This I believe

Julie Kendrick supports that soup is a common meal which brings together friends and makes each one of them feel comfortable and connected with the other. She says that it's warmth makes you want to talk about life and share stories or annecdotes. She also claims that soup could be a tradition between people for example here in Argentina with asado or mate.

Grit's video

I actually liked all the video, because it's true, if you are not committed to complete or follow a goal you won't be able to do want you want in the future, and you might regret it.

On the test I scored 4.5.

I try to have grit and motivation because i can get a little distracted of what is more important .I personally have the goal to become an English Translator, because I love english and I feel passion when I learn it, so I would love to complete my goal and work from something that i feel passionate about.

Sixty Second Idea to Improve the World

Katherine's idea is to invent a device which can detect when your brain is stressed and tired and automatically block all kind of new information. It might work by sensing physical signs of stress and tiredness such as blood pressure. She says that there's nothing we could do to stop it and she thinks that this device is necessary because we don't take time to rest for ourselves when everything is getting too much. She also claims that the more stressed and tired we are, the more likely we are to check on emails, twitter and facebook.

Malcom thinks that it's a great idea, but he says that he checks obsessively his emails and if he wouldn't do it the problem would be that there will be twice as many emails than the day before so he'd get more stressed out.

Ian thinks it's a wonderful idea because the interesting thing is that when this breaks happen, because your computer shuts down or like a storm they've had in the UK which stopped people from travelling to work, they enjoyed that "natural break" where they could talk to neighbours and have a little time for themselves.

12th November

Idioms, unit 4
Phrasal Verbs, unit 3

7th November

A way with words
unit 2 "Around the house"
unit 3 "Prefixes

English Vocabulary in Use, units 4 and 5

Weird News

Ariana Grande, the singer, made an interview for a magazine in which she explains that she had a ghost/demon experience. She starts saying that she was in Kansas City and she went to a hunted castle (with her friends). The next night she and her friends wanted to go to the Stull Cementary. On their way, they started to smell sulfur, which is a sign of the demon, and then, out of nowhere, a fly appeared in the car, also a sign of the demon. They were so terrified that they decided to leave, but first Ariana took a photo and three faces were captured in the picture.
 After some days, Ariana was going to sleep and in the moment she closed her eyes, she heard a really loud and deep sound, but when she opened them it stopped, so she closed them again and she started listening whispers. Everytime she closed her eyes she kept seeing images with red shapes, and from one moment to another she sees a black matter moving.
She started crying, but she tried to calm down, she didn't want to disturb this black cloud. Finally she fell asleep and when she woke up in the morning, it was gone.

5th November

Idioms in Use, unit 2, "Happiness and sadness".
Phrasal verbs in Use, unit 1, "Phrasal verbs, the basics"
Student's book, Opportunities, page 60

31st October

A way with words, page 7, exercise 1b.
English Vocabulary in Use, unit 2 "Learning Vocabulary"
Language powerbook, page 54

Twillight Review

Bella is a pretty reserved teenage girl, who doesn't like making social with people except with her mother and stepfather, a baseball player. When her stepfather's job requires Bella's mom to travell with him, she decides to move to Forks with her dad Charlie, but she wasn't planning on staying for too long. She would have never imagined she would find her true love in Forks, someone who takes her breath away and who later will become her deepest and most dangerous weakness. But first of all she would have never imagined he would be anything but a human.

The power of comedy

On his essay, John Cheadle Rich talks about laughter. Every moment in life deserves a laugh either it's a bad one or a good one. Laugh can make you change the way you see things, even more when someone makes you laugh and it takes your pain or worries away, at least for a moment. Like John says on his essay, laughing is a therapy which never fails on making you feel better. I personaly love laughing and making others laugh, it teaches me everytime to stay positive and go through hard situations.

Global news

*Hundreds of people have been killed in Syria by poisonous gas. There are videos on youtube which show dead bodies and children colvusing in a clinic. The government denied the using of chemical weapons and accused the opposition activists of using those kind of weapons. A farmer commander thinks that the gas which kill hundreds of people could be a nervous agent, because of the symptoms and it's quick effect producing the death.

