Reflections of my O.P.

Too quick!!
The most of the other... no, all of the other students have done extense presentations, presentations that have dure 5-7 minutes, and I think that my presentation has been the shortest. I thinked that it should dure the sufficient time, but I was wrong. No, I didn't gesticulate so much, and also I saw too many time at my notes. Maybe I hadn't enough images and too words, I don't know... Yeah, I haven't done a "fantastic" or just an "acceptable" O.P. but I tried to made it well, I studied and recited it, but it's not enough.

Well, as you can see that day I weard my black tie (I love it!), and my pink belt was moving all the time... but it don't make me happy! I will try to improve for my next (and last) o.p.

I will try it...

My 2nd Oral Presentation

Well, in my 2nd O.P. I tried to be better than my first one, I've done a "better" PowerPoint (more visual), I tried to see the public and don't look so much to my notes (but in some times I had to see them...), etc.

Like my first O.P., I've failed in so many things. I was nervous, the tone of my voice was a bit monotonous, and the worst: It was too short/rapid! It only lasted like 3 minutes! And it had to dure 5-7 minutes. And also I didn't gesticulate so much. I think that I've improved than my first O.P. but I don't know if this one should raise my mark...

I tried (I think that I am repeating too many times "I tried") to make it... interesting? No, I didn't know what to say about that country, that country or any other, it's too different than to talk about ideas or opinions. I think that there are more "information" than "funny or really interesting things". I believe that what I said was new, because I haven't heard anyone talk about this country.

I was nervous, so I think that I didn't say so many "complex" words, I used common words and verbs.

Well, here goes the literal transcription:

Ok, I will talk about the city (error! It's a country!) of Belize. Belize is an small country between the Americas. It is at the west of Caribbean sea and under USA.

In the past, this country was populated by Mayas, at 1524 the spanish conquerors arrived there and the english government took there some english woodcutters to work there, and also some pirates of those seas took to belice some african slaves to work with them. But... they became pirates so there was more piratery (then I went to the PC without any reason...). . In 1670, the piratery was ended. In 1821, Belize became independent and Since 1840 to 1981, it was officially an English colony.

At these moments, the most of the people talk spanish, and so much of the other talk Kriol. And many of the other are half-caste people. Half-caste people are people that their fathers are african or european, a mixt of that.

The symbols of the country are the black orchid, the killed-billed toucan and the tapir.

The culture of Belice are really influenced by Mayas, chinese people etc. They are so respectfull with the other people and they believe in Mystical healing and Obeah. Obeah it's a kind of religion like Voodoo and Hoodoo that attempts to control benign and malign magics. Here are some acceptable greetings and here I put some belizian expressions. Like Maanin, to say good morning, or Weh di go aan? to say what is going on... The most common sports are soccer and basketball.

And to finalize I found two different belizian legends, like Cadejo, that explains that before dying you could see a white animal that will save you, or a black animal that will kill you. Everyone have a different animal. And the other one is The Crying woman, that explains that... when you are near a river you could hear some cryings and groans from a dead woman. And it's finished.

Now, the video (in the video, there are also a question, without that, it dures 3:15 minutes...):

Death Note (film)

It's my favourite film. I love it! This film and his serie. His serie have got 37 episodes of 23 minutes each one, and I saw all of them in only 2 days and a half. This serie centers on Light Yagami, an high school student who discovers a super natural notebook of a god of death, a Shinigami: the "Death Note". This notebook allows he to kill anyone whose face have been seen by the writer, the writer writes the name of the person imagining his face and then, this person will death. The writer can also "control" the death of the person, he can choose his death, what the victim will do, etc.
Light Yagami is... a genius, he is a great student and he will "dominate" the Death Note. He doesn't kill people with nonsense, he only kills "bad people", like killers, some convicts, criminals etc. He wants to create a new world, and he gets it (in the serie). I "agree" with this creation of a new world, a better world, but... there are some criminals that should pay for their crimes, but I don't know if to kill them are the solution... The protagonists of the serie are really charismatic, all of them have their own personality and talents. The "2nd protagonist" is L, a really brilliant (and strange) detective that attempts to find who is the killer of murders, who is "kira". I think that it's too difficult to describe L... he have some rare habits like sitting different than the other, to eat a lot of sweet things, to walk with a stoop, etc. But he "discovers" who is kira very early. Then, they make complex conspirations, lays, theories, plans, etc. Light attempts to kill L, and L attempts to betray Light.

The movie is a recreation of the manga anime, but changing some things, like some moments and the final (yeah, they've changed the final... the serie is so much better than the film, the film is only a summary with a "wrong" ending. But it was the ending that so many people wanted.) The movie can be found in spanish, english... but it is originally from Japan, so their texts are all in Japanese...

I could talk about this serie a lot of time, but I have to stop.

Formal letter

C/ Mare de la Font 21
Castelló d’Empúries
Alt Empordà

12th January 2010
C/ Santa Clara 55
Castelló d’Empúries
Alt Empordà

Dear Mª Lluïsa Pintó,

I am a student from your center, and I am writing to you to express my opinion about our new school calender. I think that so many people have the same opinion, and I am not an exception.
Maybe some people could like the new calender, it is difficult to find examples but I think that these could be some of them. Some people like our new calendar because we start to learning things earlier, or just because we can reactivate our brains after (maybe) a long time without learning or studying like we do in the school, etc. Meanwhile, some other people think that we have too many school days, and this is tiring. And also, this long calendar shorts the holidays.
In my experience, I do not like it for many reasons. I have seen how the calendar has been becoming longer, before we finished the school days at the beginning of June, and now at the end. And it is not all, we also start the year some days before than some years ago. I disagree with that because we have got so much less holidays days, maybe some people do not do anything in the holidays, but there are some that does. So many people love holidays and me too, our job is good, and in some moments fantastic, but it is tiring. I think that you cannot change it, because maybe it is directed by the government, but maybe it is not. If this is like I have said, I will be gratefully if you can hear my voice and answer it.

Yours sincerely,


Adrià Martínez

First Re-Writing of Frankenstein

There are so many experiments that we can do with humans, we can change them physically and psychologically, to clone animals (Dolly), to work with stem cells, etc. But there are some restrictions, some moral restrictions.

It's good to help people who have terrible illness that will kill them, and in this moments there are a lot of projects that attempt to improve their lives, improving their live quality. If we want to save lives, we've to create new medicines, taste them and use them. It could be hard to search new usefull medicines, but we should give an acceptable life to everyone. Some people should allow these experiments and stop reproaching their just because it could be immoral or incorrect. If we do it to help people or learn something, it shouldn't be considered incorrect.

But it have to got an ending, a stopped point. We can cure illness people but we shouldn't "play" with dead people. When I say play I mean "to give life to dead bodies just because they were important or for curiosity. Of course that some people could improve the science finding new theories or investigations, but some of these great investigators are dead... Maybe we could resurrect them but... if we do this we couldn't evolve, because this therm will be strongly relationated with them, and we will be, simply, apprentices. But... we could resurrect them and when they will have done the investigations, discoverys etc. kill them... No, its a nonsense.

In this text I've given my opinion of these kind of things. To summarize, I agree to make "incorrect" experiments just to help people or learn, and I don't agree to make these experiments just to "cure" the curiosity or to our profit.