FUTURE PLANS

I often wonder about my future as I am studying the second scientist Batxillerat.

The number one question on my mind is which profession should I choose? It's very hard to make any definite choices, because I know they will affect me for the rest of my life. 

I want a profession that will satisfy me, challenge me, and bring me joy. I believe that a job should be like a hobby. I want to love my work, and know that I'm making a difference in this world helping other people. But I have the fear of not finding a job when I finish my career.

But for now, I'm only focusing my attention on passing the exams with good marks, which is very difficult.

I also have plans with my friend Paula about travelling through all the continents and visit countries like Thailand, New York, Japan and Brazil.

FINAL REFLECTION 1BAT

I improved in many things between the two last years, I have learned many new vocabulary and improved a little bit more my grammar, although I have to practice more in this subject because I find it difficult. 

I think the activity that shows best my level of English are the yoursays because I can talk about any subject I want and explain myself openly. The activities I found that improves my level of English are the presentations, although I don't like it, because forces me to talk in public and improve my bad prounciation, and the skill exams because contains trick questions and can prove that you really understood the reading or the listening.

The activities I found useful are listening and evaluating other presentations because everyone, at least me, are not objective and hadn't have enough judgement to decide the marks. The activities I like to do next year to keep improving my English are reading books and the oral exams because I wide a lot my vocabulary. Also, I have to say that I learnt a lot watching series in English with spanish subtitles, almost all the series I watch are in English, so we could watch more films or videos on class. Kahoot is also very funny but I didn't think that are very useful to prove your English.

FORMAL LETTER

Fatine Ikane

Carrer Bernar Nº5

Castello d'Empúries, 17486

Spain

June 2, 2017

Horsmonden,

Tonbridge

Kent, 01892

United Kingdom

Dear Mr. Philip Russell

I am writing this application as I am interested in volunteering for PMGY Summer Volunteer & Adventure Experience and would love the opportunity to be able to work with construction, teaching English, elephants & turtles helping. I am enclosing my CV with this letter for further information.

I have not any experience in this environment because I am just turning 18, so I had not the chance of doing any volunteering job before. I will enjoy the chance to be able to work with orphans, endangered animals and people in need and found that it will really improve my communication and patience skills.

Personal qualities I posses that I believe will prove me to be a good candidate for the position include empathy, patience, an animal lover and generous.

I would greatly appreciate being considered to assist in any way that I can. My timetable is flexible and I am willing to work whenever possible. Please contact me if there is any further information you require.

Sincerely, Fatine Ikane

MY GAP YEAR

My gap year will be a volunteering Sri Lanka with an international volunteer abroad organisation. It will take place after batxillerat and before starting the Univerisity. I think it will be good to do it, to relax for a year and to clear my mind for the next one. I will do it with PMGY, a page who helps you a organise your trip. My gap year will last only a month but then I can visit other countries or just relax. 

You will be collected at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo by PMGY’s local coordinator who will be waiting for you at arrivals holding a name sign.

I will get a plane from Barcelona to Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, and there I will be collected by a PMGY’s local coordinator. Among other activities, I will visit one of the world's largest elephant orphanages, the Iconic Kandy Temple of the Tooth Room and The Cultural Triangle. I will see the famous Kandyan dances, leopards in Yala National Park, chilling on the Mirissa beach, and fishing with sticks in Waligama. 

At the end of the trip I will start my volunteering job at Ambalangoda and join the English teaching projects working in local schools and community education projects. Wildlife, renovation and medical experiences take place in the morning for 3-4 hours and teaching and community programmes take place in the afternoon for 3 hours.

All my accommodation is organised by PMGY. During the travelling I will stay at guesthouses/hotels in the various places we will visit and I will share a room with other travellers. Three meals per day are also included across the whole four weeks of the trip. Most meals are traditional Sri Lankan dishes. All the volunteering is going to cost me £ 849 plus the flights.

London private school may let boys wear skirts

Last year, some boys from a private school in East Sussex wore skirts to school in hot weather as a protest.

And now, the school has started an initiative to change their uniform policy and allow boys to use skirts and girls trousers, since the number of children questioning their gender has increased over the years. They also want to do allow unisex toilets and open sports to al pupils. 

Eighty institution, forty of them primary schools, participates in the initiative. The government has financed with the objective of opening minds on schools about children that question their gender. 