*The Egypt's ex.president Mubarak is being released, but it's not known when he will be free. He has been detained for corruption accusations. The prosecution can appeal against the release. The court said its decision was final and no appeal would be allowed.

*Nuclear regulators from Fukushima's plant, in Japan, try to prevent a radioactive water leaking from a storage tank. This leak is not so big compared to the tons of water contained on the tanks, but the water is still highly radioactive.

Record and upload audio >>

Aubade - Philip Larkin

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,  

Describing

Oscar is my father, he's fourty-five, which means he's not really old. He is tall, he has short brown hair, bushy eyebrows and green eyes. He is really outgoing and sociable, even though he has a serious face and he is very helpful and cheerful. On weekends he just wants to watch movies, drink coffee, and enjoy the day with his family.

Sometimes he is so moody when it comes to cleanning that he thinks that my sister, my brother and I, don't want to help with it, which is his obsession. Other times he is adventurous, all of a sudden he wants to go camping or somewhere far away from the city. He is funny, mostly when he changes the songs' lyrics.

He is really impatient, for example when we go somewhere and there is a queue he gets angry, or when I haven't finished eating yet and he wants me to wash the dishies already. Like I mentioned before, he is obsessive with the cleanning, so he gets impatient with that too, like when there is a tiny piece of bread on the table and he gets crazy.

He is very independent, he is such a co-operative person that he want to help and solve others problems. In conclusion, my father is a beautiful person, who has defects, but we all have plenty of them, if we hadn't we wouldn't be humans.

The Art of Fiction

Lodge, David - The Art of Fiction

Step 2 of description.

adventurous, always wants to go on a campament, also really inventive, he is always changing the songs' words, very polite, but sometimes can be bossy and impatient like when we go some place  and  there is a queue he gets angry. also he is obsessive with the cleaning.

outgoing, moody, tall, short hair, chatty, sensitive, symphatetic, fashioned, independent, polite, impatient, competitive, seriuos, sociable, helpful, hard working, adventurous, realistic, logical ,cheerful, co-operative, lose temper, puts others first, immaculately groomed, bushy eyebrows.

BBC News

*Angelina Jolie declared she has double mastectomy. She says  she did it to minimize the risks of cancer. She decided to do the double mastectomy because of a gen that gave her 90% chances of contracting breast cancer, the desease that killed her mother. Owed to her mastectomy her chances of having cancer have dropped from 87% to under 5%.

* Last Monday there was a tornado in Oklahoma, which left at least 24 dead and lots of injured including 9 children. The tornado lasted for 45 minutes and crossed 2 miles, destroying houses and a school, and left part of the suburbs looking like a war zone. The authorities are still searching for survivors.

*Iodine deficiency during pregnancy could be dimming the intellect of babies born in Britain. A study showed IQs and reading scores were lower in primary school pupils, if their mother was deficient during pregnancy. Another study showed that two thirds of pregnant women would get too little ioding and that children IQ was three points lower on average by the age of 8 than children whose mothers had enough ioding.
 

Time is just everywhere,
like the invisible wind,
necessary to live.

Unbelieveble scary, just can't handle it.

Global News

*In Spain, more than 6 million people are jobless because of the economic crisis that started five years ago. A girl who is unemploid says that she can't afford to have her own place with her boyfriend, have children and she is always counting every cent she spends. The Red Cross helps a lot of people who don't have a job and are trying to survive.

*In Bangladesh a building colapsed and the emergency workers are trying to find any survivers. Sor far they've found at least 210 people dead and about 100 are still missing. The building was working as a clothes factory and a bank. The bank workers got out from the building after a crack appeared, but the clothing workers were still inside.

*One of the man suspected of bombing the marathon last week, have been on a CIA watch list for at least a year before the attacks. The CIA couldn't find any evidence of the threats. The russian government contacted the FBI and the CIA, because of the concern that he might had been planning an attack in Russia.

