Kinda worried about summer

The summer is near and everybody is impatient for the holidays. I don't know if there'll be like the others: I'm thinking about start working besides I have to do a lot of things... You know, I'm kinda worried about it. I don't know what exactly I'm going to do with the "treball de recerca", and it's important to have already clear how to do it.What about friends? Most of them will work, a lot will go on trips and few will stay here for the summer.

In reality, I'm not like thinking... I have some work for tomorrow, and it's very important, besides I'm a bit stressed lately.

Reading time ! : The call of the wild

Buck, a four-year-old dog, lives peacefully in Saint Claire's valley. Manuel, Buck's master's gardener, wants to sell Buck to a man who needs dogs for sleighs to pick gold on North-west Canada. The dog, who doesn't know what's going on, is abandoned in a train. Before he can escape, the train begins to move, sending Buck to an unknown place...

Opinion

Well, it isn't a bad book. Reading how Buck is treated made me sad, but I like the story in general.Good ambientation and adjectives to describe the situations. Recommended for those people who really love animals.

Cinema time ! : Kung-Fu Panda

Po is a panda who wishes to be a kung-fu master. He admires Master Shifu, Master Oogway and the Furious Five, the kung-fu masters who are living in the Jade Palace, in a mountain near the town where he lives. He spend his life being a waiter in his fathar's restaurant, but one day, master Oogway organizes an exhibition in which the Furious Five have to compite to be chosen as the "Dragon Warrior". Accidentally, Po becomes the "Dragon Warrior", wining an oportunity to fullfill his dream... But, there isn't only good things... Tai-Lung, an evil guy who is in prison, wants to have his revenge...

Opinion

I think is a really funny movie! The summary I put above seems to describe a serious movie, but it isn't. Good dubbing and character expresiveness, although is an animation film. Recommended for those people who go after their dreams (all ages).

Final reflection - 1ST BTX

I think I've improved a lot. I had done a lot of practice (mostly with your-says and the grammar book), and learnt a large amunt of vocabulary, that I used a lot of times in my posts (like "environment" (I didn't know that word, I used to say "atmosphere", or terrifying things like "ambiental"), for example). Also I already know more about some interesting verbal forms, like the conditionals (Example: If I don't work, I won't have the 10) and the future (Example: I'll work a lot).

For me, the best post I ever done is... none. All the posts have their caracteristics, and I like them all the same way. I used different grammar and vocabulary on my posts, but I think that the bests about this are the posts that talk about my opinion.

The most interesting activities for learning English were the oral presentations (because you get used to read in English, and you may translate some words, learning their meaning), the "your-says" (because you were talking about something that interests you, and all the words you translated are learnt easily) and the activities on the grammar book (because there are all kinds of exercises on this book, and it's possible to correct them by yourself). I don't think that any activity was unuseful, because in all the activities you had to search for translations, and it helps a lot to learn some vocabulary, or read things in English, and it improves your grammar by getting use to see verbs correctly used, or adjectives,...

I would like to do the same activities; I liked them. It's true that I don't like very much to do oral presentations, but is fine. The idea of doing your-says is great, and good for improve your mark (with effort, and I think it's right to permit it). In this subject, I felt freedoom to do whatever I want to improve my mark, and it's a thing that I value really positively. In other words, I love the English subject, and I hope that it won't change.

Informal dialogue

Maybe I won't put the dialogue video for personal reasons, but it will be here:

http://tadziosgate.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/podcast-soap-opera.html

We've almost learnt to respect our world

Nowadays, there are a lot of improvements in order to protect the environment. But, is it really true that we have almost learnt to respect our world? There's still a lot of bad things affect our world.
In a way, I agree with the idea that we've made an improvement in our attitude towards teh earth. There are a lot of clean energy plants, a considerable number of foundations and charities,... But it's also true that we became more irresponsible: cars are overused, the seas are polluted,...

 If we respect our world, a lot of things will mostly disappear, and the government isn't showing any interest in that. Respect the world creates less money than destroying it, so it's not a good idea to preserve it. Seems crazy, eh? People literally killing a lot of life forms only for money. Unfortunately, the world is full of such bad people.
I think that this masacre won't stop until the earth becomes uninhabitable. Instead of losing one million euros, for example, they eill lose 30 million to make another planet comfortable for human life (maybe they would find one already prepared, but surely they will let non-important people die here). Silly, very silly. If it's like this, I think that the people who are getting richer due to this "way-of-doing" things are very stupid, or maybe "normal people" will pay for the rich's errors

Oral presentation : Bullying

Self-Evaluation

Quite good. Nervous as usually, but good, better than the presentation of the second term, I think. I have practiced, but not the necessary. I had forgotten some parts, mixed some parts with others, there were some moments that I’ve becomed understandable... The intonation and pronunciation was quite good, though.

I really liked this topic, I wanted to do this presentation for a long time ago. I was quite embarrassed, but that’s all. A moment I really feel “warm” in the class was when someone had asked me if I know someone who was bullied... I felt the time freezed. I love when people show their emotions, or make a try to show a little. It makes me feel very embarrassed and comfortable.

My internet connection hates me, and didn't let me put the video... I'm beggining to get annoyed by this.

'No signal' from targeted ET hunt

Australian astronomers used a great big new installation to examine Gliese 581, a star known to host planets in its habitable zone. It has six planets, two that are like super-Earths. The research was done, but nothing was found.

