's exam

Today at 1:30 we have philosophy exam. This is the last exam in first batxillerat and I'm so nervous because I don't know how to summarized my thinkings and my ideas. We have to study the main ethical theories and what's the difference between know and belive. I thinked that there weren't any differences so I've discovered that there are a lot! Apart of that, also we have to study deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning, logical proofs and some more things like that.
About the theory, I think philosphers smoked marihuana or something like that because an ordinary person couldn't, can't, and be able to think all of these things that it seems paranoids. For exemple, you can't think that the pleasure moves the society and one action will be morally well when incresses the pleasure of maximum number of people. How could they think about it?! For exemple, you can kill Bin Laden beacuse it incresses the happiness of all the Americans. But I think this is an ilogical and non-sense answer or and invalid and maquiavelic statement.