Experiences*

Experience: I've travelled to Belgium.

Lesson: There, the people spend a lot of time in home with the family, they don't pass a lot of time outside, they prefer stay in home warmer. They eat a lot of pralines, and less fruit. The meat it's insipid, but the beer and the stewed are good.

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Experience: I've got a lot of diferent friends.
Lesson: There are basically three types of friends:

• Good friends. Normally these friends are the friends of the infancy. There aren't too much persons in these group, even so, sometimes you think that you have a lot of good friends, but really you have 3, or 4. A real friend is there for the good things and the bad things. You can always take his hand if you have to...
  

• Bad friends. This group is for the people that you think that are good friends, or common friends, but then, you see that they're fools. Soon, or later, or never, until they play a dirty to you. The worst bad friend that can exist it's the false, the worst person you can have around.
  

• Common friends. This group include the people that you know, or you have in class, and you can rely on, but they don't understand or help you like the good friends. If you need help, they try to help you, and they are kind!
  

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Experience: Fall off bike a lot of times.
Lesson: I will not catch a bike if there is not a extreme situation, or a very good trip. I hate bicicles, and I've hurt a lot of times for them.

Paula

Book VS Film!!

Question 4. THE FANCY DRESS PARTY. Are the costumes important?

I think that the costumes are important because they tell you things of the characters.

Paula.

Concert: Airbourne?

This 25th of february I, my father, my mother, Kevin, and Cristian went to a concert of Airbourne, a very good group. His style is like AC/DC and Accept.

But, the matter is, that... THE CONCERT WAS CANCELLED!!! what a pitty. And the most impressionant is that some friends went to Barcelona in the morning, and they didn't call us...

Well, we went for a walk in Barcelona, and there was a lot of people, basically metal people, the people that was going to go to the concert, and we told between us the notice.

There were people that came from Valencia to Barcelona for the concert, and they had to drink a beer, and return to home. What a pity...

The concert will be in Barcelona the 11th of April, and we will go again to Barcelona.

What a pity that we had to return to our houses without concert, without metal!!!

Paula.

Dimebag Darrell, my idol!!

Dimebag Darrell is my idol because he was a very speacial guitarrist. He played so good and so diferent than any other guitarrist, and he was so genuine. His solos and riffs were perfect and his style was very original.

Pantera was his band, but then he went to another band, leaving Pantera. It's name was Damageplan, but all his fame and the best music he could do was with Pantera.

Now, he's dead, and now I'm gonna tell us why.

Dime has been murdered meanwhile was doing a concert the 8th of December of 2004 in a night club in Columbus, Ohio. Nathan Gale, he was 25 years old, from Marysville, he came into the club at 10 pm, when the concert has just began. Gale went to the left side of the concert hall, and he went directly to the right side, where there was Dime. Gale took Dime for the shoulder, and he shot to Dime's head two times. Dime died immediately at 38 years old.

Gale killed Halk, and Thompson, and hurting Paluska. Gale caught Brooks, but the policeman James D. Niggermeyer, the brother of Dime, shot to him in the neck, killing him.

The policeman James D. Niggermeyer went then to the jury. Niggermeyer has been declared innocent and praised. He's a hero for the fans and friends of Pantera and Dimebag Darrell. He's an hero... but, now Dime is dead, and no one can do metal like he could do it. He was the god of the thrash metal. The god of the gods of the thrash metal...

" HE CAME TO ROCK

AND ROCKED LIKE NO OTHER
WITH THE HEART TWICE THE
SIZE OF TEXAS, OUR BELOVED
BROTHER, COMPANION, MENTOR,
IDOL, AND FRIEND...
WE LOVE YOU DIME...
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN ""

If I could do anything to relive he, his power, the god, the incarnation of thrash metal music, I'll do it immediately, that's for sure. I admire you Dime, and you will never die. The comunity of metal will always remember you, and if they one day they forget you (impossible), you'll stay in my heart for ever, in my soul forever, because you are the best guitarrist that I've ever listened in the world. Your passion, your style, and your character... so hard... you'll be in our heart, and in my heart, FOR EVER!!!

I'm sure that we and I will never forget you.

R.I.P.

And the last...

For ever in our heart.

Paula

My brother!!

My brother has 11 years old, he's name is Sergi, and he's so sweet!

He has blond hair, almond-shaped eyes, and a beauty round-face, with freckles. The people says that I don't look like Sergi. But when for Carnival he put a wig hiding he's blond hair, we were so similar. They say that my brother face is like my father's, and he's body is like my mother's, and I, the reverse.

He's a little tedious, but if I compare my brother with my friend's brothers, I see that mine is the best I can't ever had. He's so respectful with my space and my privacy, and this it's very important in a teenager.

