Prison beauty pageant

Last week’s Friday was a special day at Rio de Janeiro’s maximum-security prison for women, as it hosted its annual beauty pageant for its inmates.

The prison selected ten inmates to style their hair, don dresses and swap their cells for a catwalk. One prisoner said that even though she was imprisoned, she did feel like it for a moment.

The participants of the event were judged not only on their beauty but also their sympathy and attitude. A crowd of 440 inmates, as well as their relatives, cheered them on. Apart from the prison’s pageant title, the winner also received a fan and a hair straightener.

The event’s aim is to improve the inmates’ self-esteem and give them a chance to meet with their loved ones.

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SUMMARY
In one prison in Brazil, last friday the inmates had a different day.  The prison ogarnized a beauty pageant, they selected ten inmates to take part in the contest. Women can styled their hair, put on dresses and walk around the catwalk. They had a lot of people watching them, some of them was their relatives.
The winner received a fan and a hair straightener. They repeat this event every year, and their purpose is try to improve the inmates self-esteem and let them see their families.

PERSONAL OPINION
I think this gift is very positive for the inmates, because altought they are in prison, they have felings as me or you and they nead their relax time for desconect and forget that they are in prison too.

Snow blind: how half a ton of cocaine destroyed a tiny Portuguese island

Rabo de Peixe is the kind of place where you need a lot of ambition and a ton of luck to survive. Life here on the north coast of São Miguel in Portugal’s Azores archipelago is as wild, forgotten and cruel as its location in the middle of the Atlantic. Home to 7,500, the town has few facilities, save Wi-Fi. When there’s no fishing to be done, youngsters smoke hash, hang out on the cement pier and ponder how to get away from this scrap of land in the middle of nowhere where next to nothing happens

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/08/inenglish/1512720697_264543.html

SUMMARY

This news talk about how in an Island of Portugal cocaine affected the poeple who was living there. In a part of Portugal people are poor and they don't have means.The news

 explained us that people who live there when they was bored they started to consum cocaine, especially the people younger.

One day arrived to the Island a yacht carriyng on board 505.840 kg of cocaine. The sea was rought and the gale force wind brought down the yacht's mast. It was impossible for it to slip as planned, but it was equally impossible to come into the port, laden as it was with drugs. The crew decided to drop some of the bales of cocaine into the sea. The rest would be taken to a cave in the north of the island.

That night a part of the population were looking for the cocaine that was thrown into the sea.

The case was extreme, population used cocaine when they had not flour, or was used as sugar for the coffe, it was very worrying. Hospitals was collapsed by people who had overdouse of cocaine. 

Police started to seyzed all the cocaine that they can, but isn't was enought.

PERSONAL OPINION

I think that this case was very dangerous for the healthy of the poeople who consum cocaine, and maybe the police would have to intervene formerly, and don't wait for it to bee too late. I feel duty to the people that was in that situation, and I'm angry with people who traffic with things like that. I expect that one day these people realize to the harm that they are causing.

Self-evaluation

A few weeks ago I did a presentation with my friends Ivan and Lluc. We decided to do the presentation about humour,becuse they are very funny, they always tell jokes, and make jokes, I laught a lot with them, and we thought that maybe with this presentation we could make the class laught, ( that was our purpose). We stayed in my house for do the presentation, how we didn't finish it, we stayed in my house the next day for end the presentation and for study an exam that we had.

The presentation was finished, but we don't studied because we would prefer study for the exam.

The day of the presentation it was very embarassing,because we don't knew the content . 

I don't had time to study and I didn't study nothing.I had an exam the same day of the presentation, and  I choseed study for the exam.

We film us and I've can see that I was all the time reading. So I haven't much more to say, because the presentation was horrible. 

I don't like do presentation because it makes me  very nervous, I would prefer do aan exam,that do a presentation, I don't know why but talk in front poeple makes me nervous.

Well, for the next presentation I'll try to study more, and do it better.

The secret that why we like to eat chocolate!!!!

Chocolate is made from the thing that is inside of cocoa beans. This thing is known as baba de cacao and it's sweet, acidic and very sticky. When this baba de cacao ferments it releases some chemical compounds that combined, create some chemical signature that our brain loves. Chocolate also contains a lot of psychoactive chemicals that in our brain feel like the effect of drugs like amphetamines, caffeine or cannabis.

