Final reflection

1. My english progress from 2012-1014

In my first composition I made a lot of mistakes. The most of them were from the structure from the text and not from the sentences. The most of things that I learned I learned this year, because last year the english teacher didn't correct the compositions as this year. I also learned to use new connectors. Now I know that the compositions need a nice strtucture to be better and get good marks.

About the oral presentation: My pronunciation at the first oral presentation ( I don't have it because last year with the other teacher we didn't record it) was really well from the beggining because since 5 years every summer comes a friend from the USA and I improved my speaking thanks to him. What I have improved in this two years is the eye contant. At the beginning I was really scared of the oral presentations and I just looked on my paper, now I look at the people and have eye contact with them.

I can see a personal developement because before I wrote things that weren't coherent and now I write about things that are more interesting and more serious.

2.My english competence in 2014

Best written evidence

Best oral evidence

I have choosen this evidence because I like how I wrote the composition of  'A soumate for me'. I liked it because I used nice vocabulary that I have learned this year. I aslo like it because I can see a personal developement of myself beeing more serious not just writing because it's a task. 

On the oral presentation I like my pronunciation but in this one I still have not so much eye contact like on the last one, but I have got the video on the phone so I can't put it here. I like to talk in english and I hope that in school they begin doing more speaking so they  can improve more they speaking. Now the speaking level in my eyes is really low by most of students.

In conclusion, I hope that it will be useful all that we have learned this year in the english classes and that the next year they abolish the exams. In this case they will have less stress and more time for speaking. You will hear from me in the future :)

Last summer in Spain

Like I have explained in some yoursays last term this summer I leave to Germany. So this summer wil be a special one because it is the last one her in Spain.

First of all, My friends and I have planned to go to Switzerland together and have some fun together there. This will be at the begin of July. After this vacation I will stay the rest of the summer here in Spain. I don't work this summer like the other ones, so I have more time for me. I will have my drivig licence so I can go wherever I want in this time. I want to go a lot to the beach and to the pool with my friends to meet girls ;).

I will be a lot of time with my friends because they are really important in my life and it are the last month that I'm with them here. I will stay here until 15th of August. Then in Germany I will begin my upper cicle in the company of Mercedes.

Trip to Kassel, Germany with a friend

A good friend and me went to my hometown. There we made a lot of activities. We went there by plane. We stayed there 3 days, just one weekend. At the fist night, when we arrived, we relaxed and went to bed early. The next day we visited the 'Herkules'. The Hercules monument is an important landmark in the city of Kassel. It is located in the "Bergpark (Mountainpark) Wihlelmsöhe", northern Hesse, Germany

On 23 June 2013 the Mountainpark and the Hercules were proclaimed as world heritage site during the UNESCO meeting in Phnom Penh.

At night we went to a big discoteque in the downtown. It was really funny because I also met friends from Germany there.

The next day we went to a soccer match of the team of my city, they won and we had a nice time. Later in the afternoon we went to the indoor pool to relax. The next day we left.

This vacation helped me to relax from all the stress in school and to disconnect from all the things of life.

Party in Tarragona (Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike)

Last 30 of April I went to Tarragona on a electric dance music festival with two friends. We went there by train, first in the afternoon from Figueres to Barcelona there we met a friend that came with us form Barcelona to Tarragona. We arrived in Tarragona at 9pm. there we ate something in a McDonald. We finished dinner at 11pm and then we went to the bullring were the festival was. 

We wait al the bullring half an hour to get in. Once we were in we saw that the place was really huge. At like 1am all the people was in, incredible!! So much people, 9000 persons having fun in there.

At 4am came the big moment, number one of the EDM dj's Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, they rocked the house. The people was turning crazy on their music. 

After the festival at 5.30am we left the bullring and we went to the train station to go back home. The first train left Tarragona al 7am so we arrived at home al 10:30am and then I had breackfeast and a shower, and finally at 11-30am I get to bed! I slept so much.

