Michael Jackson - "Man in the mirror"

Michael Jackson is an American artist, entertainer, and businessman. He have six brothers more, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11, and began a solo career.He became a dominant figure in popular music and the first African-American entertainer to amass a strong crossover following on MTV and has donated and raised millions of dollars for beneficial causes. However, other aspects of his personal life, including his changing appearance and eccentric behavior, generated significant controversy which damaged his public image. Though he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993, the criminal investigation was closed due to lack of evidence and Jackson was not charged. He then married twice and fathered three children, all of which caused further controversy. In 2005, Jackson was tried and acquitted of further sexual abuse allegations and several other charges. He has been cited as one of the world's most famous men.Why I talk about Michael Jackson? Because I’ll present you one song that I really like (And I’ll translate this song in my portfolio: http://gemmasportfolio.blogspot.com/) and now, you have more information about the singer.

JORGE BUCAY

Jorge Bucay was born in 1949, is a gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist and writer from Argentina. His books are very fantastics, have sold more than 2 million copies around the world and translated in more than seventeen languages.
He was born in Buenos Aires to a modest family. He started working at thirteen years old. In his life, he has worked as a socks, books and sports clothing traveling salesman, insurance agent, cabdriver, clown, warehouseman, educator, actor, doctor on duty, host of children's parties, psychiatrist, group coordinator, radio collaborator, and television host. (In my opinion, It's incredible...)
In 1973, he graduated as a doctor from the University of Buenos Aires, and specialized in mental illnesses at the Hospital of Buenos Aires.
He defines his job as professional helper. He divides his attention among conferences of therapeutic teaching, which have taken him around the world, and the writing of his books, which he says are therapeutic tools.

I have a lot of his books, and I think that's a real and effective remedy. (I don't have any mental problem, but I like the stories who write).

CATHIE JUNG AND HER WAIST.

Cathie Jung can show off her waist, it’s very little and measure 38 cm. It’s “the kind of corset” and she have the record Guinness for the waist more little in the world because she used the corset 24 hours.The women, who have 68 years old, say that she began to use the corset when she has 40 years old because she has admiration with the Victoriana clothes types, that stylize the waist of the woman of 19th century.
Jung says that she breathes perfectly and the only thing that she can’t do is sit down in a chair very low. She eats little portions salutary and she’s healthy.

It's amazing!!

The invention of ice-cream

In ancient Rome snow was brought from the mountains. After that it was discovered that snow cools wine and after that, the frozen snow was mixed with honey, juices and fruit to make icy desserts.

That is how ice-cream was once invented. In the begining, it was eatten only bt kings and queens, but eventually it was served to ordinary people too. When it was introduced ina Paris café in 1670, people had loved it inmediately. Today, ice-cream is enjoyed by people all over the world. Althrough occacionally someone doesn't like it. Usually, however, most of us can never get enough once we start eating it, in all the seasons of the year.

STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN

A stradivarius violin was sold for 902 paunts, the highest prince ever paid for a Stradivarius.

The violin, owned by yhe Mendelsson family, was made in 1720 and, because of its colour, it was known as the "Red Strad". It was played bt a professional musician.

In its year in the Mendelsson family, it was admired very little, except by amateurs, but its beautiful tones were demostrate by a a Japanese violinist before the auction yesterday.

It's in very good condition because it was kept a special case. The violin reached such a high price because of its date of 1720, when his finest instruments were made. Stradivarius was bought all over the world for their purity and deep, clear sound.

I play the violin since I was seven years old, and play one Stradivarius it's a dream for me.

The American family and TV.

The American family hasn't got time to sit down and watch TV, declared the NEWYORK TIMES in 1939 predicting that TV would never become as popular as radio. By 1990, however, American children between the ages of 2 and 5 were wathcing on average of 27 hours of TV a week. The consequences, acording to one professor of the School of Public health and community Medecine in Washinton, are catastrophic. Little children do not distinguish fact from fiction.

They do not undestrand but they absorb. Above all, they absorve violence as something exciting and efficient. The results of this early experience of violence only start to become a parent 10 to twelve years later.

When the children are old enough to cause socil problems. If there would be 10000 less murders per year in the USA.

I think that's incredible... And you?

a JOKE.

Three surgeons are talking about which patients are better in the room of operations.

The first surgeon says:

- I like operate librarian people because all the organs are organize in alphabetic order, it's easy.

The second surgeon says:

- No! there are so better the mechanic people; they bring the pieces of replace that I should put.

And the third surgeon, finally, says:

No, I'm sorry for contradict your opinion, but the better patients are the politics: they don't have heart, nor stomach, nor eggs and the brain and backside are interchangeable!

