What about the future?

Lately I've been feeling inspired about everything around me. I'm thinking about future and how scary and amazing it can be at the same time. I'm living that time that we should choose colleges and get into them. I’m living that time when all your family and friends ask you what career you are going to do and which university you are going to go to, but the true is that I don't really know what I want to do. And this gives me a feeling of enormous stress, because I am a person who always has all things planned and for the first time in life I am letting things go and deciding as they go. 

I think of when I was little, had all my adolescence planned, all my dreams ordered and now ten years later nothing has turned out to be what I had planned. I think the problem we have is that we plan things too much, when we are born we have the planned life until approximately 21 years in the sense of studies. I think we really forget the meaning of life, we forget to live and with this I mean for example having a weekend to do things that we like.Unless it's holiday day or summer we can’t do it because we have planned everything we have to do.

 This is simply my opinion, but I am based on a few days ago, some friends made me a surprise for my birthday in which it consisted of going to spend the day in another city, I had all that day planned, it was something different and I sit very well, it helped me to forget for a few moments of all the problems. By this I mean that future isn't just about college and jobs. It's about friendship, love, adventure, opportunities, living at the moment, no regretting things, enjoy every single second because tomorrow we may not be here anymore.

 Future is about now and youth. Enjoy now, because now is the future.

PAU’S WRITING

I think that “Buy nothing day” is a great idea, because we are living in a society where we are always buying things, and most of the things we buy aren’t important. We need to understand that we have to consume less and produce less waste. This idea is so important just because we have to teach the new generations, that we can´t spend our days spending our money on things, just because they are a new trend or something like this. We need to learn the meaning and the importance of our consumer habits.

In conclusion, we have to decide if we really need a thing or if we are only spending our money on it just because it has a discount.

WELCOMING EMAIL

Hello my name is Carla, I'm 16 years old  My main hobbies are reading and listening to music.

I have many goals; the main ones now in the short term are to pass the course with good grades, and to go to live a time away from my friends and family to be able to become independent and in a way, to leave the comfort zone.

In the long run are to travel as much as I can and to be able to work on what I really like and it makes me happy.  I have many more goals but these would be the main ones.

I have clear that I am going to find many challenges to reach all my goals, some of these challenges may be for example If I fail an exam, I will have to make an effort and study much more for the next one. And if I don’t have money to travel and live in another country I'm going to have to work hard and save a lot of money to fulfil my dreams or I will have to wait more time to make the trip. The people who can help me to achieve my challenges are my family and friends, the people who support me and help me in everything.

“You can let your failures define you, you have to let your failures teach you.”

This is my favourite sentence of Obama's speech, It's a very inspiring and motivational phrase. I think it is very important to make it clear to children that although we often fail in studies or anything, it doesn’t mean that this defines us, we have to take advantage of that failure to learn from it, and not to fail again in that way.

Looking Back

This last year, I think I have improved a lot my level of English. Especially in the part of writing, if I compare the texts I've done this year, with those of last year, this year's texts are much better. And I also gained so much in vocabulary.

In my opinion the activities that were more useful to improve my English were watching films, blog yoursays and news and also read the 3 books because doing this activities I learn a lot of vocabulary and with the blog I learned how to improve my writings I think that with the blog we learn so much because we are free to write about what we want an that's an important fact. In my personal case I am more motivated If I can write of what I want.

I don't find useful to learn English is Kahoot because I think that Kahoot is more useful to revise if we have understood the concept right. 

I think that the best activities which I can show my English are our blog.

The nest year I would like to continue doing tasks on the blog , read more books and also whatch fils or videos to improve my vocabulary, because as I said before these are the activities where I improve more my English. 

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Dear Sir/Madam 

I am writing to request information, on being au pair in Usa, because in two years, after studying I would like to go to Usa and work as an Au pair.

I am from Spain, I have so many doubts about how I can go to work in the USA being Spanish, what documents I need, If I have to have a special driving license and how long I can be working there. I'm so excited to be au pair and work, I hope you can solve my doubts

I look forward to hearing from you about. Thank you for your time and consideration.

What's wrong with volunteer travel?

This TED talk is about what's wrong with volunteer travel, Daniela, a girl that has been living in Cambodia for six years. Says that she started her work in Cambodia as a volunteer. With her group they wanted to create a school and educate the poor children, but after a time working on that project, they realized that they weren't doing the things right.

They realized that before creating anything they had to learn like it was the life in the country, and then discover how they could really help the children. And with this she means that before helping we have to learn.

She also says that there are a lot of fake orphanages that collect money from unknowing tourists coming from all over the world, money from people volunteering in these orphanages. 

Says that by volunteering we are only giving our sympathy and by learning we have empathy with the people of that country. 

And the issue is, that the big players on the "voluntourism-market" are not interessted in long-term-development-results,solutions etc. All they care about is how to maxamise their profit.

GAP YEAR