Here you have got a video of the festival:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=693422437370898&set=vb.198391440207336&type=2&theater

Messi urges Barça to halt Atletico title party

Four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi has urged his Barcelona teammates not to miss out on the second chance they have been gifted to retain their La Liga title.

Barca seemed all but out of the title race after conceding a last-minute equaliser to draw 2-2 at home to relegation-threatened Getafe last weekend.

However, leaders Atletico Madrid subsequently lost 2-0 away at Levante, whilst Real Madrid have drawn twice against Valencia and Valladolid in the past week to leave them in third place, four points adrift of Atletico with just two games to play.

Barcelona remain three points adrift of Diego Simeone's men themselves, but will win the league if they win their two remaining games away to Elche on Sunday and then when Atletico visit the Camp Nou on the final weekend of the season.

"We are in a better position today than we were a few weeks ago," said Messi.

Comment:

This year La Liga is really interesting because there are just two matches left and three teams can still win it. It has incredible merit what Atletico de Madrid is doing because they have less money than Madrid and Barcelona but they are leading La Liga.

The team that I want that wins is Barcelona but the one that deserves it most is Atletico. So just wait and see what happens

Five teens killed in tragic minibus crash

Five teenagers from a youth football team were killed when their minibus crashed into a mechanical digger on a country road in southern Spain on Thursday night, officials said.

Spanish newspapers later reported it was in fact five minors who had died in the crash.

Extremadura emergency services said on Twitter that overall 13 people were injured of which 11 were taken to hospital. The Civil Guard source said that at least six of those were "seriously" hurt.

Various Spanish media reports put the ages of the minors killed at between 12 and 15 years.

Comment:

It's sad to see that young people dies in an accident of this type. It's difficuld to understand how can happen a accident of to vehicles of so a big size. I hope that the people that were injured and is in the hospital improves their health and gets back home as early as possible.

I wish much support to the families of the dead boys.

Here you have got a video of the accident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdMJBoyMBg#t=29

Smog-hit Madrid to wage war on cars

"Madrid is for people, not for vehicles," says the document, in which "positive discrimination" schemes to favour pedestrians, plus the use of bicycles and public transport are detailed.

Across the whole of the Spanish capital, the plan is to reduce traffic by eight percent by 2020, halve the numbers killed in traffic (32 last year) and help the city to comply with European pollution limits, standards which it is currently failing to meet.

The dark pall of smog hanging over Madrid is so familiar to locals that it is known as the city's "beret".

Comment:

The smog in the big cities is a problem. It is not good for the health of the persons of the city and it don't gives a good image to other counties.

I think that it is a good idea to try to reduce the numbers of vehicles in Madrid. It would be easier if people uses more public transports, so they don't must take their car. The problem of the electric vehicles is that the aren't so clean like they want us to make believe. How is the electricy of this cars made? There is the fist problem because most of elecricity is also created creating contamination, so we have got a big problem.

Give banana-thrower his job back: Barça star

Barcelona's Brazilian defender Dani Alves has called for the banana-thrower who sparked a global anti-racist uproar to be given his job back after he reportedly lost it due to the incident.

Alves won praise after he took a bite from the banana and got on with the game, drawing worldwide attention to racist incidents in Spanish football.

“It is not something that has just happened now. I don't want to generalise, to say Spain is racist. I am saying there is racism in Spain. I have been here 11 years and in those 11 years it's been the same, people call me a monkey,” he said.

Comment: 

It  is bad to see that there is so much racism in Spain. It's important that people react againt it because if not it will keep exsisting. I hope that it change some it gives a bad image of Spain to the world. The people that I know is not rasist so I can't say that here they are racists.

Interview with an expert on your interest

Nomophobia

In my environment people are really addicted to they're phones. No one can be away from his phone or just be like one hour without cheking if they got a message.

