"White week"

This year we hawe one holidays week,but trat is good for students or bod?

In muy opinion i trinh trat tris week is a bad or wrong decision for students of batxillerat and for parents of primary children.

For this week batxillerat students have exams and works every day because we don't have

more time and this weeek that would be for holidays is a study week. And a lot of parents can't do holidays and their children will probably origionally part of the be alone.

This week was summar holidays where we could go to the beach,swimmingpool,stay with friends.. and now we will be all day at home doing homework and studying.

News!

Swine flu origin

CNN goes to Mexico to inform about the swine flu, the virus. The journalist Ted Rowlands stay in the Polaco district of Mexico where people come to work and he interviews a lot of this people who answer the same thing about virus.

Ted assure that only 1% of Mexicans believe that the virus origin in Mexico.
Also ted talks about one doctor who thinks that the virus started in Oaxaka with a tourist maybe from the United States.
The journalist Ted concluded that nobody, who interviews for the last two days in this street, has told that the virus origins in Mexico.

News!

The police complain about the study of phiscology

Mossos d'esquadra can now add psychology to their repertorie of professional developement.

There is a new programme that wants to teach members of the catalan law agency how to act more efectivily when dailing with a mentally ill citizien or with the delicate task of giving the news that a loved one has died.

Film!

I haven't seen the whole film, but I will explain what I know.

It begins with a messenger conversation. We can see the girl and we don't know who is the other person. They are talking that they could meet and she said that they could meet in a bar. They meet and they go to the men's house. There she saw a lot of pictures of young girls and a lot of walls painted in differents colours (to make photos) and they stay together at the night. When they wake up, he is bound with a rope and she is saying that he will not use her.

News!

Bangladesh imposes YouTube block

The government of Bangladesh has blocked the web page “You Tube”, because someone uploaded a video which showed a recording of a meeting between the PM and the army officers. This video covered about 40 minutes (the meeting was 3 hours long), and you could see how angry some militaries were with the government’s handling of the crisis. For this reason, lots of guardsmen have been arrested.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7932659.stm)

ORAL PRESENTATION

INTRODUCTION

LOCATION: Europe (it's the little island to the left of England!)

POPULATION: 4015000

LANGUAGE: English and Gaelic

CURRENCY: Euro

Ireland went into the UE in 1973.

Ireland is known as the Emerald Island because the rains falling throughout the year mean that the landscape is a bright green.

The country's central plains are very fertile and are cultivated wheat, barley and potatoes.

Rivers and lakes inside the Irish are famous for salmon fishing and trout, and are also important for its wildlife.

In winter, the ducks migrate from Ireland to Greenland and Canada.

They are famous for their writers. Music is a very important part of the vibrant Irish culture.

FAMOUS FOR

Stout

Almost black beer made from barley malt. The most famous is the Guinness.

Sant Patric’s Day

Each year on 17^th of March, the Irish around the world celebrate their patron saint's day.

Patatoes

The patatoes grow very well in the humid climate of Ireland. It is the the most important product of this country.

Cliffs of the Giant

Strange formations of volcanic rocks on the north coast of Ireland.

IRELAND ICONS

- The shamrock is another symbol of Ireland. It is always worn on St. Patrick’s Day.

- The harp is a symbol of Ireland. We can be seen on the presidential flag and on the back of the Irish euro coin.

- It has been used to represent the four directions, four elements, earth, the four winds, etc.. This is where the cross roads of life and death.

It is a symbol often found in Irish religion.

IMPORTANT PLACES

Johnstown castle in Wexford.

Hapenny bridge in center of Dublin ( that through Liffey river)

Rock of Cashel

Giant’s Causeway

Clonmacnoise

Cliffs of Moher

SPORTS: RUGBY

Dublin University, founded in 1854, was the first organized Rugby Football Club in Ireland. And since that, the rugby has been practiced until now. It is important sport for Ireland and it’s common that women practiced it.

There are four important rugby clubs:

Connacht

Leinster

Munster

Ulster

SPORTS: SURF

The Irish coastline is one of the most prolific and beautiful surfing backdrops in the northern hemisphere.

The best time to surf Ireland is during the period from September to May each year when the swells are plentiful. The only real drawback to the Ireland surfing experience is the cold water, but the surfers are prepared for that.

HORSES AND GREYHOUNDS RACING

From Easter until December Ireland is the scene of many horse racing festivals.

Horse races are popular with greyhound racing. When you go to a race you can bet an amount of money (at least 7 euros) and then you can earn much more money.
To make these animals suffer long run, especially to the Greyhounds.

WHALES AND DOLPHINS ON IRISH COASTS

A total of 24 whale and dolphin species have been sighted off their coast which makes it one of the best places in Europe to get close to these wonderful creatures.
And if you go to de cliffs or sometimes in the coasts you going to see a lot of dolphins and whales.

CURIOSITIES

· The Irish alphabet there are only 18 letters in it missing J, K, V, Q, W, Z, X , Y.

· The university has over 100,000 Irish tales, legends and myths, is the best collection of this genus worldwide.

· The harp can be seen on passports and stamps of the Irish republic is based on a fourteenth-century harp that now preserved at Trinity College of Dublin and is known as the Brian Boru harp.

· In 1969 he represented the shortest play in the world written by an Irishman, Samuel Backett .

· The first divorce granted in Ireland was held in 1997

· In the capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast, was where the Titanic was built.

2010 CHRISTMAS

This year I pass Christmas with my family, but this year was special because it was the first Chrstmas for my little cousin. She is Júlia and is 9 months old.

At the Christmas night all family came to my house and we clebreted the "tió".

She had a lo of presents and my big present was a netbook (small laptop).

Next day all the family went to my aunt's house. Weate a lot of good food. I love this day because I spend all day with my cousins and we laugh a lot. Above all with the boyfriend of my cousin his name is Oriol.

Finally next day we went to my aunt's hous also. But this day was special because we did the invisible friend, and played with presents.

I like this holidays a lot because it has ended.

Now it is back to Institute, work and routine!

Laura, my sister!

My sister Laura is 20 years old. She was born in 1990 at 17th of July. She is very responsably person and funny. Now she lives in Girona but since this year she has lived in Castelló with me.

Laura now studi ADE in Girona but for 3 years she still studied in my high school.

Shi is tall with brown hair and honey eyes like my cousin Anna. She doses dance with my group's dance and she plays violin. Laura is very educated and a big personality.

I love her a lot.

SUMMER :)

I love this photo because all year I wait for this moment, to relax on the beach and forget about problems, sudly, etc.
When I look at this photo I imagine the sound of the water, the feel of the warm sand and the peaceful quiet of a plane in the sky and mentwhile I listen a song. I wish it was summer now!