SELF EVALUATION

The 18th of November, my friend Mandy and I did an oral presentation about nightmares, some meanings, the sleepwalking and the sleeptalking. I had to evaluate myself, but I’m not sure about how I did it. I think that the slides were cool, the information was interesting and the content was OK too. But maybe I was so anxious because I used to do the presentations with the “medium” class last year, in which the people aren’t very good at English, and this year we are all together the higher level with the medium and that’s very weird for me, I don’t like, I feel stupid, so it makes me feel anxious and “hyperactive” I really can’t be still. And finally my pronunciation, I think it's normal.

LINK:http://www.genial.ly/Preview/Index/582de98b072c1d450ca4fc0b?idSlide=582de98b072c1d450ca4fc0c

WHAT'S A SLEEPWALKING?

SLEEPWALKING:

Sleepwalking or somnambulism is a behavior disorder that originates during deep sleep and results in walking or performing other complex behaviors while asleep. The sleepwalking includes not only walking in your sleep, they sit up in bed and look around, leave the house and drive long distances… A common misconception that a sleepwalker should not be awakened, but it can be dangerous not to wake a sleepwalker.

The prevalence of sleepwalking are between 1% and 15%. It’s common in adulthood, but it isn’t associated with any psychological problem. It can be possible with a sleep deprivation, sedative agents, febrile illnesses, certain medications…

Sleepwalkers are more common in children, between three to seven years old. It can be provocated for bedwetting, sleep terrors, sleep apnea…

- SYMPTOMS:

A sleepwalking can have some symptoms like: sleep talking, no memory of the event, difficulty arousing during an episode, inappropriate behavior such as urinating in closets (more common in children), screaming and violence.  

THE MEANING OF SOME NIGHTMARES

1. Natural catastrophes

Maybe you had dreamed about tsunamis, tornados, volcanoes… Natural catastrophes. The scientist relate that with a feeling of anxiety and fear. You are insignificant in front of the enormous powers of nature.  

2. Being trapped

These nightmares are common in people suffering from claustrophobia, because they have an incredible fear of being locked in small places. However, these nightmares can also be experienced by people fearing their inability to break away from current bad situations (like annoying relationship or dead end job).  

3. Teeth dropping

These nightmare aren’t so frequent. Some people describe it as a profoundly anxious.  The person starts feeling their teeth dropping suddenly from their mouth. This nightmare has been linked to profoundly personal worries about other people’s judgments on his physical appearance.

4. Being Naked

Maybe you dream about being naked. Psychologists argue these dreams are symptoms of an inner fear of what other people might believe or say about us, normally about our physical appearance. It’s more common in kids.

5. Missing important events

It’s a very common dream about missing important events, as our own wedding. These dreams represent the fears and anxieties that we feel in important events, an expectation on us. We have the fear of missing that, so we dream about it.

6. Not able to talk or move

When you can’t scream or talk in a dream that means that you are in an impotence and unfair mood. You try and try, but nobody can hear you, that means that you had some communication problems too.  

If you dream about not being able to run or your body doesn’t react, that means that you have some self-esteem problems and you are very insecure.

DONALD TRUMP, NEW USA PRESIDENT

It's not really news, but we can considerer to be, because it's an important and recent fact. It talks about the new USA president, Dondald Trump. He was competing with Hillary Clinton, and Trump won the elections. As we can see in the map (link down below), there is more red than blue, the red is Trump, so, he wins, and maybe it seems like he wins with a big difference, but if we go down the page news, we can appreciate that the difference is very small.  

OPINION: 

Well, I dont know much about Hillary Clinton, but I know some things about Trump, and he doesn't seems like a president. He's racist, sexist, homophobic, controlling, a little bit ignorant, and he's a little bit crazy too. I do not agree with his ideas. For example, he says that the global warming is an invention of -Chinese, WTF? When I knew that he think of these things, it made me question who vote for this man. And are maybe people like him. He says lots of things like this, he wants to make a wall on the Mexican border, he wants to avoid inmigrants, really is that the best way? If he wins because other people like him vote for him, that means that in USA there are a lot of people like Donald, and that's not good for anybody. I hope that Trump follows the board of the consultants, because if he doesn't, USA will have some big problems. 

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/election/us2016/results

HOW TO DO A GOOD PHOTO SESH ABOUT ONESELF

These last 5 months I was working on a project about advertising photography. This project consists in two parts. My favourite part is taking photos of people, but the photos have to symbolise the people, where we did the photos? Why we choose this place? What was the model wearing? Why he/she is wearing this clothes? And what you can see in the photo? Why do you see that? Everything is important when you want to transmit the personality of a specific person. So, how is it done?

