HAPPINEES (COMMENT 4)

Nowadays, we don't pay much attention if we are really happy or just think we are happy. We try to fill that void with things that make us happy for a short time, then we return to search for that happiness. We simply care about feeling good and that our people are good.

So, what makes us happy? We try to search for happiness through material things without realizing that we really find it in such insignificant things, but when we lose these things, it makes us feel as if we are missing a piece of ourselves.

Although we cannot forget that to live a comfortable life and living in this capitalist society we need money. Money does not give us happiness but it helps to maintain it. It is not the same to worry about not being able to feed your children and pay for other necessary things, than to be worried about not being able to buy the latest generation mobile.

In conclusion, it is easy to be happy being with the people we love and doing the things that we are passionate of, the really difficult thing from my point of view is how to maintain it.

LIMITS(COMMENT 3)

We set our own limits every moment, we always know that we can give more of ourselves. We know our capabilities and what we are capable of doing.

Setting goals is fine, we can achieve them little by little, but we know that everything is more complicated than that. We prefer doing anything productive or being with friends and forgetting our obligations with a simple: it is too much or a similar short phrase.

Most of the time we think that there is no time to do homework or when you see that it is 11:55 and you see that the delivery time is at 12 o'clock, we understand that the problem was not time but lack of interest with which we did it and let time pass.

To sum up, we must organize time fundamentally and above all we must put more interest in the studies and the tasks we have to do and in the future we will achieve our dreams.

DO YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES/FILMS? WHY? (COMPOSITION 1)

 A few years ago, on a dark winter Friday night, I was really bored, when suddenly, I saw a fragment of a Star Wars film. I used to think that type of films was boring. But that night decided to see the first film of the saga.

It was incredible, there was action and drama, there were a lot of explosions. After that night I watched all the saga in the next weeks. What I like the most are superhero films. Last Friday, I went with my friends to the cinema to watch "Venom 2". Also, I like "Avatar" and I am expecting the second part.

I do not like all the films of the kind. For example, I hate "Matrix" or "Back to the future". I will never see them in my life.

To sum up, I like the films that have a good plot, action, and a little drama. But I do not read anything about this type.

PAU GASOL (COMMENT 2)

Pau Gasol was born on 6th July 1980 in Barcelona, Spain. He started to play basketball when he was at school. In 1997, at the age of 16, he enter FC Barcelona Basketball. Although in the past some American universities offered him to study there with a scholarship, it was in 2001 when he moved to the United States to play in the team Memphis Grizzlies.

Also, he played at Angeles Lakers, where he met his good friend Kobe Bryant, who once said “Pau Gasol is incredible”, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, and Portland Trail Blazers. He was the second Spanish player at the NBA. This year, he returned to Spain playing one more time with the FC Barcelona Basketball.

After 24 years playing basketball, One World Cup (2006), two NBA rings, three Eurobasket (2009, 2011, and 2015), three ACB leagues (1999, 2001, 2021), and a Cup’s King (2001) he has decided to retire from the basketball this October.

Personally, searching for information about Pau Gasol I have seen what a splendid player he has been, apart from how he helps society, and I can’t understand why the NBA hasn't included him at the list top-75 best NBA’s players in history. He must be in it.

SUMMER (COMMENT 1)

Next week, high school is starting, which means that the summer is over. The summer has been different from the others, but I have enjoyed this year more.

My summer started when I went to the cottage of a friend of mine. I spent the day laughing and dancing. On 25th June it was Andrea’s birthday. On July 19th I went to Salobreña, and we decided to go to a beach restaurant, and there I had a little dispute. They didn’t give me the hamburger until one hour later. On the 23rd, I went to the Molvizar’s festivities, where I met my friends.

On August 1st, I went to Isla Magica and Agua Magica. My day started at 4 am, and I arrived in Sevilla at 11 am. I went to an attraction called Jaguar. I was nervous, but it was incredible. I returned to Lobres the next day at 2 am. Although, all summer wasn’t great. I had to go to emergencies due to an infection in one of my teeth surgeries. The last day was my birthday.

The summer has gone, but we can enjoy it a little more, not forgetting the difficult and desperate current situation.

A NEW YEAR

This is the last year I am in high school. Now I am in 2º Bachillerato.

Boot Camps COMPOSITION 8

For a start, I would like to explain what a boot camp is. A boot camp is a place where boys and girls go when their parents think that they have a misbehaviour. Also, boot camps are part of the correctional and penal system of some countries. These programs are based in the military recruit training camps. Are boot camps a good idea?

Personally, I think that is not a good idea. In the majority of the cases, it doesn't work. Their behaviour does not change and force them is not a good idea.

In USA, they are very popular, but also, very critized. Teenagers go there to bee free of higher prison sentences. State-run boot camps were banned in Florida on 2006, because Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old boy died while he was in one. He was physical collapsed due to the training, but the instructors beat him and encouraged him to continue. They tried to revive him with ammonia, but he suffocated. The parents had signed a contract authorizing the use of physical force.

Although there are different types of boot camps, the ones that are used to change the misbehaviour will be banned. We have other solutions to change and help teenagers not using violence.

We Are Still Standing (COMMENT 14)

We are still standing; it is true. But, how much has our daily life changed? Everybody knows that life has changed too much; our habits, our plans, our ways to socialize... are not as they were two years ago.

If someone had told us in 2018 that our lives would drastically change in just two years, we would probably have thought that he was mad. After all, we have gone through with this pandemic due to COVID-19, it is good news to hear that thanks to the vaccines and all our efforts we are beating the coronavirus. Regarding vaccines, I do not understand why people are against them. Since the first vaccine has discovered, the vaccines have saved millions of lives.

To sum up, after a year through this horrible pandemic, we have to be honest and admit that, every day mistakes are still made. Therefore, we should be more concerned than before and stay home these Easter holidays.