CARNIVAL 2010

Hi everybody!

As you know these last weekends have been Carnivals from different villages, and they are still continuing. I get dressed of military. We were thirteen.

The first day that I went to Carnival’s party was Saturday 13th of February. I decided do not go to Roses on Friday because the weather was really bad and I always fall ill very quickly, so I preferred to stay in home and feel really good in Saturday.

On Saturday, at five o’clock of the afternoon the Carnival started in Sant Pere. We went to the floats parade and we enjoyed it a lot. Later, we went to my house and we had dinner. At eleven o’clock of the night, we went again to the floats parade. The weather was really cold, so we stayed all the parade under the float dancing, dancing and dancing! Finally, we went to Centre Civic where we met with other friends. I can describe this day with one word: FANTASTIC.

Last weekend, was Castelló’s Carnival. In Friday I went to Empuriabrava but I only did the float parade because I was really tired from the week and I decided go to sleep. Moreover, my parents and my brother were looking the parade and I did not wanted that they had to come again for me to Empuriabrava.

The last day that I went to Carnival was Saturday 20th, in Castelló. We did not arrived late, but all the floats were already and we were the last float of the parade so we finished very late. After that, I went with all my friends to the party and we met other people there. In my opinion I think that there were too much people there, I was feeling really overwhelmed. I decided to leave the party and go outside. Since this moment I can say that the night finished for me. Since this moment started a lot of things that I did not want that they happen, so my last Carnival night did not finished from the best way possible.

After these two weekends I can say that 2010 Carnival is finished, because next weekend I will not go to Fortià because I have a lot of exams next week and I have to study a lot because I want good marks from my exams, and I will to the same like a lot of animals in winter; hibernate!

Good luck for the exams to everybodyy!

CAKE

Hello everybody!

As you maybe will know this weekend have been Sant Pere’s Carnival and obviously last afternoon – night I going out party with my friends. After pass a really good Carnival, I woke up at one o’clock of the midday and I had lunch with my family. After that, seeing the situation of my family (my father working harder like every day, my mother was feeling really bad, and my brother was working with his “buggie”) I decided to made a cake. I’m sure you know the way of do this simply cake, but I’ll write it here if someone do not know how do it! :)

First of all, I switched on the oven with 180 degrees. Secondly, I started adding:

• three eggs
• one lemon yogurt (it can be natural, doesn’t matter).

I used the jar yogurt to add the correctly measures of sugar and flour:

• three jars of flour
  
• two jars of sugar

I mixed up a little bit this mixture and I added a packet of Royal. Then I mixed up all the ingredients with the mixer and I put the mixture to the dish that I dipped before with butter. Finally, I put it in the oven. I waited for 35-40 minutes and the cake it’s already! For finish with it, I added icing sugar under the cake.


Every Sunday I’m studying or with my friends, and today I was tired from yesterday's party and I decided to do something different, and I wanted to do something for my family and how I like cooking, this is the result of a little part of my Suday afternoon!

See you!

STRESS?

We know that Second Batxillerat is a hard year. A lot of things are depending of this course, but the most important think that we have to do is get the higher mark as it is possible, because if we have not good luck on Selectivitat exams, we will be able to enter in the degree we want.

I think that finally, I have decided what I will do in the future. The only think that it’s missing is think about what I’ll do; rent a flat or go everyday to Girona to Sant Pere by car o train.
Finally, I’ve decided that I’ll do Bussines Studies (Ciències Empresarials). The reason why I have choosen this degree basically is for the mark. To enter to this degree it’s necessary a five, and I think I will be able to get this mark. The other possibility is ADE, but the mark is higher, I think that it’s a 6’5 so it is more dificult to get it.

I will not be the only one who will do this degree. If we get the mark, I’ll to this degree with Ariadna Julià, and also Nuri, if she does not go to Barcelona.
These days of Second Batxillerat have been really hards, but I think that it has only just begun, so we must study hard if we want to get our objectives! GOOD LUCK FOR EVERYONE!

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.

Always, when starts a New Year, people uses to think about objectives that want to accomplish during the year. I don’t use to do it, but I must say that I think it for myself, and now, I’ll write it here.