He's not like the other little brothers or sisters. He's not trying to be like me, like the other little brothers, he has his own style, and music!! But, however, now he's going to let his hair grow up, because he says that I will love him more... sometimes, he's so cute, and sometimes, he's so selfish, but, anyway...

... I think that he's the best little brother that can ever be in the world.

Paula

Heavy Metal!!!

Heavy metal is the only music that exists for me. It's passionate, hard, and POWERFUL!! It's a method to eliminate a lot of stress, and to rebel oneself. With metal, you say what you think, what you're agree and what you're not. My love to this music is incredible... If you are sad, or unhappy, hiperactive, happy..., Heavy Metal is always there. For the bad, and good things!!

Heavy metal is a expression. Heavy metal is a wide umbrella characterizing a style of music that is generally loud and aggressive. There are genres that are very melodic, and other genres that are extreme and underground.

I like all the genres of heavy metal... all the styles are impressionant. There are a lot of bands, and I know a lot of them. Sometimes, I know too much bands, and I cannot listen all, all the time.

I play the guitar, and my style logically is metal. I usually play the ritmic guitar, I'm not very good for solos. I play songs of the bands Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Dio, Helloween, Saxon, Manowar, Motörhead, Skid Row, W.A.S.P., etc.
A example of one song of Iron Maiden that I play:



I'm a little lonely in this term, because there aren't girls that like heavy metal, and fewer that play instruments, or sing. It's unusual. I only find girls in Barcelona, and one in Fortià, that sings, her name is Nessie. Yes, it's awful...

There are some boys, they like to play metal with me, but they don't want to do a band because they say that the girls are not so powerful in the metal as boys. It's a stupid personality that the majority of the boys have, and I hate it!

The role in the girls in metal usually it's in the groupies. There goes a phrase that explain this simply: "Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll!!". And, exactly, the girls are the word "sex". I want to make a band with girls, and show to the world, that the girls can do heavy metal too, and better!!

But I'm the only one!! Grr... -.-''

But, anyway, I have the boys!!! My friends are usually boys... and I like it! If they have a problem, they tell you what it is, and if they are angry with you they are direct and they tell to you what is going on. The usual girls of nowdays are a little complex, and I don't understand them. I'm good with my metal friends!!


Paula

My beagle, Raig!!

Raig is a very beautiful dog. He's a beagle.

The Beagle is a little hound dog. The large eyes are brown - hazel, and are so sweet. They have a wide, pendant ears, and I think that this is one think that becomes the beagles sweet, sometimes they have a sad expression.

They are tri-color (black, brown, and white). Beagles have a distinct howl of a bark when they are on the hunt.

The beagles are so social. Always have time to have fun with you. They are very friendly, and they're not going to bit you anyway. Also, they are thiefes, and you have to take off of the table all the food.

Raig ate bleach, a lot of chocolate, ink, and burnt oil... She's so crazy!! I don't know why she hasn't died yet... she's so strange. Her howl is so deep, like a male. I think she's lesbian. Why not? It's possible in this dog.

I love she, and she loves me. Sometimes, when I and my family went walking with our two dogs, Raig did some funny things.

Look, aren't the beagles so funny?

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Why is Shakespeare so famous?

• Shakespeare's life

1. When was he born? Find a photo of him.

- He was born in 1564.

2. Where was he born? Include a map with the place.

- He was born in England, Stratford.

3. What was his family?

- His father was a dealer.

4. Who was his wife? Include her photo

- Anne Hathaway.

5. Did he have children?

- Yes. He had one son and two twins.

6. How old was he when he died?

- He was 52 years old.

• Shakespeare's time

7. Who was the Queen and King during Shakespeare's life? Include photos.

- Queen Elisabeth the first.

What country was a great rival of England during this time?

- Spain.

What happened with the Spanish Armada?

- An attempt by Philip II of Spai to invade England with the Spanish Armada in 1588 was famously defeated.

Why was the Elisabethan era described as golden?

- It was the period of the flowering of English poetry, Elizabethan theatre, music and literature. It was also an age of exploration and expansion. It was also the end of the period when England was a separate realm before its royal union with Scotland.

• Shakespeare's career

How many plays did he write?

- He wrote 38 plays.

How many poems did he write? Find the title in English and Catalan/Spanish of one comedy, one tragedy and one poem.

- He wrote 6 poems.

Comedy: The winter's tale - La cua de l'hivern - La cola del invierno.
Tragedy: Hamlet - Hamlet - Hamlet.
Poem: Venus and Adonis - Venus i Adonis - Venus y Adonis.

What is the Globe? Find a picture.

- The glove was Shakespeare's theatre.

Where is the Globe? Find and copy a map of its location.

