Oral presentation, self avaluation

We had made our oral presentation about Plastic surgery. It's an interesting and currently topic, but we made the same as Cristina and Andrea! To avoid to bored our classmates, we made the presentation on the following day.

In my opinion our power-point was very good. From the beginning we put big photos in the background, we always do that. What we changed was to put an index as the first page after the cover.

I like more the oral presentation in English than in Catalan. I nearly always improvise and change the sentences. When I can't find a word a try to explain it with other's which are simple or made the description.

In this presentation I was a little bit nervous and maybe I talk to fast and articulate too much with my arms. I always see it on the video and try to remember it for the next presentation, but it's impossible!

As a mark I would put us a 9, the negative points were the body language or sometimes the language and pronunciation.

Dialouge

That's the informal dialogue that Nuria, Elvira and I made about plastic surgery.

N - I want a new nose.

E - How do you want it?

L - Wait! Wait! Can’t you see that you don’t need it?

E - Chill out girl! Why do you want a new nose?

N – It’s obvious! It destroys my face. Because of it I can’t get a job, a boyfriend…

L – Shut up!

Doctor, you can see she’s obsessed, can't you?

E – Maybe she is, but this type of operations can change people’s lives.

N - Please, please, please… I nearly dropped out of my job as a journalist cause I am ashamed be on TV with IT in the middle of the face.

E – Oh! You work on TV? You must have a good image to do it. I’ve operated a lot of people who work there.

L – OMG!!! You only want her cash. You are a fucking corrupt!

N – He’s right Lydia, my nose is horrible! GET OUT! He understands me better! You aren’t my friend.

L – It’s your life and it’s your nose. But remember that he who laughs last laughs best!

E – She’s crazy. I can so that you can get what do you want. C’mon, go to see this nose… And your boobs…

N – Yep! Can you see it? What do you think?..

Burn out

I'm going to talk about the burnout syndrome. It's a very current topic in the German TV.

Burnout basically means physical or emotional exhaustion caused by long-term stress.

It's recently happen to children which just starting out in sport are unlikely to be affected. The symptoms of burnout can be physical, mental and/or emotional. But also to people who are working more than just 40 hours a week can burn they out. For example, putting in more than an eight-hour-day five days a week makes you six times more likely to suffer ‘burnout syndrome’. Or also a worker with more than 16 years' service in the same place of work is five times more at risk of developing this form of the syndrome than another worker with a service record of less than four years.

Burnout can happen if excessively high expectations are placed on a child by parents or coaches and they are pushed too hard too quickly.

The symptoms can be confusing for parents but being aware of them is important because the severe cases can lead to clinical depression.

If the patient has a family, partner o children they can act as a protection because then the people are focused on other tasks.

I think that’s a very interesting topic because it’s a disease which will increase (and it’s already increasing) a lot in the next years. It’s because the stress and the high expectations who has everybody from the own life or other people.

It’s real. Who are you nowadays, without a job? If you don’t study and get good marks at school and University, you don’t will have a job, without job no money and with no money and no everything. So, in conclusion it all depends of how hard you study in University. I also have read than more and more students are suffering this syndrome.

Sometimes I also think that it could happen to me. All the weeks of exams, which you’re only working and have no social life? I don’t like them. However, I’m also conscious that this is necessary. If I work more now, I will life better in the future.

My tip is to be conscious that University will be important for your life, but to combine it with other activities, even you think that you don’t have enough time. There’s always half hour to go jogging, to go for a walk with the dog or phone a friend.

It’s the combination which makes you work right.

1- Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types ofreconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.

Plastic surgery, as a specialty, evolved remarkably during the middle of 20th century in the United States.

Before plastic surgery only was used to reconstructive the soldiers’ hurts from the World War

2-high quality clinics - coupled with the favourable prices - are making Spain important as a medical destinations as well.

There are many countries which offer packs to make operations in Spain. It consist in a night in the Hotel, the operation and the flight.

Specially in England a lot of travell agencies sell this tipe of trips and they have a lot of demand.

A full face and neck lift procedure costs £4,750* € 5500in Spain, which includes a luxury private room for two nights. Compare this price with the UK where the surgery can cost between £7,000 and £12,000. 13900€ Breast augmentation in the Costa Del Sol in Spain can cost as little as £2,040**.

