BLOG#4 WISH YOU WERE HERE!

Hello! dear betty. This week happened was on vacation with my colleagues to the bahamas, and I want to tell you all the things I did. First we went to a very rare practice sport, we must of swinging on a water table that shows you must stay stop and hold until I get all the water, I gave up. We also went to a water park so fun, we had a super fun slides! I would love you to try that with me. But the best part was when we got home you recommended us! certainly has the best team of workers! all very cordial and smiling! seems like they liked your work! the place or say, you fell short with your descriptions of the house. I become fascinated with the place. I'll write next week, as I write cations run out to see us.   

BLOG# 3 -BIZARRE BUILDING

-Hang Nga Guesthouse o Casa Loca (Vietnam)

   

Like something out of a painting, maybe a lively, true picture? 

This is the Hang Nga, a guest house in Vietnam, 

which has a rather puzzled architecture.

  This house in Vietnam is officially called Hang Nga Guesthouse. However all locals refer to this architecture masterpiece as Dalat crazy house. Well, this house is indeed strange because it doesn’t compile to any building conventions. All these unusual turns and twists make Dalat house look like a fairy tale castle. I wish I could come here as to the museum. By the way, tourists enjoy visiting this misshapen concrete structure with unexpected things like spider webs, animal figures and mysterious creatures inside.

The base of this house is a tree. Crazy house’s architect is Hang Nga, a woman whose father was the President of Vietnam back in 1980s.

Some people find this little wonder way too weird.

 

-Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Estados Unidos) 

 

The structure that houses the museum entertainment WonderWorks Pigeon Forge,
 is located in Tennessee, United States. According to legend,
all started in a secret laboratory located in the Bermuda Triangle,
where a scientific objective was to create a tornado. During the experiment,
something went wrong and become activated, resulting in the detachment of the laboratory
and bringing thousands of miles. The laboratory landed heads up a theater in Pigeon Forge,
Tennessee. This fascinating fictional story brings to life this entertaining
museum where everything is upside down. The building is 82 meters high and a stone facade,
wonderful, creates the illusion that the WonderWorks Institute has crashed on
 landing face down on top of theater music Music Mansion Theater.
 There is a steam emanating from a crack in the museum entrance reinforces
 the illusion that a disaster of staggering proportions just taken place.

               -Casas cúbicas (Rotterdam, Holanda)

        Cubic houses in Rotterdam have become, for its originality,

 one of the most visited places by tourists and one of the landmarks of the city. 

They were designed by Piet Blom in 1984, making an architectural experiment 

that would prevail aesthetics over functionality. 

This complex consists of 38 houses, most of them inhabited and small businesses. 

By not fully rest on the floor but on a slope of 45 degrees produced a peculiar 

effect both externally and internally.

The design of each house has come to represent a tree, with the whole idea of ​​the representation of a forest. All this was chasing the idea of ​​a small village within the city itself, as a refuge for citizens, and which had all kinds of services.

   

BLOG#2 'SPORTS WITH A TWIST'

-BOG SNORKELLING

It is a common sport, but it has its charms, and we can not give

strokes, because it is only allowed kicking.

The sport involves completing two distances that are ordered,

 swimming in a ditch full of water, mud and debris in the shortest time possible.

The clothing is necessary: the snorkel and fins.

The choice of the fins is essential, because only you can make

use of the feet.    While we all believe that it is a strange sport in

 Wales is a highly sought sport and athletes are taking it very seriously.

World record time was 1min

35sec is held by John.

-THE CHESSBOXING, BRAIN AND MUSCLE

No joke: there is the chessboxing, and is becoming increasingly popular.

 In a ring alternating two minutes and four chess boxing, with breaks of a minute,

 for a total of 12 rounds. You can win by KO or checkmate. If not, a jury decides.

The current world champion is Russian Nikolai Shazin 19 years, 

student of mathematics. The most famous 'chessboxer' is Tihomir Dovramadjiev,

 Bulgarian who was several times champion of his country at youth level chess 

and participated in international tournaments before mixing with boxing.

BLOG# 1 -TV SHOWS

In the morning when I'm doing the cleaning, I like watching the simpsons.

 I like to see many TV shows, including Law & Order, I caught a lot. 

On nights when I'm finishing my homework I see American Idol with my family,

 I like it because it unites us much, and because I like to hear sing. 

My brother does not like because he's not used to the noise. 

While my sister is making popcorn for me and 

my sister managed the room to watch TV before it starts.

   


   

BLOG# 5 FAVORITE AUTHOR

Mario Benedetti

Uruguayan writer. Mario Benedetti was an outstanding poet, novelist, playwright, 

short story writer and critic. In March 2001 he received the José Martí American Award 

in recognition of his work.

He performed various jobs before 1945, the year he began working as a journalist in The Morning,

 The Daily Tribune and People, among others. The great success of his poetic and 

narrative books, from Poems office Montevideanos 1956 and 1959, 

was a recognition of the readers in the social portrait and criticism, largely ethical issues,

 the writer formulated. This attitude resulted in an acid and controversial essay: The country

 of the tail of straw (1960), and its consolidation in two important literary novels: The Truce (1960),

 tragic love story between two order clerks, and thanks for the fire (1965), 

which is a broader review of the national society, with the complaint of corruption of 

journalism as power apparatus.

