When Rain Could Gather

Makhaya is a black man from South Africa. He is in South Africa on the border between South Africa and Botswana. He wants to go to Botswana because in South Africa black people are like dogs.

When he cross the border he starts to run away because it is illegal. Luckily he found a man with a car who carry him to Golema Mmidi. When he arrives at this village, Makhaya goes to the police office and explains what happened. There knows Gilbert which admits Makhaya in his house. Makhaya starts to work teaching about farm to Maria. Maria was the daughter of Gilbert. Maria was searching a husband, for this reason, Gilbert thinks that Makhaya could marry with Maria. Finally, Maria gets married but with another black man. 

Then  Makhaya knows Paulina which has a son. They start a relationship. One day the son of Paulina disappear and they found him dead. In the end, Paulina and Makhaya get married.

Vocabulary:
Border - frontera

My sports history

In 2003, when I am 5 years old, my parents start to search a sport which I like. This year I start to practice swimming in Empuriabrava. One year later I give up swimming and I start basketball in Joana d'Empúries. We were a little team which don't play matches. My coach was Jordi.

The next year I start to play basketball in the team Splais. This year my coach as  Carlos. Carlos has been an important person because he teaches fundamentals movements of basketball.

The  following year I go to the Castelló and these years my coaches were Jordi and Jose.

The period of Jose was is my favourite because we won always. But last year of Jose was bad. For this reason, two years ago, we change of coach. In 2014, I start rowing and my intentions were given up the basketball and follow rowing, but in rowing we aren't enough.

Carlos becomes own coach again. Moreover, this year the people of one year younger sing up to own team. This year was wrong and because of that the beast players of the team go to others teams. That discourage me, besides the year 2015 was the worst. For this reason I give up the basketball. Nowadays I start swimming again.

Vocabulary:
Discourage - desanimar
Rowing - rem

Youtube

Nowadays youtube is getting more importance. In my opinion is because you can see any kind of content everywhere. In contrast, in TV, the programmes starts and finish at one hour predeterminate. Besides the TV have so much publicity.

My favourite YouTubers are two: El canal de Korah and Joe Weller.

- Korah is a youtuber with 200.000 subscribers, who is 35 years old. He is a  who dub Far Cry, South Park... His videos are about humour, but also have videos about Spartan Race and other things which bother him. His best and popular series is "Doblando virales".

- Joe Weller is an English youtuber with 3.200.000 subscribers. He is 20 years old. He has videos about challenges and funny videos. His video more popular is Cristiano Ronaldo picking up girls with 43 millions of visits.

Vocabulary:

Besides - a més
Dub - doblar
Bother - molestar

Drugs

There are proves that the man used drugs for religious reasons, for example for being able to talk to their gods.

One of the first drugs was the opiate in Mesopotamia. 

Kinds of drugs :

-Hallucinogenic: Substances that modify consciousness, perception and thinking. LSD and some mushrooms are among them. In California it is forbidden to lick frogs because of its toxins.

-Opiate: Substances stemming of the papaver. For instance there is morphine.

-Depressing drugs: They act on the nervous system, decreasing its activity. They are often used to decrease anxiety and inducing sleep.

-Stimulants: These enhance brain activity and mental focus. But heighten blood pressure, heart rate beat and breathing rate. These used to be used on asthma patients.

Kinds of consequences :

Depending on which drugs you use the consequences may vary. Some examples:

- Addiction is the most known since it is present in almost every drug. Addiction makes you want to keep consuming regularly and without control.

- Panic attack: Appears after the consumption of cocaine or marihuana.

- Aggressive behavior :Caused by methamphetamines.

- Hungry: Caused by amphetamines.

- Chronic hallucination: Caused by LCD.

- Focusing issues: Caused by alcohol.

- Dilated pupils: Caused by cocaine.

- Red eyes: Caused by marihuana.

- Among others, including sterility, AIDS, etc.

Penguins

There are seventeen different types of pinguins. They can be from forty centimetres to more than one metre tall. They all lives in the south part of the world. In winter, they swim a long way to find warner weather.

 In spring, much penguins come together on the beaches of Antartica. The female penguin has one or two eggs. She puts her eggs on the ground and sits there to one egg between their legs.

When the female penguin is sitting on the eggs, the male penguin brings her food. He also does this when baby penguins are born.