3-With increased media attention on beauty and perfection, celebrities and those alike are turning to plastic surgery more and more. Some take out loans for this purpose; one woman spent over $83,000 for 14 surgeries.

researchers believe that plastic surgery obsession is linked to psychological disorders

In some cases, people whose doctors refuse to perform any further surgeries, have turned to "do it yourself" plastic surgery, injecting themselves and running extreme safety risks.

5-• Do you know what plastic surgery is?

Everybody knows what it is because it’s a current affair.

• Which part of your body you don’t like?

The most disliked parts of the body are the nose and spare tire (what means that a person is a little bit fat).

• Have you ever think about operate it?

People opinion was divided; nearly the half of them would operate these parts of the body which they don’t like. But all of them share that they only would do one operation.

• How much do you think cost a breast operation?

Nearly nobody knew it. The majority thought that it was more expensive.

• Do you think Spanish plastic surgery is good compared with the other countries surgery?

People think that Spanish surgery isn’t good because of the current crisis Spain doesn’t have a good image in any aspects (economic, health, etc.). All of them were wrong.

• In your opinion, is necessary to be operated to be famous?

People opinions were that celebrities are under pressure because there always arrive younger people to Hollywood and If they want to continue being in the business they have to look like a 20 years old girl.

And here is the link to our video from the presentation

Joke

That is the joke I told in class:

-What is the longest word in the English language?
-SMILES: there is a mile between the first and last letters!"

... and here is it recorded:

Rowing: Holiday over for Olympic rowers

For Great Britain's rowers, the holiday is over and the battle to make the 2012 team begins now.
Between this October and next August, they will have one Sunday off a month. Birthdays are missed, there is no chance for a quick weekend away, friends' weddings arranged around them.Miles and miles will be covered in the gym, on rowing machines known as "ergos" and out on the lake at GB rowing HQ in Caversham, and there are extremely tough training camps ongoing around Europe.





The olympic rowers has got three weeks holidays. I think that's a very short time, but it's also necessary. Fort they, sport is their job. In this case a job with only one free day at month.
I know that after three weeks without rowing the level has decrease a lot. It's cost more to make the same distance your are more tired in less time..

I'm sure they have a lot of pressure. This year the Olympics are in London and for they it would be great to win this time, beinig "at home". It's always more motivation if your make a regatta at your own city.

In the news they talk about ergo's... I know them well. It's a type of machine in the gym and it's like rowing. At the moment, when I go to the gym I make 15 minuts to warm up and later about intervals of 5 minuts, but with more force. Many people in the team don't like ergometre, but I think it's a good way to increase your strenght when it's raining or you can't be on the water.

I think that maybe this way to row ("mobile bank") it's less tireing than the meditarranea rowing. Their boats weight few quilos, a individually boat can be carry on with only one person. Our boats weight hunderts of quilos (I think about 400- 500 kg more or less). Obviously, we must make more force. Even so, I want to try the other way to rowing because it's more international and you can do it around the world.

Is the euro about to capsize?

These days nearly every day in the news, they are talking about Greece and the Euro.

Investors believe that Greece cannot possibly repay its debts. Greece is a small country. And if it stopped repaying its debts and/or left the euro, re-denominating its debts into devalued drachmas, the losses to its bond investors would be manageable. The real problem is that what is true of tiny Greece can equally be true of much bigger Spain and Italy.

I think I have a different point of view like my classmates. The reason is that I'm German. It's logical that we must help Greece, but Germany are spending a lot ofmoney. There are many other problems in Germany that could be result with this money.

From my point of view, Germany is forced to help because it's one of the strongest and richest countries in the EU. But that has a reason, they always work hard and invest in new technologies. Shall they pay for other countries who don't do the same? If every single of the governments in the other countries would to the best even when they aren't in crisis, the case of Greece, Italy and Spain probably would not have happened.

In my opinion it's sad to live in a country where are 21 % (or more, I don't know it exactly) of unemployees. And that a 46% of them is young people who had left the University. What kind of future has a country like that? Germany is searching young people from Spain to come to work!!! (there the tax is less than 7 %). At the moment to only way to get a good job and make a carree is leaving Spain.

However, I was talking about the €uro. I think that the governments probably should have made more laws and rules how to act in a case like this. On this way, they could have prevented the disaster that's happening now.

Self evaluation

Here are myself evaluation about my oral presentation:

I think it was a little bit too short, I have talked only the three minutes what we have to talk. Nearly all the others talked more time, about five minutes, but I think I have manage it in the time what we have to do.
For me, my PowerPoint was good because there aren't too much information and sentences, only the essential and important things and there were a lot of photos.
From my pronunciation... I think that I have talked correctly, with some grammatical mistakes, but I think that even so I was more or less good. I didn't look to my paper and notes and for that reason I forget one point of my oral presentation, but it wasn't very important.
At the beginning I felt nervous, but later I began to talk like I was talking to a friend, I only forget few times a word.