BBC's News

*In Texas a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant has killed between five and fifteen people and injured more than 160. A woman who was at a restaurant near the place of the accident said she saw people running to get safety, houses getting demoled and glasses blowing out of windows. The police is trying to know if it's a crime scene, but there aren't any clues to prove it so far.

*Obama travelled to Boston where there was an attack during a marathon in which three people died and left a lot injured. A doctor who was participating on the marathon helped out a woman who was laying on the street unconscious after the attack.

*In India a man appeared on a video calling for help from drivers for his five years old son who was laying injured in the road and the dead bodies of his wife and daughter were by his side. For fourty minutes the vehicles passed by but none of them stopped to help.

PRI's news

* Irish language is very vulnerable nowadays. Between 80.000 and 130.000  natives speak Irish these days.   A lot of people like to learn it because they are interested on it. Today, where there was a Protestant territory in the past, there is a center where you can learn Irish.

*Some Gaza's schools have started teaching Hebrew. A girl says she likes learning it because it's easier than  learning English and because it's the enemy's language. Kids have to learn it because they must know what the enemy is planning or thinking, and also it's a way to protect themselves.

Laughter

*Marx brothers <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=u3BQ2SwGG40&start=313.45&end=416.29&cid=1100943"></param><embed src="http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=u3BQ2SwGG40&start=313.45&end=416.29&cid=1100943" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

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BBC's News (Tuesday and Thursday)

* On Tuesday there was a 6.3 magnitud earthquake in Iran which caused the death of at least 37 people and left more than 850 injured. The governor said the earthquake happened at around 16:20 and that about 700 houses have been completely destroyed adding that some of them had been built by handmade bricks. The earthquake was so powerful that it could be felt by some neighbours from other provinces.

* Eleven children have been killed by NATO in Afkanistan. There were also two women killed along with 8 Taliban's militants. Local officials and villigers said that at least ten children were killed and there were also 6 injured local women. The civilians and specially children are the ones that suffer for the military's actions because of the government's absence.

* North Korea gives advise to South Korea to live the coutry in case there is a war. Japan has been deploying anti-missiles systems because they are consurned that this may get out of hand.

* Sister Mary Ann who is 68, stole nearly $130.000 to fund her gambling adicction. She wasn't known for half a century but for five years until in 2011. She's admited stealing more than 83.000 pounds which contradicts with what she said the first time she was arrested last year that she denied stealing money. She agreed to treat her addiction.

* Pope Francis has celebrated his first Easter. His Easter message was the peace around the world. He talks about the conflicts between the israeles and the palestinians telling them to have the courage to talk to each other. He also referred to the situation in Irak, the consurn for the enviroment, the human trafficking and so on.

* The president of Malawi accused Madonna of demanding VIP treatment, being a bully and exanuating her charity work . Madonna is conected to Malawi because she adopted two children from the country. Madonna is in Malawi supporting the education by making schools.

Rumspringa

I think that every adolecent should be allowed a rumspringa because, in my opinion, teenagers must learn and prepare for their grown up's life when nobody is going to tell them what to do and they'll have to make their own decitions. Although, I think this period is sort of dangerous if teenagers pass its limits.

Hard day

Today was a busy day, but I kind of liked it because I had volleyball practise. On Sunday I'm playing a match and I'm really excited about it because I love the feeling when I get into the field, it's some kind of excitement that I only feel playing volleyball. The days I have volleyball practise I end up extremely tired, just like now that it's 10pm and I barely can keep my eyes open. Anyway, I feel good because I do something I like and enjoy.

NPR's news

* The coutry most affected by Hugo Chavez's death may be Cuba, because Chavez has done a lot of things for this country such as giving the cubans cheap oil. If the Venezuela's new leadership stopped helping Cuba the result would be devastating and it could lead an economic crisis in Cuba. There are thoughts that Maduro will win the elections, but there are also thoughts that he won't because of negative events in the past.

*The House I Live In is a film about the 40 year war on drugs in the United States. The film's director is Melinda, who says that she did the film based on most of people's reality connected with drugs. She visited a lot of prisions searching for information to make the film. It took four years to finish it.

