Firts Blog

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This is the last post and today I’m going to talk about my blog experience. I’ve never had a blog in my life, so this was a new experience for me. Sometimes I saw blogs from other people, but when I considered create my own blog I thought that my post will be very boring to the people that read it.
I enjoyed the experience because talking about different topics and gave my opinion about that was very entertaining. 

My favorite post was this one about a TV show I watched as a child, because this made me remember my childhood and made me think about the old TV shows (I think those are the bests). Also I had fun with this post because I started to search my favorite shows intros. My least favorite post was this one about a concert or exhibition, I mean I like concerts and exhibitions but it was hard to me to find something to post, because I´ve never been in a concert and the exhibitions that I visited were not boring but a little monotonous.
I don’t know who has the most attractive blog; I think every blog has their own style but I like the Catalina’s background.
I think the blog was a good language learning tool because in my opinion one of the most important things learning something is practice and in addition I prefer write than speak, because when I´m speaking I feel so much nervous and insecurity.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

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Today I’m going to talk about a TV Show I saw when I was young; this show was called “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch”. The TV show was about a teenage witch called Sabrina Spellman, she lives with her aunts Hilda und Zelda, and her cat Salem. When she becomes 16 years old, her aunts reveal to her the secret that she is a witch. So she has to learn to be a witch living the problems that teenagers have, in the mortal world. Also at home she has a closet that takes her to another dimension: “the Other Realm”, where witches and wizards live. The TV show ran from 1996 until 2000.
I remember that the series transmitted before I have lunch. So always before lunch I was in front of the TV and then when the show finished my mother served the food. Then when I went to school some days I could see the entire chapter, because in my school at lunchtime all students went home.
I enjoyed so much to see Sabrina the Teenage Witch, because although Sabrina was a witch, she had normal teenage problems, except of course when she had to travel in time or travel to the moon. Sabrina’s aunts were also very funny; they made me laugh every time.  But my favorite character was Salem, the talking cat. He was ambitious and egocentric, but he always helped Sabrina when she needed him…also he was very cute!

Languages

It was hard to remember some video that I saw, because I rarely see videos on youtube, unless they are music videos.
I really like languages, so one day I spent an entire afternoon watching videos of people doing different accents of English or the world, one of these videos that caught my attention was one of the Ellen show, where they made a competition to guess different accents, it was fun.

Also another video that I liked was one which focused more on English and the differences between British and United States accent, and words that are only used in those countries.

Do schools kill creativity?

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Today I’m going to talk about a video: “Do school kill creativity?” by Ken Robinson. A few years ago I saw a video from him talking about the education, called “Changing paradigms” and I like it as this video about creativity. I liked the video about paradigms because was an illustrated animation relating Robinson’s speech. In spite of that, I enjoyed the video of creativity, I think is a very interesting topic and is not tedious to hear because I find Robinson’s speech fairly light with his sense of humor.
I agree with Robinson, I think that school, being so strict and structured, are killing creativity over time because they do not allow children to use their full potential. Children have a great capacity of innovation. How the people want innovation if schools try to “build” them all the same?
I remember that when I was young I was in my art class in 5th grade and my teacher made my classmates and I do an exercise that was done before to the children in 1st grade. That consisted of close our eyes and starts to draw senseless lines on a blank sheet of paper, without lifting the pencil. Then, when we opened our eyes, we had to find as many figures that were formed with the lines. The great majority of my classmates saw only geometric shapes, although there were others who also found other much more complicated figures. When we finished the exercise the teacher compared the results and said that the 1st grade children had done better than us. That made me realize that we are losing skills we are born with and the great majority does not care enough to do something about it.

Buildings

 

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It was hard to decide a building that I like, because when I tried to think nothing came to my mind, but then I remembered a building that really catches my attention. The "Burj Al Arab” is a 321 meters hotel which is located in Dubai.
The first time I heard about this building was because I saw a picture of a tennis court on the highest floor of the hotel… I love tennis! But then I knew that this court was the hotel heliport and was used for publicity as tennis court, but has never been used for that. I must admit it was a great disappointment to know that.
I really like the shape of the hotel, in the sea reminds me a surfboard buried. Also, when I was researching I realized that Dubai has many unique buildings or towers, which stand out from ordinary constructions. What I like about the Burj Al Arab is that it’s on the beach, more isolated from the rest of the buildings (even is built on an artificial island) and this does not interrupt the landscape of what is the city, although it’s clearly that being so big, overshadow the surroundings.