DAY 3: THURSDAY 6TH APRIL

We got up very early in the morning and had breakfast in the hostel. We ran out from the hostel to the underground station of Elephant and Castle to Charing Cross to arrived at Trafalgar Square and entered at The National Gallery that is a permanent collection houses Western European paintings, ranging from the 13th to the 20th centuries. There was a plenty of portraits from Boticelli, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Turner, Sebastiano... Most of these paintings was surprised me because I was thinking how did the painter to painted the most tallest pictures. The paintings was set in different landscapes, houses, buildings or self-portrait from an important figure of these century. There was a plenty of different colours combined with some figures and shapes which gave them a meaning or a representation. As I don't do Art History I couldn't knew the meaning of the most of these paintings and portraits his colours and figures, but I kept seeing us.

At 11:30h we got out from the museum and the teachers told us that we had free time until 16:30h. We decided to went to Oxford Street that is one of London's main shopping streets. It is two miles long and runs from Marble Arch in the west to Tottenham Court Road in the east. The sreet was a full of shops and shopping malls where we entered and we was seeing all the marks and the full of clothes that was inside the shops. Then we looked for a restaurant and sat in a terrace where we lunch a delicious handmade hamburger with chips.

Then we decided to went to visited the Tower Bridge, but we had a confusion with the underground that we had to caught and we appeard the side of another bridge, but as we had done the whole walk we took a photo from the London Bridge that could be seen from far away.












At 16:30h we had to stayed in front of the Natural History Museum and we had to caught the Circle Line of the underground to arrived at Souht Kensigton, but we got in the wrong train and we had to do 20 stops  to arrived at the Natural History Museum. When we discovered that we got in the wrong train we were quite nervous and scared because we got three quarter of hour later and didn't know how the teachers would react. When we arrived Isabel was waiting for us and told us that nothing happen an error has it all. We finally could visited the Natural History Museum that is a must in London. Diplodocus skeleton greets you in the main hall. The museum includes the dinosaur gallery, the Darwin Centre, and areas names Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Sensational Butterflies, Wildlife Garden. Also we had to visited the Science Museum has seven floors of interactive and educational exhibits. Highlights include the Energy Hall, the Flight Gallery and there is also a 450-seat Imax cinema, but we didn't had enough time to visited his.

We passed near the Victoria and Albert Museum boats an unparalleled collection of decorative art and design with some 4.5 million objects from Britain and around the world. Then we passed near the Hyde Park that is central's London largest open space that there is boating on the Serpentine, the traditional Speaker's Corner since 1872, Marble Arch, and the Kensigton Palace that became the favourite royal residence under the joint reign of William and Mary. It still have private apartments where various members of the royal family live.

Before went to dinner we passed ahead to Harrods and the teachers gave us some free time to entered in Harrods, that is a shopping mall for rich people. We went and the people was observed us from top to bottom, because we were dressed casual and they were dressed with suits and gowns. We were circling around the mall looking at prices and the decorated.

We left the Harrods and we went to a restaurant at Kensington to dinner and then we went to Piccadilly to had a round to see the streets and shops at night, because many are iluminated with lights with differents colours. And finally we returned to the Hostel by bus.

DAY 2: WEDNESADY 5TH APRIL

We got up at 8.00h and came down at the dining room of the hostel where we had breakfast. After we finishing breakfast we went to the underground station and arrived at British Museum that is the country's largest museum and one of the oldest and finest in the world. This accumulation of treasures vast Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, European and Middle Eastern galleries.

In the museum we had to found some sculptures and some objects that we had to photograph and observe the different objects and sculptures from different cultures and traditions. There were a plenty of cultures and discovers in the museum, but I was surprise with stuff species, because some of them they seemed to be really. We left the museum and took the traditional London bus to arrived at Camden Market was a square surrounded by fast food stalls and we could choose the food that we prefer.

When we finished lunch, we went for a walk bypassing all traditionals shops and stalls that were in the area. Stores were set in differents cultures, times and countries. The area that I liked it was set in the west and the horses, there was a shop that had some horse stables inside the shop and it seemed that we stayed at an equestrian.

At 16:30h we loaded at a boat that brought us at a voyage for a town called Little Venice, because it seemed at Venice, because the houses were surrounded by the river and some houses were stayed stuck boats. where people living there, and we also passed by the London Zoo and we could see different animals. After the voyage by boat we had to caught the underground to arrived at Piccadilly where we did an afternoon snack and dinner, because we had another guided visit.