In conclusion I think that my presentation was a little bit short, but I talked calmly and explained my photos and my topic very well.

Thirteen vs. Adrian Mole

On these two books/ films the topic are the same: young people, popularity, sex, drugs, and rock and roll (no, I'm joking, not rock 'n' roll! )
On the film thirteen Tracy change from a good student to a bad girl, who never does homework or learn, use drugs and cute herself. And these changes happen because Tray begins "friendship" with Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl at school. With her Tracy begins to steal money, meet with the wrong people and "friends", smoke, doesn't studying...
Evie is a bad role model for Tracy because she lets her think that the way she lives is the correct and the funniest. She let Tracy believe that the way she do things, is the best way and if you don't follow this way and the way that she lives her life, you don't are important.

Evie also influence her to buy a lot of new clothes, to wear make-up, wear piercings... In conclusion, all these things from the body, only physical. For this reason, Tracy begins to steal money to could buy new clothes.

But I think that in part it's also the fault of her mother because she could change the situation from the beginning. And her boyfriend also use drugs, but I think that aren't very important for this situation. She is also too friendly with Evie (when she allows her to live with them even she knows that she is a bad influence to Trancy). But Tracy's father have also fault because he asked only: What's the problem? That's ironical because he knows what goes wrong, but don't want to see it and had to change things.

For me the most shocked at the film were the scene when Tracy is cutting herself. I find it disgusting, I don't understand the reason why people do this.


If we do the comparison with the book Adrian Mole, Adrian also want to be popular, more money and have a girlfriend. In these points there are similar because both wants to be someone important. But I don't think that the next step of Adrian could be like Tracy. At the book he never appeared like a bad boy, and he doesn't know people who are bad influences. So I think it's nearly impossible that Adrian going to end like Tracy.



I know a girl with who happed the same thing like at the film. She used to be a good student, wearing always nice (and often pink) clothes, with a special character, but I wasn't matter too much. Now, she smokes, use drugs, wear only black t-shirts and jeans and nearly didn't pass 4rt of ESO.
I think this is the wrongest way you can take when you are young. With all these things, you only destroy your future.


At the end, I only want to add that I don't like these kind of books or films. It's very bored because during the whole school education time, we must read a lot of books about these themes and I find it really bored. And it doesn't make sense: the teenagers who do all these things wouldn't change and the others, who don't do it, don't want to do it.
This opinion and way to live don't change only from watching a film and for that reason, I thought, we couldn't see other films and read books with others themes.

Book: The adoration of Jenna Fox

I used to be someone.
Someone named Jenna Fox.
That's what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the fact and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch.
More. But I'm not sure what.

That's how the book begun, called The adoration of Jenna Fox. I read it some months ago. It was a present from my aunt (she works in a big library in Germany) and she always sends me books because she knows that I like a lot to read German books.

Here is a little summerazig from the book:

Jenna Fox has been told that she has had an accident and was in a coma for a year. Now, she’s awake, but she doesn’t remember her old life at all. In fact, she had to re-learn a lot; she had to learn to smile, to walk. She’s seen home videos of her life, but she’s don't remember it. She doesn’t have any of her old belongings. Her family moved from Boston to California, and she is not in contact with anyone except her parents and grandmother.

There are some holes in the story she’s been told, and Jenna really starts to wonder. Not just about her life before the accident, but about the accident and what happened after.

Later, she discover that she is a type of "clone" made with the memories from her (and two other friends who died in these accident), but not with her body. She discover that because she was playing in the garden and she hurt herself, and instead to see blood she saw metal. That's the reason from the book cover.

The title in German means like: two and the same. I think it's a more appropiate title that in English.

I really like this book because at the beginning you don't know what has happened, you only know the same things like Jenna. There are a lot of emotions, I cried a lot while I was reading, specially in the scene when Jenna discover that she is like a doll, made from her parents and that her friends are dead, but their memories are still in some kind of computer.

It's also a critic on the society or which want to be the society in the future, and especially the biology technology, like these things: made clones, keep memories on a computer, or the decision what's is ethic and what not.

