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A LIFE LESSON FROM A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER.

SUMMARY:

This video is about a man who when he isn't fighting poverty, he is fighting fire. He is Mark Bezos. This man, through an anecdote, want to transmit us a lesson.

In his monologue, Bezos, explains his first fire as a volunteer firefighter. All happened when he was going to know his assignment and another volunteer arrives before him. These volunteer had to go inside and save the homeowner’s dog. Then he asked for his assignment: he had to go inside and get a pair of shoes for a woman. In this moment, he was jealous from his team mate because he had to save a life. Weeks later, department received a letter from the homeowner thanking his work because they saw that they had worked even to bring them a pair of shoes.

This experience helps Bezos to learn that everything has importance. So his message to all of us is that if we have something to give, give it now and don’t wait. Every day offers us an opportunity to affect one.  

MY OPINION:

I want to say that I chose this video because the title called my attention, but I also have to say that at the begging of the video, it seems a different video. It is to say that I didn’t think that this video was a funny monologue tries to transmit an important life lesson.

In my view, I’m totally agree with the life lesson he learnt because all of us can help or affect someone with a small action. Definitely, I learn that there are a lot activities that we can do to affect or help someone and it is too easy, so we have to take advantage of this opportunity.

WORDS I DIDN'T KNOW:

·         Footrace.

·         Payload.

·         Nemesis.

FINAL REFLECTION

Summer is here!!  So, to finish the school year and say goodbye to the blog, in this post, I’ll do a final reflection about all this school year: witch activities show me better English, my opinion about the improving of my English, I'll recommend activities for the next school year …

 First of all, I want to reflect about my level English in this year. If we compared my English level at the beginning of this school year to the end of the third term, I think that I have improved my English a lot this year because at the beginning I couldn’t do the compositions that I’ve done in this third term. I am also sure that I understand English better,  I have much more vocabulary than first term. I also think that I have improve my pronunciation, above everything, in front of people because in the last oral presentations I see as I don’t have such an embarrassment I can express me better.

This improvement is due to a lot of activities that we have done this school year. In my opinion all activities in English can help us to improve the language but I think that some of this activities help us more than others, for example, the oral presentation help me a lot because at the end I don’t have such an embarrassment, the blog also help me a lot because, although some terms was so stressful because we have a lot of work, at the end I see a big improvement in my compositions. I also think that songs, series or films, etc. can help us a lot to improve our vocabulary and our pronunciation.

In my view, this year was very hard because first of batxillerat compared to the last year was so stressful and hard but at the end I can see a very big improvement of my understanding but, above everything, in English. 

SOME THINGS I LIKE

In this entry I will explain some things that I like to do and I also will explain things that I will like do. That is an entry where I explain my hobbies, more or less. So I will do a list:

v  Photography: I love take photo. I think that is so beautiful way to remember lived moments and years later, when I grow up, I will see all those moments.

v  Travel: I say that I love travel many times in the blog but it is something that I find amazing because I think that in a travel we can lean from all.

 

v Painting or crafts: I love do crafts or drawings I think that it is a perfect way to relax and use our creativity. I don’t have time to do this two activities but when I can I find inspiration in my favorite apps: we heart it and pinterest.

v  Be with friends, family and boyfriend: I’m a loving and family person who love do activities with her closest people. But I also like making new friends.

TRAVEL DIARY

Last April 4^th some school went to Germany and Austria for four days. This was an incredible experience and it also was a very stunning experience because we went to visit a lot of Concentration Camps. We could do this travel because a lot of teachers was in an association to remember the holocaust. So in this entry I want to explain all the activities we did.

·         April 4^th: First day, soon we took a plane to enjoy all day. When we arrived to Bratislava we took a comfortable bus, that led us to the cities we visited, and we went to Gusen, a concentration camp made before Mauthausen. In Gusen we saw a crematorium and a museum because it was destroyed by Nazis, but at the beginning it was biggest than Mauthausen. After Gusen, we went to Mauthausen, it was so biggest and all the rooms we saw was so sad and when I was thinking all the terrible episode that a lot of people lived there I felt something indescribable. It was a very tired and shocking day but I know that I lived an experience that we never will live again.

·         April 5^th:  The second day we went to Linz to visited the city and we also visited Salzburg, a beautiful city where Mozart was born.  The most stunning places we visited in the second day was Hartheim, a castle where at the beginning disabled of Austria was killed and then the people of concentration camps was sent to the castle to be killed. When we arrived and saw the castle outwardly it was very pretty so I can’t imagine the terrible things Nazis did there. At night we went to Munich.

