MASSIVE CANNABIS CARGO SEIZED AT SEA

In this piece of news, it is explained that a Police patrol found a cannabis seize near Crete’s coast and it was worth it 71 million euros. This happened the 8^th of December of 2017. The travelling of the illegal drug was between Cyprus and Malta, near Greece’s territory coasts. Actually, the drug was hidden in a boat in a quantity of six tonnes. Six men, allegedly from Syria were arrested.

I think this kind of news is really funny because it’s kind of stupid how many drugs are circulating near us and we don’t even know what happens in our seas. I would never think that these kinds of astronomical money are travelling in our sea, but indeed it does.

LINK:http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-42277397/massive-cannabis-cargo-seized-at-sea 

SHOULD THEY BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY?

Years ago, it wasn't frowned upon to kill someone if this has committed an unjust act and, even more, many of them were executed in public in order to educate everybody and show what could be his punishment.

Now, there are lots of offenders, criminals, murderers, etc. that have committed some crimes and they are just brought into the prison. There, they not only have better living conditions (majority of cases), but also have lots of enjoyable activities to do and any kind of hard works.

In addition, they have the opportunity to walk out of prison having the confidence of those who have accepted their release and, again, in many cases they make the same mistakes.

For this reason, I agree with death penalty. It should be brought back again in order to impart justice and punishing them fairly. If you take another human being’s life, you should be courted in the same way.

It could be hard to watch and even more to do it, but when we talk about justice we are not talking to give a better life and a second chance to those who at some point of his life has killed somebody or has raped somebody violently, or has torture somebody.

Although this may seem contradictory to kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong, it can not be admissible and act as though nothing happened, because if they have been able to kill people, they can do it again. 

BUY NOTHING DAY

I don't agree with this idea because I think that everybody has to be free to buy what they want.

In my opinion, everyone has to be conscious what they can buy and has to have self-control, if you want to buy three TVs, why this could be so bad?, I think that we have to pay attention to other problems that are more important than these.

What is the problem if you want to buy a lot of things if it's your money and you want to do it?

You don't have to judge someone just because they like the Black Friday, and take profit from buying another phone even it's not necessary. 

CAN MONEY BUY HAPPINESS?

“I want to be happy”, “If I win the lottery…”

I have been thinking about two of the most repetitive quotes in our life.

When you ask somebody, if he wants to be happy, they have no doubt in shout a convincing “YES, I WANT.” And the second thing you ask them is: Will you be happier than now if you get more money? So in the face of this question, they seem to be sure of their answer, which is NO.

In my opinion, all of us have been educated in taking consideration of others, so when somebody asks you if you will be happier with more money, we think about how lots of people have less than us and in spite of complaining about their life they just go on with their days. So, why do we have to want more if the others don’t have the same things as us? We are struggling for equality, aren’t we?

Yes, I agree with that, but I do not agree with the first point that I made. I mean, if you refuse to get more money to be happier than now, do you think that you are helping to the others that don’t have money? Absolutely no. It is true that many people can say that if they refuse to win more money this money will be employed to help needed people, but this is not how our political system works.

In my point of view, money can help us to be happier because to cover needs is to have less needs, and it means less things to worry about and finally more time to enjoy.

I BELIVE IN IT...

Do you ever ask yourself that if you do something wrong, something wrong will happen to you? Or to the contrary, have you ever done something because you are thinking that you are doing a good action and something great is going to happen you? 

I didn't use to think in these things and I never paid attention about what I did and what happens to me few time later. But I have a friend who is always repeating to me that it isn't a coincidence in what happens to me, depending on what I did before. 

After spinning around the matter I realize that everything happens for a reason and most of time it is something related to what you did before. So what I would like to focus on is that you have to be conscious of which kind of decisions you choose because it could be the reason why something wrong or something good is going to happen you.

Even more, I agree with "cleansing" your conscience doing something right in order to get rid of your bad karma and changing it in a good one.

It seems like a joke, but doing it, it is possible to become a better person and, yes,  it is true that you are doing it in a selfish way, but you are doing ithttp://www.freeinvestigators.com/images/karma.jpghttp://www.freeinvestigators.com/images/karma.jpghttp://www.freeinvestigators.com/images/karma.jpghttp://www.freeinvestigators.com/images/karma.jpghttp://www.freeinvestigators.com/images/karma.jpg

WELCOMING EMAIL

Hello,

My name is Bruna I'm 17 years old and I live in Fortià.
So the question is what I expect from my life, at this moment I'm not sure. I know that I want to go to the University and have a college degree, to have a successful future, but I have no idea what I'm going to study. At this moment the only thing I want is to pass 2n Batxillerat (sorry Albert I don't know this word in Inglish and I didn't found on the Internet) with very good marks, to avoid problems of access to the college career that decides to make and for maybe get a scholarship.
The challenge that I have to overcome is that I don't really like to study, yes I study, but just because I have to do it, not because I like, so many times I have to do a big effort to every day after school study a little bit of each subject. So this year I will focus on earning good grades and put my best effort because you become good at things through hard work.
Who definitely help me to stay on track is my family, they never let me down and always support me in every decision I make so what I want is make them proud of me.


The sentence I most like of the Obama's speech is "No one's written your destiny for you" because is the truth, each decision you make, each mistake, you can always change your future, and this for me is the best, because if you fail, you have to let your failures teach you and start again in a different way.

Best wishes,

Bruna Silva

LOOK BACK ON YOUR BLOG (4th ESO and or 1 BAT) and answer the questions:

1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s? Where, for example?

Yes, especially on the topic of spelling mistakes, in pronunciation, I think the blog is very useful to work on these aspects.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English?

The exams of books, that also helps me to start reading books in English, and the skills exams, in my opinion they are very useful exams, because you have to have the lever to understand and because you don't have to study.

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?

Most of all the exams, because you have to prepare them that means you have to learn all the rules of the orthography, the blog, with the news and the yoursay, and also the correcting compositions, because you can see the mistakes you make.

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not?

I think the vocabulary exams, because all you do is learn a list of names, that shortly you do not remember any, in my opinion we could look for a more entertaining alternative.

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?

I'm not sure, but maybe do more oral presentations, read more books in English, more interactive activities like Kahoo...