Law Course

On Monday and Tuesday of the seventh week a barrister of Galway called James Fahy come to our class to teach us a law course. We were the whole Monday and Tuesday and we learned a lot of things.
The first day we talked about the law in Ireland and the courts that you can find. We also talked about the barristers, the solicitors, the judges and the lawyers. It also explained us some civil cases that he did and the result of them.

I think the first day was the hardest because the law its a very difficult topic and more if it isn't in your own language.
On Tuesday we talked about a lot of different criminal cases, the buildings where the criminal judgments take place and the resolution for them. There were many interesting cases of murders, violations or only simply confusions that ends in the jail. Another thing that we did was try to decide the result of some very difficults cases like if we were the judges and was very difficult decide because both answer had reason.

Finally we simulated a real judgment of a case of violent behavior in a plane.
Some people were barristers, another solicitors, James was the judge, another people were witnesses like the captain of the plane, some staff of the plane, the guard that capture the suspect and some passengers. Finally the people left were the popular jury.
At the end of the judgment the accused was declared guilty and he had to pay a fine of 5 euros!!!
It was a good experience and my favourite part was to know strange real cases of criminals or normal people. See you in the next post!!!!!

Sixth week

This week passed very fast!!!
In History and English we talking about our books and
 we started to write a Gothic story.
In Languages we worked our French and we presented
 our Irish's works.
In Careers we worked in our book doing activities and
talking about careers.
In Woodwork and Business we started to do our products
and we started to plan the business part of the project, we
had to decide the name of the team, the price of the product, how many products we were going to do...
In Maths we continued learning about statistics.
In Geography we analysed a situation of a poor family and we had to decide which things can be improved for them.
In Web Design we continued our blogs, in Engineering and Art we drew sketches of our ideas for the project.
In Science we did a prototype for the Egg Drop Challenge and we started to do our definitive work to drop the egg the next week.
In Home Economics we learned about teenagers' relationships and in P.E. we did badminton.
Finally in Religion we talk about poverty, and was very interesting.
My favourite of the week was Friday because we did a lot of works for our work experience helping teachers and staff of the school.

 

 

Fifth week

This week was quite great!!!
In Drama and Music, we were reading a theatre piece.
On Thursday, we went to Moate to an art park (I wrote a post about this trip) and the others days in art, engineering and web design we continue with our project to make an sculpture and we continue with the blog of our Spanish high school.
In home economics we did the soup with our ingredients and it was good. We carried our soups to our houses to eat it.
In Maths we continue talking about statistics and in History and English we were talking about the book that we are reading and the Gothic literature.

In Geography we talked about the hunger and its effects.

In Woodwork and Business we continued making our products to sell them before Christmas.
Finally, in Science we planned our egg drop challenge and in Careers we were making our work experience diary and working in the work.

That was a summary of the week, I hope that the next week will be also good.

Spanish life (2)

Hello!! In this post I want to talk about a topic that some people asked me about Spain and I think they are not correct about it. They said me that if in Spain we like to kill bulls... Mmmm, OK. In Spain is a ''tradition'' do bullfights and finally the bullfighter kill the bull.
This tradition is more of the mainland of Spain than in the Canary Islands that the place that I live, and there are less bullfights than in the mainlands.
I think that this tradition, in my opinion is very absurd because you killing an animal, a living being, only for fun, not all the Spanish people like the bullfights and like see how to an animal die, it's more, there are a lot of people that think like me and a lot animal protection associations that are trying to ban this type of activities, but that it's difficult because many people like it and it's considered a ''tradition''.
I saw the obligation to do this post because many people was asking me and I think that is a topic that I had to talk about. Thank you for read it and have a good day :-)

Trip to Moate: Art in the Park

The Thursday of the fifth week we went to Moate, in Athlone, to a park called ''Dun na si''. We went there to find ideas for sculptures to participate in the competition that the park organise every year. We left the high school at nine o'clock and we arrived in Moate one hour after.
First we went around the park taking pictures of the sculptures and then we walk around it taking notes and sketches of the sculptures.

After that we walk to the centre of the town and we went to a Supermac's and a Supervalue and finally we return to our high school and we arrived there at quarter past two.
I think that it was a good trip because it helped me to find ideas for my art project and I also went to a new place in Ireland.
I like so much the park and the town and I would another day to that place. See you!!!

Fourth week

Hello everybody! This week was hard because we had to do and think about a lot of works and projects. On Monday, we did our second soccer training and we were ready to our match on Friday, but the other team was better and we lose thirteen-one but I pass a great time playing with my team-mates!
In History, we continue learning about protests song relacionated with famous moments of the History and in English we learned the characteristics of the gothic literature.
In Home Economics we studied the relationships in teenagers and in Maths we started to learned statistics.
In Geography we talked about the hunger in the world and in Sciences we searched information about different planets and if we can live there.
In Religion and Woodwork we continue with project of the past week and in P.E. we played Badminton and team games.
It was a very intense week and I'm learning a lot of things!
Bye, see you in the next post!

Baby's project

This weekend I had to look after a baby (is not a real baby, it's a doll) that cry and I had to change her nappies, feed her or help her to burp or to sleep. It was a experience to think about the responsibilities of be a young father. I didn't like it because sometimes the baby cried like 30 minutes and she also cried in the morning at four o'clock and the next day I was very tired. We also had to write the hours that the baby cried, what we were doing at that moment and also what care does the baby need.
I still have to do another works like the price of my baby's life that is put a total price per day, month and year for all the things that the baby need. And also I have to do a poster talking about a topic related with babies.
Conclusion: It was a good experience but... don't be a young father. See you in the next post!

 

Spanish Life (1)

In this type of posts I'm going to talk about Spanish life and customs. In the first post (this) I'm going to put here some Spanish music of my favourites Spanish singers.
This song is "Por fin te encontre" of Cali y el Dandee ft. Juan Magan and Sebastian Yatra.
If you like the music you can find more information in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali_%26_El_Dandee . There are some of their songs with lyrics in English in Youtube.