PODCAST

Sorry, but I don't know so good what is a podcast, so I'll try to explain you it:

A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The podcasts can be listened whith programs like iTunes, and you can download podcasts with emule or bittorrent. This is all that I can explain.

BOWLING FOR COLOMBINE TWO


In Virginia (U.S.A), a Campus student named Cho Seung-Hui he killed thirty one students, and then, he killed himself.

Cho Seung-Hui had 23 years old when he killed 32 people.


One of the university teachers faced Cho and distract him, and thanks for that, his alumns can left by the window. Then, Cho killed to the teacher, but the class alumns was out of danger.
Definitively, all it was a massacre, and I only hope that it don't repeat in a future.

Interactive whiteboard


The interactive whiteboard is like a blackboard but with much more possibilities, infinite more possibilities. It has three elements:

- The projector
- The interactive whiteboard
- The computer.

The computer screen is projected in the interactive whiteboard and with a special pen you can use the computer programs. You can install speciall programs for the interactive whiteboard and use this programs with the pen too.
In the other hand, the interactive white board is more useful than blackboard because it doesn't make dust and you don't have to worry about chalks and eraser.

The speciall programs from the interactive whiteboard are very interesting because, like I have said before, it have infinite possibilities.

Sahara's problem

West of Sahara, occupied by Marruecos, is, probably, the African nation with one of the most complex situations at this moment. The unjust colonization and later leavement from part of Spain, still continue having consequences. The saharauis are living badly in west of argelia since 1975, when Marruecos, seizing that Franco was dying, they invaded West of Sahara and expelled the saharauis from its homes.
I only hope that all this big problem it solved soon.

Easter holidays in Asturias.

In easter holidays I have gone to Asturias with my parents and my aunt. We have been for five days in Valles, a little town in the orient of Asturias. In this town are very pretty landscapes, and we could see the "Picos de Europa" from there, but Valles are very boring to live there, because in this town are not young people.

We have gone to Buelna too, another town located at the coast. The mountains were next to the beach, and there was more people than in Valles. In Buelna we saw the "Bufones": When the tide is high, the sea water come in a cave and bang into the rocks. It go up 10-30 meters and go out to the superfice through a big hole in the hill.

As well as all this, we have gone to more places like Burgos or Tordesillas, where we saw the "Tratado de Tordesillas". The travel has been generally very good.

Christmas in other countries
Cristmas is a christianity celebration. This celebration is celebrated in all the cristian's countries and each country celebrate it differently. In Italia the tipical christmas food are the lentils, and in cities like Milan or Roma they throw the old objects by the window for undo of the past.
In Perú, if you dress yellow, you'll have luck the next year, and when the 12 belleds sound, people exit to the street and throw backwards a water glass, expelling therefore the bad auguries.
In Alemania, the custom is leave food in the plate for have full the pantry in the incoming year.
Each countries, each traditions. Thus are Christmas, and the new year day.

Blog's prize
Our blogs had won the first prize of 1st edublogs concurse of Valencia's University. The last 18th December we went to the paraninfo of Valencia's University to take it. The paraninfo is a very adorned special room located in the old university building. This room is used only for special events, and for this reason, is an honor that they gave us the prize in this room. Carmen Alborch was there too, and she acompanied us during the act. I thing that this evening was very exciting.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
The Christmas tradition is a Christianity celibration. It celebrates the Jesus birth. Here, in Spain, the tradition is that the 5th January in the night, the "Reyes Magos" visit all the houses, and the 6th in the morning, when people get up, there are at home presents for all.
Actually, the 25th December, Papá Noel goes to all the houses, and he brings presents too, but Papa Noel is a new imported tradition, because the old real spanish tradition is the Reyes Magos.
We have an other tradition too, it treat that in new year eve, at 12 o'clock, we eat 12 grapes, one for each belled, and if you eat all grapes, you'll have much luck in the next year.

KISS

When you recive a kiss, you feel enjoy, when you recive a kiss, you forget the problems, when you recive a kiss, you think only in this kiss, and you are funny all the day. I thing that one kiss is like a dream, because you are disappointed when you wake up of that dream, but even so, you are funny because now, you have a good thought about this dream. I can't explain exactly what is a kiss, but I can sey that this is very beautiful, an unforgettable experiencie.

WE ARE THE WINERS!!

I am a student in a school named Escuela2. Last year my class, with our English teacher help, we send our blogs to an aid of blogs organized by the Valence University. This year, we have received a congratulation of the Valence University because we have won the first prize of the blog's project aid. We couldn't believe this. WE ARE THE WINERS!! :D

On December we will go to the Valence University to pick up the prize. We are very fascinated.

