Ed Sheeran's new album.

Well, I realized that I did each and every one of the blog entries listening the Ed Sheeran's new album, and I don't know actually what to do, so I'm happy to think that I can comment and share with all of you my real favourite music, you know, that type of music that when you're listen it just makes you smile and that makes you jump for joy, amazing right? Well let's to see.

After all I'm happy because I'm doing my last news post (now sounds "Shape Of You"). 

I'm extremely happy because Ed Sheeran's new album (he wrote in these last three years like 100 songs... it's a pity they can't be all of them in the album) went on sales March 3, after these three years in solitary confinement. His last work was "x" (Multiply), published in 2014, and the past was "+" (Plus). Well, now it is "÷" the third work of his career, (Divide) okay, maybe it is funny, but it's so interesting too. (Sounding "Happier" now... ups!  actually sounding "Dive")

"The third album is on the way and it's the best I've done so far. I'll see you all next fall, thanks for being amazing, "he said in December 2015, when he left the networks. His return came in mid-December 2016, when he published a blue image in his accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, which confirmed that the third album was on the way. And I have to confess, if you see around this entry, I mean my blog I think you can understand that my favourite colour is blue (if you can't, ask to the turtle on the left), so yes, I love that, so much too. (Right now: "What Do I Know?" -Amazing-).

On January 6, Ed Sheeran presented the two songs, which quickly climbed to the top of digital streaming platforms. I have to be honest, I was a little (just a little) disapponited. I liked it but not as much as I love his others songs. I mean, I love Ed because his lyrics and melodies are special, relaxed, and he's really concient of what he says, and what he's trying to say. And I think these two were not exactly that, maybe more "Rihanna" or other style. (I say Rihanna because the first song was being written for her, but Ed liked it too much and decided to put a touch of it.) So I was thinking: I can't wait for all this new music to come. 

But the album was out, and YES, again Ed Sheeran published an AMAZING album, and made me smile with every song and jump for joy. So want to give thanks to him for creates an amazing world into us. ("Supermarket Flowers", maybe the best.)

These are all the songs in the album. I recommend you to listen all ot them, but if not, at least the ones that I put on the text. :) You have a link in each song. 

1. Eraser
2. Castle On The Hill
3. Dive
4. Shape Of You
5. Perfect
6. Galway Girl
7. Happier
8. New Man
9. Hearts Don't Break Round Here
10. What Do I Know?
11. How Would You Feel (Paean)
12. Supermarket Flowers
13. Barcelona
14. Bibia Be Ye Ye
15. Nancy Mulligan
16. Save Myself

Global Issue.

Nowadays, one of the most important problems that we have to solve is the pollution in our world. Why is it one of the most important? Well, it is because the pollution affect all the planet. Actually, are we so selfish to destroy all the planet with our expensive caprices?

Now the pollution in the world is causing irreversible problems in the atmosphere. The atmosphere, who is essential for the life, is suffering big alterations which are causing a real problem for the human species, and the other living organisms, in fact on all over the planet. 

The atmosphere contaminated can to damage the health of the people and impact on the plants and the animals. But also the changes produced in the quimic composition chemistry of the atmosphere can change the climate, producing acid rain or destroying the ozone, and all of them are phenomenon with a big global importance and repercussion. 

The means of transport, like a car or a motorcycle, produce a toxic gas which destroys the atmosphere.

But not only are this things damaging the atmosphere. The electricity, the medicaments, the cleaning products, or when we turn on the heating or the factories also damage it.

The atmosphere in a near future will cause a climate change, wich we are already beginning to notice.

The world is going down to 2 degrees, here this is not noticeable, but in the Arctic the ice is thawing, and the scientist warn that if we do nothing about it, in the future the ice will completely melt away.

Also the weather is causing problems in the seas, and some animals are having problems for adapt at the changes, and change their homes,and for this suddenly appear dangerous animals on beaches where they have never been seen.

Anyway, all these things are happen now, and will continue to happen, so if we can dream, and wish another different world, I wish a world without “climate change”, a world who respect the nature, and take care for the environment. 

Just with a little detail of one person throwing away and recycling wastes, is more than enough to care for and keep our great world safe. 

Saving Endangered Turtles

At what people think is the biggest nesting site in the world, tens of thousands of green sea turtles come to lay eggs. The turtles swim to Raine Island in Australia, but rising sea levels mean that water is threatening the island.

Andy Dunstan with Queensland Parks and Wildlife explained that one sea turtle mum is laying a clutch of 100 eggs, but the water will probably flood the eggs during the next high tide, and they will not develop.

To create space and protect sea turtle eggs from flooding, people reshaped and raised 150 metres of the island’s beach with great results; however, saving the turtles is not cheap or easy. A public partnership is funding this effort at about 8 million Australian dollars over 5 years.

