THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING ABROAD. (advantages-disadvantages)

     Since, 1987 students have scholarships that are designed to aid them in the costs while they are receiving education abroad. There are many different types of scholarships to help students with the educational expenses for at least, one year. This activity is a wonderful experience in many factors. Although it is costly to pay for education as well as rent or room board if a student does not get a scholarship. Studying abroad is an amazing opportunity which anyone can take advantage of during their professional career.

There are many advantages that this experience has. Nevertheless there are a few disadvantages too. Starting with the advantages, one of them is that students learn a language and customs different from the ones practiced in their own country. While visiting, living and studying abroad, they have the opportunity to practice the language while they talk with people from this country and at the same time they observe and practice the customs. This could be beneficial throughout their lives. If you are studying some career that is not relative with languages, for instance, medicine, being able to communicate with a patient in their own language could save their life. Moreover, abroad students meet other students from other countries. They can share travels around the country or to other countries, because apart from studying there, they like to go sightseeing. Even they share their thought about. Abroad students also know another culture different from their own and they can deal with their habits. According to the lodging, abroad students can live in a shared-flat with other roommates or they can stay in a dorm. Another place to stay is in a host family. I think the best option is to stay in a host family because this way you will observe better the local customs and etiquette. Finally, one of the best advantages of this program is gaining in your own independence and you would also learn to be more polite and respectful.  

Apart from this experience being expensive there are few disadvantages I would like to point out. Firstly, if a student does not know well the language he can have troubles to understand the lessons. This disadvantage has a negative impact on the student’s ability to take accurate notes or writing homework assignments correctly. Secondly, the abroad student can feel kind of lost because out there he does not have any support of family and friends. Even if he feels ill or something like that, he has to take care for himself. In order to try and overcome these problems make sure you’re prepared to stay away from your family and your friends. Remember that there are many other students who wish that they were given this amazing opportunity and you are the lucky one to be able to go.

In short, I would just like to say that you should take advantage of this amazing chance of studying abroad because if you don’t, one day you will regret that this opportunity passed you by. So, go ahead and go abroad. When you get back, tell us all about it. 

The Submarine Shark (complete essay)

The shark Submarine is a new species of shark that we didn’t recognize before. We have no pictures because there is only one; at least, we’ve found only this one. This shark is really huge and his length is awesome, which is unreal. Also, it is said to live to be more than forty years old according to his victims. It has been collected similar stories attending to this. So, these stories similar to the ones I’m going to describe have been collected and they gave rise to legend.

The Submarine Shark we thought that it was only a legend, but we were wrong. Since there were different stories of people encountering the shark last year they began to be taken seriously. All the shark’ victims that this shark has been killing, all of them, have been killed in the waters of South Africa. The first victim was a fisher. He was fishing with his brother when this shark come down the waters and surprised him. Her brother could not do anything for him, because unfortunately nobody can deal with sharks. Another anecdote which is relative with this shark is told by a girl. She studies the behavior and the habits of dolphins in South Africa and one day, she said that she saw something that she had not seen before. She was swimming with them, and suddenly they started to take her out of the water because something horrible was coming. The dolphins swam the other way, and the behaviorist saw that the big shark was coming. These two anecdotes match important data. They saw the head of the shark and they saw that the shark had a scar in his eye. Maybe he has the scar because of an attack from human he tried to kill.           

The last day that this shark was seemed was around October 2014. There was a group of people from North Carolina and England that were vacationing in South Africa. They took a boat there to see the big whales and during their trip in this funny activity, the boat hit a rock under the water. So, the boat began to sink and people began jumping into the water, because they thought that they would drown if they were to remain inside of the sinking boat. The water patrol of these waters was at 50km away from the accident, so they called emergency helicopters to the incident to rescue the stranded vacationers. When the helicopters arrived, they inspect the area of the accident and there were twelve sharks around the people, so they started to get out the water. These sharks were white sharks, they don’t hurt people if they don’t smell blood, but they were around them and anyway it was dangerous.        Suddenly, the water patrol saw on their screen inspection that the white sharks swam away. This was really strange. The white sharks were around their favorite meal and them they swam away. Then, the water patrol understood why they swam away. A big shark appeared on their screen inspection and then he stopped. This was the reason to got out the waters the rest of the people but during the rescue, the big shark caught a woman and after killing her, the shark caught a man and he pushed him with his mouth out to sea but didn’t kill him. This was because when a shark eats something, he has to wait 35-40 minutes to make digestion and then he trough the skeleton. So, he was waiting to do the digestion and then he was going to eat another man. The water patrol, of course, could not do anything for the woman and the man, but they saved the other people. It was a horrible moment.

The waters of South Africa have to be watched more carefully to avoid killings like these ones. The Submarine Shark is huge but also really quick and in a few seconds he can eat you without thinking about it. Be on guard, and refrain from being close to dangerous waters. 

