If I knew back then...

Dear Meri:

You shouldn't worry about high school, it's not that bad. Of course it's a big change because your old class was like your home and you had only three classmates but now you'll share six hours a day with almost thirty mates, so you have to fit in.

The first thing you have to do is be yourself and show to other people your really "you". Don't be afraid of what people say because it doesn't matter, you're better than this. However, I know the high school can be horrible when you're in second or third grade and it's difficult to ignore what your mates say. In spite of this, you have to be strong and struggle to get your own goals.

Maybe you're not aware about how real life is, but I can swear to you that things are really hard o achieve and you'll need twenty-five hours all days, so you'll work hard.

My advice for you is this: start now being successful, be focused on what really matters and live your life with your friends. Yet  the most important thing will be your mood, smile as much as you cand, everything improves a lot with a smiling face

With love,

Meritxell Romans.

My English competence in 2014

Well, I've done a lot of posts during this two years so it's so difficult to choose the best one, in part because all of them are made by me but I think I always have preferences. Anyway, I have to choose the best writing and the best podcast, so here I go!

My best oral evidence is this one
My best written evidence is this one

I chose this posts because I think they are the best ones, Also have been chosen these because they represent important issues for me, I mean, I can write about the weather but is much better to write about trending topics like money or education. In addition I've done this posts as good as I could and I want to show my hard work. And I'm going to give arguments to justify my opinion:

First of all I want to say that in my point of view these are the best, the most complete and they spoke about a real current topics. They have a good structure separate with points, questions or paragraphs according to the ideas. I argued my points of view as well as I could with the best arguments I could imagine. I think my explanation of real facts was complete and objective and my way to give my opinion was the best I could use. Also, I tried to use many connectors and link the ideas between different paragraphs. However, If should have put more connectors and the posts had improved so much. Everything I can see in this posts is at least correct.

Secondly, I believe my way to explain my point of view shows my maturity and it's so important because to do a good writing you have to know what are you speaking about and can defend your opinion with your words. I started both with a short introduction and I put my conclusion in both too, I think the conclusion is a vital part of writings. I tried to think about everything people could say to refuse my ideas so I improved my way to express my opinion. I'm so critical with what I'm against of, I mean, If I believe something, I will defend what I believe.

About grammar... YES, I tried to use everything I know but letting the imagination flow, I used modals, conditionals and all tenses I though when I was writing. I checked my mistakes and my structures but I think I've done these posts as good as I could. Maybe what I really need is go to London this summer and learn everything I can.

Speaking about vocabulary, I tried to use special and sophisticated words but I think I failed in this issue because I need to learn and remember new words an synonyms and learn how to use phrasal verbs as common and natural words. My speaking is not the best one and I'm so conscious of it but I'll keep working on it and I'll see if in the future I'll be able to keep a flown conversation without get my tongue-tied.

To conclude, I want to say that I'll keep working on my English level and I'll try to improve it day by day, step by step. In the future I want to be able to go to London on my own and do my life there.

(OMG it's the last post.. I can't believe that! I think I'll miss have a place to express myself. XOXOXO dear blog!!!)

My English progress from 2012-2014

Now is time to see my improvement into two years so I have to put my first composition of forth of ESO, it was about cats and I think it have almost one hundred or one hundred and twenty words, while I'm writting more than two hundred and fifty words when I'm speaking about something I like to.

Here is my first post!
I can't believe everything had changed that much, my point of view, my life, my free time and as you can see my english level!

Here you can see my best work!
I did this post after see Pearl Harbor and I tried to inspire me with the film. I'n my opinion it worked because I like the result I had. Here, as you can see my english level increased a lot since 2012.

OhMyGod I knew my pronunciation was bad, but I didn't believe it could be that bad, I mean I spoke like I was a fool and the worst part is that I though I did it great..
You can see my "awesome" pronunciation here
Two years later, I know my pronunciation is not the best one but I improved it a lot, I can understand e
English people while they're speaking, it's not easy because they speak so fast but I understand almost everything, but my pronunciation... mhh... It should be better and I know it. Here you can see my last podcast ( It was the last one I've done, but there are more of them with the last posts).

Well, now that you can check my old and new posts, it's time to comment it.

First of all I have to say that they're only one thing in common and it's that I've done it both on my own, but the rest are totally different. The most visible change is the number of words I used in the first post and the number of words I'm using right now. I can manage a composition with three or four hundred and do it better than okay. The structure of my posts also has changed because now it has sense and you understand what I want to say, while when I was in forth of ESO I wanted to say many things but no one understood what I was speaking about because I didn't know how to structure my ideas and sentences.
As we hear in the podcast, when I was fifteen years old I had a different voice, I sounded like a little scared girl and I was so embarrassed when I had to speak in English in front of the class, but now I don't care what people say.

Giving linguistic arguments, when I was fifteen I didn't even know what was a discussion essay, an opinion essay, a formal letter.. I just wrote what I wanted. I didn't know many connectors so I always used the same ones, and my vocabulary was poor, repetitive, and if it was not enough, I used it as bad as it was possible. I though it was great, but I didn't know that connectors as "moreover, however or furthermore" existed.
   As I said before, I just wrote what I though it was interesting to be written, I didn't do introductions or explanations or divide ideas into paragraphs.

