Christmas time!

In four days, it will be Christmas! This holiday is very significant to me, because all my family is coming to spend Christmas Eve in Albacete together. Years before it haven’t been the most important holiday, but this year we are many women and hardly any men. It is awesome!

First of all, I miss my cousins and my aunt, who are living in Valencia and they come to Albacete very little, but it is true that we take the chance to see us very time it appears. Moreover, my family is very big and we are eleven grandsons, so it is chaotic and also funny.

Secondly, this holiday is time to eat, something that I loved and my grandmother is the best cook in the world, so I’m sure I will enjoy dinning. Furthermore, everybody is helping with the dinner, something wonderful and fair to all. Therefore, if something tastes bad, we will blame it on one of my cousins due to their limited exposure to cooking.

Finally, my mother is the queen of the parties, thus she has prepared a lot of surprises and games to have fun. We have the Wii too, so we can dance and sing.  In addition, rock music will be playing on the radio.

To sum up, these holidays will be very funny and all of my cousins and my brother will be very happy. We will share secretes between us, we will talk about everything and we will able to ply with our youngest cousin, who looks like a cartoon due to his big glasses.   

The globe

The theatre The Globe, is the most representative building of the Elizabethan epoch. It was built in 1599 by the theatrical company The Lord Chamberlain's Men, of the brothers Cuthbert and Richard Burbage. The reason of his construction obeyed economic problems: the company was hiring The Theatre but the high cost of the rent forced them to change to The Curtain, until finally they decided that the best solution was to construct a new one. The building got up in the south bank of the Thames. The plant was octagonal, with a diameter of 30 meters and capacity for 3350 spectators. There was called he The Globe because it was adorned by Hercules' image loading on the shoulders the sphere of the universe. In The Globe there had the premiere some of the most famous pieces of Shakespeare: Julius Caesar or Macbeth.

In 1613 it suffered a fire that destroyed it almost totally, though one year later it was reconstructed. In 1644 it was demolished by the pressure of the puritans, who saw in the theatre an indecorous expression. Finally, in 1997 it returned to open with the name of The Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Though the new construction was located to 200 meters of the original emplacement and with a minor capacity, the original design of the building was respected.

Nowadays, the Shakespeare Globe Theatre offers plays from May until October like his predecessor was doing it in times of Shakespeare. Besides the works, the theatre can be crossed by guided visits in which there appear the steps divided in zones of different prices depending on the social class that was frequenting them. During the visits also it is possible to see the scene and his secret peep-holes that were making sprout the prominent figures of Shakespeare, both of the sky and of the hell.

The visits are realized by a guide of English speech and the price of the tickets changes depending of the seats, though tickets can be obtained without seat from 5 pounds. 

The environment

Nowadays, people are not really concerned with the environment and, if you look around, you will see amounts of rubbish everywhere, something very sad. It is nearly the most important problem in our society, because the environment is the place where we live and we have the power and the duty to look after it. In contrast, many people pollute all the time throwing rubbish, driving old cars which liberate millions of exhaust fumes that produce air pollution. In this way, we are being condemned to pay for it in different ways such as: droughts, floods, diseases caused by the pollution, died animals and plants, etc. so we need short-term measures.

With this in mind, we have to solve it with different measures. As many of us are not political people, we must do it form house: recycling our wastes and not buying real fur clothes, for example. Moreover, we can take to the streets to demand to political parties pore conscience and dedication to solve theses problems. But, on the contrary, a lot of people let garbage buried us.

Otherwise, my family and I do our best every day to prevent irreparable problems such as the climate change doing actions like using public transports and recycling. Furthermore, we try to convince people to do that, because we think it is a serious problem and the society must change his minds. Besides, we love traveling and we have seen countries where everything is recycled and they live happier and better.

To sum up, all of us must take seriously these problems if we want to live better and longer, because the environment is who provides us food, house and clothing. Without it, we are noting and we are condemned to survive instead of live.   