The policy supports neutral gender, and gave to the pupils the option of choosing between wearing a skirt, trousers or both of them. According to the principal there are more girls that use trouser than boys using skirts, and adds that it's a reflection of what society considers normal and what doesn't, and we can change that.

The parents have reacted well to change, the new rules do not force children to do anything. "They just give them a choice."

Paula Weaver, the principal of Allens Croft, a school in England was the first in the UK to change the dress policy a year ago.

A lot of students suffer bullying and abuses from other students so the school is trying to help the LGTB community, too.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39921309

I like the new policy because I think that everyone has the right of wearing whatever they want, independently of their gender. Besides, there are people that don't identify theirselfs with the society classification about male or female. 
Some people feel trapped in the wrong body from the moment they are born, there are boys who are convinced they should be girls. Also, there are girls who say they should be boys. Since we were born, society teaches us how a man should look or how a woman should behave. However, many students disagree with these gender roles. I believe that society should not decide what it means to be a man or to be a woman, and neither decide if you should wear a skirt or a pants.

United Airlines Passenger Is Dragged From an Overbooked Flight

A man was violently removed from a United Airlines flight by aviation police officials at Chicago’s O’Hare international airport on Sunday. 
The accident was filmed by another passenger who were screaming and horrified by the situation. In the video you can see how the officers aggressively grabbed, and then dragged the passenger down the aisle of the plane, after refusing to give up his seat to an employer.

The plane was overbooked, so United asked for 4 volunteers to leave the plane offering 800 credit points, but the volunteers would have to wait till the next plane which was going to be the next day. At the first David Dao and his wife agreed but when they realised that the plane wasn't until the next day and they had to be at work, they changed their minds.

So the company decided to put all the passenger's names in a computer and choose 4 of them randomly, casually the same man who offered himself in the first place and his wife were two of the selected. They asked him politely leave the plane but David said that he was a doctor and needed to see patients at a hospital in the morning, so they called to the police and dragged the man out of the plane.

"Everyone was shocked and appalled," a witness said. "There were several children on the flight as well that were very upset."


United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz apologized for having to “re-accommodate” customers aboard the flight and said they were investigating the incident, but many on social media said that the apology fell short.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/nation-now/2017/04/10/united-under-fire-after-man-dragged-off-overbooked-flight/100287740/

I think that no one should be forced to leave the flight when they had paid the flight and it's the airline's problem for "overbooking". Every passenger has the right to stay on board and they had no right to draw and violently throw passengers of the flight.
And even more if you have a job and duties to attend that depends on arriving at your city on that plane.

SCHOOL TRIP (DAY 4)

The fourth day was the last day, which in my opinion was the best. We wake up early, get dressed, and went downstairs to have breakfast. Then we take the bus to go to the Valporquero caves, my favorite visited place. It was very cold and they warn us that inside the cave were 90% of humidity, so we prepared our hats, scarfs and gloves. We slept in almost all the trip and we missed the sights.

The entrance to the cave is located at 1,309 meters of altitude, under the town of Valporquero. The cave is amazing because of its complexity and diversity of geological formations that take place over the years. There are many stalagmites and stalactites that form a wonderful landscape. We visited the seven halls of the cave and the visit lasted about an hour and a half. We took pictures, but can't appreciate the beauty of seeing it in person.

After the visit, we returned to León where we eat and then visited at 4 p.m. La Colegiata de San Isidoro, a Christian temple of Romanesque style built during the XI-XII centuries. It is one of the most outstanding in Spain, for its history, architecture, sculpture, and for the Romanesque luxury objects that have been preserv

ed. It has a Royal Pantheon located at the foot of the church, with Romanesque mural painting, and where most of kings and queens of Leon's kingdom were buried.

I really liked this temple.

Finally, we visited the cathedral of Leon, which was declared of Cultural Interest in 1844. Started in the eighteenth century, it is one of the great works of the Gothic style, and French influence. We made an audio-guide and after that they let us free time.

We went for a walk and bought some souvenirs and food for the trip back. Then we sit in a bar and rest a little, but some doves attacked us so we left. Because it was the last day we were allowed to return to the hotel at 3, so we went to the hotel, showered, dressed and went to dinner. We ask for pizzas and squids. After dinner we search for some pub and with other classmates we enter. At 3 am we returned at the hotel where were expecting us.