My Summer Diary

22 July, Last day at UPC


It has been an amazing week!
At the end of the course my friend Arnau and I, recived a letter from the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalaunya) giving us the opportunity to participate in a summer activity, in Barcelona for a week. Every day of this past week we went to Barcelona with the bus, and there we took the subway to the UPC. There we spent all the day learning and programing, and at the afternoon we took the subway and the bus again to go back to Banyoles. A part of programing they showed us a supercomputer and we assist to a very interesting talk.

3 August, Kayak

We have been staying in l’Escala for some days, and we decided to spend the morning going with kayak. We went to Cala Mongó, more specific in to “Les Tres Coves” and then we come back. We spend 3 hours, but when we where going back we found a place to swim and we stayed there resting and relaxing. The views were amazing, on one side the sea and the horizon and the other the rocks. It was a cool experience and we will probably do it again.

5 August, Board Games

Every summer, because we have more free time, we(my family and I)spend hours and hours playing card and board games. And this summer isn’t different than the others, and in the first holidays week we bought a simple card game and a board game more difficult, maybe, the most difficult one we ever had. To finish a “RuneBound”, the board game we bought, we spent 4 hours minimum, and we only play with 2 players, imagine with four. Of course this is not the only game we’ve played, we have played dozens of times at “Bang”, “Caracassone”, “Los Colonos de Catan”, “El Hobbit” and so others. It’s just amazing having a good time with your family.

10 August, Riding to Roses 

We have stayed in l’Escala for two weeks aprox. and we did lots of things: we went in Kayak, we played games and we went with bicycle around l’Escala. And my father and I decided to go from l’Escala to Roses with bicycle, but no for the asphalt road, for little paths wichs made more . We knew some paths and with a map we get up earlier and we spend all the morning raiding. We almost made it, but we had to hurry up to come back on time for lunch. A part of that, it was a windy day, and going to Roses(not going back to l’Escala) was very difficult.

12 August, Before Portaventura 

We are still here in l’Escala the next week we will be in PortAventura to have some fun on the rollercoasters, and the different rides. Rollercoasters aren’t the most exiting things for me, but the shows and the atmosphere in Portaventura, with the different ”Worlds”, are awesome. A part of that the water attractions are so useful for when it’s really hot, and I think that we will have a great time there. But there is a surprise to, we will stay at a hotel of PortAventura for 1 or 2 nights and my sister and I we don’t know which. We will see…

24 August, “Afternoon Routines”

This summer has been very very hot, and at the afternoon staying at  home it's a not very pleasant task. When we come back from PortAventura we found a solution. Almost every afternoon we go to my grandparents’ house, I set the badminton court and we play until we don't have more energy. Then we go to swim at the swimming pool. Sometimes we play basketball to, but badminton is a nice sport to play outside and it seems boring, but if you have a good opponent and you try to win it’s really fun.

22 August, Finally the robot

I have been using “Lego Mindstorms EV3” for 3 years, a product of Lego that consist of different pieces, motors, and sensor, that you can program and build different robots. This summer I had the idea to do a robot with Lego Mindstorms that can catch pieces and putt them to another place. When I came back from PortAventura, I started this “project”, and it ended quite well. It was able to move some pieces, not exactly how I wanted to, but still fine. In that photo you can see how it looks, it has to gear racks to go up and down, and left and right.

3, 4 September, Grapes

I waited until now to write the last post to this Summer Diary because every year we “end” the summer when we do ”la Verema”. We collect all the grapes and we prepare them to become wine doing the fermentation. It doesn't seem so, but there is a lot of work before collecting the grapes you have to wait until the sugar degree of the grapes(it exist), it’s Ok, then find a day that there is enough family members arround to do all the job in one day, collect them and put them in a deposit, and some days later other things that we have to do too. We had to do all of that 2 times in a weekend, just exhausting.

Estem sols?

Últimament, a classe, hem estat llegint diversos fragments de diversos autors amb narradors de diverses característiques i edats intentant fer-nos reflexionar sobre el tema de les persones que t’envolten i sobre si estem sols o amb altra gent al llarg de la vida.

Tècnicament, no. No estem sols. Però atenció, només si ho mirem amb el punt de vista de nombre d’éssers dintre d’una mateixa espècie, on nosaltres estaríem dintre de l’espècie humana. Però estem molt més sols que altres especies si ens comparem, per exemple, amb alguna especie microbiana o alguna vegetal. I tampoc sabem si estem sols dintre de l’univers, cosa força preocupant des del meu punt de vista.

