PROPOSAL (Rubbish removal/improve recycling)

It is essential to aware children of the importance of recycling. From school we, as teachers, must teach them the rule of the 3 "Rs": Reuse, Reduce and Recycle, by doing artcrafts with used materials such as plastic containers, bottles, paper, cardboard, old clothes, ... so they realize about how useful used stuff can be.

Outings to recycling plants can be very useful too, surely they will transmit all these apprenticeship to their families.

From home we can separate rubbish and also consume more fresh products to avoid using so many wrappings and packages from prepared food.

From the town hall, or local authorities, more campaigns to encourage people to recycle can be done by facilitating plastic bags or other types of containers to separate rubbish.

The existing dumpsters should be replaced by those underground that take less place outside and have a bigger capacity and from which the process of removing rubbish is easier.

                   POEM

Sorry husband, sorry son,

sorry daughter for what I've done

I have renounced to all

'cause I have fallen in love.

Who is the fortunate?

Who is the man?

It is so literate...

It's the C1.

Hello partners and teacher, this is my little Xmas present to all of you. Enjoy the music. I wish you a new year full of joy and love. HAPPY XMAS!!

PAINTINGS

Do you remember the painting I talked about in our outing to the paintings exhibition at Fábrica del Pilar? Well, I have a photo of it, but I am unable to stick it on the blog. I have been trying to put the photo for more than half an hour and now I am "de los nervios". So I am going to say what I wanted to say but relying on your memory and if I am able to stick it later on, or in days coming I promise I will do.

Well, I have decided to comment on it again (taking advantage of having a photo of it) since I feel I couldn't express myself well whether for the improvised manner in which we did it or for Emilio's video camera. So let me give my view on the painting. 

At first sight it can appear disgusting because all this blood on her mouth and you can think of a fighter of wrestling or even a teenager coming out from a horror movie but if you look at the painting from another perspective you can see that it is really meaningful and shows more than physical pain.

After your attention has been grasped for the red stain, your eyes move towards the penetrating blue eyes and if you look at them in detail you can see tears coming out from them and they invite you to look deep inside.

The strokes are made with strength, showing fury, impotence and pain.

In sum, all this mix of penetrating colours, firm strokes, shades, lights and shapes talk by themselves and I think that the picture itself is a censure and a denial to gender violence.

By the way, the awarding of the contest will be given on the 16th of December, it will be nice if one of the paintings we chose is the winner, don't you think so?

Hi friends, today I have watched in the news that amazing ad, and when I have looked for it in the internet I have found, surprisingly, that the same one had been banned. What a crazy world, FAMINE should be banned!!!

"A charity founded by Bono has been stopped from showing a campaigning television ad about famine in the Horn of Africa because it breaches rules on political advertising. Independent."

I have loved Sting always, since Police, his music, his voice, his lyrics, he is one of my favourite singers. Here you are: FRAGILE

"Fragile"

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are

FREE NELSON MANDELA

And today, after a thundering, lightning and rainy night, I want to introduce to the ones I love the most: MY FAMILY.

Of course he is not Nelson Mandela, he is Morgan ¨Freeman playing Nelson Mandela, but it seems so real. I like Freeman; I reckon he is a very good actor.

I watched this films last year, but now that I know a bit more about Nelson Mandela, thanks to Emilio, I can understand the poem much better, and I´m going to see the film again, but now in English.

INVICTUS 

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

GLOBAL ISSUES

Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

Can you believe that? When I have read this sentence I have realized how fortunate I am. I couldn't live without reading a book, feeling new sensations and emotions through the pages of a novel, looking up for new words and sounds in a dictionary, being able to sing a song while I read the lyrics on a computer screen, following directions on a map to arrive to an unknown place,...I feel sorry about these illiterate people because letters give me so much... and they have so little...

This week I couldn't think of anything to write about in the blog    and suddenly I remembered a song from the band "Strokes" that is called "I've got nothing to say" and  as I've got nothing to say you've got here "nothing to say". Enjoy it.

And what about "Madrugada"? It is a Norwegian band of alternative rock, do you know them? The singer has got such a lovely voice... Do you want to listen to it? Just do it!

Hi all, it is a week since I wrote in the blog last time. A whole week has passed and now I have got new words in my mind. I try to write down all of them as Emilio recommended us,  to hold as much as I can, but many of them are beyond my conciousness, I cannot grasp them, they have run away and have hidden somewhere, but sooner or later they will have to appear and then I will be there to trap them again, ja, ja, ja.

Well, as this week consisted of only three working days, at least for the "lucky civil servants" it passed as quick as a flash, and the weekend is passing even quicker.

This morning we went for a walk to the beach with the children. It was really windy there, so we just stayed for around one hour. The children were having fun with the bikes and my husband and mewere eating  toasted sunflowers seeds (as you see I don't need great things to be happy) but we had to come back home because it was beggining to be cold by the sea. By the way, anyone of you being in England, could anytime to eat toasted sunflower seeds over there?. I have never found them.

And talking about England and the British Empire, we all could watch the film "A Passage To India", but who of you have seen "East is East", I recommend it to you, I had really fun and lots of laugh that is because I post the trailer in the blog. 

"East is East", enjoy it!

I know it is French, but I love this song.

Here they are: Jérôme and Adriel, his son.

Today is Sunday, we have come to my niece Alicia´s house to have a delicious ´paella´ that my husband is prepairing while I´m writing in this blog . Well, she got married with a very funny French guy, Jérôme, whom she knew by chatting in the Internet. He is a comercial engineeer, this is a profession that doesn´t exist in Spain but it does in France. He also is a campsites´ monitor and he loves children. Alicia is a psychologist and she always has really interesting things to say, and talking to her is freaking. Any time I come to their house, that is very frequently, I have a very good time, ´cause I´m surrounded by new technologies and gadgets. Today Jerome has surprised me with a new coffe pot. He received an offer by telephone from Nespresso. He had an old nespresso coffee pot, and they phoned to him offering a new one if he bought 500 coffee capsules, so he did, and now he is as a boy with new shoes showing everyone his new coffee pot,  it is really funny. Children are playing in the terrace with rain water that it came into the plant pots, and meanwhile the ´paellas´ arôme´ is coming to my nostrils. Later on, in the desktop, we will see some photos from Disneyland Paris, they have been there two weeks ago and they have a lot of things to tell about their travel. Well, it´s time to go to have lunch, the time has changed today, I mean it is one o´clock, but yesterday it was two, and my stomach doesn´t understand about time changes. Bye friends, I hope you have enjoyed with my today´s story.

Hi world!!!

Life is a while, don't waste your time
and try to laugh, try to have fun,
don't change your mind if you don't hurt
the ones you love.


Amor Esteban