A GOOD EXPERIENCE.

This summer I worked in a "children's school", one place situated in the primary school (here, in Castelló d'Empúries, in front of the institute). I was an instructor of childs that worked in P3 and P4, so, they have 3 and 4 years old. We (me and the others instructors) played all the days with all the childs. For example, we (me and 2 instructors more of P3 and P4) prepared games with water, with ballons of water, we made workshop with colour paints, necklaces of pieces of macaroni... And the childs had the smile in the face all the time, all the day, it was fantastic.

I had a child with the eyes blues, his name is Marc; Ainoa, one little girl very beautiful; Alex, one earthquake that was in love with spiderman; Jenny, a little blond girl very fine; Marcel, a piece of bread!; Max, in all innocence; Hugo, that was in love with his mum, etc.

And me? well...I'm in love with each and every one!

It was a good experience... It was brilliant.

Poor sperm with the mobile phone?

The men who use mobile phones face increased risk of infertility.

A new study shows a worrying link between poor sperm and the number of hours a day that a man uses his mobile phone. A men who made calls on a mobile phone for more than four hours a day had the worst sperm counts and the poorest quality sperm! Well, it seems impossible!

Doctors believe the damage could be caused by the electromagnetic radiation emitted by handsets or the heat they generate. Men who used a mobile for more than four hours a day had a 25% lesser sperm count than men who never used a mobile and the people who use phones for longer might be more sedentary, more stressed or eat more junk food, which might be more likely explanations for the link found in the study.

But well, the mobile is very necessary in this moment and I think that in the future will be even more necessary...Do you agree with me?

MY FAVOURITE SINGER

You know that since I was very younger, music is one of my favourite hobbies. I like listening and playing music, I remember you that I play the violin. So for this reason, I like listening diferent types and different grops of music. However, if I have to choose one singer, I would put Alejandro Sanz as the number one. He was born in 1968 in Madrid. During his career, Alejandro has putted 16 cd's on the market. His large list of prices shows that he's a great singer. I really like him because I like how he sings but I also really like the lyrics from his songs. Last summer, I was really lucky to be in a concert of him. He came to Roses and I went to the concert with Albert. I really like the concert, it was an amazing summer night of August. I hope that I will be able to repeat it soon!

If you want to know more, you can visit his website: http://www.alejandrosanz.com/

INDI and MIU

Indi and Miu, Miu and Indi, they are like two members of my family. I say this because they are no persons but they are my two pets. I have them at home since quite years ago.
Indi is the dog. He's so intelligent. I say this because sometimes seems to understand the people feelings. For example, when you are sad or ill, he's always next to you. He's small, brown and very nice, he's my lovely pet.
Miu is the cat. As I say upper I prefer the dog but Miu has a curious story that makes him a bit special. When I was very younger, a house near mine was negligent and into was a cat that it seemed to be ill and hungry. Because of this, my mum decided to take him and fed him at home and now we are very happy with him. He is Indi, our fat cat with lovely and brilliant green eyes.

I have to say that Indi and Miu they are good, they never fight so I can say that they are good friends;)

EXAM'S WEEK

Today is the first day of June and tomorrow we will start a very stressful week. It will be so tired because I have an exam everyday. Tomorrow, history exam is the first one. I will have to spend the Sunday studying the second World War. We have to put all of our strength because the week is so important and decisive for our future since some older friend told to me how important is to be in the next course with all the subjects passed. It's only a week and a few and we will be on summer holidays!

So, as the song says,

'come on, let's work!'

CLAUDIA'S BIRTHDAY

As I said in the last comment, May is a month with a lot of birthdays and yesterday was Claudia's turn. Yesterday at night, we celebrate her 17th birthday with many people in Empuriabrava. First of all, we met all the people in Sikim's restaurant at 10 o'clock. We had dinner there and then we started to give her a lot of presents. The presents were summer clothes and other things to decorate her new bedroom. After this, we went to another pub to drink something and we finished the night in Passarella's disco dancing a lot. Claudia was really happy with her night and I was satisfied too because as you know, she is a very important person for me!

ALBERT'S PARTY

May is a month with a lot of birthdays from many friends around me. Last week, we celebrated Albert's 18th birthday. It was so special because we prepared to him a surprise party two days after his birthday . The party was on Friday 23 and we met all together in Roses harbour. We were 40 people in a boat waiting for Albert. I have to tell a lot of lies to Albert until he entered in the boat. When he saw all the people there, he was so suprised and astonished. He didn't know anything. We started to sail direction to Montjoi's cove. In this place, we celebrate the party in a city of bungalows. We had dinner there, we had a disco for us and we slept there. It was a perfect night and some people we spent the following day on the beach. The party was amazing for all the people and we were very happy for Albert because he really enjoyed his party.

