Friday 31 August 2007

Raquel S!



My name is Raquel im 16 years old and I love to be called Rak by all my friends.My goal this yeas is to get an A* at the Enlish IGCSE.Im still not sure of what I want to be when I grow up.
I like to spend my time swimming or with my family and friends, I believe that friendship is a great feeling that motivates me to keep going.

Bernardo Magnani



Hello, my name is Bernardo Magnani, I love listening to music; Melodic Death Metal, Jazz, Technical Metal, Progressive, Rock, Blues, Alternative, Heavy Metal, Pop, Gospel, etc. etc. etc... I play bass and I enojoy writing playing and composing music. Love art; literature, painting, photography, maovies, music, etc.

One of my main academic goals this year is to improve my creative writing in English, so that I can achive a B an A or maybe an A° in my coming IGCSE.

-My Inpiration...

My main inpiration comes maily form art; music, painting, literature and sculture. I love art that much because sais lots in just a look or a sound.

Wednesday 29 August 2007

Federico Hemmer


My name is Federico , when I leave school I´ll enter into the design career .
In English I want to achieve an A* by working hard , completing all tasks etc etc.

The work of Chris Cunningham inspires my way of thinking through design.
By creating progressive items that enter into the minimalist contrast , he creates an atmosphere inbolving a very fine flow of surrealism that at the same time represent the popular expressionism.
What I have done so far in design reflects a duality between elements found in life giving an especial feeling by each material used in my work.
By having my ideals well placed I want to achieve great grades in order to have the best university education that I can find in my design carreer.These ambitions inspires me to continue working hard.

Michelle Bandal



My name is Michelle, I want to get a great grade in my english IGCSE.

Millaray Carranza



My name is Millaray Carranza. This year I want to get an A in English.This are some of the thins I love doing;Cooking,Shopping and travelling.

Dear diary:

I remembered about the moment I started with my cooking. I got feminine chicken pox at the age of seven. I had coat the sickness at school, all my school friends had it. My mother had brought me to the doctor’s office that evening and the pediatrician had put me on a protector cream to take that ichie thing of me, and told my mother to have me rest in bed.

I rested in bed for about ten days. My mother recalls that on the tenth night when she put me to bed, my lips were more red than usual, ( that was because I ate a lollipop before I went to bed).
It was horrible I was board the only thing I could do was see tv but not all the time; at first I thought It was interesting and I was so happy I could stay home and see tv but after the sixth day I felt stuffed.
The last thing I seen in the television was a cooking lesson in Hawaii the tv was on but my brain wasn’t so I did not put attention at all at the program.

Day 7: at night at 4am I dreamed about a lovely dinner with my favorite things but the strangest thing was that the chef was me. It was horrible but the best thing I remembered was that the food was better than ever.

The next morning about 8:00 A.M., I woke up and hoped that I could taste that love taste I had ate the night before again today. That day was the day I had the strangest thought, when I went back in my dream I remembered that the chef was me so the creasiest idea came to my head. I run down the stairs to the kitchen and started with my buffet.

That’s why 8 years later I feel motivated by cooking and also the cooking has converted in the best thing I can do in my free time.
Going back the only thing I can say is that maybe I was a bit crazy or steal are but that moment changed my life forever.

So dear diary that’s why…
Today I was looking out the window and I imagine how great it would be to have a dinner with my friends. I imagined it like the best day of my life. That moment without thinking it twice I called my friends, I felt so motivated I invited them to a dinner by 9 pm. Obviously I was doing the cooking.
I was really happy, I felted and inspiration I rarely feel. I run down the stairs to my kitchen to see what I could use to create the most delicious dinner ever. Like always it seemed like the food had disappeared I had nothing I could use to make or start at least the dinner.
Therefore I went shopping. I bought a lot I could easily use it for a month. I bought rice, spaghetti, salad, soups, meat, chicken, and chocolate for the cake.
I got home and run like crazy around the kitchen, I had only 5 hours left to do everything the cooking, the table, and my self. I stared of by the salad I made two different types of salads Cesar salad, and Caprese salad, I prepared the dressings for the chicken and the meat, mean while the spaghettis cooked. The last thing I did was the deserts; brownie, chocolate cookies, Alfajores and cheese cake. I had everything ready to go the table was already too.
The only thing missing was me. That’s when the closet came out all my room was field with clothe sweaters, jumpers, jeans, pants, shoes, t-shirts etc.. But finally I found it the perfect match ever.
I was ready to have the amazing dinner ever it was perfect I felt so happy and proud of my self I run like crazy in the last five hours but at the end everything was perfect and ready.
The conclusion is dear diary that I may have run like crazy in the last five hours but there was no other feeling than seeing and feeling that feeling of proud.

