Progress

From my point of view I think I haven’t improved a lot, because when I began 1st batxillerat in 2007 I just had the same skill that I have now, it’s true that I’ve probably improved because I’ve had to do lots of entries in the blog, but in my opinion the level hasn’t changed a lot, because I don’t like work in the blog. It’s not that I don’t like, what it happens is that it’s an obligation for me, and when there’s something I have to do compulsory I do it badly, so my level hasn’t had the oportunity to improve because the work I’ve done it hadn’t been constant, I’ve always done the entries in the last days, so, in my opinion, my level hasn’t changed a lot.
Although it can seem that in some writings I’ve improved or I’ve decreased my level, it’s not true. My case is a strange one, I’m not a constant person, and depending on how I feel the day I had to work I did it better or worse.
What’s true is that I have improved in my orals, well, in fact I did it better in 1st batxillerat than in the two seconds, but this is because in 1st batxillerat I prepared them whereas now the only thing I did was making the Power Point and my orals were totally spontanious, without preparation. And what it really helped me was travell to London, this year I had to speak a lot because I was the only of my group with a minimum knowledge so I had to speak a lot.

The only aspect where I really think that I’ve improved is in listenings, I’ve always had problems in the listenings, it’s not that I had bad marks in the listenings but the average compared with the writings, the speakings or the readings was lower. I think it has helped a lot the fact that, apart from practicing, watching films in english. Firstly I did it in english with spanish or catalan subtitles, later with english subtitles and finally, without subtitles, and, as more films I watched better marks in listenings I had.

So, as I said, my improvements hasn’t come from things I’ve done in the blog, my improvements come from things I’ve done by pleaseure, or because there are things I like to do, as watching films.

Finally, I want to show an example of what has happened in my case, for example, my first letter to the teacher and my last composition, you will see that although the level could be a little bit lower in the first letter, it was more correct that my last writing, which has been the one with the worst mark I had in batxillerat.

3 News

The Black Vulture

This night in a bird center from Mollar de Dalt in the Pirineus a Black Vulture has born. This is the first time that a member of this specie is born in captivity here in Catalunya, so it’s a great new because this mean that experts are nearer to reintroduce the Black Vulture, which was extinguished since 1907, in our mountains.

Wolfs in the Prepirineus

Some weeks ago a wolf was seen in the Catalonian Prepirineus. Wolves had disappeared in Catalonia since the forties and fifties, and it wasn’t any programme to reintroduce it in our mountains, so this means that it probably was a wolf from the French Pirineus or from Navarra which has arrived to the Prepirineus in search of food.

Barça out of the Champions League

Two Tuesdays ago Barça went to Milan to play against Inter and the result was scary, Barça lost, the result of the the match finally was 3-1. It’s true that Barça didn’t deserve to win, because they played very bad, but Inter didn’t deserve to win for 3 goals, they has the referee with them.
Last Wednesday Inter came to the Camp Nou, it was one of the most expected matches of the season, but Inter played only defending, Barça needed two goals to pass to the final, but they only were able to make one. It was a pity because the finale was in Bernabeu’s field. But it doesn’t matter, there will be much more leagues to enjoy how Barça wins.

2nd TERM

"Gorgonas": The masters of fire

For some people when they hear the word "Gorgona" think in a mythologic monsters which looked lie a gelyfish, for other people this word doesn't mean anything, but for the cientific world, since now a Gorgona will be an extinted dinosaur which really had the abbility of producing fire.
During the 2007 a fossil of an extinted dinosaur which wasn't catalogated was found in Siberia under the glass. Well, the fact is that after repeating hundreds of times their investigations of the extinted animal, cientifics arrived to the conclusion that "gorgonas" were as an adult male african elefant size, their diet based in whatever they found of dead meat and they had the faculty of producing fire with their mouth closed to eliminated all the infections that the meat could have.
Well, since now when I think or read about dragons I'm not going to be so far from the reallity.

China: The new strongest country

Since the First World War or The Great War, and more sinde the Second World War the United States of Amercia had become the strongest country in the world, but now this could be changing, becoming a fact of the past, and we could have realised too late.
This wee the ONU has shown some informs written by its investigators which show that China has beeng spending for several years 17.000 millions of dollars in weapons and guns research, and that including its reserve troops (civils which have received millitary trainig and are prepared to fight in a war), China has a total of 600 million troops prepared to enter in combat when it appears the necessity.
China is a Comunist Dictadure, this the reaseon not to know this valuable information. A country with a weapon force as chineese one was unbelievable for ourd modern times. 600 millions of troops in war would mean the supremacy of China in fron of the res of the world.

Laporta 2010

Laporta is still the current president of FC Barcelon, but this is going to change on 2010, because he made a law which said that a president could only be president of FC Barcelon for eight years. It's for that reason that after his candidature has decided to spend all his time in a politic team with Catalonian nationalist ideas.
On Monday 1st of March Laporta activated his own webpage calle www.laporta2010.cat . The main aim of this webpage was to show the ideology, the medhod and the things he wants to do for Catalonia. The problem is that in the webpage Laporta didn't express clearly what he wants to do in the politic world.
Although this lack of information the webpage was collapsed, in one minute there were more than 6000 visitors, this means that every second 600 people visitted the webpage.
I don't know what is going to do Laporta, but I think that could earn lots of votes because of being the best Barça president of all times.

Pokemon! Catch'em all!!!

I know that it sounds strange that a boy of eighteen years old is attracted by Pokemon, but the truth is that since I restarted to play during the last year I haven't stopped.
Pokemon appeared on 1995 in Hapan and arrived to Europe several years later. First of all there were 151 pokemons, on 2001 appeared new versions of the videogames and the number of Pokemon increased to 251. By this time was when I stopped playing, but las year as I didn't study and I didn't do anything I began to play with the third generation of Pokemon videogames, which increased the number of capturable Pokemons to 386.
As I said, I haven't stopped to play and two months ago I bought NintendoDS to a friend and the Pokemon Platinium, the last Pokemon videogame which has appeared. In this new game there are 493 Pokemons, and obviouslu, I catch'em all!
Next year is goint to appear the 5th generation and I hope it will be as wonderful as the previous ones:D

My new PC

Yesterdat, at 7 o'clock a.m. I disconnected my PC and I put it on the car because in the evening I wanted to bring it to PC-System, the shop were I bought the computer, because I wanted to have the PC repaired.
When I arrived to the sop the boy from there took my computer, he opened it and he began to watch which was the problem. He arrived to the conclusion that my graphic target was literally burned, (I've played too much with my computer). The graphic target had been burneed because of the RAM memory, which wasn't as strong as the GT and this one had to work the double than normally. My PC was made piece by piece, and it only was two years old so the major part of the pieces inside were still from the best ones, so I decided to change my GT and my RAM for more modern ones.
The problem is that the RAM I wanted comes from Corea, and it won't arrive until the next week.

Problems until the las moment

Last week I remembered that on the 5th of March we had to have the and portfolio finnished, so I decided that on Friday I would begin to make the first posts.
Friday arrived and when I left the high school and I finnished my english lessons I went to my house, I opened my computer and.. it didn't work, everytime I have to do sometghing important I have problems, but for me the fact was that my PC didn't work, and the first and main question which came to my mind was: what am I going to do this weekend without my computer? The answer to this question arrived on Friday's night, when I went to the TV and I discovered that at night, well, late night, in some new TDT channels series of my childhood are emitted.
I've spent all the weekend watching TV, and you don't imagine how amazing but boring can be doesn't know what to do.

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.