amsterdam

Last year, people from the scientific Bachillerato went to Amsterdam on an exchange.

People from Amsterdam came first to Spain. We showed them our historical monuments like the Cathedral, the Giralda...and we also did interesting things with our teacher Gloria.

Once we were in Amsterdam, one of the most amazing cities I have ever visited, we met our host families. There were really nice and lovely. I was very lucky because my exchange student, Iris Cuppen, was crazy, and I love her.

We tasted the the typical Dutch food, like Hagelslag and Poferbges, but in the end, we finished eating in Mcdonalds the majority of the days.

We made some school trips with our Dutch partners. One of them was climbing trees. It was a bit frightenning for me due to my terrible scare of heights.

Besides, we went to many parties. They were much bigger than in Spain and we could get in the discos being over 16 years old.

To sum up, I would say that we all became really good friends of them. I personally did. When our week finished we all were really sad, but my exchange student invited me to go to Amsterdam in summer, so I saw her and the other people again and she also came back with me in the plane to Spain after a week in Amsterdam.

I`m sure we will see them all as soon as possible. It was the best exchange I´ve ever done!!

EARLIEST MEMORIES

The first time I went to high school was 6 years ago. It was the first time I was not at my old school where I knew everyone, but at a new high school with thousands of new faces.

There is something that I will never forget, to get to class on the first day, the first teacher I saw, was Isabel Celis, and surprisingly but true,she was speaking in Spanish. The next day I realized that she only spoke Spanish because it was the first day.

One of the things that shocked me was that there was a different teacher for each subject. It was not like at school where one teacher taught me all the subjets.

Furthermore, i can remember that there was a traffic signal in some parts of the high school. Once,i crossed one of them that said that i couldn´t get through, and my art teacher saw me. He was angry with me and i felt really embarrased.

Besides, there was a teacher who i loved. Her name is Adriana, and she taught me french. I can perfectly remember her entertaining classes.

To sum up, i would say that there were some thing that i will never forget as my first teacher in Secundary Education and my anecdots with traffic signals.
 It was a good year.

CRASH

People are born with good hearts, but they grow up and learn prejudices. "Crash" is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. From that point, we are taken back to the day before the crash, seeing the lives of several characters, and the problems each encounters during that day. An LAPD cop (Matt Dillon) is trying to get medical help for his father, but he is having problems with a black HMO clerk who won't give his father permission to see another doctor. He in turn takes out his frustration on a black couple during a traffic stop. A socialite (Sandra Bullock) and District Attorney (Brandon Fraser) are carjacked at gunpoint by two black teenagers. Sandra takes out her anger on a Mexican locksmith who is changing the door locks to their home. Later that night, the locksmith is again robbed of his dignity by a Persian store-owner. Many of the characters switch from being bad-person-to-hero in ways that may surprise you. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy) It's a wonderful movie!

Crash

Crash is a film directed by Paul Haggis of how the lifes of completely different citizens of L.A. . Racism is constantly present during the movie, and is the cement that keep their lifes together. A racist cop and his idealist workmate, an iranian store owner, a couple of rich afroamericans, an hispanic lockman, these are some of the protagonists of the film whose lifes will be crossed with each other due to the discovery of a dead corpse. The film shows really well the situation of the U.S.A. after 11-S, where everyone mistrust foreigners and racism feed hate. Most of the characters act attending to their wishes, and if they are against racism it is because it carries benefits for them. Policemen use their authority to discriminate black people and foreigners, and these claim for their rights. Watching the film was a bit strange, although racism still exists today I wouldn´t think it could reach this limits, at least in Spain, and it is a relief to see that this situation has improved in many countries, but there is still work to be done

crash

Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama from director and screenwriter Paul_Haggis. Graham is a police detective whose brother is a street criminal, and it hurts him to know his mother cares more about his ne'er-do-well brother than him. Graham's partner is Ria , who is also his girlfriend, though she has begun to bristle at his emotional distance, as well as his occasional insensitivity over the fact he's African-American and she's Hispanic. Rick is an L.A. district attorney whose wife, Jean , makes little secret of her fear and hatred of people unlike herself. Jean's worst imaginings about people of color are confirmed when her SUV is carjacked by two African American men Anthony , who dislikes white people as much as Jean hates blacks, and Peter , who is more open minded. Cameron is a well-to-do African-American television producer with a beautiful wife, Cristine. While coming home from a party, Cameron and Christine are pulled over by Officer Ryan , who subjects them to a humiliating interrogation (and her to an inappropriate search) while his new partner, Officer Hansen , looks on. Daniel is a hard-working locksmith and dedicated father who discovers that his looks don't lead many of his customers to trust him. And Farhad is a Middle Eastern shopkeeper who is so constantly threatened in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that he decided he needs a gun to defend his family. Crash was the first directorial project for award-winning television and film writer Haggis. Mark Deming, Rovi

Crash review

Chopped up and linked together in daisy chain fashion, Crash tells the story of people from wildly disparate walks of life as they collide and intersect with one another. Each life is in some way personally affected, changed, damaged, or victimized by racism. They’re also all in some way guilty of racism themselves. There is no one without spot here, and just when you think you’ve got a character nailed down first time director and screenwriter Paul Haggis peels back another layer to reveal something else entirely underneath. A racist cop molests a black couple, only later to risk his life to save a black woman; an honest cop protects a black man from discrimination only to later discriminate against someone himself. There are no easy answers in Crash and though sometimes the characters rise above their baser fears and intolerance, no one leaves the film unscathed. 

Crash

Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a grup of disparate people's lives combine as they deal with the tense race relations that pervert life in the city. The ''playes'' are: the Caucasian district attorney, who is always using race as a political card; his Caucasian wife, who, having recently been carjacked by two black men, believes that her views of black is justified and cannot be considered racism; the two black carjackers who use their race and take advantage of it; a black film director and his black wife, whose wife believes her husband doesn't support their black background. There are some other characters, but they are not that important. I really liked the film because is a drama that makes you wonder about life, specially about facts and coincidences in our lifes. If I were you, I wouldn't keep going without watching it!! In fact, I'm wishing to see it again soon!! The film of the coincidence. The film of the fate. This film made me wonder how much decision we have on our future, or is everything already defined? Is the path of our lifes already design before we are born? Is there there an unanswerable fate we cannot change? . This film shows us that coincidence doesn't exist. Everything is already planned. Surprising facts come to us as hope, but they aren't. In the film every family had his own story and path, but in the end them all where part of the same big one. That's why, perhaps, from the moment we are born we have unconsciously designed what are we going to do and be in our life. Anyway, we have to enjoy it, because I still believe our life is design while we live, the decision we make along our life are the ones that actually design our life. However, there are some moments and situations that make me wonder if what the film shows is actually true, because, after all, life goes round and round millions of time, what makes difficult to guess where we could end up, but when we arrive there we sometimes beieve we knew we were. Anyway, life is a everywhere path.