The Economy Nightmare of Christmas

I can remember when I was a child, Christmas day was a magic day, the biggest day of the year (more than my birthday), a fantastic day...

We used to meet with all the family, also we used to have a good lunch and then, we had lots of presents (pencils, jumpers, gloves, etc.), nothing expensive and useful.It was a day to be reconciled, congratulated and there were a lots of smiles and good will.

Unafortunately, times have changed, not only there is the economic crisis, there's also the change of people.

The TV advertise lots of toys, expensive colognes, designer label clothes; we also go stressed for buy presents, to finish the work, etc.

It isn't all, also we have lots of problems to buy all the presents, because we are in crisis, and then we have to enclude this huge expense...

Then, also if we have family problems, instead of solve them, we send a typical Christmas-postcard and we wish them good Christmas and Happy New year...

I think we can still do something to change this and find the happines between this lots of things which only wants our money and our attention...

Reflect about it...

                               I wish you a merry Christmas!

Ideas behind songs...

Sweet home Alabama is the song which I will talk about...

It's about homeward...


Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you


But it isn't only about it... It also go against to Neil young, where we can see in 
a verse:


Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

It talks about it because in two songs which where made by Neil Young, Southern Man in 1970 then, Alabama, in 1972, critizising the low conditions of the black people who where working in South America...


Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow


I think that's interesting because it shows how the people feel attacked by a foreigner critizing their live style... Which is the most normal thing in the world...


Then, in another verse where we can se how they make support to the ideas from the governor George Wallace, who was involved with the segregationism (Lynyrd Skynyrd denied it all the time, it can be a false verse which deal with irony...)


In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth


There are a lot songs which hide another meaning, like Stairway To Heaven, Simpaty for the devil or Lucy in the sky with Diamonds... I think we won't be able to know their meaning but I think that's the grace of this songs, which will be for ever the best songs which we listened...

Shoot-out in Barcelona (28/11/09)

In the last evening, in Barcelona succeeded a shoot-out which were involved a man and his son from gypsy ethnic, who died after a couple of hours...

There, in Sant Boi del Llobregat, arrested a man who was involved with the crime.

Reflection:

It makes me think about the life and the dead, how is so easy to die.

I think the man didn't want to see how his son dies, but also he was armed with guns. It makes me realize how we, the humans, are such stupids that we allow to see die our dear persons.

Also, this news makes me realize the dangers of the life, and how we have to react against this problems.

The Others...

The Others is a film which I really enjoied.

It deal with a family who live in a stately home isolated from the small town.

This family is a bit strange. The children have problems with the light, they can't see the beam of light.

They discover that they have ghosts in their house... and from their servants they discover the reality of this mistery...

Opinion:

I think it's a really good film because it shows a lots of aspects of the reality.

It have a good plot which you are "cheated" because you start in the Family's side and you finish at the Ghosts' side (who are the real persons living at the moment).

They suffer from a big paranoid which they don't want to accept (they are died), I think it makes they be ghosts and which is stopping their to rest in peace...

Also the mother doesn't want to reveal the reality (she killed her children and then she commit suicide with a shotgun), because she is afraid about what she did and she don't want to accept the reality ( we also have problems with thing which we done and we don't want to accept it because they are negative for ourself).

All the film is about the life's aspects and the consequences.

Why I chose these 3 tasks?

I chose these tasks because I think in the final of the 1st Batxillerat year I would be able to compare my progress...
I thought if I upload all the tasks, I would be able to see all of my work and I would be conscious of what I did in this year. Also I think it makes more interesting my blog, and I like it! :P

Meeting Gisela!

A- Hi Gisela! What are you doing here?
G- Hi Aleix! I told you was to study here this year!
A- Oh really!? I didn't remember it...
G- C'mon! I told you about it when we were playing in Versatile's orchestra. Really can't you remember?
A- I can't but It could be possible I was a bit sleepy.
G- Ok, it doesn't matter. Now you know it...
A- jajaja. Why did you decided to study in Castelló?
G- Oh well... Because of my mother...
A- Ok, and... What's your first impression of this highschool?
G- Not bad. It's a very new center.
A- It isn't really interesting to talk about highschool. Isn't it?
     What do you think about the future projects in the orchestra?
G- Oh! I think this year is going to be better than last one, because there's a new big band and playing this type of music is better for our instruments...
A- Yeah! sure, we will spend a great time for this year playing in Versatile's orchestra.
G- I hope so!
A- Ah... Oh! the teacher has just arrived! We'll talk in another occasion...
G- Sit down! Run! Before she sees you...

Once upon a time...

In a time of castles and kings, there was a milk maid who had a big jar of milk. She thought to sell it at the market. When she started walking towards the market leaving her farm house behind her, as it was quite a long away she began to think...

She thought she could sell the milk for a dozen eggs, and when the chicks were born she would exchange them for a pig, and then, when the pig had piglets, she would exchange them for a horse. With this horse, she pretended to be the most beautiful girl in the county using her horse to appear in the nobel society. Then she would marry with a noble guy, and then in the same way, she could get to the top of the nobility and be the wealthiest girl in the county...

Just when she was dreaming with jewels, enormous castles and lots of servants, she tripped with a hedgehog and the big jar of milk felt from her head and it broke to pieces and all the milk spilt.

Then she stood up and thought it was only a dream and she realized that whatever is important and we have to value whatever we do and whatever we have.

Moral of the story: don't dream too and live the present. We have to accept reality!