Firstly, as a lot of my friends have, I want to pass my Selectivitat exam with best mark it’s possible and be able to do a degree. I think that finally, I’ve decided what I want to do.

Also, I want to pass a lot of time with my friends, as I passed this 2009. I love stay with my friends, I enjoy it a lot.

In my point of view, family it’s really important for me, so I want the best for them. They always are by my side when I need something. For this reason I promise that I will help more on house’s work.

Moreover, I would like to get my drive lisence! I would like to be more independent from my parents and brother and go where I want and when I want.

Apart from these objectives, I want to enjoy this year more than the 2009 and less than the 2011, because we don’t know when we’ll find our end, so we must enjoy all the opportunities that life gives to us!

Well, I think that in a few words I expressed all the important things for me; studies, the best for all the people who’s next to me all the moments, and enjoy our lives, so I wish you a Happy New Year and, GOOD LUCK!

SOCIAL NETWORKS.

I’m sure you know something about social networks. Nowadays, they are really currents on the adolescents conversations. Social networks are social structures where social relations are created between the members of one community. Social networks are forms of communication where people exchange information about their ideas, preferences, groups, photos, videos, etc.

Social networks were created more or less on 2001 and 2002, but they started to grow on 2003, with the appearance of Myspace. Quickly, a lot of companies started to think with create a social network to get a lot of people using it. Social networks started to grow when users started to invite their friends and his family and they started to grow a lot.

Myspace, Tuenti, Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, etc. I’m sure you have heard a lot of times these words. They are examples of social networks. Nowadays, the biggest social network is Facebook.
Facebook is a social network based on the exchange of photos and videos too with the registered users. This web was created originally for the Harvard University’s students, on United Estates. Actually, is a social network open to all the people around the world who have an e-mail. Facebook was created on the 4th of February of 2004, and on 2007’s February, it was the biggest social network on the world, with more than 30 millions of users.
Social networks help you to meet a lot of new people from around the world, talk with your friends, comment photos, videos, etc., but also they have disadvantages. A lot of companies uses Facebook for obtain information about people who will work with them, and as the news said, a lot of people have lost their job. If you want to lose your work... here you have an example! looool

So... well, you have to pay attention what you write and where you do it, it could be really bad for you!

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

The film tells the story about a boy called Charlie who lives in the middle of the poverty with his parents, his grandparents and grandmothers.
Near to his house there is the biggest chocolate factory in the world, owned by Willy Wonka.
Charlie is a boy who understands a lot the economical situation of his family and he only eats chocolate for his birthday, because his parents give him a chocolate tablet.
Willy Wonka is the best producer of chocolate and also he’s the most inventive and innovative of the world. The reason that Willy Wonka closed his factory to the public was the espionage. A lot of people wanted to know the recipe to create this delicious chocolate.
One day, Willy Wonka decides open his factory to five children around the world. He puts five golden tickets on five chocolate tablets and he distributed them worldwide. The five children who find these tickets will be able to enter inside the factory with one member of his family.
Charlie only has an opportunity to get this ticket, his birthday present. On the chocolate tablet that his parents gave to him for his birthday, there wasn’t the golden ticket. One day, Charlie found a ticket money on the floor and it was his last opportunity. Charlie went to buy a Wonka Chocolate tablet, and there was the last golden ticket.
Next day Charlie went to the factory with his grandparent, who worked a lot of years with the chocolate, and he discovered a really beautiful world inside. Charlie was the winner of the big prize that was randomly with the other four children. This big prize was that who was the winner, in the future, would have the pleasure to lead the famous factory of chocolate.
Charlie rejected the offer because he had to leave his family and he preferred the family before directing a famous factory.
If you want, here you have the trailer of the movie:

I agree that this film is a little bit childish, because the world that there is inside the factory is not really real, but the message that it want to transmit is really beautiful; before a lot of money and recognition, Charlie wants to be next to his family.
In my point of view, this argument it’s really good, because it’s a film that a lot of children will see a really important thing of our lives: family is more important than the whole money that exist around the world.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOS.

