Final Reflection

I'm new in this school, so there are a lot of new things that I've learned. In English class we had two different teachers along the year. My improvement along this year it has been very small. It isn't the fault of the teachers (we shouldn't even think of that possibility), it's just that I kept up with the same level. (I spent last year in Ireland and I did a big progress so that year has been perfect to keep practising my english -written and spoken-). What I love to do in english is talking. However, I get nervous really easy and I do a lot of silly mistakes! So I've got to say that the activity that shows my best ability in english is the writing. I belive that the oral presantations helps a lot to everybody. On one hand, it makes you to improve your english, searchng new words in internet and learning new technical words (It increases your vocaboulary). On the other hand, it helps people to lose their shame and makes you to contrl your own nerves. I think that this is realy usefull. I also apreciate the conversations that I had in english with my teachers, that helpe me a lot to keep my level and the fluency I got in Ireland. I found completly unnecessary the blog we did along the year. It takes a lot of time and it would be much better if we did those writtings at home and we could handed them to the teacher. I also think that teachers shoud give us a topic to write about, not just asking us to write 6 your-say, and 3 news that they are really easy to copy from intrnet (BBC news). I also think that the class on Mondays that he have been doing along the year at the lenguage roo has been a waste of time. Noone has really took advantage of those classes (The only thing that was worth doing on that class was talk to Rebecca but she left before ending course). The system is not  bad one, I think there are some things that have to be rotouched (as the blog!)  

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a spanish writer that was born in Barcelona in 1964. He is considered one of the bests spanish writers of the last two decades. Winner of a lot of awards and he is the list of the best spanish writers of the best 100 books from the last 25 years. The book that reached the top of his literature is called: "La Sombra del Viento" (the shadow of the wind). 

The most known works are the triology of: "La sombra del viento", "El juego del ángel" and "El prisionero del cielo". Before, he wrote four books for teenagers: "El príncipe de la niebla", "El palacio de la media noche", "Las luces de septiembre" and "Marina".

I have chosen that writer because is the first book I read that has introduced inside me a feeling of fear, suspence and intrigue. I think is a very good writer because he discribes a scene as he wants and you can imagine everything so there is no way to get out of the story.

 

PODCAST

Me and Dominik did the podcast together. We put it on youtube. The link is: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuUQA1Q9_Bc

New: Stoner is going to retire after this season!

Casey Stoner, the young Australian racer of Moto Gp, said few weeks ago that he was going to retire! he was born in Southport (Australia) the 16th October in 1985. His number is the 27th and with it, he has won twice the Moto Gp. Once in 2007 and the other in 2011. In 2007 with Ducatti and in 2011 with Repsol-Honda. And now with just 27 years old, he announces that he will retire at the end of the season. A lot of people has investigate why did he said thi but noone discovered anything. The only thing that we know is what he told us, familiar problems. It is such a pitty he gives up now. He was an unreal racer and he has always fought for every prize. We will all miss him.

New: Earthquake in Italy!

 The last tuesday, 29th of may, an earthquake that marked 5,8 on the Ritcher Scale hit the side North-West of Italy and kills 17 people. The earthquake has hit Modena, Ferrara and Bolonia and it has sent a number of 41 small earthquakes that marked until 4 on the Ritcher Scale. The afected zones are: Emilia Romagna, Venneto,  Lombardia, Fiuri Venezia Giulia and Trentino Alto Adige. Those places, suffered last week another earthquake that killed 7 people, 50 injured and more than 5000 mobilized. They have evacuated a lot of hospital and schools from those zones and Milan and Bolonia for security. Some historical buildings have fallen and are now in ruins.  This photo shows the Mirandola's Cathedral.

New: Killian's Jornet new project

THe new project of Killian Jornet it is called Summits Of My Life. He will conquer from now until 2015 a lot of mountains. His objective is:
 -In 2012: do the Mont Blanc's crossing and the Mont Blanc's ridge.
 -In 2013: he will conquer the Elbrus, Matterhorn and the Mont Blanc.
 -In 2014: the Aconcagua and Mc Kinley.
 -In 2015: he will get to the top of the Everest without O2.
He said that this is a very dangerous and difficult project. He said that it will be very easy to fail. But he has been looking foward for it to much time and he says that "there is just one thing that turns a dream inpossible, the fear to fail". So noone will stop him doing this project and he is very enthusiastic about it.

Killian Jornet

Killian Jornet is a mountaineer and skier from Catalonia. He started to do sport when he was young. His family were leaving in "Cap del Rec" in the Pirinees, and there he took up mountain and snow sport clases. He and his sister, the only way of playing they had was to run all around the mountain or doing it skiing in winter. Even more, his parents were, and still are people very enthusiastic of the mountain. When they had holidays, they used to go treking alll of them; so when killian was 5 years old, he had already climb some mountains of 3000mtrs high like the Aneto. We he was ten years old he had done the crossing of the Pirinees. He also become a really good skier, and he was doing competition in the Pirinees and in the Alps. So he started to train every day, in winter sky and in summer he was doing crossing to keep in fit. He started to do competitions of Spain and later Europe. In 2006 he got a really important injury that enable him all the season of winter and some of the summer. He passed two times by the operating room. Since then he has whon a lot of prizes and competitions. 

Crepes

The crepes are a tipical french plate. I am talking about them because my step father is French. He usually does some for all my family. They are easy to do and they can be combinated with salty or sweet aliments. However, there are a lot of restaurants specialists on crepes and even more, they what they call "gallete". It is a bigger kind of crep, hardest and they just use it to eat salty crepes. The main place in France where they make that kind of "gallete" is "Bretagne".
They are very easy to do. Here the recipe:

Ingredients

• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 1/3 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. In large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, melted butter, flour sugar and salt until smooth.
2. Heat a medium-sized skillet or crepe pan over medium heat. Grease pan with a small amount of butter or oil applied with a brush or paper towel. Using a serving spoon or small ladle, spoon about 3 tablespoons crepe batter into hot pan, tilting the pan so that bottom surface is evenly coated. Cook over medium heat, 1 to 2 minutes on a side, or until golden brown. Serve immediately.