Edi (Eduardo Alva)




My name is Eduardo, but I like being called edi, eddie, eddy, etc. This year I want to achieve my best at English by getting an A*.
I want to study marketing or something similiar related with money and the market, my strongest option is market study. I love listening to music (classic Rock, Led Zeppelin, The Who, etc) and be with my friends at weekends. :) ;) :P
PS. I love soccer. My favourite team is Juventus. :)


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Motivation!!! What Makes Me Feel It???

School can be really tedious, especially when there are loads of homework and classes you hate and find really boring, like math or spanish. You have to wake up every school day (like daily), when there isn’t even sunlight!

But there is always that kind of things, minor details that make you able to continue that monotonous daily schedule which sometimes makes you go nuts. The type of things that makes of life something really cool: Friends, family, trips (with friends), and cool classes (like English) and so on.

For example, one Tuesday in the afternoon I was sitting in front of my computer with nothing else to do, really boring. There even wasn’t any homework to waste some time on, when suddenly my cell phone rang and it was by best friend, Jan. He told me he was going to the Roger Waters gig and he invited me. I didn’t even know Roger Waters were coming to Mexico and that many years ago he was a member of Pink Floyd! I asked my mum if I could go, she said I had to ask my dad, so I told Jan I had to call my dad and that then I would call him. I was 100% my dad would let me as he is also a Pink Floyd fan. I called my dad for authorisation and I finally went. It was the best concert I had ever been to: the music, the visual images, my favourite songs, I couldn’t believe it, it was really amazing and I couldn’t believe that one of the best moments of my life was planned in two seconds my a simple phone call.

I find that many of the greatest situations of my life are those that are not planned but spontaneous, always in the company of those who you love, friends and family. And even though I know my life, like many other millions around the world aren’t that influent in the course of the human history, the universe or a deeper meaning of life, I found that the meaning of life is to give it a meaning. It doesn’t matter if your life is almost insignificant in the world, as long as you feel happy in it, as long as you can live your life enjoying it with does who you love and doing what you like without worrying that much on your existence, as long as you feel the way you want to feel I think life’s something worth full to live.

Music, my favourite artists are Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and many others. I think if I had to choose something (apart from those who you love) in life that I couldn’t live with it would really be music. Life without music would be really tough; I can have TV, Internet, even electricity. I think music really defines you as a person as it is also an expressive art, that’s why I couldn’t live without it, TV and Internet are really silly things, not music. Music is one of those minor details, which makes of life something fantastic.

My Dream Car!


Edi

tonny maza




Hi, my name is Tonny. This year im going to get an A in English!!!! I enjoy learning in groups and finding things out for myself. I love anime, ninjai and ninjutsu
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i love waffles

Santiago SariƱana


Hi, my name is Santiago and I'm going to get an A* or an A
I like to learn by interacting, when I grow up I want to be a Chef. I am going to France when I grow up to study cooking.

What Motivates Me?
At school I'm motivated to keep on working and to get good marks when I think about my future and all the "Doors" that can open if I'm successful at this school.
When I'm big I want to go study in a foreign country, Sweden to be more specific.

When I'm at Sweden I want to study at a good cooking school, since I want to be an awesome chef. I would like to study Hotel Management as well, so that i can have my own hotel in which i want my extremely good restaurant to be, I want this restaurant to be a really good and recognized one.

I am motivated as well when I think that at the end of the week I am probably going out with my friends. When I go out with my friends we usually go out to the movies, which although I like, I'm not always too keen of going, I prefer a thousand times going out to one of my friends house, or mine which is generally to the one we go since it's the one that has the biggest TV :D. I love when we go to my house and then walk to the Blockbuster to rent a movie (or a video game, but the girls hate when we do). After renting the movie we usually make a stop in the Starbucks next to it, then we head over to my place.

Weekends motivate me a lot since I get to sleep and to have lots of free time which I spend however I want. Weekends are what motivate me to do my Homework, because if I don't do it then I have to stay at home doing it, which is something I hate, so just thinking about weekends motivates me to do my homework.