  What I have to say in my defense is that I was more mature than other same age girls, when I was inspired I spoke about interesting things and I tried to do it easy to read and I think I wrote that posts because I just needed to get that feelings out of my system.
  My grammar was the poorest thing, I didn't know many verb tenses, I just used present and past simple because it was what I knew. My structures were the simplest and I used always the same one. I don't want to check my mistakes because I'm afraid of what I will find there, maybe past should stay there, in the past.
  My vocabulary, well my posts had one hundred words more or less but they are always the same ones, I had no variety and I didn't know synonyms of that words.

I can see a BIG PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, I mean I grow up doing this blog and I posted my feelings and my problems here, maybe they were silly problems and maybe I shouldn't have written what I have written about, but now it's done. Now I feel more mature and more comprehensive that I used to be, life change everyone!

My explanation

Well, two months ago I began to think obsessively about Selectivity and the mark I need to achieve my goals. Then I began to work so hard in all my subjects because I really want to do the medicine degree next year, so I started to do other years selectivity exams.
To practice English I searched exams and I started to do writings, readings and listenings in my spare time. So I began to do the third term blog and I was out of ideas, I didn't know what to talk about in my post and it's so weird in me, I mean I'm always talking and I usually have something to say but I suppose that work that hard blocked my imagination, maybe I'm too tired to have something special to do.
As I can't do this type of excuse I did what I always do, look for a solution and I find this solution, put all my writings here as a "your-says". I know this isn't the best kind of solution but it's what I have.

I usually withstand the pressure but I don't know what's happening to me. I block in the exams, I do fool failures, my mind goes black despite having studied... I can't understand what's happening to me and why it's happening now...I struggled a lot to be where I am and I won't lose everything I've been fighting for for years.

I don't want to grasp myself and I know I have to follow with my exams, It's so hard just right now but I won't give up, it's less than a month for the selectivity I will continue studying hard and working hard to achieve my dream.

It's only my explanation because it's strange on me, do this type of posts and don't speak my life, my goals, my dreams or my routines, but I just don't want to do anything now, just want to get the selectivity, have a good mark and can live my life, can go out with friends. I don't know, maybe I'm just so stressed and overwhelmed, I just need calm.

Opinion essay

Nowadays, due to environmental awareness many people have decided not to eat either fish or meat. Not only for their own benefits but also for the benefit of the planet. This decision has both good and bad points.

On the one hand, not eating this kind of food may save lots of animals. In the current world, exploitation is a common topic in the news. Refusing to reduce the amount of fish and meat we eat does not help the situation. Animal exploitation can be a big issue with potentially negative future consequences. Acting in an unsustainable way puts natural resources, in this case fish and meat, in danger.

As an anecdotic fact, some recent research shows that some of the healthiest people in the world is an Asian tribe that do not eat meat at all.

But on the other hand, it is also true that meat and fish give us energy and proteins that can only be provided by them. Children, for instance, need all these kinds of proteins to grow and handle the active life they have: studying, playing, doing sport, and so on.

In this case, to stop eating these foods can harm their intellectual level and health.

Overall, we can say that there is not one unique good reason for this decision. It is not either one thing or the other. We should find the balance between not eating meat and fish at all and an abusive consumption. I believe that this decision must be made in order to improve both your health and the whole world. 

"People who don't recycle their rubbish should be fined?" - Opinion essay

Many people think that be fined it's a good idea, whereas I think it should be checked for verification because it seems to me that it may not be the best solution.

                Some people think that a fine is the best idea because it would help to raise money for the environment but in my point of view we need to spend more money on environmental causes in order to save our planet. Apart from that, some people say that population don't recycle because it is too difficult and they propose to facilitate recycling. I disagree with the statement, I believe it is clear that the people don't recycle for laziness, what is more I think that everybody have been educated for do it in one or another moment in their lives. The only reason that makes me think that the fines could be effective is the fact that anybody want to spend their money in this stuff.

                In short, I give my support to the initiative since we can only know if it's effective if we put it into practice, but I strongly believe that it will be a flop. We should think in more solutions.

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"What are the advantages and disadvantages of school uniforms?" - Discussion essay

Currently the students who study in public schools never wear uniform. Many parents decide to take their children to private schools because they believe that teaching and the education they give is better and many times is obligatory to wear uniforms.

                One advantage of go to schools where the students have to wear uniform is that it make everybody feel equal and for this reason can reduce bullying. Furthermore they are smart and they make a good impression.

                On the other hand, this schools stop the expression of creativity in children and teenagers, then normally the students have a difficult time finding their personality outside of school. For younger students, who often play on the playground, uniforms are uncomfortable and too formal.

                Many people think this type of schools and costumes are for rich people, but I think that it should be for all the schools because it would reduce investments in shopping and any student would be judged by their appearance.

                To conclude I want to say that it shouldn't matter what we wear, what it should matters is the way we are.

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