sábado, 5 de marzo de 2016

DON'T YOU LIKE CLASSICAL MUSIC?

I really liked this video, and I also liked Avicii's song a lot. I think it is too difficult to play an instrument like them. However, we can get everything we set out with our effort. 

I like listening to this kind of music, but I'm not into it. I prefer listening to songs with lyrics and with another rhythm. On the contrary, I quite like listening to instrumental paso dobles, marches, and this kind of music. This music encourages me a lot! 

I usually watch a part of the New Year Concert that it is given on channel "The One" on 1st January. It is so beautiful to listen to it!

Music has benefits and here I posted ones: 

- It increases physical performance and it helps you to get the most out of your workout.
- Classical music helps to relax your body physically while it is calming your mind.
- Music helps to reprogram the brain to focus on the music rather than the physical pain.
- It improves mood and lowers stress.
- It boosts your brainpower.

It is incredible how music can help you!




DAD, YOU'RE BEHIND THE CURVE!


Being behind the curve is when you aren't quite able to keep up or quite up to the times. (An example would be a person who laughs at a joke two minutes after everyone else gets it). 


I'm a Taylor's fan. I really like all her songs. How well she sings! I like the song "Shake it off", but the songs I like most are Style, Wildest dreams, Bad Blood, Blank Space, You belong with me and Love Story.


Taylor was born on 13th December 1989, in Pennsylvania. She is an American singer and songwriter, who in 2010, at the age of 20, became the youngest artist in history to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In addition, in 2011, she was named Billboard's woman of the year.
Her mother was a one-time marketing executive, and her father a financial adviser.

I've read that she might stop a year to rest. I hope it isn't true!

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!

Nowadays, money is all in life, although we usually say health is the main, it isn't really true. All we and all depend on money.

When I go shopping, I carry cash because I can't carry a credit card because I'm not 18 years old yet. Most people carry their credit card, and I reckon it's more comfortable than carrying cash. On the contrary, people still carry cash when they go shopping.


Now they are developing a new way to pay using your own mobile phone. I would try to pay with mine, it must be exciting. In my opinion, it is more comfortable than paying with cash, even, than paying with a credit card. This reminds me of the advertisement where an elderly man who is on a scooter pays for something with his mobile.


Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of the networking website Facebook. He is also one of the world's youngest billionaires. He has such an enormous quantity of money! He has $47.1 billions.




viernes, 19 de febrero de 2016

JOURNEYS

Journeys are more usual than 30 years ago. People used to work near their houses, but now, they work near or far from their homes because if they can't find a job in their hometown, they have to get used to working whereever they find a job.   

Most people spend about 2 hours approximately on road, and that is an inconvenient. Some of them complain about that and they say that their working day is longer than the one of people who live near their job, and for that, they usually complain for their salary.

The most common means of transport is the car, but there are other means, for example, the bus, the train, the underground... In addition, now there are new systems to travel, like Blablacar; it is a platform in Europe which connects people who need travel with drivers who have empty seats, so, you save some money on travelling and you reduce the impact on the environment. 

  Actually, we are also commutes because we have to go to school in Salobreña, which is 14 km away from our hometown. On the contrary, we go by bus and and it only takes us about 20 minutes on the bus.




ZIKA VIRUS

It seems that every year a new virus comes up. As it was the case of the Ebola virus last year. Well, this year... here we have the Zika virus.   

Frequently,when you travel you are exposed to a lot of bacterias and they go with you anywhere you go. Scientists have discovered that bacterias can live a lot of days.

Firstly, I want to say what the Zika virus is. It is a micro-organism you can find in Asia and Africa and which is usually transmitted by mosquitoes. In humans, this virus was first discovered in 1954, in Nigeria.

Currently, no cure exists for the Zika virus. Most people who have been bitten by an infection-trasmitting mosquito don't develop any symptom. On the contrary, other people develop some symptoms as skin rash, mild fever, and muscle or join pain that begins approximately, after 2-7 days after contamination. Pregnant women transmit the virus to their babies, and it produces severe foetal birth defects and poor pregnancy outcomes.

All in all, if you think about it, you will realise that all disasters as tsunamis, epidemics... always attack people who are poorer. If they haven't much, when they suffer all these things, they have fewer things than they had before.

If you are flying, you aren't travelling alone... there are a lot of bacterias which will join you on the road!



ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Natural medicine is becoming more popular,  a lot of natural medicines can find effective remedies for certain illnesses, but when they are more serious these treatments are useless. This is an inconvenient. 

Medicine has evolved a lot; treatments cure you fighting against disease, although these treatments aren't sure at all, because they cause side effects as kidney, liver and cells damage, body deterioration, etc.


Natural medicine can also produce other effects, but these effects are more controllable and there isn't so much danger.

I think the worst danger is that you can meet people who use plants without knowing anything about them and they offer you to treat your illness.

To sum up, I reckon alternative medicine isn't as true as traditional medicine, even though I don't think it is false. So, I respect people who use it.