Memory and hope he published a collection of poems, reflections and photos that 

summarize the author's ruminations on youth.

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Octavio Paz

Mexico city. Mexican writer. Octavio Paz forms the triad of great poets who,
following the decline of modernism, led the renewal of Latin American poetry
of the twentieth century. The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, the first awarded to a
Mexican author also gave recognition of his immense and influential intellectual stature,
which was reflected in a brilliant essayist.

Grandson of writer (Irenaeus Paz), literary interests Octavio Paz demonstrated very early,
 and published his first works in various literary magazines.
 He studied in the faculties of Law and Philosophy at the National University.

 was one of the founders of Workshop (1938) and The Prodigal Son.
He furthered his studies in the United States in 1944-1945, and after World War II,
received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, to later join the Mexican Foreign Service.

Poet, novelist, essayist, translator, editor and great promoter of Mexican letters,
Paz always remained at the center of artistic and social discussion of the country.
His poetry delved into the grounds of the formal experimentation and reflection
 on the destiny of man.

Make his poetry fifteen titles: Wild Moon (1933); Under a light shade on Spain
and Other Poems (1937); Between the stone and the flower (1941);
Parole (1949); Eagle or Sun (1951); Seeds for a hymn (1954); Violent Station (1958);
 Salamander (1962); Hillside East (1969); Topoemas (1971); Renga (1972);
 Clear Past (1975); Back (1976); Poems (1979) and tree in (1987).

His production encompasses eleven prose works: The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950);
The Bow and the Lyre (1959); Cuadrivio (1965); Claude Levi-Strauss or the new
feast of Aesop (1967); Conjunctions and disjunctions (1969); The Monkey Grammarian (1974);
Children Slime (1974); The Philanthropic Ogre (1979);
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz or the Traps of Faith (1982); Cloudy (1983)
and Men of the Century (1984). 

Broadly speaking, one can distinguish three phases in his work: the first,
the author intended to penetrate through the floor, in an area of essential
energy that led to certain impersonality; in the second it also loosely connected
with the surrealist tradition, before finding a new impetus in contact with the East;
in the last stage of his lyrical path, the poet gave priority to the alliance knowledge.
 In 1990 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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BLOG#4 Superstitions

SINGAPUR: The color red is good luck, long hair gives longevity, 

children should not play at night or will have nightmare.

BRASIL: Itching - His left hand is itchy? Then get ready for a good extra money.

 If the right hand is itchy beware: you will probably lose a lot of money.

 Itching in the sole of the foot means overseas trip.

Black Cat-In the Middle Ages, it was believed that cats were

 witches transformed into animals.

 So tradition says that a black cat crossing is misfortune in life. 

The Brazilians, however, have another version. 

When a black cat comes home is a sign of money coming.

Spiders - Spiders, crickets and lizards represent good luck to the home.

 Killing a spider can cause unhappiness in love.

ARGENTINA: The shoelaces-The breaking of a bond or a lace sandals or

 shoes in Rome today, causing a stumble, ie bad luck. 

There are nine steps to tie it before, but the unlucky last all day.

Broom-Brooms were long associated with witches. 

These came out flying towards covens in smeared with an 

evil broom ointment, with which also smeared hands, on the back or on the palms.

 But they also have meanings conttra protective witchcraft. 

For example, with the handle placed on the ground, preventing entry into the 

house of spells and witchcraft. 

Behind a door, upside down, prevents unwelcome visits or makes retire soon.

Mirrors-Dream of mirrors is a betrayal. children or virgins to which they are blindfolded and were placed in front of or behind a mirror bright metal, whether this copper, bronze, silver or gold were used. 

The consultant stared at the mirror surface, entering a kind of trance and conversed with the child or young virgin, through the questions posed by the Guesser.

ALEMANIA: 

Talismans and fears beyond 

Statistics show that 42% of Germans still believe in four leaf clover, 36% would like to meet occasionally with a chimney sweep and 40% believe in luck associated with a shooting star. And these trends have their logic. Find a four leaf clover is not easy and it found it, lucky you! found one among millions.

Also logic is the belief in luck that brings the sweep. In ancient times could be compared with the fortune knocks on a winter day. Someone had to put to work the fireplace. How not believe in the force that brought the sweep in the frigid German winter days?

The bad omens as those associated with the number thirteen are much feared. More than a quarter of the population does not rule out the effect of magic numbers. No joke with so many matches on this figure. According to some, at the Last Supper had 13 seats, the cabal he realized 13 spirits of evil, the coming of the Antichrist and the Beast are shown in Chapter XIII of the Apocalypse, and the tarot this digit refers to the dea.

    

MÉXICO: The rabbit's foot is believed-that the allocation of their magical powers because his figure was carved totems to symbolize protection. For this reason anyone who possessed any part of the animal would be protected from harm.

 Crossing fingers is said that this superstition away bad luck because it represents the cross of Christ.

Breaking a mirror-The Gentleman's Magazine mentions that the Romans believed that the health of a person changed every seven years. The mirrors, reflecting a person showed their health, so break it meant seven years of bad health.

    

BLOG # 3 Changing looks




                                                                                                       2014

                                           2005   

                         

I've lost weight. i haven't pierced my ears.  i've cut my hair short. 

i've got a tatto. i've stayed slim. i've got a permanent.

i've not grow a beard. i've not have a mohawk.

my body haven't put on weight