IT IS NEVER TOO LATE

This is a famous quote that we watch everywhere. So in this entry I will talk about some women who prove that this quote is true and then, obviously, I’ll give my opinion about it.  

We always watch this quote and we can agree or disagree but I defend this quote and I prove that is true with this women:

Oprah Winfrey. She is a media queen and one of the richest women in the world but to get it had to fight. She studied and worked at the same time and she was fired of her first media gig but then at 24 years she was very popular and she reached the fame.

Coco Chanel. This girl was learning how to sew with help from the nuns at the orphanage she grew up in. She also was a singer before opening a store.

Ellen DeGeneres. She had to fight a lot to become the best stand-p comedy. She didn’t reach fame until the 38 years when “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” debuted in 2003.

Jennifer Lopez. She started as a dancer and doing smaller roles in series but it was the lead in “Selena” it led she to be who she is today.

These are four examples of women that prove this quote. I believe in this quote and I think that we can achieve what we set if we want it. It may be it will cost more or less but if we work hard we will succeed.

MY FAVORITE APPS

I disagree with the persons who are always with mobile because I think that is better enjoy the life and the moments beyond the screen but in this entry I will talk about my favorite apps: we heart it and pinterest.

Pinterest and we heart it are an apps where we can sharing inspirations photos, diy, motivated quotes, etc. So, in this app we can found inspiration and motivation for these days where we are studying and we need motivation or where we have time to do some crafts or we want to do something but we don’t know what, so we can found inspiration in these apps.

I really like this apps because I think that are a good way to inspire us or it can be a good entertainment. Even though I disagree with the utilization in excess of mobile I think that these apps are different because its can help us and the other applications can be an addiction without learning, although I also know that this two apps also can be an addiction. So, I defend his utilization but if we don’t use it too much.   

BRAND CLOTHES?

I live in a village and I have to take a bus to go to the school. One day in one of these trips I listened the conversation, of guys of first of ESO, about brand clothes. So, in this entry I will explain a little bit this conversation and I will give my opinion.

In this conversation the children criticized a one girl because she was wearing a fake brand shoes. Recently all people, above all young people, have the necessity to wear clothing brand or else they don’t go to fashion or his friends can think that they don’t have money or not dress well.

In my view the brand clothes maybe have more quality but it not means you’re better to wear brand clothing. I think that who things these stupidities are ignorant and superficial people that only wants to appear. I also have to say that most people also judge other people for how they dresses and I think that this fact it’s related about wearing brand clothes because at the end it's the same don’t wear brand clothes and go bad dressed. I invite people to reflect about this because the people who go bad dressed maybe don’t have a lot of money or maybe that’s his style. We have to judge some for his personality but only if we know his story and not for how he dresses.

5 DREAMS IN A GAP YEAR

In English class we talked and worked about a gap year. In this entry I will talk about my bucket list or rather about my dreams and later I put all this dreams in a gap year. I know that I made a composition about a gap year but in this entry I will focus more speaking about my dreams and in the end the other composition was a big travel that I would like to make in a part of a gap year but I also would do more things in this year. I also have to say that I have a lot of dreams but I will try to summarize and I will talk about the biggest dreams. So, some of my biggest dreams are:

v  Step on the five continents. With this words I want to say that my big dream is travel around the world. In this point or dream I would like to do the travel of the other composition, where I talk about a gap year.

v  Collaborate with an NGO or help people with problems. In a future I would like to help people if I can.

v  Do skydiving. Someday I would like to do skydiving and other extreme sports like this.

v  Learnt to play an instrument. In a future I want to learn to play mainly the guitar and piano because are my favorites instruments at the moment.

v  Start a memory jar. Someday I would like to start a memory jar because I have a lot of dreams and a large bucket list and I want to put inside the jar some object or message that remember me the dream fulfilled and when I get old or someday open it and remember all the beautiful moments.

There are five dreams of a large list of dreams but I think that these are broad. All this dreams or rather some of these dreams I would like to do it in a gap year when I have saved and I finished my studies and I can begin to fulfill all my dreams. But I’m sure that in a future I will take a gap yea only for travel around the world.

Tips to improve your Self-esteem

In this entry I will talk about self-esteem and then I give you a tips to improve it. Maybe you are wondering, what is self-esteem? Self-esteem simply means appreciating yourself for who you are, even faults, foibles and all. Most people think that have self-esteem it has to do with the way you look or the how much friends you have or have a great body but these people do not know the true meaning of self-esteem.

