BYE BYE ESO

I can not believe that this school year is about to finish. The time has passed so quickly that I have not even realesed that it is the last year of ESO and there will be a lot of changes. 

I still remember the first day of school. When I joined the class, 2nd B, I was shocked and very surprised. My first impression of my classmates was that they were all very crazy. But, little by little, I got to know them and to become friends. 

The lasts three years have been incredible. I enjoyed every minute of every year, even though, there has been some stressful moments. I could not imagine those years without all the laughes we had and all the adventures we had lived. All those funny and good times have been incredible for me

As I said, this school year is about to finish. I think that next year will be different. A lot of people will leave the high school and It will not be the same. However, I will stay, studying "batxillerat". I hope that next year the subjects' work will not take away the good moments and make an unforgettable year, in the negative way. 

CHRISTOPHER'S NOLAN FILMS

Christopher Nolan is was born on July 30th in 1970. He is an English film director and producer. He is also a screenwriter, which makes him perfect in the cinemarography world. Christopher is well-known for the great films that he has done during his career. He is characterised for making some of his movies very philosophical and ethical. He plays with the espectador's moral and mind. He also plays with concepts like the time and the memories. He uses different techniques to develop up the plot of the film,  such as the nonlinear storytelling.

Two months ago, my friends and I decided to watch one of his famous films, Inception. It is about a man called Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) who makes a deal with a Japanese businessman. The deal consists of implanting an idea in a person's subconscious using technology which allows to infiltrate important information through a shared dream world. The japanese's enemy is Mr.Fisher. So, Dom has to convice Fischer's son to dissolve his father's company and in return he will be clear of a murder charge and his children will return home. During the film, he and his team uses the "inception" technique to be in someone's dream world to make their jobs. Cobb makes spinnig around an amulet to know when he is in a dream. If it stops means that he is not dreaming.

This is the trailer of the film:

Another film that we saw is Memento. It is about a man called Leo who is an investigator of a security agency. His memory is damaged because he hit his head when he was trying to avoid his wife's murder. That problem caused him memory loss constantly. His memories desappears from his mind for a few minutes. So, to investigate his wife's murder and take revenge of the murderer, he takes photos of every clue that he finds and he gets tattoos of every key notes which will guide him to the killer.

This is the trailer of the film:

Finally, we saw The Prestige. It is a film about two famous illusionists, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) who are competitive between each other. Even though they admired each other at the beginning, as long as someone does an awesome trick, the other one wants to do a better trick and vice versa, until they hate each other. Finally, Alfred Borden made a good knack that made Robert very jealous, because he did not know how he has done it. So, he will do all the best to know it until he finds another trick better than the Alfred's ones (using technology).

This is the trailer of the film:

I have really enjoyed watching these movies. They are extremely good. I do not know how Christopher invents plots like these ones. All the three films are very confusing and you do not know what is really happening until the lasts minutes of the movie. I think that this kind of movies blows you mind because you think too much about it. I do not wanted to explain the final part of the films because I would make spoilers. 

I want to watch more Christopher's films like Interstellar or Insomnia.

ITALY BEST PICTURE

Two months ago, I went to Italy for a school trip for six days. We flew by the airplane to Pisa on March 29th. And after visiting Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca and Rome, on April 3nd we came back to Spain by a Gimaldi Lines' cruise.

The best picture of Italy for me is this one:

I took this picture in Florence. We went to visit the Florence Cathedral, known as Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore in Italian. I took the picture from the top of the Brunelleschi's cupola.

The picture shows basically the views of the city. In the left your left you can see the Giotto's Bell Tower. This tower is part of the Florence Cathedral. In my opinion, it is very beautiful and lovely. I read that it attains a height of 84,7m. and it dividies in five levels.

The decoration is perfect. The tower is covered by green, white and gold colours. It has long open windows. You can climb the tower, but we did not.

In the middle of the foreground, you can see the big roof of the cathedral and in front of it there's the Cathedral square. 

Moving to the right, you can see the houses'  red roofs, which are very typical there. In the background there are also a lot of houses' roofs and far away you can see a little natural elevation were there's a forest.

