miércoles, 16 de mayo de 2007

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Once upon on time there was a boy called Buby who was very proud and arrogant.He had plenty of money and he always used the best clothes and shoes. Buby had been grown in a beautyful house with a huge garden full of flowers and the house inside was decorated with the most exquisite frensh style. Buby's parents were always busy , they both worked all day long and when they arrived home they were too tired so they hardly had time to play with Buby or to talk to hiim. Fortunately, Buby was always surrounded of people who worked in the house, but the most friendly was his nurse Clarisse. Clarisse was the person who spent more time with him and she was very nice, but she was quite old and Buby really needed people from his own age to play with.Whenever he tried to talk about this with his parents they were too busy and didn't listen to him.
One day, in the middle of a dinner Buby jumped on the table to get his parent's attention and told them in a very loud voice: I want to go to school!!! They looked each other and said:ok Buby, you'll go to school tomorrow. Buby was so happy to hear that , that he couldn't sleep all night. So next day he put on his best clothes ans shoes and Clarisse took him to school. At school some children tried to be nice with him but Buby was so proud that the children run away from him. Buby didn´t undestand why he couldn't make any friend and this made him feel very sad. When Buby returned home he felt so sad that he din't want to eat, so Clarisse said to him :` Why are you so sad?´and Buby replied :` I couldn't make any friend at school, they run away from me´`What´s wrong with me? I told them abaut all the toys i have and abaut the six computers and the swimming pools and all the things i have and despite this they run away. Maybe i should have told them abaut the great birthday parties i have every year´ So Clarisse looked at him and said : 'You don´t need to have all those things to make friends, just try to be nice and forget abaut all material things'. Buby : 'But my parents are all day talking abaut money and they have plenty of friends' 'They say that money is the most important thing and that with it you can have whatever you want and what i want are friends' .Clarisse laught and told him : ' Money can´t buy happiness or friendship because those things are priceless'
The following day Buby forgot abaut material things and made a lot of friends , he returned home very happy and realised that he didn´t need money to be happy. His parents continued working very hard and making more money while his son enjoyed of his friends. Buby thought that one day his parents would realise that they could be happy without material things.

lunes, 14 de mayo de 2007

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As we know, the economic situation in our country is every time harder. Young people find it very difficult to get a jod after they graduate from high school and in most cases they cannot continue their studies because of the economic situation in their houses. Another very important fact is that as techology is improving, jobs require very well prepared people, specially in computer use and languages use.This require a level of education that secondary school doesn´t provide and as a consequence people who can´t continue their studies have no chance to get a job. As an alternative that nowadays is becoming very common, young people choose to leave the country looking for better opportunities. The most prefferred countries for imigrating are those in Europe like Spain and France. There people don´t want to make hard works so they employ to foreigns to do it. For these young people who leave the country life is not easy at all, they have to live far away from their family and they have to adapt to the place where they go.I think it´s very sad that people have to leave the place where they were grown because they have no opportinities here. It is said that Argentina is a rich country but the problem is that the richness is bad distributed. In our country there are a few peolple that are very rich and a lot of people that are very poor and as things are becoming every time more expensive, middle class is disappearing. As a conclusion i think that our government has to focus on younghood because they are the future of our country and give the chances to make a future in our country

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Training criminals
Last week i was in a bar with a friend and we had a very sad experience. It was a very cold night and a boy of abaut nine years old, who was in in very thin clothes, came to our table to offer us some flowers. He was a very nice boy and he told us that he had to sell all the flowers because if he didn´t his father, who was at the corner waiting for him, would hit him. My friend bought him a bunch of flowers and as he looked hungry, we invited him some pizza.He accepted and he stayed a minutes talking to us. But some minutes later his father called him very angrily and he rushed scared. But the most stricking thing was that a moment after the boy left we realised that he had stolen my friend´s cell phone that was on the table. Why would he do that? We were very nice to him and he looked so naive! We couldn´t believe that a boy of only nine years old could steal us in such inadvertenly way. We felt like fools because we never suspected of him.
Whenever i think of that experience i feel sad because it´s not difficult to imagine the future of that boy. He, as millions of children in our country, is being trained by his parents to be a future criminal. In most cases, children who live in the streets are taken by adults who teach them to steal for them because they know that small children cannot be in jail and in most cases they are taken to reform schools where they stay for a short period.
I think that the only responsible of this problem is the governmet. they should provide these children a place to live and to be educated because the key of amy social problem is education.

miércoles, 2 de mayo de 2007

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Technology is changing our social life style
While i was at home last saturday i recieved a text messege on my cell phone.It was from a friend of mine inviting me to her house and i went. We had a lot to talk abaut becuse we hadn't see for at least two months. But at the moment i arrived she was connected to the internnet in a chat room.Half an hour later we werw both chatting with some people.We had more than five people talking with us at the same time and it was very confusing because at the end we didn't know who was who.The thing is that the afternoon passed very quickli and we almost din't have time to talk because we werw hooked by the computer. When i went home i realised how technology is changing oursocial life. I went there to have a conversation with my friend and i ended talking to people i don't know and maybe i will never know.Thinking about that i got to the conclusion that nowadays we pay more attention to things that are unreal for us than things that are really healthy like sharing good times with people you love.I thing that technology is in some way destroying our social life. We almost have no contact with people because it is more easy to send a message by email or cell phone, and people who don't have a computer feel excluded. I'm not against technology. on the contrary, i think it is very helpful but the thing is that we must have some control and not to be hooked by it.There are things that an email or a text message can't give you. like a hug or to see the expression of the person you're talking to. And those things can also make you happy. We have to be responsible with the use of technology and enjoy more of things that make us feel happy like nature, family and friends.

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My first job
My first job was in a bakery. I was nineteen years old and i was looking for a part time job because i was studying at university. The owner of a bakery that was very close to my house offered me to work there in the mornings and i accepted. The work was quite easy because the only thing i had to do was sell bread and pastries. Of course, the most difficult thing for me was to resist to eat all those exquisite pastries. But the problem was that i'm addicted to sweets and every thing that contains suggar.so, two months after i started working i had won two kilos! That means i had gained a kilo per month. So i had to do something at respect. First i tried by chewing gum but it didn't work, then i took books to read there while the bakery was empty, but the cakes had such a smell that i couldn't stop thinking abaut them! Then i only relaxed and tried to convince myself that in some moment i was going to tire of eating them. But unfortunately it didn't happen! Finally, i found a solution to my problem....i started buying bigger clothes!