Surfrider Foundation

These days we've been learning about ONGs and our teacher asked to choose one of them and do an article. Usue and I have chosen the Surfrider Foundation. Do you care about the environment? Do you want to gain an insight into this ONG? If so, have a look at our interesting article! We hope you like it!

Surfrider Foundation

Transnational companies

As we all know there are lots of transnational companies all over the world. I've been looking for products at home, and making a list of them.

Food products:
- Chocolate: Lindt
- Yogurts: Danone
- Coffe: Nescafé
- Drink: Coca Cola

Lindt & Sprüngli AG, commonly referred to as Lindt, is a Swiss chocolate company known for their luxurious chocolates and confectionery. The company began in 1845 in Zurich, and today boasts 6 factories across the globe. In fact, the Lindt family now includes such companies as Ghirardelli and Caffarel.Lindt is most famous for the truffle balls, each individually wrapped and coming in several flavours and colours. Each ball is recognizable by the wrapper, and comes in such variations as white chocolate, dark chocolate, peanut butter, peppermint, orange, raspberry, and even Irish Cream. Seasonal favourites of the company include chocolate bunnies, each wrapper in an easily recognizable gold wrapper and wearing a red ribbon around the neck. Typically, these are purchased for the Easter season. Lindt also offers chocolate bars, coming in a range of flavours and dark chocolate percentages. There are also 12 Lindt Cafes, all in Australia and New Zealand.

Technology:
-Iphone: Apple

- Ipad: Apple
- Computer: Mocrosoft
- Kitchen: Balay

Apple is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Macline of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. It was founded by Steve Jobs.




Clothes:                                                            
- Trainers: Nike                                                
- Sport clothes: Addidas                                 
- Zara: Inditex                                                  
- Stradivarius: Inditex

Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex)  is a Spanish multinationalclothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia, Spain. It is made up of almost a hundred companies dealing in activities related to textile design, production and distribution. Amancio Ortega, Spain's richest man, and the world's third richest man, is the founder and current largest shareholder. The current chairman of Inditex is Pablo Isla. Inditex operates over 6,200 stores worldwide  and owns brands like Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius, Zara, Tempe and Uterqüe, and also a low-cost brand Lefties.

Globalization

Last day, in the eleanitza class we did an activity which consisted in saying the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the world GLOBALIZATION. They were a lot the words which were written in the blackboard: USA, nike, global warming, China... It was a fun activity, and then our teacher asked us to take some pictures about those things.

The Amazon Rainforest

This term we are going to learn about te world. Our teacher asked us to do a project about a big problem nowadays, and Usue and I have decided to talk about the Amazon rainforest's deforestation. We have learnt a lot about it and we now also know how to use the weebly. Here is the link of our web and also the mindmap we used to organise our speech.

The Amazon

Europe and you

Today we've been discussing about how the European Union helps us:

-Movile phone makers are making a universal estandar for charges.
-Europeans win the right to full translation.
-It makes sure nature doesn't suffer from those things, such as TVs, phones... we no longer need.
-It moves fast to respond to catastrophes like the earthquakes in Tahiti and chemical spills in Hungary, givin shelter, food, helicopters...
-New Eu rules shelter children from abuse on the Internet or physical world.
-It made some changes in the furniture shops.

Changes in the furniture shops was the one which Usue and I had to talk about today in class. It is as interesting as the other ones.
Some furniture and construction industries in the EU use wood that has been illegally cut, destroying forests.
The new rules prevent this, and it is beneficial for legal funiture makers and also for the forests not to be disappeared.

What is the EU?

A month abroad

Talking about exchanges, I would like to say that I've been in two. I went to Italy with the school just for a week, but this summer I went to Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA) to spend a whole month in a family.
It was a fantastic experience and I learnt a lot of English.
At first, I had some problems to understand the American accent, it sounded a bit weird, but finally, I got used to it.
I stayed in a family called Nordlund and I had a 10-year-old sister and  an 8-year-old brother.
They prepared lots of activities for me to have fun! They were all very nice :)
We went to the Bunker beach, waterskiing, shopping to the Mall of America, to Valley Fair (theme park), to a baseball match, bowling... I really enjoyed myself as well as learned a lot.
Again, it was a great experience and I hope to repeat it next summer :)