I hope you all had a Merry Christmas with lots of presents, food and happiness, but now it's time to say ''goodbye'' to 2012, and say ''hello'' to a new year.
Because of the crisis, 2013 will be a year with more austerity than 2012, and I think that these measures are very severe and I don't know how long people will stand them...
But well, let's talk about happy things, so I wish you all, a great year, full of good things, like health, happiness and love, and with the start of a new year, comes school, so I hope that the students can improve their marks and achieve their objectives.
So tonight, ''enter with the right foot'' and don´t forget to eat twelve raisins and drink champagne, but the last thing, is only for adults! Inês Ferreira 10ºA
At first, it looks like a title of a movie that premiered in theatres, but the truth is that these are apparently real.
NASA has already announced that the end of the world would not be this year, not even close.
(Not that i had believed in such things, but i´m positive that a few people did, and still do).
Anyway, the thing is that after they had denied this event, they came up with a new one: three days of darkness, in the whole world.
That´s right, we are going to stay without sun and all the types of energy for maybe more than three days, or at least that was what the " nasa´s scientists" had said, Because a few days after i read this i found out that they were talking about the comet "Elenin", that is crumbled for thousands of years, and by that fact, his passage through Earth would not block sunlight and therefore it was an authentic nonsense.
After all of this, i thought that they were joking us... and who knows, maybe they are!
Christmas is here once more and with
it we find ourselves surrounded by carols, mistletoe, x-mas trees, sweets and
presents… without forgetting of course the legendary Santa Claus.
The tradition of Santa goes away
back, however the old man in a red suit with white collar and cuffs, black
boots and a great white beard became popular when the first Christmas ‘commercials
from Coca-Cola came out. The urban myth says that Santa wears red
because of the colors of the brand, but that’s not truth. The only thing Coca-Cola did was to use Santa’s
image, although it was slightly changed by the hands of Haddon Sundblom. To
prove this theory we can face the fact that this brand wasn’t even the first
one to use Santa in ads.
Although I’m x-mas’ number one fan
this makes me think about its meaning nowadays. The most popular figure of this
holiday became a symbol because of a massive campaign by Coca-Cola. It’s a well-known
fact that x-mas is today a gigantic business, I don’t believe that x-mas should
end because of that. I guess that it is important to remember the true
meaning of it and enjoy it by the small things that it brings us and not only
the presents.
Personally I love x-mas for its
songs, for lights in the street, for the cold afternoons by the fireplace with the
tree in the background and over all because of the feeling of happiness and
hope in a new year.
I leave you with wishes of a great Christmas
and a wonderful new year! I will also finish as I started and upload a
Coca-Cola commercial which despite everything
is always an inspiring view of Christmas.
The winnersof the
Nobel Prizefor Physics from this yearwere awardedyesterdayin a ceremony heldin Stockholm,
Sweden.
The frenchSergeHaroche,
fromthe Collègede
France, and the americanDavidJ.Wineland, from
the University of Colorado, bothwith
68 years old,receivedthe Nobel
Prize forPhysicsfor their workwith"innovative experimental methodsthat allowthe measurement andmanipulationofindividual quantum systems."
They developedways of measuringquantum particles(tiny scale) without destroying them, something thatpreviously seemedunreachable. The announcement was madein Octoberby the RoyalSwedishAcademy ofSciences.
It was a long time ago... I'd say 9 years ago. It looked like another regular day at my ''grandmother's'' house. Why in inverted commas? Because she wasn't my biological grandmother. Still, that lady probably knew me more than everyone else. While my mom was at work, she took care of me. 6.30am everyday I woke up and before catching the bus, my mom left me at my second home.
One day, I got back from the mall with my ''grandfather''. Very happy I was, until a strange thing started to happen. The lady wasn't feeling so well so she went to the hospital.
Apparently she had brain cancer. I didn't know that, in fact, I think I was the last person to know it, due to my age.
After spending some time at the hospital, she went home, but not her's, mine, because she couldn't take care of herself.
June 7, the day of her birthday. She turned 62 in a hospital stretcher.
June 8, she went back to the hospital for examination.
June 10, my birthday. I didn't party like I wanted despite being only a child. Although my grandmother's condition, I still enjoyed my birthday, because like a child I wasn't aware of what was happening.
The following day, June 11. In the morning my mom went to the hospital, to see how she was.
When my mother arrived home, she was preparing me. I didn't know why.
Then she told me. '' You won't go to her house anymore...''
I questioned: ''Why mommy?''
She answered: ''She passed away...''
I started crying like there was no tomorrow...
Today, I realized that in spite of belonging to the past, my life turned upside down.
Everytime I think of her, I start thinking about what it would be like if she was here.
Unfortunately she's not.
Hurricane Sandy devastated portions of the Caribbean and the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States during late October 2012, with lesser impacts in the Southeastern, Midwestern states and Eastern Canada. Sandy, classified as the eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, was a Category 2 storm at its peak intensity. The storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and at least 253 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I think the Hurricane Sandy was the biggest catastrophe of the world. It caused thousands of deaths and damages. There could have been fewer deaths if people were more cautious because they were alarmed in advance.
In my opinion the end of the world won't happen. This idea is a myth created by "Maias" and they can convince the population in the 21st century.
NASA is trying to convince the population that it isn't true but there have been people who invested millions of dollars in basements and other preparations to survive the 21st December 2012.