The differences between someone with a good self-esteem and someone without this ability it’s simply acknowledgement of your strengths and weaknesses. So, for all this people that don't have this ability, I give you three tips to improve it:

1-    Take a Self-Esteem Inventory. This tip consists in take a piece of paper and divide it into two sections. In one of these we write the strengths and in the other side we write the weaknesses. We have to write 10 of each. I think that with list can be a very good idea for we realized that we have a lot of strengths and abilities and we also can realized that most of our weaknesses may be able to change.

2-     Explore Yourself. In this section we have to know ourselves. We have to opening yourself up to new opportunities, new thoughts, trying out something new, new viewpoints, and new friendships.

3-    Stop Comparing Yourself to Others. We need to stop comparing yourself to others. Nothing can hurt our self-esteem more than unfair comparisons. I think that we have to think about it because maybe we don’t know about the life of people that they can have a lot of things and money and fame but they don't have happiness.

I decide to talk about self-esteem because I don’t have a lot of self-esteem and I also know about people who don’t accept him or love him. So, with this entry I want to say that is so important love ourselves and we have to know that every person in this life is different and everyone have a good abilities and strengths and if some aspect of our life we don’t like it we can change it.

MY FIRST JOB!!

On Christmas holidays I began to work in a butcher's shop. So in this entry will talk about my first job.

I remember that the last summer I really want to work but I was not old enough but now at last I can work. After a Christmas holidays I signed a contract in which I works every Sunday because now I’m in first of Batxillerat and I have to study hard to pass all subjects.

In the work I do a lot of things I’m mainly the saleswoman but I also clean and the most funny I learnt a lot of things about meat, for example how to cut the different types of meat, cook some dishes or learnt how we do hamburger, frankfurts, etc.

In my view I think that it’s a big opportunity to learn a lot of things and I also can train for other works because in this country I think that business owner don’t hire young people because they don’t have experience but if they don’t give us an opportunity, the country can’t improve and a lot of young people has to leave the country to found a job. So in this entry I want to invite all business owner to make a reflection for give young people like me an opportunity to work and learnt a lot of things. I also have to say that I’m so thankful for the opportunity that this shop give to me and I’m sure that in a future this experience can help me.

TAKEN

Last weekend I saw a film with my boyfriend: taken. There are four films about taken but I saw the first and I have to say that I really liked because it’s very entertaining and have a lot of action that’s why I get hooking. I also think that I like it so much because normally I don’t watch action films.

So the film is about Seventeen year-old Kim who is the pride of her father Bryan Mills, who is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart in a large mansion because Stuart is a rich man. Kim manages to convince her protective father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they meet and share a taxi with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda explained that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim call her father and give him information but when they are talking a band raided the house and kidnap two girls. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

I can’t explain anything more because this film is a very interesting film and if you are interesting and if you want to know more about the movie you'll have to watch it.

SELF AVALUATION ABOUT PRESENTATIONS.

https://youtu.be/VEFoVT50cQA

The last 11th of March my classmate and I made an oral presentation about New Zealand because we have to choose a country where the official language was English. So in our presentation we talk about information and a gap year in New Zealand.

In the video we can see the presentation and I have to say that we have to improve some things. First of all I want to comment the body language. In the presentation we can see that I don’t look to the public, I think that I do it because I’m so shy and in the oral presentations I’m so nervous buy I also have to say that if we compare this video with the video of the oral presentation, in the first term, in this one I control the nervous better because in the other hardly I spoke well and I stuttered. But anyway I have to overcome this fear and I have to control completely the nervous.

Another aspect I want to comment is the content of the presentation. I think that we can talk more about a gap year, specifically about the prices and specify more. And we also can to explain better the part of information of New Zealand.

Finally I want to say that for the next presentation I will try to improve the result of this presentation trying to control better the nervous, the body language and the content. 

I Spent A Day In Jail And It Completely Changed My View Of Inmates

http://elitedaily.com/life/spent-day-jail-view-inmates/1410087/

SUMMARY:
Last March 10^th of 2016, in Spartanburg County (South Carolina), suffered from one of the worst health rates a couple of years ago, but after a collaboration, in which the writer participates, with nonprofits and other foundations, there was a big change in the health rates of Spartanburg. 
Then the writer explains that she has the opportunity to visit the Spartanburg Detention Center and experience something that can only be described as life-changing.

