Life Map

I had a nice conversation with a classmate in the lab. I didn't remember her name cause I'm very bad for it (shame on me again and again :$) but I had the suspicion she was one of the "Camilas" so I went to her blog and saw a picture of her in the model and prototipe worshop and now I have a doubt cause she seems to be the same person Simon talked to :S. Anyway.
Also, I didn't keep the map, I gave it to her and kept mine. But I'm good to remember conversations, actually I remember a lot of it.

The first present she remembers to get was a Barbie doll. The most interesting person she've met was a man about 40 years old (I don't remember his name) but what a clearly remember is he was a very educated man, actually she said he was an "encyclopedia man". She talked to him once and never saw him again.
She regrets about something she didn't want to tell me, but she said it's not important, it is only for her. She's a girl who wants to be a better person everyday and try really hard to acomplish it. She's a very devoted woman (she's Mormon). The most important thing for her is her God and her most precious own is her "Testimony" and wants to spend the rest of her life with her family.
She's a girl with very strong conviction and family values.

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Guardian Article

The Green Rooms - Summary

Now we're on vacations, this would be a very good article to read. Is about a new trend in ecologic places to stay for vacations or just relax. It’s written by five bloggers who recommend some places.

One of those is El Remanso Wildlife Lodge in Costa Rica. It’s in one of the most diverse and pure rainforest. The lodges have restaurant, bar and pool, with a great view to the natural environemt.

Another place is Hostel One66 in Singapore. The unusual thing about this place is it uses recicled furniture from scraps (cans and plastic). Also they offers free walks in the Bukit Timah reserve.

In Cornwall there’s the Keveral Farm, which is a farm with a indian style of life (they have tends and tipies as it's shown in the picture) very rural and ecologic place with solar shower and no cars. Recommended for family and kids.

Located in the Yucatan Peninsula the Balamku Inn in Mexico is an intimate and small hotel. Its name means “home of the jaguar”. It uses solar panels to function and the philosophy it’s not to waste anything. Really good place to relax.

Finally in Costa Blanca Spain, is the Venus Albir wich is the first spanish bio apart-hotel. As a geo/bio construction they use local and natural material to build it. Also it has solar panels and a organic restaurant.

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A song I like – The Logical Song

Well, this song is not my favorite one but I like it very much. The reason I’m talking about this song is that the day Simon gave the assignment, I was coming back to my home and on my MP3 list was this music piece and when I listened it I thought “this would be a really good song to talk about”.
This song is from an english band called Supertramp and It’s from the album “Breakfast in America”, 1979 (it’s old I know, but I like old songs too - the picture is the album cover).
I couldn’t tell when was the first time I heard it, only I can say I’ve listened it since I can remember.
The reason I like it, it’s because I always liked how it sounded (not the lyrics), cause I didn’t know english at the time, I was very child. But lately, when I learned English and could understand, once I was “wasting my time” on the internet, listening to music and I start to look for the lyrics to understand some words I couldn’t decipher, and when I read the whole lyrics I thought “what a great song!”.
Very deep.

Who doesn’t feel that way sometimes?


The Logical Song – Lyrics

When I was young,
It seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees,
Well they’d be singing so happily,
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me.
But then they send me away
To teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, oh responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable,
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say
Or they’ll be calling you a radical,
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal.
Oh won’t you sign up your name,
We’d like to feel you’re acceptable,
Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!

At night, when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am,
Who I am, who I am, who I am

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My favorite book

First of all, I have to say I’m not a very good reader, I’m very lazy (shame on me again :$), I rather watching TV :P. I’ve read by obligation some books at school. That was the worst thing they could do to me, and maybe the reason I don’t like reading.
My favorite book was the only one I could choose at school, “Misery” from Stephen King. I watched the movie first and I thought it was a great movie, really scary. The language teacher said “now you can choose a book” so I wanted to read “Cujo” from the same author, my mom had it and said it was a very good book, but my stupid teacher won’t read it, so I chose Misery cause as I said, I watched the movie (I know it’s not the best thing to do, but whatever).
The book is about a writer (Stephen King always writes about things inspired in his own life) who finished the last of his “Misery” novels, and then he goes on vacation on the mountains. There, he’s kidnapped by a psycho fan (interpreted by Kathy Bates on the movie, who won a really deserved Oscar for this role) who forced him to write a different version of the novel. The difference between the film and the book is that in the book also the story of Misery is told, so it’s like reading two novels in one.
The problem I had reading this book, was I couldn’t forget Kathy Bates face, ‘cause her interpretation was so powerful, and while I was reading I thought “the actress was very well chosen!”
A line that got stuck on my head was “If I die…you die.”
Scary!

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BBC Learning English Review

I have to say I had a big problem doing this review, first because of the time (I was working, now I'm on vacations so I'm getting up to date) and later, because every time I wanted to surf the site I couldn’t hear anything, cause I don't have earphones at home and in college there’s no phones either, so for this aspect I had to ask for help to my boyfriend :S

At first sight, I thought the page doesn’t have a very good graphic design; it’s full of information and doesn’t have a very friendly interface in general (my boyfriend thinks so too, he’s a graphic designer) too much information in too little space. I think there’s no a clear hierarchy in the text.
About the use, he told me that the sounds are very clear; you can understand well the words ‘cause they’re pronounced very slowly.
It’s very good it has the option to change language, that helps to people who don’t understand anything at all, but I think it has no differentiation of the different levels of english people can have, so it becomes very disorganized.
In general, the site is very complete, interactive, it has many options to learn and you can choose whatever you like the most and it covers almost every aspect of the language, but it has that problem.

It's late, and I don´t know what else to say. If I find any interesting thing, I'll update this post.

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