Fairytale: The almost prince

THE ALMOST PRINCE

Once upon a time in Violet Hill, a city near Eldeerforest, there was a princess called Lady Serena. She was a very selfish person and she never helped anybody. It was winter and Violet Hill was snowed, Lady Serena was annoyed with her father because he preferred to spend money on poor people in Violet Hill instead of buy her another horse. She ran to the forest crying. She walked in the forest for a while and then she noticed that she was lost. She tried to find the way but she couldn’t find it. She became hungry and when she saw two mushrooms next to a tree she ate them. She didn’t know that the mushrooms were hallucinogenic. She sat on the ground and after a short time she began to hear voices saying:

- Serenaaaaaa, Serenaaaaaaaaaaaa. Come here Serenaaaaaaaaaa.

She was wondering but then she followed the voice. She started to see things that they hadn’t been there before. She continued walking until she arrived to a pink lake. The lake, the trees, the plants, the flowers, the sky, everything was pink. Serena was wondered about that, she was hearing the voice but there wasn’t anyone. Suddenly a pink fairy appears. She was a little bit fat, short with long pink hair. She walked to Serena and when she was walking the flowers next to her began to move and grow up.

- Serena- she said. - Why don’t you come with me and live here? This is a wonderful and beautiful place. You would never be alone because flowers and trees would be your friends. Look, they can talk.

As soon as Serena looked at the flowers, they began to sing. Serena knew the song, it was her favorite song. But Serena didn’t want to live there, she wanted to see her father and she apologized because she missed him.

- I’m sorry – said Serena. - I must go home. I want to be with my family.

- No!- said the fairy- You must be here, I force you to stay here with me. I have waited for this moment for all my life! You can’t go away.

- I’m sorry but this is a silly thing, my father is waiting for me. Good bye.

- NO! Rose, Daisy, catch her!

Suddenly, the two plants wrapped her legs and she fell on the ground. She began to cry.

-You’ll never come back sweet princess. - said the fairy, and she began to laugh.

The fairy’s house was in the middle of the lake. She was taking the princess to her house but before this could happen appeared a blue-green man on a horse. He was accompanied by a rabbit and a fast turtle. The princess saw that they were green!

The man came to the lake with his animals: the rabbit ate Daisy and Rose, and the man took the princess. The fast turtle said to the fairy:

-If you win me in a race we will give you the princess, but if I win you must go away from this forest and you’ll never return.

- Hahahaha, you’ll never win me. You are only a turtle!

They started the race and the fast turtle won. The fairly was very sad and annoyed, but she left the forest forever.

The princess was watching the young man, “he is very handsome” she thought.

- You’re the prince of my dreams! - she said to him.- Thank you for saving me!

- I saw you were in trouble and I had to save you. But I’m sorry, I am not the prince of your dreams, I’m only a poor man who works every day in Violet Hill. I don’t have a lot of money.

- It doesn’t matter, this experience has changed me. You are as important as me. Do you want to meet me in the city?

- Yes, of course! You’re very pretty..

Then the princess felt asleep in his arms. When she woke up she was in her room, and on her right there was a note that said:

You are the girl that I want.

If you feel the same:

2, Luppet Street, Violet Hill.

Tom, your almost prince.

Serena and Tom continued meeting for a long time until they married and they lived happily ever after.

My future

My future... I didn't know what to do when I finish the "batxillerat". Nearly everybody know yet what they want to study, but I don't have a concrete idea from what to do.

I'm doing the cientific- batxillerat, I don't know why. I think I do it because I have done physic and biology last year and I like it. But the problem is that I also like history, or music or language (with writing). But finally I choose the scientific. But what I want to do? I don't know, I like very different careers, and I want to explain why:

- Publicity: because I always like adversiment and admire all the people who are working and thinking it to promote a product. The "projecte de recerca" in part I have done it also from publicity; the publicity of Coca-Cola. I think it's artistic and cientific too because you must have a great idea, but also search and study the kind of people for how is made this publicity.

This year we are going to the University and I have choosen this subject to know more about it and the career.

- Psicologoly: I think it's very interessting. I hope that next year I can do it. In second of batxillerat you can choose this subject, but I depend of the year it changes with maths or physic. If it changes with maths, I'm going to change it because this year it's going really bad for me in maths. I think it could be great to do psycology and can study who or why we think like we are thinking. But I don't want to be the typical psycolog from the film who helps the other people with their problems. I prefer to do the more "scientific" part, investigate in the society in general. I also want to go the talk on the University.

