Tuesday 8 July 2008

The Blogging Experience

It sounds like a progresive metal band, but it isn't.
This was my very first time that I wrote in a blog. At the beginning it was very awkward. I felt strange. Me writing in a blog, unbelievable. I always said blogging was for people who doesn't had a life, and so on.
In this english course I was forced to create one and to post relatively often. With the tame I felt more familiar with it. I don't know if I learnt more english this way, but at least I'm making the effort of writting, and that helps for sure.

...unfinished...

Brassed Off


Brassed Off is a movie, that shows how citicens from a mining comunity are forced to leave their jobs and town, because the British Coal Board is going to close the mine very soon. At the beginning it seems like it was going to be a very boring movie. But as long as we were watching it, I noticed that it wasn't boring, and that the main characters were also famous.
The story is related to band of this small town. A band that is going down because the musicians are in danger of loosing their job in the mine. But they recover their enthusiasm when a very good looking women join the band. She was the doughter of an old band director, and in her childhood, she was also a good friend from an integrant of the band.
They even participate in a competicion, while in the other hand, they were whitout jobs and their family were almost starving.
I won't write the whole movie, so you can see it in the future.
I liked the move, it was funny, but most of all, i learned a little frome that situation. That reality the english mining towns were forced to live.

Sunday 6 July 2008

Me? Reading? .. Ok, it's true



You have to read a lot, as much as you are able to, newspapers, novels, whatever you want. That's the message I got from my parents when I was a child. Reading, you learn new words, new contents, opinions from other people, new cultures and bla bla bla. That was the speech I used to hear. At school, i hated books, reading was so boring. Maybe because those books where awfull.The thing is that i hated everything related with books. Sometimes I read the newspaper, not the whole thing, but some articles, or some lines to be honest.
Here is the thing. One Summer, I decided to read something, a book, so I could close my parents mouth. I took the most popular book at that moment. Avoiding the risk of choosing something boring. I took a controvercial one, "The Davinci Code" written by Dan Brown.
It doesn't matter in wich religion you believe, of course they talk shit about the oppus dei, and tell facts some people say they are all lies, and for others true facts. Ignoring that or going beyond it, the secuences are great! It is like a serial from TV. As soon as you finish one chapter, you feel the need of reading the next one. And so on on every chapter. And it's like five in the morning and you still don't want to go to sleep, you have to make an effort to stop reading and leave something for the next day.
This Book. is the longest book I have read in my life and in less time. It was less than a week! For me that is a great succes.
I recomended it to everyone. Not for nothing was a best seller, and the most commented topic in more than a year.
'till next post, bye