What will we remember?

There’s a month to go to the end!

Only just a month, but full of exams, tasks and other things to do, things which we always postpone until the last moment.
In the end we realise that, no matter how hard we try to organise our exams so that we don’t get stressed, we never manage to do it. In the end we always have to take more than one exam a day. But I guess it is something normal since the accademic year is at an end.
And then, the summer…
Next year I’m, studying “1st course Bacharelato” –Sciences-(related to sciences and technology), which is what I like best. A lot of my school mates are dropping out of school next year, and we’ll realise then how much we miss them.

We’ll go out with some other people, we’ll do different things…, but we’ll never experience those moments we have experienced this year: some of them good, some of them bad, some others which could be better, but all of them unrepeatable.
Will we miss all we have been through? Quite likely.
Our lives will change, but we will remember with a smile-I hope, what our class -4º ESO- was like.
I also hope the good friends we’ve made this year last for a long time; such a long time that we never forget the confidence won.
I hope too that you don’t get stressed with your exams.
Good holidays!
See you soon.

The cinema in the classrooms

At the end of the third evaluation Xoán proposed us to add a new activity called Audiovisual in the classrooms 2006".
We started it in January; the activity was made up of seven two-hour sessions which mainly dealt with cinema.
It was then that we realised how complex the world of cinema is, the accuration needed and the nice time you can spend filming.We also dealt the different types of shots and their importance within a film. We made up a short story by using some photographs taken in different shots and putting them in a different order from the original one, and so we got a complete different plot.
We could also see how the film "Mar Adentro" was filmed; very interesting, indeed!
Anyway, there is still one session left; this time we are going to go to the cinema and see a Galician film.
Obviously, everything can be improved, but taking into account that it is the first time we do something of that kind at school, I consider the experience to be pretty good.
That's all and see you soon!

listen the silent...

One day our teacher, called Xoán, proposed us an activity. He told us to find a quite silent place and write everything what we heard there.
He told us that he had once visited a site (escoitar.org)))) where a man (with a recorder) recorded in a very quiet place everything he could hear, so he thought it could be a very good practise for us to do. Instead of recording it, we decided to write it, for two main reasons; 1st there aren't enough recorders for everyone and secondly, this is a ""Writing techniques" class, and this class obviously deals with writing.
In order to understand better the situation, you should know that we were all together sitting on a bench and that one of my classmates called Coral made a noise. Although it was a quite place, we were at school and there was noise.
And now comes my recording:

“-Ssssssssssssssssss...-it is heard constantly, it must be the wind. More intense at times.
-Kruaa, kruaa. ..krua,krua...KRUAA,KRUAA-a bird, sometimes...
-Piiiii-it sounds like a train.
-SSSSSS...-the wind blowing strongly now.Sometimes, it sounds like the sea.
-Ruuruuruu...-a train is passing...
-Pipipipi...- birds singing gently.
-Uuuu...-the wind sounds in my ears.
-KRUAA!KRUAA!-those birds once again.
-KRUAA! KRUAA! -new...
-Click, click, click, click- Coral striking the pen with her nail.
-Ruus..- Xoán shuffling the floor with his shoe. I hear the “Uuu.."of the wind in my ears...
-Bla, bla, bla...-far away, I can hear the students talking.
-Pan, pan, panpan, panpan. ..-someone strikes the bank with his foot.
-Ras, ras, ras. ..-the leaves of the filing cabinet are passing with the wind.
-Sssss.. - The wind, again.
-Ras, ras, RAAAS! -a motorcycle on the road-RAAAAAA...S!
-Pan...pan...pan-Xoán walking.
-¡Clic, click!- the sound of a pen.
-Rass...-another motorcycle.
But there is always the same sound in the brackground...”

As you may see, even in the most silent places, there are lots of different sounds, that's why, from time to time, we should "listen" to the silent, something that can be very interesting.
What do you think about my recording? What about your opinions? How about commenting on what I have written?
Thanks and kisses.