- Photography: it's one of my biggest hobby. I only have a normal digital camera, but I think it's the photographer who made the photo, and not the camera. This, said to me my ph

otographer teacher with whom I did a course what during about one month. And since that I knew a lot of tricks how to make a great picture with a normal camera. I love to go with the bicycle on a Sunday morning, go to the "Aiguamolls" and do photos there.

I prefer photos for the nature, landscape or seaside. I don't like to much do photos of people, except if it's from a person in concrete, doing portrairt from them.

With this interestings the most normal would that I choose the artistic batxillerat, but I think that if you go to the artistic, you must be very great in something, have some specially talent in theater, sing or playing an instrument. And I can't sing, I feel very nervous when I'm doing theater, and I only play the guitar.

So I have choosen the cientific because I prefer the way to study from the social and humanistic batxillerat.

It also could be possible that if I finish the school and didn't know yet what to study that I go at some other country to work and to travel. I want to go to the USA (California), Mexic and Australia. I also want to go at these places because this is a great place to do kitesurf.

It would be a big wish and dream for me to be some day famoue in kitesurf competitions and travel around the world to participate there.

So, in conclusion my future (at the moment) maybe would be a psycolog and marketing, travel around the world to do kitesurf and made photos there.

Paul the World Cup octopus dies

Paul the Octopus was a common octupus rom England, who lived in a tank at a Sea Life Center in Germany.Paul became internationally famous for correctly predicting the winner of each of Germany's seven matches at the 2010 Wordl Cup, as well as the final.

Now, Paul has died. He was two-and-half years old, and I think he was a real phenomeon. He enthused people across every continent.
The first time I saw him on the German TV, and only two days later I saw news in the Internet (in spanish and english). I was surprised that everyone knows about him. And at the school everybody know him too, and talk about what he predict for a match. After a few days, ther were a lot of groups in Facebook, he was on every TV programm or news... He really becomes famous very fast! In wikipedia are definitons about him in more than 40 languages!!!
There was a funny detaill too, that when Paul predicted the win from Germany vs. Argentina, there in a cook-show, cooks a recipe with an octopus! They were angry with Paul...


I think the people were so fascinated because he could preview nearly every match correctly. Paul begun his career before the FIFA, but nearly nobody knows. In 2008 he predict the UEFA Europe, and only fail two matches from the six who playes Germany.
But in 2010 he preview ALL matches from Germany good!


The question is: how could he make that?
At the beggining I thought that this was only conscidence, that he was very lucky to choose the recipient with the flag, but then I view that he was always alright. Can this only be luck? But if the answer is no, how managed he it?

An octopus is intelligent as a two-year-old child, he can plan and anticipate play, act and play. But even so, no two-year-old child can preview all the matches right: how did Paul do this?
Every newspaper around the world asked this same thing: The Washington Post Paul assumed a clairvoyant abilities, "Le Monde" spoke of virtually unbeatable predictions and The Japanese AFP Paul assumed a possible unreliability before the England game.


After the World Cup and during his long life (for a octopus the lifetime is about 1 year), he had changed a lot of things, and because him there desenvoloup a lot of funny historys:

- An municipality in Spain collected 30,000 euros to buy Paul. This should Paul be presented as an attraction of the local octopus festival. The same village appointed Paul on 13 July 2010 an honorary citizen of the city.

- Industry Minister Miguel Sebastián and Environment Minister Elena Espinosa suggested to bring him to Spain, "so that the Germans him not eat."

- In China media reports of Paul have created a culinary wave. The consumption of cephalopods, squid, such as octopus in Asia had grown rapidly. They also madea film, who comes in cinemas this year called: Kill octopus Paul.

-The community of Marina di Campo Elba has decided in October 2010, to name a street "Via Paul Polpo (octopus Paul Street).



And now, since the 3th November there are Paul II! We will see if he can predict like Paul... :)


..................................................Paul II.........................................

Oral presentation

Hello, today I'm going to talk about Kitesurfing. Last year I did an oral presentation"from that", but the difference is that now I pracise it!
This summer I have "made" a course. I was working all the summer and the last days I "have do" the course.

"At" the first day I was nervous because I had waited a long time for this day.I was "practing" on the beach, with a very little kite, to learn more or less how to fly it. And after we ... with another guy who did the course with me too, we prepare a big kite, like that and I "flew" it on the beach. At the end of the day I was very tired and I "went sleep" during the afternoon.

