My english progress

Given the fact that my first post only has 2 sentences ("Hi, my name is Aixa Aranda and I am 15 years old. I love watching TV Shows and I don't like humans.") I'm not quite sure how am I supposed to compare it to my last one. There's not much on my post of 4th of ESO because we didn't do anything during that year, so it'll be hard to compare. And that's pretty much the main difference from now and then; I (and the rest of the class, because for some strange reason we weren't asked to write posts) barely did anything and now I have a lot of posts (especially from this 3rd term, because in the 2nd one I just wrote one).
I do see some personal development though (reading all the posts on the blog, from the first one to the last one, because there's not enough in the first one to compare) and even though I still hate humans and love watching TV Shows, I think that in 4th of ESO I din't take things seriously, like for example in the alternative ending for Romeo and Juliet or the rabbit family tale, and now... well, now I don't take them seriously either, but instead of writing random stuff I whine about everything and I explain how much I hate it. I also think tat my older posts (especially the 1st of Batxillerat ones, like the one about my siblings the one about physical education) are ver angsty, while the most recent ones are not, they're just about me not caring at all instead of me being a very angsty human. And I did curse a lot more tha I do now. Honestly, that's not personal progress, because I don't see what's wrong with cursing, I only stopped it because last year's teacher told me to do so.
But actually, there's not that much of a development in any of the aspects I'm supposed to comment; as it has been demonstrated many times to me, times changes, but I don't.

My english competence in 2017

I believe that my best written evidence is either "Modern slavery in Spain" or Describe your soulmate/life parnter. I have chosen two because since I'm a very shy person I don't have any oral evidence posted in the blog and because it was the other part of the task, I have chosen two writings to make it up, even tough it probably won't.
I think that this two are the best ones because they are the only ones that are written in a """formal""" language, unlike 99% of my posts, and because even tough they have a considerable lenght, they are better structured than the others and the ideas don't repeat themselves all over the text like happens in most of my posts.

Human rights

What are human rights?

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.

(http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx)

2. When and why were they created?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted after the end of World War II on 10 December 10, 1948 by United Nation (UN) General Assembly in Paris. 

(http://www.blogactionday.org/2013/09/29/how-was-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-created/)

3. How many human rights are there?

30

Informal letter

                                                 
                                                                                                                            No adress
                                                                                                                            Because this isn't real
                                                                                                                            18th of April, 2017

Dear imaginary friend named Michael,

I believe you have nomophobia, because that's just how things are. And, as the awesome friend that I am, I'll try to give you some advice to get over it.

First of all, I'll say that I understand what you're going through. You've got all the information that has ever existed at the palm of your hand just by typing the word you want to learn. Who doesn't like that?
But we live in a society where we encourage people to "live in the moment" and "enjoy the little things" , even though we spend our lives ignoring that moment and working for a future that may never come (because we chase it for all our lives but then we usually die while we're still chasing it).

So, my dear Michael, ignore your urges to check your phone and live in a reality built by other people that needs constant validation of all humanity, and do as they say.
Because spending your life looking at a small screen is obviously a bad thing, but spending it studying things you don't like to get a job that you'll probably hate and then die realizing that you have wasted your short exsistence as much as you would have looking at the phone the whole time is definitely better, right?
At the end of the day, people that hate so much mobiles are the people who just hate everything and complain about everyone (those damn nowadays kids and their phones!), and the ones that love them and praise them are zombificated creatures that can't live without their Instagrams.

Do what you want, Mike. Keep your nomophobia or get over it. Both are bad, but I'll be your (imaginary) friend anyway.
Always yours,
Aixa