It doesn't affects me, but annoys me. I don't understand why we have to spend our time and money exploring the space while there are a lot of people dying because of diseases. I imagine how the installation costs, for nothing...
What exactly do astronauts in the space? Explore? The only use I can see for this is the experimentation on 0 gravity conditions... But I think that we can already simulate this conditions on the Earth, so... I realise that we can find intesting things outside (like material), but meanwhile, a lot of poor people is dying because they can't eat (What cost of fabrication has a rocket? Maybe 10 human lives? Much more, I think)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18288926

"How you remind me" - Nickelback

Never made it as a wise man / Mai fer-ho com un home sabi
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing / No vaig poder parar-ho com un pobre home robant
Tired of living like a blind man / Cansat de viure com un home cec
I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling / Estic cansat de veure sense sentir res
And this is how you remind me / I així és com em recordes

This is how you remind me / Així és com em recordes
Of what I really am / Del que realment sóc
This is how you remind me / Així és com em recordes
Of what I really am / Del que realment sóc

It's not like you to say sorry / No és propi de tu dir perdó *
I was waiting on a different story / Estava esperant una cosa diferent
This time I'm mistaken / Aquesta vegada m'he equivocat
For handing you a heart worth breaking / Per entregar-te un cor digne de trencar

And I've been wrong, I've been down / I he estat equivocat, he estat "deprimit"
Been to the bottom of every bottle / Anant fins al final de cada ampolla
These five words in my head / Aquestes 5 paraules al meu cap
Scream, "Are we having fun yet?" / Criden, "Estem divertint-se encara?"

Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no / No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no / No, no

It's not like you didn't know that / No és com si no ho sabéssis
I said I love you and I swear I still do / Vaig dir que t'estimava i vaig jurar que ho continuaria fent *
And it must have been so bad / I ha hagut de ser dolentíssim
'Cause living with me must have damn near killed you / Perquè viure amb mi quasi et mata *

This is how you remind me / Així és com em recordes
Of what I really am / Del que realment sóc
This is how you remind me / Així és com em recordes
Of what I really am / Del que realment sóc

It's not like you to say sorry / No és propi de tu dir perdó *
I was waiting on a different story / Estava esperant una cosa diferent
This time I'm mistaken / Aquesta vegada m'he equivocat
For handing you a heart worth breaking / Per entregar-te un cor digne de trencar

And I've been wrong, I've been down / I he estat equivocat, he estat "deprimit"
Been to the bottom of every bottle / Anant fins al final de cada ampolla
These five words in my head / Aquestes 5 paraules al meu cap
Scream, "Are we having fun yet?" / Criden, "Estem divertint-se encara?"

Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no / No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no / No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no / No, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no / No, no

Never made it as a wise man / Mai fer-ho com un home sabi
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing / No vaig poder parar-ho com un pobre home robant
Tired of living like a blind man / Cansat de viure com un home cec
I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling / Estic cansat de veure sense sentir res
And this is how you remind me / I així és com em recordes

This is how you remind me / Així és com em recordes
Of what I really am / Del que realment sóc
This is how you remind me / Així és com em recordes
Of what I really am / Del que realment sóc

It's not like you to say sorry / No és propi de tu dir perdó *
I was waiting on a different story / Estava esperant una cosa diferent
This time I'm mistaken / Aquesta vegada m'he equivocat
For handing you a heart worth breaking / Per entregar-te un cor digne de trencar

And I've been wrong, I've been down / I he estat equivocat, he estat "deprimit"
Been to the bottom of every bottle / Anant fins al final de cada ampolla
These five words in my head / Aquestes 5 paraules al meu cap
Scream, "Are we having fun yet?" / Criden, "Estem divertint-se encara?"
 
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet? / Estem divertint-se encara?
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet? / Estem divertint-se encara?
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
Are we having fun yet? / Estem divertint-se encara?
Yeah, yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah
No, no / No, no


* I'm not sure

I've done only the traduction, the other is copy and paste.

The panda

The panda in an herbivore animal that lives mostly on China, on their natural "home": bambu woods. Their caracteristic colours and shape makes it one of the most known animals in the world. It has many ressembles to a bear, focusing on the shape. The really original caracteristic of the panda is its colours: white with some black zones. You can see an example in the photo, but I supose you already know its existence.

It's my favourite animal: cute and big. I really like his colours, that make him unique worldwide. Of course, I know that if you get close to a baby panda and the mother is seeing you, you probably get killed by its clws and teeth... It's strange, but I like how protector are with its "children".


NOTE: When I tried to put an image, Blogger didn't let me, so I put de link...

Panda

First batxillerat is over!

This year was quite stressing. It was quite difficult to adapt to batxillerat environment, but I'd made an effort and finally I 've done quite well all the subjects.
At first it ressembles to ESO because of people behaviour and the childish atmosphere floating on the air... It doesn't change a lot, though. There are some people who are behaving like this alright now... I don't mind really, but they're wasting their time and their parents money. You know, batxillerat is optional. Then, seems illogic to come here to do nothing. Maybe they had tried, and gived up because of difficulty. Because it's not easy: Doing batxillerat requires effort and constance.
I hope  second will be more serious. I 've liked a lot the way that teachers explain, but the "bad students" behaviour ruined the climate. It's true that in an exam week you can get really stressed, but it's not only for the final reward: It's for autosuperation too.