How to make stress your friend

In this video, Kelly McGonigal, a psycologist, wants to change our prejudices about stress.
She's been teaching, during ten years, something that now she don't believe. She thought that stress was bad, she thought stress was harmful, that stress increases the possibility to have a heart attack. But now she knows that this is only true for that persons who believes that.
She discovered that people who have a lot of stress but they don't think that that is harmful, they're no more likely to die.
People dont' die by stress, but for the stress beliefs.
"When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's responses to stress"
Stress is helpful, you breath faster and your brain obtain more oxyge. 
At the end she thinks that stress helps you to be more sociable.

See here the video:  

 http://www.ted.com/playlists/158/graduation_now_what

Joke

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The Swiss rejected close the doors to the immigrants

The 74 percent of the Swiss population have voted and have rejected the initiative intended to curtail 0.2% of the population the annual influx of new foreign.
Their economy depends on foreigners to meet their needs. They represent 23.5% of the population.

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/11/30/actualidad/1417366855_884628.html

Self evaluation

Presentation: I think our presentation was a little bit superficial, but I think it was good because it was ordered correctly and with more visual information than written. Moreover I think that we have spoken a litle bit of everything. So I think we have 35/40.

Body language: I think I have read a little bit, because I was so nervous, but I think that I didn't read so much, and I had eye contact with the teacher, but not with the students, so I think I have 6/10.

Structure: As I said before I think it's good. So I think 10/10.

Content: It might could be more specific. So 9/10.

Language: I think it was all good but I'm sure that I've done some mistakes. I think 8/10.

Pronunciation: I think that I've pronounced pretty well and moreover Nil helped us to learn how to pronounce some words. So I think 9/10.


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Flood

Yesterday and today, the streets of a lot of towns have been flooded because the rain. In Figueres a lot of streets have been closed. Moreover this morning the watercourse of Figueres has crumbled, because under the square passes a little river. Government has activated the Special Emergency Flood Plan (INUNCAT).
The rains have caused last night 376 interventions Fire Brigade, of which 130 have been concentrated in the town of Figueres.


http://www.elperiodico.com/es/videos/sociedad/gran-cantidad-agua-bajando-por-rambla-figueres-debido-temporal-levante/3290971.shtml

http://www.lavanguardia.com/sucesos/20141130/54420378170/les-pluges-provoquen-un-forat-a-la-rambla-de-figueres-i-desborden-la-riera.html

The happy secret to better work

Shawn Achor, the man who appears on the video, talks about how we can be happier. He explains it with a funny speech, full of enjoyable jokes. He said that we only have to change the standpoint, the perspective. He said that if we see the things in a positive way, we will be happier. He said: "The absence of disease is not health". So what I think is that if we watch the world in a negative way, we will not be happy, because if you always think in bad things you couldn't be happy. 

http://www.ted.com/playlists/158/graduation_now_what

Graduation... now what?

Nowadays the children needs motivation. This women explain that she has been a teacher, and during this years she learned that, even the intellectual differences between students, some students with a high IQ removed bad grades. This is because children needs a motivation more psycological that intellectual.  And not only in the school but even in the life.
This women done a study about children and she asked herself a question very important:  Which of this children would get a better grade?
She discovered that it wasn't the IQ but that what makes children better, what does that children have better grades is the grit, teh passion and perseverance.
She said that the key is learn from our failures. 

http://www.ted.com/playlists/158/graduation_now_what

EXTRAWORK: Is it better to live at home or on a campus when you are at university?

When you have to decide on a universiy you are conditioned by money. You can't choose something you can't afford and that is why so many times we choose the closest to our home.

I think that's unfair, because sometimes you want to go to a university and you can't just because money doesn't gives you possibilities and no one offers help.
So, if you go a university near your home it is better to stay there because it's cheaper. 
On the other hand it's true that in the campus you will live new experciences and you can wake new friends.

In conclusion, I think that if you have money it's better to go on a campus because it's more fun, but if you haven't, it's better to stay home and save the money for other more important things.

Why people is so crazy?