In my vision it can't be positive to be all day next to your phone. It has radiations that affet on a negative way on our health, to avoid that a little bit, at night we can turn off uor phones.

The phones also have some positive things like that you can communicate really fast with you friends, read news or wath TV programs. 

In conclusion, we shoudn't be so much hour together with our phones because it affects in a negative way on our health and sometimes if we are at school we don't attend because we are looking more on our phone than listening to the teacher. 

Ukraine rebels hold referendums in Donetsk and Luhansk

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27360146

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's two eastern regions are holding "self-rule" referendums - a move condemned by Ukraine's government and the West.

Self-proclaimed leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk regions are going ahead with the vote despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's call to postpone it.

Ukraine condemned the vote as a "criminal farce" organised by Russia.

An official in Kiev, national security chief Andriy Parubiy, said: "We do not consider there to have been a referendum."

Comment:

In my opinion, they might let the civilians express their thought. I think this is a violation of the human right that is about the freedom of speech. In the current time shouldn't be situations like this one in Ukraine. Normal modern goverments let their civilization express their opinio and decide what they want to do.

In conclusion, both countries, Russia and Ukraine, should speak to each other to fins a peaceful solution.

Apple 'in talks' to buy Beats for $3.2bn

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27336863

Technology giant Apple is in talks to buy headphone maker and music-streaming service provider Beats Electronics, according to various media reports.

This would cost 3.2bn Dollars. If they finally buy it will be the biggest acquisition ever of Apple.

Comment: it would be a really big enrichment for this company. They after might have more benefits than now. It looks like that in the future there will be just one company because the big companies just buy the smaller ones. With this actions the companies that buy the other ones have more capacity to offer new products.

Can money buy everything: The marketisation of society?

11.      Up for sale        

22.      Civic values/goods that markets do not honor they can’t buy.   

  In my vision the most of the think are up for sale, it just depends of how much money we pay for the different things. We live in a society were money is really important, just because all is up for sale. Like we can see in the current example of the skyboxes of the soccer stadiums, you can buy it with money, that reflects that very much civic values are affordable.

  

  And we can see that for money we would do everything, it just depends of how much money they give you for something. 
  
  There are also some values that you can't buy. For example it's impossible to buy the love of your family or yur partner.

  In conclusion, I think in our society much things are up to sale, so your happiness can be bigger with more money and material goods. But we will never be happy if we don't have the values that aren't up for sale like the love of your family.

Education is the key, School is the lock

"Education is about inspiring ones mind not just filling their head"

About this sentence I think that it's very true. In my vision much exams like in my case filosophy or history, the day before you just fill you head with information and the day after the exam you don't remember nothing. This way of studing might not be the best you, we must try to inspire the mind of the students so they like to learn new thinks. In that way they don't learn just because of beeing successfull in the exam, they learn to know more things about the topic they are learning.


"Memorize equations, facts and dates, write it down to the letter, half of whitch I forget straight after the exam"




"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help build theirs"

Formal letter to Obama

                                                                                                                              C/ Figueres

                                                                                                                              17854 Gerona

                                                                                                                              2nd April, 2014

Mr. Obama

White House

Washington DC

Dear Mr. Obama,

I am writing to complain a violation of the human right that is about the freedom of thought. This right is not respected in Crimea, the people are dominated by the military of Russia and they just took Crimea to their country.

First of all, I would appreciate that the United States of America took action against the Russian government, because they are doing what they want with the people from Ukraine. From outside it looks like Putin, the president of Russia, can do whatever ever he wants and has no opposition.

I would be grateful if the USA took action because it gives the impression that the president of Russia wants to get all Ukraine without respecting what the ordinary people from the place think about him. He do not respect the freedom of thought.

Yours sincerely,

Moritz Heckmann

Human Rights

1.  Every person is entitled to certain fundamental rights, simply by the fact of being human.

2. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948 to provide a common understanding of what everyone’s rights are. It forms the basis for a world built on freedom, justice and peace.

