SUMMER IS HERE....

Since I was a child of 12 years old I have never had a summer with 2 or 3 months holidays because I have played football and started training so soon. But this summer will be my summer! I said in another post that one important point in life is to have different experiences and this summer will be full of them. Disco, parties, people, traveling, job, music, sport, relaxing, beach, jumping from a plane in Empuriabrava, etc…

All of these will be exiting and this will prepare me for university.

After “batxillerat” (the most difficult thing I have ever do) I feel free and ready for new goals.

This is my summer, this is it, this is all, this is life!!!

30 SECONDS TO MARS

I have never spoken about my favorite music group called 30 Seconds to Mars in this blog. But it’s time to do it.

30 Seconds to Mars is a rock band from Los Angeles (USA) and they started in 1998. Their members are Tomo Milicevic (piano and guitar), Shannon Leto (drums) and his little brother Jared Leto (guitar and singer).

Jared Leto is a famous name in Hollywood because before he sang he was an actor in some films like Fight Club, Alexander, Mr. Nobody, etc. But he decided to turn up with new look, new style and new job as a singer. He’s an artist. He sings, composes the songs and designs the covers of 30stm’s CDs.

I love his music because it helps me a lot when I’m sad. Their lyrics are strong, powerful and shockingly true. Jared’s voice is also different from the others, because he has a peculiar scream and melody. Moreover his music has changed because at first they were a heavy-evil band and now he has a more music records. (Now he change his music in the last CD called This is War and I told you that it’s awesome).

Jared, Shannon and Tomo are 30seconds to mars, my favorite group, a group from another planet, the best band.

¿Is it really necessary to study today?

Two years ago a big crisis destroyed our system and a lot of people came up against being on the dole. This happening has made me go over our society from other points of view and cut out all those things that people accept like fools. One example of this is working in some job that you are sure that they will pay you and you aren’t worried about if it makes you happy or not: “it’s just a job, it’s just money” it’s sad. But I think about other options following Nietzsche’s steps I agree with that point of view that says “If you want a lot of happiness you have accept a lot of sadness”.

People study nowadays because they want to find stability in the future, and just follow the easy way: studyjob. But I’m looking for different life. I don’t need a house, a car, etc. If you think about what you really need, the real truth is that you just need food.

There are thousands of ways to get happiness, but we need to accept the sadness in our lives. Follow your feelings and not only the social conventions.

VALORATION OF MY BEST WORKS:

Best of 1st. Batx:

LINK: http://esteveporfolio.blogspot.com/2008/06/3st-oral-presentation-by-pep-esteve.html

That was my last Oral Presentation in 1st. Batx. And here I started to use different tenses, present simple, past simple and continuous, some conditionals, also simple connectors “for this reason”, “nowadays”, etc. However I spoke with short simple oration.

Best of 2nd. Batx:

LINK: http://esteveporfolio.blogspot.com/2011/05/dialogue-with-fisherman.html

Maybe the structure isn’t the best, but I’m proud of this work because I see real English in it. All our work at school is focused on this, in having a dialogue with an English speaker and it’s a true conversation. There is spontaneity, questions, different verb tenses, some little swear words, phrasal verbs, etc.
I know that this dialogue isn’t the best of all, but it’s full of dynamic and feeling. It’s like two people speaking in the street and showing this job is not a bed of roses.

MY OPINION AND PROGRESS:

First of all I can see the evidence of the vocabulary, the use of verbs and expressions. Some of my post was in present time because was easier for me, but now I can express my point of view and my ideas in the past, present and future reading and speaking helping my words in expressions like “as soon as”, some connectors like “first of all”, “ moreover”, “although”, “however”, etc. Also phrasal verbs that helped me a lot to express things that I can’t do with out them. One example: I saw that in my first my Oral presentation I used a scheme system, speaking in present. “Steps: 1- Design the project. 2- Draw some plans” but in my last presentation I said something like that: “First of all I designed some ideas and the next step was to draw plans of those ideas”.

My development is obvious in my pronunciation and my attitude towards it. I used to smile and become silent nervously like a fool but now I can do a spontaneous speaking playing with the verb tense.

BOOK: David Copperfield

I have been reading this book and I decided to do it because this Dicken’s novel was and is so famous (D. Copperfield the magician has nothing to do with this book).

When I stared it I thought that it would be like Oliver Twist, who was an orphan and his life was horrible, but no. This story is more romantic, more realistic, the typical person from those times. Maybe there are some parts parallel to history and some characters typical from novel: characters like the evil Mr. Heep, the lawyer.

David has different problems and difficulties like, working like a “slave when he was a child, running away from home, a new school, learning a job, folling in out of love. However finally he wins the true love of his bestfriend Agnes.

I recommended this book to everyone, if you read it you will grow up following David’s steps!