What's the Auuschwitz center?

Today, I will talk about the holocaust history. First of all, I’m going to put the definition that you can find in the dictionary: ‘The Holocaust is the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. Well, it's a topic with a very syllabus, dates and injustices to talk, so for this reason I speak only about the centre of Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the largest Nazi’s concentration camps. It’s located in German-occupied southern Poland. There were also around 40 satellite camps with prisoner populations ranging from several dozen to several thousand. Most victims were killed in gas chamber, other deaths were caused by systematic starvation, forced labour, lack of disease control, individual executions, and so-called medical experiments.

It's very hard, it's a very cruel history…

English vocabulary

Learning vocabulary is a very important thing for our English. I think that in the language room, in the English classes and with writing in the blog and compositions, we learnt a lot of new phrases, information and a lot of new vocabulary. I really like learning and discover new words in English because I like making titles in English for my photos.
Well, yes…I agree with you if you think that is a very strange and rarely thing, but for example, in one photo that’s shocking I will impose the name: “amazing”, or in one photo with two people, I can mention: two-faced, that literally means two faces, but this means an hypocritical person.
It’s like a “game” with the words and with the imagination of other people who see the photos and the relation with the name.
In conclusion, the thing that I prefer in the English classes is learning new vocabulary and I think that’s a great system for knowing better the language.

Anorexia, a very serious problem.

Anorexia is very frequently sympton in all the illness and physiologic situations that consistents in a decrease of the appetite, that could produce a decrease of ingest the aliments.

People with anorexia are known to commonly control body weight through the means of voluntary starvation, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. They may be afraid of losing control over the amount of food they eat, accompanied by the desire to control their emotions and reactions to their emotions.

In conclusion, a lot of girls on the world are suffering this problem (and similars) and it's a very sad thing...
Look at the photos and videos and tell me your opinion please! ;)

Good life=)

BARRAKES of Figueres!

"Barrakes" of Figueres is a party celebrated at the end of April, beginning of May. It's very amuse because you could meet a lot of people and you could see all the friends there. It's a party celebrated in the industrial zone of the city, near the cinemas and near the fundair. That's plenty of different shacks that sell alcoholic drinks and sandwiches. There are many of reaches, musical groups, etc. For example, yesterday there was "Obrint Pas" i "Dekrèpits", and the other days we can saw "Gossos", "Smoking Stones", "Pastora" (very amazing when she went on stage)...

Well, BARRAKES of 2008, obviously, were brilliant!

Claudia, do you remember the moment of the photo? jajajaja
you're incredible, my doll! ;)

ACROSSTIC

THE MOON WAS SHINING

The hot

Hell is an awful place, so

Every day I wish to see the moon

Moon is an amazing place

On your dreams and

On the reality is very

Nice and wonderful

When the moon was born

And in the sky, the

Stars start to shine

Sometimes I think that the

Heart and sun would be the best place in the universe, but

I prefer the moon because it’s more

Near than me

Is more special

Nearly perfect, the

Giant in the night

DINNER WITH THE CLASS

Yesterday we celebrated one dinner with the class of first
Batxillerat B. It was a good dinner in a Chinese restaurant
of Empuriabrava.
The boys (with Marc Barneda too) made sillies things
all the time (it's evidently) But well...we laugh every moment
ad all the night. After, we went to Fata (a discotheque) and
we saw the other class of BATX and other people/friends!

It was a good night…=)

Stretchiest Skin

Today, while I was ate, I saw in the TV one program of the guinness world records. One boy who's name is: Garry Turner. He stretched the skin of his stomach to a distended very length.

Garry has a rare medical condition called Elhers-Danlos Syndrome, a disorder of the connective tissues affecting the skin, ligaments and internal organs. With this condition, the collagen that strengthens the skin and determines its elasticity becomes defective, resulting in, among other things, a loosening of the skin, and "hypermobility" of the joints. In more serious cases, it can cause the fatal collapse or rupturing of blood vessels.
I think that's very amazing and Unbelievable! You only need look this picture!
It's extraordinary! :)

PSOE,PP,CIU,ERC,PNV...?

A election is one process used in the modern democracies that the people vote for they candidates favourites to represent in the government. It's necessary to have the most of age (in this country 18).
Well, today 9 of march, for everybody who have more of 18 years...it's you time for vote!

(I think that in my future my vote will be white..)

THE KENGURU, a car for a physically handicapped person!