In my opinion nowadays is very important to control what we upload on the internet, because it will be there all of your life, and anyway, if you delete it later someone could have save it, and it will remain on the social network. 
A few days ago I see a video in Youtube, and I freaked out with it, because someday the girl that appears in this video will regret it. I think she's crazy, in this video she appears saying that she's a cat. She says a lot of nosenses.

Here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrjHM-iLPOU

Does humor play an important role in life?

Some people belive that humor is the best medicine to heal an injury. Si I think thta humor has an important role in life, because it helps many people to find happiness. And that's the objective of everyone: finding happiness.

Sometimes we use humoer to dodge us away from sadness, and it's effective. Moreover, humor come with our daily life, it is the way out of our problems. In my opinion when we laugh we forget all our worries, because we can't be happy and worried at the same time.

In conclusion, I think that humor helps us to be happier, and I haven't arguments against happiness and humor.

Ebola

"Manos Unidas partners in Sierra Leona are fighting to obtain Ebola doesn't become an epidemic disease." 

Ebola is spreading. It is a deadly disease raging in West African countries and it has already become the worst and most important in history of Ebola.

The doctor Sheik Umar Khan, recognized as a specialist by his fiht against Ebola in Sierra Leona, is deceased by Ebola, the disease that he was fighting with and he was trying to control. Another three nurses are diseased in the same hospital by Ebola.

“Ebola is real. Ebola kills”

These are the words that the president Koroma said to the nation. It is a fragment of a speech that maybe come too late.

For more information:

http://mansunides.org/es/ebola-sierra-leona?gclid=CjwKEAjwqamhBRDeyKKuuYztxwQSJAA1luvG-FIRiNn1JBnAI3POuBUMH8GGU8nHlpYQdr9sQ5xUTxoCwrvw_wcB

First mail

Hello my name is Giorgia Molteni and I’m 17 years old. I’m a student of 2nd batx IES Castelló d’Empúries. I live in Castelló d’Empúries in a house with my parents and my brother. I used to play volleyball but with the beginning of the Batxillerat I have left it.

My short-term goals are many but the most important ones at the moment are finishing my research project successfully and passing the high school with a good mark. I will do all the homework and study hard to get it. Another short-term goal is to get the driving license and find a good job for the summer to pay for it. Moreover I will go to Italy to visit my family and stay with them a few days.

I also have long-term goals, one of them is to travel around all the world, because I like travelling and I want to see more than I've already seen. Moreover I have more goals like: have a family, be financially stable, have a good job, stay in love with someone, and If I won the lottery I would be 100% happy.

The sentence that I liked is “No one’s written your destiny for you” because it’s true, you can do what you want and you decide what you want to be. No one has the power to stop you, you have to think what it’s good and what isn’t. You have your destiny in your hands. If you have a dream and you want to fullfil it don’t give up, never. And don’t give up if you fail, “let your failures teach you”.

LOOKING BACK

I see an important improvement on my english level, I improved slowly but constantly. Obviously I learned to write better and I learned new vocabulary, but the topics are different, some are interesting and some others are a little bit boring, for example, stages or Frankenstein, I didn't like it, I don't know exactly why, but I prefer other topics.

I think the best activities are the songs in class, the oral presentations and all the activities we do in papers like writings, exercices, etc.

All activities together demonstrate the validity of my English, but I think are necessary spoken improvisation activities, because some day I'll find someone in the street who can need help and I would not be able to answer right away.

I think that all the activities are usefull, because I'll need it in the future, but it's difficult to do everything, especially the blog, because it requires a lot of time, and sometimes I don't have it.

I think that the subtitled movies aren't useful, because no one watch the film, they only read the subtitles ( most people ). I think is better to watch it without subtitles and try to understand what the film say.
  
As I said before, I would like to do activities of spoken improvisation.

The power of words

Many times we don't give importance to the words we say, we say the first thing we thought, without thinking of the consequences. We have to weigh our words because often they make the difference. Words have a big power that no one appreciates.
People who have the gift of speech can convince everyone about anything, and that solves many problems. Here we have a video I saw a couple of years ago in an English class. It impressed me, that video showed me that the power of words is incredible.
I invite you to watch the video and enjoy it:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU

Summuti by IPSIS™

Summuti is a revolutionary headset that allows to soundproof all types of voices and noises that affect the daily lives of people. The inventors are Nil Oliva, Lena Regalo and Giorgia Molteni.

