GAP YEAR PRESENTATION

Here I left you the oral presentation that we had last month about a gap year in Fiji. In this presentation we made up a theatre of three girls who go to Fiji during three months for a gap year. Then we made a video which we presented in class explaining how was the experience, that we never lived. 

The theatrical part came out well but we were some nervous and talked quickly. Then the sound of the video didn't be good, so it was a big mistake but our classmates understood the finality of our presentation and I think they spend a funny time. 

WE DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT MENSTRUATION AND GIRLS ARE PAYING A PRICE

This article is a study on the involvement of menstruation in the low-income countries as Kenia. In much of these countries menstruation is a taboo and shame point. For this reason thare are little infromation on this topic which causes most girls have problems and limited information about it.

As the menstruation cause embarrassement most of them carry it secretly. In most of them cultures the men don't let them eat some foods because they cause bad smell, or don't let them get a shower or even don't let them go home. In others cultures they think the menstruation come because they have had sex.

The schools aren't adapted to these circumstances and the most of the teachers make worse the situation because they force the students to stand up for make a question or for answer a question. So, they are stained and embarass them in front of the class. 

There have been various studies in Kenia which has been obtained information of girls in these countries. Some of them use grass to clean themselves because their parents don't buy them wipes, and even many prostitued themselves to earn money for their hygiene.

The embarassed that cause the menstruation to involved many more cases of rape and `physical abuse, making increase the name of gender violence in these countries. The OMS has organized various talks to hand the menstrual cup that does not involve replacing it on every occasion but clean.

The artilce ended saying the project started because the women of modern countires have complained about the price of tampons and because now they aren't repressed to discuss this issue.

I'm agree of this project because some times I'm feel repressed for talk about this topic with someone. If we, that live in a industralizated country have problems with the intime hygiene, I can imagine the problems that have the girls of the third world. When I'll be dependent I'll invest and I'll help in investigations of this area because it is an important thing in a life of a  women. In this article I learn new words as pad, compounded and pitfalls.

You can find the article in this website: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/may/28/we-dont-know-enough-about-menstruation-and-girls-are-paying-a-price

WE LIVE IN A MODERN SOCIETY ?

Presently we thought that we live in a modern society. Well, we use electrical appliance, mobile phons with an advance technology, Internet, modern cars... but it is also things, material. I think that we had envolved material thing but the psychological aspects or social harmony don't envolved as the other scope. 

I mean, there are a lot of people that are homosexual and although we say many time doesn't matter, but the most of the society hold their in contempt, or don't know how treat their, but they are persons. With the transexual past the same, and it is much worse because many times the people laugh when someone explains that he/she is in the body of the opposite sex caught. 

When someone had a disability everybody sympathizes with him. But that person doesn't worry his problem, they are tormented for the things that other people say to him. 

I think the problem is the acceptance of the society because we still caught in the thoughts and mentality of generations ago. We have to show tolerance and thus we are teaching the next generations have to accept people who excel in the "normal", if there is a normal.

LITERARY ROUTE

A literary route is a organizated way around one city based in a spaces that appeared in the story. This third term in spanish subject the students had to made a literary route about any book that we read. All the books are oriented in Barcelona, so yesterday we went to Barcelona for did it. 

I did it with to classmate more. We did this route about the novel "Nada" writted by Carme Laforet. Our task was recorded us talking about the place where we stay but saying it to another group, which after they did their route to us.

The spaces that we went over were:

Aribau Street (Carrer d'Aribau): In this steet, the protagonist lived in the house number 36. The writer of the novel lived there, too. 

University square (Plaça de la Universitat): In this square the protagonist met her friends in the story. And she spend a lot of time there because she study in the university.

Via Layetana: In this street lived the best friend of the protaqgonist. So, she was accustomed to walked it. 

Montcada Street: This street were the bohemian study of artists. The protagonist know it because her friend showed it. 

Santa Maria Basilica: It is a basilica that the protagonist dicovered in one of her walks. 

