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!

I don't know...

To Whom it may concern,

I don't know what I want to study and other people do not make it easy to decide. Neither does the current economic situation. I like many things but they are mostly artistic and I have little chance of finding a well-paid job. Nowadays one needs a high salary to pay for a home but this is far from easy to find. Nobody ever told me that it would be easy but I expected that by doing what I like (as some people think you should) I would be able to have a little home and be independent, but it seems that not even that will be possible. So, I am wondering about studying something that I am good at which brings with it good job opportunities and high salaries. At the same time as I am thinking about this, I am also thinking that it would be horrible to wake up every day and have to go to work when I hate my job. But would it be better to live on the street? Would you rather choose a rotten apple or nothing at all? It is not an easy decision.

Everyone has dreamed about a perfect life doing what they like (which sometimes is nothing). Living off someone else's money is another option that some people may choose, but I do not believe that this is very attractive. Living without doing anything is completely boring, you have to look for some hobbies but usually you get involved in a lot of problems. Thus, for me, that is not an option either. So, now I am stuck in a complicated web of questions and I do not know where to start asking.

I guess life is not easy but I never really believed that, and this does not answer my questions. Should I just try anything and see how it goes? I guess it is time to make the wrong decisions and then start all over again.

Laia Esquerrà

I'm a "Menendez y Pelayo" student and I'm going to talk about the change of the Diagonal. I think that's sometimes necessary to change the appearance of the city, but if it costs a lot of money, then it's different.
Perhaps, If I would have to choose between the option A or B, I would choose the option B, but I think that's better to wait a long time to do this change because we need this money for other things in our city.
Citizens voted the option C because all of them were angry with Jordi Hereu, who had the first idea of the change. A lot of citizens think that if they had done this change it would have been bad for the city, and lots of people think that the Diagonal it's good like now.
Now the citizens think in their success, because people don't like Jordi Hereu's way of thinking and people want the City Council take care of the citizens, because before doing the survey for La Diagonal they said that the money could have been for other things and Jordi Hereu didn't hear us. If the option A or B had been the most voted, now 70 millions€ would have been lost.

Carla Gimeno