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AUSTRIA

Two months ago, me and a couple of students went to visit Austria as a school trip. We didn't go there just for fun, we did it with our history's teacher to know more about what happened during the WWII, and how the affected people lived back then. 

The first day we went to Munich in Germany to see the first concentration camp. I remember how big it was, it didn't seem to be a concentration camp at all because it was so beatiful. There was plenty of nature all around it and amazing green fields. But once you go inside the buildings you realise where you are and what really happened there. The principal room i will never forget is the gas showers, where tones of innocent people died. 

The following day we went to Linz, Austria, and we visited the streets. In every street there's a little of history. The guides explained us a lot of interesting things and facts that happened there. Linz is such a beautiful city to live in. 

Next, we went to two more concentration camps, and what a saw there left me without words. Those places are so breathtaking, not only because how pretty they are, because how much victims were there and died. Once you visit these places you change completely your mind and the way to see everything. 

The last day we visited Vienna, my favorite city so far, and went all around it with a guide who explained us a lot of things. 

Making this trip is really worth it, i'm so glad i went there. I wish i can go there in the future on my own so i can see more places and learn more things about it. 

    

News

Why you should chew gum after a C-section

Chewing gum can trick the body into thinking that the person is eating.  Among the difficult things a woman has to do after having a C-section — from tending to her stitches to learning to breast-feed, now there's a recommendation that's a little easier: chew gum. A new meta-analysis suggests that chewing gum three times a day for 30 minutes each time can help bring back women's normal gut function after a C-section delivery. It gets saliva flowing in the mouth and can help send signals to the gut to start moving again.

In most of the studies, the women were given gum within 2 hours of their delivery, and asked to chew it three times a day for 15 to 30 minutes at a time. The researchers found that, on average, women who chewed gum farted about 6.5 hours sooner than those who were not given gum: Gum chewers experienced their first fart about 23 hours after the operation, compared with non-chewers, who didn't fart until about 29.5 hours after the operation. 

MY OPINION: I think that chewing gum is been always a good thing, and after reading this I still keep my thought. 

3 NEW WORDS: 

-Gut: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=gut

-C-Section: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=c-section

-Stitches: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=stitches

NEWS LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/06/02/why-should-chew-gum-after-c-section.html

My say

French Toast recipe 

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 8 slices challah, brioche, or white bread
• 1/2 cup maple syrup, warmed

DIRECTIONS:

In a small bowl, combine, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar and set aside briefly.

In a 10-inch or 12-inch skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Whisk together cinnamon mixture, eggs, milk, and vanilla and pour into a shallow container such as a pie plate. Dip bread in egg mixture. Fry slices until golden brown, then flip to cook the other side. Serve with syrup. 

This is one of my favorite breakfast so far. 

News

London attack: Seven killed in vehicle and stabbing incidents

Seven people have been killed and at least 48 injured in a terror incident in London in which three male attackers were shot dead by police.

A white van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at about 22:00 BST on Saturday, then three men got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough Market. Police said the three men were wearing fake bomb vests.

One of those hurt is a police officer who was stabbed after going to help. His injuries are not life-threatening.

Political parties have suspended national general election campaigning.

Borough Market is an area known for its bars and restaurants which were busy on a warm summer evening. It is the third terror attack in the UK in three months following the car and knife attack in Westminster in March, which left five people dead, and the Manchester bombing less than two weeks ago, in which 22 people were killed.

MY OPINION: I think that this really needs to end because people is being killed for no reason by other people that is being paid for doing that. Taking peoples lives is unfair and has no pardon.  

3 NEW WORDS: 

-Pedestrian: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=pedestrian

-Vests: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=vest

-Life-threatening: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=life-threatening

NEWS LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40146916

My Say

13 Reasons Why 

13 Reasons Why is a new series of Netflix.

This series go around Clay Jensen, as he returns home from school to find a mysterious package on his bed. Wen he opens it, he finds seven cassette tapes. This tapes are recorded by Hannah Baker, a girl that went to the same school as Clay, who recently committed suicide. Every tape contains 13 reasons why she killed her self. Each of these tapes are focused on one of the persons that made her do that. These people are old friends of Hannah. 

All of them had listened to the tapes but they didn't say anything about it, they just kept it as a secret. Clay is the only one who wants to show these tapes to the world to let everyone know the truth.

The end of the season 1, Hanna's parents discover the existence of these tapes by Tony (the first person who Hannah gave the tapes before she killed her self).

I really liked and enjoyed this TV show, it is so emotive and made me realize and think about the people that get bullied in the school. It is so hard to see it, and makes you feel so sad about it. 

News

The man who built his plane using YouTube videos

Mr Long grew up in  Cambodia he was one of six children of rice farmers, he had never been in an aircraft of any kind.

After seeing a helicopter when he was about six years old, he says, the urge to fly preoccupied his mind - for decades. "I always dreamt about aircraft every night. I always wanted to have my own plane," he says.

At first, it remained nothing more than a dream. Mr Long dropped out of school early and trained as a mechanic, one of the few non-farming professions available to young men without a high school education in his home.

By last year his fascination with flight had taken over and Mr Long, now aged 30 and  decided he had saved enough money to realise his childhood fantasy.

"I started building a plane, making it in secret," he says. "I was afraid that people would make fun of me, so sometimes I worked at night."

The moment of truth came on 8 March. Just before 15:00, Mr Long started the plane's engine. Three people helped to push it to his "runway":  he reached a height of 50 metres and crashing unceremoniously to the ground. Now, he is building a seaplane - also largely from scrap materials - which he believes he can make light enough to take to the skies.

MY OPINION: I think he is doing such a good job with his childhood dream. Also i think he is so smart because not everyone can make a plane only watching Youtube videos, even though it didn't work at all. Where he lives is not easy to make your dreams come true because there isn't enough money and is not well-seen. 

3 NEW WORDS: 

unceremoniously:  http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=unceremoniously

Runway: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=runway

Scrap:  http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=scrap

NEWS LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39945650

My say

Kendick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar is a rapper from Compton (USA) he is 29 years old and he is one of the best rappers so far. His songs talk about society issues; hunger, Donald Trump, the black people being killed by police in USA for no reason, how easy is to get weapons in his country, how people have lost humbleness nowadays, etc. 

Most of the young rappers of today write songs about  unimportant stuff like getting drunk, doing drugs, etc. Kendrick is different because of the way he sings and the style of his lyrics. 

He is skin colored and he is proud of it, he does care about the differences between white people and black people. This is the main topic of his songs. 

Also he has released one of the best albums of this year 2017 called "DAMN". It was named like this because everything that he says in his songs makes you think about that word, especially at the end of the whole album, once you've listened to it the only thing you can say is Damn. Because it is so "damn" good.