My family has a big influence in my motivation as well. I am the biggest brother out of 3, I have a smaller brother named Emilio who is 14 years old and a little sister named Valentina who is 11 years old. Having a smaller brother and sister motivates me by making me think that I might influence in one of their decisions (My sister more likely my brother thinks he's 18). Valentina ALWAYS asks me to help her with her English homework which is something i hate doing, but it's something i must do being the older brother.


Who I Admire (Thus motivates me)
My mother doesn't know much English so whenever we go to the states I'm the one that does all the talking, unless I'm angry at the moment, in which case my mom will speak in her horrible English but she doesn't care what other people might think about her, she only cares for her and her family, this is why I admire her, because she is the less shy person I know. She motivates me to not be shy whenever I give presentations in front of an audience.

My father is a person I greatly admire because he has an awesome job: He owns a publicity company that has offices all around the world (He owns the Mexico one, not the whole Corp.) I love going to his office because over there at the basement they create video games for different clients, and my brother and sister and I get to test them and sometimes make corrections to the games. My father motivates me because he has a job that he loves to do, so he is not bored at work, and that is something I want when I grow up.

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Renata Altamirano



My name is Renata, and this year im going to get an A in English!!!! I like finishing my homework early in the afternoon so I can get to do everything i like afterwards.... :) In the future im planing on getting into a great college and traveling around the world with my family!!!! I enjoy writing pieces of work in english, and evrytime I get better at it.

Who I Admire: Dear Diary, Today I spent the whole afternoon with my grandmother, Delfina, I knew I loved her a lot, but I realized how much I admire her. This year she will turn 81 years old, and she is still the most active woman I know. She married my grandfather 50 years ago and had four children. At the present time, all of them except for my mother live in different states here in Mexico; however that doesn’t stop my grandma from calling them every week and making sure they are all right. My grandma is originally from Cuba; however, she married in Brazil and then moved to Mexico like she always wanted. She has always worked hard; she went to college in Cuba and after all her children grew up, she went to school again to get her Master’s and PHD. Followed by that, she started as a teacher in Psychology and Human Development at the “Universidad Iberoamericana”, where she taught for 30 years until last year. She would never miss a lesson, we would say: “Why don’t you skip your Friday lesson, and we can go for a long weekend to Acapulco.” But she would make us wait and leave until Saturday because she wouldn’t have the students waiting for her. Now that she is older, she retired and spends her weekends going to the movies with my grandpa, which she enjoys very much. Also we get together every weekend for a meal or to go for a walk. For her birthday, I gave her a notebook with blank spaces for her to fill in about her own life story, and she will hopefully give it to me sooner or later. My grandmother motivates me and I admire her very much, because by now, that she is 80 years old, she has achieved all the goals and dreams she had since she was young. She was really successful at school and worked hard to get her PHD. All her students respect her very much, even though she is very strict. I hope one day I look back, and be happy that I made accomplished all my goals. The one at the moment I'm trying to get, is my A or A* in English!!!

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Monday 27 August 2007

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Julen Murgia


hey,my name is Julen ... hmmm I like acomplishing things!! well when I put my mind to it and if I like what I´m trying to acomplish, for example music, I love music and I play guitar, I also love martial arts. In english this year, I´m hoping to get at least an "A" XD Ilove ninjutsu and parkour!!!E.N.T. Fons & Julen

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I really love all kinds of arts, music, photography, drawing, martial arts, etc. One of my furthermost inspirations in music is my brother. I started playing the guitar around the age of ten. My brother was already a musician, he played the guitar and had a rock band with his friends, he was the first to introduce the guitar in my life.

My brother is now living in Barcelona with his girl friend and his best friend (Jay Jay’s brother). He is a musical composer and has sold many discs. He started as a rock composer and had a band with his friends, however as time went by, he started getting more and more engrossed by psycho electronic music.

My brother has also inspired me in other ways; his intellect, way of thinking and his way of looking at things are the things that certainly motivate me. He is an eminent person, although some times we disagree with each other, he has helped me in so much things in many ways and has permanently been a grate inspiration and motivation in my life.

Another of my greatest motivations are martial arts. I want to be one of the best at martial arts and parkour. Ever sins I was young, I had a great affinity for martial arts and urban ninjism. I started martial arts around the age of eight, and consequently loved it. I have dunn about five different martial arts in my life, karate, tae-kuan-do, kung fu, jiujutsu, and, the one that I most love and favor, ninjutsu.

