MY WORLD Christmas

"What do you think about Christmas?" That's a good question to do.

I think Christmas is wonderful because it's a special time to stay with your family and friends, to receive and give presents, hugs, feelings, to be able to forgive bad things people did to you and smile all day. Christmas holidays are perfect because all the streets in the cities and towns are decorated with beautiful things that makes you feel special. When I'm sad and I see all these streets I always smile because, like I said before, Christmas makes people feel unique.

I remember when I was little and I waited for the three wise men, I went to visit them and the next morning I always woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning to open my presents... I was too impatient. And now, I am impatient not to receive gifts, but to give them as a present.

FIRST TERM REFLECTION

This term we had worked a lot, we did a lot of posts in our blog and from my point of view it is much more difficult than the last year, because last year we did, practically, nothing. 

I think that the activity I enjoy the most was my last my world, a little bit more about me, and I  think one project that I could enjoy a lot too was the horror project, the film, because in my my world I explain a few things that I think about me, and I enjoyed a lot because I could write a long text more easly than the other posts. 

I say that we could enjoy a lot our horror film because, probably, we are going to have fun recording our scenes, playing our characters, etc. 

I like my work this term and I think I improve my english a lot. 

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

Summary 

This story starts when the narrator met Monsieur Auguste Dupin, and they found a newspaper with a piece of news called Terrible murders, wich explain the murders of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye. The police blamed an innocent person, and Dupin and the narrator want to find out the real murderer, because they knew that Adolphe Le Bon wasn't guilty. The investigators, Dupin and the narrator, started looking for clues in Madame L'Espanaye's house, and they found a lot. Finally they talked to a sailor, because they knew that he was the master of the murderer. He explained them what had happened and they finally clamed that the murderer was an orang-outang, an animal similar to a gorilla. 

Personal opinion

At first, I didn't like this story because I thought that it could be boring, but as I continued reading I really liked the story, because it was more interesting in the middle and the final than in the beginning.

MY WORLD - a little bit more about me

Well, in this post I want to explain a little bit more about me, like I say in the title.

My name is Rosó, I am 15 years old and I study at the INS Castelló d'Empúries. I haven't got any hobbies, but I could say that my hobbies are listening to music, staying with my friends and, doing homework? I don't thing that the last one was a hobby, but it is a thing that I spend most of the time of my evenings during the week. 

I LOVE Christmas!! It is, for me, the best period of the year, because in this holidays you can spend a lovely time with your family, with your friends, and you have no-stress for exams or homework!! The same happens during the summer, and I really like it too, but I thing Christmas are special.

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We all know that nobody's perfect, and I have a lot of imperfections, like I'm so short, I don't like my body... but this isn't important, because my people love me for how I am, not for how I look, and if I don't love me..who is going to do it?

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Another thing that I could explain was that, when I'm older, I want to travel to Sud-Africa, or some place with the same problems to help poor people with an ONG, because if I do this, I think that inside of me, and with other people I could feel better. If I want people to help me when I need it, why can't I help people when THEY need it?

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MY FAVOURITE HORROR FILM

I have seen a few horror films in my life. I haven't got a favourite one, but the one that scared me the most was The grudge (El Grito), the second film. I saw it in Andrea's birthday, with some friends, and we were all so scared. This film is full of frights and mystery, and it changes the shot of the camera a lot of times to scare more. The Grudge talks about a curse that was born when someone died under the influence of an extreme feeling of ire or shame. The ones that found this supernatural force that kills, die and the curse appears again. 

Actually, I don't like this film, but, as I said before, it is the one that frightened me the most, so I wanted to explain it. I don't know which kind of film it is, but I think it could be a psychologycal one. I haven't got a favourite scene, because I saw it one or two years ago, so I don't remember it very well. 

I haven't found any video with the scenes of the film, but I found a photo of the first fright.

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COMIC RELIEF

The comic relief is the inclusion of a humurous character, scene or dialogue in a serious scene, to relieve tension. It is used in the horror films to give a relief to the spectator. I laugh in some horror films, but I don't like it, some people laugh a lot when the comic relief appears. 

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SUSPENSE

The movie called Psycho was directed by Hitchcock, he often used psychopaths in his films, like thin line between sanity and insanity, serial killers, and other murderers. When he recorded his films, he did it from the point of view of the killer.

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"THE TELL-TALE HEART"

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe, that tells the obsession of a madman with the white eye of an old man. The mad wanted to eliminate the eye, and he killed the old man. He hid the body and when the police went to the house, he said that the old man was on holliday. Finally, the mad told the police that he killed the old man.