LEÓN

In easter I went to León with my parents, we went to a friend's house. León is in the west of Spain, it is a very beautifull town because there are a lot of monuments, and is an rural and cosy place. The best monument of León is the "catedral de León". Is an enormous cathedral whith a lot of show windows that when the night arrive a light inside the cathedral are ignited and the show windows shine with a precious brilliance. In León we saw a lot of monuments, cathedrals, old churches and an hermitage too. We went too to the "barrio húmedo", that is called thus because the people of the town celebrate there the "procesión de san Genaro". San Genaro was a drunkard whom used to go to bars and puticlubs every night , but a day an lorry run him over while he was pooing in the street. Since this day, the people of the tawn celebrate all the years the "procesión de san Genaro", an celebration in honor of san Genaro that it consists of making the route that he used to take. This celebration lasts the whole night and pass by all the bars to he went.

MOZAMBIQUE

Mozambique is a poor country, but it is very rich in humanity. Very much people die there because of AIDS, and the Mozambique economy is one of lowest economies of the world. The 80% of his agricultural production is of subsistence, but they have nothing to eat.
The other big problem in this country is the illiteracy, people hasn't culture, and this is an important reason because they can't stoped AIDS.
They don't understand preventive measures and for this reason the AIDS is a very dangerous epidemic.
Another big problem in Mozambique is politic corruption.

Online games (Chats)

I thing that in the online games people can learn english. When I play to online game named Diablo II, all the people speak in english, and if you don't make an effort, you can't understand that the other people says, also, you have to speak in english too, because if you don't speak in english, the other people don't understand you. For this reason, I thing that in the online games you can learn english, because little by little you understand more things. My father says: "You are all the time whith the same game! This is very bad!". I thing that is not all bad, because I learn a little of english.

Is too better learn english in paper or in the blog?

I thing that is better learn english in the blog for several reasons:
In the blog, you can put photos, you can put links too, but the main reason is that you can put commentaries. Here, the debate is fomented, for that reason the blog is better than paper. Also, you learn the new technologies. This is my opinion about all this.

THE SECRET AGENT

In August I read a book named The secret agent, from Joseph Conrad. I don't stand the book very good because my english is not very good... But I have understood the beginning.

Mr. Verloc is a fat man who owns a bookshop in London. Mr. Verloc is married with a young woman called Winnie. They lives in a backroom of the shop, with Stevie, the Winnie's brother. Stevie has a problem, He can't remember things, so Mr. Verloc and Winnie have to look after him. Mr Verloc is also an anarchist, he belongs to a group of anarcists who have meetings in his house. They all want to see a revolution in Britan, but Mr Verloc wasn't do very much about it. He just wants to be comfortable and to look after his shop.

This is everything that I have understood about the book.

LA TOMATINA

La Tomatina is a popular party that is celebrated in Buñol(Valencia). It is celebrated the last wensday of august.
In La Tomatina approximately 100 tons of tomato are sent. In this party are about 40.000 persons, but my family tell me that some time ago, in La Tomatina, they went only the people of the town, so it was more fun as now. Unfortunately, this was lost. Actually this war of tomatos with so many people, it is a little dangerous.

Toulon (France)

In august I went to Toulon with my family. We were in my parents friend's house. Toulon is not very nice, but it has a very beautiful port. And near of Toulon there were others cities and towns more interesting as Toulon. So, we went to Marsella, Aix en Provence, Sanary, Tourtour, La Cadière d'Azur... From those towns I liked over all Tourtour, it was a precious medieval town, but when we went there it was raining very much, but it was very nice visite it under the rain in the nigth. Even so I would have liked to go another day to see Tourtour better.

EL PERELLÓ

In July I went to "El Perelló". El Perelló is a pretty town in a beautiful beach. I went there with friends, we bathed in the beach and in the swimming pool all day and at the night we all were in a social club that had the urbanization. Everything went very well, but one day I gave an insolation. I stay in "El Perelló" two days more for if I recovered, but I was getting worse and I have to go to an hospital. Since then I have not returned that way.

METER ACCIDENT

The 3th July 2006, in Valencia there was a meter accident. At 13:03 hours, a meter with 150 people derailed in a curve near the station called Jesus. 43 people were died and 46 were hurts. Twentyone of those 43 died people lived in the city of Torrente .
First the people thougt that one of the wheels was broken, but when they made one more detailed investigation cradle in the black box, they discovered that the vehicle raised the speed to 80km/h one minute before entering a curve which the maximum one was 40km/h. Five seconds before it overturned the first wagon, in the cabin of the machinist the brake was activated manually, reducing the speed until 64,8km/h, but the emergency brake was not used.

ANCHOVIES

The anchovies are beginning to extinguish in Spain, for this reason, the Spanish government has requested to Brussels that close the anchovies canning factorys.