One thing that gives us much pleasure is the fact that it melts when you put it in your mouth. Finally, the thing that makes chocolate irresistible is the amount of sugar and fat that it contains. The doctor matches these amounts of sugar and fats with the sugars that breast milk contains and maybe the brain is just trying to recapture the taste of human breast milk.

Personal opinion: I think I can't really give my opinion because I don't like chocolate, but for example I love the nutella and this is same that the chocolate, I eat nutella with a  spoon, because how I say previously I love it.

The problem of this kind of food is that it's very delightful but very bad for our body. I wish that some day scientist invent something good four our body and delicious as nutella, chocolate or other sweets.

People in Somalia Die of Hunger

Over one hundred people died in Somalia within 48 hours because of a big drought. The government called the situation a national disaster.

The United Nations estimates that 5 million people need help and it warns of famine.

Thousands of people arrived in Somalia’s capital. There were too many. The prime minister of Somalia said that the big drought is now in many areas of the country.

The drought affects half of the population. The previous droughts and a decade of conflict have left the country fragile.

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Summary: 

The news explain that In Somalia, people die because of a a very dry period of time, and that is same  a national disaster. People in that country is dying for hungry too,  the United Estates calculate than 5 milion people need help of us, because their condition it's very poor.
The shortage it's due to the people that arrived in Somalia, because they were too many.
The  drought affects half of population, and it's leaving without supply, and it left the cuntry fragile.

I think that we have to help this people,because the need our help andif we don't help them they will die, because they don't have means for survive. Only donating food, or some money that we don't need we can save a lot of lifes. But I think that in realty people that has to do something for these poor people,are the goverments.

volleyball

Hi !I'm Tania, a volleyball player and I'm going to explain you my career path in volleyball.

I started to play volleyball when I had eleven years old. First I started to play volleyball in Castelló D'empuries but only I train, and it was boring. My cousin talked to me about a club on Sant Pere Pescador and I decided to sign up there, and nowadays I've to say that it was the best decition that I could have had. I signed up with a few friends, and I met people.
On Castelló d'Empuries there was a team, that I don't know why but with Sant Pere Pescador always a lot of rivalry. One day the girls who were part of the team on Castelló decided to sign up in Sant Pere Pescador, and the girls of my team decided to disengage, and they let me alone.
In the beginning I was very awkward because I never have spoke with they, and they were all friends except me.
After a while, we were taking confidence until to form the family that we're . Nowadays, they are my girls, I feel that with they I can be myself, and I love them a lot, they are like my second family.
Volelleyball helps me a lot, because when I go to train my mind desconect about all, It's my moment of peace, relax. If i didn't play Volleyball I think that this year it would be very chaotic ( because the studies).
I train Monday, Wednesday and Friday and Saturday we do a Volleyball game.  Normally I went at all the trainings even if I have an exam, because exams can take away my free time for do another things, but volleyball it's very important for me and I don't care if I've an exam or not.
The year that I ejoying more is this, because this year a male team was created, and with the guys we're very connected. Fridays when we finished to training we go to dinner on a restaurant on Sant Pere Pescador called " Ruki", and how  the guys train after us, when they finish they come to dinner with us. And I enjoy a lot these dinners because we laught a lot.
I was enjured,  and I wasn't trained for 3 weeks, and these weeks were very long for me, I've an injury on my back.
In the rating now we're fifths, but we're fatting to ascend, it's difficult but we can.
In conclusion I love my team very much, and thanks to them I can be the person who I'm now, because maybe they don't know but thanks to them I can disconnect of my problems, and make my life more easier.

Talking you about my studies

Hello! I'm Tania and on this post I'm going to talk about how it's affecting the studies in my life.

Now I'm doing the second course of baccaulaureate, the last year until  go to an University  and do a degree. 

In the first term,  students of Catalonia we have to do a research work (only the students of Catalonia, in the others autonomous communities the students don't do that research work). 

