Urban living. (Week 9)

Hello bloggers! how is it going?

This week I'll introduce you to a place where I'd like to live for a short period of time in my life, even when I'm 50 years old. Its name is Kerala, are you related to this state? It is located in the south of India, being its capital Trivandrum. People who live in Kerala speak Malabar but I'm sure you can communicate with them in English as well. Its climate is categorized as tropical wet due to is the Arabic Sea. This state has an amazing vegetation as you can observe as soon as you look for its pictures. In fact, it is one of the places where you can find one of the best spices in the world. Additionally, Kerala is known worldwide for its tea gardens. I'm a tea person and this would be one of the main reasons for why I'd love to visit its area. Apart from its tea, as it is a tropical area, it has plenty of fruits to offer and I LOVE exotic fruits. Tropical fruits is something that in my country I cannot find. We barely good mangos.
In Kerala you can find from secure natural national parks to really wild places and I do love this combination when it comes to explore around. In addition to it, this environment encourages you to practice a great variety of sports. Surfing is one the "extreme" sports that I like to practice and Kerala is supposed to have good waves to practice it.
Will I visit this state someday to experience all the things previously mentioned? We'll see... Here I leave you some pics to give you an idea of what I am talking about 😄.

Other places I'd like to live to stay for a short term:

I'd love to stay in Vancouver because it combines different environments and sports that I like.

I'd like to stay in New Zealand, not any place in special but I'd like to go there and explore its vegetation.
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This week I've been reading in English to keep improving it! 💪

"Best" invention ever. (Week 8)

Have you ever had quarrels with your brother or sister because he or she has just eaten your most valued dessert? In my case, I've had these types of quarrels like thousands times with my brother.
My brother Pedro loves food more than I do and whatever he wants to eat, no matter what, he is going to get it. I've tried to hide food anywhere in the kitchen but he always finds it. I don't know how he does it but he has a good guessing.

When we were kids and we used to wake up at the same time to go to school we already had our breakfasts prepared by my mum. The first thing my brother Pedro normally did was to get into the kitchen and leave a spit in the glass of milk that apparently had more ColaCao as a mark that that one was the glass of milk that he was going to drink later. This may sounds funny, but it was real.
Another striking anecdote used to happen when my family met for lunch time and there were chips to eat. You couldn't turn your head to watch the TV because as soon as you did it he would steal all your chips from your plate. So yes, when I say that my brother Pedro loves food, I really mean it.

Nevertheless, here I present a really good invention to everyone that has this problem. Ice cream is something that everyone likes and might get upset if something eats it before they do. This is a good remedy if you want to keep away your favorite food from food thieves.

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A good method to acquire more vocabulary in English is to write down at least 10 words from your TV series everyday, that is, 10 words which you didn't know before and take a look at them before going to bed creating a sentence with each of them. I started to do that this weekend and it's a good method to remember new vocabulary.
I just can watch TV shows during weekends but this way will help me to increase the list of my English vocabulary.

What is a successful business? (week 7)

Good evening everybody!

How is your week going? mine is fine, not too exhausting as the last one but I needed it!

Today I'll talk about the definition of a successful business. What is a successful business for you? 

The path to make a business successes can be quite challenging due to all the obstacles you have to go through although eventually, it's worthy.

When you think about a successful business probably first things that come to your mind are: Starbucks, Zara, Facebook, Ryanair...Companies like these ones achieved an action within a specific period of time becoming then successful companies, reason for why everybody nowadays knows. 

Richard Russell defines successful business as a "successful company which behaving ethically and legally, creates value, independent of the owners efforts. This usually results in a sustained stream of profit, and a positive market value, representing the anticipated future profits." Not everything depends on the owners but also in the product that this company presents to the market. The owners have to first show a positive attitude which is one of the most important aspects to success in the market. Alex Pirouz supports this idea by saying "One of the most important steps you can take toward achieving your greatest potential in business is to learn to monitor your attitude and its impact on your work performance, relationships and everyone around you." Together with this topic, there are five possible steps to achieve a positive attitude in order to success in your business:

1. Become solution focused.

2. Mind control. 

3. Create your desire. 

4. Educate yourself. 

5. Just do it! 

(These steps are explained more in detail in  https://www.businessblogshub.com/2012/11/7-steps-to-a-positive-attitude-better-sales/ )

Achieving a good attitude would contribute to the creation and the representation of the products that a company will offer to the audience in order to get future profits. Depending on the statistics of the profits, the results would determine wether the company is succeeding or not in the market. 

Good luck!

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What did I do this week to keep up with my English? Well, last weekend one of my friends from Ireland came to visit me to Spain and we stayed in Madrid. We had such a wonderful weekend, I really loved it. Besides, we had the time to visit Toledo. As he didn't speak much Spanish, I was able to practice English with him during the whole weekend. Luckily, I'll see him again in a month in Ireland, I'm looking forward to it. Have a nice weekend everyone!