The guided visit was consisted in the explanation that who was Jack The Ripper and his history of her five murders. The guide was brought us for the streets were Jack The Ripper was killed prostitutes and the areas or places that he was moved around. This tour I didn't like too much, because I stayed tired and we had to rest, but I was heard the history of Jack The Ripper and how of cruel was his murders. He suffocated her victims, after he beheaded and finally he rippered the intestines and some organs.

When the guided visit finished we returned to the hostel by underground and we went to sleep because we were very tired.

DAY 1: TUESADY 4TH OF APRIL

The night before the trip I went to sleep at 21:00h, but I couldn't sleep because I was very nervous and I couldn't rest too much.

Suddenly I heard the alarm clock was ringing at 1.30h and I woke up quickly to prepare my clothes and finish to close the suitcase, to arrived at Casatelló d'Empúries at 2:30h. We met in front of high school and we got in the bus that would bring us to the airport of Barcelona. We arrived at the airport very early and we had to wait to went to begin boarding. We travel with Easy Jet and the flight took of at 7.10h. When we arrived at the boarding gate the airline announced that we had to put the backpack in the suitcase, I couldn't close the suitcase and I had to put on another jacket and my trainers inside the jacket. We finally got on the plane and we sit in the pertinent seat. The plane started up and took of and we arrived at Gatwick Airport at 8.35h. When we landed there was fog and some rain dropped. We went out the airport and we took the bus that put on way to the hostel where we put up called Hostel Safestay at Elephant and Castle. 

We left our suitcase and we went to the underground station of Elephant and Castle to Charing Cross to visit  Covent Garden that is one of London's biggest tourist hot spots, that the square hosts bands of tourists shopping in old arcades ans street entertainers. In Covent Garden we looked for a restaurant to lunch and at 15:30 we did a guided tour for center of London. 

We begin to Trafalgar Square that is the public heart of London is bounded by splending buildings such us the National Gallery. Nelson's Column was the most important building of Trafalgar Square was erected in 1843 to commemorate his 1805 victory over Napoleon off Sapin's Cape Trafalgar. The second place that we visited was 10 Downing Street that it is a Georgian town house in Whitehall and Westminster Abbey that is one of London's most imposing treasures serving up the coountry's venerable history. Every sovereign has been crowned here since William the Conqueror in 1066. We continued to Buckingham Palace stands at the end of the Mall which is a long road that begins in Trafalgar Square. The Palace is the London home of the Bristish Royal family and it's surrounded by a 40-acre garden. 

We had free time at St James Park that is delighted for strolling and taking in the surrounding places. There is striking Tudor gatehouse of St James Palace. This Park was incredible there was a plenty of different animals such as squirrels, ducks, doves, crowns and flamingos and a plenty of lakes and lagoons. We gave peanuts at squirrels and we pursued them. Was so funny when a squirrel licked me the hand when I was approaching my hand. 

And finally we went to Big Ben that is a 13-ton bell which was completed in 1858 and the most famous feature is it's the clock tower, the light in the clock tower tells when the House of Commons is in sesion. In front of the Big Ben there was the Houses of Parliament surrounded that day by a row of flowers to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attack of 23th March 2017. We crossed the bridge and we saw the London Eye, the big wheel and finally the Houses of Parliament that is the center of the British government, where the Houses of the Lords and the House of Commons are.

At 19.30h we went by underground at Picadilly Circus that is today a start-stop traffic, advertisement panels with the famous statue of Anteros, twin brother of Eros. We had free time to walked at the illuminated streets and before we went to dinner at a restaurant near Piccadilly and we came back to Elephant and Castle by underground.

MY SOULMATE

Even i haven't found my soulmate, but If it appears I have clear what characteristics must should have to resemble me. My soulmate should be a good person who can rely on it, should be fun and friend of his friends. It should be a receptive and open person to interact with them in an efficiency with me and others, because sometimes I find difficult to relate with other people or show me how I am a little embarrassing.

I really need someone to make me laugh in difficult times and especially that it accept me as am, because I'm a guy who believes it all and I wouldn't like to use me or manipulate me and it must knows how to deffend me when Istay in a difficult situation, because I don't know how to deffend myself because I almost never discuss with anyone, and it were a great adventure and be a peron who likes to travel around the world as I would like and don't be afraid of anything.

I hope to find soon my soulmate, I wait for you.

CAN LOVE LAST FOREVER?

It is a well known that love are often involved in a sentimental and emotional state in which persons feels confortable with someone who gives you support to superate the conflicts and problems that you may be have in the journal days of our lifes and prove to understand that you need some help to think about funny and pleasent things and moments to forget the harmful or bad things for example the job when you are adult or the studies when you are a teenager.

