PLEASE CORRECT THIS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Is the definitely end of Basque terrorism? Last Thursday, ETA announced the end of their armed and their violence. In Spain, this new was received with happiness and a bit of skepticism. This distrust maybe is motivated by the long background that this band have in announce their abandoned of violent actions and because of the closeness of elections. In fact, right now Spain have a big problem and this is that now ETA has political power due to last elections Bildu a political party mostly composed by people of left-wing ideology won the elections in part of basque territory and it gave them more power than ever. So, definitely the end of ETA has a definitely purpose and this is change violence actions for political actions and achieve their goal of independence which cost lot of deaths in the past.

PLEASE CORRECT THIS!THANKS IN ADVANCED! My last challenging experience The last time that I faced a challenging experience was last May when I went to a very important job interview. Actually, it seemed like being the perfect job in a large and recognized company with permanent contract, lot of possibilities to promote since the beginning and of course all this advantages are extraordinary in crisis time when the opportunities to get a job are less than ever. So, last May when I was ready so as to incorporate me in job market because of I was almost finishing my degree at the University. I sent many CV’s to different companies but I only received two calls, one of them was pure garbage, work with no payment and the other one was which I started mentioning at the beginning of the text. This job interview was for working in Deloitte, one of the four most important audit companies all over the world. Consequently, the recruit process is really hard. In fact, you need to pass five different testing for to be accepted. First of all, a psychological test, then a dynamic group, a personal interview and finally two more interviews with area manager and the last interview with one of Deloitte’s partner. I only passed the psychological test but I failed the personal interview mainly due to I felt really nervous. As a result, I felt really disappointed for not achieve my goal to get this awesome job but I hope to have other similar opportunity in this kind of company next year and pass all the testing to definitely achieve the job.

Where is my future? (PLEASE CORRECT THIS ENTRY, THANK YOU!) One of the most important decision that a human being have to make is when he decide what degree is going to study at the University because, it is probably that it will be the key of his future. When I was a child, I used to imagine my future self being a very important marine biologist who investigates how the whales communicate between them or how sharks migrate to some oceans or to others. In fact, I was and I am really fascinated with sea animals. They are my passion. I focused on my future dream when I started studying biology at high school. It wasn’t easy, but I really loved every sentence that I learned even if it was difficult to understand. However, everything changed when I decided what was going to study at the University for the next five years. This was one of the worst mistakes of my life because; I didn’t decide study biology. Maybe, the reason of this decision was that I was only 17 and a very immature personality, maybe was that my family really persuaded me to study a degree with more jobs opportunities or maybe I realized that there are some differences between your desired future and future that you are really capable to achieve. So, I decided to study economy at the University and, the first year was really awful. In fact, I felt myself really lost because I hated all there economic theories, all there maths and statistics but it was in the second year when I started to study different subject much more interesting than in the first course and I started to feel interested about economy. Over the years, I had the opportunity to acquire different knowledge about marketing, manage, taxes, econometric analysis but definitely I felt in love with finance analysis and it’s caused that I started postgraduate studies in Finance last month. I would like to be a financial analyst in Wall Street. My main objective would be to manage people’s money or companies's money by investing in financial markets and getting as much profit as possible. I know it sounds really ambitious or difficult to achieve but now I’m conscious that you need to make the most effort that you are capable to make and you could get whatever you want. So, I’m sure that if I had known this some years ago, I would be working as marine biologist.

Can Spanish or European economy recover from the crisis? There are many people with a negative prospect about the future of Spanish and European economy. In fact, some TV appearances happened last month such as, Rastani. Rastani is a broker who gave an interview to BBC announcing the end of the EU like a monetary join and the difficulties to restart the previous currencies of each country. Furthermore, he expressed his desire to achieve this moment because it was an important opportunity for him could make a lot of money. I can’t deny that in the history there were many of this kind of people for example George Soros made a lot of money betting against the pound sterling years ago. Certainly, this kind of facts becoming negative the image of the professionals who work in financial markets and this is an opinion that definitely I don’t share, but related to the future of the economy to my mind still remains to be done. What is more, apart from the huge debt crisis that European economy is suffering, Spanish economy also have a big problem that the only solution pass for a complete change to its economic model. The problem is that politicians haven't done anything yet, the measures that they have applied sounds like a joke and isn’t enough to the economy recovery. So, I feel really frustrated when I read newspaper and I realize that the most important to politicians right now is to get as much votes as possible, and to preserve the image of their political party meanwhile, they don’t care about the awful situations that many people are suffering in Spain with no job, no incomes and what is worst with no hope. There is no time to campaign; it’s time to make a strong structural reform to the economy and restart to focus Spanish effort in really profitable businesses and forget the housing bubble. There is no time to wait for the housing market recover is time to invest in other businesses where Spain could be very a competitive economy like renewable energies. Nevertheless is not too late, but it could be because we don’t have a second to waste. COULD ANYBODY HELP ME TO IMPROVE, PLEASE?BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY SENTENCES IN MY ENTRY THAT MAYBE DON'T HAVE SENSE. SO, I WOULD VERY GRATEFUL IS SOMEBODY CORRECT MY MISTAKES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