I still remember the day we climbed to the top of the dome. To enter to the Cathedral we waited on line for an hour and we also climbed too many stairs, but even so, it was very worth it. The day was perfect even though the weather it was not. 

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

UNESCO is an international organization leaded by the United Nations. The principal objective of this organization is to contribute peace and security between every state through the education, the science and the culture. That is why they make different projects to join together the countries, such as the World Heritage Site. The organization lists different places of the world that is special for cultural or national reasons or, that has an important significance.

A few weeks ago, in the English class we had to choose a place which is selected by UNESCO where we would like to go. It was hard to choose only one place. There were a lot of  countries that I would love to go. But, finally I chose Croatia.

Croatia is such a beautiful state. Cities like Porec, Split or Pula are protected by UNESCO. Those cities are concidered cultural patrimony.

But, the reason why I chose Croatia was for the Plitvice Lakes National Park. It is one of the oldest national park in Europe and the largest national park in Croatia. In 1979, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage register. The national park is situated in Lika-Senj Country, even so there is a little part in Karlovac Country.

The lakes' water are brought by different tributaries. The water flows over the limestone and chalk creating little natural waterfalls which have created a series of beautiful lakes and caves. The lakes have been there for a long time ago and nowadays, these geological place continues getting better.

The weather there is typical of the country. The precipitation is plentiful in Autumn and Spring. In December and January, the lakes freeze. A curious fact about the water is that the temperature of the water of the lakes on the top is lower than ten degrees, meanwhile the temperature of the water of the subterranean lakes is about forty-five degrees.

There are a lot of different kinds of plants and trees. The various vegetation makes the natural zone look more atractive for the colors that the leaves of the plants and trees get as the season changes. The dense forests in the park are home to different types of animals, such as bears, wolves and many rare bird and fish species. 

In the following picture, you can see the thin bridge that connects one side with an other one. 

The lakes of the plitvice lakes national park freezed.

The variation of colour that the leaves of the trees get in Autumn.

LOVE SONG

"If you ever want to be in love" by James Bay

Saw you today after so much time

Felt just like it used to be

Talking for hours 'bout a different life

Surrounded us in memories

We were close never close enough

Where are we now

Cause if it's torn we can stitch it up

Don't rule it out

Oh no no

I'll come around

If you ever want to be in love

I'm not waiting but I'm willing if you call me up

If you ever want to be in love

I'll come around

Wanted to ask if we could have been
But my tongue wouldn't break the seal
You always had something effortless
At school you were the biggest deal
Little quirks close and open up
Time is slipping by
Always thinking 'bout the two of us
Replay on my mind
Always playing on my mind

(...)

This song is sung by James Bay. He is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist who is well-known for his last album, Chaos and the Calm. In this song, James talks about his feelings for a girl who apperantly does not feel the same, or, about a girl who is too good for him (that is why in the song he says: "at school you were the biggest deal"). Much of the story is expressed in understatement, as in ‘don’t rule it out’ and ‘I’m not waiting, but I’m willing …’ as if he still can’t bring himself to declare his love clearly and fully. 

I really like this artist. All of his songs are amazing and good. He has done other love songs such as Need the sun to break, and break up songs, like the song Let it go. 

SADIQ KHAN INVITES TO HIS HOME "THE IGNORANT" DONALD TRUMP TO SHOW HIM ABOUT ISLAM

About a week ago, I read this news from the Huffington post newspaper. This news is about the opinion of the new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, about the offer of Donald Trump of banning the entrance of muslims in the United States. 

The news says that in an interview made by the Tv programme Good Morning Britain, Khan says that before the elections Trump wished him luck and said that the ban would be exceptional for him. Even though, he thinks that he is not exceptional because everyone are equal. He questions himself what about all the muslims businesswomen and businessmen who want to make business in the US, all the muslims students from their country who want to study in the US or the muslims who want to travel to America.

Khan secures that with his election victory proves that it is totally compatible beeing muslim and having western values. He thinks that Trump's thoughts are extremists and that his opinion is based on the ignorance.

