Money

In this extra post I will talk about the money. It’s necessary? It’s bad distributed? Why some people earn a lot of money and another people don’t earn anything?

First of all, I want so say that money it’s necessary to live, but it isn’t the most important thing in the world. There are a lot of tv ads that shows that, I remember one that said the price of the objects that you have to buy for play football, for example, the t-shirts, the football boots and all the equipment, but finally said, make the goal of the victory and enjoy playing with your friends, this is priceless. This ads you makes you thing that there are a lot of things that money can’t buy, and this things are the best ones.

Is the money bad distributed? Yes, absolutely. We are living a hard situation in Spain, but we have more money that most of the countries of Asia or Africa. There are people that can buy a car that its price is higher than all the money that can have a family during his life. I don’t think that it’s normal, but society works like this and we have to confirm. Because in Spain there are a lot of these cases, in Spain there is a lot of corruption because people want more and more money. There are another people that said that football players or athletes win a lot of money. I’m not agree with this people because this athletes win money for do his job. For example, Leo Messi, the best player in the world, wins around 20 millions of euro each season. Is that a lot of money? Depend, Messi is the best player in the world, and he gives to Barcelona a lot of titles, this titles gives money to the club, and this titles gives to the club good reputation, that means that a lot of people wants to see Messi in the field, and that produces more and more money. Moreover, there a lot of football players that gives his money to ONG, like Andrés Iniesta or Balotelli (he gives the half of his salary). And the last example is David Bechkam. He doesn’t win anything for playing football, but he is the football player that earns more money, 36 millions of euro doing advertising. I don’t know if it’s normal o not, but if the companies wants to pay him, why not?

Finally, I want to say that you have to study a lot if you want to earns money, there are a lot of lucky people that can buy like a million of euro during a month, but we mustn’t have to be this people, because we have to enjoy the little things that money can buy, and don’t be obsessed with money because money goes and come, and when you will be older, you will can’t buy an infancy to enjoy the life, even if you are millionaire. So study a lot, enjoy the life, and don’t be obsessed with money in life, because life is too short too wasting it counting money!

Sebastien De la Cruz

Mexican-American boy returns for NBA encore in famous mariachi suit

By Cindy Y. Rodriguez, CNN

June 14, 2013 -- Updated 1645 GMT (0045 HKT)

Sebastien De La Cruz, 11, returns to the basketball court in San Antonio on Thursday, June 13, before Game 4 of the NBA Finals. "To be invited back to sing the national anthem is just amazing because now I know the San Antonio Spurs like how I sing," Sebastien said. "It makes me feel like I'm doing something legendary."

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• Sebastien de la Cruz caused a stir on social media after singing the national anthem
• Critics were outraged that he was wearing a mariachi suit while singing
• After his game 3 performance, the Spurs brought him back for an encore
• San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro introduced him during game 4

(CNN) -- In less than 48 hours, Sebastien de la Cruz has become a household name.

The 11-year-old Mexican-American boy's singing of the national anthem in his mariachi outfit caused a stir during game 3 of the NBA finals in his San Antonio hometown Tuesday.

On Thursday night, the Spurs decided to bring back "El Charro de oro" for an encore performance.

Even though he was the subject of racist comments on Twitter, the San Antonio native was again wearing a mariachi outfit, according to Carlos Manzanillo, corporate communications manager at San Antonio Spurs. Manzanillo had no comment on why the Spurs decided to bring back Sebastien.

I saw this news on television yesterday, and the Spanish reporters said that a lot of people insult this boy because he sings the anthem of his country with strange clothes. A lot of people said that this performance was horrible for the country. Moreover, a lot of people insult him on twitter, because a lot of people are very brave in the social newtworks as everybody knows. This news shows to things: the first one is that in EEUU, the anthem, like the love for the country and the homeland are very important, not like in Spain that in some places the anthem is whistled and the love for the country and for the monarchy are difficult to find, and the second one, is that there are stupid people all around the world, not only in Europe. So the next match of Spurs, the club decide that this boy will sing another time the anthem of his country, and all the people of the stadium applauded his performance.

Home

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Last week, our teacher said to us that we were going to see a film called home. This film didn’t talk about characters with problems or something like that; this film is a documentary that talks about our home: the Earth. I couldn’t watch the second part in class but I finished the film at home so I don’t know the opinion of the other people about the film but I’m going to give mine.

This documentary shows the evolution of our planet since its creation. It’s impressive because in the film, appears a lot of scenes that I have ever seen, some of them, seem fakes and another ones are extraordinary beautiful. I don’t know if it is because I spend all the day watching football on television, maybe there are a lot of documentaries like home on television but this is my first documentary about the earth. Maybe I must have to see more documentaries on television, but only when there isn’t football. Moreover, this film shows how human has destroyed the planet, the vegetation, resources, climate etc.