Life without technology?

Would we bertter off without computer games? So many people have a opposite opinion about that, forr that reason I will explain the positive annd negative things.

Firstly, technological machines are useful because they help us to do things more easily and they facilitates work. For exemple our phones make it eazier to comunicate with someone, or the robot vacum clener that cleans the floor on this own. Our machines help us.

On the other hand, tecnology makes us lazy because they can do everything. Morover they are expensive and they can break

. Finally technology dosen't work without power.

Like many things, maybe it's a questtion of balance. We can use them but not depend on them, because they can give bad habits. Life with technology is better if we are careful.

Life without computer games?

Computer games have been with us for years. For a lot of young people they take a significant amount of their free time. But are they a positive or negative thing? Would we better off without them?

Computer games can be a fun way to relax after studying. They don't disturb other people and can be good for imporving had-eye coordination. On the other hand, they can be addictive and some people spend many hours at their computer. They stop going out, seeing people, doing sports and so on.

So, in the end, like many things maybe it's a question of balance. If we play computer games from time to time and still do lots of other things, they should be a fun and entretaining addiction to our free time interests.

Connected

Can the Internet make he world a better place? So many people think that is true, in contrast I don't think like them. I think that the Internet can't make the world a better place.

On teh one hand, the Internet means confots because it gives so much information, on the other hand we don't know if that information is true or false.

Also that information gives has facilities and it isn't posible because we haven't to make an effort to search and find the information which we need. Morever we don't check if that information is trustworthy.

In conclusion, I think that the Internet can't make the world a better place because it makes people idle.

GoT: Books vs series

Currently, Game of Thrones is a famous series. That serie is based on the books Ice and Fire. This book came out in 1998. I discovered the history 3 years ago. I started to read the next book because I couldn't wait to saw the next season. That book's called: "Ice and Fire - A feast of crows".

At the beginning I had many dificulties to understand it, because in the book appear so many characters but the history is the same. The differences between the books and the series was very small (in the fist 4 seasons).

The biggest difference is in the red wedding. In the books the girlfriend of Robb Stark escapes pregnant. Because of that so many fans thinks a new Stark will appear, but in the series the girlfriend of Robb dies in the red wedding.

Last year a new season come out which I have read, In that season I found so many differences, principal I found it in the historys of Danerys, Thyrion, Sansa and Marggery. That historys only concide the end because of that this season reacived many complaint.

Social media

Nowadays the media is important for our society. Currently the most famous social media is Instagram, it is for sharing pictures. Instagram is an app for the cell phone.

Currently, all the people have a phone to use that media. My phone is one year old but the last one was 4 years old. The most popular phone is Iphone, but it isn't the better phone...

But that media can be addictive and that shouldn't be habit. 

Before now the news was physical in the newspaper or on the radio and nowadays the news is on-line for exemple on Gooogle (http://elpais.com) and Youtube.

However, what has changed is how many people read and see the news. It is faster and you can read or lisent wherever.

News on the internet are more read because you don't have to go out and buy a newspaper. They have more pictures, more color and more opinion.

But what hasn't changed is the News; it is the same as ten years ago for exemple politics, wars, murders and crime.

My future

At present, I am in my second year of Batcxillerat. So that means that next year. I will go to University. 

I want to do Biology or somthing related to Biology. I have always liked sciences, especially Biology because it is all around us in the natural word.

In Barcelona, when I went to see the university last year, I thought it was well organised and the presentation for students was well organised and the presentation for students was so good. Nowadays, I think the career situation is difficult so I think it will be important to have qualifications like a diploma, master...

Barcelona has more choices for students, for exemple Biology and the enviroment: Enviromental Biology .

One problem might be that the entry level for Barcelona courses is higher than Girona.

I also visited Girona University but on that day, the presentation was not well organised and it was half an hour late. It is closer and cheaper to travel.

Above all, my frist choice would be Enviromental Biology in Barcelona, however, if I don't have a sufficient level, Iwould choose to study a tecnology course at Girona University.

I intend to make a big effort to achieve the highest marks possible for my future career.

CREED

Two weeks ago Creed was released in ower cinemas. It is verypopular because it is the sequel to Rocky with the star Syllvester Stalone.