Its advanced technology detects the wave frequencies of each voice and/or noise and blocks his arrival at the auditory system with the option to replace it by other customizable sounds.
In addition, Summuti incorporates a USB connection to import sound files and a timer.

This revolutionary product can change the world, it's gorgeous. Buy it now! 

Squats of Can Vies

After the incident of Can Vies, Xavier Trias porposes transfer the building that remains standing so they can reform it and use it maximum until 2016, when it will be demolished. The first thing that the squatters said was that they rejected the bid. Their agenda doesn't include the building permit or the request submitted to the municipal mandate. "We want to constrict in a model that isn't ours," said a spokesman.

"If there is any entity that wants to present any other project, we will study," said Joaquim Forn. 
It would be a civic management, with some control that squatters are not ready to sign.

For more information: http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/barcelona/los-okupas-rechazan-cesion-can-vies-que-les-ofrece-trias-3291255  

The hero of Seattle

"Today should have been a day of celebration for the end of the school year. Again, the epidemic of gun violence has come to Seattle." lamented the Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.

Seattle police said that one man died and three people were hurt last Thursday in the university of Seattle Pacific, Washington. The author of this tragic event isn't a student of the center, his name is Aaron Ybarra, he get armed into Otto Miller room of campus around 15.30, he shot three people and was reduced with pepper spray by a student (the monitor of the building) while he was recharging his weapon, and with the help of other students were able to reduce and immobilize the criminal until the arrival of the agents.

 


http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/internacional/otro-tiroteo-una-universidad-eeuu-causa-entre-cuatro-siete-heridos-3292249

Kicked.

A boy who wanted to get a selfie near a train, for fun, is finished being kicked in the face by the same train driver. The guy didn't expect and he raimains impressed because it is something unusual, but did the train driver done on purpose or not?
The boy was too near at the train, he's strange, the normal persons didn't do this. 
Here you have the video and you can see yourself and comment what is happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8Yt-P614w

 

The dream has become a nightmare.

Mikkel Jensen, a danish journalist, while he was fulfilling his dream he discovered the terror that hides behind the World Cup of Brazil. He desired to write the article of the World Cup in Brazil.
Because of this he decided to travel there a few months before, to observe the preparations, and then he discovered the terror that these important events causes. After this, he decided that he didn't want to write the article and he explained his reasons on Facebook. He said that "
The dream has become a nightmare."

During his stay in Brazil he discovered that the consequences caused by the celebration of the World Cup was several: remodeling, armed forces and military police in communities, corruption, neglect of social projects ... He discovered all projects and changes to people like he, a foreigner. He said " I'm being used to make a good impression." 

Police killed kids at night to clean the streets and make a good impression to tourists for the World Cup.

This is appalling, it's illegal and is unethical.
Now that this is public, that a journalist has discovered this horrible secret, Brazil should be ashamed.

For more information: http://vozpopuli.com/deportes/42069-en-brasil-matan-por-la-noche-a-ninos-de-la-calle-para-limpiar-las-ciudades-y-dar-buena-imagen-en-el-mundial 

FRANCY

My cousin Francesca (also Fra or Francy) is 15 years old. She lives in Italy so we can't see very often, but I remember perfectly how she is.

She has short black hair but no extremely short, peculiars eyes, because she seems a Chinese girl, she has a little nose and a perfect mouth. She's dark skinned but no much. She's always well dressed with gorgeous clothes. She's thin and also strong because she does skate rolling.

This sports makes her responsible because she is in a group of skate. She's so kind and she has so much sense of humour, she is like my best friend because she is so generous with me , she isn't mean or stingy, and she's so cheerful.  She's ambitious, she always wants more than what she has. She isn't sht so she has so many friends, and they talk so much. My cousin is very easy-going, but when she gets angry, she is the opposite. She's a little bit rebel but she's so much fond.

Francesca's lovely, she's the best cousin I have, like Laura, my other favourite cousin. I love Francy, and I wanna see her early.