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.

Skinheads History

In 1960s in England appeared a social group known as MODS. Those were young people attracted by Elegant Clothes, Scooters and Violence.
At the same time Jamaica became independence, and lots of Jamaicans came to England to win money. With them also came another social group known as RUDE BOYS. Those were also young people attracted by elegant clothes and violence. So there weren’t a lot of differences between them.
hose groups began to go together and they finally become the same one. But with the time appeared differences between MODS coming from rich families and MODS with humbler families. Those, whose clothes weren’t as elegant as other ones began to wear clothes more typical from workers like Steel Toe Boots or Shoulders Straps. And they also began to shave their heads. This is the moment first skinheads appeared, known as Skinheads from the 69.
This is the origin of skinheads, and I think it’s a really interesting movement!

Wrestlemania 26!

Since 1985 WrestleMania is the most successful, longest-running professional wrestling event in the world. It is held annually in late March or early April. WrestleMania has become one of the most prominent events in sports entertainment. Wrestlemania has facilitated the rise to stadorm of wrestler as Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Steve Austin, The Rock, and Triple H, amongst others. Numerous celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Mr. T, Alice Cooper, Donald Trump and others have participated or made special appearances in the events. Participation in a WrestleMania match, and especially the main event, is considered by many wrestlers and fans alike as one of the greatest achievements and symbols of professional success.

This year it's going to be the 26th edition of the most important event from WWE and from the wrestling world. It's said that as Wrestlemania 25 was not as exciting as it should have been, so this year WWE creatives told to the media that they are preparing a great surprise which will attract lots of people, in internet lots of people say that the event will be plenty of superstars from the nineties or that some retired superstars will come back to make their last match. I don't know what is going to take place, but I wish that is going to be quite better than last edition.

The human meteorit!

Jeffrey Nero "Jeff" Hardy (born August 31, 1977) is an American Professional Wrestler on the Raw brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

Before gaining prominence in WWE, Hardy performed for the Organitzation of Modern Extrem Grappling Atacs (OMEGA), a promotion he ran with his brother Matt. After being signed by WWE, the brothers worked as jobbers before gaining notoriety in the tag team division, partly due to their participation in Tables, Ladders & Chairs Matches. With the addition of Lita, the team became known as Team Xtream and continued to rise in popularity. As a tag team wrestler, Hardy is a former six-time World Tag Team Championship and one-time WCW Tag Team Championship.

Apart from his success as a tag team wrestler, Hardy has also had success as a singles wrestler. He is a four time Intercontinental Champion, as well as having held the Hardcore, European and Light Heavyweight Championships. He received his first major main event push towards the end of 2007, including challenging for the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble in 2008.

And now a video of, to me, his best finnisher and also the most dangerous:

Survivor Series

Everyone who likes wrestling will know what Survivor Series is. Survivor Series is the third WWE most important PPV. The thematic of this one is the confrontation between different groups or stables which are created during the programmes before Survivor Series.

This year Survivor Series has been one of the most successful editions of history, why? Well, this year it took place a real war between the three rosters of WWE: Raw, Smackdown and ECW. The aim was to demonstrate which was the best roster. Between the different great matches which took place there was 5 man tag-team match, which finally was cancelled because all the members of the three rosters went to the ring and began to fight without laws. But the great match of the night was the TLC(Tables, Ladders and Chairs can be used as weapons) match which confronted John Cena (WWE Champion and Raw’s Captain), The Undertaker (World Heavyweight Champion, Smackdown! Captain) and Christian (Extreme Championship Wrestling Champion and ECW Captain); this match was also cancelled because of the apparition of all the wrestlers who began fighting another time.

In conclusion, a great PPV with lots of violence and very few moments to take air, it was really an exciting event.

Bragging Rights!

On Sunday 25 WWE celebrated for the first time the PPV Bragging Rights. This PPV only had an objective: to confront wrestlers form Smackdown! with wrestlers from Raw which are the two main leagues of WWE.

There were a lot of interesting matches as the 60 minutes Iron Man between Randy Orton or John Cena, the Match of Leagues where 6 members of every league were fighting in the ring at the same time… But, undoubtedly, the best match of the night was the Fatal-For-Way for the World Heavyweight Championship between The Undertaker, CM Punks, Batista and Rey Misterio, the first one was the current champion whereas the other three were former champions.

