PLANNING SUMMER!

June and I found a website which offers different kind of jobs you can do abroad to mostly help with the water animals conservation. The offer we really liked the look of was one in Madagascar. You go there for three weeks and you have two choices, you either work with water animals in the see or with land animals in the forest. It looks great but it's quite expensive as Madagascar is far from here. Well, we'll try to convince our parents as impossible is nothing! Click here if you are interested.

TRIP TO IRELAND!

The second week of April, we're going to Ireland on an exchange for five days. We're going to stay in a little village that is an hour from Dublin. I can't wait to go there because i'm sure it's going to be a great experience and we're going to have a great time. When the irish come here we'll do many different things so they enjoy themselves as much as posible!

COMICS ABOUT THE ECONOMICAL RECESSION

Here are two comics about the economical recession situation nowadays:

BUILDING A FUTURE IN WHICH HUMANS LIVE IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

Over the last weeks we have been writing articles about different NGOs. Ainhoa and I wrote about BRAC (one of the worlds biggest non-governamental organisations) but I have never given any money to them because I just discovered them for the article.

Since I was a kid, I have loved animals so I asked my parents if we could join WFF (World Wildlife Fund) that fight the extinction of animals and pollution of our planet. Every month I receive a magazine with all the information about their new projects and it's very interesting! If you like animals and want to help them it's a great idea to join it!

The species they mainly focuse on are: tigers,elephants,rhinos,gorillas,giant pandas and marine turtles.

Here's also a video:

       

                                     

GREAT FILM TO WATCH

Ainhoa and I worked on a project about immigration and to understand more about the situation, we watched a film. It's a french film called Welcome that was criticised when it first came out but I thought it was very interesting as it shows two different points of view about the issue. If you decide to watch it, there is a complete analysis in our webpage for further information about the film.
For the analysis click here .

Here's the trailer:

SPREADING A DIFFERENT KIND OF AWARENESS

The last two weeks, we've been working on an article about NGOs. Ainhoa and I we've chosen a NGO which we think works different to others we know: BRAC; it's the largest non-governamental organization in the world.

<<What makes the difference between other organizations , then?>> you would ask; well, let us tell you that what makes BRAC unique and famous is the method chosen to face poverty. BRAC’s idea has always been simple yet radical: they've tried to bring together the poorest people in the poorest countries and teach them to read, think for themselves, pool their

resources, and start their own businesses.

If you want to know some more about BRAC, read the article by clicking  here

GLOBALIZATION II

Your shirt was made in Mexico and your shoes in China. Your CD player comes from Japan. You can travel to Moscow and eat a Big Mac there and you can watch an American film in Rome. Today goods are made and sold all over the world, thanks to globalization.

This short second term, we've also been talking about globalization as it can be seen in the blog: we've been debating on it and we've found its good and not that good sides.

Good sides

• Globalization gives you a larger market. You can sell more goodsand make more money. You can createmore jobs. 

•  Products become cheaper and you can get new goods more quickly.

 

Bad sides

• Globalization causes unemployment in industrialized countries because firms move their factories to places where they can get cheaper workers.  
• Globalization may lead to more environmental problems.  

•  Globalization can lead to financial problems .

• Some of the poorest countries in the world, especially in Africa, may get even poorer. 
• Human, animal and plant diseases can spread more quickly through globalization.

 
In conclusion, it can be appreciated that globalization's drawbacks are more than the benefits. However, we should try to fix the problems for a better life!

P.S:.: Don't you know what globalization is? Here's the big problem explained in 4 minutes!

HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH

This term, we've talked about the population of the world in class. So our teacher asked us to do a graph so that we could have a look at the growth and predict about how much it is going to grow in the future. As we can see, it's growing very quickly and that means that in a future, we might be so many that there aren't going to be enough sources for all of us. What is the solution?

Time on the horizontal acces and number of people in billions on the vertical access.