The story starts when nobody wants to train the boy who is the son of  a dead boxer. This story is about a fighter wha challenges the best boxers and finally the champion. The film was impresive because the fight sceenes were full of drama and suspense. Creed fight for a longtime and he goes down, he falls and he gives up many times. The relationship between Rocky and Creed is strong because Creed is the son of Rocky's friend had died.

That film is the last movie of Syllvester Stalone due to it is the last oportunity of get the Oscar.. I can recomend to you this film if you like drama, suspense and sport violence, slowmotion punches the ring.

Freediving

Freediving is an extreme sport and it's about suspension of breathing voluntarily.
This sport is the opposite of all sports because in the freediving isn't about physical training. It is about relaxation of all organs and muscles for don't spend so much oxygen, and this is more difficult. Freedivers before doing freediving they do relaxation exercises.
Freedrivers wear ballast to not float so much and this way they can stay motionless in the water. This ballast can change depending on the depth and the weight of this person.

The other trouble is pressure. How do they go down 50 to 100 m?
They have two ways:
1-The traditional way:
Everybody knows this way, we put the fingers on the nose and put pressure, when you feel ears hurting you kick off the air from the nose. But this way in the long run is harmful for your ears. Also this way you can not go down so far.
2-Frenzel:
This is the way all the professionals freedivers use and has three parts:
Step1- Mouth fill
Step 2- Close your throat 
Step 3-  Use tongue as piston
If you do well you can feel air going to your ears.

But this sport has many risks, the most important risk is the syncope.:
It's like fainting. The  syncope comes from of scarcity of oxygen in the brain.
If you have a syncope you can lose one of the senses. One professional had a syncope and he lost the taste sense for one year.

Records:
Go down without flippers ---- 101 m
Go down with flippers --- 128 m
Go down without flippers (dynamics apnea) --- 226 m
Go down with flippers (dynamics apnea) ---- 281 m
Static apnea --- 22 min


When I was little my dream was to fly and when  I am alone and in complete silence, floating in the marine bottom it's like flying. This is why my favourite sport is freediving.

 

Type of whales

The whales are the most surprising  creatures of the world and they live in all the seas of the world. Which are mammal, a long time ago they live in the land but now are completely adapt to the sea, like a dolphins. Also they can breath with his horn. The horn is in the upper part of his head.
The scientists think that whales and hippopotamus come from the same species but they progressed with differents ways.

There are two big group:
- The whales with beard:
They are the majority whales, which have sieve in the mouth for filter the foodstuff.
- The toothed whales:
They has fang, with witch use for hunt.

We can distinguish for his diet and his physicals features.
Also we can classify with the number of his nostril.

The whales are pursue and hunted  for the humans for two reasons:
- In some areas they hunt whales like a sport very popular because of its size.
- In other areas they hunt the whales for pet foodstuff and supplies.
These are also the main reasons why whales are an endangered animal. Nowadays the population is 5.000-12.000 whales in the world, but 300 years before the population was 239.000.



Blue whale:
It is a  whale with a beard and  it can live in almost oceans.
This whale can reach 30 m long and 160 tonne weight.
Its main power soure is krill and cepepods.

Humpback whale:

It has big pectoral fins and can live in most oceans.
The female whales are bigger than male whales.
Its main food source are small fish and krill.

Squid

Squid is a sea animal which has eight arms and two tentacles. On its arms and tentacles there are many suckers. If you pull up his tentacles or arms these don't grow again unlike others of his species. Also they have two bills and one circulatory system. In the event that squid is threatened, it can change its color and expel ink. 
In its mouth, they have a strong bill which use for cut and kill his prey.
Its diet is based on fish and invertebrates.
They live one year and grow very fast but the giant squid can live three years more. Also we can find squids in all seas.

THE GIGANT SQUID

The giant squid is an animal of deep-ocean. Giant squid can grow to 13 m for females and 10 m for males. Its tentacles measure 3 m but the longest is 5 m. This animal is very dangerous because they have the biggest suckers.

In 2004 Japanese researchers took the firsts pictures of the giant squid in his natural habitat. 
In July 2012 they recorded the giant squid out of his natural habitat.

