THE BOAT.

The serie started with the “Polar Star”  sailing to what would be the biggest adventure of their lives when a mysterious storm caused by the march of a particle accelerator in the middle of the night, then all the crew discovered that the earth as they know it had disappeared, that 99% of the surface is water.

The captain,Ricardo Montero and the first officer, Julian De la Cuadra, were now responsibles of the lives of the students of the school-ship, and they had to make difficult decisions in extreme situations like giant fish, bird strikes, rebellions on board, poisonous mists, among others, they had got the Dr.Julia Wilson´s aide.

Ramiro discovered on their own that there was 1% of land on the planet, so the Star decided to go in search of this surface.

Ulises,the De la Cuadra´s son and Ainhoa, the captain´s daughter formed a love-hate relation, she was attracted by her teacher,Ernesto Gamboa, because of this Ulises also began a relation with Dr. Julia Wilson, who also did not last long, they decided to end their relations for be together, but that appeared impossible when Gamboa threatened to Ainhoa with kill her father and her sister, so she told Ulises that she would not want anything with he.

Vilma and Piti, began a relation, when Piti told Vilma that he would be the father of her child.

Salome and De la Cuadra began a relation, after much time, they now that they felt in love.

While all this happens, Valeria, the captain´s daughter and Burbuja lived intenses adventures. Then the crew of the Polar Star received a message from outer space, some astronauts asked they for help before die.

Continues when the captain decided to help astronauts, while a cyclone was approaching, which endangered their lives, and after passed the complications and rescued the space´s nave, the crew discovered that the astronauts didn´t were , they had went and the crew did not know where, they were feeling that someone had taken them, they came in search of a black box that Ulises had found.

After the crew fell off a huge cliff , they confronted a storm wich resurrected Palomares, found a duck that came the land and a Russian ship, the captain and the doctor decided to destroy the black box.

Vilma and Piti continued their relation, but it became a love triangle when Palomares left to be pastor and Vilma felt something for he, but the both relations end.

De la Cuadra and Burbuja were kidnapped and when they returned to the Star,De la Cuadra was cured of cancer, Salome left he for hidden his desease and she said that she was pregnant.

While they were searching land they saw a skyscraper where was Max, who known the coordinates of land.

Then came to an agreement in which the captain would go to land, the condition was that Ainhoa would stay in the skyscraper, while the captain would move the crew of the ship to land, and so they made sure that he returned to the skyscraper .

Ulises did not allow it and prefered stayed he in the skyscraper. The crew arrived of land, and established there the most of they, the captain with the rest of the crew returned to the skyscraper that they had discovered to pick up these people and return to land.

But when the crew arrived to skyscraper there was no one , the crew decided to come back to land. When they arrived the crew wich was on land were kidnapped by the persons that need the black box´s information.

They obtained to scape but the kidnappers rapted a Burbuja who was the inventor of the particle accelerator.

The serie ends with the preparation of Ainhoa and Ulises´ wedding.

                                            VANESSA LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ.

The Shadow of the Wind.

Summer of 1945. At sunrise. Daniel Sempere is 10 years old, he has got a nightmare because he doesn’t remember his mother face. His father decide to take him to a magic place, The Cemetery of the Forgotten Books, a huge library with lots and lots of books that people don't want. No one knows about it. When they arrive Mr. Sempere, his father, tell him to choose a book. Daniel is surprised because he has never seen this amount of books together. He starts to look for a book and when he is going to give up he see a book that caught his eye. It is The Shadow of the Wind by Julián Carax. He doesn’t know that that decision would change his life.

He reads the book and wants to investigate about the author, Julián Carax. Suprisingly, no one knows Julián, it's like he has never born. He discovers that someone set fire to Julián's books, someone called Laín Coubert who is the devil in The Shadow of the Wind.

With the help of his friend Fermín Romero de Torres, he is going to remove the past and find out things that would have been better not to know. 

This book is called the Shadow of the Wind. It was written by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It’s a part of a series of books, The Cemetery of the Forgotten Books, which is composed by four books. The Shadow of the Wind was published on 2001. It’s a mix of history, intrigue, love and suspense. It has won so many prizes. It is set at Barcelona, in the years after the Spanish Revolution.

Well, this book has been so strange for me. When I started it I thought it was going to be the best book I’ve never read because I saw the critics and they said that it was fantastic, that Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote a masterpiece, that it was going to be difficult to create a book like that, etc. But while I was reading the beginning I was bored, the book didn’t make me feel anything. It’s true that once the story advanced I was a little intrigued because it had lots of mysteries. The end surprises me a lot; I was reading it and in my mind I was thinking the possibilities that it could had, so I really enjoyed it.