Finally, as a conclusion, I’ve enjoyed watching this documentary, but in my opinion it’s too long, it isn’t boring but too long in my opinion. And as I said, I liked it to see because shows how we have destroy the planet and what we have to do for save it. 

Final evaluation of First Batxillerat

Well first of all I want to say that I have improved a lot my English during this year, because I have had to talk about news and about differents topics. Moreover, we have done a three oral presentations, and that's imrpove the speaking, because the speaking only improves if you practize. 

The harder thing of the blog is think about new topics to talk about in the free post, the news are easier because there are a lot of news, and you can talk about everything, in my case, about sports. I wish that my english level continue improving next year, because I want to do the first exam, and I want to be prepared for this, so that's all of this great year, I hope you had like all my things, and we see next year!

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Jamie: Jaume 
Dad: Eloi 
Tania: Roger 
Polly: David 

Jamie: Tania's girlfriend but unfaithful 
Tania: Jamie's girlfriend 
Polly: Jamie's "lover" 
Dad: Jamie's father 

Tania: What the fuck is going on here?

Jamie: It’s not what it looks! Relax!

Polly: emm… Can you show me the homework, please, Jamie? That’s why I’m here. (excuse)

Tania: Are you kidding me? I know what’s going on!!

Dad: What’s up?? Shit, I’m trying to sleep!

Tania: What’s up!!?? Your son is an asshole, and this is his fucking bitch.

Jamie: Sorry dad, now we will leave and…

Tania: Shut up! You will get out with your fucking bitch; I don’t want to see you again.

Polly: The only whore here is you, motherfucker, you only wants Jamie’s money.  Don’t you?

Jamie: Is that true?  I’m freaking out.

Tania: I AM!

Dad: You have woken me up and now we are arguing in my 

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. Get out of my house, right now!

Tania: Shut up! It’s not your argument; I’m sorry but the truth is that your son is a fucking liar!

Dad: Is not my argument but is my house. Go out bitch and shut up!!

Polly: Okay sorry. Tania stop. We can argue out.

Jamie: Yeah! Babies go out!

Polly and Tania: Fuck you! Bye!

(Polly and Tania leave the house together and Jamie remain there alone)

Game of Thrones?

'Game of Thrones' finale will be a 'tricky homecoming'

By Jennifer Vineyard, Special to CNN

June 8, 2013 -- Updated 1754 GMT (0154 HKT)

See 'Game of Thrones' fan freak out

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• After last week's shocking episode of "Game of Thrones," stakes are high for Sunday finale
• The Kingslayer, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, says there are no clear-cut heroes or villains
• The finale will provide closure, as well as raise new questions.

(CNN) -- With fans still reeling from last Sunday's Red Wedding episode, "The Rains of Castamere," the third season of "Game of Thrones" comes to a close this weekend, and no one is waiting with more bated breath for that than Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer on the HBO program. "Even though I've read all the scripts, I wasn't around when they shot all of it," he reminded CNN. "So one of the things that's great about this show is that I can actually watch it and enjoy it, despite knowing what's going to happen."

Last monday, my sister was watching the tv, she was watching game of thrones, I don't follow that tv serie but I didn't want to study more so I decided to see the last chapter with my sister. Do you ever seen something like that? The first chapter that I see and all the poeple killing other people, blood around room, the king killing a son with his mother in front of them, what's that? I don't know how the other chapters are, but a very strange tv serie. The most funniest thing was my sister reactions, next day, I searched in internet "Game of thrones last chapter" and there were a lot of people that record themselves watching this chapter, and it's very funny, I don't understand this people and I don't know how the serie can continued next year with all the chacracters died. Finally I want to say that there aren't anything like a football match..

Rafael Nadal beats Ferrer!

A member of the anti-gay marriage group "hommen" runs onto the court with a lit flare during the match.

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• Protester dashed on to court in the second set with a flare

(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal raced to a record eighth French Open title Sunday with a straight sets 6-3 6-2 6-3 dismissal of fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in a final briefly interrupted by a protestor brandishing a lighted flare.

The match has already finished and I'm really proud for them. Two spanish tennis players have arrived in the final. I'm a Rafa Nadal supporter and I like how he play. He hasn't got a fantastic service but he is very intelligent and he know what he has to do for win the matches. One of the things that has happened in the match, as you can see in the picture, a member of anti-gay marriage jump into the court, it isn't very normal because people want to enjoy the match and tennis has a good reputation, not like in football that there are a lot of fans that jump into the field or fight against the other supporters, that's a good point for tennis, the respect that people have in each point, and each set. In tennis, for example, when one player has to service, everybody are in silence, but in football when the goalkeeper has to bring into play the ball, you will listen all type of insults. To sum up, I want to say that I'm very happy for Rafa's wins because he has live difficult moments during this months.

