My diary #8

Hi, today i'm going to talk about my trip to Madrid.
I went to Madrid the last Sunday with my family. Our hotel was in Alcobendas and was really minimalist and modern, I really like it. The breakfast were so good, there were many things to choose like many tastes of juice or a lot of biscuits.
I could see places like El Retiro, Debod Temple, Sol Square or Callao. All the places were wonderful and very interesting.
Also, I saw some famous people like Carmena, Juanra Bonet or Uri Sàbat who signed an autograph for my father.
I enjoyed a lot this trip because I really wanted to be with my family and enjoy some days of relax with them.
So these were my ''holidays''.

Problem/Solution paragraph.

Recycling.

In Spain 73.7% of plastic containers, cans and cartons and paper packaging and cardboard is recycled,  but there are people that still pulling all to the organic bin or pulling their trash on the ground, littering the environment. This people have to know that these briks or these plastic bags are very harmful for the environment because these items  are not biodegradable. For example, plastic bags take 150 years to decompose. To combat this, people have to learn these data and pull their trash on  bins, not on the ground and also they need to be educated to know which container is better for their trash. For instance, the blue bin is for paper and cardboard, the yellow one is for plastic containers, cans and tetra briks, the green one is for glass, etc. Thus, environmental pollution will be fought and we will have a cleaner planet.

Thesis statement.

You only need an electronic device to be up to date in your life and the other's life and do whatever you want.

Social media addiction. Essay.

Nowadays, both adults and young people have social media addiction. The new electronics gadgets are too easy to manage so everyone can use it. Also thanks to them, you can be online in all your account in social networks and more apps that are available. Thus, you only need an electronic device to be up to date in your life and the other's life and do whatever you want.

Since we have the smart devices like smartphones, smartvs, tablets, smartwatches and computers, we developed an addiction to it. We tend to pass all day looking at a  screen without be worried about ‘’the real life’’ because these devices let us to enter to internet with wi-fi or 3G/4G, so we can be online all day. Also, these gadgets can be linked between them, for example, you can manage the TV or your computer with your mobile.

Moreover, we have social networks that permit us to be informed about world news and information about our contacts. We have Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. where you can upload your information, moments or photos. You must to be careful with this sites, because you can stalk almost everyone but also, almost everyone can stalk you. As a result, this type of situations can derive at harassment or bullying.

Another novelty is the great variety of apps that we can use in these devices. For instance, you can write an essay in your mobile with Word app, read the newspaper with The New York Times app or even see a live concert with a Youtube streaming. You can do almost everything you want, but it also includes that we have to keep an eye in the danger websites because there are a lot of virus and hackers that can spoil our gadgets.

In summary, we have all the facilities that we can imagine in our hands with this kind of devices but also we have to see that not everything is good. We have to remember that not only  social networks or internet are important in our lives. We also have to know that our social life is important too, so when you met up with your friends or whoever, don’t keep looking your mobile’s screen all the time!

My diary #7

Yesterday was the birthday of one of my best friends. Me and more friends prepared for her a box plenty of presents. We also printed some photos of us and prepared some sweets for her.
First, we went to a cafe and gave her the presents. She liked it a lot. Also we commented the last years in the high school and our new year in the university and in our different degrees. Then, we went to dinner at a restaurant and we enjoyed a lot, laughing and talking.
After dinner, we searched a place to going party and dancing. We went to many places but these places were full of people so we spent some time to find a place where we could stay. After a time, we arrived at a place that was so cool and where we had a lot of fun dancing.
I had to come back soon to my house because this morning I had to do a project for culture but I enjoyed a lot that birthday.

My diary #6

I'm seriously addicted to two songs for two weeks ago. It started when I was to watch the new movie of James Bond, Spectre. I really like the songs of these movies and here is my problem. I can't stop listening Adele's Skyfall from the film Skyfall and Sam Smith's Writing's on the wall from the film Spectre. Both of them are brilliant singers and their songs are masterpieces. I put here the two songs because it's worth listening to it.

Introduction and conclusion.

Introduction
Are you tired of commercial books about cloying love stories? Nowadays all teenager's books are about the same boring stories to get attention of teen girls but it's really sad to see these monothematic books. So if you want to change, maybe science-fiction is a good way to read something new, for example stories about magic worlds or something like that. There are a group of books who mix a good love story with fights, magic beings, vampires, wolfs and more things. Shadows hunters are the best books you can ever read, it has many good characters and really good plots which develop very good this kind of topics.

Conclusion
To sum up, these sagas are become very famous because they are more original than the nowadays books. It shows a lot of diversity as to characters, stories in its different sagas and also in the media. There are many ways to enjoy the shadows hunters's stories. Once you start reading, you cannot stop.

My diary #5

Yesterday, I saw the movie ''The Princess and the Frog'' with a friend. It was such a long time since I hadn't seen this movie and again, I fell in love with the story and the characters.

The story take place in New Orleans in 1926 and centers on Tiana, a young girl who dream to have her own restaurant and works hard to achieve it, and Naveen, a young prince who need a rich heiress to solve the fact that his parents have cut-off the money for him. This two people have to change their mind to understand that they are wrong in a lot of things.
It's a good love story that also combines the tradition of voodoo and jazz in New Orleans and I really like it. 

My diary #4

Yesterday, I saw a really good friend that I hadn't seen since one and half month. We were talking about our new courses and our new classmates. Also we were taking photos, weird photos, because my computer has a programe where you can apply funny effects on the face.
Then, we also talked about how different is this new course because now, we are in different cities and we cannot see us as much as we would like, but at least we can see us at times so it is not too bad.
We laughed a lot and we had a good time, this is the really important thing, that we still being friends and the distance doesn't mind.