"At" the second day was very cold, but it was the day when I went into the water. But I "wear" a neoprene, like the photo, and I didn't "not" feel "too much" the water. First I began with the "body-drag". That is to know how you must fly the kite so that you can get up and after I do it with the board. It's very... It was very difficult and it's very tired because you must be with the arms up and look at the sky to... to watch at the kite and the wind.
And now, my present and future.I have bought all the material and my kite is a North Vegas from 2008. It's a very secure kite, it has nine square meter and it's like that but in yellow and black and it's very good for beginners but you can also jump and do another tricks.

That's me last Friday, when arrived the kite. I have bought it from Glen, who "is" my kite-teacher because he's selling his old ones, and I have bought it from "he."
And yeasterday arrived the board, I was very happy.
And in March I'm goinig to participe in a World wite meeting. It's every year in ten countries around the world and here in Spain it's in Sant Pere Pescador. It's only for girls and I want to participe.

And here are some more photos, that "was" me on the beach, yes.. and practising. And I have learnt to "kitesurf" and to fall.
Do you have any questions?

Thank you for your attention




P.S. that what are between " " are the mistakes what I said during the oral presentation.

Which country has the best brains?

Over the past week, the Nobel prizes have been awarded in chemistry, medicine, peace, physics and literature.

The awards are an annual ritual celebrating human intellectual endeavour that began in 1901.Over the intervening 109 years, more than 500 prizes have been awarded.

But which nation can claim the most winners?
The top three are US (323 winners), UK (117 winners) and Germany, with 103 winners. Others are France and Sweden.

And here are my opinion about that:

I think that the Nobel prices are the most important price for anyone scientific, author or economist. It must be a great feeling to win it.

And it's also important for the countries because so they show the intelligence and good education of the country. That shows clearly which countries are the best in the different categories.

For example, in investigation (medicine, chemistry and physics) US and Germany are the best. What does this mean? That only there are good scientific's? Of course, no! But it reflects that there are good Universitys and the state worry about the people.

That's what I didn't like here in Spain. If you want to study, you have to have money, to pay the University, the flat, etc. It's very expensive, and I think because that there are many young people who don't go study, although pass well the "batxillerat". Of course, in Germany it's also very expansive, but there the state worry about this kind of young people.

There, if you want to study, but don't have enough money, you can request support and money. Logical, that you have to return it, but later, you can pay it when you have a job.

I think that's a very better system than the Spanish. If they don't invest in this young people, they don't study, don't get a good job, and don't want to win never a Nobel price. Well, this is maybe exaggerated, but I think that's works like that.

Why people here in Spain or other countries often after finished their career on University went to another county? Because there the state or some company invest more money in their! There, they have more chances, to leverage more their studies.

I think that the system need to change. I don't find good that people who want to study don't can do it, only because the state don't support them.

Stress, a risk factor we should monitor carefully

In the last English class I have read an article about stress. There, they tell us that stress can transform in illness. That's because the many situations during the day, or when you have to do a lot of things in a short time. They also say that when we change our behaviour we can preview a lot of problems with the health.

I think that they are right. During the day, and specially in the routine, I'm nearly ever stressed- I think it's not good for the health to submit too many stress, for example in the typical exams weeks at school. During these days I feel very stressed because I must study every day, went to rowing training, do the homework, think also that If I don't pass the exam I must be better at the next...

I agree with the author that stress can be dangerous for health. The first time I really notice that was last year, during the last weeks in 4rt ESO. There were the final exams, and we have a lot of things to do in very shortly time. Every night I study until midnight or more, and still so, I had the feeling don't have to study enough. So, I woke up at six or 7 o'clock in the morning to study more.

During these days I was very tired, nervous, and very very sensitive. For example, maybe it was 11 o'clock in the night and If I don't do correctly some exercise, don't understand something, or simply couldn't study more, I began to cry. And the same thing happened to other friends from me, we simply couldn't be more.

When, finally, these terrible weeks ending, I was very exhausted and I slept a lot of hours every day.

Because of this, I notice how dangerous can be stress. It's very logical that If you ever are submitted under stress, you are ending ill or with some disease.

So, I think we can preview the stress if we organize better and make breaks and relax us a few minutes between every task. For example, if I know that I have an exam in a week, to prevent stress, I begin to stuffy every day ten or twenty minutes or made summaries from the differents subjects.

Theoretical, every time when I know I have an exam, I propose myself to do that (to study every day), but nearly never I really do it. I think that's what the author of the article means; that we know how to avoid the stress, but don't do it.

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