- In London.

What plays are performed in the Globe this month?

- KINGS & ROGUES

23 April - 3 October 2010.

When was the Globe first built?

- In 1598.

How long did Shakespeare work there in the Globe?

- Since 1599 to 1613.

What was the name of his theatre company?

- Lord Chamberlain's Men.

What happened to the Globe in 1644?

- The new theatre, before the first, closed.

Who built the Globe again and when?

- Peter Street built it, and it's name is "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997.

• Shakespeare's fame

His words are used today around the world. How many words did he supposedly invent in the English language?

- A lot.

In which play did he say "To be or not to be. That is the question"?

- Hamlet.

Look for another famous word/quotation invented by Shakespeare and translate it into Catalan/Spanish.

- A rose can have any name. It always smells sweet. - Romeo and Juliet
Una rosa pot tenir tots els noms, sempre és dolça.

- My love's more richer than my tongue. - King Lear.
El meu amor és mes ric que la meva llengua.

- Nothing will come of nothing. - King Lear.
Res vindrà de res.

• Curiosities

Who died on the same day as Shakespeare?

- Miguel de Cervantes.

What was Shakespeare's nick?

- Bard of Avon.

How many films have been adapted from his work?

- About 2000 adaptions.

• After reading the play, watching the two films and answering these questions, why do you think Shakespeare is still so famous?

- Because he wrote a lot of the best stories of the world. And now, we recognized his work, and his art. When a man tells his stories so many times, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way, he becomes immortal.

ENSIFERUM - LADY IN BLACK (Viking metaL)

With one word...

. . . POWERFUL . . .



~ LADY IN BLACK ~

She came to me one morning / Ella va vindre a mi un matí
One lonely sunday morning / Un matí solitari de diumenge
Her long hair flowing / El seu llarg cabell volant
In the midwinter wind / En el vent del mig hivern
I know not how she found me / No sé com hem va trobar
For in darkness I was walking / Per la foscor estava caminant
And destruction lay around me / I la destrucció descansava al meu voltant
From a fight I could not win / Per una lluita que no vaig poder guanyar
Ah ah ah ... / Ah ah ah ...

She asked me name my foe then / Després ella hem va demanar el nom del meu enemic
I said the need within some men / Vaig dir la necessitat de dins d'alguns homes
To fight and kill their brothers / Per lluitar i matar els seus germans
Without thought of love or god / Sense pensar en amor o déu
And I begged her give me horses / Vaig demanar-li que hem donés caballs
To trample down my enemies / Per pissotejar els meus enemics
So eager was my passion / Tant impacient era la meva passió
To devour this waste of life / De devorar aquesta pèrdua de vida
Ah ah ah ... / Ah ah ah ...

But she wouldn't think of battle that / Però ella no va voler pensar en la batalla que
Reduces men to animals / Redueix els homes a animals
So easy to begin / Tant fàcil de començar
And yet impossible to end / I tant difícil d'acabar
For she's the mother of our men / Perquè ella és la mare dels nostres homes
Who counselled me so wisely then / La que m'ha aconsellat sabiament llavors
I feared to walk alone again / Vaig tenir por de caminar sol altre cop
And asked if she would stay / I hem vaig preguntar si ella voldria quedar-se
Ah ah ah ... / Ah ah ah ...

Oh lady lend your hand outright / Oh senyora deixa la teva mà indiscutida
And let me rest here at your side / I deixa'm quedar-me aquí al teu costat
Have faith and trust / Tenir confiança i creure
In peace she said / En la pau ella va dir
And filled my heart with life / I va omplir el meu cor amb vida
There is no strength in numbers / No hi ha força en els nombres
Have no such misconception / No tenir tal error
But when you need me / Però quan tu em necessites
Be assured I wont be far away / Estigues segura que no estaré ben lluny
Ah ah ah ... / Ah ah ah ...

Thus having spoke she turned away / Així mentres estàvem parlant es va girar
And though I found no words to say / Encara que no vaig trobar paraules per dir
I stood and watched until I saw / Vaig quedar-me dret i vaig observar fins que vaig veure
Her black cloak disappear / La seva capa negra desaperèixer
My labour is no easier / La meva labor no és fàcil
But now I know I'm not alone / Però ara sé que no estic sol
I find new heart each time / He trobat un cor nou cada cop
I think upon that windy day / Crec que sobre aquest dia ventós
And if one day she comes to you / I si algun dia ella vé cap a tu
Drink deeply from her words so wise / Beu profundament de les seves paraules saviament
Take courage from her / Agafa coratge d'ella
As your prize / Com el teu preu
And say hello from me / I digue's-li hola de part meva
Ah ah ah ... / Ah ah ah ...



***So deep...***

Paula