 

·         April 6^th: The third day we were in Munich a very beautiful city with an amazing town hall. Then we went to visit Dachau, the first concentration camp made it by Nazis. I talk about this concentration camp in another entry.

·         April 7^th:  The fourth day we went to Fusen, a small city, where we visited the castle made it by King Felip II: Neuschwanstein castle. It looks like in a Disney movie, when we were there I felt like a princess.

 

·         April 8^th: We took a plane very soon, so we didn’t visit any place.

I have to say that it was very stunning and incredible trip, I always say that the best way to learn is travelling around the world, so in this trip I realized that it is true because I have learned many things. I also want to say that the teachers gave us a very incredible experience and I have to say thanks.

5 WAYS TO BE HEALTHY.

Long ago I thought about be healthier and I realized that I want to be healthier because I think that is also a way to be happier, to have more energy and summer comes soon. So I want to research information about it and do an entry on my blog. Some of ways that I found to be healthier are:

ü  Eat real food, not too much, and mostly plants. I think that many people think that to be fit and be healthy should not eat, but this harms our health. To be fit and healthy we have to eat real food and especially vegetables. This is something that costs me but I will try to eat more vegetables.

ü  Sleeping more. When we try to be healthier, sleep is overlooked but we need sleep like eating and drinking water. Now is exam time and some days I don’t sleep well or long but sometimes I’m so nervous or I have a lot of work. I just think that in a month more or less summer comes!

 

ü  Drink a lot of water. I really have a problem with this because I drink little water and the most important to health is drink water. I also read that drink water not only keeps you hydrated, it also keeps your skin looking healthier and it’s good for digestion and gives us more energy. In summary drink water have a lot of profits.

 

ü  Have a social life and do things that you like. It is so important to be healthier but it also is the most important to be happy, which is the most important: our well-being.

 

ü  Do sport. This is so important for a lot of things. Last year I did sport but this year I don't do nothing and I miss a lot do sport. When I finish the classes I want to do a lot of sport like running or ride a bicycle. I also want to try yoga because I found that is an interesting way to relax and do sport.

TYPICAL FOOD OF GERMANY

I think that one of the better things of travel is taste the typical food of the country. So in my trip to Germany and Austria I tasted really delicious food that I want to explain in the blog. Although in the title of this entry says «the typical food of Germany» I will only talk about the typical food I tasted.

I’ll describe all the meals in order, from the first to last day:

Ø First day we had to bring from home our food, so I’ll explain the second day. The second day we were in Linz. There we went to lunch in an Italian restaurant. I know that it also isn’t a Germany’s food but for dinner we went to a typical restaurant where the waiter was dressed with typical Austria clothes, because these day we were in Austria. In this restaurant we ate a typical soup that was delicious. We also ate chicken.  

Ø  He third day we was in Germany and for lunch I went to another typical restaurant where we ate a delicious sausage with a purée of potatoes. This potatoes was cook with an especial ingredients that made a delicious mixture. At night, we went to dinner to very renowned restaurant, where Hitler met to discuss and create the Nazi party. I have to say that the bread of Germany was very good and delicious but in this dinner we ate a very strange spread and cheese. For second dish we tasted a dough made it with flour, water, potatoes and another ingredients, the consistency of this dough looks like gelatin. There we also tasted the famous pretzel, which was really good.

Ø  Finally the last day we went to the same restaurant that in the third day. There we ate another strange dishes: a soup with pasta which looked as a bread in water but taste was good.

There was the new dishes I tasted in Germany. I realized that in Germany many spices used in cooking and everything is pretty spicy but I love taste the typical dishes of Germany.

DACHAU

This video is a project of school in which we have to recording us explaining one of the places we visited in our trip to Germany and Austria. As the video is explained in Spanish, I want to show you one of the concentration camps because was one of the most stunning things I lived and I’ll live.

In the video we was in Dachau. This concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camp opened in Germany in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler. Dachau is located in the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory.

I can’t describe the feelings you have in places like this. I think that is so sad and terrible think that years ago in this ground the Nazis killed millions and millions of innocent people because they were different.

When we get inside Dachau we can visit different part of a concentration camp, for example we visit the prison, bunker, the reconstruction of barracks and the most shocking: gas chamber, we also saw where they did all the experiments using innocents life and crematorium. There was some places we saw, but even I knowing that this experience would be hard to see I never imagined it would be so shocking.