Selfishness

That’s an interesting topic to talk about. Why exists the selfishness? It’s necessary? Well, first of all we are living in a world that if you haven’t got a mobile phone or a computer you are prehistoric. That’s very sad because I know that I’m the first who use the mobile or the tv, but we are living in a world that the material things are the most important. The people judge you if you haven’t got two couple of trainers for example or if you haven’t got whatsapp. We are living in a bad situation, because I don’t live in my parents époque, but they always tell me that they hadn’t got anything that I have today. There are two problems, one of them, is that our parents, want to do it all that they have, because they think that all these things make us happy, and they want that we enjoy our adolescence because they didn’t enjoy their as well as us. And the other problem is that we want more things that we already have. We don’t value our things, and that’s the reason that if we have an iphone 4S, we want the new iphone 5, and that’s very sad. I don’t know how we can stop this, but I’m lucky because I don’t want to have children.

Where is the limit?

The world is changing very quickly and we don’t know it. Humans have go to the space, they are people that can run 100 meters in only nine seconds, people who can push up more that four hundred kg and people who can run without his legs! In youtube there are a lot of videos of a group with the title People are awesome, and that’s right. There are crazy people that do impossible things, but we have to recognize that these people are the best. I don’t remember the film, but when I listened this sentence I thought that’s right, the crazy people are the one that when they want to do something, they only do it, that’s all. So where is the limit? I saw a sentence that says: Don’t tell me the sky is the limit if there are footsteps in the moon. So if you are thinking that there are impossible things in life, maybe after watching this video your opinion change. 

Nothing is impossible

In life, there are a lot of things that we want to do but finally we never do. Things that seems impossible or very difficult, or things that you said that your are going to do some day but finally you will never do.  A lot of people admire football players, singers, actors, dancers o people like that. They say that they are very lucky to for earn money doing what they really like. I think, and you are different to this people? The talent it’s in you, everybody knows that, but you have to improve this talent, because there are a lot of people that have a lot of talent, in my case I know a lot football players, but you can say that with another person, so people that have a lot of talent and they don’t use it. And that’s frustrating because you know that this person can get very far with this talent but they are very lazy and they don’t use it for nothing. And there are other people, that haven’t got this talent, but these people works very hard for realize their dreams. For example, a student that have a great facility for study before an exam, and he or she only needs to listen in class for get an eight, and another person, who hasn’t got this talent, has to study during three days for gets a seven. Is that unfair? I don’t know, but with this post I want to tell that if you have the talent for realize your dreams, use it, and if you haven’t got this talent, work harder that the other person, because you will have to fight everyday for realize your dreams, because the films shows a bad vision of life, in three minutes of film, you can see that the main character realize your dreams, but in life this three minutes are a lot of time, maybe ten years I don’t know. To sum up, I want to say that you will never have to give up, and you will always have to believe in yourself. 

Summer 2013

Summer is coming and I don’t know what I’m going to do. Last year I worked in a supermarket. Work in a supermarket has good and bad things. The best one, it’s the money, you earn money and that’s for you, you don’t depend on your parents as you do it before. The worst thing, it’s that it’s very boring, and in summer, there are a lot of people, and you have to work very hard, moreover, you are the new and the youngest employer so you have to do all the things that the boss tells to you, and it’s horrible.

I would like to work in a better place, or with my father, because we have to paint the house and reform it a little, I wouldn’t earn money, but I will help my father that it’s important too. My dream is to work in a campus, or something like that, with little football players and enjoy during my work, but my father things that it’s useless, and that’s maybe true but I prefer to work in something that makes me happy, or more happy than a supermarket. I don’t know what I’m going to do this summer but I want to enjoy it a lot, when I finished my exams I will be everyday playing football, at the beach, with friends, relaxing, and enjoying the summer, because I’ve been waiting him for a year! 

Yes, we could!

Everybody knows that I’m a sick of football and I’m always talking about football, and if someone asks me for politics I won’t know what I have to say, but if you don’t want to speak with me during hours, don’t speak about football. I think it’s the last post that I will talk about football, so I you do it properly. This year, it has been my first year as a juvenile, and that means that all in football is new, all you have done before doesn’t matter because now it’s the most important period of time of your football life. You arrive in a team, and you’re the youngest in your team, and you have to play against and with people that are one or two years older than you, so it’s very hard. Moreover, I have played in Nacional, the second best league of Catalunya. In the first trainings, I remember that I was very shy and I didn’t know what I have to say because I didn’t know all these people, and we were thirty five  players, so I asked, what I am doing here? But the weeks passed, and the club said to twelve players that they will not have a place on that team. Fortunately I was in the twenty three elected. I didn’t think that I would play anything, but the coach believes in my and finally I have player more than 1700 minutes, that it’s a lot.