MARIE CURIE

Marie Curie was a great scientist. She was born in Poland the 11/7/1867. Marie studied physics and chemistry in Paris. Then, in the university, she knew another teacher, Pierre Curie, and she married with him. Marie and Pierre studied the radioactive materials, the uranio in individual, and after many years of investigation, they discovered two new materials, the polonio and the radio. In 1903 they won the physics Nobel prize, she was the first woman who obtained the prize. In 1911 she won the chemistry Nobel prize. Marie died by leucemia in 1934.

MY FUTURE PLANS

When I finish the school, I'll going to the Bachiller, if I don't repeat the 4th curse, of course. I'll like go to the artistic bachiller or scientist bachiller, I don't know yet, because I like draw, but I like the chemistry too. If I don't pass in June, and I pass in september, I don't know what I'll do... but I am shure, I can pass in June perfectly.

BERLÍN

We went to Berlín in May, for four days.
We went to visite the Reichtag, the Pergamo museum, the Olocaust museum, the Check Point Charly, the Brandemburg gate and the Berlin wall.

Every day we ate kebab, but one day I ate in the Dunkin Donuts. We slept in an hostel: The Sunflower Hostel. The hostel was very hippy and a little miserly, but it was clean and we asleep well.

URANIUM ENRICHMENT

The fuel of a nuclear power plant is uranium, but only a certain type of uranium can be easily split to produce energy. This type of uranium atom is called uranium 235 (u-235).
Iran is manipulating that uranium to create a nuclear pump. The USA, Rusia, and some countries more, are trying negociate with Iran so that they let to enrich uranium. Iran left the enrichment program, but they has returned to begin. I hope they are not able to make the pump.

Easter

Easter is a celebrations time. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God.
Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God.
Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored easter eggs originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of the easter days.

IRAN
In the past, Iran was called Persia. In Persia, the Sha of Persia was governate. His name was Mohamed Rezza Palevi. He was an ally of the United States and he left his country evolved, but in 1979, there was a revolution in Persia, and Khomeini raised the power. He changed the name of persia for the name of Iran. He was an monk man, and he imposed the Muslim religious law. In 1980, Iran began a war against Irak because of petroleum. The U.S.A. supported to Irak in the war and Iran and the United States became enemies. When Khomeini died, their followers replaced him, and now they are making enriched uránio to construct an atomic bomb. Now, the O.N.U. try to negotiate with Iran on the subject of uránio.

STOP FIRE (E.T.A.)

E.T.A. is a spanish terrorist organization who starts to kill over 1970. Their fight was directed against the regime of Franco, but later, whith the democracy, E.T.A., more and more, continued killing indiscriminately. In their attacks they killed childrens and other inocent people. Their actions were more fascist than the Fascism. The 3/22/2006 E.T.A. sends a letter to the government who says: "permanent cease-fire". That letter is very important because it means that may be they won't return to kill. Now they are going to try negotiate. I wish that all leaves good.

France and the multiculturality

The inmigration in France isn't so young as in Spain because France had many colonies in Africa and much people have been come after becoming independent. Although there are people even of third generation that is French, they live in the poorest districts with social problems and without work. For that reason they have been revealed aggressively and creating serious problems in France since the month of October.

CATALANIAN ESTATUT

The Catalanian statute gathers basic norms for the independent community of Catalonia. Those independent laws must be recognized by the Spanish Constitution. In the statute the competitions assumed by Catalonia take shelter, it recognizes the language of the community and its independent rights of the central government of Spain.

Helloween

Helloween is a celta's tradition that in its origins was called "Samhain".
In the celta's tradition of the British islands, this celebration had like objective to give cult to deads (Century 1 a.C.). The religion that they had was called "Druidismo" and with the celebration of the Samhain the New Year Celta began. In those days they communicated with its ancestors hoping to be guided in this life towards the inmortal.With the evangelización it finished disappearing the Druidismo, but it custom not to invoke the spirits. In England it was changing the pronunciación of "All Hallow's Even", until becoming "Helloween".
This celebration has been deformed until becoming the consumption celebration that we know at the moment.

MELILLA
In the last time we watch in tv some news about Melilla and the inmigrants from subsaharian Africa. Many people tries to pass the fence, but it is very difficult.
In the world the poor countries are more and more poor, and the rich countries are more and more rich. The poor people needs to enter in the rich countries to survive.

HAROLD PINTER
Born 10 October 1930 in East London, playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist.

Harold Pinter is the winer from the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, the highest honour available to any writer in the world. Pinter will travel to Stockholm in December to accept the award.
In 1958 he wrotes the following:"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false."

DIGITAL ILLITERACY
"Digital illiteracy" is a way to say that you don't know nothing of computer science, this is not a very educated form to say it...but I recognize that I'm a little "digital illiterate", because often I don't clarify myself whith the way to work in the computer...but I do it well with the computer games!!
I think that the "digital illiteracy" is something that will go little by little disappearing if we use the computer too as a work tool.