*The 2012 was an eventful year when it comes to Iranian filmmakers. The film 'A separation' won the Oscar for Best foreign language film. An Iranian actress tells and answers why she got interested in doing the film.

BBC's News

The new religious leader is the first non-European Pope in over a thousand years. People from Argentina who are in Rome, are very proud and shocked. A few minutes after the white smoke came out of the chiminea the new Pope's identity was announced. When Bergoglio came out to the balcony, asked to the audience to pray for him and humbly said that it looks as if the cardinals went to the end of the earth to find him. When he lived in Buenos Aires he had a very simple life because he lived in an apartment and cooked for himself, so he is going to adjust to the new life.

Don't jump

I would tell the person that if he/she jumps he/she'd be giving up on him/herself and that there is always a solution for any problem, that maybe he/she has to see or interpretate the problem in another way. He/She doesn't have to give too much importance to whatever he/she is going through and not to be always negative and pessimist.
I'd say that nothing can matter more than your life, nothing and no one has to have the power of controlling it, I think that we are capable of anything we want, so if the person has been hurt or someone has died or whatever he/she is depressed for, the person can get over that pain and move on. And probbably there are people on his/her life that love him/her.

Awesome day !

Today was a great day ! In first place because I left school an hour earlier, second because the volleyball practise was awesome, it was really good. And last but not least, a new Pope has been chosen and he's argentinian ! It's really exciting that someone can represent us (argentinians) being in charge of a very important position in the world.

03/12/13 news

* Today the cardinals got together to vote for a new Pope, but black smoke came out of the chimmine, which means that no Pope has been chosen.

* a trial has been setman accused for the shooting in coloradolast summer killing 12 people

* there may be rats on the subway system

Enzo I had a problem with the radio, it happened the same thing that the last time. I searched for the news to complete them, but I couldn't find them.

News

* The venezuelan President died of cancer which he has had over for two years. The Government decided to close all schools and universities. The country's Vicepresident will continue to run the country until the elections.

*Alvin Lee died in Spain at 68 years old, caused by some compications of surgery. He was the founder of the band Ten years After in 1967. The group went pupular because of Lee's perfomanse of the song 'I'm going home'. Lee wasn't out of the band while he persuit the solo career.

*In Arkansas has been approved a law that prohibits abortion after 12 weeks of gestation. The 20 percent of abortions took place in Arkansas in 2011 at or after 12 weeks of getation.

Describing people's characters

I am going to talk about my friends Lucia, Agustina and Florencia. Lucía is very out-going and chatty because she's always talking and she never gets tired of people, she likes to interact with everyone. Agustina is very kind to her friends because we have really good times together, also she is easy-going because she doesn't care what people think about her, unlike Florencia who is really moody and shy because she is always mad at someone or something and she doesn't like talking to people very much.

Almost late

Today I had volleyball practice at 12 AM, so before I went to sleep last night I put the alarm at 10 AM. In the morning the alarm rang so I woke up, but I didn't get up and immediately I fell asleep because I was so tired. Fortunately, I woke up at 11:15 and jumped out of the bed because I had to hurry up if I wanted to be in time for practice. Finally, when I arrived to the club the girls that were training before my shift had just finished, so I got in time :D

Bedroom

What kind of person do you think this room belongs to?
Why?
How would you change the room if you moved in?

I think this room belongs to a little girl who loves princess and is really delicated, because it has pink details.
If I moved in I would change some colors like the walls would be pink.

Rainy day

Today I woke up early because I had to go to volleyball practice at 12am.

When the volleyball practice finished I went to a friend's house where all my mates from school were so we could decorate our t-shirts and flags for our "last first day of school". The day was really rainy, but it's not a bad thing for me because I love watching the rain hitting the windows o falling on the street, it makes me feel really comfortable and happy.

By the way, the rain didn't stop us from decorating and having fun !

First Attempt

What does the term "home" means to you? For me it means a place where you can enjoy time with the people you love and care about. Also is where i can be more secure and more myself. I love living with my mother, my father, my sister and my brother.