During this first term we have been discussing on some occasions about if youth it’s better than being older.

All the times that we discussed it, I said that in my opinion don’t matter if you are young or old, you can enjoy our lives equally but on different ways.
And that’s the reason why I have chosen this photo now, because it’s a point on favour in my opinion. This is an example of my point of view that youth is not more important than being older.

BYE BYE FIRST TERM.

Hi everybody!

This afternoon I have been thinking about what I will do this weekend, and there is only one answer: STUDY, STUDY, STUDY and more STUDY.
It’s amazing how quickly have passed that first term of Second Batxillerat. It seems that was yesterday that we came to the High School after our brilliants summers.
Also, we are starting to finish ours Research Projects and it’s a big relief for us, because it had took a lot of time of study or relax.
Well, with this post I don’t want to tell nothing, the only thing that I want is wish a good luck for all my friends (and me too!:P) who will be studying hard this weekend trying to pass the exams of this hard week successfully.
So, well, that’s all for the first term and I will continue writing more, and I hope better, on the second term :)
CU on Monday!

DON'T USE MASKS, BE YOURSELF.

Nowadays, a lot of people use masks to represent themselves. The reason that people use masks to express themselves is that they don’t feel secure with their own self.
The reason I’m talking about this topic it’s clear; I’m studying psychology like a modality subject and now, we are doing different works during the class, and I’m working with this topic, PERSONALITY.
I’ve read a lot of articles on the Internet and I think that the biggest problem that we can find in our societies day after day is that people don’t know how they can be themselves.
A lot of people are influenced from different groups of friends, publicities, from a lot of things. This is the reason that a lot of people don’t feel good with themselves, they don’t feel self-satisfied, and they don’t know how express themselves.
Feel self-satisfied it’s very important for one person, because if you feel good with yourself, and you accept you as you are, you will be yourself and maybe you will get happiness. Well, I’ll try to explain me better.
When one person feels bad, maybe, one reason can be that he is not self-satisfied, he is not what he wants and he uses excuses and masks to express himself. He doesn’t express himself as the person that he brings inside.
The way to be a self-satisfied person is hard, but if you try to do it, you will get it. You only must have clear your objectives and be positive all the time.
As Abraham Maslow said, the first step to begin are the physiologic necessities like drink eat, sleep, sex, etc. When you have completed this step, you can go to another; the protection and security necessities. One person must feel secure and protected (physically and psychically). When you passed this step, comes the lovely and acceptation necessities for example; being loved from other people and being of a group of friends, or simply, know that when you’ll need something you will have help from your friends.
And now, there are only two steps more, but also the most difficult to get. The first one is the valuation necessities; that consists in a research of the self-esteem and finds a positive concept of himself. And finally, if you get all these steps, you can get the last one; self-fulfilment necessities. We can define these necessities like; accept ourselves as we are, know our minds, find our objectives, and positive points like these.
To sum up I would like to say the key of the self-satisfaction; BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE; DON’T USE MASKS AND DON’T BE AFRAID TO BE YOURSELF.

MY RESEARCH PROJECT.

Hi! Today I’ve decided talk a Little bit about my Research Project.
There is only a month and a half for the date of the delivery of our work, so we must hurry up because in a few days we will be on 15th of December.
Well, now I’ll tell the topic about my Research Project.
Since we started to think about it, I thought about doing it about something related with agriculture or fruits, because my parents are farmers and since I was born I used to listen things related with this field, and I think that it's a good topic to do a Research Project, because there are not a lot of people interested on it. I started to think about the life cycle of a fruit tree or something like that. The problems start when the topic and my type of Batxillerat were not really compatible, so I decided to change a little bit my idea.
I started to look the different topics proposed from the Institute and I found one interesting topic; Do a research about the vocabulary of one field (for example agriculture, fishing, livestock farming, etc.).
I liked it, so I started to look up for do a Research Project related with it, and finally, I chose my topic (I have not decided the title yet, but it will be similar); “Study of the vocabulary of agriculture on Sant Pere Pescador”.
This project will have a theoretical and a practical part.
The theoretical part will explain some things about lexicography, like what it is, the first lexicographers around the world, the evolution of the lexicography in Catalonia, and things like that.
For the practical part, I did interviews to farmers of Sant Pere Pescador, later I’ve extracted all the vocabulary, I’ve defined all of the words, and finally, I’ll create a little lexicographic work.
I’ve worked a lot this summer on it, so I hope not finish it at twelve o’clock of the day before the delivery.
I’ll say that maybe, it’s a lot of work do the Research Project counting all the work we have from other subjects, but I think that I’ve learned a lot of things since I started to do it, so I think that the day that I’ll finish it, I’ll know a lot of things that one year before I didn’t know that were existing on our lives.