We had a team for stay in the first places, but the things was complicating for us, and the draw a lot of matches and this points are very necessary in our league. So we had to fight to be in the same category for the next year. For a lot of player, doesn’t mind because for them, this year it was the last year as a juvenile, but it was very important for me because I will have to play there the next season.  The lasts matches arrived, and we have a little advantage on the other teams, but we lost three matches and in the last match we only had a point more to the other team. All the things that we have done during the year will have been played in a football match. If Vilassar de Mar wins his match and we lost our, the next season I would have played in a less league. What do we have to do? We only have to win our match, but this match was against R.C.D. Espanyol. The coach gives the list of the players and I was in this list, the most nervous moment of my life. If you did a bad pass, a bad control anything bad, goodbye to our dreams. We were drawing in the minute 80’ and Vilassar was winning 2-0. So we have to win. In this moment I thought:  Next year, in a less category, it can be possible, because I’m very pessimistic. But then, a friend scored a goal, in the 86’, and another in the 88’. We could it. I didn’t score the goal that gives us the permanence, but I celebrated if I was. Wins against R.C.D. Espanyol in his field, in the last five minutes it’s the most exciting thing that I ever done.  A lot of people say me that football it’s very easy, or that football takes me a lot of time, time that I could use for study or for go out with friends, and it’s true, football takes you a lot of time, but football has given me more things that things that has me taken, that’s why I’m sick of football, and I know that I won’t be the next Messi, but I do what makes happiest, playing and playing football hour after hour.

The greatest pleasures of my life

As you know, there a lot of things that money can buy, but there are other things that the money can’t buy, this things, in my opinion are the greatest pleasures of life. Do you want to know which these things are?

• The best one, it’s when you get up, and think, oh god, I have to go the high school, but when you see your mobile phone, you see that it’s Sunday and you can stay at bed two o three hours more.         
• For the football ones, score and important goal it’s the best pleasure of your life.*
• See that the person you are in love with, like or comment your photo in facebook or instagram.
• Help people.
• Spend time with your best friends.*
• Eat chocolate.
• Listen your favourite song on the radio.
• See your parents happy for something you have done.
• Drink water in a very hot day.
• Study a lot and then know all the answers of the exam and when the teacher gives you the exam have a good mark.
• Surprise someone in her/his birthday.
• All the smiles.
• Watch your favourite film, but with a special person.
• Live the life like in summer, losing the track of time and without worries.
• See that the last connexion in Whatsapp of the person you really like is the same time that you went to sleep.

And there are a lot of things more, but these are the principal pleasures in my life. This little things can change your day or your week, so try to do it every day, cause are the things that makes you happy.

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Film review: Dear John

Film review: Dear John

Last week, I was very bored at home and I didn’t want to play more with the play station so I decided to turn on the computer and search a film to watch. I didn’t find anything until I saw Dear John, my favourite film, and it was on youtube! I couldn’t resists and I saw again (I think it’s the sixth o seventh time that I watch this film).

This film talks about a special force, called John Tyree, that finishes temporally his service and he has a month more o less for visit the family and friends. During this period of time, he meets Savannah, a beautiful and kind girl, that it’s incredible for him. During this month, they do a lot of things together and they finally fall in love. But the problems appear when she has to go the university, and he has to come back to Special Forces. Then it’s when they send letters to each other, that’s the reason of the title “Dear John”, but the love it’s very cruel with the distance and when they finally have a weekend for stay with their lover, he tells to her that he wants to expanse his service with the Special Forces because he wants to fight for his country, and that means that they will have to be another year separated. She doesn’t like this idea but she finally understands him and she say that she will wait. And before he leaves she said: See you soon. But one day, a letter arrives to John, and in this letter she said that she find another person, and he needs her, and that she loves him. Months later, a terrorist shoots John and he has to be out of the Special Forces during three months, moreover, when he returns home, his father, who was very ill, died, and then he goes to Savannah’s house and they remember the old times, and when she explain why she loves the other man, he can’t understand and he leave this house. But when he return to his house, he sells an old collection of coins that his father had, and he gives this money to Savannah’s lover, who has cancer, and with this money he could have more time for say good bye to their family. Finally, he returns to the Special Forces and makes a new life without her.

I really like this film because, it isn’t a Disney Film, and that means that the film can finish sadly. A like this kind of film because it’s different to the other, another film will has finished with John and Savannah living together with children or something like that. I recommend this film to everybody and above all to this days that it rains and you don’t want to do anything.