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Summary: At Raine Island in Australia, sea turtles swim for many miles to lay their eggs and follow the cycle of life, but our friendly turtles confront a problem with high tide. Andy Dunstan with Queensland Parks and Wildlife asosiacion and the help of the people of the island intnetan create space to help the turtles although it is not an easy and very expensive task

My opinion: For me is really confortable see the people working for a good reason and of course next to the nature to keep the balance of the whole ecosystem.Work together to help the animals is my opinion always a good source of Working for a good cause and next to the nature to keep the balance of the whole ecosystem Working together to help the animals is my opinion a quality that we should promote in all the other people that we have close..

New words: 

clutch (a group of eggs that is fertilised at the same time)

public partnership (when a public organisation and a private organisation work together)

Baby Needs an Operation on Her Legs

Victoria was born with a condition which means that she cannot walk properly. The little girl’s legs have no calf bones. This is an unusual deformity that only affects less than one in a million people.

Her parents were devastated. Her mother said that when she saw her baby for the first time, she was in a lot of shock. She was expecting a full, healthy baby because on every scan, the doctors said that she was perfect.

UK doctors have now told Victoria’s parents that the only option is to amputate their little girl´s legs. Her parents are now trying to raise 350 thousand pounds to take their daughter to America for life-changing treatment to save her legs. This is an operation which is not available in Britain and must be carried out before she reaches the age of two. The parents found a doctor in the US who could save her legs. The treatment would include three operations.

So far, the couple has raised around a hundred thousand pounds. Friends and family are trying to raise the rest of the funds before June when Victoria turns two.

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Summary: Victory is a little girl who unfortunately was born with a rare deformity and cannot walk without the help of his parents, many doctors wanted to amputate his legs because they could not find a solution, until a US doctor said he could help and save his legs, but the operation is very expensive. Now her family is trying to get the money to finnaly help the little baby Victoria.

My Opinion: In my personal I think that Victoria is just another case of the great problem of the Medicine today. I mean, the world right now is complety structured to help only those people who can pay for the service and finally nothing for the others. Medical help should be free and for all equally regardless of anything other than to always help.

New words:
check-up (an examination)
expect (wait)
amputate (take away some part of a body)

https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/baby-needs-an-operation-on-her-legs-level-3/ 

"Grow your own clothes" -Suzanne Lee (TED)

Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful and the potential is simply wonderful.

Suzanne Lee recently joined the biotechnology start-up as its creative director.
"You can actually have a dress growing in a vat of liquid." Lee says. “Imagine leather that’s as lightweight and transparent as a butterfly wing or has the natural stretch of rubber” In nature, such qualities rise from the spontaneous assembly of biological cells. Manipulating cell cultures, scientists at Modern Meadow can customize a material’s strength, texture, weight, and elasticity. It’s an idea Lee hopes will take fabric—and with its fashion—in an entirely new direction.

“What’s fundamentally changed is our ability to look at materials in nature and say, with a straight face, that we can potentially make them with biotech,” says Dan Widmaier, Bolt Threads’s chief executive officer. I thing that could benefit fabric manufacturers, but more importantly, it could benefit the environment. Most existing materials have a significant downside: Cotton farming uses intensive pesticides, and synthetic fabrics such as polyester are made with petroleum. The roughly 14 billion square feet of leather produced from bovines annually requires millions of animals, consuming billions of gallons of water and pounds of feed a day—to say nothing of the methane emissions. Lee says of her fabric: “It use less water, hell yeah. Low energy, absolutely. Less chemicals, less dyes. Throw it in the garden when you’re finished with it.”

Lee founded a design consultancy called Biocouture in order to accelerate the development and the adoption of new biological materials
She made a collection of coats using the microbial cellulose: a bomber jacket, a denim-style jacket, a biker jacket. Although the designs were conventional, they looked otherworldly and slightly translucent. “Production from bacteria is so alien,” she says, that she wanted to create familiar garments to show it wasn’t so strange.

She grew the material at home, Lee exactly in her bathtub. As it dried, it becoming into a substance similar to the leather. But she found that it absorbed plant dyes more easily than normal fabric.

“This is potentially revolutionary,” she says, then laughs. “Oh lord, there’s a fashion designer trying to save the world.”

Step 1 - Preparation of the culture liquid.

This first step lasts about 1h.

1-Boil water
2-Let the tea infuse for 15min.
3-Dilute sugar
4-Let the mix cool down. (Temperature under 30º Celsius)


Step 2 - Setting up the SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast)
This step lasts about 5 minutes. It is very important that the liquid is below 30°Celius, before adding the other ingredients: - to prevent odor vinagar emission - not to kill the starter and SCOBY.

