About me
I'm susana molina I'm 19 years old I live in Bogota. I am very curious and loving with animals and nature, I enjoy too much to interacting in natural places because I think that is a good way for relaxing and learm about myselft, I have always believed that animals and nature can teach us too much. I like to paint, dance and skate, activities that I always do.
When I was a skater
When I was a child I pacticed sakting I was a great skater. I practiced every day, I remenber that I dreamed of being he best skater in the world like Cecilia Bahena and Alexandra Avivas but in this time I didn´t have enougth money to pay the academy however I learmed by myselft.
Over tiem my mon decided to pay the tuition. I was very happy that day I started to build my dream. I had a competition; thev day of the accident I was very nervious because I dreamed that in this competition I would have an accident. When a was doing the test I fracture my clavicule, I had a long recovery and I learmed how to be patient to practice again.
The danger of silence
Sometimes we forget to express ourselves in situations where we should do it, we have to duty speak and recognize the problematics of other people like our, we have to think of collective and not individual way because if we keep silence in these situations we are being part of the problem and we are support the injustices.
For this is important that the kids learn to express what they think in a critical and safe way, It is therefore important to follow the 4 principles that the teacher raises: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly and the most important speak with the truth. It is important to remember that your silence can affect the lives of many people.
3 Questions to ask yourself about everthing you do
we all have dreams and ambitions but not all know how make our dreams come true, because sometimes we have fear to fail, sometimes; sometimes we decide to dream easy things because we don't believe in ourselves because we dont belive that we can do it a great things, we must leave that mentality because all the things that we can dream we can do it.
for that we must take into account tres questions for our success:
1. what do you want?
2. why do you want ?
3. what will you do for achieve it?
Answering this questions we can have more clerety of we want and what we must do for achieve it. if you really want to do something to achieve with courageously.
Vocabulary: quiz
1. Attire:formal ( clothes) example: this dress is not appropiate attire for a court hearing
2.Setback: Problem example: the proyect suffered a setback when one of the key workers had to take two months off work due illness
3. Inordinate; excessive, extreme
4. Give up: stop trying example: I gave uo trying to get them to believe me.
5. Appease: calm the new nanny appeased the boy by singing to him
The canterville ghost
- The author is: Oscar Wilde
- The main chacarters: Simon Canterville, the Otis family Hirman Otis (dad), Lucrecia (mother), Washington (older brother), Virginia (middle sister), and twins (younger sons), Mrs Umney ( the housekeeper).
The story started because the Otis family needed buy a castle of carterville family. That family warned them that there was a ghost it this house, for that reason they stopped living there, but the Otis family buy this castle. The Otis family arrived to castle and met with Umney and they saw a boold stain on the floor; the housekeeper said that Simon had killed Leonor his wife. That night the ghost
appeared making noise with his chains, Hirman saw him and offered oil for his chains doesn`t making noise so, the gohst was frightened.
The ghost always wanted to scare them but he never did it well, but it was the Otis family scared him. The twins enjoyed to annoying the ghost so Simon tried to scared the twins but he never did it well. One day Virginia met with him and she asked him why he scared her family, and he asked her for help because he wanted to rest in peace, and he decided to take Virginia toa hidden cavern; Virginia decide to helping him and at the end of the story the ghost teached to Virginia howdeath and live is and that love is stronger than death.
- who is simon?
- what is the name of the twins?
- What was the housekeeper's name?
- What did Hirman Otis to the ghost ?
- What teaching did the ghost give to Virginia?
The use of plastic in our life
The use of plastic has become normal in our daily life sometimes, but sometimes we don't think about the consequences that it generate in the environment and the survival of species, because thousands of tons plastic pollute the oceans, producing the dead of animals.
A little history about plastic
Before the plastic existed, the industries used natural resins for example: bitumen and ambar, but that materials was very expensive, for that reason the companies had to create new material. In 50s Jhon wesley hyatt created a material with some chemicals; so the plastic materials became very famous to making for example: clothing made with nylon, artificial fiber, containers, etc.
Consequences
The use of plastic has increased and also its impact
- Five plastic islands have been detected: two in the Pacific, two in the Atlantic and one in the Indian ocean, but in this moment there are more.
- Several marine species have died for ingesting plastic.
- The chemicals in this materials contaminate the sea.
what we can do ?
First, the government have to establish for the use of plastic be reduced, ensure the correct management of recycling also encourage the environment care
we can reduce the use of plastic ceasing to be consumerists thinking about the damage that we can do it in a future.
- we can have the use of cloth bags because there are very easy to get or you can have baskets when you go to buy something.
- Don't buy disposable products, for example: straws or packaged products
- if we buy this products you can re-use them