punctuation

•  The men in question -Harold Keene, Jim Peterson and Gerald Greene- deserve awards.
• ·      Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxemburg.
  ·         ‘Only one course was open to us surrender’, said the ex-major, and we did.
  ·         Judge Carswell, later to be nominated for the Supreme Court, had rule against civil rights.
  ·         In last week’s New Yorker, one of my favourite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland’s article ‘How Not To Go camping’.
  ·         ‘Yes’, Jim said, ‘I’ll be home by then’.
  ·         There was only one thing to do: study till down.
  ·         Montaigne wrote the following ‘A’ wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
  ·         The following are the primary colors: red, blue and yellow.
  ·         Arriving on the 810 plane were Liz Brooks (my old roommate her husband) and Tim (their son).
  ·         When the teacher commented that her spelling was poor, Lynn replied: ‘All the members of my family are poor spellers. Why not me?’
  ·         He used the phrase you know, so often that I finally said: ‘No, I don’t know’.
  ·         The automobile dealer handled: three makes of cars Volkswagens, Porsches, and Mercedes Benz.
  ·         Thought Phil said he would arrive on the 919 flight; he became instead on the 10 36 flight.
  ·         Whoever thought said Helen that Jack would be elected class president?
  ·         In baseball, a show boat is a man who shows off.
  ·         The minister quoted Isaiah -5 21- in last Sunday’s sermon.
  ·         There was a very interesting article entitles ‘The New Rage for Singing’ in last Sunday’s New York Times newspaper.
  ·         Whoever is elected secretary of the club; Ashley, or Chandra or Aisha must be prepared to do a great deal of work, said Jumita, the previous secretary.
  ·         Darwin’s, ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859), caused a great controversy when it appeared.
  ·         We had a great time in France; the kinds really enjoyed it.
  ·         Some people work best in the mornings, others do better in evenings.
  ·         What are you doing next weekend?
  ·         Mother had to go into hospital; she had heart problems.
  ·         Did you understand why I was upset?
  ·         It is a fine idea, let us hope that it is going to work.
  ·         We will be arriving on Monday morning at least, I think so.
  ·         A textbook can be a wall between teacher and class.
  ·         The girl’s father sat in a corner.
  ·         In the words of Murphy’s Law: ‘Anything that can go wrong will go wrong’.

the purpose of education

Educating people is, at the moment, a very useful tool that is controlled by a small number of persons. They are in broad terms, the politics, who are more worried about winning elections over and over again. It is a horrible system because of the results: students –at school, at high school or at the University- are confused every four years and the educational achievement falls enormously. Therefore, the purpose of education is, at the moment, to instruct students to vote for one or another political party.

First of all, children start school at the age of six or seven years after three years of kindergarten. Here, they are taught to behave properly and to solve simple calisthenics of the different subjects. Thus, teachers are not only people who teach children how to make a mathematics exercise, but they are educators. Moreover, they are, along whit parents, the adult figures in which children are fixed, so they should be objective from the first time and taught them to be independent.

Secondly, education should be transmitted in a freeway, because everybody has the same rights and no one must be remote from education. Furthermore, is very important to have a way in where be able to obtain a little bit of knowledge. It is not necessary that be school, but is a good place to learn, because kids are with kids and they are taught to help each other and to meet new people, something essential to grow up as persons.

Finally, the upgrading of technologies are a great way to improve our educational system. Therefore, if everybody has internet access, everyone can get information about everything, but education is the way to show how we have to use technological devices, because we can search for a lot of information, but it is possible not to know how or what I am reading or using that.

In conclusion, the purpose of education is to teach us to make our best in the world and to be successful people who can face our life without problems. If we were not taught from an early age, we would not be able to be serious people who could talk about everything we wanted to.

my future job

When I finish my Degree in English Studies, I would like to traduce books, because I thing that I have quite a lot of talent for translation. Since I was a child, I love translating lyrics from a lot of songs and I really like reading, so it would be the perfect job to me. Otherwise, teaching is another career ladder which is very beautiful too. So, I do not know exactly what I’m going to do in the future, but every option is perfect to me.

On the one hand, I would like studying a master of translation due to my passion for literary English and American texts, especially romantic texts. It is due to a teacher who taught me a lot of universal literature and he managed to open my mind and, if finally I became a teacher, I would like to teach as well as him. Moreover, teaching is, in my opinion, the most important profession, because people will be people after a good education. Therefore, I am very concerned with that aspect: being a good teacher is not easy, it requires master everything in your subjects and gaining experience, which will manage to be a good teacher.

On the other hand, translation has a lot of advantages such as working freelance. This is an interesting point of view to me, because I like working alone and without depending on anybody. In addition, working surrounded by books is something exciting to me. Reading is one of my favourite ways to spend time. Therefore, working doing something that you loves, is the best opportunity you will have in your life. This is a chance which is impossible to refuse.

To sum up, I do not know what I will do when I finish my degree, but I am sure that I will be very happy and, if I did something like those possibilities, I would like working abroad, because I love travelling and knowing new places where live a period of time more or less long. I am a restless person and my job must be accordance with my personality. 

the end of the story

He is waiting to jump, but he is not decided. There are many people looking at him on the street asking them what he is doing or what is he going to do. Then, a man get closer to the built and say: “I love her”. These words hurt his heart like a knife and it manage him to jump. While he is falling, he remembered their first date and a few seconds later, he was there! It was incredible, he has travelled through the time and he and his ex-girlfriend were together again! He thought that it could not be possible, but it was. They were in a beautiful restaurant, sat in a table next to an enormous window which showed the Atlantic Ocean blowing with reflects of the stars such as small pearls, the most beautiful pearls that he have ever seen. The time let him another chance.