Outline.

I. Shadows hunters are the best books you can ever read, it has many good characters and really good plots.

II. Characters

1. Jace Herondale

2. Clary Fray

3. Alec Lightwood

4. Isabelle Lightwood

5. Magnus Bane 

6. William Herondale

7. James Carstairs 

8. Tessa Gray 

III. Sagas

1. The Mortal Instruments

2. The Dark Artifices 

IV. Spin-off

1. The Bane Chronicles 

V. Media.

1. The movie 

2. The TV serie

VI. There are many ways to enjoy the shadow hunter's stories. Once you start reading, you cannot stop.

My diary #3

This weekend it's been different to other weekends, because this weekend I'm staying at Murcia instead of going to Albacete. I have to stay in Murcia because this Monday, I have a writing exam so I need to prepare it. Normally, I usually go to Albacete all the weekends, but when I go, I only want to be with my family and friend so I don't do too much homework to be honest. Therefore, if I want to achieve a good mark on Monday, I need to be here with zero distractions to study. To finish I want to post to the song that has helped me to don't fall asleep when it's too early or too late.

Contrast paragraph

High school and university are different. While high school lets the students be more dependent on the teachers, in university you have to be more independent and responsible about the studies. Also in high school you have a break to have lunch. In contrast in university you don't have it. The exams in university are harder than in high school. In high school you have classes from Mondays to Fridays. However in university some degrees don't have classes on Fridays. Whereas high school prepares you to study a degree or a module, university prepares you to be an active and prepared employee. Although both of them prepare you and give you new knowledges, university and high school are pretty different and they are in different levels of education.

My diary #2

The last week I couldn't write anything about my diary so I want to write about my last weekend because it was very nice.
Last Sunday I went to the cinema with one of my best friends who is called María. We watched ''The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials'' which is the second part of the The Maze Runner saga. I really loved the movie. It was so good and in the cast of the film there are actors like Dylan O'Brien (Thomas) , Ki-Hong Lee (Minho) or Katherine McNamara (Sonya). But I have to say that I screamed a lot because of the infected persons who appeared in some parts of the movie. They looked like zombies and they ran a lot so I was very nervous every time they appeared and my friend laughed of me.
Then when the movie ended we went to dinner and we commented all the moments of the movie and obviously, remembered when I had screamed in every time the ''zombies'' appeared but it was so fun at least.

Here I leave the trailer of the movie:

Bullfighting.

I know in my country bullfighting is an old tradition but I'm totally disagree with it. According to a report from 20 minutes in 2010 and the calculations made by the National Association for the Protection and Welfare of Animals, the number of animals slaughtered in popular bullfights would be around 60,000 so from 2010 the bullfights have decreased 34.25% and it have been born more anti-bullfighting associations. Therefore, the government maybe should notice that a big part of the population of his country don't support this kind of celebrations like ''San Fermín'' or ''el Toro de la Vega'' because it causes controversy between the anti-bullfighting associations and the supporters of bullfighting. Notably that many deaths by reason of bull goring could be avoided if these celebrations are cancelled. In my opinion, this kind of animal abuse is excessive and it must be stopped and most of the new generations do not even like the bullfightings or don't support it.

Giant's Causeway.

It's a famous landscape called Giant's Causeway which is located in Northern Ireland. This peculiar place is weird because its strange basalt columns that have the form of a hexagon. This kind of columns was made by lava and it was molded by the strong hits of the water. This place conveys uniqueness because the peculiar forms made by all the columns. The feels that this place transmits are strength and danger. It's really majesty and ancient.

Poem.

Fear of not achieving my goals.

Fear of not being happy.

Fear of being alone.

Fear of darkness.

Fear of spiders.

Fear of horror movies.

Fear of letting down my parents.

Fear of losing my friends.

Fear of getting old.

Fear of how time flies. 

Fear of making wrong decisions.

Fear of not passing the exams.

Fear of being myself. 

Fear of being weird. 

Fear of the unknown. 

Fear of fear after all.

My diary.

Hi, I'm Raquel Rodenas García and this is my blog diary.
I'm from Albacete and I'm 18 years old.
This is my second week in the English Studies's degree and my first time doing a blog diary. I'm a bit lost yet because I'm getting used to university and all the new things that I have to learn about this new course.
In the short period of my stay here, I have known the different subjects that I have to pass this year and all of these subjects look really interesting because are more related with English than the subjects I studied in bachelor.
So now I'm looking forward to know how can I achieve all the goals that I have set for this year.
Also, it's something weird and new for me because it's my first time living in other city far from my hometown so in my first week I missed my family so much, but now I'm better than the last week. It's nice to know another city and meet new people in class and in the residence.
I think Murcia is really good for this new phase in my life, to grow as a person and as a student.
And this is all for my first diary's post. See you next week.

My strengths.

We are always hearing about the strengths but, actually, we don't think about it as much as we should. In my opinion, we should know about our strengths because it can help us with the new phases of life like the start a degree in my case. In the studies, lucky me, I have a really good capacity to concentrate in my tasks like write an essay or something like that, I like to participate in class and if I have to work in groups, I don't mind, I enjoy it in fact. Similarly, I have a really clear vision about studies and what I want to do in the future so I think this is an important thing that helps me day by day. Therefore, everybody have different strengths but this not means that we are better or worse than the others, this means that we are capable to do different things but we must know what our strengths are.