2nd Term

First E-Mail

As this is the third time I have to write this opening course letter I’ve decided to do it about “Why did I choose “tree”?”

Well, as you said people who usually choose “tree” are very nationalist and they love their country, and this is what it happens to me.

I don’t know why, but firstly I wanted to choose “earth” and I think it wasn’t a bad option because I’m a little bit rude and aggressive, but when I saw that “tree” also appeared in the option’s list I was sure that that had to be my election, and as I could discover later I wasn’t wrong because it was the option that it was more involved with me because I’m that type of people that if they have to choose between travelling or staying in their country, or what’s more, in their town or city they choose the second one. And this is exactly what it happens to me, I don’t like moving a lot, to me the best place where I can stay is in the city where I live (Figueres) or the village where I grew up (Riumors).

I hope these points have been enough to answer the question “Why did I choose “tree”?”

I't time for electronic books. Paper books are history.

“It’s time for electronic books. Paper books are history.” Do you agree?

Nowadays it is a fact that our world is changing, and it is also a fact that we are in a situation where computers are the base to make everything.

It is so much the importance of computers that the governments think of changing paper books by electronic books in the schools.

In my opinion this is not a good idea, it is true that it will improve the ways of spelling in the classrooms, but if since the scripture was invented we have been writing and reading from papers and books I can’t believe that some people want to change it.

Firstly, whereas we need a book for every subject in school with electronic books we can have all the subjects in the same place, but there is a problem, and it is that if we lose the electronic book (the machine) we will lose all the books of all the subjects.

However, it is known for all people that machines which work with computer problems don’t live forever, and a computer virus could destroy all we have in the electronic books.

And it’s also important to remember that watching a screen six hours every day is going to cause more eyes injuries.

In conclusion I think that if we have studied for 5.300 years with paper books, we can live for five thousand more years with them.

My 3 News

Growing Tension

Simon Newman says that a controversial solution is planned to meet the problem of Catalunya’s growing energy requirements. High-tension pylons are depicted in energy company advertisements as benign, animated giants striding across the countryside and bestowing the gift of clean power. However, detractors such as the citizens group No a la MAT (MAT stands Muy Alta Tension), them as an unnecessary scourge, environmentally damaging and the cause of a litany of health hazards.
MAT also alleges that high-tension networks are inherently inefficient, losing as much as 30 percent of their power when transferred over long distances.
The energy company REE (Red Electrica de España) disagrees. And they are the only feasible option since underground cables are only suitable for short distances, 40 km being the current record, in Japan.

Chupa chups lollipops are one of Catalunya's most popular esports.


In 1958, Catalan confectioner Enric Bernat invented the lollipop. The chupa-chups sold in 168 countries. The last millennium the family company Chupa chups was the pride of Catalunya and one of the best known Spanish businesses ever, with world-wide sales of 40,000 million.
Having started out as a heavy lollipop of 18 grams in 1970 the company also pioneered the use of real milk for the production od the production of the Strawberry Cream flavour in 1965.
There are also a lot of other flavour like cola, orange, 7UP,..

Scientist find coral forest off Cap de Creus.

Since two-years the scientists study in an underwater canyon off the coast of Girona’s Cap de Creus, which is one of the richest and most important marine ecosystems in the Mediterrani.

To study this area they have been using a mini-sub and the Institut de Ciencies el Mar discovered a zone where it was a great abundance of white coral.

The canyon is 80 km wide and descends 1400m. At 300m, the research team discovered dense forest of white coral, and they calculated to be as old a 100 years.

English Joke

Human Rights

1. What are human rights?
Human Rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled."

2. When did human rights start?

After the Second World War, in 1948.
3. Why were they created?
They were created as a way to prevent another World War.

4. How many human rights are there?
There are 30 human rights.

5. Which human right were you not familiar with?
I didn't know exactly all the human rights, but more or less I had an idea from all of them.

6. Choose one human right and discuss:
- Is it fully respected in your country today? Justify with news, comments, studies on the subject (cite the links of your information sources)

Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

This article it's one that I thing it's parcially respect in my country, democray made that torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatme or punishment were things of the past. However, lots of times authorities take benefit from their social position and make some "illegal" actions, an example was las year when there were riots because Mossos d'Esquadra hit and kick poor studiants and teachers which were not agree with the new model of education, later some people wants to know why other people name Mossos d'Esquadra as Gossos d'Esquadra.

- Do you know if it has been respected in the past? Why or why not?
-Where in the world is this right not complied with?

This article in particular it wasn't respect for 40 years more or less because of the dictadure whereas in other democratic countries torture was totall forbiden.
Nowadays there are some countries where torture and inhuman treatment is "legal", all this countries are from the 3rd world or are in process of developing as China.



7. Are Humans rights relevant in the world today? why?

In my opinion nowadawys Human Rights should be relevant, but mankind is the cancer of the same mankind, and people do what it's better for them, and lots of times what it's better for them it doesn't achieve with Human Rights.

The lonely boy

Today I'm going to explain a story which I listened from my great-grandfather when he was alive.
A long time ago, in Riumors, there was a child who didn't have friends.
One day a group of friends decided to play a joke on him. They caught him and then closed him in a sack, then they brought him to the belfry of the church, the boy shouted and cried a lot, and the group of friends tied the boy with chains in an old chamber of the belfry.
The boy stayed there all night, and when the group returned in the morning, the lonely boy had disappeared, they only found a finger tied in the chains.
Some people from the village, looked for the boy for weeks, they only found the finger tied in the chains.
The last person who lived this horrible facts is already dead.
Nowadays old people tell to anyone who wants to listen to them, the story of the lonely boy, and that when there's strong Tramuntana, you can still hear the screams of the boy of the belfry.