I saw this documental in Discovery  Channel, it's awesome. 

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/videos/submarine-shark-videos/

4th Practice. (essay, something you like and most people don't)

APPLE


Apple comes from an American multinational corporation that desins and creates hardware products, such as, computers, cell phones or tablets. Most people like Apple because of the design and the quality. Since 2001, Apple's corporation has created the best phone every year which has caused that these phones have been the most needed in the world. The symbol of this brand, as the name says, is an apple and the products are usually white. 

These phones can be the best in tthe world, but there are a lot of phones that are similar to them. Apple is expensive and we can get similar phones cheaper than iPhones. I am refering to iPhones because nowadays most people have one and, in most of the cases, people have an iPhone to feel cool. That's because famous people have iPhones and also because they are expensive. Apart from being expensive, there is labor exploitation in Asia because of this brand. And also, it is said that the Apple's factories damage the environment a lot. It is normal that Apple catches the attention of the people because apart from the design and the quality of the products, they use good and sweet slogans with them. Anyway, other brands like Sansung or Nokia, have good quality too and every year they are improving as iPhones. 

In summary, Apple is a goo brand that most people love but, in my opinion, you do not have to spend too much money on a cell phone, having other phones cheaper with similar conditions. I do not mind to have the same phone that had a famous person, I can buy a cheaper phone and save the mone for other important things. 

3rt Practice (problem-solution composition)

The phone is better far away.


Nowadays it is difficult to live without a cell phone. We need a phone to be in contact with people every day, and not just to be in contact, we can also have Internet in our phone to look for information, play games, look for the weather, see the hour... So, a mobile phone is a wireless handheld device that allows users to make calls and send text messages, among other features.

The cell phones have electromagnetic waves and these waves can affect you badly. First, talking with someone for fifty minutes or more can cause a headeache. But we can use the messaging instead of the calls to avoid this problem. The following problem that we may incure is sleeping with the cell phone, at least at three mettres from us. The last problem I would like to point out is the risk of cancer that involves us because of the proximity of the phone. So the phone is better off or far from us.

In summary, this is an issue which people don not have in mind but they should. People think that nothing is going to happen with them, maybe not, but maybe yes. By the way, it is not good to have the cell phone close to us all time, specially while we are sleeping, so we have to avoid this keeping the phone as far as possible form us.

2nd Practice (Outline with thesis statement)

OVERWEIGHT


I. Nowadays obesity or overweight is a big problem that involves people. Overweight causes a lot of serious problems to your health and it comes from many factors such as, the family, the environment or the habits.

II. The family can lead you to obesity.
   a) What kind of food are you eating at home?
   b) How can you avoid this?
   c) Your family is a great support to help you.

III. Your environment can lead you to obesity too.
   a) Habits that you have.
   b) What kind of food do you buy at the supermarket or where do you usually go to eat?
   c) Mc Donald's, Burguer King and KFC are good examples of fast food restaurants where people who            have obesity usually go to eat.

IV. The habits that you have depending of you.
   a) You need to meet five meals every day.
   b) You cannot eat whatever you want out of the meals.

V. The people that have obesity have the opportunity to save their lives. However, obesity comes from other factors, for instance, metabolism or genetics, and these people have more difficulty to lose weight. So if you have the chance, do it, save your health.

1st Practice (opinion paragraph about something to like and most people don't).

AU PAIR 

http://www.aupair.com/es?
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Working as an au-pair is a good way to travel and learn languages. You can travel as a nurse in a unknown family and at the same time you are living with them. Depending on the family, they can cook for you or they can give you some money fot the job. Most of the people don not like this experience and the reason is because they do not trust in activities like this one. It is true that there are some disadvantages such as, the family cannot pay you after all or they ask you to do other activities apart of taking care of the children. However there are advantages too, you meet new people and you learn about their culture. Anyway being an au-pair is a right experience for everyone and you should try it.

Dubstep Christmas lights.

I love december. This month brings Chirstmas and it means happiness. All the streets are full of Chirstmas lights and decorations. People are walking along the streets, buying present for the family, taking pictures with Santa Claus, seeing Belen portal's and also meeting with their families more that any month.
But here in Spain, Christmas is not as stronger as North-America or maybe, another English speaking country. They are accustomed to decorating their gardens with light deers, with the figure of Santa Claus and his sleight, with Christmas trees, presents... As much as their gardens are decorated as better.

So, there are a competition between the gardens decoration of the houses in some parts of North-America. They put a lot of lights with beautiful forms in their gardens, they put music too, and then, they put the lights to the compass of the music.

Here we have an example:

It's amazing, but to do that, you must have a lot of time to decorate it or a lot of friends to help you, apart of having money to pay the consume of the lights and the decoration. Do you want to be the first to do this in Spain? It will be fun, I would like to see it.