The interviewer asked Khan if he would take Donald Trump to a mosque in London. Sadiq answered that he would take him in the center of the capital and he would invite him to meet the Leicester City football player, Riyad Mahrez, who recived the award of the best player of the year (PFA award), Nadiya Hussain, the best baker in England and even Zayn Malik.
With all of those strong affirmations, Sadiq wants to show basically to the world that muslims give a lot of benefits in almost every field.

Finally, he says that the great thing about England is that there are different religions and cultures that can live together.

This is a video where we can lisen the interview to Sadiq Khan made by the Huffington post UK newspaper (first six minutes): 



I am totally agree what the London's mayor says. In my opinion, Sadiq defended very good the Islam. I think that the world is full of people who shares the same ideology as Donald Trump, as always. It is a pity to see the unsuccessful  progress of the human's mindset throughout history.

YOUTUBERS

I have started to watch youtube videos for a long time ago. It was my sister who showed me some youtubers, especially British youtubers.

Nowadays, I could say that I watch different types of youtubers, from the most adventurous ones to the most glamourus. 

Will Darbyshire

One of my favourites youtubers at the moment is Will Darbyshire. He is from London, England. He is a social media phenomenon and a filmmaker who uploads videos to his youtube channel, willdarbyshirefilm. He has filmed videos for youtube since 2014 and he has accumulated over 600.000 subscribers. Apart from filmming and editing their own videos, he also made short films. Some of them are titled The Lizardman, Space, The Popup, and Garden Sale.

I really like his videos. The theme of each video are unique, for not talking about the way that he films and edits the videos. He talks about thing of life, such as fears, love, depression, stress, the happiness, the memories, and many others. On the other hand, he films a lot when he travels. For example, when he went to Asia, France or to the different states of America.

It is kind of hard to chose my favourite video of him. I could say that the last video that he uploaded, titled "Surviving Exams & Growing Up", made me think a lot about the exams that I am taking. Honestly, it made me realesed that we do not have to stressed out about it.

When it becomes to adventurous youtubers, I watch Casey Neistat.

Casey is an American filmmaker, producer and director known for the videos that he uploads on his youtube channel, CaseyNeistat, and for the HBO series The Neistat Brothers. Nowadays, he is a daily vlogger. He vlogs every day of his life showing what he is up to. He travels a lot and makes different kind of sports and he participates in different atlethic events. I really enjoy watching his videos. His videos are funny and entertaining.

Others youtuber travelers that I like to watch are the British Louis Cole (FunForLouis) and Jack Harris (Jacksgap), even though, the last one does not uploded a video for a month.

Louis Cole (on the left) and Jack Harries (on the right).

Casey Neistat

The lasts ones but not leasts are the hilarious and pranskters youtubers, such as Joe Sugg or Caspar Lee. 

Joe is a british youtuber, filmmaker and author. He runs three youtube channels: ThatcherJoe, ThatcherJoeVlogs and ThatcherJoeGames. On his main channel he has almost achieved seven thousand subscribers. Most of the videos that he uploads consist of challenges, pranks and impressions. He knows how to do a good prank to his friends. When it comes to impressions, he is amazing. He can imitate any character or person. In 2015, Joe published a graphic novel, Username: Evie. In the same year, his film with Caspar Lee was released. The film was called Joe and Caspar: Hit the Road, where they traveled Eurpean countries to work and earn money to spend it into holidays. 

Caspar Lee (on the left) and Joe Sugg (on the right).

Joe is also well-known for beeing Zoe's brother. Zoe, known on youtube as Zoella, is a blogger and youtuber. I also watch her videos and I really enjoy them. 

Finally, Caspar Lee is another british youtuber that I watch. Even though he was born in England, he considers himself South-american because his family is from there and he lived there for many years. His youtube video contents are similar of the Joe's ones but more short. He made an uncredited cameo voiceover along with Joe in the 2015 UK version of the film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. 