Describe your soulmate/life parnter

I think I should start this compostion explainig my views on soulmates and explaining my own definiton of it, leading that to the description of my soulmate; otherwise it would sound very narcissistic/egocentrical. So, that being said; I will proceed to do so.
I don't believe in the exsistence of a soulmate/perfect life partner. I believe that our exsistence as a race is nothing but an accident caused by the crash of two "big rocks"  in the space a billion years aog; no one created us with a special path designed for each one of us nor we are supposed to meet someone who will make our life complete or will make us feel "whole" again. According to my theory, we walk alone our whole lives thinking that we have the world at he palm of our hands when at the end of the day the only thing that's truly awaiting for us at the palm of our hands is death.
What I'm trying to say with this is that the only thing that we will ever get to know in its fullness and true form is death, not another human being. Therefore, according to the popular definition of the word "soulmate" (or perfect life partner), I believe there is only one fitting candidate to be mine, the only one that I will ever get to know evem better than I will know death: me. And again, I am in no way trying to be narcissistic or egocentrical.
And what can I say about myself, my soulmate, that isn't already known? My name is Aixa, I'm 18 years old, I've got brown eyes and brown hairm like almost everyone in this country, I am tall, which is great even though I can't fully understand why, I am currently studying a hellish thing called "Batxillerat", the only thing that I believe that I trly enjoy in this world is fiction (in any form: books, movies, videogames, TV series...) and I think I dislike reality very much, and my only quality is also my biggest fault; we could consider that I've been blessed with the curse of being completely useless, not good at anything and a bit (and saying "a bit" because without that "a bit" sounds kinda harsh) worthless; this incapacitates me of doing anything good or worth it, but at the same time it saves me from doing any effort in order to succeed because I know I'll never will, giving me a lot of time to waste away.
So, even with my quality/fault of being the best at being the worst at everything, I enjoy very much being my soulmate and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life by my side, which undoubtely, I will.

Modern slavery in Spain

Spain, country of "sunshine and joy", as it has been defined since the dawn of times. Country of "sangria", "sevillanas" and "siestas", as it is percieved around the world. The country where people sleep during the day and parties all night, only leaving a small amount of time for the tourists to trash everything they see, the locals to yell at each other and for the government to steal everything while no one is looking. What a wonderful place to live in!
My question is, in such a great and lovely country, is it possible for slavery to exsist? Well, as a matter of fact, it is. Ignorion (or just not knowing) what is probably happening behind closed doors, there are some secotrs of the population that are being legally exploited.
These people work a huge amount of hours for a miserable salary, and they probably won't have chances to have a better future. They are called "Spanish citizens".
They are being enslaved by a criminal group known as "Partido Popular"; this group, along with many others that remain in the shadows, have taken a country that was agonizing straight to the grave, dragging with it all this group of "Spanish citizens".
Everyday that passes, the "spanish citizens" have it harder and harder to acess to health care because the "Partido Popular" has been wrecking it since t got its hands on it; their kids have an education whose quality is decreasing by the minute, because that's how the "PP" (as the "Partido Popular is commonly known) wants it; the jobs are dissapearing and the ones that are still avalible have a ridiculous salary; the prices for almost everything keep getting higher and higher, while the money of the "spanish citizens" is at a downfall...
And still, somehow the "Partido Popular" has been enslaving these "spanish citizens" for a onsiderable amount of years, and they probably spend at least another four years ruinning people's lives. How is it possible that, in a so-called advanced country like Spain is supposed to be, this keeps going on and on? Someone should do something!
But for today, let's just pray for them from the comfort of our houses, waiting for someone else to do what needs to be done.

Is jealousy natural?

Is jealousy natural?

I have two dogs. And bigger one, and, obviously, a smaller one. 

They share their toys. And they usually ignore them, but when one picks up one and starts playing with it, the other one will appear out of the blue just to try to take it away from the one that has it. She could have been doing anything, yet still if either one of them sees the other one playing with one of the toys, they will try to steal it away.

A while later, when one of them has managed to steal it and the one that had the toy in the beginning has finally given up and left, the "thief" will get tired of it soon enough and leave it behind, forgetting how much she has fought to get it. Sometimes (this is usually done by the bigger one, taking advantage of her size, even though they both do it), they will take the toy from the other one just to hide it away. The stealer won't even play with it, she just buries it somewhere so the other won't find it and won't be able to use it.

But, that is nothing compared with how they react when one of them is interacting with a human. Several times, it has come to a point where they bark and sometimes even attack (not in a serious way though) at the one that is being paid attention to, till the point where that one leaves sacred and confused, and the attacker approaches the human like nothing had just happened.

What I am trying to prove with this, is that jealousy is indeed a natural thing.

Dogs are probably the most basic creatures on earth. And despite what humans like to believe, we are by no means better than them. We are nothing but wild creatures that somehow have managed to create a language and a society.

We could just extrapolate what happens with my dogs to humans, creating a theory based on the fact that since dogs, better than us in almost every aspect (decency, kindness, loyalty…) feel jealousy, we, a lesser, more selfish and evil race, definitely feel it too.