Hi people! I would talk about the "The kenguru", designed in Hungría for the people obliged to use wheelchair. this car don't have any seat, so the person whose introduce with his wheelchair into the car by the door of behind make a good position for drive. All the controls are around of one handle central for facilitate this mecanism. It's a work that be worth the trouble, of course.

Country: Africa

Africa is the most populated continent, after Asia. It covers 22% of the earth’s territory with more than 900 million people and the continent is organized by 53 countries. The English language is only talked in some of these 53 countries: Nigeria, Liberia, Kenia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, etc.

The dense forests and equatorial jungle are the regions that receive more rainfalls and the ‘rain station’ is 8 months long. The higher tree reaches 50 meters and the climate was desert but humid.

Africa has lots of tribes, social and ethnic groups. Some of them are represented by huge groups of people, all of these cultures are different, and for this reason Africa has a lot of variety cultural.
For example, I would like to tell you a curiosity about “the tribe of the himba”. The people of this tribe spread their body with a mixture of ochre, butter and herbs that gives in their own skin a characteristic reddish colour.
Music: The African music is different in the north than in the south but all of them share the same instruments: drums, bells, lutes, flutes and trumpets. The most used and popular instrument are the drums or also called “djembe”. Music is so important in this country because the African people believe in gods and sometimes sing, play and dance for them.

The relationship between Africa and poverty: When we hear the noun ‘Africa’, we immediately think about poverty. Is it true? Of course, because unluckily more than 218 million people live in extreme poverty in Africa, a million of children die every day because they don’t have food; hygiene and they cannot earn one's living. Unfortunately, some people said: to have reached countries, it’s necessary to have poor countries.

TDR

This week the teachers explain the operation of "treball de recerca".
We can observe the differents items and we can decide wich we like more or present another item and the teachers decide that this proposal it's good or not.
I choose: "El pensament de Dalí". I think that's an interesting theme for work, read and sreach information. So...I hope have very willpower for begin the TDR during the summer! ^^'

Vanessa Mae

Hello everybody!
In "Historia de la música" we prepare orals presentation too, about the authors of the Renaissance and Baroque. My oral presentation was about J.S Bach and the second oral was about monteverdi "Orfeo". I don't remeber the girl who talked about a compositor of the song that I put in this upload (videoclip of youtube), but well...the musician of the videoclip is Vanessa mae, and it's very amazing!

CARNIVAL'08

Well, I would explain you the carnival of this year!
I think that all the persons who have a blog and who
upload a update was explain something of the carnival,
so...I will being brief;)

This year my friends and me were disguise of "colegialas",
we werw a group of 62 persons with a mini Scottish skirt! jaja
It was so moody because a lot of boys in mini skirt we can't
see every day! xD

well, it was an excelent carnival with my people and the new
people that I meet! :)

and the next year...which disguise?

today...17!

TODAY IT'S MY BRITHDAY!
i'm very happy because a lot of people send me a sms or fotologs, and I' a person who enjoy this little details. This year I can't celerate my brithday because it's the same weekend than carnival, but well...this reason means that the celebration of my 18 years will be fantastic! jaja ;)
I think that the 17 yeras haven't got any special because for example, the 16 it's so good for enter legally in some nightclubs, and the 18's special for drive, university and a lot of things! So...28 of January 2009, COME! =)

Bridget Jones's Diary

Knew the signs wasn’t right
I was stupid, for a while
Swept away, by you
And now I feel like a fool

So confused
My heart’s bruised
Was I ever loved by you?
Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach, couldn’t see
We were never met to be

Catch myself, from despair
I could drown if I stay here
Keeping busy, everyday
I know I will be ok

But I’m
So confused
My heart’s bruised
Was I ever loved by you?
Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach, couldn’t see
We were never met to be

So much hurt, so much pain
Takes a while to regain
What is lost inside
And I hope that in time
You’ll be out of my mind
I’ll be over you

And know I’m
So confused
My heart’s bruised
Was I ever loved by you?
Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach, couldn’t see
We were never met to be
Out of reach, so far,
You never gave your heart
In my reach, I can see
There’s a life out there for me.

This song appear in "Bridget Jones's Diary", one film that I like so much.
Bridget Jones is an assistant at a London book publisher, a single woman over 30, who smokes too much, drinks too much, and has a tendency to say whatever comes into her mind. When Daniel Cleaver, her boss, starts flirting with her in a vulgar way, she plunges straight in. An affair ensues and she's head over heels. She also keeps running into Mark Darcy, a reserved even stiff barrister who has known her since she was a child young enough to frolic naked in his wading pool, seems to look down his nose at her, and hates Cleaver (truth is, Daniel may be a bit of a bounder). What are Bridget's choices?

LOOK this videoclip of youtube;)