5- Pour the vinegar + add mix previously madre + The starter mix
6- Add your Scoby too.
7- Cover the tray and protect it from the light.

Step 3 - Fermentation ste
This stage lasts about 15 days. If you want a thin sheet, a Baby Scoby 5 min thick enough. If you want a fabric like leather, wait your baby Scoby do about 2cm.

8- Let stand 5 days, and Baby Scoby will start to grow.
9- Regularly spread gently the Baby Scoby to get rid of bubbles.

Step 4 - End of culture and start drying
You can dry your SCOBY on a board of wood or plastic, glass, .... According to the media, the end result will be different!

10- Hand wash your Scoby with soapy cold water.
11- Dry your Baby Scoby on a leaned wooden board.

Step 5 - Congratulations!

You can also dye, sew, cut, print on your Scooby! This is only the beginning.


https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_lee_grow_your_own_clothes#t-274258

Description of a person

In this description of a person I have chosen one of my classmates, well my shadow, because we are toghether in all the classe. I knew her two years ago, but I actually met her like a friend last year. Her name is Isàlia, she is an humanistic student and she loves arts, so she wants to study philology. Her current hobby is to play the piano and she actually loves her German lessons. By the way, she loves to study!

Speaking about appearence, she's a casual girl, I mean her style is very comfortable and cute. The colours which she's used to wearing are neutral, not strong or bright colour, just neutral. She never wears handbag she usually wears a backpack or just she doesn't. 

Her outfits are actually simple or maybe sportive, she wears jeans and jerseys very normal jerseys, no stripes and no patterns, just with plain shoes. She never wears rings, necklaces, bracelets or earings, and if she does, it is so strange.

About her personality she's addicted to pizza and she's obsessed with the "diacriticals accents". She is a very normal girl, maybe very energetic too and hard working. She is the most generous person than I aver have the pleasure to me.

In my opinion, she is the classmate I have in class, she always helps me and she's very tolerant with me and finally she is an amazing person. It is a great and big support for me.

Global Issues presentation

My style.

Technically and according to this quiz, my style is "Romantic", well looking at the pictures I think it is right, I agree with the result. The colour I often wear in casual outfits is white, well actually bright colours. And as you can see, the girls in the image wear light and special clothes. But I don't wear only clothes like that, I love black and long dresses, and skirts too, usually when I dress up to go out with my friends I use dark colours or almost always black (like the girl in the middle of the picture). I wear dark clothes, wide and big clothes, jerseys and scarves... Well, I think the most important thing that defines us, and our style is how we feel wearing this outfit, and the most important thing for me is to be comfortable and feel good about myself. 

These are outfits that I would wear on a normal day, simple and comfortable, I actually never wear prints or printed on the tops or stripes, I really don't like it. I love boots, scarf, and jerseys. I like old styles, maybe a little more carefree, but if I feel fine, all will be fine.

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/personality/quizreport.php?title=whats-your-personal-fashion-style&sid=NjA0ODAyMTU=

What it means to live alone?

Nowadays my parents are in a trip, right now they are in Cuba to see the complete family and they will stay there a few days, exactly 25.
I think it is so great for them because they are living  in Spain since seven years ago, and since then until now they have not seen their parents, my grandparents, or their best friends.

Well, what it the point of this? Actually the point is that my brother and I should be alone during those days and do the right things to survive to this new experience. Well the question is, what is it the right thing we have to do?

I have to confess at the beginning of this adventure I was really afraid and maybe a little frightened too, to pass thoses days without my parents however with my brother, and I have to confess too that he's a really difficult person, because he's so special and his character and ideology is so different than mine, he's a cold person, and I usually express all my feelings and thoughts, and he is the opposite person than me.


But, well it's not so difficult as I think. We have to do a lot of tasks in home, it is exhausting do all alone, just my brother and me. But we are carry on, we keep calm and we get along well, maybe much better than I thought. 

"Jung Typology Test"

I agree with this "description" of me, yes, I actually think it is a description of me. I have to confess that I did this "Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test" with my big brother, who can help me seeing the external side of my personality and tell me what he actually things too.
 I'm a really Introvert person, I actually have a inner person inside, and I think I have a very spiritual side too. My brother says I'm more Sensing than Intuitive, but I don't think so, I'm a intuitive person who has to analyze the external world to feel good inside myself, comfortable, But it is not something to judge, it is just I like to meet the peolple with whom I am. Of course I'm more Feeling than Thinking, I think the logical thinking is not my strong point, my point is to connect with the people around me, and make them feel good and feel good with them too. Perceiving... well, I think in politicals o critical topics I'm maybe a fair person, the most, but with other thermes I always try to understand everyone and make them feel right. So, finally I think it is a right test of me, and I agree with that.