3. There are 30 human rights.

4. I didn’t even know that there is a human right of the freedom of thought because currently we can see the opposite of that article.

The article 18 of the human rights talks about that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

This article is not respected by every Nation, currently it’s violated by Russia, they just get Crimea regardless of the people that wanted to be part of Ukraine and that people is not respected and they cannot give their opinion, so they have no freedom of thought, they just have to do what Putin says. Before this article even exists is was violated really much a big example were the Nazis in the 2nd World War.

This article is respected in Nations like Germany where you can be of any religion and you will be respected as every other person.

A soulmate for me

Well, I've never thought about this type of things. Probably everybody has a soul mate in the world, but why just one? Could it be that there are more than one soul mate for every person? Now I will talk about what characteristics I need to see in my soul mate. 

First of all, I will talk about the psychological features that my soul mate would have. She has to be an active girl, not to be a couch potatoe, practise some sport and have similar hobbies to mine. she has to be nice, but also I need someone who has a strong personality and gets angry when it is needed. Adding to that, she should have some general culture. Also she might have good humor.

Now I will talk about physical characteristics. Well like every man a girl to be my soul mate has to be slim and not taller than me. I would like straight hair. I don't mind the color, just no red hair. Like most man she has to have nice boobs. If possible, blue eyes, but here in Spain it is really difficult.

In conclusion, I think that finding your soul mate is a really long way. So, in this time you need to accept with the girls that you have in your country or nearly. 

Federer Wins 6th Dubai Championships Title

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Roger Federer won a record sixth Dubai Championships — and 78th career title — by beating Tomas Berdych 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final on Saturday.

Federer, who maintains a home in Dubai, delighted a packed stadium of fans who seemed biased for the Swiss in back-to-back wins over Novak Djokovic in the semifinals and Berdych.

In the first set, the fourth-seeded Federer's forehand looked shaky and he appeared a step slow.

In the second set, there was another early exchange of breaks. From 4-4, Federer won the final eight points of the set to even the set score.

Finally, Berdych was able to save two Federer match points on his own serve in the eighth game. But the Czech couldn't stop Federer from serving out. On Federer's third match point at 40-15 in the ninth game, Berdych netted a backhand return.

Comment; It's incredible!! Federer is 33 years old and still on the top of his fisical form. In this tournament he won against Djokovic a player that is at the 2nd place of the world ranking. I admire Federer for what he is doing and winning. 

He is a great person and also a great player, both things together makes him so much tournaments.

Marriage related to the social class

In the period of "Pride and Prejudice" the marriage was more a money issue than a thing related to the love. In the book we can see some features of love between Mr. Bingley and her future wife. But in the most  of the cases we see that love was directly in contact with the money of the partner, like Mr. Collin and his wife.

In the book i'ts obvious that the more poor families want to get her daughters married so they have a solved and quiet life.

Nowdays, all the people say that love isn't related to the mone, but why mens that are 70 years old have girlfriends of 30? is that love? No, for that is still like the period of Pride and Prejudice. But on the other hand we can see that much people is poor and marry another poor person, that is real love with romanticism. So, nowdays love exists and is not related to social classes, but there are still some features from the past.

Fast broadband now considered vital by increasing numbers of homebuyers

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/02/fast-broadband-vital-to-homebuyers

Houses without broadband could be worth as much as 20% less than comparable properties with a good connection, according to experts who say superfast speeds are increasingly important to prospective homebuyers.

That is caused because much people works from home amd need really fast communication.

Comment: Well, that reflects how internet and other connections are affecting not only on our lives also on the value of a house. This is happening because much people work very much from home and so they need fast connection. In my opinion, it is the normal way that all is going with the increasing tecnologies and connections.

Knife attack at train station leaves dozens dead in south-west China

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/01/knife-attack-kunming-train-station-yunnan-province-china

A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in south-western China on Saturday, leaving at least 27 people dead and another 109 injured, the official Xinhua News Agency said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in China in recent years.