GOOD LUCK for all the people that are doing this hard project now.:)

11th and 12th October 2009.

Hi! Today I’ll talk about what I did in my “long” weekend.
Firstly I’ll tell you where I went, later some things I saw that I liked a lot and finally some experiences I had.
Well, I only have gone out for two days: Sunday and Monday. I left my home at half past five of the morning and I went direction to the Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici. I arrived here at eleven o’clock of the morning and I walked a lot with one objective: saw the Sant Maurici’s Pond.
There were seven kilometres from the parking to the pond and all of these kilometres were ascendant. It was really hard and we got tired a lot.
Later, we went to lunch and we took our car and afterwards, we went to leave the suitcases to the hotel on Vielha. Later we went to visit the town and we walked there and we took our car again and we went to Baqueira-Beret. I think Baqueira-Beret is one of the places that I liked more.
Well, later, at half past seven – eight of the afternoon we went again to Vielha and we had lunch there until nine o’clock.
When we finished our lunch we went to the hotel, ‘cause we were very tired form hours and hours of car and walk and walk without any stop.
Well, in the hotel, my brother and I had a room and my parents another one. We tried to saw a little the TV but… I couldn’t and I fell asleep… but not for all the night! When my brother switch off the TV, he fell asleep very quickly and there was a problem: he was snoring all the time and I couldn’t sleep.
I tried to sleep from twelve to three of the morning, but I couldn’t. At three o’clock of the morning I took the pillow and I went to the bathroom and I tried to sleep on the bathtub but I was listening the snores too.
At four o’clock of the morning I was really tired and I was desperate, so I called my mother and I went to sleep to my parents room and my father (another snorer person too) went to my bed with my brother. Finally, I could sleep!
We woke up at seven o’clock of the morning, we had lunch at the hotel and we left out the hotel and we went to Andorra.
We spend all the day there and we went shopping! Later, at five o’clock of the afternoon we took the car direction Sant Pere Pescador. We were really tired. We spend two hours trying leaving Andorra, but there were a lot of cars on the road and a large queue.
Finally, after pass five hours inside the car, we arrived to our home, after to pass a lot of bends.
I think it was a really good short travel to disconnect a lot from our daily lives, but I think there were too many bends.
I like the houses from these zone, they’re brilliant, and I laughed a lot when we were at the road and there were a lot of cows and horses walking on the road peacefully!
Another thing that I liked a lot was all the vegetation and nature. It was amazing! All of the landscapes were fascinant, and also, another thing really beautiful was that a lot of times, on the road, you could see water going down for the wall of the mountains and small waterfalls.
The last travel of our family was when I had eight years old, so I think it was time to do another one. In conclusion, apart from the tiredness, it was a really good travel to remember.
If you want to see all the landscapes I saw, here you have a link of the album of photos that I've upload on my Facebook.;)

If you have the opportunity to go there, don’t leave it! You will enjoy it a lot! ;)

ARE NEW TECHNOLOGIES GOOD OR BAD FOR OUR SOCIETY?

Nowadays, people who don't have minimum a computer in their home is a strange person. We are in a period of a big development of new technologies, so a lot of things that we must do are related with the use of computers, mobile phones, cameras, etc.