1 1- Choose the place. It’s better if the model feels comfortable, if he/she knows the place, if the place is a site where the model goes a lot, and if it’s a place that defines the model.

  2- Choose the clothes. It’s important that the model wears his/her common clothes, maybe his/her favourite outfit. The clothes are very important; people wears different clothes because people have different tastes, and with the clothes people can express a little of his/her personality.

  3- Choose what you want to see in the photo. Maybe the model has some characteristic that defines him/her. A tattoo for example, is a good way to express something. Piercings, mole, freckles if the model has many…   

   All you had to do is combinate these points, transmit the personality, and be creative. Good luck! 

A SHARK EMBRYO HAS BEEN FOUND WITH TWO HEADS

The news consists of a discovery of a shark embryo with two heads. The embryo was found in Malaga, Spain, it was hidden amongst 797 others.

The scientists studied it, and they found that the embryo had two brains, a mouth, two eyes, two hearts, stomachs and livers, but only one intestine. The two heads are attached below the gills. And the scientists are not sure if they will survive when they’re born. 

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161027-a-shark-embryo-has-been-found-with-two-heads

HUMOR in life

Does humor play an important role in life? I think humor is very important to survive in this life. Because it's very important to be a happy person, and a good thing to make it, is with humor. 

Besides a good joke makes everyone happy, and a good time telling jokes, forgetting worries, it's distressful for everybody. If somebody has a bad day, listening to jokes or whatching some humor programmes makes him/her feel better. I like doing that, when I have got time I do it, because it's the only thing that we can do, if we don't want to be a stressful and worried person. 

So, it's humor important in our life? Yes, it is. We need humor to forget about our stupid life. 

JOKE

What do you call a deer with no eyes? 
-No eye deer. 


LINK: https://audioboom.com/boos/5170239-joke

CAVE ART: ETCHINGS HAILED AS 'IBERIA'S MOST SPECTACULAR'

Hi everybody! Today I found a new about an interessting cave:

A new cave art discovered on the Iberian Peninsula, in the Basque town of Lekeitio. It's a 14,500 years old cave art, the most spectacular and impressive ever discovered.

In the drawings we can differentiate horses, bisons, goats and two palaeolithic lions. Some of the depictions are much bigger, for example, there’s a horse 150cm long. Some of the drawings are identical to forms in the French Pyrenees.

"It’s wonder, a treasure of humanity” senior Biscay said. They discovered the cave in May, and since that day they've been investigating.

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The cave will not be opened to the public because of the need to preserve the paintings. But they will use technology to give a good view of the paintings as soon as possible.

OPINION: 

I don't have an opinion about this new really, it's only a new discovery. I suppose that I like this type of discoveries. It's interessting to know about our ancestors and learn how and where they lived, what they did, what meanings the paintings have... And with the technology we can answer some of these quations. Maybe it's not 100% sure, but, what's 100% sure in this life?

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37654544

PANGOLINS ARE THE WORLD'S MOST TRAFFICKED MAMMAL

This new explains the situation of these mammals, called Pangolins. They are the world’s most trafficked mammals, because of their meat and for use in traditional Chinese medicine.   

The police found 4,000 dead Pangolins, which equivalates to five tonnes. It’s the largest seizure of these animals ever discovered. From these 4,000 Pangolins, were 96 live ones, because of their size. The dead pangolins were incinerated, and the 96 ones were released into the local rainforest. 

OPINION: 
I think that this story is horrible, I can't belive that this type of people even exist. It's very shocking for me, that some animals are kill because of science, it has to be stopped. We need to find a solution.   


Link: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161006-pangolins-are-the-worlds-most-trafficked-mammal

MY DREAMS

Dear and incredible teacher,

My dream as you know, is to become an actress, but I haven’t got any plan to accomplish it. Well, I haven’t got any plan about anything really, but maybe when I finish this shit (batxillerat), I will go to a dramatic school, where I learn something about my dream.

But the most probable is that I go to an interior or graphic DESIGN school, if I can find some school not very expensive, and for the moment, I can’t find any, all of them are private.

So, for the moment my only goal is to end batxillerat and be happy and without worries for some months. But I’m not very sure about my capacities to overcome batxillerat.

Thank you Montse, for reading it. We will see each other soon. ByeBye!