WATERFALLS Waterfalls are not like other places like deserts or mountains. Imagine you are just in front of the Niagara's ones. Its sound results breathtaking and even relaxing. The damp's smell and the trees surrounding you that can easily leave you without bearings. Time stood still while you are there and this time may be your oyster.

LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE

HI EVERYBODY!

I'm going to explain my situation before anything else; I have the B2 English certificate and I'm preparing for the C1 exam, and I have approximately a B2 French level. Of course that I'm continuing with both languages but I feel like it isn't enough so I have been thinking to star with another language.

My parents suggested me to start learning Chinese, but I find it really difficult. I have been thinking about German, but I'm not satisfied yet.

I'd like to get advice from you, what language do you recommend me to start learning? 

What is the FIRST THING you think when you get up in the morning?

I should say that the first thing that I think is to continue sleeping ! But ignoring this, I usually think what I am going to wear when I have breakfast.

What about you?

My favourite singer (it's a high school work) María de los Ángeles Rozalén Ortuño, known as Rozalén, is a spanish singer-songwriter and composer who was born in Albacete, 12th June, 1986. As a child, she used to sing the songs that her mother and her grandmother teached her, also she started going to dance lessons, becoming more blissful. When she was only 7 years old, she already knew how to play several instruments. In addition, she took part in a band. She started writing her own songs at the age of 14. She has always been willing to give gigs for any benefical or ideological act. Despite of spending a lot of time on music, she has studied a degree as well. Rozalén has long, brown straight hair, she also has a fringe which I think characterises her. She is medium-height and medium-sized. I actually think that she is a very much hard-working person because of all her work and all her influence in the whole country, including Spanish speaking countries in America, although she isn’t world-famous unfortunately. I don’t think that she is very good-looking, but it doesn’t mind a lot in the music world if you really have a good voice. She seems to be pretty easy-going, I mean, friendly and relaxed, because she sings slow and she has a friendly face. Her songs are normally catchy because of their ambient music. She has also turned out to be more competitive with herself, because she has overcome her own problems and she also has improved herself in each new song. I have chosen this singer because of many reasons. One of them is that she has made a living singing her own songs, and working for benefical associations. The other one is that it is really worth listening or reading her lyrics, I think they are so true the should be heard on the whole planet. Some of them are about wars, diseases, her own feelings while singing, breast cancer, etc. That sort of themes aren’t usually mentioned by many singers, so that is why I like so much her songs, her voice, and how she makes them greatly awesome.

MY VILLAGE Olivares is a Spanish village, in the province of Seville. It is situated 16km far from the city of Seville. Its area is about 46km² and it is in the Aljarafe’s region. It is made up of 9,400 inhabitants approximately. The origin of this name dates back to the Romans age, so this village has existed for thousands of years, but its name has been changed at least once. Before, it was called as “Estercolinas”, till it was renamed as “Olivares” by Pedro de Guzmán, the first Count of Olivares, who also built his own palace in the village. Its style comes from the Renaissance. The village was in all its splendour while D.Gaspar de Guzmán was the III Count-duke of Olivares. He founded the church in 1623. This village’s income comes from agriculture mainly, because it has huge areas of fields and cultivations. The livestock sector is also developed here. It has several monuments, like the “Colegiata de Nuestra Señora de las Nives”, which was built in the XVII century and it has been done up some years after its construction. The Vera-Cruz Chapel is included among some of the most important monuments in this village. It was built in the XVI century, which also has sufered some back changes. Another building which is really significant to mention is the Count-duke of Olivare’s Palace, set up in the XVII century. It is located just in front of the “Plaza España”, monumental center of the village. From my personal point of view, Olivares isn’t a village of much interest, but it is very quiet, relaxed and paceful, which are certainly good advantages for people who prefer silence and not as much noise as in the city. There aren’t too many sweet shops, and I find them badly distributed, because there three or four of them on the far left, near Salteras, and there is only one of them downtown. I also think that there is a lack of shops in general. There is a library too, which is well situated because it is located in the village centre. Something that I like and stand out of it is that there are three private swimming pool clubs despite being a small village, however, there aren’t any public swimming pools. Summing up, I recommend to visit my village if you want to chill out some days off or maybe to distance yourself from the very busy city, with the benefits of spending a quiet and rural life and not being too far from the city.

SHOULD ANIMALS BE USED IN MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS? Although this affair is not in my knowledge, I know that all kind of animals, from the smallest one to the biggest one, are been used to scientific research. They are important for allowing scientists on the human biology and health learning. And also for delveloping new medicines and avoiding some kind of diseases. From one point of view, there is no doubt that this sort of experiments are necessary for our specie’s survival. Some people think that if we do not test on animals, whom are we going to test? Humans? So they tend to deny it and agree on animal experiments, because those allow us to know how our body will might react to some medications not leading us to be at risk. But, the other side of the coin is about the disagreement with that type of experiments. I do not second guess that almost all of them cause a lot of damage to animals, which leads to make matters worse. Most people love animals and treat them as persons, so the fact that they are usually involved in deadly experiments is not widely accepted. The pits is that it is inhumane to take the animals out of their natural habitat for our own welfare. Taking into consideration that the irresponsability and abuse on animals leads to social maladjustment and psychological damage, it is not a good idea to continue doing that. Animal testing does not justify the suffering of millions of animals, so nor wasting huge amount of money. It is a cruel act of violence forced upon those that cannot speak or protect themselves from the slavery that some humans seem to believe is still okay nowadays. -----It's for a high school project.