Dear Barak Obama

Dear Barack Obama,

We are two girls from Barcelona who are very worried because we see our environment and there is a lot of pollution. People don’t use renewable energies, so we would like you to talk to important people. You could help them to see that using renewable energies is important and using non-renewable energies is bad. Moreover, lot of animal species are endangered because people do not use renewable energies.

This video talks about everything we want to change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0&feature=related

Andrea Bertran and Marina Castarlenas

Recycling

This is the first time I write something about this subject. I’ve heard something before but I’ve never thought about this until now.

I’m studying how industry works and some of them will disappear if we don’t use fossil energies, so lots of people will lose their jobs. We have to search for new energies that do not pollute the Earth and create new jobs.

In our cities, what we can do is reduce pollution and try to recycle as much as we can. To reduce pollution we have to use public transport as often as we can, or we can go cycling. To recycle, we have to separate all the waste we make at home and throw it in the right bin.

I always try to do this, but sometimes it’s easier not to do it and go by car or throw waste into the general bin.

Thanks for reading this.

Pere Cases Ceano-Vivas

Renewable energies

In this world there are many problems. It is believed that renewable energies are not harmful to the environment but this is not true. These energies are less harmful but they still cause problems. For example, we need windmills to transform the air into energy and produce eolic energy, but in order to build these windmills we harm the environment with acoustic pollution and endanger the existence of many animal species. Hydraulic power plants also damage the environment.

Xaviera Finestres and Marta Huertas

Excursion to the Olympic Canal

By Claudia Beltrán

On Thursday we went on tour with the class. We went to the Olympic Canal for rowing and using kayaks. It was funny but we ended all wet!

At first it was a bit hard but then with the mates it was funny.
After finishing the kayak and rowing we went back to school at lunch time. Everyone was very hungry. It has been a very cold day and we were still all wet.

To Whom it may concern,

To Whom it may concern,

My name is Victoria; I'm in the fourth year of E.S.O. This year we have to decide what we want to do when we grow up, but there is one small problem: I don't know what to do.

I mean, I have options but if you start to think about it, it is hard to decide; either there are too few possibilities on the market or if you get a degree you really like you cannot find a job afterwards.

Today’s economic and work situations make it difficult to decide. Should I study something I love and risk not finding a job, or should I study for a job that pays better but hate it and spend the rest of my life feeling miserable?

If you look at it from a certain point of view, going to work is like going to school: the same routine, the same people... but the difference is that you can choose what you want to do and so you can be enthusiastic every day.

Nowadays, we see in the news people living on the streets without a job or a home, and it makes me wonder, how did they get there? Maybe this is not related to job issues at all, maybe they had an accident and spent all their money on operations – I don't know. What I do know, however, is that I do not want to end up living on the streets, but I also do not want to live a sad life. So what do you think I should do?

Thank you for taking the time to read this,

Victoria Englert

Dear readers,

Dear readers,

We're Marta and Pol, we're teenagers and we want to explain you something about the expulsion of romanian gypsies in France.

A month ago Sarkozy, the first minister of France, said that the romanian gypsies who once committed a crime have to be expelled from France.

We think that this new law is a racist and elitist law. The Romanian gypsies are people too. All the people have the right to have a decent home. They are not cockroaches.

But we think too, that if they committed a crime they lost their oportunity to stay legally in France.

But, we have a question: Why if a French person commits a crime he has to go to the prison and not out of his country? And when this crime was commmited for a Romanian gypsy he has to be expelled from his country, in this case, France?

Dear readers,

Dear readers,

We are Marta and Pol, we are 15 years old. We want to communicate you the anxiety of our future, we don't know about it, now in this time of crisis, we think that it is difficult to find a job. Now, we are studying the last year of ESO, when we will finish this year, we have to choose "Batxillerat" and we want to choose the right option. We want to find our way around social "Batxillerat" but we don't know if it gives you lots of possibilities. We don't have any experience.

Thank you for all and we hope that all goes good!