Però si passem de ser científics i ens ho mirem des del punt de vista més filosòfic, penso, sincerament, que un mai està sol si ell no ho vol. I aquí m’agradaria fer servir un exemple molt visual que ens va dir un nostre professor a principi de curs i que representa d’una manera senzilla les relacions de les persones al llarg de la seva vida. La vida de cadascú comença en un petit cercle on només hi és ell i els seus pares. Es va creixent i comences a conèixer els primers amics i algun germà/germana. A primària coneixes molta més gent com tu i t’acabes fent-te amic d’uns quants. Comences a conèixer alguns adults a part dels teus familiars, comences l’educació secundaria i torna a haver-hi un munt de gent nova i diferent,… Així successivament. Aquest exemple seria la base de l’afirmació que he fet abans que un mai està sol si ell no ho vol.

Una altra cosa és que no vulguis estar acompanyat. Si ets una persona semblant al pare del text 2 això ja és una altra cosa. Una persona amb aquell caràcter sí que es pot acabar quedant sol, o perquè s’acaba autoexcloent del seu entorn d’amistats o perquè tothom s’aparta d’ell perquè té aquesta mena de caràcter.

En resum jo penso que no ho estem pas de sols ni a nivell científic ni a nivell filosòfic. Però sempre amb una condició que acaba determinant si estaràs sol o no: tu sempre decideixes el teu futur si vols estar sol ho estaràs, si no, segurament no.

Martí Juanola Ametller

3r ESO B/ FLEX +

Adele's Biography

Adele is a famous Singer who has a very well-known hit named “Hello”.
She was born in 1988, in Tottenham, England. She started to sing when she was four, so she has sung for all her life! In 2001, Adele and her mother moved to Brixton, in the south of London. There, three years later, she wrote her first single, ”Hometown Glory”. Then, in May 2006, she graduated from the BRIT school. One year later, she released her breakthrough song, Hometown of Glory which she had written in 2004. Her second single, “Chasing Pavements”, was released in 2008. This year, she started a world tour which finished one year later. She receives a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She wrote ”Someone like you”, in 2011. After this song she had a break. She became mother in October 2012, and she returned to the world of fame in 2015, with her most famous hit, “Hello”. With this song she broke a lot of record In Youtube.
Currently she lives in Notting Hill. She has been living there since 2008. She has already p0ublished four albums and she has been very successful.

Arnau Padrés i Martí Juanola

3r ESO B / FLEX+

Formal email

Dear Sir,

I am writing this letter to express my opinion about the effects that  dogs are causing to public spaces like parks or streets. I am from Banyoles an I normally go around the city on foot and is really annoying seeing dogs excrements around the places.

There is only one point I would like to address. I think that everybody can have a pet and it's Ok, there is no problem. But i hate the people who go to the parks with their dog, and they don't care about the environment or about the other people. It’s not enough putting signals because people don’t see them or they don’t care. I propose to do a better stimulation to reach that people care about his dog and make the places nice and clean and stop too bad actions like the poisoned meal that someone leave on the street for probably this problem, for example with a fine.

I hope you receive and understand my and do something for Banyoles.

Yours faithfully

Martí Juanola

Sant Jordi

Pensaments

Allà a dalt d’un turó, al costat del meu petit poble natal, hi era jo sense fer res, només pensant. Era un dia trist i fosc. Mirava els núvols de pluja, que d’un moment a l’altre esclatarien, reflectits a l’aigua tèrbola d’aquell dipòsit oxidat i abandonat. Aquell era el meu lloc preferit del poble, tenia unes vistes increïbles i no hi passava ningú, cosa que aconseguia que fos el lloc més tranquil. No estava gaire content, no, però tampoc no estava trist, més aviat nerviós i inquiet. Haver d'abandonar aquella tranquil·litat, aquelles amistats, aquells llocs... -Tant de bo em pogués quedar- m'anava repetint. Hauria d'anar a una ciutat plena de gent, frenètica i boirosa, però no de boira, sinó de fum. Potser no tornaria mai... Potser hauria d'anar encara més lluny... El meu cap era ple de pensaments i d'inquietuds.

Martí Juanola Ametller

3r ESO B

World's Biomes

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Mama Mia!

The most remarkable dau of my Christmas holidays was the day I went to see a show in Barcelona, Mama Mia!

It was the 24th of  December, and my family and I went to Barcelona in the morning. El "tió" gave us tickets to see Mama Mia show, in Tiboli theater. First of all, we spent 2 hours going to Barcelona, and then we visited "el Born" because we hardlu ever visit this city: it is really noisy for my parents. After that, we had lunch in a restaurant and we spent the afternoon visiting shops. Finallu, at 8 o'clock, we met my aunt that lives near there, and we went to the theatre.

The show was amazing! It's the second show I've ever seen and it was brilliant, with all the singer and dancers and the ABBA music.

I liked it but not compare to my sister, who really enjoyed that.

Martí Juanola Ametller

Flex+

Sensaciones

Molesto ruido de lluvia, a la vez agradable que te hace pensar en la suerte de tener una cálida y cómoda cama donde poder acurrucarte esta fría noche de invierno.