Are you looking forward to voting?

When the teacher told us that we had to write about voting, I thought I was really looking forward it. Although I don´t understand a lot, I´m really interested in politics.

I want to vote because I want to change some aspects of our lives, but I´m not sure if any of the partys that are powerful would change anything.

For instance, when the goverment of the Basque Country was changed after so many years of "PNVism"(don´t know how to write it), everyone was saying that we would noticed a big change, but it hasn´t been like that. I haven´t noticed any change in my life.
So, if we want to change something, we have to start changing the partys, or better the politicians.
If we read the newspaper or watch the news, we will realize that a big amount of famous politicians are corrupt: Julian Muñoz, Berlusconi, "Gurtel" case..

To finish with it, I think it´s clear what we have to do, so maybe, instead of voting, I´ll create a new party to finish with the corrupt politicians and give the opportunity to people to change things.

My best present

It has a difficult answer. Some years ago, when I was 6, I was asking for a ball but nowadays, I wouldn´t ask for the same stuff.
I mean that when I was 6, the best gift for me, could had been a bike or something similar. If I was given a phone or a computer, I wouldn´t use it as much as I use them now.

When I was a child, I was given some great presents like a trip to Eurodisney, a bike..
The best present from those times had been the trip to Eurodisney.
It was for my ninth anniversary. My family and me went to Paris for a week. We spent 3 days visiting Paris ( Louvre, Eiffel tower, Notre Dame..) and the other days having fun in Eurodisney. It was just incredible.

Well, coming back to 2010, the best present in the last 6 or 7 years has been a laptop. It has been a very useful present because I have used it for many things and I´m sure that I´ll use it for many other things.

After explaining the best presents in my life, I´ve to take a decision. And I think that the best present has been the trip to Eurodisney. I have spent a great time with my parents and my brothers and there isn´t anything better than enjoying your family.

European Union

As Ernesto told us, we can start our writing about the European Union saying: "I don´t know anything about the Eurpean Union".
It´s true. I don´t have any idea of what it is or which is it´s work. I have just seen some differences in our lives since the European Union was created.
The inhabitants of the European Union have more facilties to travel in Europe.
I remember when I was a child that we had to wait a lot of time in a jam at the border between Spain and France. We used to show our DNA more than once to pass the border
Since the European Union was created, we´ve got more facilities to travel inside Europe and we don´t have to wait hours in the border.(if there isn´t any jum for other reason.)
Another important change has been the Euro.
Before the Euro, the European country´s did not have the same coin. When you were travelling and you wanted to buy something, first you had to change the coin. It was, in my opinion a waste of time.
The Euro has also worst thing. It´s value is higher, so the price of everything have increase and live is more expensive.
There are also more changes but I´m not sure of them, so I better don´t say anything that I have no idea.
I think that the creation of the Union has been a good idea. It´s like a "unique" big country with differents smaller countrys.
I think that it will help the countrys that are in the worst position and that it will help to have better lifes.

Death

Death. I don’t really like this word. It make me feel sad. I know it’s normal but I haven´t overcome yet that everything is going to finish, that I am going to lose my relatives and later on, I am going to die. I remember, some years ago, I have a teacher who talked about death without feeling any scare. And since these day, I have been thinking about death almost every night.I’m really scare of dying. It’s now that I’m scare because some years ago, when my grandfather dead, my only worry was not to play my football match (playeros). Know, I realized that it was a stupid behaviour. By these time, I hadn’t got any other thinking apart from sport. Until I was 13, I did not had any of my relatives dead, so I was like a little bit protected from it. I mean that I did not really know what was the meaning of death until 13. But even though my grandpa is dead, I think that I still don’t know the real meaning of death. I know that he is dead, but there plenty of ways of occurring a death. I knew that my grandpa was going to dead, because he was old and he had health problems. But If my mum was dead instead of my grandpa, it would be very different.

Creating a film

I am writing this article before creating the film. After creating the film, I will write my impressions, if it was easy, difficult, if there ware enough applications..
I want to create a film about Eva and one of her blokes, Eric. They live together and they join the same band of music, 13. 13 is also the name of the singer, that is a cat. Because of it, they are a really weird group and also, really famous. But the story doesn´t end that simply.
In a concert, while Eva and Eric are in their backstage, 13, the singer, is kidnpped. Without 13, the group is not the same and after trying to continue, the group split-up.
Finally, 13 is freed and when he meet with Eva and Eric, they decide to start again with the group.

TINKERING SCHOOL

In this speech, we see a "teacher" speaking about a school, Tinkering school.
This school is not like other schools. In this one, children can use sticks, hammers...dangerous stuff. They are trusted not to hurt themselves and the others.
Tinkering school has six days duration. There are not exams and they don´t have anything organiced. Teachers don´t try to teach specific things, they let the children using their minds.
The day that they come for the firts day, it maybe is the firts time that they use tools without listening their parents shouting to them saying that it can be dangerous and the can hurt people..
They start doing things with wood, plastic, ropes..Their projects usually are not finished well but they learn how to change the steps to adapt theirs projects or plans, and they have time for it.
They start drawing, and sometimes they continues with projects. Other times they start building with no plans. The teachers don´t tell them how to work, they maybe give them advices but nothing more. The failured are celebrated and analized and problems dissapeared.
This school could help children to be independent (they don´t need help to start doing anything), creative and it could help them also with trusting themself.
The speech finalized with a roolercoster made by 7 year old children. You can see their creativity.
www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in _action.html

IS ENLISH A MANIA?

Nowadays, many people study languages. The most important one is English. People study it at school, private lessons, watching TV in english... People say that english is important in our life, but are we making it a MANIA?In on hand, we´ve got the people that think that learning english is really important. For them, we have to learn english, because we need it to study. Many interesting articles, magazines..are in english, so we have to know it to understand them. Also, if we want to go out for anything we will need english. And if we want to mix with people, we´ll have to use english because is the "Global language". And of course to study english never is going to be bad for us.In the other hand, we´ve got the people that think that learning english is not much important than learning other languages.Ones opinion is, that if everyone learn english and use it all the time, people are damaging other languages like french, italian...And the most damages languages are the minority, like basque.They think, people are giving much importance to english than to another languages and that it is going to be a quarrel between english and the rest of the languages.Also, they say that is not true that we need english to go out or understand people. There are lot of people that don´t know english and go to other countries and can understand other people. The last thing is that now english is important and people think that they need it, but in like 10 or less years, chinese will become an important language, maybe more than english, so in some years people would be in two minds, they wouldn´t know what to study, the language that was important or the language that the majority will speak. Still is not really clear for me if English is a mania or not, people will decide it, the only thing I know is that I´m going to go on improving my english, in case I need it.