It was an exciting match, it was full of great moments as Batista’s spears to CM Punks and Rey Misterio which seemed to give the victory to Batista, but at the end The Undertaker put into practice his most lethal final movement; The Tombstone Pile Driver, to Batista.

The match was over, and as always Batista and Rey Misterio shook hands, but this time something was wrong: Batista begin to talk bad about Rey Misterio and he finally hit the little wrestler until the referee stop him.

In this videos you can see different moments of the match.

Let's go 2nd Batxillerat... again.

Dave Batista!

David Michael Bautista, better known as Dave Batista or by the ring name Batista, is a wrestler of World Wrestling Entertainment Company. Nowadays he takes part in the roster of Smackdown!, one of the leagues of the wrestling company.

Batista is a three-time World Heavyweight Championship and the winner of the 2005 Royal Rumble match, one of the most important wrestling events of the year.

Batista is of Filipino and Greek heritage. His year of birth was disputed for several years. His website originally listed him as being born in 1969, while several contradictory news reports claimed that he was actually born in 1966. In March 2006, Batista stated in an interview that he was born in 1969. He confirms the same in his autobiography "Batista Unleashed".

He is very strong; he is one of the most powerful wrestlers of the moment, and also one of the most famous.

He had worked as culturist before beginning as a wrestler. He has won a lot of championships and titles since he began as a wrestler in 2002. Those are the main ones between others:

-United States Championship.

-WWE Tag Team Championship.

-World Heavyweight Championship (the most important)

-Royal Rumble Winner 2005.

-Match of the Year (2007) vs. The Undertaker at WrestleMania 23

To me Batista is the wrestler of the moment, and I think that he has not got good luck, because every time he could win very important championships he has get injured or accused of doping, although later it has been discovered that were lies expanded by wrestlers that were afraid of him.

John Cena & Orton vs. Raw Roster

On Monday Night Raw 18th May, John Cena and Randy Orton had to fight versus all the other wrestlers of Raw’s roster, so it was a Two Tag Team vs. Eighteen Tag Team Match!

This match was prepared by the manager of the week who was Triple H. In previous leagues Cena had organized matches as Orton vs. Orton in a Steel Cage, and Randy Orton had organized a match where Cena had to fight versus an old enemy: Pocholo Michaels.

It seems that this week’s match had to be won by Raw’s roster but it is said that the best union is one which is made by to enemies, and Cena and Orton put this expression in practice. The match was being won by the Two Tag Team until all the roster began to fight all together, so the match was stopped and the pair of fighters was proclaimed the champions of the match by disqualification.

After the match, when cams were not filming John Cena said to Randy Orton to make the peace, and shakes hands. After a pair of minutes of doubt, the Legend Killer: Orton, gives the hand to The Mariner: Cena, but as the dirty fighter Orton is, he tied to make his finish movement (The RKO, or the Randy Knocked Out) to Cena, who avoided it and make his finish movement, the Fu, to Orton.
After the match, when cams were not filming John Cena said to Randy Orton to make the peace, and shakes hands. After a pair of minutes of doubt, the Legend Killer: Orton, gives the hand to The Mariner: Cena, but as the dirty fighter Orton is, he tied to make his finish movement (The RKO, or the Randy Knocked Out) to Cena, who avoided it and make his finish movement, the Fu, to Orton.

GATILLAZO!

This Saturday I’m going with my friend Marc Puig to l’Hospitalet to a recital of “Gatillazo”.

This music band plays in a festival known as Villa-Rock and it will play with two other bands which will play before “Gatillazo” as support bands. The names of these two bands are “Ni porfavor ni ostias” and “El Rey de Espaldas”.

The best of all is that we don’t have exams until 4^th of May, so I have fifteen days to enjoy as I want, and this weekend I will not have to study, so I will spend it in Barcelona.

The planning begins on Saturday at 13:00 when me and Marc will meet and we will take the train to Barcelona. We’re going to spend the afternoon on Tallers Street, and at eight o’clock we are going to take the underground to l’Hospitalet.