My opinion about the film Intruders (NO SPOILERS) Tonight, I went to the cinema and I saw the film Intruders. This film has been honored with some awards and has very good opinions about its story. After I watched the trailer of the film on TV, I supposed that it was a horror film and since I really like this kind of films, this was the main reason why I decided to go to the cinema and paid almost 7 € to see the film. However, the story is more a thriller than a terror film and is not as good as to receive any award. First of all, the actors and their characters were not brilliant except the Spanish actress Pilar Lopez de Ayala, who interpreted a double character in the film showing her awesome talent. Second of all, the story has a secret that you easily could discover in the middle of the film so you can guess perfectly the end of the film before it finished. So, finally I don’t recommend that you go to the cinema and spend your money in this film. Definitely it doesn’t worth it! (Could anybody correct my entry?, it would help me to improve!thanks in advanced!)

Trichet’s last conference: Thanks God he’s gone Last Thursday, Trichet offered his last speech as ECB’s president. For me, this is a good new because I think that some of their actuation related to interest rate has been pretty conservative. In fact, the main goal of ECB’s is preserve prices stability. So, when prices increase ECB rise the interest and backwards. However, during last months prices didn't increase but instead of, lowing interest rates Trichet just keep it stable, and certainly this decision has had bad consequences for Spanish economy and recovery. As a result, I expect that Draghi, the new ECB’s president practise a different monetary policy less conservative than his predecessor's policy because it could help in the recovery of consumerism. Although, of course it is not going to be the definitely measure to solve crisis. (Maybe the topic is a bit bored but in exchange for this inconvenient I wrote a short entry. Could anybody correct my mistakes?thank you very much in advanced)

Today is a sad day: Steve Jobs has died Steve Jobs passed away last night after having suffered for five years a terrible hopeless disease called Cancer. The first time I heard about Steve Job’s was last year at the University. We analyzed the success of iPod, the charismatic trait of Steve Jobs and how he became into a leader. Just after the class I realized that Steve Jobs was a genius and suddenly, I started to investigate on my own about his life and his whole career. The thing that most surprised me about his life was the fact that he never finished his studies at University. It means that he didn’t pass five years studying about how a mobile phone or any other gadget works. What is more, he only assisted to university classes during a month. So, definitely for me it is the step that marks the difference between people who are going to have a normal career in their lives and people like Steve Jobs who are going to be a reference for the first mentioned before. It’s not necessary to write that I really appreciate him, but over all what I really appreciate is his awesome talent. Because of his death, I had the opportunity to watch one of the most viewed videos today: the Steve Job’s announcement in Stanford University last 2005. This announcement was one of the best speeches I’ve ever watched, and I especially liked one of his sentences: “You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards”. With these words he tried to encourage people to do things that they really want to do without being worried about how these things are going to be connected with their future success. He was referring to that all is connected and is necessary to believe in this, destiny, karma whatever but it is necessary to trust on something for avoid frustration or desperation. Certainly, he was a wise men and why not mention? He was also a very supportive man who contributed to many social causes. Definitely, he has been a great loss. RIP Steve Jobs. (Anybody help me to improve and correct my mistakes?I would be very grateful. Thanks in advanced)

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hi to everybody! My name is Ana and I'm a native spanish speaker. I live in Murcia which is located in the southeast of Spain and I'm very interested in improve my level of English specially writing and speaking tasks. Besides, I go to English classes two days each week at the Language School in Murcia. My aim is to find somebody with who practise English in exchange for teaching Spanish. Look forward to hearing from somebody soon Ana