Windpipe transplant breakthrough . (NEW)

Surgeons in Spai, (Barcelona), have made the first tissue transplant. They have constrycted this with the stem cells of the patient. Claudia Castillo needed the transplant to save a lung after contracting tuberculosis. The disease had damaged her airways. Now she can do a normal life. To make the new airway, the doctors took a donor windpipe, or trachea, from a patient who had recently died. Surgeons can now start to see and understand the potential for adult stem cells and tissue engineering to radically improve their ability to treat patients with serious diseases.

Wednesday, 19 November 2008.
BBC News.

Nadal Has Knee Tendinitis, Doubtful for Davis Cup. (NEW).

Nadal, winner of a fourth straight French Open title and his first Wimbledon championship, withdrew from the Paris Masters on Friday with a knee problem after losing the first set of his quarterfinal match against Nikolai Davydenko.He has tendinitis in his right knee and could be in doubt for Spain's Davis Cup final against Argentina. Medical tests Tuesday confirmed the tendinitis, and Spain team doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorro said the player would undergo treatment until Saturday. They don't know if Nadal be able to play...

New York Times.

5-11-08

SPEAKING.

My first oral presentation.

My opinion:
When I finished it I thought that it had been a disaster, I don't know why, but that was my impression.
Later when I watched the video my opinion changed, I thought that it was better than I thought. Also, I listened to some expresions or sentences that when I practised it I failed it, but these day I did it good. So I was happy. Later when I wrote literally all that I said in my oral presentation I saw some important failures and it discouraged me.
I used some attractive resources. I didn't read from my notes and I did some movements to indicated some concret things of the powerpoint , that I was refering at that moment. I organized my ideas in a chronological order . Also I think that all the time I looked at the public while I was talking. I introduced some markers and maybe some information new for someone. For example, I think that everybody learned how poor is a Maya town. I looked for information in my album of photos. I checked my grammar and I used the dictionary to look for the meaning of "palla", "canyes"... I used one sentence liker, I know that I would must tell you more of these. I used fillers, I repeated the word: very.
I knew how pronunce all my words and I checked it with a classmate. Finally I saw that my tone of voice wasn't monotone and I talked in a fluid continuum more or less.

In the next oral presentation I can improve my vocabulary and make sentences longer than these and more "complicated". I think that in my class I have a low level and I don't like it.

Sincerely I don't know what mark I'll get because I don't want to do illusions myself and then that I will be disappointed myself.

MY OPINION ABOUT THIRTEEN AND THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE.

I think that thirteen is a hard film but really it's okey for the young people to watch it because in this way a lo of teenagers maybe, they want be like Tracy or Evy. The problem starts at Tracy's house with the education taht her mum gives her. I don't mean that the mum didn't try to be a good mother but she can't do it because she has a lot of problems and worries. Also the father is only worried about his job and he doesn't know anything about his sun and his daughter. She wants to be in fashion and she wants to be good-looking so the boys will look at her. After all Tracy doens't feel good about herself, she is insecure and a weak person and the mum's boyfriend doesn't like her.
All of these changes Tracy, starts going out with bad companies and she finishes by taking drugs, doesn't study, cuting herself... I can't understand how her mum didn't realise what Tracy was going through.

Adrian Mole is very different because he is infantile and the only thinh they have in common is that the parents are seppareted. Adrian Mole has a stronger character than Tracy and he doens't mind care about his problems.

Finally in my opinion the book was boring and I didn't like it because it didn't find it funny. The film was very good but I think that in the end there was something missing.

THE EMAIL.

Hi Gemma!

Well, you know how my summer has been.
I have been working all summer in a shop (Llar del Nadó) in Figueres.
I started to work there when the school didn't finish yet and I finished it on last saturday.
At the weekend I usually went to Empuriabrava for visit my boyfriend. Or another days I went to the beach but three times only. I haven't gone out to the parties. It has been very boring.
The only thing that I have done is go to the Medievals.

See you!

Keith Haring's legacy! (New)

In Barcelona they celebrated that Keith Haring went to Barcelona. He painted in only five hours a mural in a wall. This drawings denunced the illness that ended his life. The "Obra Social Caixa Terrassa" commemorated this event with a video that it presented the creation process of the mural called -Together we can stop aids-. His drawings were on rough black and they protested about topics. Also it remembered the shops that he made where he sold cheap objects. Finally in this new says that an american artist was his influence.

In this new I learnt some words!

Curated = "fundat".
Aids = Sida.
Rough = not polite.
Praised = when you see somebody because he or she do something that you like it.