So we have to add to  the difficulty of this year, another trouble more, that it's this project. On Castelló d'Empúries we have to present it ,the 18th of December, and let me tell you that it isn't an easy work, we have to dedicate hours of our free time for do it, because it's like a subject more, but we didn't do it on the classrom as we do the other subjects, no, we have to do in our home. The logic of that? I don't know it.

Well, maybe you can think that I'm obfuscated, and it's true. I don't have free time for me, I'm not sleeping, I've always  the homeworks, the exams or the project in mind. The only I want in this moment is finish this horrible year.

Now I'm cast down because for the long weekend, my family  has gone to the Basque Country, and I've stayed in my home alone. I'm very bored, and I would like to be with my family, but I can't because I've much homeworks to do.

So when I talk of that horrible year, it's true, because it's like a nightmare.

Teachers don't help much, because they think that the only that you've to do is study, and study, but I tell them that I'm a person like them, and I've personals problems too, but they don't realize about that.

I want to be teacher, but I realize that teacher of the institute they don't enjoy of his work, and for that I will teach on a schoolhouse, because I renember my teachers of the schoolhouse and I renember they as people who take care about you, and always were smilling. Nowadays I still talk with one teacher that was my tutor when I had 10 years old. 
In conclusion this year is being very long for me, and very difficult,is affecting my health, both emotionally and phisically, I'm not sleeping well, and I'm very exhausted all the day. For the day it's like I was a zombie, and for me that isn't funny. I don't know if I will overcome that year.

My holidays in Menorca

 Hello,I'm Tania and I'm going to explain you my holidays in Menorca!!!

The 10th of September  at 6 o'clock we toke a flight to go to Menorca . We went my mother, my sister, my stepbrother and my stepfather. The first day that we arrive, we was very exhausted so we rested in the apartment ( by the way it was very beautiful, it had a pool, and the neighbours they was very likeables). At night we went to dinner in Ciutadella a town that it's very similar to Santa Margarita (Roses). It was very beautifull, it has a port, and it was very little. This day was very funny, because when we finsished to dinner we went for a walk and by pure coincidence we come across with the cousins of my stepbrother and the parents. We didn't knew that they were there. They live in Roses, and apparently they went to Menorca on vacation too. It was amazing, when we saw them, we can't believe it, they can't believe it too!!! So for the next days we visited Menorca together, and we have fun, because the cousins of my step brother they're great fun.

The places of Menorca that I liked more were the beach "Cavalleria", "Son Saura" and "El Far de Favartitx".  On the beach "Cavalleria", we were very impresive because the peculiarity of that beach is that it have clay, and with my step brother and my sister we anoint ourselves with that. It was funny but I don't liked because the clay smelled bad like shit ( I apologize because the word but it was real, the smell was awful).

Well, we pass a week there, and I have to say that Menorca was amazing, and I enjoy the travel with my family. We laught a lot.  Normally in summer we go to Granada because I have family there, but this year we decided to go in another place, and we enjoy a lot.

Welcoming email

Hello
My name is Tania. I’m 16. I was born in Figueres the 13th of October.

Now I’m studding in the high school of Castello d’Empuries. I’m doing second of baccalaureate.

Well I’m going to explain you first what my short-term goals are:

The first thing that I would like end in my live is to pass the baccalaureate because I want to do a degree. The degree I want to do is teaching profession.Since I was little I have always dreamed of being it.

One of my long-term goal is learn to speak English, because it’s  one of the most important language in the world. a lot of people know this language, and I think that I would have in the face of job opportunities. I would like to talk and write very well. I think that I can do it, in fact  I will achieve it.

The other long-term goal that I would like to do, is travel.  In fact there was a time that I wanted do a travel after I finished the bacaulareate, but after I was thinking it and I came to the conclusion that if I would do it after I won't start my degree because... I know it, because I know people who have passed. And for that reaseon I will travell when I done my degree. And one of the places where I would like go is Thailand, to discover another culture.

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“Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of strength”

It’s one of the sentences that Obama says in his speech. I agree with him but I believe it is very easy to say but very difficult to make it happen.. At least for me it’s difficult, I don’t know why it’s so difficut, but it’s.

And is one of the things what the people we have to change,and maybe our lives would be better or at least easier..

 

Best wiches

Tania Cifuentes