Comment; In my vision it's not normal that people in our society is prepaared to do thinks like this one in China. I'ts frightening to know that people with so big psicologic problems are on the streets and you could knew one like you partner at the work. In conclusion on this action I will be more cautios with wich type of persons I have relations.

Comment is free Most Russians believe the Crimea is theirs – Putin has acted on his belief

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/01/russia-invasion-ukraine-crimea

The news talks about the revolution of Ukraine in the last view month and how Russia with Putin react on this actions. Putin want to have the control about the region of Crimea because Russia have a really important military base.

Comment; I am really afraid of what can happen there because Europa wan t to get into the trouble. I hpe it will have a easy solution withous weapons and any death people. Europe, in my vision, don't need to get into this problem because it doesn't affects them at all.

Planned summer vacation in Switzerland

My friend and I have planned a trip to my parents house in Switzerland. We want to go ten days on holidays there. Once we are there we will visit some really beatiful cities like Luzern or Zürich. We will go there by car so we will have a very long way todo before having fun. 

Were we stay is at the mountains, in a house in the village that you can see on the photo.. It is a realy nice and quiet place to relax from batxillerat, because we go there after finishing school. :)

It will be a mix of party and relax, really cool!!

We said that we will go walk very much because you can find places where you have incredible views at open air.

Weekend skiing

Last weekend I went with a friend skiing in La Molina. At firday I went to his house in Barcelona because on the saturday morning at 6:20 the train left to the ski station. The next morning we arrived there, the weather was incredibly good but cold so the snow was perfect, and then we get our skiis and we went up with the chairlift. Then we were skiing till we ate something in the restaurant next to the place. We made great jumps on the track like you can see on the picture. 

At the end of the day we came back to my village, Vilacolum, and we met with some friends to chill out a little bit at my home.

That was our nice weekend with my friend Borja.

How to create a company? (oral presentation)

Body language(10%): I think it was the worst thing of my oral presentation because I was really nervous and it was difficuld to look at the people of the class. But I think that I improved it compared to the last term presentation.

Presentation(10%): The presentation was very simple, so it was easier to understand it, I used a similar one like the presentation of my TDR in catalan.

The strucrure(10%): I organized the information in different parts; first I made a small introduccion of the reserch project and then I presented the different parts of the work I had done. 

Context(35%): was good and with not too much information but with the needed information to explain very well what I have done.

The pronunciation:(10%): in my case, it's really good because I have a friend in the USA and I talk with him in English and that helped me to have a good pronunciation and in the presentation.

Language(25%): There were some specific word for this topic and they could have been difficult to understand. But in general I tried to use easy language so, all the people could understand.

I would give me a 8,5.

I have to improve my body language, but the other parts of the presentation were very good!:)

Here you have got the link to the oral presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4K9luxvEk

Can internet change the world for the better?

Could you live without internet ? Are you a better person because of it? We'll see if internet can really change the world for the better or not.

Internet is really practical, you can use it every place you may be. On the internet you can see what your friends are doing and comment their posts, which makes us a little bit more sociable. Addong to that, internet can help us find information really fast, but it could be false. Besides, we have a really fast communication whith peolpe who we want to talk.

Internet has also problems, the provacity is very low and as I said before there is some false information. Also you can be addictive to the internet and that in not really good at your job or at school.

As a result, I think that internet helps us every day and it is a really useful tool to find information easily. you need to have under control the time that you are on internet, if not you might become addicted.

How to create a company?

This project consists of a study on how to create a "Societat Limitada". The project is divided in two parts; the theoretical and the practical part. The first one is subdivided in different parts where I explain how to create a Societat Limitada and which different transactions are necessary to create one (initial capital, transactions to be carried out in the council, finance...). In practical part I went to a agency in Girona and they helped me to organize my information and then they gave me a copy of a constitution of a company and a request of the name of the company from the commercial register.