Through out the years, the martial art, which I love most and still up to date practice, is ninjutsu. Ninjutsu is what I take to be the most complete, varied, efficient martial art there is; ninjutsu uses techniques of different martial arts to have more knowledge and ability to be able to thrive above all.

Still, I think that the greatest of both my motivations and inspirations are my friends. I don’t know what I would do or where I would be with out them; probably lost. My friends always help and support me when I am most needy; and I am motivated to help them and be of support when ever they are in need; and never give up...

andy




My name is Andrea and i'm 15. I live at my house with my parents and my sister Natalia.
What I like to do for fun is to hang out with my best Friends Claire, Natalia, Maria, Paola, Moni, Raquel and Cosima, and just go to starbucks and talk but we also are known as the Royal Scandals (hehe) because we always go to parties and end up doing something crazy.
When I feel really low and want to feel motivated, I either talk to one of my friends and go for a coffe or just star listening to music (loud).
What motivates me at school are my friends but also my family because they're always cheereing me up and making positive comments and I just feel really happy and work better.
I know that this year I will get an A* because I really enjoy english specially writting about what I want.
What I like to for fun is to play the guitarr (though I'm not good) and write in my diary because I always feel better.
My favourite band are the Beatles because I love tehy're music.
For me, motivation is a really complicated thing, because it means that you have to feel secure enough to achieve something you really want, and no all peaple can do that...When you feel motivated, you feel happy and thats why you achieve your goal.
I really want to get an "A" in english because I really like writing and it exites me that i'm capable of speaking a second language and I think it opens you lots of doors to the future.
Motivation is one of my favourite words because it mean "feelling positive and capable" and although is hard to sometimes achieve that, when you get to it you feel pretty ggood about yourself.

Jose Julio Perez Lerma



OPTIONS!!

1 WRITE A SPEECH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES YOU.

2 WRITE A DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON THAT HAS IMFLUENCED YOUR LIFE

3 WRITE A PIECE ON WHAT MOTIVATES YOU FOR A NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE, A WEBLOG, ANYTHING!!

4 DESCRIBE INCIDENTS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED YOUR LIFE

5 DESCRIBE AMBITIONS

6 DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING IN THE FUTURE

Answer for question number 2:

I'll be desccribing on two of the most important people in my life which is my sister Ximena and my brother Carlos. Well my sister lives in London, she has lived there for a little bit more than 3 years now. She has a very important and facinating job, she works at the Savoy Hotel, one of the most old and classic hotels in the UK. Ximena has travelled literally throughout the whole world, she has visited almost every corner od the planet within 5 years since she left her homeland Mexico to study at Les Roches academy of hotel managing. She currently lives with her boyfriend Chris, a hardwork australian which I pleasantly go along with.
My brother Carlos lives currently in Barcelona Spain (before he lived in Madrid)with his best friend, he left Mexico to study music 3 years ago and I have never seen him since, but I know he is doing great, he is a great musician he has composed very creative ideas along with his best friend Mikeldi. These two people have influenced my life a lot, I really want to do what they have done so far such as travelling, know different cultures, how do people live in other places?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wivt86gAQig

OPTIONS!!

1 WRITE A SPEECH ABOUT WHAT MOTIVATES YOU.

2 WRITE A DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON THAT HAS IMFLUENCED YOUR LIFE

3 WRITE A PIECE ON WHAT MOTIVATES YOU FOR A NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE, A WEBLOG, ANYTHING!!

4 DESCRIBE INCIDENTS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED YOUR LIFE

5 DESCRIBE AMBITIONS

6 DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING IN THE FUTURE

Motivation!!

Music, words, ambitions, friends, artists, memories, people, inspirations!

I wanna see what motivates you!!

Sunday 26 August 2007

THE A TEAM

Hello A TEAM and welcome to YOUR website!

Hello A TEAM and welcome to YOUR website!

Your first assignment which is due in on Monday 3rd September is to create a profile of what motivates you!

This can include......

moving images, photographs, podcasts, diagrams, blog journals, etc etc.....


It MUST CONTAIN....at least 500 words of your writing! IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM...NOTES..DIALOGUE...NARRATIVE...

IT MUST BE POSTED ON THE BLOG....,

IT MUST INCLUDE MORE THAN TWO FORMS OF MEDIUM....MOVING IMAGE, PHOTOGRAPHS, TEXT, RADIO...


Your work will be graded on the SEP SYSTEM - 1 - 10!!

GOOD LUCK!