Many people may be think that love it is not important for our lifes, we mustn't only refer to love couple in the question, because it is possible to love a friend an a relative not only to our couples.

In my view all people need to love and be loved, we just need to find some firends or a couple that understand you that we can trust them in difficult times that offers their support to superate the obstacles of life. Therefore we must think that can love last forever because if do you have this type of friends or couples surely you will stay by your side, and will be a love last forever, can only rely on people who stay at your side.

In addition not all relationships are often more comfortable, and many people try to hold the relationship. I believe that if you don't trust in yout couple is better to break it off the relationship, beacuse some of them can be complicated to the extend that can be used to abused by the people who you loved, and it is clear that in this case the love is not last forever suffer from love is not a real love.

In conclusion love may be can last forever, if do you are surrounded by people that you know who loves you, but if this person don't value you it's possible that this love can't last forever.

WHY DO WE LOVE? A Philosophical inquiry

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-love-a-philosophical-inquiry-skye-c-cleary

1.Discuss. Why do we love? It’s heart-breaking and complicated most of the times yet do we need it at all? I think everyone needs to love and be loved, either with your couple with your friends or the family, but everyone needs to feel that someone has really loves you and knows that you can always rely on that person when you need more someone by your side. We often need to be loved or loved to forget certain problems or conflicts that we have at certain times in order to spend fun and emotional time without thinking with the problems that we have in our live. There are people who find it difficult to express their feelings, but I think it's not becomes difficult love, since anyone can give and receive love and for no one will feel alone.

2. How does the video define love? Put the words in order.

beautiful-intoxicating-heart-breaking- soul crushing

intoxicating 

heart-breaking

beautiful 

soul crushing

3. What are the 6 Philosophers mentioned? 

Platon

Schopenhauer

Russell
Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"

Cao Xuequin

Simone de Beauvoir

4. Watch again and write each Philosopher’s view on love.
Platon:<<Love makes us whole again.>> He explored the idea that we love in order to become complete.

Schopenhauer: <<Love tricks us into having babies.>> He maintained that loved based in sexual desire was a voluptuous illusion.

Russell: <<Love is escape from our loneliness.>> He says that we loved in order to quench our physical and phsycological desires.

Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha": <<Love is a misleading affliction>> He says that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires.

Cao Xuequin: <<Dream of the Red Chamber>> He says that the romantic love is folly in one of China's greatest classical novels.

Simone de Beauvoir: <<Love lets us reach beyond ourselves>> He proposed that love is the desire to integrate with another and that it infuses our lives with meaning.

5. Vocabulary work. Which Philosopher says what?

1)Dependance on another means boredom and power games: Simone de Beauvoir

2)We succeed in perpetuating human species and perpetuating human 
tragedy: Shopenhauer

3)Quench our physical and psychological desires: Russell  

4)It enriches our whole being together: Russell

5)Attachments are a great source of suffering: Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"

6)Love is the longing to find a soulmate who makes us feel whole again: Platon

7)Love infuses our life with meaning: Simone de Beauvoir

SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED ANOTHER NEW CONTINENT, SO YOUR TRAVEL LIST JUST GOT LONGER

http://elitedaily.com/news/scientists-discovered-another-new-continent-travel-list-just-got-longer/1795791/

This new talks about the possible discovery of a new continent called Zealandia, located at New Zeland.

If you are a apassionate traveler you are in luck, as many scientists point out that it has discovered a new continent, but obviosly this land mass has not appeared from nowhere. New Zeland researches suggested that Zealandia fulfills all the criteria needed to become a new continent, but almost entire of Zealandia is underwater. Researchers of the official New Zeland research body said that the 94% of Zealandia is submerged underwater, but this fact doesn't mean that can't exist a continent sunk beneath the sea.

We must identify Zealandia such as a geological continent rather than a set of continental islands represents more correctly the geology of this part of the Earth. A part of Zealandia known as Oceania and Australasia, which would be the country of New Zeland, but researchers want to stress that the new continent only is surrounded by three land masses: New Zeland's North, South Islands and New Calcedonia. 

Altheough this must be considered a continent because it has an elevation above the surrounding area, a different geology and a layer thicker than oceanic crust. Since much of Zealandia is submerged continent, scientist can explore the cohesion and breakup of continental crust.

The author of the new, Nick Mortimer, wants to be recognized Zealandia as a continent, and that will appear in maps, schools and evertwhere. The revelation of a new continent is very exciting and hopes that eventually the desire will fulfill.