France Station: It is a train station, the station where the protagonist arrived. 

Santa Creu Church: It is the famous church of Barcelona. The protagonist discovered it in once of her walks during one night. 

The route was an unique experience that was useful for me because I learned to organizate a route and for meet new places that I never seen in Barcelona. 

If you want there I leave the video of the literary route but it is in Spanish.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Wuthering Heights is a book about a passionate love story between Catherine Earnshaw, belongs to a bourgeois family, and Heathcliff, tramp adopted by this family. But the social differences did that they had to separated and Catherine get married with Edgar Linton, that belongs to a bourgeois family too.  Catherine didn't be happy in her family and her new house and fall ill and this is added that her husband's sister ran away with Heathcliff and married in secretly. After this love story there was another between Catherine and Edgar's daughter called Catherine and Heathcliff's son called Linton. But didn't last long because Linton died, and Harenton Earnshaw, Catherine's cousin, fall in love with her.  

The most impressive of this novel is the narration. There past, specifically from the beginning of the love story between Catherine and Heathcliff to when Catherine married with Linton. So, the past is narrated by a maid called Nelly that saw this love story. And the present is explained by Lockwood a man who rent a house that owns Heathcliff. 

On the other hand I didn't like the atmosphere. It was negative, depressing, with deaths at all ours, with hints of mystery and fear. The spaces described in all the book are dull, cloudy, with storms, terror... It explains the name of the novel. 

It is a fabulous story and book if you like love stories. But it isn't the typical love story because always win the death. So, I recommend it because in spit of it is a fantastic novel because the way that it is narrated and the characters introduced you quickly. 

DACHAU

How I commented in last post, I participated in a project called "Exile, deportation and the Holocaust". In this trip we visited Dachau, one of the first of fields visits in Germany. In once century ago, there was a horror place where dead millions of persons. But presently, there are some ruines of this fields visits which help you to rebuild the past.

It is situated in 13 kilometers in the northwest of Munich, in Bayern. The field was build in a gunpowder abandoned factory which was used during the First World War for manufacture weapons. Dachau fields visits was built in 21st of March of 1933 and the next day was opened. It is one of the most visited and know of the nazis concentration camps. 

There I could see the reconstruction of some barracks where the prisoners slept, the prison of the camp, the church that is next to the crematorium where bodies were burned. And beside there were gas chamber. In the central courtyard in the fields visits were some cultures that conmemore all the victims, and there were ashes of somebody that has burned in the crematorium.

When I was there, some feeling invaded me. It was something as impotence, distress, fear and presence of others beings. When I entered to gas chamber, all was cold, dark and in silence. If everybody remained quiet you could imagine the people closed there and shouting because they wanted to get out. 

This were my experience in Dachau, where I can imagine ordeals that live people during the Second World War. 

WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SPANISH REPUBLICANS

Spain had been in a dictatorship by Franco. Before the dictatorship had been established there was a civil war from 1936 to 1939. In this period of time most of the Spanish republicans had been obligated to be exiled for fear of reprisals by the victors and the dictatorial political regime established in Spain.  This Spanish refugees walked to France, and most of them had carried to concentration camps as Dachau, Gusen, Mathausen...

This year has initiated a project called "Exile, deportation and the Holocaust". It was a project conducted last months for 1Baccalaureate students. Once of the firsts weeks of February the students of some high schools of Alt Emporà went to MUME Museum for listen the experience of a refugee Spanish when he had nine years old. Then the first week of April four high school that participated in this project were undertaken to a travel to Austria and Germany. 

In this trip we visit the remains of Gusen, Mathausen, Hartheim Castle, Dachau, Neuschwanstein and some city as Munich. 

In a certain way it was a study tour that could us walked in the footsteps of Spanish republicans. We met new people, places and the horror that a lot of people lived few years ago. The teachers that came with us told us that next year it will be repeat and I recommend it, because knew and revived the past. It was a wonderful and great study tour.