Commonly, we use the same definition for envy and jealousy, but according to this article from the website “Psychology Today” they are not the same. While it defines envy as “a state where you experience yourself as lacking something that will lead you to be admired as much as you secretly admire the person who has the desired attribute or possession you envy”, jealousy is defined as assuming that “someone else is receiving the attention, love, or adoration that you want for yourself, which is provided by someone from whom you want it” creating a threat to your relationship, and leading to “an anger response that may result in aggressive and offensive behavior”.

So, in a certain way, this definition could easily be a justification in order to stop this essay right now, since it confirms that jealousy is indeed natural, somehow caused by the fear of losing someone/something that we love against someone else who may seem better, and fear, being the powerful emotion that it is, leads us to do anything in order to keep that someone/something from being stolen from us.

We are, after all and like I said before, nothing but wild creatures dominated by our instincts, that, no matter how hard we try to repress, always end up consuming us. So, from my perspective, jealousy is a natural thing. But in no way I’m trying to justify it; we, the so-called “”” superior and intelligent race”””, should learn how to at least control ourselves from bothering other people (and perhaps even hurting them) because of our instincts, we should analyze the situation and realize that most of the times, we have no reason to be jealous, and if we do, it is probably a lost cause anyway.

So, as a final conclusion, even though it is natural, we should try to control it.

Self Evaluation

After watching my own oral presentation from the comfort of my own room, I've made a self evaluation that would be this one.
I'm pretty sure that one of my biggest failures is the timing. It should have lasted at least 5 minutes and mine took 3 minutes and a half only. This was bcause of something that we will discuss in the section "content".
In regards to the rest of the oral presentation, I personally believe that it went quite well.
About the body language part I'm not going to lie; it was a complete disaster. Truth be told, most of the time I pretended that I was reading from my notes, but I was only hiding away from the audience, because I find them quite scary.Even with that taken into consideration, I'm actually happy about how it went in comparison to the rest of my oral presentations, where I got so nervousthat I couldn't even speak. Actally, even some classmates noticed that as well and congartulated me about it.
We'll skip the structre part (because I think that went quite well) straight forward to the content part, that was along the timing, the major issue.
The thing is that I actually had information for like 3 or 4 more slideshows, but somehow it got lost on the way. I looked on the draft-guide and it was there, but it never made it to the powerpoint. I guess that it was due to the anxiety of the moment, because I do remember feeling very anxious while editing the powerpoint and thinking how I was supposed to talk for a long time in front of humans.
I had a language mistake (that I know) because I said "more actual shows" instead of "shows that you can find on TV nowadays".
And I think my pronunciation is a bit lame but I try my hardest, so I can't improve that, and my intonation, like I said in the body language part, had a big improvment in comparison to last year but still with some failures. Taken his into consideration, I'll try to bear it in mind for the next time and I'll try my hardest to do it better.

Email to the teacher

Hi, I'm Aixa Aranda and I'm in your class of English of 2nd of Bachillerat. We were told to send you and e-mail about our goals, related to that video that we watched in class about Obama, and well, here it is.

I do not have goals at all, my life is very dizzy and I haven't got much hope for the future. But I guess that if I had to choose a goal it would be to just stay alive and keep going, because even that is a challenge. Given that my goal is to live, I could face all kinds of challenges, because I guess that that's the main point of life; suffering. I could say that the main goal of life is to overcome challenges, but there are lots of challenges that are impossible to overcome and the only thing for us to do is to suffer.

"So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort in everything you do. I expect big things from each of you. So don’t let us down. Don’t let your family down, or your country down or most of all, don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud."

If I had to choose something about his speech to comment it, it would definitely be that one. It is beautiful, inspiring, and above everything, a big fat lie.

Obama doesn’t care about anyone. I’m pretty sure that no one cares much about anyone. This is a world where everyone follows the rule of the survival of the fittest.

If you fail, nobody cares, you just fall into oblivion. And if you actually manage to make something big in your life, people will pretend that they have always liked you, even though they never did and never will. 

Humans are strange beings.

So, all this happy-positivity stuff annoys me a bit, because it’s just… I don’t know. Even though the quote itself is kind of… cute, it’s a bit… hypocritical coming from the US President, a country where if you don’t belong to a certain social class, you may be treated a bit like… crap. (Sorry about that swear word).  And it’s going to be even worse when Trump becomes the president, because he will, because humans are dumb and will vote for him.