In general the book is very good; it has got love, intrigue, a little bit of action… I think there are books better than that but it’s a great book and if you want to read something you can try with it, maybe you will like it more than me. 

                                                                                       Laura Vera Costa.

Formula 1

It is known how maximum category of the automobile, it´s very popular and prestige,each race is called Great prize.
This competition uses a  sigle-seater that is developped with the time thanks the new tecnology.The majority of the circuits where the Great prizes are celebrated are racetrack , in the past they used circuits of the street.
At the beginning the Formula 1 , some motor-racing teams started to participate in this competition , the important , Ferrari , Alfa Romeo and Maserati. Some motor-racing teams have been separated because others have won more awards how , McLaren, Williams,Lotus and Renault.
The creation of the Formula1.
In 1956 , only there were four races.The rules for the Competition of Grand Prix were established before this date, in 1947 the old AIACR was formed other time and it was called with the known name "FIA", its central part is in Paris and it had said that it would have had news race to create the Formula 1, allthough some economics problems in 1952 and 1953 did that they participated with cars of Formula 2. They established a system with points and the first race with a prestige was celebrated in the circuit of Silverstone in the United Kingdom.
Nowadays , a car of Formula 1 has more or less 800 cv and also 2400 cc .
When a car has the soft tyre , it goes faster than when it goes with hard tyre and it goes faster also when it has less petrol in the deposit , because it weighs less and it goes faster.
The principals teams are:
Red Bull
Ferrari
McLaren
Lotus
Mercedes
Sauber
Sahara Force India
Williams
The fastest cars of the competition are the Red Bulls , the last winner of the competition was M.Webber.
Fernando Alonso a spanish pilot , he won different awards in Germany,England,Monaco,Italy,Japon and Spain.
The pilots have to be very trained because in each race they can die and they also have to do an important exercise they stop in a dangerous form and they have to do posturals exercises .
Finally is a sport very popular and important , we don´t know the preparation of the pilots and it is a sport that is not only drive a car , the coordination and the strenght is very important.
Paula Hernandez Baño

BOB MARLEY

Robert Nesta Marley Booker most known as Bob Marley was a reggae musician. Bob was born in 1945, in Nine Mile, a little village of Jamaica, near from Kingston. He was the leader of the ska and reggae group Bob Marley and The Wailers. Bob is the most famous reggae musician in the world, his album Legend is the most famous album of reggae in the world, he had also diffused the Rastafarian movement.
Bob have a star in the Hall of Fame, beacause of his fantastic musician career. His mother was from Jamaica and his father was from England, so Bob was not completely nigger. Some jamaican kids in the school laugh of him beacause of his race, but he always ignored the taunts.

He had got married with Rita, but he had many children with other seven women, so in total he had fourteen children! The names of his children are:

• Nicola Marley 
• Sharon Marley 
• Cedella Marley 
• David "Ziggy" Marley
• Stephen Marley 
• Robert "Robbie" Marley 
• Rohan Marley 
• Karen Marley 
• Stephanie Marley 
• Julian Marley 
• Ky-Mani Marley 
• Damian Marley
• Makeda Marley 
• Nahum Marley 

His most famous songs are for example: No woman no cry, Buffalo Soldier, One Love, Three Litlle Birds...

In the summer of 1977, some doctors dicovered that Bob had a serious disease. Some people said that this disease appeared when Bob was playing football but is completely fake beacause he had sings of an strage type of cancer. In 1981 he recived the Order of Merit, the third most important award in the country, but Bob couldn´t went to the ceremony. Bob was moved to Miami in an aeroplane to be operated, but he couldn´t survive and he died in the Universitary Hospital of Miami, on 1981. His last words were:" The money can´t buy the life".

Raúl Iniesta Serrano

Ken Follett

Ken Follet is one of the best British writers of novels of suspense and historical. He was born in Cardiff, Wales and lived there until his family moved to London when he was ten years old.
In 1967 Follet London joined in the University College where he studied philosophy. His interest for the statements began one evening when it started writing them, his first success was, La isla de las tormentas, that him made be very famous. 
In addition, all novels have had very much success and have been adapted in some occasions to the cinema.
All his works were of espionage and suspense, also his works are reported in countries as Iran and Afghanistan and epochs as the First World War.