I think that new technologies are good, but not in a massive use. Yes, we can pass an afternoon talking with our friends on Messenger, or surfing on the Facebook, I did it, and I'm not going to deny it. ;)

Also but, there is another extreme; the hikikomori people. Who are hikikomoris people?
People who are called hikikomoris are persons who pass days, and also someone pass weeks, closed on their rooms without any more contact with the world apart from the new technologies.
The hikikomoris are a big experts of computer games, they are really good hackers, they have uncountable contacts on their social nets (Facebook, Tuenti, Twiter, etc.), and they can pass twenty four hours in a chat without any type of problem.

There is a big problem when their parents want that their son leave his room and going to the street. They will suffer really big problems, like a drug addict without his diary drug. They can suffer anxiety, depression, violent behaviour...

We know that Catalonia isn't Japan, but... who knows if hikikomoris will take prominence in our country?
In this moment, young people in Catalonia are growing learning some positive points, like search information for their homework, projects and things like that, thing that some of their parents can't say , 'cause they don't know how they can use a computer or simply, surf on the net.
But... ATTENTION! We must know the limits ‘cause maybe, if we don’t control us, in five years Catalonia will be full of hikikomoris. We must take in account some limits if we won't to be a hikikomori on the future:

• Don’t use the Internet more than ten hours weekly.

• Not spend more than we win with our mobile phone.

• Don’t change our social activities like go out with friends for play computer games or video games.

• A lot of points like that.

In my point of view, the most important point it’s the third, ‘cause people can start say: “No... today I’m not going to going out, I’m really tired and I’m going to sleep early”, and later this person starts to play computer games or chatting in a compulsive way.
The studies said that persons who are depressed or have a low self-esteem, are the suitable profile, 'cause theywant to be alone, so a lot of these people start to play computer games, chat with persons who never will know who they are...
To sum up, I think it’s good have a computer, a camera, a mobile phone, etc, but using it consciousness ‘cause it can be really bad for our society lifes. We can lose a lot of friends and in the future only have a friend: THE COMPUTER.

SUMMER '09

Hi!
Today, I’ll speak about the summer that I had.
Well, I worked at the same place of the summer 2008, in Mas Gusó, on Sant Pere Pescador. I worked as a “barman” on the bar. I did ice creams, cocktails, sangria... a lot of things!
I’ve enjoyed the work and the summer too!
I have had the same timetable every day, from 2:30 of the midday to 23:00 of the night, and I had the mornings free.
On the mornings I used to do my research project, but when I wasn’t doing it I used to go to the beach, to the swimming pool, meet with my friends, basically, enjoy a little bit the summer!
Usually, at the night I used to go to de Tropic Beach, situated on Sant Pere Pescador’s beach, sometimes to Fata, or simply, lay on the beach with my friends and take a relax minutes :)
This is the second year I’ve worked at the same place, and I must say that I really like it. Like all the jobs have good and bad points, but not always all is perfect, so we must value all we have.
Well, tomorrow I’ll go to see off to my friends of Mas Gusó ‘cause tomorrow they’ll clos until next summer. I hope next summer we’ll be all together again! :)
During the summer, I did an album of photos and I post it on my facebook. If you click here, you will see some photos of my summer ;)

P.S: The first photo it's from the dinner that we did on July (there are someone missing), we did it on L'Escala and later we went to party at the discotheque.

STUDYING AGAIN.

Hi people!
Seems impossible that summer have already finished. We are again starting a new course, Second Batxillerat.
I think it will be the most difficult year of all I lead studying in I.E.S Castelló d’Empúries.
Before start the classes, I set myself different objectives. I’ll try to carry out all of them. I thought about study a little bit every day (it will be REALLY difficult, but I’ll try it!), don’t leave all the things for the last day, more concentration in all of the points, don’t go party a lot of nights (:( ...), you know, a lot of objectives like that.
In my opinion, this year it’s really important for our futures, ‘cause if we don’t get a good mark, maybe some of us will be outside the doors of the degree that we want to do, so we must study a lot and try to do our work at the best way it’s possible!
One proof of that this will be a hard year is that we only have gone two weeks to the High School and we’ve already did an exam...!
Well I hope all of us pass this course successfully and we can go together to our Universities, and open other stage of our lives, the independency :)
I wish good luck for all of us, we will need it*