Kingsman

This film starts with the death of hero's father in a secret mission. One of the team mate's  father goes to explain the news to the family, but the mother has a bad react and the team mate's father give a telephone number to the son to call if they need help. A few years later, the son is a teenager and he is a thief in the low neighborhoods of London, his name is Eggsy.

One day the police hold to him for driving stolen car and tries to run away, he decide to call the number for request help. One man frees Eggsy, his name is Harry.
Harry gets a job interview for Eggsy, but this job interview is the most dangerous job interview of the world, that is to get a job in Kingsman (the secret service), like his father. He accepts the offer.
The job interview starts with 5 people, the last one he get the job. But Eggsy doesn't get the job...

Later Kingsman finds a wicked  who finds out the solution to all the problems, the solution is to put an end to overpopulation. He decide to kill all the people of the world except the multimilionare who are agree with him

This film has many things which  surprise  me like when the hero doesn't get the job but this is a small surprise....

Opinion:
If you like the films like 007 I recommend it to you but if you don't like these action films don't see Kingsman because it isn't so spectecular.
Sincerely,  I think this film present a serious problem because it's a real problem. We have to find a solution for solve the overpopulation, but not so extreme as in this film.

ABCDE...

In the  article "Abcdefghijklmnñopqrstuvwxyz", which was advertised on the 1th of September of 2015 in El País for Risto Mejide, the writer makes us finally understand the power of the letters.

The text starts telling that there are 27 causes from ours evils but also there are 27 keys for any answer, related to the 27 letters of the alphabet, because if we mix the letters and we know how to use them we can do anything. With the combine of which, we can give problems or solutions, open or close doors. Nevertheless, each one alone is irrelevant and doesn't have any meanig.

These combinations, according to use, can fool, persuade, lie and cause to you feel bad. With that politicans are experts because with some politicans make blind confidence in the voters.

Although in our society is based on words scrawls, sometimes it's better not to say anything, forget that 27 sounds and use the musical symbol more valued which we aren't able to add to our symbols, silence.

Opinión:

I agree with Mrs Risto Mejide, above all with silence because for me silence is better than a word.

Bills

The  way of breathing of sea animals is similar to the way of humans, but our breathing system is very different. Sea animals have a gills to breathe. Gills are like lungs for humans.
Gills extract oxygen (which is dissolved in wather) and expel CO2.



Gills can be  internal or external, this means they can protect the body of an animal or can stay in the external of the body.
In the event that stay in the internal, water goes into the mouth until it reaches the gills but in the event that it stays in the external, that isn't necessary.
Gills make two canals:
- One extract oxygen from the water.
- One puts the oxygen in the blood.
These canals are connected to more small canals.

                      External bills                                                  Internal bills

When we see a sea animal, he is in movement. But when we observe a type of sharks who can breath, he is motionless.

My design reaserch paper

I do batxillerat in catalonia, where is the only community of spain how do this project
This project is very important because that mark is a 10% of the final mark of BAT.
In the reaserch peaper you do a study of the matter you want but this design has to be accepted by the teachers. For choose a good design  you have to think which dosen't be theoric and you have to contribute something  innovative and interesting.

The first design I want do was a comparision of diferents respiratory systems and explain the apnea. But my biology teacher
said it was theoric.






For this reason I think a new design:

Title:
The native maritime spice of Cap de Creus and his adaptation in the natural environment

Objectives:
1- Do a study of the maritime spices of Cap de Creus and locate the area where be plentiful.
2- Analyze the differents environments of Cap de Creus and how are adapt the maritie animals.
3- Do a study statistical about the catch fish in the Cap de Creus.
4- Do a study and comparasion of the behaviour of the fishes of Cap de Creus beetwen the Barcelona aquariums and the animals in this real space.

Homo erectus

Homo erectus had lived between 1,3 milions of years and 200.000 years.
He had lived between the south and east of Asia. They are the first specie of go out of  Africa.
This specie of homo had lived in the forests and savannah.
Homo erectus had mesured 1,50- 1,65 m and 45-55 weigh, who had controled the fire and they had known make tools for cut. Homo erectus had been the first homo who can walk because of his back have shape of "S".
Also they are the first homo who had glottis because of they are the first of can do sounds similar to the words who have a jaw similar to the humans.
They are omnivorous, they eat cooked meat and vegetables.

Homo erectus had done her own camp 

who wear animals skins