A ROMANTIC FILM

One of the romantics films that I really like is What if. It is a canadian film directed by Michael Dowse, starring by Daniel Radcliffe as Wallace, Zoe Kazan as Chantry, Megan Park as Dalia, Adam Driver as Allan, Mackenzie Davis as Nicole and Rafe Spall as Ben. It was released on 2013. 

The film is about Wallace who has moved to Toronto to live with his sister. Since he left his girlfriend, he has not been very social. One day, Wallace's friend, Allan, convinced him to go to a house party. There, Wallace met Chantry, Allan's cousin. When the party ended, Chantry and Wallace walked to her home where he found out that Chantry has a boyfriend. Chantry gave Wallace her phone number, but even so, he did not call her. 

Some days later, they run into each other at the cinema. Finally, they went to have dinner together. 

Little by little, their friendship was growing. Wallace was invited by Chantry to have dinner and to meet Ben, Chantry's boyfriend. Later, Ben had to move to Dublin for his work. So, Chantry and Wallace began to develop their friendship. The two friends were not always in a good mood, they sometimes got anry. 

Chantry decided to flew to Dublin to join Ben. There, she discovered that he has accepted more work, which meant that he had to stay in Irland for more time. Chantry decided to break off their relationship. 

On the other hand, when Wallace noticed that Chantry flew to Dublin, he traveled there too, to declare himself to his friend. But, when he arrived, Chantry had already gone. 

When they finally met each other, Wallace told Chantry about the trip that he took to Irland and his feelings for her. She felt betrayed and she got angry with him. 

At the end of the film, they met each other at a Chantry's party. She finally admited that she had the same feelings for him, so they started to date. In the film, they revealed that they were still dating eighteen months later and also, they got married. 

When I saw the film, I really enjoyed it. It is very comic in almost every scene. In my opinion, I think that the actors and the plot are very good.

This is the trailer of the film: 

MY LIFE EXPERIENCES

I have already been to Belgium, Netherlands and Italy. 

Since I was little, my family and I traveled to different countries to visit our family and to spend time together. Belgium and Netherlands are some of those countries. 
I have been to Belgium twice in my life. It is a good place to spend your holidays. There are a lot of cultural buildings and interesting places, even though, the weather is not good as Spain's.

I traveled to Netherlands once in my life. I have got family there. We did not spend a lot of time there but even so, I think that it is such a beautiful place to go. 

Two months ago, I went to Italy with my school mates. It was an incredible experience that I will never forget. If I could go back in time I would definitely relive it again and again. 

I have already ridden a camel. 

When I went to Morroco in 2007, my family and I spend a week in the capital, Rabat. I remember that my sister and I rid a camel. It was a little bit scary because when I was on the top of the animal, It started to make sudden movements. 

I have already done a sailing course. 

In Empuriabrava, there is a sailing school where you can do a sailing course in the Empuriabrava's small beach. When I was in school, we spend a day sailing. But it was only a day trip. However, when I was doing 1st of ESO, I remember that we spend more or less a month taking teorical and practical sailing classes. I enjoyed a lot that course even though, sometimes the teorical parts where a little bit boring. 

I have not eaten tacos yet. 

When it becomes to food, I have to say that I have never tried tacos. I think that the reason why I have not tried it yet is because I always eat the typical food. That's why I would like to try different dishes. I hope that someday I could finally taste it. 

I have not finished 4th of ESO yet. 

The school year is almost finished and that means that I will finally finish 4th of ESO. I am excited to close this school year, because Summer is just around the corner. But, at the same time, I do not want that 4th of ESO finishes because in September things are going to change for example, the class, the school mates,... for not talking about the subject of the course. 

I have not read the A Song of Ice and Fire's books yet.

I have already finished Game of thrones more than a month ago. The sixth season is trasmited every Sunday in the United States, but I see it online every Monday. I have read that this season is a little bit different from the sixth book considering that it is not published (or even finished) yet. The writer said that everyone who will read the book will be surprised for the things that can happen and that will not happen in the tv series, Game of thrones. That is why, when the book will be published, I want to read it.

LOVE QUOTE