And well, our country is even worse.

I don’t know. The world is an awful place for all of that positivity and happiness.

Or maybe I’m just annoying.

Yeah. It’s probably that.

Why 30 is not the new 20 (video)

Hey.

So, this video basically talks about the importance of not wasting time. About not relaxing when you're on your twenties because you think you're young and you have plenty of time ahead of you. Meg Jay says that everyone trivializes the importance of being twenty and not knowing what to do, but that's just... dumb.

I mean, it's not. I agree that 20's are one of the most defining decades, and I also agree that no one should waste their time, or procrastinate, as she calls it. I do believe that, and I do agree with it. When you are in that defining decade, it's when you’re supposed to start working in your career, your love-life, etc.

But why? First thing I want to talk about. Why is so important to live that kind of live? 

You could spend your twenties working on your career and looking for Mr./Mr.s Right. You can spend your twenties working and studying and getting married and having kids and get that life, the white picket fence that everyone dreams about.

And just to wake up one day and realize that you actually never wanted that. You hate your job, you don't love your spouse that much and your kids are annoying little fucks (sorry for that curse). Your live is repetitive and frustrating. You are doomed to live that kind of life forever, and your kids will be doomed to it as well, and their kids, and their grandkids...

Why is it that everyone thinks that the only way of living is getting married, having kids and a "successful job"?  What if you don't want to live that way?

Is that really the only kind of life that exists? 

You are just supposed to follow what everyone has told you to do for your entire life. But I do not believe that. 

Life should all be about exploring. Or not. Life should be about whatever you want it to be. Not just following that. Working and breeding, not doing all the things you actually want to do because you do not have the time, and when you do have the time, you are too old for it. 

It's kind of messed up, if you think about it. When you are young, you have the time (unless you are in high school, especially in Bachillerat) and the energy to do stuff, but you don't have the money. When you are an adult, you have the money (unless you live in a country like ours) and the energy to do stuff, but you don't have the time. And when you’re old, you are supposed to have the money (not if you live in this country, though) and the time (unless you live in Spain. I guess that if you live here you'll have to wait until you're 67. And if things keep up this way, my generation will retire at 80) but you do not have the energy. 

So what's the point of working so hard to get that kind of live? You never get to enjoy anything. 

Then the media is all about "the little moments" and how happy we are about them and how they are what truly matters. 

"Life is tough, but at the end of the day what truly matters is that you have your family and you love them, so keep working hard and being always tired and never having enough money or anything, because it's all about getting through the day to get home at night and watch TV with your loving family".

They say that to us and we stay satisfied with it, while they spend our money doing whatever the heck they feel like doing, that kind of stuff that we can't do because it doesn't enter in the whole "white picket fence" plan.

Why is it like this? This can’t be the only way of existing.

But then again, we are humans and we always do things the wrong and selfish way. As long as someone has the power to be superior to other person (money being “the power”) it will stay like that. No matter who has it.

And other ways are messed up as well, like communism. Everything is messed up.

I believe that humans where never meant to live together. It never works out.

Or maybe I’m just dumb. Maybe I just wrote a post full of nonsense, because I’m dumb. I don’t know. I’ll never know.

Sorry for this post.

Click here to watch that video.

Rebel song

Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Email to my teacher

Hello, I'm Aixa. This morning you told us that we have to send you an email. Here it is.
I'm not really good speaking (well, now I'm writing, but it's the same) English, so I just wanted to say hi. Hi.

I guess i'll have to write more, so I'll talk a bit about me. I'm 16, I love TV Shows, books and video games, I've got 2 cats and 2 dogs, and nothing else matters.

And well, I love sleeping too. I guess you already knew that (because of the name of the blog), but I felt like telling it. I just love it. Sleeping is underestimated. It's awesome. It's like my favourite sport.
I also hate sports, and exercise and everything that involves phisycal activity.
Well, I like walking. It's like running, but you don't get tired.
But I can't stand slow walkers. I can't. I can't walk slow. If you ever see me walking slowly, it's probably because I don't wanna go to class, or because I'm stalking someone or because I'm really tired.
Something that rarely happens.
I get easily bored and I hate wating and stuff like that.

And I hate reggaeton, electrolatino and Telecinco.


I think that that covers everything.




Bye.