Although the festival is not going to finish very late we will not come back to Figueres until 7:39 am, when the first train leaves. So we will have to spend all the night in Barcelona going from a pub to another one.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Today I’m going to talk about The Rock, now he’s a famous actor, but this hasn’t been like this all the life. The Rock, or Dwayne Johnson (his real name) became famous when he was at the university, where he played as American Football player. He rapidly became famous and The Hurricanes (one of the best American Football teams of the world) become interested in him, so when The Rock left the university he began to play as American Football player in The Hurricanes. There, as in his university team, he became one of the most important players of the team and his career began to go up as foam.

When he was on the top of American Football he start wrestling as an amateur, but he was so good that World Wrestling Entertainment Company made him the offer to work in WWE, so he left The Hurricanes and became a wrestler from WWE. And as it had taken place before he began to win and becoming more and more famous, he got the Top 1 in the Top 25 wrestlers from WWE since the second year of working on WWE. In only six years he won nine World Championships and become the Sixth Triple Crown Champion, which means to have won a World Championship, a World Tag Team Championship and a Intercontinental Championship. To win nine championships is not the most important, which is really important is to have done it in only seven years, when the wrestler who has won more World Championships is Ric Flair, with sixteen World Championships, it took it him thirty-eight years.

When The Rock was on the top of wrestling world he began to work as an actor, and he was so attracted by that type of work that he left WWE and began to work as an actor and as it always has taken place, now he is a great actor and also very famous.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has a slogan “I’ve always done what I want when I want” and this is what he has done.

Legends of Wrestlemania

Yesterday I talk about Wrestlemania 25, so today I'm going to talk about Legends of Wrestling, a videogame of new generation which will allow the player to use superstars from the last thirty years. Although it doesn't seem, this is great, it's great because in the rest of videogames WWE Company allways put current superstars, and didn't allow the player to use the best superstars: Legends of Wrestling.
But this is not all, in this videogame, if you had played with the las game of WWE: WWE: Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 Featurin ECW, you wiil be able to mixed matches with superstars from the passed and currend ones, making that Legends of Wrestlemania becomes one of the best wrestling videogames of all the times.

Third Term

Oh yeah. This is the last term here in Castello, well it should be, but this year I'm not going to pass, so for me there is still another year, but I'm not worried about, because if this year I passed, I would get bad marks, so I prefer to repeat and next year take good marks.

Well, today I'm going to talk about Wrestlemania 25. Wrestlemania is the most important event of the wrestling world. And this edition is the most important one of all the times. It's the most important one because it's the 25th, and that means that is a quarter of century of wrestling history. So, Vince MacMahon, the presiden of World Wrestling Entertainment Company, has organized matches of all types, since the typicall ones untill the last genearation of matches with kendo sticks, tables, jails, ladders and also fire!:)
Although I'm looking forward to all this type of matches I'm more nervous to see who will take part in this matches, because although all the superstars are going to take part in the event, the most wonderful is that in the matches there will take part superstars from last twenty-five years, better known as Legends of Wrestling. That will mean that the matches where this superstars are going to take place will be reall matches, and not as where nowadays superstars take place, that are all prepared.
Well, that's all for today, I'm looking forward to this great event.

Cinema!

I think that cinema is one of the most important things in my life, not so much as videogames (of course, loool!) but yeah, imprescindible.
I really love to watch a film sitting on the sofa, drinking something and with good company, but always if it is a good film; I don't enjoy bad cinema. A few of my favourite films are Pulp Fiction, Sin City, the trilogy of The Lord Of The Rings, Truman's Show, 300, Kill Bill, American History X... All are amazing films, but I have to say that maybe Pulp Fiction or The Lord of the Rings are the best ones, I've watched it a lot of times, and everytime I've enjoyed more it. My favourite directors are Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Stanley Kubrick and others... .
In fact, I really love cinema and a lot of styles (I'm going from Kill Bill to The Lion King, and I think that without it, my life would change a lot and that would mean losing lots of brilliant moments.