Finally she explains her experience and what she learned and what she’ll never forget:

Ø  Being in jail doesn’t necessarily mean you’re guilty. She learned the difference between being arrested and being convicted. The writer found in the jail a lot of people that are put in jail are people who were arrested and are awaiting their court date so maybe they aren’t convicted felons. She also discovered that some of the people are in jail because they don’t have enough money to bail themselves out. And the rich people who committed a crime roaming freely around the county because they have a lot of money to bail themselves out.

Ø  You eat where you sh*t. The writer can saw the rooms of the jail and she can also saw the awful conditions in which they lived. She realized that there was absolutely no room for activities that involved any kind of physical movement

Ø  You can’t judge circumstances you’ve never experienced. The writer learned something that I think that is one of the most important lesson of her life: It’s wrong to judge someone before hearing his or her story. I think that all of us have to learn this lesson.

Ø  It could be anyone. In this point explains that we have to think about our decisions because one bad decision can put us in jail.

Finally the writer say that she don’t trying to minimize the actions of some of these inmates because some of them have done a lot of bad things, and they know that. She is trying to show our communities that just because someone is in jail or has been to jail, that doesn’t mean he or she is necessarily a bad person. And she also remember us that we cannot judge a book by its cover.

MY OPINION:        

In my opinion I completely agree with the writer, Mercedes Leguizano, because we know that a lot of inmates are in a jail because they done bad things but we have to remember that so inmates are in the jail because they have to be drug trafficking considering that they don’t have money to keep on his family or they don’t have money to survive.
I also saw a programme that show us the conditions of some jails in the world and I think that for the bad people that they done terrible things It’s fair but for people that they didn’t do so terrible things and his acts are justify by a rational argument I think that we have to help them.Finally I want to comment another aspect. The most of the citizen judge people when they don’t know his history. I think that we have to change the mentality in that regard because we don’t like to judge us and maybe we can meet someone fantastic and we don’t talk to him for his appearance or another stupid thing.




Ø  It’s never too late. The Spartanburg County Detention Center has many programs that are used to encourage the inmates’ mental health.



WORDS I DIDN’T KNOW:

- Rates

·         - Inmates

  -            - Jail

5 Ways Embracing My Anxiety Changed The Way I Saw The World

http://elitedaily.com/life/powerful-truth-anxiety/1318159/

SUMMARY:

In this news the writer, Brian Litterer, gives five advice to control our anxiety and OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder).

First of all, he explains that when he grown up he viewed that the anxiety and OCD are the negative facets that govern every aspect of his life. Then he came to the conclusion that anxiety told him what to do.

Later he mention some examples of how anxiety made him go bad times when he was younger, for example, the idea of driving disabled him or when he was petrifying to think about joining a club at school.

After the explication the writer give us five ways to control this two negative facts.

1.    I’m not “normal,” but that’s okay. I think that this point can be summarize in a famous quote: “normal is boring”. After a reflection, the writer realizes that the people are so obsessed with be normal and he say that he don’t want to be normal because his idiosyncrasies make him who he is today.

2.    I can’t control every aspect of my life. Litterer do another reflection where he say that when he was young he want to control of aspects of his life but now he realizes that he cannot control all aspects of his life.

3.    There will always be something to fear. The writer realized there will always be something to fear in our life so he put some examples as he will fear his job interview or his graduation, but he became aware that will never be some panacea to solve all our fears. But that is something we have embraced.

4.    If I am not anxious, I am not trying. In this point, the writer explains the paradox of his life: be comfortable and content but he not push himself to grow or the other side he can’t push himself into situations that place his outside my comfort zone and enable me to grow. Then he explains that he have chosen the latter situation and he said that was a good idea because even though was the way that make him more anxious he can grow up as a person.

5.    I’ve got a war in my mind I can win. Finally he say that he got a war in his mind as the lyrics of Lana del Rey and he explains that every day he has to fight with himself and his anxiety but he tries to control it to live his life the best he can.

MY OPINION:

In my view I think that is a good news to read relaxed in a lazy day because it make us reflection and think about control our anxiety. I also have to say that I chose this news because this year in first of batxillerat I’m anxiety and have a lot of nervous for the exams and other homeworks and I think that read this news can help me to control better this aspects.

WORDS I DIDN’T KNOW:

•   Swayed
• Idiosyncrasies
•   Unattainable
•  Shifted