Edgar Allan Poe was the inventor of the Psychological Horror Story, his first macabre story was Metzengerstein, published in 1832. He also invented the detective stories and the science fiction.

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THE GOTHIC NOVEL

The Gothic Novel is a genre of a mode of literature that combines non-fiction, horror and romance. It was invented by Horace Walpole, and the first one was The Castle of Otranto published in 1764. Some basic elements of horror that we wrote in class are: blood, darkness, evil clowns, dark path, lonelyness, mad houses, abandoned houses, murderers, shadows, subtle cold, silence, music, doors, banging, lights, screams, porcellain dolls, eyes, first shots, cementeries, raven, birds, trees, wind, lightning, swings, basement, fire, fog, nightmares, bathtub, corridor, knife, sudden changes of the camera, windows, thrill music, mirrors...

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IS YOUR DREAM TO BE HAPPY?

There are a lot of things that make me happy, like listening to music, meeting my friends, watching films in the cinema, go to parities… When I’m feeling happy I always smile, of course, and I tell to my friends and family that I’m happy.

It makes me feel sad watching the news, because there are always some bad news, another thing that makes me bad are the sad or romantic films, because I always cry, see old people alone in the street… When I’m sad I try to feel happy, staying with my friends, laughing, and sometimes I get happy.

Since I started the high school, I feel stressed most of the days because, if I haven’t got homework, it’s sure that I have an exam. I haven’t got days, until Monday to Friday, to relax and stay in the sofa, watching the TV, in the computer… I hate it! To fight the stress I sit down in the sofa for half an hour after having lunch and I watch the TV and talk to my parents. 

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MY WORLD - things that scared me

Since I was aproximatelly five years old, I always watched on the TV the series Conan, and I wasn't scared of the series, but I was scared of the shadows because they always appear behind the doors. I couldn't sleep because I imagine the shadows under my desk or behind my doors.

Another thing that scared me a lot were the horror films. I really like to watch horror films but I feel very scared. I can't watch horror films in my house alone, I need my friends near me to feel protect.

I am also scared of walking alone in the dark, alone or with company, because I think that it can appear somebody to frighten me, not on purpose, but I get scared easier than nobody else.

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MY WORLD - my favourite song

I think one of my favourite songs is Hold my hand by Akon and Michael Jackson, because it makes me remember a lot of things that I did between two and three years ago. I listened to this song with my best friend, and we always sang it, it makes me really happy to remember these moments, because when I'm thinking of it I always have a smile on my face.

I really like the lyrics and the meaning of it, because it talks about a boy that loves a girl and he says to her to hold his hand to fight together for their love.

The video it's lovely because there is a lot of people doing cool things, because Michael sings this song but before publishing the song he died, and then Akon make it public.

MY HERO

My hero is Lluís Llach. he was a person who reclaimed the freedom of his country and his language by music and songs in Catalan. 

That wasimportant because he lived in a dictatorship and there wasn't any freedom of liberty of expression. 

I consider it my hero because in the past, people lived in a police state and for a few things they out you in prison, and he had the courage to tease the censure and sing what he and the people thought. 

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MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

The graphic shows that my intellignces are very different. It says that I'm very good at myself smart and body smart. It also says that I'm not very good at number smart and nature smart, but I don't agree, because I thik that I'm better in number smart than in word smart. 

I agree with some of the careers of the intrapersonal career chart, like intelligence officer, psychologist and small business. I like this jobs because when I'm older I want to be a business woman.

I disagree with all the careers of the Kinesthetic career chart, because I prefer jobs related with the business world, or helping people. I don't like practicing sport a lot.

THE ANIMAL IN YOU

I agree with some things, but there are professions that I don't agree with. It says that the personality is, sometimes, unpleasant, they have a reputatio of being traitors and they are gossips.

Some careers are right like administrator, and abut hobbies photography, gossip...

I don't like this animal, because it has got a lot of spikes and when it goes next to you, you move away. But some characteristics are like me, so I won't be scared of him for its personality. 

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MY DREAM

My dream is to become a business woman. I want to work in my own office with my papers and all my things. I want to travel to all the places in the world that have beaches, like Miami, Eivissa, and some other beautiful places.  I want to participate in a play too, but in the future, when I have more than 18.

Me and my best friend have a plan, the summer when I'm 17, she is going to be 18 because her birthday it's in March, we want to travel to England and stay there for a month, in our own flat, because if we feel free we can do anything alone and learn english ourselves.

To make my dreams come true I have challenges, for example, I have to study a lot to become a business woman. I need to be positive and confident to fulfill my aims. For some other dreams I will have to save a lot of money so I must work hard in the summer, for example.

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