Ken Follet has written many statements, some of them are:
-The man of Saint Petersburg
- The wings of the eagle
- The key is in Rebeca
- The props of the Earth
- Double game
- In the mouth of the dragoon
And his last best seller that are A world without end and The fall of the giants.

In my opinion, one of the best works is The props of the earth, in which it transports us to the Middle Ages, to a world of kings, ladies, magicians, gentlemen, castles and walled cities. The love and the death are very present in this work, which treats of the construction of a Gothic cathedral. The history begins with the public hanging of a innocent person and finishes with the humiliation of a king. Really this work, it constitutes an exceptional image of an epoch of violent passions.

LORENA FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ

Music more or less perfect but turned into love.

I'll tell you the experience of the last concert I visited. I like the music and I like to hear. I went to a mini-concert of a cellist. I had heard about her life and I had become one of her followers. I read about her, and when she plays, she just wants enjoy with music. She doesn´t mind the result, but she think that if you feel the music, you will make very good. "What does not kill you, make you stronger." is the phrase that she use to be relaxed, but she was playing since very young, and she says that the nervous are always in yours, what you have to is control them. That day, 10 on march, she played with her friends. What she played, was a concert to cello and orchestra, but in that moment she played with a quintet. All the musicians who accompanied her were there with the same goal. The objective was do it the best possible way and enjoy with something that they all were passionate about, the music. The soloist began nervously, I could see that her heart felt like it was going out of his body. I was in the audience and I was watching with envious eyes, healthy envy. I also love music and in that moment I knew how she felt. I watched his eyes, expressing feelings and her courage to play in front of all those people. I felt proud. I was proud to see how the music had become be loved by some. And when the end came, it was as if I could listening her mind. That look saidall. She was thinking the first thing you usually think after a concert, have I done well?
Also something that surprised me was that her brother accompanied her on the viola. Goes it in the genes? Comes the love of music of family? I don´t know but certainly, it was amazing. From the audience, I could see a happy girl because of be making what she loves. Her name is María, She´s fifteen. I forgot say it.
A summary of the concert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bBSGFNsdJk

A great big biography of a great big man

Pau Gasol started playing in the NBA in 2001, when he was 21. He had played in FC Barcelona before, until he was given the great opportunity to go to America. This chance was given by the Atlanta Hawks, an ordinary team in the league then. But he suddenly changed team because the Atlanta sold him to Memphis Grizzlies, before the season started. He didn't play very much until his team mate, Stromile Swift got injured, and Pau could get in the first team. He scored 27 points the following match, and since then, the coach didn't leave him out the 1st team. That season, he got an average of 18 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks per match and was chosen the best rookie of the year. His first year would also be remembered because of this spectacular dunk against Kevin Garnett, who had challenged him the play before:

(I could not find a video with English commentaries)

That season and the next one weren't very good for the team: their defeats doubled their victories. But everything changed his 3rd season in the NBA, when Memphis Grizzlies got into the Playoffs. They were defeated in the first round, but that made him improve and learn he had to make an effort to get what he wanted.

On his 4th year, Memphis renewed his contract making it valid until 2011. He passed from receiving 4 to 10 million dollars a year. He also reached 5000 points in the NBA that season. The next one, he was chosen to play the All-Stars game.

But his 6th year in Memphis he decided he wanted to be in a top team. Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics and New Jersey Nets wanted him, but he finally went to LA, to play for Los Angeles Lakers.

He started training with his new team mates and after the first match Kobe Bryant declared that Pau Gasol is incredible. The Lakers got in the Playoffs and won the quarter-final and the semi-final, but they lost the final against Boston.

The next year, his 8th in the NBA, was probarbly the most important year in his career in America. He reached a total of 10000 points in the NBA, but the most important event was the victory in the Playoffs final against Orlando Magic. It was also the year when he started playing against his brother Marc, who played for Memphis then (and continues playing nowadays). The next season was another good one. He won another NBA ring against Boston Celtics, the perfect revenge. Here is the moment when he scores his 10000th point, added to a magnificent assist:

(In Spanish again because it's the most complete one)

The next two seasons, LAL kept trying their luck in the Playoffs, but they lost against Dallas Mavericks and Oklahoma Thunder.

Now, D'Antoni is Los Angeles Lakers coach and we have just heard they are classified to play the Playoffs.This is the season in which we can say Pau Gasol has scored 15000 points in the NBA and I hope I am right if I say that Pau Gasol will have his 3rd NBA ring. 

David Pender Villalvilla