London: Last Day

The last day of the trip we had free time. So we went to Nothing Hill's Gate where is a market: Portobello, but that day, Portobello's Market wasn't "open".
Portobello is a market where you can buy a lot of different things, things for the kitchen, clothes, there's a part of second hand, etc.
The problem was that the market is on sundays. However, in the same street there were some shops.
And finally, we returned to the hotel at the hour to take the cases. Then we went to the airport Stansted and... we come back to Catalonia!!!

London: Third Day

The third day started visitting St Paul's Cathedral. We wanted to enter but we couldn't because it was closed. After we went to Shakespeare's theatre. While we were walking we passed across a bridge which's was the newest one of the city, it's known as "Millenium Bridge". This bridge was opened in June of 2001. It has been designed by Norman Foster. It connects St Paul's Cathedral with Tate Modern and the bulding of Shakespeare Theatre. A guide explained to us the history of the theatre and Shakespeare. Afer all this we had free time and we went to eat.
After having lunch we went to Tower of London, we didin't enter but we searched for somethings realationated with the building as "Beefeaters". These are guides of the castle. Also we discovered that they cut the wings of the crows, so they couldn't fly. There's a legend say that if the crows desappear also will desappear the monarchy.
After we went to see the Tower Bridfe, the most famous bridge of London. The curious of the bridge is that the central part of the bridge can be opened. Then a big boat can pass. This only during sixty seconds.
After of this we returned to the hotel.

London: Second Day

The Second day of London travell began with all of us asleep. Dani and me didn't ete the breakfast of the hotel because we had to wait 2 minutes and we decided it was better to eat some food we had bought the day before.
Later we went to the Big Ben and some churchills arround the building. Then we went to St Jame's Park where live a lot of squirrels runing for the park. When we finnised the park we arrived to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard, but, finally, we couldn't see it.

So we went to Trafalgar Square and we had free time until 6 o'clock more or less, because then we had to return to the hotel.

In the free time me and some people went to the Covent Garden where we visited a market and we ate a hot dog and an icecream.
Then, in the hotel, we ate something and we went to the bedrooms.

London: First Day

The travel to London started on Saturday; at four o'clock, we had to in front of the high school to take the bus to go to the airport of Girona.
Before, some people went to the carnaval of Roses, like me, Andrew, Juju and Dani.
But we weren't tired and we arrived on time.
Without any problem, we went to the airport where we could pass the security control. Then we take the plane to go to England.
The flight was quick because in two hours, more or less, we arrived to the airport of Stansted.
The first that we did when we arrived in the city, after taking the bus to London, was bring the backs to the hotel.
The hotel was situated in Russel Square, a center zone with good communications.
After we went to visit the British Mueseum where we did a excercise that consisted in finding pieces of art. When we finished we ate something and we went to Trafalgar Square where we visited the National Gallery.
Later we had free time, so we walked by the Thames untill we arrived to the Big Ben. Then we went to Trafalgar Square with the other people and we returned to the hotel.
At 8:30 pm we down of the bedrooms to eat. We ate beef, potatoes and peas.
That was all for the first day!

This two persons: Batista (left), and John Cena (right), seems to be the best friends of the world, but some circumstancies have made than that they hate it each other.
Their history began one year ago, on that moment Batista and John Cena were the champions of their respective legues, Smackdown and Raw, but circumstancies made that the bosses of the company where they work, WWE, made them fighting in a match to collect the two titles they had, World Heavyweight Championship & WWE Championship, in the same league and made that the loser one disappeared, the fact is that this match wasn't finally disputted, because the two champs lost their titles some weeks before the match took place
In summer they had to fight, this wasn't a match where titles were in game, but it was a match to know who had won the two titles one year ago, the result was that the two wrestlers made it difficult to their opponent two submit each other, but finally, after a thirty minuts match, Batista made the count to John Cena, although it was one of the best, not to say the best one, matches of the last times, the two wrestlers were injured: John Cena got a contracture in the back, so he had two be away from the rings for four months, and when he came back and it seemed him and Batista were going to solve their problems, Batista got and injure in the knees which he had being standing until his summer match against Cena, so he will have to be five months without fighting.
I hope he recovers earlier than the doctors have told tho his fans, to watch him fighting on TV another time.